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the sea.", "The suspect allegedly uploaded the videos to pornographic websites, getting millions of views.", "Terry Bryant was filmed leaving an Oscars party holding the statuette and saying: \"We did it!\"", "Large sections of the tourist hotspot were sealed off after a man was found with knife injuries.", "Seventeen top health professional say they cannot reassure patients their health and care would be unaffected.", "The high drama of the first days of the case gave way to sighs that had to be contained in a secret trial.", "A profile of the most senior Roman Catholic to have been found guilty of child sex offences.", "Melania Geymonat and her partner Chris Hannigan were targeted by four boys, a court hears.", "The PM calls the Irish border plan \"unviable\", but the EU says no realistic alternatives are offered.", "British banks experienced more than 10 outages a month in the past year, BBC analysis of new data reveals.", "Business groups urged the government to act after many firms failed to get a customs number.", "Since the Rohingya crisis erupted in 2012, some Muslims in Myanmar say they face more discrimination.", "Smoke from the fires caused a blackout in Sao Paulo, more than 2,700km (1,700 miles) away.", "They are flown to Alder Hey Children's Hospital and a third person is taken to hospital in Bangor.", "US and Asian firms lead investment into UK start-ups in the first seven months of 2019.", "Jed Foster appears before magistrates, after PC Andrew Harper's wife pays tribute to her \"darling boy\".", "An Indian Air Force crew saved the two men in Jammu, India which has been hit by heavy rain.", "Malcolm McKeown was shot after he walked out of a filling station in Waringstown, County Down.", "Office blocks are also being used to house families as 210,000 children are estimated to be homeless.", "The PM says the EU has been \"a bit negative\" over his demand that the Irish border backstop plan should be scrapped.", "Burgermeister Iain Macnab will have to quit unless he becomes a German citizen before Brexit happens.", "The Hong Kong consulate worker was detained for violating the law, China's foreign ministry says.", "Fiance of UK resident jailed in Iran on visit to her unwell grandmother urges ministers to act.", "The pair shook hands outside the Chancellery in Berlin, as protesters nearby shouted \"stop Brexit\".", "Police release the 25-year-old who they arrested over the death of the Hull student.", "The boss of the new high-speed rail link has reportedly warned the project will exceed its £56bn budget.", "As Trump's ex-press secretary joins the cast, host Tom Bergeron said he wanted a politics-free show.", "The retail giant has angered customers by introducing a new range of plastic envelopes for deliveries.", "Police surrounded the flats in Barking, east London, as nearby residents were evacuated.", "Police confirm the body of missing six-year-old Lucas Dobson has been found in the River Stour.", "The average salary of the bosses of the UK's largest companies has fallen 13% in the last financial year.", "With no deal looking increasingly likely, how have both sides been getting ready?", "Tánaiste Simon Coveney says the Irish government cannot come to a separate arrangement with the UK.", "Lucas Briscoe was on holiday with his mother in the Costa del Sol when he fell from a balcony.", "Dale Kelly touched his friend's girlfriend intimately after sleepwalking into their bedroom.", "Scarlett Johansson's wages rocket, but female stars remain way behind men on the whole.", "It is understood a hearing into Dr Michael Watt, due last June, will now not happen until next year.", "But a farmer who has lost land to the project says he feels the scheme will not go ahead in full.", "First Minister Mark Drakeford goes further than Jeremy Corbyn who does not rule out a Labour deal.", "The men, aged 45 and 61, allegedly failed a breath test and were arrested at Glasgow Airport.", "Police say the wilful fire raising on the property late on Friday was not a random attack.", "Sharon Gayter says she feels \"about 105\" but \"relieved\" after covering 822 miles over 13 days.", "Tests are under way to identify the drug involved in the deaths in Essex from 28 July to 30 July.", "\"She's my role model\" - Kerry McDowell on life after her father transitioned from a man to a woman.", "It's the ninth weekend of protests over the extradition bill, with a rally supporting the police.", "All publicly-owned centres ban the sale of high-caffeine drinks to users under the age of 16.", "They say four problems need resolving if the whole of the UK is to get full-fibre broadband by 2025.", "Best known as a singer and impressionist, he died at his home in Blackpool.", "Huge numbers of painted lady butterflies are emerging in a once-in-a-decade phenomenon.", "Women and girls make up 42% of competitive gamers in the UK, a figure one club wants to change.", "England are once again searching for a way to remove Australia's Steve Smith after a see-saw third day left the first Ashes Test deliciously poised.", "The UK has until December to find a buyer for the watercolour masterpiece to keep it in the country.", "Fulham will take the \"strongest action possible\" after Cyrus Christie says his sister was hit and racially abused by fans.", "Rory Burns' maiden Test century leads a determined England batting effort on the second day of the first Ashes Test against Australia.", "At least 20 people are killed and many more injured in a mass shooting in the Texas city of El Paso.", "Prime minister visits rescue workers draining the damaged Toddbrook Reservoir above Whaley Bridge.", "Hannah Needham says she wants to use her near-death experience to inspire teenagers into science.", "Authorities say the teenager turned the gun on himself after being injured by patrolling police.", "The Orkney Islands could benefit from new rules opening up 5G spectrum to local businesses.", "It dates from the reign of Emperor Yongzheng nearly 300 years ago and sat gathering dust on a shelf.", "The new home secretary says she wants to \"empower\" police, in her first interview since taking the job.", "Heavy rain is forecast while emergency workers race to stop a Derbyshire dam from breaking.", "Visitors from China, India and the US surge as sterling falls against most major currencies.", "The annual festival is expected to attract up to 150,000 visitors over eight days.", "But critics warn it won't be enough to clear the £6bn backlog of repairs needed to England's hospitals.", "Jens Stoltenberg calls on Russia to comply with the INF nuclear treaty before an August deadline.", "The building has been evacuated after flames tore through it, sending up smoke visible for miles around.", "Man is due in court on Monday after guns were found in a Volkswagen Passat coming from Calais.", "People forced to leave their homes in Whaley Bridge are inundated with offers of help.", "Two other men are in a serious condition 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rules on signing youth players.", "Jails in England and Wales cannot be allowed to become \"factories for making bad people worse\", PM says.", "The Spanish tenor says claims by eight singers and a dancer are \"deeply troubling\" and \"inaccurate\".", "The show has music by Bon Jovi's keyboardist and is the story of the woman who \"rocked the Royals\".", "Apple shares soar as the US delays imposing tariffs on mobile phones and other items from China.", "Climate change activist Greta Thunberg will travel to New York on a boat with very few home comforts.", "They were filmed bounding through the snow in New South Wales.", "Some of the country's most traded stocks have also lost nearly half of their stock value in one day.", "The jewellery firm is the latest company to be hit by controversy over the description of Hong Kong.", "The US would consider negotiating deals on \"sector-by-sector\" basis, says a senior Trump aide.", "As part of its climate change season BBC Scotland meets islanders making the switch from petrol pump to charging point.", "The airline says the routes between Ireland and the US are no longer \"commercially viable\".", "Shamas Riaz says he was very close to Haider, 18, and Malika, 14, and their deaths were a \"big shock\".", "The festival tops a list of 500 must-do experiences in the UK compiled by travel guide Lonely Planet.", "Nora Quoirin's parents awoke to find her missing from her hotel room, with the window open.", "Criminal gangs are targeting children in care, some as young as 12, in towns and cities many miles from home.", "Nora Quoirin's grandfather says her disappearance on holiday in Malaysia is \"extremely mysterious\".", "Celtic crash out of the Champions League after conceding four times to CFR Cluj of Romania in a frantic game in Glasgow.", "The find includes good-luck charms and decorative items thought to have belonged to women.", "The 2022 Commonwealth Games in Birmingham is set to be the first major multi-sports event to have more women's than men's medal events.", "The deal between CBS and Viacom combines Paramount Pictures and some of TV's most-watched shows.", "Nora Quoirin, 15, has been missing from her room at a Malaysian holiday resort since last Sunday.", "Members of one band wore Parachute Regiment insignia with the letter 'F' during a Londonderry parade.", "At the weekend, the service was down by about a quarter of its normal workforce.", "Scottish and Welsh governments worry about the future of the Erasmus programme if there is no Brexit deal.", "A couple claim a fungus caused by vapours from a Diageo whisky bond near Falkirk has damaged their home.", "President Trump vows to act against \"white supremacists and antifa\".", "Go-Ahead has been given an extension to April 2020 to keep running the service.", "Vicky Hall has swapped the sets of medical dramas for the hospital ward.", "MPs talk about the level of abuse and threats they receive – both online and offline.", "Optical links will pull 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better than the 80% first feared.", "Manchester City complete the signing of Portugal right-back Joao Cancelo from Juventus for £60m as Danilo moves the other way.", "The aunt of missing teenager Nora Quoirin was close to tears as she asked the public for help.", "John Boreland's family is offering £10,000 for new information about his killing in 2016.", "A look inside the operation to save the town of Whaley Bridge with the BBC's Justin Rowlatt.", "Many of the 1,500 evacuated people have been told to wait until after midday for a decision.", "Nora Quoirin's grandfather says her disappearance on holiday in Malaysia is \"extremely mysterious\".", "Margot Graham said she did not know if she would survive the Whaley Bridge emergency.", "A 17-year-old is accused of throwing the boy, who suffered a brain bleed, from a viewing platform.", "About 1,500 people were evacuated last week after heavy rain affected Toddbrook Reservoir.", "The latest series of the fact-based drama will air in the run-up to 2020's presidential election.", "Pictures of the dramatic dam wall collapse in Whaley Bridge, Derbyshire.", "The row is over pay and conditions, with the pilots' union announcing plans for two walkouts.", "Repaving roads, hiring vets and stockpiling food are all on councils' lists of Brexit preparations.", "Cambridge University student Alana Cutland, 19, fell from a light aircraft on 25 July.", "A \"disproportionate\" number of female and ethnic minority staff file internal complaints, MPs say.", "Major retailers warn MPs a no-deal Brexit will cause major disruption to fresh food supplies.", "Boris Johnson previously said the chances of leaving without a deal were \"a million to one\".", "Hundreds of thousands of people are in refugee camps after fleeing violence in Myanmar.", "The man died in hospital after falling ill at the four-day dance music festival in Cheshire.", "A man is arrested on suspicion of murder and is in hospital being treated for minor injuries.", "Fr Conor McGrath, 32, tells BBC News NI what drew him to the priesthood and what his job involves.", "Naomi Foster Aiton is taking part in a \"walk and talk\" event with other people affected by suicide.", "A model of Sir Thomas More was also taken from London Bridge Experience.", "Boris Johnson and US President Donald Trump talk Brexit over breakfast during the G7 summit.", "England's batsmen show some much-needed fight on day three of the third Test, but Australia still look set to retain the Ashes at Headingley.", "Four others were injured and four men have been arrested on suspicion of murder, police say.", "Police say the 12-year-old died in hospital almost a week after the incident in Glasgow.", "Ryan Murphy, 19, from Cookstown, was following Rory McIlroy at a US competition when he was hit by lightning.", "Nearly 200,000 people have been affected by floods since the beginning of July.", "Deputy Angel Reinosa cut two bullet holes in his shirt and called in to say he was \"taking shots\".", "Toshwa Dennis was tackling a scrapheap fire when he got the call to say Savannah was arriving early.", "In a rare acknowledgement, PM Benjamin Netanyahu says Israeli forces targeted \"killer drones\".", "International brands accused of 'exploiting' workers in Japan", "People who post racist abuse on social media \"hide behind fake identities\", says Manchester United manager Ole Gunnar Solskjaer.", "Six people are injured as lightning strikes hit a tree at the season-ending Tour Championship in Atlanta.", "Forecasters warn temperatures could get even hotter, after 33.3C is reached in west London.", "The pilot and passenger died when the small bi-plane crashed in a field near Henley-on-Thames.", "Mohamed Salah scores twice as Liverpool sweep Arsenal aside with a dominant performance to maintain their 100% start to the season.", "A pop-up shop in west London lets people fill their social media pages with colourful selfies.", "The artwork appeared near Dover's ferry terminal in 2017 on a building due to be demolished.", "The head of police commissioners calls for harsher sentences for people who hurt police officers.", "The government has published a report setting out the risks of a no-deal Brexit. How is it preparing?", "The European Council president and the PM will meet at the G7 summit on Sunday to discuss Brexit.", "The ex-first minister says women \"won't come forward\" due to the fallout from Carl Sargeant's death.", "England are \"in with a real shout\" of completing their highest fourth-innings chase and beating Australia to level the Ashes, says batsman Joe Denly.", "Armed police are deployed to two streets in Swansea following reports of two armed robberies.", "Airports must introduce 3D baggage screening before the end of 2022, the government announces.", "A teenage boy has been arrested after the girl apparently took a \"combination of drugs\".", "Ben Stokes' astonishing 135 not out repeats his World Cup heroics and gives England one of their greatest victories to keep the Ashes alive.", "Boris Johnson welcomes apparent optimism from the German chancellor as she suggests a solution could be found.", "Ministers gave the prisons an extra £10m to spend on security measures to cut assaults and drug taking.", "Ryanair has been rated worst for customer service out of 100 big British brands, according to Which?.", "Catherine Sezen, of the Association of Colleges, and Samrita Hayer, of the National Careers Service, offer advice.", "The airline won in a bid to stop Ireland-based pilots from striking, but lost the larger UK battle", "Larry Swearingen had maintained his innocence, saying scientific evidence should have exonerated him.", "The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge boarded a Flybe jet at Norwich airport.", "Arctic hospital staff did not know that military test victims were irradiated, the BBC learns.", "The first people to dive down to the Titanic in nearly 15 years say some parts of the wreck have been lost to the sea.", "The suspect allegedly uploaded the videos to pornographic websites, getting millions of views.", "Women report being groped and subjected to lewd comments while out promoting their shows.", "Large sections of the tourist hotspot 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firms say exports of waste may be disrupted.", "Dr Angelo Grubisic was an astronautical engineer based in Southampton and a wingsuit designer.", "The spike in cervical screenings after Jade Goody's diagnosis did not last long, a charity says.", "About a quarter of the estimated 220,000 EU citizens living in Scotland have so far applied to remain in the UK after Brexit.", "A Pakistani court rejects their bid to free the accused killers of social media star Qandeel Baloch.", "Jofra Archer takes 6-45 to help England bowl out Australia for 179 on a truncated first day of the third Ashes Test at Headingley.", "Following moves by Twitter and Facebook earlier this week, Google shuts down more than 200 YouTube channels.", "Amari Smith used a \"hunting-style knife\" to kill a boy in Northampton.", "The chief inspector of prisons for Scotland is \"concerned\" about extra pressure on the system.", "Police release the 25-year-old who they arrested over the death of the Hull student.", "As Trump's ex-press secretary joins the cast, host Tom Bergeron said he wanted a politics-free show.", "Eight-time Paralympic gold medallist Sophie Christiansen tweeted a video of her ordeal.", "Two million older people are risking side-effects from taking multiple medications, a charity warns.", "Apple advises owners of its new credit card to keep it away from leather and denim.", "With no deal looking increasingly likely, how have both sides been getting ready?", "A further 30 people, including ten children and a baby, are picked up in French waters.", "The celebrity chef will help set new quality standards as part of the government's review of hospital food.", "\"Nothing could be done\" to revive the boy, whose 44-year-old mum has been bailed, police say.", "Celebrity Big Brother contestant Lewis Bloor is accused of marketing coloured diamonds to investors.", "Tánaiste Simon Coveney says the Irish government cannot come to a separate arrangement with the UK.", "Lucas Briscoe was on holiday with his mother in the Costa del Sol when he fell from a balcony.", "Blue ribbons sell out after PC Andrew Harper's home town marks his death while on duty.", "It follows a review that described maternity services at two hospitals as \"dysfunctional\".", "Former Ghana, Nottingham Forest and Bristol Rovers striker Junior Agogo dies at the age of 40.", "Fears over practices like chlorine-washing chicken are unfounded, says the head of America's farm lobby.", "They are wrong \"in the vast majority of cases\" and the system is \"deeply unfair\", the party says.", "Liberal Democrat leader Jo Swinson says the pro-Remain MP will bring \"real expertise\" to the party.", "Leaving the EU without a deal would be \"a betrayal\" of the referendum result, the former chancellor warns.", "Police say Nora Quoirin's parents identified a body found in the jungle as their missing daughter.", "Teenagers involved in the incident at Machaire Rabhartaigh were attending an Irish college.", "Video captured in central Sydney shows the moment bystanders intervened to apprehend stabbing suspect.", "The teenager's \"unclothed\" body was found beside a stream just outside a holiday resort.", "Nora Quoirin's body was found beside a stream just over a mile from the resort where she was staying.", "Ataer is to be named the preferred bidder for the Scunthorpe works by the Official Receiver.", "Marcus Ball still wants to prosecute Boris Johnson over his 2016 EU referendum claims.", "Last Christmas, which stars Emilia Clarke, will feature unreleased music from the late singer.", "Hundreds of villagers have been evacuated as firefighters battle the flames in Evia.", "Police say body recovered from wreckage of crashed plane is that of Cardiff City player Emiliano Sala.", "Two exam boards' A-level maths candidates had to score just 55% to get an A in this year's paper.", "Liverpool win the Super Cup for the fourth time in their history by beating Chelsea 5-4 on penalties after a 2-2 draw in Istanbul.", "More than half of qualifications awarded for 16-18 year olds in England are for vocational courses.", "The work and pensions secretary says Parliament cannot be ignored in a push to a \"far inferior\" no-deal Brexit.", "Aspen will make the payment after a competition probe into a life-saving treatment for thousands of patients.", "FirstGroup and Trenitalia will take over the running of the London-to-Glasgow route in December.", "The PM says opposition to Brexit in Parliament means the EU is less likely to compromise on a deal.", "Prices have risen and some suppliers have advised restaurants to take cauliflower off their menu.", "The Spanish tenor says claims by eight singers and a dancer are \"deeply troubling\" and \"inaccurate\".", "Ministers want to dissuade young people from carrying weapons but critics say the plan is offensive.", "Apple shares soar as the US delays imposing tariffs on mobile phones and other items from China.", "The wreckage of the plane carrying Cardiff City's Emiliano Sala and his pilot was found off Guernsey.", "Biometric security software Biostar 2 was found to have exposed sensitive user data online.", "A day earlier, he told the BBC that PM Modi had \"murdered the constitution in broad daylight\".", "The social anthropologist's alleged detention comes amid high tensions between Iran and the UK.", "Ads for cheese and an electric car fall foul of new rules banning the showing of gender stereotypes.", "The \"Class of 92\" say their university will offer an alternative to \"erratic\" schedules at others.", "The four men and two Australians are linked to a UK-based organised crime syndicate, police say.", "They were filmed bounding through the snow in New South Wales.", "No one was injured. The local police department shared the footage as a warning to not text and drive.", "Chris Williamson calls the decision to re-impose his suspension \"unconstitutional\".", "Investors dump stocks in favour of safer assets as concerns over the health of the global economy grow.", "Criminal gangs are targeting children in care, some as young as 12, in towns and cities many miles from home.", "Celtic crash out of the Champions League after conceding four times to CFR Cluj of Romania in a frantic game in Glasgow.", "From January, commuters could pay on average more than £100 extra a year for rail travel.", "French official Stephanie Frappart says she will have no fears when she becomes the first woman to take charge of the Uefa Super Cup.", "An investigation has been launched after he reportedly said the vehicle \"promotes homosexuality\".", "The deal between CBS and Viacom combines Paramount Pictures and some of TV's most-watched shows.", "Kara Jones, who lost her baby son, says hospital staff ignored her pleas for an early delivery.", "The US rapper is found guilty of assault during a Stockholm brawl and given a suspended sentence.", "Ningali Lawford-Wolf died on Sunday after falling ill during a run of show The Secret River production.", "Natalie Crichlow, who was looking after her disabled brother, dies nine days after the attack.", "Luca Parmitano played from the International Space Station to a cruise ship in the Mediterranean Sea.", "Members of one band wore Parachute Regiment insignia with the letter 'F' during a Londonderry parade.", "Congress will block a UK trade deal if Brexit harms the Good Friday Agreement, key US Democrat says.", "Shukri Abdi's family say police prematurely concluded her death was not suspicious.", "More than 200 MPs have called for a suspension and independent review of a controversial tax policy.", "Mr Braine takes 53% of the vote in a ballot of members and says UKIP has \"a great future\".", "The Scottish government says it is considering nationalising the beleaguered Ferguson shipyard.", "Thousands of people took to the streets in Srinagar – in a protest the Indian government denies happened.", "Police say they have arrested a \"young white man\" after a shooting inside a mosque left one injured.", "Hundreds of homes were hit with power cuts and several roads were closed due to wind and rain.", "The Duke of York was accused of touching a woman's breast, according to newly released court papers.", "The traffic officer suffered serious head and pelvic injuries in the \"shocking\" attack.", "The nine-year-old is in police protection after being found by beach safety volunteers in Brighton.", "The Lord of the Rings star joined hundreds of people creating a wave of colour through the streets of the city.", "Many were trying to recover fuel from an overturned tanker when it exploded and killed 64 people.", "More than 50,000 are thought to have attended the latest in a series of rallies for fair elections.", "Many of the most commonly prescribed forms of hormone replacement therapy are out of stock in pharmacies.", "When panic gripped a school one day, the girls affected did not know they were in the \"mass hysteria capital of the world\".", "The National Grid's operations director explains why nearly one million people lost power on Friday.", "The company says the power cut affecting nearly a million people was an \"incredibly rare event\".", "The 10 men kidnapped from a Turkish container ship last month are reportedly in good health.", "An arrest report obtained by some news outlets sheds light on his arrest and his interviews while in custody.", "Gary Williams claimed he was trying to help the busker but a passer-by filmed the theft.", "Ipswich Hospital is hit by a power cut that affected the whole site after its back-up generator failed.", "Wales are provisionally top of the world rankings for the first time after Australia beat World Cup holders New Zealand.", "Brazil's president was replying to a journalist's question about agriculture and deforestation.", "Hundreds of people remain stranded in London after faulty generators caused power cuts in England and Wales.", "The troubled Port Glasgow yard could go into administration by the end of next week.", "Mesut Ozil and Sead Kolasinac will not be part of Arsenal's squad for the game at Newcastle because of \"further security incidents\".", "Radiation levels spiked following the blast at a naval test range in the Arctic.", "The West Coast mainline reopens after being closed by flooding between England and Scotland.", "The Environment Agency says it does not know what changed the colour of the River Frome tributary.", "Stuart Outten was stabbed in the head when he tried to stop a van in east London on Thursday.", "An airport apologises after rainfall led to water pouring from the roof of the building.", "The Port of Dover said it was \"one ship in, one ship out\", as heavy rain also caused rail delays.", "Nora Quoirin, 15, went missing from her room at the Malaysian holiday resort on Sunday.", "Millions of coins could be minted as to show \"that the Treasury is dedicated to leaving the EU\".", "Police describe the Birmingham machete attack as \"truly outrageous\".", "Liverpool give promoted Norwich a tough re-introduction to the Premier League, thrashing them 4-1 in the opening game of the 2019-20 season.", "A Defra email mistakenly sent to the BBC discusses the policing of waters in a no-deal situation.", "Benjamin Field murdered Peter Farquhar after a \"gaslighting\" campaign to benefit from his will.", "The heavily armed man wanted to test his gun rights, despite his wife warning him it was a bad idea.", "Jeffrey Epstein died in prison waiting for his sex trafficking trial - but who was he?", "Up to £100,000 will be provided to businesses affected by the evacuation, the government says.", "It follows an appeal from the NI Ambulance Service for staff to come in to work over the weekend.", "Twenty-eight are killed and more are missing as powerful Typhoon Lekima hits the south-east coast.", "Andy Murray will make a return to singles action at the Cincinnati Masters next week - seven months after fearing he might have to retire.", "Lower and middle-income jobs saw pay falls in the last decade, research suggests.", "Police warn Whaley Bridge residents who have not left their homes that they are risking lives.", "Up to 1,000 people take part in a mass beach clean-up after Brighton's Pride event.", "MPs could replace Boris Johnson's government in time to halt the process, Dominic Grieve insists.", "Former First Minister Carwyn Jones says he fears \"chaotic independence for the countries of the UK\".", "The men, aged 45 and 61, allegedly failed a breath test and were arrested at Glasgow Airport.", "Brexit Secretary Stephen Barclay says the EU must recognise \"political realities\" have changed.", "Sea fisheries will share £4.2m of EU funding while the Scottish Government will contribute £1.4m.", "Scientists are poised to deliver a stark condemnation of the damage people are wreaking on Earth's land surface.", "Police launch a murder investigation after an 89-year-old is found dead at her home in north London.", "A teenager is arrested on suspicion of attempted murder, the Met Police says.", "Tests are under way to identify the drug involved in the deaths in Essex from 28 July to 30 July.", "Frenchman Franky Zapata has become the first person to cross the English Channel on a flyboard.", "It's the ninth weekend of protests over the extradition bill, with a rally supporting the police.", "All publicly-owned centres ban the sale of high-caffeine drinks to users under the age of 16.", "Yet another Ashes century from Australia's Steve Smith, his second of the match, left England facing a huge battle to save the first Test at Edgbaston.", "Women and girls make up 42% of competitive gamers in the UK, a figure one club wants to change.", "England are once again searching for a way to remove Australia's Steve Smith after a see-saw third day left the first Ashes Test deliciously poised.", "Fulham will take the \"strongest action possible\" after Cyrus Christie says his sister was hit and racially abused by fans.", "Siberia's wildfires have already engulfed an area the size of Belgium, and they are still burning.", "At least 20 people are killed and many more injured in a mass shooting in the Texas city of El Paso.", "Seamus Conlon, 70, was one of three men struck by a stolen car on the Whiterock Road on Saturday.", "A mass shooting in New Zealand has led to an assault-weapon ban six days later, drawing contrasts with the US.", "The pop star on \"brutally honest\" lyrics and why she \"stopped apologising\" for making music on her own terms.", "The RFL and Super League condemn clashes between Catalans and Warrington fans at the end of their match in Perpignan.", "Rick Minns, aka Ruddy Muddy, uses his art to make a difference in people's lives.", "The claim about the hospital for sick children in Edinburgh is being made by a senior trade union official.", "Two deadly shootings in succession have left 29 people dead and sparked much soul-searching in the US.", "It was inventor Franky Zapata's second attempt to fly the 22 miles on his jet-powered craft.", "A woman conceived by rape wants her father brought to justice in a so-called \"victimless prosecution\".", "Stacey Dooley meets some of the foreign women who fled their countries to marry Islamic State fighters.", "The suspect is charged with capital murder over the El Paso attack that left 20 people dead.", "A helicopter airlifts 15 crew from a fishing vessel after it ran onto rocks off Shetland early on Sunday.", "Nora Quoirin's parents awoke to find her missing from her hotel room, with the window open.", "The bank gave no specific reason for John Flint's surprise departure after 18 months in the role.", "Mohammed 'MoAuba' Harkous wins the 2019 Fifa eWorld Cup after beating Saudi Arabia's reigning champion Mosaad 'Msdossary' Aldossary.", "Belfast City Council are piloting instant access to a sign language interpreter at some buildings.", "The first woman to lead an ex-Soviet bloc country fled Latvia as a child and returned decades later.", "But critics warn it won't be enough to clear the £6bn backlog of repairs needed to England's hospitals.", "Indian officials have told thousands of Hindu pilgrims to leave Kashmir over security concerns.", "Alfred Smith, from St Madoes, Perthshire, died four months after celebrating his 111th birthday.", "Man is due in court on Monday after guns were found in a Volkswagen Passat coming from Calais.", "Two other men are in a serious condition after being struck on the Whiterock Road on Saturday.", "A witness heard a \"loud bang\" before seeing a woman scream: \"Where's my son, where's my son?\"", "Saeed Malekpour fled to Canada via a third country while on short-term release from jail.", "Gun violence on this kind of scale tends to lead to.... well, nothing. But this could break the pattern.", "The body of Jean Hanlon, from Dumfries, was found in the sea off the island a decade ago.", "You had many questions about the fires burning through the Amazon. Here are some of the answers.", "Boris Johnson previously said the chances of leaving without a deal were \"a million to one\".", "Michelle Pearson's mother Sandra Lever said her daughter had \"gained her wings\" and \"joined her babies\".", "Police say they believe a woman's body found at Accrington Cemetery is missing Lindsay Birbeck.", "Ariana Grande returns to Manchester for the first time since the 2017 terror attack benefit concert.", "A model of Sir Thomas More was also taken from London Bridge Experience.", "Boris Johnson and US President Donald Trump talk Brexit over breakfast during the G7 summit.", "Two sailors recall their encounter with a vast sea of floating volcanic rocks in the Pacific Ocean.", "Dame Helen Mirren and Sir Lenny Henry sign an open letter to whomever moves in to 10 Downing Street.", "Ben Stokes has played two innings of a lifetime in the space of six weeks - the latest fuelled by a \"knock-off Nando's and two Yorkie bars\".", "Optimists are more likely to live longer than those with a negative life view a US study has found.", "Iran's foreign minister makes a \"surprise\" visit to Biarritz to meet the French president.", "The regulator suspends operations while recent seismic activity in Lancashire is investigated.", "The Hollywood producer has denied sexually harassing more than 75 women.", "More than 80 firefighters spent the night trying to contain the blaze at Woodmill High in Dunfermline.", "A day after the hottest late August Bank Holiday weekend temperature, another record is broken.", "This year's celebrities and professional dancers take to the stage in their dancefloor finery.", "Adut Akech says she has been deeply affected by the error in WHO Magazine.", "Nearly 200,000 people have been affected by floods since the beginning of July.", "The latest takeover deal to buy Bolton has collapsed with administrators warning the \"process of closing down the company\" could begin as early as Wednesday.", "Toshwa Dennis was tackling a scrapheap fire when he got the call to say Savannah was arriving early.", "The PM refuses to be drawn on whether he would suspend Parliament to stop it blocking no deal.", "Customers are still struggling to get in touch with BA, as it works through a backlog of 40,000 calls.", "In a rare acknowledgement, PM Benjamin Netanyahu says Israeli forces targeted \"killer drones\".", "Tata's Port Talbot plant is the focus for turning the waste into biofuel for the airline industry.", "The Lib Dem leader says a no-confidence vote risks failing if Mr Corbyn insists on being interim PM.", "The body of an Iraqi man was found at an off-shore wind farm, Belgian authorities say.", "The mass of pumice, the size of Manhattan, is believed to come from an underwater volcano near Tonga.", "The BBC's boss says he told the government it had taken the \"nuclear\" option on TV licences.", "More than 80 firefighters spend the night trying to contain the blaze at Woodmill High in Dunfermline.", "Forecasters warn temperatures could get even hotter, after 33.3C is reached in west London.", "Campaign groups and civic leaders say it should be a key part of Scotland's effort to tackle climate change.", "The Danish team captain has now won nearly $7m across his career.", "A pop-up shop in west London lets people fill their social media pages with colourful selfies.", "The BBC says salary cuts would not plug the gap needed to fund free TV licences for the over-75s.", "Fires in the Amazon rainforest have prompted concern around the world.", "Jair Bolsonaro commented on a Facebook post mocking the appearance of Emmanuel Macron’s wife.", "Lord Bell, Margaret Thatcher's former spin doctor, dies aged 77 following a prolonged illness.", "The Labour leader has pledged to discuss \"all tactics available\" with opposition parties.", "The singer visits for the first time since the 2017 terror attack and subsequent benefit concert.", "The BBC should cover the cost, the PM says - but the corporation says it's the government's responsibility.", "Ben Stokes' astonishing 135 not out repeats his World Cup heroics and gives England one of their greatest victories to keep the Ashes alive.", "But Oliver Letwin urges talks in the Commons to prevent the UK crashing out of the EU without a deal.", "The infant's father said he and his family were over the moon with their \"miracle baby\".", "At least 13 arrests are made in Portland as a right-wing rally is confronted by left-wing protesters.", "Phong was in a life-threatening condition when he was discovered at the Port of Dover.", "It's the first time a British club has seriously invested in e-sports outside of football title Fifa.", "Explosives might be used to free two cavers trapped since Saturday in the Tatra mountains.", "Three people are killed and several hurt in fighting between fans, after a team bus is attacked.", "Steve Smith's neck injury brought back \"rough memories\" of the death of Phillip Hughes in 2014, Australia coach Justin Langer admits.", "Boris Johnson will meet European leaders this week, amid warnings of food shortages after a no-deal Brexit.", "Police say reports of a rotting chicken and a dog with missing fur are examples of the 999 system being misused.", "The playful scene was captured on their CCTV.", "Newly-wed PC Andrew Harper was dragged along a road by a vehicle while investigating a burglary.", "The oil tanker is due to leave Gibraltar later on Sunday, Iran's ambassador to the UK says.", "Investigators say they are considering whether the attack in north London was a hate crime.", "Prehistoric inhabitants were infected with intestinal worms from eating raw fish, experts say.", "The power station's gigantic, concrete towers created clouds of dust as they were blown up.", "Michael Brown says his 2005 gift of £2.4m - a party record - led to recognition and pain for his family.", "Thousands of pounds are donated to a crowdfunding page set up to support Andrew Harper's family.", "Hundreds of firefighters are tackling the wildfires that are tearing through the holiday island.", "A Coastguard helicopter is helping fire crews and police looking for the child in the River Stour.", "The second Ashes Test is poised for a thrilling conclusion after a memorable fourth day in which the fast bowlers of England and Australia illuminated Lord's.", "Three people are killed and former Celtic defender Emilio Izaguirre is among those injured in violent clashes between fans in Honduras.", "The parents of Jack Letts, dubbed Jihadi Jack, say the UK government is \"shirking responsibility\".", "A customer opened fire reportedly because his sandwich was not prepared quickly enough.", "Richard Williams won two Oscars and a Bafta for his work as animation director on the 1988 hit film.", "Antonio Basco asked members of the community to attend after his wife was killed in El Paso, Texas.", "Steve King defended outright bans on abortion even in cases of pregnancies caused by rape or incest.", "Thames Valley Police appeal for information concerning the death of PC Andrew Harper.", "Diageo's investment in alcohol-free spirit maker Seedlip shows how big firms want to reach non-drinkers.", "The Guardian columnist says a group of men made a \"beeline\" for him as he left a pub in north London.", "Police are given more time to question 10 murder suspects as tributes are paid to PC Andrew Harper.", "DUP leader Arlene Foster says she believes the dossier is \"outdated\" and leaked to undermine the PM.", "The UK is accused of \"off-loading\" its responsibilities for the move against the man dubbed Jihadi Jack.", "England fall four wickets short of a remarkable victory in the second Ashes Test as Australia survive a tense final hour at Lord's.", "Thousands of homes lost power shortly after the three remaining cooling towers of Didcot power station near Oxford came down in a controlled explosion.", "The Islamic State group says it was behind the attack, which also wounded more than 180 people.", "A 17-year-old boy is charged with murdering \"devoted father\" Peter Duncan in Newcastle.", "Australia survive a tense final hour to deny England victory in a pulsating second Ashes Test at Lord's.", "A plaque placed on Sunday commemorates Okjokull glacier, which was officially declared dead in 2014.", "The supermarket's Irish business reminds British suppliers they are expected to pay EU import tariffs.", "A police chief says she would like to find Lucas Dobson alive but is growing increasingly concerned.", "Rescuers are searching for the man who fell into Loch Awe, near Inishail Island, on Saturday.", "A rugby league player is found dead in his hotel room the morning after making his debut for Championship side Batley Bulldogs.", "A no-deal Brexit will bring \"bumps in the road\", Michael Gove admits, as a leaked government document warns of food and drug shortages.", "A homeless man was found in the Unkapani district, apparently drowned, after heavy rain caused extensive damage", "At least 1,500 homes are destroyed after a blaze sweeps through a shanty town in the capital Dhaka.", "Chunks of falling glacier caused a massive wave that came straight at a pair of kayakers in Alaska.", "The 53-year-old and his daughter were assaulted in Glasgow's Buchanan Street station on Saturday evening.", "Rescuers search the River Stour in Kent after six-year-old Lucas Dobson disappeared while fishing.", "A report on the force's plans names civil unrest as the biggest issue it faces in preparing to leave the EU.", "Neil and Katya Jones were the focus of a media storm after she and Strictly partner Seann Walsh kissed.", "President Trump vows to act against \"white supremacists and antifa\".", "Egan Bernal is the first Colombian to have won cycling's most prestigious race.", "Boris Johnson says there is \"bags of time\" for the EU to compromise before the Brexit deadline.", "The Ulster Farmers' Union says it does not anticipate that 45,000 dairy cows will be culled in NI.", "Industry insiders warn 45,000 cows could be lost in a cull that could begin within weeks of a no deal.", "As President Trump meets victims of a deadly mass shooting, Dayton is divided over his visit.", "The mother of a stabbed teenager criticises his family's treatment during a trial over his death.", "Passengers were stuck on trains stranded in floodwater as heavy downpours caused major travel problems.", "Many do not have accommodation and support services in place when they leave, a report finds.", "America was rocked by two attacks in Texas and Ohio over the weekend. Here's what we know.", "If you're tempted to sit on the Italian capital's famous Spanish Steps, you could now be fined.", "Natalie Christopher, 35, was last seen on Monday going for a run on the island of Ikaria.", "Police have since left the site because of \"risks to innocent bystanders\" posed by their presence.", "Figures reveal details of nearly £1m worth of compensation payouts by Network Rail over five years.", "A late flurry of deadline-day signings takes Premier League spending for the summer up to £1.41bn, just short of the £1.43bn record set in 2017.", "What Car? magazine experts say the latest models with keyless entry systems can easily be hijacked.", "Manchester City complete the signing of Portugal right-back Joao Cancelo from Juventus for £60m as Danilo moves the other way.", "Top surgeons are calling for more hospital beds across the country to clear the backlog.", "The officer suffered serious injuries when he was attacked while trying to stop a van in east London.", "An average of 125 knife possession offences involving women and girls are recorded in England each month.", "PC Mat Baker was \"fighting for his life\" when he was assaulted by a man he was trying to restrain.", "Knife offences remain a major subject of public interest. But what are the facts?", "Katie Stevenson was scrubbing coral, which she did not realise releases a poisonous gas.", "Crowds flock to Abbey Road 50 years after the band strolled over its zebra crossing.", "The move follows an accident in June in which a cruise ship collided with a dock, injuring five people.", "The demonstration followed the arrest of a student leader for possessing several laser pointers.", "The senior officer is suspended from duty while another police force investigates the allegation.", "The severely brain-damaged teenager weighed just three and a half stone and was severely dehydrated.", "There is growing concern over youth knife crime, but are teenagers actually carrying more knives?", "All services out of London Euston were suspended due to a signal failure.", "UK train operators will stay in the scheme following a backlash on social media.", "Colin Dowler ended up in a life-or-death struggle with a grizzly bear in British Columbia.", "Met Police colleagues say the \"amazing\" officer Tasered his attacker while being stabbed in the head.", "A woman who was with him \"screamed for help\" when he disappeared below the surface of the water.", "The full-size fairground ride is \"certainly not a gimmick\", says Norwich Cathedral.", "Can people hit by the evacuation of their home town during repairs to the dam claim on insurance?", "Raising VAT on meat by more than 100% would help curb global warming, politicians argue.", "Gynaecologists are sharing the story as a cautionary tale about the alternative therapy trend.", "The project provides meals and activities in schools during the long summer break.", "Three teenagers were treated by paramedics on the beach at Clacton after they were pulled from the water.", "Police hope that if Nora Quoirin is lost she will respond to her mother calling her name.", "The aunt of missing teenager Nora Quoirin was close to tears as she asked the public for help.", "A tool has been released that makes it possible to alter how some messages appear on Facebook-owned WhatsApp.", "Henri Belolo helped to write the band's biggest hits YMCA, Go West and In the Navy.", "About 1,500 people were evacuated last week after heavy rain affected Toddbrook Reservoir.", "The government assumes about 50% of cross-Channel trade will be delayed - better than the 80% first feared.", "The one-year review will help government departments prepare for Brexit, says Sajid Javid.", "Newquay traders were geared up for the busiest weekend of the year.", "The Treasury said there were already enough in circulation so no new ones were needed.", "Boris Johnson wants a new fast-track visa system to attract leading scientists to work in the UK.", "The row is over pay and conditions, with the pilots' union announcing plans for two walkouts.", "Researchers examined the factors that led teenagers in England and Wales to arm themselves.", "One in four firms holding a test subject's data released it to her partner without her permission.", "The US pop singer's 22-day diet could lead to nutritional deficiencies, experts say.", "The UK's busiest airport and union representatives have agreed to suspend industrial action.", "Police warn Whaley Bridge residents who have not left their homes that they are risking lives.", "Brexit Secretary Stephen Barclay says the EU must recognise \"political realities\" have changed.", "The president blames the internet and video games and says \"mental illness pulls the trigger, not the gun.\"", "One passenger on the flight from London to Valencia describes the experience as \"like a horror film\".", "Scientists are poised to deliver a stark condemnation of the damage people are wreaking on Earth's land surface.", "The retail giant says it held off raising prices for as long as it could, and insists it is still competitive.", "Nora Quoirin, 15, who has learning difficulties, went missing while with her family in Malaysia.", "Media regulator Ofcom rejects complaints against Channel 4's Jon Snow and Nigel Farage's LBC show.", "The Royal College of Nursing criticises TENA, saying new mothers need more information about treatment.", "Police launch a murder investigation after an 89-year-old is found dead at her home in north London.", "July this year was the warmest month ever observed worldwide, satellite data has confirmed.", "Samples from the River Sheppey are being tested and the cause is expected to be known later.", "The supermarket giant says the move will allow it to serve shoppers better and be more sustainable.", "A soldier and a baseball coach recall how they tried to save children from the El Paso shooting", "Cesar Sayoc admitted posting explosives to prominent Democrats and members of the media.", "The former Lostprophets singer produced the small phone after a search in HMP Wakefield, a court hears.", "Police say they are considering burglary as a possible motive after Dorothy Woolmer was found dead.", "England slump to a 251-run defeat in the first Ashes Test as a Nathan Lyon-inspired Australia go 1-0 up in the series at Edgbaston.", "At least 20 people are killed and many more injured in a mass shooting in the Texas city of El Paso.", "The security mission launches to protect merchant shipping amid growing tensions with Iran.", "Jaclene Paolucci's sardonic response to a stranger about her lifestyle choices while pregnant resonated online.", "A total of 31 people were killed going about their daily lives in two mass shootings in the US.", "Daniel O'Sullivan attacked police dog Audi in a \"plainly premeditated\" attack, the judge said.", "The health secretary tells the BBC he thinks MPs have missed their chance to block it.", "TV and radio presenters, soap stars, sportspeople, a YouTuber and a Viscountess - that's who.", "The grocer will close food counters in 90 of its stores and get rid of its canteens.", "The six-year-old boy was visiting the art gallery in London with his family, police say.", "A Stacey Dooley documentary is edited after she described a Muslim prayer gesture as an \"IS salute\".", "The claim about the hospital for sick children in Edinburgh is being made by a senior trade union official.", "Some people were unable to get onto the accessibility viewing platform because it was at \"full capacity\".", "A woman conceived by rape wants her father brought to justice in a so-called \"victimless prosecution\".", "Stacey Dooley meets some of the foreign women who fled their countries to marry Islamic State fighters.", "The suspect is charged with capital murder over the El Paso attack that left 20 people dead.", "The water level is down but needs to drop further before Whaley Bridge residents can go home.", "Scottish engineers have developed technology that can \"taste\" subtle differences between drams.", "The bank gave no specific reason for John Flint's surprise departure after 18 months in the role.", "Nora Quoirin's parents awoke to find her missing from her hotel room, with the window open.", "Jeane Freeman says safety reviews are \"on track\" and hopes a phased migration will take place.", "Marieme and Ndeye were not expected to live beyond a few days, but are now about to start nursery.", "The firm says because of the thickness of the materials, the straws should be put into general waste.", "Mohammed 'MoAuba' Harkous wins the 2019 Fifa eWorld Cup after beating Saudi Arabia's reigning champion Mosaad 'Msdossary' Aldossary.", "Kate Allsop was unveiled by Nigel Farage less than a week after starting work with Merthyr Tydfil.", "The UK's biggest supermarket chain has raised in dividend after a \"strong\" performance last year.", "Washington accuses Beijing of devaluing the yuan, a statement likely to intensify trade tensions.", "Protesters block roads and besiege police stations as the government pledges to restore order.", "The Sports Direct boss has added another struggling retailer to his empire; deal includes 100 shops.", "Gun violence on this kind of scale tends to lead to.... well, nothing. But this could break the pattern.", "Impoverished African countries are the most food-insecure, stemming from climate change, says a charity.", "It's a place where people feel like family. So how is this border town coping with the loss of 22 of its own?", "A witness heard a \"loud bang\" before seeing a woman scream: \"Where's my son, where's my son?\"", "The men were all arrested on suspicion of violent disorder and remain in custody, police say.", "Men who kill their partners follow a timeline that could be tracked by police, a new study suggests.", "A daytime party set up by the local government proves a hit in the rapidly-ageing country.", "The average parental contribution for homebuyers this year is £24,100, Legal & General finds.", "The Bank of England says the relatively low value of old £5 notes might explain their low return rate.", "Major chains still offer \"dubious\" deals, despite rules designed to prevent this, says Which?", "Lindsay Birbeck was found strangled in a Lancashire cemetery, weeks after she went missing.", "It will work on smart speakers, TVs and mobiles but would Beeb be a good wake-up word?", "Michelle Pearson's mother Sandra Lever said her daughter had \"gained her wings\" and \"joined her babies\".", "Bolton have 14 days to find a buyer or prove they have the funds to complete the season, or they will be expelled from the English Football League.", "The teenagers swam out to help the pair who were in danger of drowning off the Aberdeenshire coast.", "The international wildlife regulator bans the capture and export of baby African elephants.", "Irish backstop talks have been reignited as the UK and EU jostle for the moral high ground.", "Iran's judiciary says Anousheh Ashouri, a dual national, has been sentenced to 10 years in jail.", "A 19-year-old British woman says she did not lie about being raped in the tourist town of Ayia Napa.", "Two people fall into a river as a bridge collapses after torrential rain in the Black Sea.", "Optimists are more likely to live longer than those with a negative life view a US study has found.", "Council officials say Woodmill High School in Dunfermline will not reopen in the \"short to medium term\".", "A day after the hottest late August Bank Holiday weekend temperature, another record is broken.", "The regulator suspends operations while recent seismic activity in Lancashire is investigated.", "This year's celebrities and professional dancers take to the stage in their dancefloor finery.", "Sineenat Wongvajirapakdi is shown flying a fighter jet, wearing combat fatigues, and firing a gun.", "Police release CCTV footage of a man who they say is a suspect in the killing of Lindsay Birbeck.", "William McLean took five lines of cocaine before crashing head-on into Allan Nicholson on the East Kilbride Expressway.", "Adut Akech says she has been deeply affected by the error in WHO Magazine.", "Cars were washed away as torrents of water flowed through neighbourhoods in Madrid.", "As Bolton Wanderers face the prospect of liquidation, BBC Sport takes a look at the mood at a club on the brink.", "Parys Lapper, whose disabled mother posed while eight months pregnant, dies suddenly.", "The company which was hoping to buy Bury Football Club, C&N Sporting Risk, says it is \"unable to proceed\" with the takeover.", "The PM refuses to be drawn on whether he would suspend Parliament to stop it blocking no deal.", "Gary Copland said he was not given accessible books, and was then penalised for reading too little.", "Bury are expelled by the English Football League after a takeover bid from C&N Sporting Risk collapsed.", "The Lib Dem leader says a no-confidence vote risks failing if Mr Corbyn insists on being interim PM.", "The PSNI is examining 300,000 hours of CCTV footage in relation to lapse of care at the home.", "Britain's Johanna Konta and Dan Evans come through tricky encounters to reach the second round of the US Open.", "The Brexit Party leader says he would work with the PM but only if he pursued a \"clean break\" exit.", "Bury FC supporter Hannah Monaghan explains why the football club means so much to her, her family and her home town.", "Surgeon Roger Adlard said it was the most complex amputation case he had ever operated on.", "Jair Bolsonaro commented on a Facebook post mocking the appearance of Emmanuel Macron’s wife.", "More than 1,400 children have been displaced following the blaze at Woodmill High School on Sunday.", "Ad watchdog bans government advert telling EU citizens how to stay in the UK after Brexit.", "Leaks suggest that schools in England will soon receive an injection of extra cash.", "The Labour leader has pledged to discuss \"all tactics available\" with opposition parties.", "The public were not given the full picture about the true cost of the high-speed railway, documents show.", "Problems accessing online bank accounts have now been resolved, the bank says.", "The government has published a report setting out the risks of a no-deal Brexit. How is it preparing?", "Jonathan Goldstein, his wife and baby were killed when the aircraft they were in crashed in the Alps.", "Stephen McDonell's gas mask face visor was smashed as clashes in Hong Kong escalate.", "Thousands of people took to the streets in Srinagar – in a protest the Indian government denies happened.", "Ex-PM Gordon Brown attacks nationalism and a no-deal Brexit - and says the UK must rediscover empathy.", "Thirty-two are killed and more than five million affected as Typhoon Lekima hits eastern China.", "Police say they have arrested a \"young white man\" after a shooting inside a mosque left one injured.", "Marcus Rashford scores twice as Manchester United begin their Premier League campaign with an emphatic win over Chelsea at Old Trafford.", "The Duke of York was accused of touching a woman's breast, according to newly released court papers.", "Wales are denied top spot in the world rankings after England withstand a second-half fightback to win their Rugby World Cup warm-up.", "Wales travel to Twickenham as favourites to beat an injury-hit England in their World Cup warm-up and move to the top of the world rankings.", "The traffic officer suffered serious head and pelvic injuries in the \"shocking\" attack.", "When panic gripped a school one day, the girls affected did not know they were in the \"mass hysteria capital of the world\".", "Many of the most commonly prescribed forms of hormone replacement therapy are out of stock in pharmacies.", "The Italian deputy PM called on the film star to take the 160 migrants to Hollywood on a private jet.", "More than 50,000 are thought to have attended the latest in a series of rallies for fair elections.", "Two men were arrested outside the house of Gunners midfielder Mesut Ozil on Thursday, police say.", "The company says the power cut affecting nearly a million people was an \"incredibly rare event\".", "Police are treating the fire at the home in Kirklees as attempted murder.", "The rule change will allow \"smart, neatly-trimmed\" beards, but not \"scraggly or patchy\" ones.", "The Green MP says women are less tribal, but her plan to stop a no-deal Brexit receives criticism.", "Boris Johnson's estranged wife, who was diagnosed with cervical cancer in May, says she is \"cancer-free\".", "Martin Broom was killed in a hammer attack in his Essex home, but his killer has never been caught.", "The UK Labour Party deputy leader Tom Watson speaks out against a second Scottish independence referendum.", "The old regime was not particularly effective at targeting people who were committing crimes.", "Police say a vandal seems to have deliberately cut the cable on a mountain gondola.", "Details emerge of one of five military drone crashes in mid Wales - this one near a school.", "The traffic officer had been attempting to pull over a suspected car thief in Birmingham.", "A review into sentencing is also promised as Downing Street continues its focus on law and order.", "About a hundred protesters took part in the demonstration on Porthmeor Beach in St Ives.", "Haider Shamas, 18, dies in hospital days after his 14-year-old sister.", "Stuart Outten was stabbed in the head when he tried to stop a van in east London on Thursday.", "The Port of Dover said it was \"one ship in, one ship out\", as heavy rain also caused rail delays.", "Ukraine has been angered after the Russian leader visited a bikers' festival on the annexed peninsula.", "Millions of coins could be minted as to show \"that the Treasury is dedicated to leaving the EU\".", "The Scottish Environment Protection Agency issued 10 alerts for flooding across Scotland.", "Police in Colorado said the bear broke through a wall \"like the Kool-Aid Man\".", "The storyline, which sees liberals hunt Trump supporters, has been criticised by the president.", "Rules on searches are being relaxed in England and Wales to tackle rising knife crime.", "At the weekend, the service was down by about a quarter of its normal workforce.", "Nora Quoirin, 15, has been missing from her room at a Malaysian holiday resort since last Sunday.", "Jeffrey Epstein died in prison waiting for his sex trafficking trial - but who was he?", "Twenty-eight are killed and more are missing as powerful Typhoon Lekima hits the south-east coast.", "A committee will look at whether National Grid's procedures are fit for purpose.", "Fears over practices like chlorine-washing chicken are unfounded, says the head of America's farm lobby.", "Liberal Democrat leader Jo Swinson says the pro-Remain MP will bring \"real expertise\" to the party.", "Police say Nora Quoirin's parents identified a body found in the jungle as their missing daughter.", "The BBC has obtained pictures from inside the ship, which was seized by officials in Gibraltar in July.", "The Labour leader says Westminster should not prevent a vote - but he does not think it is a \"good idea\".", "Teenagers involved in the incident at Machaire Rabhartaigh were attending an Irish college.", "John Williams dies in hospital, one month after being hit while umpiring an amateur match.", "Power NI is hiking prices in a move that will see domestic bills go up by an average of £35 a year.", "Nora Quoirin's body was found beside a stream just over a mile from the resort where she was staying.", "Resident and religious leaders say people can often be seen taking drugs in the booths.", "Private cannabis clinics have now opened in the UK, charging up to £800 per month for prescriptions.", "Seven teenage boys have been arrested on suspicion of murdering 52-year-old Peter Duncan.", "China's ambassador to the UK says some politicians think \"their hands are still in the colonial days\".", "Here are some words of advice and encouragement for those awaiting their A level results.", "Emma McNulty has started a campaign for employees to get bereavement leave when they lose their pets.", "More than 300 million barrels of heavy crude oil are expected to be recovered from the Mariner field, east of Shetland.", "Two exam boards' A-level maths candidates had to score just 55% to get an A in this year's paper.", "More than half of qualifications awarded for 16-18 year olds in England are for vocational courses.", "They say tackling tooth decay - which affects a quarter of five-year-olds - is a priority.", "The UK's data protection watchdog probes how facial recognition is being used at King's Cross.", "Liverpool win the Super Cup for the fourth time in their history by beating Chelsea 5-4 on penalties after a 2-2 draw in Istanbul.", "Brexit campaigner Arron Banks says his tweet about \"freak yachting accidents\" was a joke.", "The UK Labour Party deputy leader Tom Watson speaks out against a second Scottish independence referendum.", "British athletes Jess Learmonth and Georgia Taylor-Brown's disqualified from the World Triathlon Olympic qualification event in Tokyo after crossing the finish line hand-in-hand.", "Seamus Bradley was shot and killed in Londonderry in July 1972.", "The attack took place in Westminster, near the Houses of Parliament, in central London.", "The PM says opposition to Brexit in Parliament means the EU is less likely to compromise on a deal.", "An independent regulator could decide whether people are fit to appear on reality TV.", "Gareth Lee, who ordered the cake from Ashers bakery, is going to the European Court of Human Rights.", "Problems making \"liquid nutrition\" have led to a national emergency, the NHS says.", "Ministers want to dissuade young people from carrying weapons but critics say the plan is offensive.", "Vanessa George, who has been judged eligible for parole, has never admitted which children she abused.", "He says a meeting would lead to a \"happy and enlightened ending\" after weeks of unrest.", "At least 74 seek medical treatment after the landing in a cornfield near Moscow, officials say.", "Only experienced mountaineers should be climbing the world's highest peak, a Nepali panel recommends.", "The Metropolitan Police confirms Novichok was found in a blood sample taken from an officer.", "Abdulah Husseini, who was caught after a police appeal went viral, is described as a \"habitual thief\".", "Girls overtake boys with top grades as 300,000 pupils learn results in England, Wales and Northern Ireland.", "No one was injured. The local police department shared the footage as a warning to not text and drive.", "Provides an overview of Gibraltar, and key facts about this UK territory - also claimed by Spain.", "Nora Quoirin's parents awoke to find her missing from her hotel room, with the window open.", "Investors dump stocks in favour of safer assets as concerns over the health of the global economy grow.", "Boris Johnson says civil servants need to prepare \"urgently\" for the possibility of a no-deal Brexit.", "Grace 1 was seized by Royal Marines on 4 July and has remained off the coast of Gibraltar since.", "The British singer kisses a fan on the lips during a gig in the UAE, where homosexuality is illegal.", "ABC’s Jimmy Kimmel Live! mocked an emergency presidential alert issued to warn of major threats.", "Grime artiste Stormzy pledges to fund two more Cambridge students.", "Natalie Crichlow, who was looking after her disabled brother, dies nine days after the attack.", "As a schoolboy Lewis Ludlam vowed he would play for England - and that he would give his teacher tickets.", "Members of one band wore Parachute Regiment insignia with the letter 'F' during a Londonderry parade.", "Congress will block a UK trade deal if Brexit harms the Good Friday Agreement, key US Democrat says.", "A Swat team rescued two officers trapped inside a home with the gunman in Philadelphia.", "Nora, 15, was found dead close to a stream 10 days after vanishing from a Malaysian jungle resort.", "Social media connected a couple looking to adopt with a baby. Or so they thought.", "You had many questions about the fires burning through the Amazon. Here are some of the answers.", "Speaking ahead of the G7 summit, the prime minister says the UK will be an \"energetic partner\" after Brexit.", "Ryanair has been rated worst for customer service out of 100 big British brands, according to Which?.", "Amitpal Singh Bajaj's wife says her \"hero\" husband had sacrificed his life to save her and their son.", "A consultation will take place later this year on how pupils should be tested in the future.", "The independent Sheffield MP was quizzed by South Yorkshire Police officers, according to sources.", "The US president increases tariffs on China after it unveiled duties on 5,000 products from the US.", "A witness says the boy's mother was screaming for him to wake up amid attempts to save him.", "Arctic hospital staff did not know that military test victims were irradiated, the BBC learns.", "The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge boarded a Flybe jet at Norwich airport.", "A guest thought the device they took back to their caravan was a fossil, according to local media.", "Bury are waiting to hear if a late offer to buy the club will save them from being expelled from the English Football League.", "Lucie's new school uniform is on the dishevelled side by the end of the five-year-old's first day.", "The transport firm, known for its green and red lorries, revealed a £2m discrepancy in its accounts last month.", "Women report being groped and subjected to lewd comments while out promoting their shows.", "The drug combination has huge potential and would cost just \"pennies a day\", say the researchers.", "David Hughes, who has months to live, says the British embassy has provided little help to get him home.", "PM says progress is being made, but people \"shouldn't hold their breath\" over a breakthrough with the EU.", "Bury Football Club's possible demise is \"absolutely disgraceful\" according to England women's manager Phil Neville.", "The highest number of injuries occurred on Mount Giewont where lightning struck a large metal cross.", "Thousands of people held hands to form a human chain of peaceful protest against a suspended extradition bill.", "President Bolsonaro responds to criticism about his previous comments, suggesting NGOs started the Amazon fires.", "Dr Angelo Grubisic was an astronautical engineer based in Southampton and a wingsuit designer.", "The fire on the 12th floor of the tower in Notting Hill is now under control, London Fire Brigade says.", "British Airways pilots will strike on 9, 10 and 27 September in a dispute over pay, union Balpa says.", "There has been \"limited progress\" made in Bury's bid to avoid expulsion from the English Football League, says the organisation.", "Dubbed the \"I-95 Killer\", Gary Ray Bowles admitted to killing six men along the eastern US main freeway.", "It is hoped the unprecedented procedure will prevent the extinction of the northern white rhino.", "Paul Bussetti was cleared of posting \"grossly offensive\" material - a video of an effigy of a burning Grenfell Tower.", "An investigation is launched after staff from multiple stores complain of poor working conditions.", "Following moves by Twitter and Facebook earlier this week, Google shuts down more than 200 YouTube channels.", "Newly declassified files show tensions between the governments over the ceasefires of the 1990s.", "The US toy maker will expand its entertainment portfolio with other preschool brands including PJ Masks.", "Gillian says her 17-year-old daughter should not be in a psychiatric unit with eight adult men.", "Up to 160,000 fans are expected as the singer ends his record-breaking tour with four Ipswich gigs.", "Eight-time Paralympic gold medallist Sophie Christiansen tweeted a video of her ordeal.", "A further 30 people, including ten children and a baby, are picked up in French waters.", "The boy was on holiday with his family at La Croix du Vieux Pont in the Berny Riviere area.", "The celebrity chef will help set new quality standards as part of the government's review of hospital food.", "\"Nothing could be done\" to revive the boy, whose 44-year-old mum has been bailed, police say.", "Officers hold a silence for PC Andrew Harper as his parents pay tribute to their \"superhero\" son.", "England's hopes of regaining the Ashes look all but over after they are bowled out for 67 by Australia in the third Test at Headingley.", "The UK Home Office is considering a system which would let you walk through immigration without showing your passport.", "Fruitport High School has been rebuilt to make things difficult for potential gunmen during an attack.", "The care system in England is under strain with rising demand from older children, a study finds.", "The total number of babies born in 2018 - 657,076 - was down nearly 10% on 2012.", "Conservatives' working majority in the House of Commons cut to one", "Havelock International in Kirkcaldy has faced problems over reduced demand for its products.", "The Lib Dem win in Brecon and Radnorshire gives new PM Boris Johnson a working majority of just one.", "Deadlock means \"not as much other stuff has happened as might,\" says the Bank of England's Andy Haldane.", "Police tell Whaley Bridge's 6,500 residents to gather at a school amid fears a reservoir could burst.", "Research firm GfK says people are feeling more positive, but that could change as 31 October nears.", "At least 10 people were hurt in the incident outside Tin Shui Wai police station.", "Three people were injured and firefighters searched for hours under collapsed scaffolding in Reading.", "The RAF helicopter is dropping 400 tonnes of aggregate to shore up Whaley Bridge dam.", "The Federal Reserve cuts rates by a quarter of a percentage point, but the president wanted more.", "Most of the 2019 contestants on the reality show were scouted or put forward by their agents.", "Details of when or where the emerging al-Qaeda leader reportedly died are unclear.", "People were stranded and roads and rail lines were blocked after heavy rain fell.", "The individual who died was one of nine previously confirmed cases linked to Good Food Chain products.", "Steve Smith makes 144 on his return to Test cricket after the ball-tampering scandal to halt England's charge on the opening day of the Ashes.", "Ofcom gives permission for the BBC to keep programmes up for one year, instead of just 30 days.", "Roads are closed, rail services cancelled and homes flooded as severe downpours cause disruption.", "Trump's former top economic adviser Gary Cohn said the trade war has affected the US more than China.", "Scottish government calls for \"iconic\" products to keep their protected status even if there is a no-deal Brexit.", "Transport officials are doing research to find out if the tests could help reduce road deaths.", "Louise Porton killed Lexi Draper, three, and 17-month-old Scarlett Vaughan, jurors find.", "The government says the money will fund more border force officers and stockpiling of medicine.", "Captain Joe Root says he is \"desperate to turn things around\" as England attempt to reclaim the Ashes from Australia starting on Thursday.", "Peter Gynt actor James McArdle and James McAvoy brand theatre reviewer Quentin Letts \"pathetic\".", "Bumi Thomas, a jazz artist who thought she was a British citizen, is now facing deportation from the UK.", "Corine Bastide spent six days trapped in her car, which crashed in the woods during the recent heatwave.", "Mark McKinty is convicted of drink-driving for the second time in six years after failing a breath test.", "TV and radio presenters, soap stars, sportspeople, a YouTuber and a Viscountess - that's who.", "The CBI publishes practical steps it says the UK, EU and firms can take in the run-up to 31 October.", "More doctors considering reduced working hours and early retirement due to a tax on extra working hours.", "Peckham teenager Khadijah Mellah will ride out at Glorious Goodwood on Thursday and make history in front of 25,000 people.", "The presenter took over from Chris Evans in January after he left to join Virgin Radio.", "A restaurant run by inmates in jail is helping to stop a return to prison, say researchers.", "Two patent filings seek to set a precedent by naming an AI as their inventor.", "Live coverage the evacuation of Whaley Bridge after a nearby dam wall collapses.", "Eight-year-old Mady, the youngest recipient of a bionic arm in the US, requested it be bright pink.", "An air ambulance helicopter and other emergency services were called to Bracklinn Falls in Callander.", "Police say those who died appeared to be unable to call for help and died in their own homes.", "Customers from the big supermarkets now buy 10 bags a year - compared to 140 bags in 2014.", "MPs have called for schools in areas with a higher risk of youth violence to have dedicated PCs, but what do these officers do?", "Cambridge University student Alana Cutland fell to her death in July.", "Almost a month's rain fell in four hours in parts of North Yorkshire.", "In a letter to the prime minister, senior doctors express concerns over the supply of radioisotopes.", "Pictures of the dramatic dam wall collapse in Whaley Bridge, Derbyshire.", "Staff who have used the technology for acute kidney injury describe it as a \"potential lifesaver\".", "Amateur jockey Khadijah Mellah makes history as she wins the Magnolia Cup at Glorious Goodwood on Thursday.", "The pound starts to fall again, dipping through $1.21, as the dollar strengthens after Fed cut.", "The Scottish government seems increasingly likely to take the Ferguson yard in Port Glasgow into public ownership.", "Scotland needs to increase spending on the NHS to bring it into line with other similar EU countries, warn doctors.", "A former US trade representative tells the BBC the UK has \"enormous leverage\" in any deal with Washington.", "Boris Johnson says there is \"bags of time\" for the EU to compromise before the Brexit deadline.", "This is the first fight to be held in the region since a court ruled a partial ban was unconstitutional.", "National Grid says issues with two faulty generators that caused widespread power cuts are now resolved.", "She starred in the controversial 2004 Sky dating show There's Something About Miriam.", "A man is accused of attempting to murder PC Stuart Outten who was attacked with a machete in London.", "Police have since left the site because of \"risks to innocent bystanders\" posed by their presence.", "Rhys Hunt suffered severe injuries when a car ploughed into him at a car cruise event.", "An arrest report obtained by some news outlets sheds light on his arrest and his interviews while in custody.", "Gary Williams claimed he was trying to help the busker but a passer-by filmed the theft.", "Ipswich Hospital is hit by a power cut that affected the whole site after its back-up generator failed.", "England drop Moeen Ali and replace him in the squad with slow left-armer Jack Leach for the second Ashes Test against Australia.", "Reece Dempster is accused of killing Dorothy Woolmer, who was found dead with \"blunt trauma injuries\".", "The man was collecting bat droppings when he slipped and became wedged between rocks in a jungle cave.", "Nora Quoirin, who has special needs, vanished from a holiday resort in Malaysia on Sunday.", "The government says the money will fund more border force officers and stockpiling of medicine.", "Police say they arrested two men, aged 28 and 21, in the Oldpark Road area of north Belfast.", "A late flurry of deadline-day signings takes Premier League spending for the summer up to £1.41bn, just short of the £1.43bn record set in 2017.", "Vietnamese national Linh Le, who is 15 and speaks no English, vanished from her tour group in York.", "Hundreds of people remain stranded in London after faulty generators caused power cuts in England and Wales.", "The officer suffered serious injuries when he was attacked while trying to stop a van in east London.", "The troubled Port Glasgow yard could go into administration by the end of next week.", "A £97m order for two ferries that ended up sinking the revival of the Clyde's last commercial shipyard.", "Former Wasps and England winger Christian wade scores sensational 65-yard touchdown with his first carry on his Buffalo Bills debut.", "Malaysia charges 17 current and former Goldman Sachs executives over the 1MDB corruption scandal.", "The move follows an accident in June in which a cruise ship collided with a dock, injuring five people.", "There could be winds of up to 60mph for parts of the Channel coast, south-west England and west Wales.", "Mesut Ozil and Sead Kolasinac will not be part of Arsenal's squad for the game at Newcastle because of \"further security incidents\".", "Congressional leaders are discussing \"meaningful\" background checks for gun owners, he says.", "Sherry Bray and Christopher Ashford accessed images of footballer Emiliano Sala in a mortuary.", "Postal worker Frank Kerr was murdered at a Newry sorting office 25 years ago.", "Evacuation warnings are in place for Shanghai as Typhoon Lekima roars past Taiwan.", "One sweet manufacturer is seeing sales of fudge, chocolate eclairs and toffees soaring in Iraqi Kurdistan.", "Colin Dowler ended up in a life-or-death struggle with a grizzly bear in British Columbia.", "An airport apologises after rainfall led to water pouring from the roof of the building.", "The full-size fairground ride is \"certainly not a gimmick\", says Norwich Cathedral.", "Raising VAT on meat by more than 100% would help curb global warming, politicians argue.", "Investors take flight as the taxi-hailing company reports its biggest quarterly loss.", "Three teenagers were treated by paramedics on the beach at Clacton after they were pulled from the water.", "The Inverclyde yard posts a £60m loss following major cost overruns on deal to build new ferries.", "Boris Johnson says civil servants need to prepare \"urgently\" for the possibility of a no-deal Brexit.", "Ben Field persuaded his victims to make him their beneficiary before killing one of them.", "Some people reported feeling the \"whole house\" tremble during the quake.", "A charity says staff members such as cleaners are not paid enough by England's top football clubs.", "Liverpool give promoted Norwich a tough re-introduction to the Premier League, thrashing them 4-1 in the opening game of the 2019-20 season.", "The Met Office says heavy showers and thunderstorms could continue until Sunday.", "Benjamin Field murdered Peter Farquhar after a \"gaslighting\" campaign to benefit from his will.", "Prices at council crematoria range from £392 to £960 and have risen by more than inflation since 2015.", "The one-year review will help government departments prepare for Brexit, says Sajid Javid.", "Malika Shamas was with two teenage relatives when she got into trouble in the water.", "Boris Johnson wants a new fast-track visa system to attract leading scientists to work in the UK.", "Lower and middle-income jobs saw pay falls in the last decade, research suggests.", "Gynaecologists are sharing the story as a cautionary tale about the alternative therapy trend.", "Andy Murray will make a return to singles action at the Cincinnati Masters next week - seven months after fearing he might have to retire.", "What happens to a shipyard under public ownership/", "But Oliver Letwin urges talks in the Commons to prevent the UK crashing out of the EU without a deal.", "Indonesians take part in a greasy pole climbing contest - a tradition that dates back to Dutch colonial days.", "The four teenagers deliberately destroyed the £30,000 exhibition in a \"rampage\" after drinking vodka.", "The BBC has obtained pictures from inside the ship, which was seized by officials in Gibraltar in July.", "James Reardon had weapons and white nationalist material at his Ohio home, police said.", "Thirteen Costa Coffee employees criticise a franchise manager's handling of multiple stores in Essex.", "Explosives might be used to free two cavers trapped since Saturday in the Tatra mountains.", "Donna Francis is accused of killing Kelly Mayhew in a \"botched butt enhancement\" procedure in 2015.", "The finals of the e-sports championship took place in Los Angeles this weekend.", "Lyra McKee's partner says she understands the hold some groups have over communities in NI.", "Main Street in the village is closed as police investigate the murder.", "The couple have been together since 2006 and have two children.", "They say they wanted the sand as a \"souvenir\" and did not realise they were committing an offence.", "Councils' no-deal Brexit plans warn of more expensive school meals and lower nutritional standards.", "Investigators say they are considering whether the attack in north London was a hate crime.", "An Alaska man discovers the pristine 50-year-old message in a bottle while hunting for firewood.", "The US president tells the Fed to consider a one percentage point cut and return to QE money printing.", "Details of when the publicly-owned Ferguson yard will complete two CalMac ferries must be announced by November.", "Hundreds of firefighters are tackling the wildfires that are tearing through the holiday island.", "Thousands of pounds are donated to a crowdfunding page set up to support Andrew Harper's family.", "Cauda equina syndrome requires decompression surgery within hours to avoid catastrophic damage.", "PC Andrew Harper was dragged along the road by a vehicle after responding to burglary reports.", "The parents of Jack Letts, dubbed Jihadi Jack, say the UK government is \"shirking responsibility\".", "A 17-year-old boy is charged with murdering \"devoted father\" Peter Duncan in Newcastle.", "The singer said he lent his private plane to the royal pair - but he paid to carbon offset the trip.", "Stephen the hedgehog was inside a van, which was stolen in Leeds on Saturday morning.", "Lucas Dobson, six, fell into the River Stour in Kent on Saturday and has not been seen since.", "Two men have been arrested after four people were injured by a car driven into tents.", "Snooker legend Jimmy White finally wins a world title at the Crucible.", "A fall in uptake of the MMR vaccine means the UK has lost its measles-free status.", "People with the condition are angered after Olaf Falafel's gag won an award following a public vote.", "Police blame dissident republicans for the attack on officers and the Army close to the Irish border.", "The Suffolk-based pub chain and brewer is the latest to be bought in a wave of consolidation in the sector.", "The attack took place in Westminster, near the Houses of Parliament, in central London.", "The supermarket's Irish business reminds British suppliers they are expected to pay EU import tariffs.", "The cows on this floating farm in the Netherlands are helping find ways of making food sustainably", "A no-deal Brexit will bring \"bumps in the road\", Michael Gove admits, as a leaked government document warns of food and drug shortages.", "A police chief says she would like to find Lucas Dobson alive but is growing increasingly concerned.", "Chunks of falling glacier caused a massive wave that came straight at a pair of kayakers in Alaska.", "Lord Holmes of Richmond is accused of touching the woman in a London hotel earlier this year.", "Police say the 12-year-old is in a life-threatening condition following the \"catastrophic incident\".", "Neil and Katya Jones were the focus of a media storm after she and Strictly partner Seann Walsh kissed.", "Greenpeace criticises the current system which relies on builders to certify much of their work, with limited checks.", "Mark Jordon was acting in self-defence when he bit a man after a row in a pub garden, a jury decides.", "Brexit Secretary Stephen Barclay says the EU must recognise \"political realities\" have changed.", "Rachael Marshall says co-housing provides a \"sense of community\" 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mounted officers leading an African American man.", "Water levels at Toddbrook Reservoir are now low enough for engineers to assess the damage.", "Malaysian police searching for Nora Quoirin, 15, have extended their search to areas of tropical forest.", "Assessor Capita is seeking to overturn a ruling and £10,000 damages award after a claimant died.", "The EU says there is currently no basis for \"meaningful discussions\", but the UK rejects that view.", "Cesar Sayoc admitted posting explosives to prominent Democrats and members of the media.", "The security mission launches to protect merchant shipping amid growing tensions with Iran.", "Jaclene Paolucci's sardonic response to a stranger about her lifestyle choices while pregnant resonated online.", "The health secretary tells the BBC he thinks MPs have missed their chance to block it.", "TV and radio presenters, soap stars, sportspeople, a YouTuber and a Viscountess - that's who.", "The six-year-old boy was visiting the art gallery in London with his family, police say.", "England bowler James Anderson to miss next week's match at Lord's due to the calf injury that curtailed his involvement in the Ashes opener.", "Scotland replaces London as the area of Britain to find a property buyer the fastest, figures suggest.", "Russian military planes water-bomb a Siberian depot to stop more shells exploding.", "Young Chelsea footballers were targeted for years by a \"prolific and manipulative sexual abuser\" who was able to operate \"unchallenged\", says a damning report.", "Just 741 firms have applied for a grant to help prepare for a no-deal Brexit, BBC Newsnight learns.", "Former England captain Wayne Rooney will leave MLS side DC United in January to join Derby County as a player-coach.", "Germany's Fiona Kolbinger beats more than 200 men to become the first woman to win the Transcontinental Race, riding more than 2,485 miles across Europe.", "She served 28 days of a three-month jail sentence for lying about a speeding offence.", "Many of the 1,500 evacuated people have been told to wait until after midday for a decision.", "Eyewitnesses say his son was clinging to him as he was pulled from the water.", "Leicester Royal Infirmary told Terry Brazier it was \"deeply and genuinely sorry\".", "Scottish engineers have developed technology that can \"taste\" subtle differences between drams.", "The lifetime price tag of the new hospital is set to top £500m after the extra costs were revealed by Audit Scotland.", "A 17-year-old is accused of throwing the boy, who suffered a brain bleed, from a viewing platform.", "Dean Weymes won £10,000 a month for the next 30 years on the National Lottery's Set For Life draw.", "James Hodder, whose girlfriend Kirsty Boden was killed, says inquest families must have legal aid.", "Leo Varadkar says a border poll in the wake of a no-deal Brexit would be \"divisive\".", "Washington accuses Beijing of devaluing the yuan, a statement likely to intensify trade 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Wayne Rooney's move to Derby has raised more questions about the relationship between football an gambling.", "Details emerge of one of five military drone crashes in mid Wales - this one near a school.", "\"Wicked and cruel\" Carol and Scott Dawson were angry about Gary Dean running across their land.", "Local news outlets captured police shooting non-lethal ammunition at close range and tear gas.", "However, owner Jim McColl has been strongly critical of the move towards public ownership.", "A review into sentencing is also promised as Downing Street continues its focus on law and order.", "The traffic officer had been attempting to pull over a suspected car thief in Birmingham.", "Haider Shamas, 18, dies in hospital days after his 14-year-old sister.", "Heavy rainfall caused major issues on the rails and roads as Scots returned to work.", "Some of the country's most traded stocks have also lost nearly half of their stock value in one day.", "Middle-class children are in danger of 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"There have been nearly 90,000 comments since Gwent Police posted Jermaine Taylor's picture.", "Police in Colorado said the bear broke through a wall \"like the Kool-Aid Man\".", "The owner of Ferguson Marine says proposals to nationalise the beleaguered yard make \"no economic sense\".", "The girl was last seen in York on 6 August and police say she could be \"anywhere in the country\".", "Hammer and Pincers landlord Christian Thornton was stabbed outside his pub on Sunday afternoon.", "Andy Murray will play his first singles match in seven months when he faces Richard Gasquet at the Cincinnati Masters on Monday.", "The luxury label is the latest firm to face backlash for not adhering to China's territorial claims.", "People being exploited to work for drug gangs are getting younger and more vulnerable, MPs hear.", "At the weekend, the service was down by about a quarter of its normal workforce.", "Researchers are developing a new technique that can hear what is going on below a 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ensure only one user at a time.", "Power NI is hiking prices in a move that will see domestic bills go up by an average of £35 a year.", "Turkey's military pension fund reaches a tentative deal to take over the insolvent steelmaker.", "Private cannabis clinics have now opened in the UK, charging up to £800 per month for prescriptions.", "The comedian and broadcaster suffered serious back injuries in the fall while on holiday.", "Seven teenage boys have been arrested on suspicion of murdering 52-year-old Peter Duncan.", "China's ambassador to the UK says some politicians think \"their hands are still in the colonial days\".", "Iman Barlow and her boyfriend Stan Stannard intervened when thieves robbed a man of his watch.", "The UK's data protection watchdog probes how facial recognition is being used at King's Cross.", "She was branded \"the lowest of the low\" for claiming she was dying to defraud a wedding charity.", "Police warn of delays to investigations and court cases after the attack led to a backlog of 20,000 samples.", "The party wants to give councils powers to fill empty shops to avoid the creation of \"ghost streets\".", "Problems making \"liquid nutrition\" have led to a national emergency, the NHS says.", "Things didn't quite go to plan when the hungry animal tried to pilfer a snack.", "Samantha Ford, who killed 23-month-old Jake and Chloe, is detained in a psychiatric hospital.", "A £97m order for two ferries that ended up sinking the revival of the Clyde's last commercial shipyard.", "The bonfire had banners and flags about an ex-British soldier facing murder charges over Bloody Sunday.", "Ex-chancellor says he'd be willing to lead \"a government of national unity\" to prevent a no-deal Brexit.", "However, no punishment will be levelled at pupils or parents if they choose to strike for a longer period.", "Trading in the biggest shares was delayed until 9:40 while a technical problem was investigated.", "Thames Valley Police appeal for information concerning the death of PC Andrew Harper.", "The government is accused of \"running down\" the military, as figures show a further drop in numbers.", "Ownership of the Port Glasgow yard has transferred to the Scottish government in a bid to secure its future.", "Boris Johnson's partner, who joined him in Downing Street in July, addresses a wildlife event.", "The French daredevil unfurled a banner showing China and Hong Kong shaking hands.", "Cash from financial institutions and crypto-currency exchanges funded weapons purchases, the UN says.", "The Metropolitan Police confirms Novichok was found in a blood sample taken from an officer.", "A 15-year-old boy is arrested while four other teenagers are released with no further action.", "Provides an overview of Gibraltar, and key facts about this UK territory - also claimed by Spain.", "Passengers posted footage online of long queues at airports across the country.", "Aerial footage shows where an officer was killed while attending a reported burglary.", "Perth wants the famous object to be the centrepiece of a new £23m museum at the former city hall.", "The hard-rocking US band hit the top of the charts for the first time in 18 years.", "British former world number one Andy Murray says he will play no part in the US Open, which starts later this month.", "The British singer kisses a fan on the lips during a gig in the UAE, where homosexuality is illegal.", "Rupert Hogg steps down after \"challenging weeks for the airline\" over the Hong Kong demonstrations.", "Six men are arrested on suspicion of murder in connection with the assault outside a Greggs.", "Natalie Crichlow died from an infection following burns suffered in a kitchen fire, say police.", "The corporation apologised for the problems which lasted about an hour and took Wales Today off air.", "ABC’s Jimmy Kimmel Live! mocked an emergency presidential alert issued to warn of major threats.", "Grime artiste Stormzy pledges to fund two more Cambridge students.", "Students snap up record number of university places through clearing a day after the A-level results.", "What happens to a shipyard under public ownership/", "Off-Facebook Activity tool will show users the websites and apps that feed it information about them.", "Indonesians take part in a greasy pole climbing contest - a tradition that dates back to Dutch colonial days.", "Dmitry and Olga Prokazov also face a criminal case after footage featuring their baby was posted online.", "Mair Gore was told she would have to wait two-and-a-half hours for an ambulance after having a stroke.", "The four teenagers deliberately destroyed the £30,000 exhibition in a \"rampage\" after drinking vodka.", "Thirteen Costa Coffee employees criticise a franchise manager's handling of multiple stores in Essex.", "Graduates have paid millions in repayments even though their student loans have been cleared.", "Terry Bryant was filmed leaving an Oscars party holding the statuette and saying: \"We did it!\"", "John Cowan, from Hamilton, became ill during a break at a Bulgarian beach resort.", "Main Street in the village is closed as police investigate the murder.", "John Humble, dubbed Wearside Jack, was jailed for perverting the course of justice in 2006.", "Councils' no-deal Brexit plans warn of more expensive school meals and lower nutritional standards.", "The film, which will be Daniel Craig's final Bond outing, is released in April next year.", "The PM calls the Irish border plan \"unviable\", but the EU says no realistic alternatives are offered.", "Ben Unwin played \"bad boy\" Jesse McGregor during two stints on the long-running Australian soap.", "The decision to fire Daniel Pantaleo came five years after Eric Garner's death during his arrest.", "A no-deal Brexit could be a greater challenge than BSE and foot-and-mouth, a researcher suggests.", "US and Asian firms lead investment into UK start-ups in the first seven months of 2019.", "Many vegans boycott woollen clothing on the basis that it is cruel to sheep.", "Jed Foster appears before magistrates, after PC Andrew Harper's wife pays tribute to her \"darling boy\".", "An Indian Air Force crew saved the two men in Jammu, India which has been hit by heavy rain.", "The singer said he lent his private plane to the royal pair - but he paid to carbon offset the trip.", "Scientists working on a mission to the ocean moon of Europa can proceed with the final design and construction of the spacecraft, Nasa has said.", "Malcolm McKeown was shot after he walked out of a filling station in Waringstown, County Down.", "People with the condition are angered after Olaf Falafel's gag won an award following a public vote.", "The industry warns of a flood of foreign fuel imports if the UK quits the EU without a deal.", "The Suffolk-based pub chain and brewer is the latest to be bought in a wave of consolidation in the sector.", "Police blame dissident republicans for the attack on officers and the Army close 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Boris Johnson: \"We do need that backstop removed\"\n\nGerman Chancellor Angela Merkel has suggested an alternative to the Irish border backstop - a key Brexit sticking point - could be found within 30 days.\n\nSpeaking at a news conference alongside Prime Minister Boris Johnson in Berlin, she stressed it would be up to the UK to offer a workable plan.\n\nThe PM said he was \"more than happy\" with that \"blistering timetable\".\n\nHe accepted the \"onus\" was on the UK, but said he believed there was \"ample scope\" for a new deal to be reached.\n\nIn his first overseas visit to a fellow leader, Mr Johnson is meeting Mrs Merkel after he told the EU the backstop - which aims to prevent a hard Irish border after Brexit - must be ditched if a no-deal exit was to be avoided.\n\nHe will meet French President Emmanuel Macron on Thursday, before attending the G7 summit on Saturday alongside other leaders including US President Donald Trump.\n\nThe EU has repeatedly said the withdrawal deal negotiated by former PM Theresa May, which includes the backstop, cannot be renegotiated.\n\nAnd - despite Mrs Merkel's comments - that message was echoed by Mr Macron on Wednesday evening.\n\n\"Renegotiation of the terms currently proposed by the British is not an option that exists, and that has always been made clear by [EU] President Tusk,\" he told reporters in Paris.\n\nAt the news conference, the German chancellor said a realistic alternative to the plan would require \"absolute clarity\" on the post-Brexit future relationship between the UK and the EU.\n\n\"The backstop has always been a fall-back option until this issue is solved,\" she said.\n\n\"It was said we will probably find a solution in two years. But we could also find one in the next 30 days, why not?\"\n\nMr Johnson replied: \"You rightly say the onus is on us to produce those solutions, those ideas [...] and that is what we want to do.\n\n\"You have set a very blistering timetable of 30 days - if I understood you correctly, I am more than happy with that,\" he added.\n\nHe added that alternatives to the backstop had not been \"actively proposed\" under his predecessor Theresa May - but he was pressed by Mrs Merkel to spell out what such alternatives might look like.\n\nThe prime minister has insisted he wants the UK to leave the EU with a renegotiated withdrawal deal, but the UK must leave on 31 October \"do or die\".\n\nEnter the word or phrase you are looking for\n\nIf implemented, the backstop would see Northern Ireland staying aligned to some rules of the EU single market, should the UK and the EU not agree a trade deal after Brexit.\n\nIt would also see the UK stay in a single customs territory with the EU, and align with current and future EU rules on competition and state aid.\n\nThese arrangements would apply until both the EU and UK agreed they were no longer necessary. Brexit supporters fear this could leave the UK tied to the EU indefinitely.\n\nShould we be optimistic about the scope for a Brexit breakthrough after Angela Merkel suggested a solution to remove the need for the backstop could be found - possibly even within just 30 days?\n\nBoris Johnson will certainly be pleased the German chancellor has left a door open.\n\nBut don't get carried away. There's a reason Europe is so adamant the backstop has to stay in the Brexit deal - it just doesn't believe there is a workable alternative available right now.\n\nBoris Johnson says it's his job to find a solution and accepted a deadline of 30 days to come up with one.\n\nThe pressure is firmly on the UK to find that solution - and it's going to be a huge challenge to put it mildly.\n\nMeanwhile, Jeremy Corbyn has cancelled a trip to Ghana later this week, urging opposition MPs to meet urgently to discuss ways to prevent a no-deal Brexit.\n\nSNP Westminster leader Ian Blackford has confirmed he would attend the meeting next Tuesday, but warned the Labour leader that \"all options must be on the table\".\n\nMr Corbyn has proposed that in order to prevent a no-deal exit, opposition MPs should help him defeat the government in a no-confidence motion and install him as a caretaker PM.\n\nIf he wins the vote, he plans to delay Brexit, call a snap election and campaign for another referendum.\n\nBut the Liberal Democrats, and some potential Tory allies opposed to a no-deal exit, have indicated they won't back a plan that leads to Mr Corbyn in No 10.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nNepalese authorities have banned single-use plastics in the Everest region in a bid to cut down on waste left by climbers.\n\nThe ban will take effect in the Khumbu Pasang Lhamu municipality from January 2020.\n\nA local official told AFP news agency that by starting now, \"it will help keep our region, the Everest and the mountains clean long term\".\n\nAll plastic drinking bottles and plastics of less than 30 microns in width will be banned in the province. No penalty has yet been announced for violators.\n\nTrekking companies, airlines and the Nepal Mountaineering Association will work with local officials to enforce the ban.\n\nA record number of people tried to climb Everest in the 2019 season\n\nKhumbu Pasang Lhamu receives tens of thousands of tourists every year, and the government is introducing more and more measures to limit the effect they have on the area.\n\nIn August, an advisory panel recommended that people seeking to summit Everest should employ experienced guides and should first climb a Nepali peak of at least 6,500m (21,325ft).\n\nCurrently, a permit for the world's highest mountain costs $11,000. The panel suggested increasing this to at least $35,000.\n\nEarlier in 2019 at least 11 people died or went missing on the peak, of a record 885 people who attempted to climb Everest this climbing season.", "Russian couple Dmitry and Olga Prokazov have been threatened with having their children taken into care after footage featuring their baby was posted online.\n\nA criminal case has also been opened against them.\n\nThe move has shocked many in Russia, where there’s already controversy about more than a dozen people facing prison sentences for taking part in opposition protests in recent weeks.", "The future of the UK's fuel refineries could be threatened by a no-deal Brexit, according to an internal local authority document seen by the BBC.\n\nUnder current government plans for no deal, they face a \"danger to viability\" from cheaper imports, while exports to the EU are set to be hit with tariffs.\n\nConcern is widespread in an industry deemed crucial for both economic and national security.\n\nThe government said it was working with the industry to prepare for Brexit.\n\n\"We will continue to work flat out to prepare for the potential impact on UK refineries in the event of Brexit without a deal, and to be responsive to the needs of all UK businesses and consumers both as we prepare to leave the EU and afterwards,\" it added.\n\nThere are six major petroleum refineries in the UK, supporting around 120,000 jobs directly and contributing about £8.6bn to the economy.\n\nThey turn crude oil into petrol and diesel as well as products such as jet fuel.\n\nThe concern, which is shared by both the Scottish and Welsh governments, relates to the UK government's decision not to apply tariffs - taxes on trade - to imports of petrol in the event of a no-deal Brexit.\n\nThe decision was made to lessen the inflationary impact on prices in the event of a no-deal Brexit.\n\nThe current tariff on fuel imports from non-EU countries is 4.7%.\n\nHowever, under World Trade Organization (WTO) rules, a zero tariff rate must apply to petrol imports from all countries, opening up the UK to Russian fuel imports.\n\nAt the same time, the EU has said it will apply a tariff, under WTO rules, of 4.7% to UK exports, making the trade with, for example, Ireland \"uneconomical\", according to insiders.\n\nWhile a flood of cheaper imports could initially mean lower fuel prices for consumers, the industry says relying on foreign suppliers will ultimately lead to higher prices.\n\nBut the government has also said that reversing its no-deal zero import tariff plan would lead to higher prices for consumers.\n\nThe Irish market is of specific importance to the Pembrokeshire refinery run by US firm Valero.\n\nA document from Anglesey Council says: \"Pembrokeshire Valero is a significant contributor to overall UK fuel supply and if they cannot compete on equal terms with EU markets, then there is a danger to their viability.\"\n\nThe fuel industry says relying on foreign suppliers will ultimately lead to higher prices for consumers\n\nStephen Marcos Jones of the UK Petroleum Industry Association says the changes to tariffs, \"distorts the competition for us, it means the importers have an advantage over the UK refining industry\".\n\n\"We could end up in a situation where it becomes extremely uncompetitive for a domestic industry to stay in the UK,\" he adds.\n\n\"Do we really want to be dependent on a country like Russia for our fuel? Do we want to be dependent on any country outside of the UK?\"\n\nThe issue has been raised at the key no-deal Cabinet planning sub-committee. And the threat of zero import tariffs to two UK refineries was mentioned in the leaked Operation Yellowhammer government planning document published on Sunday.\n\nThe problem is that opening up the schedule of no-deal tariffs is bound to lead to demands from other industries aggrieved at not getting the same protection.\n\nAlthough the industry denies it, some in government fear that charging tariffs on all imported petrol will simply raise prices for consumers, in a visible manner.\n\nThe local authority documents also reveal a range of contingency plans and discussions around possible, though not expected, fuel shortages following a no-deal Brexit.\n\nAberdeen City Council lists as a low risk \"reduced/lack of fuel affecting waste disposal, school transportation etc\", and says that it has two weeks of bunkered fuel. But it also says that the \"NPA [the UK-wide National Planning Assumption] suggests that fuel shortages will largely impact on the south east, however fuel costs are likely to increase and fuel supply could be an issue\".\n\nCars queuing for petrol during the fuel shortages of 2000\n\nDorset Council alongside others has identified \"key staff who would require fuel warrants\" - special licences to grant them access to fuel supplies.\n\nSutton Council, which normally only half-fills its fuel stores due to cost and risk, \"will fill fuel bunkers to maximum\". And Chorley Council, in its recent Brexit risk report, says that on-site fuel tanks should be \"topped up on a weekly basis to ensure that fleet vehicles can continue to operate for longer in the event of fuel shortages\".\n\nSuch moves are part of an already existing national fuel plan, created after the fuel protests and shortages seen in 2000. Fuel providers have already identified key petrol stations, priority users, and arranged the mechanics for waiving competition law so that competing suppliers are legally allowed to co-operate.\n\nSome councils have considered going further.\n\nChichester District Council, for example, has decided to spend £30,000 on a fuelling station and a 24,000 litre fuel tank. In a confidential document from January this year, it says fuel should be available but \"might be limited at some point\" and existing stores \"could well last 8-10 days before we have to operate hand to mouth\".", "The High Court in London will allow a proposed strike over pay and conditions by UK-based Ryanair pilots on Thursday and Friday.\n\nEarlier, the airline won a bid to stop Ireland-based pilots from striking, but more of its pilots fly from the UK.\n\nRyanair said it would aim to minimise disruption for passengers and would be able to run its \"full schedule of flights\".\n\nHowever, it said it could not rule out some delays.\n\nRyanair's lawyers told the Irish court that the Forsa pilots' union, which represents around 180 Ryanair pilots, had not let talks reach a conclusion before announcing the strike.\n\nPilots can be drafted in from elsewhere in Europe to fill in during strike action.\n\nRyanair said it would inform passengers of any changes to their flights by email and text message. \"If you have not received any SMS or email from us, your flight is scheduled to operate,\" it said. Customers can also check its website, it said.\n\nIn early August, Ryanair pilots in the UK joined pilots in Ireland in voting to strike over pay and conditions.\n\nThe British Airline Pilots Association (Balpa) announced two 48-hour walkouts, one from 22-23 August and another from 2-4 September.\n\nBut Ryanair turned to the courts in London and Dublin in a bid to block the industrial action, prompting Balpa to accuse the airline of \"bully boy\" tactics.\n\n\"We are clear that we want to settle the dispute and bring about a change in Ryanair for the better,\" said Balpa general secretary, Brian Strutton, welcoming the judgement. \"Pilots in Ryanair are seeking the same kind of policies and agreements that exist in other airlines - our demands are not unreasonable.\"\n\nBalpa's decision to walk out came only days after the budget airline warned of job losses following a 21% fall in quarterly profits, because of higher costs for fuel and staff, and reduced ticket prices.\n\nThe union said 72% of its members at the company had taken part in the ballot, with 80% of those supporting strike action.\n\nHowever, Ryanair said that fewer than 50% of its UK pilots were members of Balpa, and of these, just 57% voted in favour of industrial action.\n\nIn a letter to Balpa, Ryanair's director of HR strategy and operations, Darrell Hughes, said senior captains were paid up to £180,000 per annum and, because of this, pilot turnover had fallen to zero \"in recent months\".\n\nHe said: \"At this difficult time for UK pilots facing base cuts and closures, Balpa should be working with Ryanair to save UK pilot jobs, not endanger them through ill-timed and ill-judged disruption of our customers' travel plans, just 10 weeks before the threat of a no-deal Brexit. We remain available for talks at your convenience.\"\n\nOn 31 July, Ryanair boss Michael O'Leary warned staff in a video message to prepare for job cuts, saying the airline has 900 too many pilots and cabin crew members.\n\nHe said the two weakest markets were Germany, where Ryanair faced fierce competition on price, and the UK, where there were Brexit uncertainties.\n\n\"It's been a challenging summer, we're facing into a very difficult winter,\" he said in the video, seen by the BBC.\n\nBut Captain Tilmann Gabriel, a former pilot who teaches aviation management at City, University of London, told BBC Radio 5 Live that pilots were in short supply, with 800,000 more needed over the next two decades.\n\n\"That means we need to produce... 110 pilots every day [for] the next 20 years and we are producing much less,\" he said. \"So of course the price goes up.\"\n\nIn a tweet, Ryanair welcomed the judgement from the Irish court.\n\nIt said all Ryanair flights from Irish airports would now take off as normal.\n\nThe airline had previously warned that the 180 pilots who were set to strike on Thursday 22 and Friday 23 August would put holidaymakers' travel plans at risk if the action went ahead.\n\nJustice McDonald told Dublin High Court that he would restrain the pilots' union, Forsa, \"from directly or indirectly, organising, directing or endorsing\" a strike by its members on Thursday and Friday.\n\nForsa's lawyers had told the court that Ryanair had been \"curt and dismissive\" of a 30-page proposal it submitted to the airline on pay and conditions.\n\nEarlier in August, Ryanair pilots in the UK joined pilots in Ireland in voting to strike over pay and conditions.\n\nAre you set to travel with Ryanair today or tomorrow? Get in touch by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also contact us in the following ways:", "Mexico's health regulator has moved to block the court order\n\nA Mexican judge has granted two people the right to recreational cocaine use, in the first ruling of its kind, the organisation behind the cases said.\n\nThe court said it would allow both claimants to \"possess, transport and use cocaine\" but not sell it, according to Mexico United Against Crime (MUCD).\n\nMUCD, which seeks to end the country's \"war on drugs\", called the ruling a \"historic step\".\n\nThe decision must be reviewed by a higher court before it is enforced.\n\nMUCD said the Mexico City court ordered the country's health authority, Cofepris, to authorise the two claimants' use of cocaine.\n\nA Cofepris official told the AFP news agency that it had taken steps to block the court order, which was handed down in May. The official said that such authorisation would be outside of its legal remit.\n\nThe ruling will only come into effect if a panel of judges side with the original decision. If they do approve the ruling, it will only apply to the two people who brought the cases, whose identities were withheld.\n\nIn a statement on Tuesday, MUCD said the cases represent \"another step in the fight to construct alternative drug policies that allow [Mexico] to redirect its security efforts and better address public health.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Mexico's drug war: Has it turned the tide?\n\nMexico has long struggled with violent conflict from drug cartels, with thousands of drug-related killings reported in the country every year.\n\nIn 2018, the number of drug related homicides in Mexico rose to 33,341, according to the Council on Foreign Relations. The figures were a 15% increase from the previous year.\n\nMexico's Supreme Court has already authorised recreational marijuana use in individual cases.\n\nPresident Andrés Manuel López Obrador, a left-wing politician who took office in December, has promised \"radical\" changes in the country's approach to tackling drugs.\n\nDrugs would not be illegal but arrests would be replaced by enforcing treatment such as attending a detox programme.", "The UK posted a smaller-than-expected budget surplus in July as government spending increased.\n\nThe lower July surplus leaves the government finances in a weaker position overall for the first four months of this financial year.\n\nThat raises questions over prime minister Boris Johnson's room for fulfilling promises over tax cuts and more spending.\n\nBorrowing so far this year has grown to £16bn, an increase of 60% on last year.\n\nA growing wage bill and higher spending on goods and services was behind the lower July surplus, which fell to £1.3bn.\n\nAnalysts had been expecting a £2.7bn surplus, which would have been less than the £3.6bn booked last year.\n\nThe government typically posts surpluses in January and July because taxpayers submit their self-assessment returns in those months. Those tax payments reached £9.4bn in July, £300m more than the same time last year, helping to balance increased government spending for that month.\n\nHowever, overall the government's borrowing position has worsened, said Howard Archer, chief economic adviser to the EY ITEM Club.\n\n\"Central government revenues were down 0.5% on a year earlier, reflecting a combination of weak activity and the generous increases in income tax allowances which came into force in April.\n\n\"At the same time, current expenditure has continued to run at a pace well ahead of that implied by the full-year plans,\" he said.\n\nSince the beginning of the financial year in April, the government has borrowed £16bn - £6bn more than it had by this time last year. The Office for National Statistics' forecast for the whole year was £29bn - so we are more than half way after just 4 months.\n\nSo at this early juncture, the public finances are looking weaker than expected. Given some big spending promises on police, schools prisons, digital infrastructure, extra no-deal preparation PLUS the promise of a tax cut for those who earn between 50 and 80K PLUS a potential \"stimulus package\" to support the economy in a no-deal Brexit scenario, then it seems clear the government will have to raise taxes sharply elsewhere or abandon the last chancellor's target of balancing the books by the mid-2020s.\n\nSuccessive Conservative-led governments have been driven by an imperative to reduce, then eliminate the deficit. It's a target has been kicked into the future many times but not abandoned. The outlook now suggests a trajectory of rising government borrowing rather than falling and a new, uncharacteristic tolerance of it from a Conservative government.\n\nThe lower July surplus follows a steep climb in borrowing in June. That month's £7.2bn deficit was driven by higher debt interest payments and rising spending on services.\n\nIt was the highest June borrowing figure since 2015.\n\nThe lower-than-expected surplus underlines the budget constraints facing Boris Johnson, who has promised to increase spending ahead of Brexit.\n\nThe prime minister has made billions of pounds of spending commitments in his first few weeks in office and the government is also facing a hefty bill for no-deal preparations.\n\nJuly's surplus figure, released on Wednesday, forms part of a complicated picture for the UK economy, which shrank by 0.2% between April and June, the first economic contraction since 2012.\n\nThe unemployment rate increased slightly to 3.9% in the three months to the end of June, but this remained close to a 44-year low.\n\nNevertheless, median disposable household income was forecast to grow by 1.4% to £29,400 over the course of the year.\n\nAnd people are feeling the effects of that extra money in their pockets. Household spending grew by 0.5% between April and June as wage growth hit an 11-year high.\n\nIt has never been cheaper for the government to borrow, which it does by issuing bonds.\n\nThe interest paid on 10-year UK Treasury bills has fallen to historic lows. They now return just 0.5%.", "Christopher Holmes has haemophilia A - his body lacks a protein that makes blood clot. A simple graze can mean the two-year-old bleeds uncontrollably.\n\nTo avoid this he needs treatment every few days with a drug put into his bloodstream via a tube in his chest.\n\nBut now, NHS England has agreed to fund a new therapy for patients like him.\n\nIt's a medication that can be given weekly or fortnightly as an injection just under the skin rather than into a vein.\n\nEmicizumab, marketed as Hemlibra, mimics the action of the missing protein, factor VIII.\n\nChristopher's doctors are recommending he stay on his current factor-VIII treatment but consider switching to the new one when he is a bit older. Like other people with haemophilia A, he will need life-long treatment.\n\nHis mother, Christy, 22, of Surrey, says: \"Without treatment, there's the possibility that he could have multiple bleeds every week, every day.\n\n\"He is quite an active boy, so he bumps his head quite often and obviously there's always the chance of brain bleeds, and bleeds anywhere really, without that factor VIII.\n\n\"Christopher has severe haemophilia A. He has literally got no factor VIII in his body until we provide it to him.\"\n\nChristopher copes really well with having his treatment - but it can be difficult.\n\n\"He's really good with it,\" Christy says.\n\n\"He's not scared of things or worried. To him, he's a normal child. We try as much as possible to treat him like a normal child. But a couple of weeks ago, he was in hospital because he had a port infection[, where the tube enters his chest].\n\n\"And sometimes he'll say to me, 'Mummy, don't hurt me,' when I'm doing his injection and that just kills you as a parent.\"\n\nHaemophilia A is a genetic condition most often inherited but can occur spontaneously and usually affects boys and men.\n\nNow, about 1,800 patients in England living with severe haemophilia A will potentially be able to have emicizumab.\n\nPeople with less severe forms of the condition (but who have stopped responding to conventional factor-VIII treatment) have been able to get Hemlibra on the NHS in England, Scotland and Wales since 2018.\n\nNHS chief executive Simon Stevens said: \"Giving patients access to world-class, trailblazing drugs and therapies is a key part of the NHS Long Term Plan, which aims to save thousands more lives.\n\n\"As a parent, I know that cuts and scrapes happen to kids all the time but for many families these routine accidents can be distressing and life-threatening, so this new treatment will change lives and lift a weight from thousands of parents.\"\n\nThe Haemophilia Society chief executive Liz Carroll said: \"This decision is fantastic news for our community.\n\n\"Current treatments can require intravenous infusions multiple times a week which can place a significant burden on people with haemophilia and their carers.\n\n\"This decision will mean that people will have the opportunity to have treatment less frequently without intravenous access, which will enable many to live their lives more freely.''\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Footage from the depths shows the deteriorating Titanic\n\nThe first people to dive down to the Titanic in nearly 15 years say some of the wreck is deteriorating rapidly.\n\nOver the course of five submersible dives, an international team of deep-sea explorers surveyed the sunken ship, which lies 3,800m down in the Atlantic.\n\nWhile parts of the wreck were in surprisingly good condition, other features had been lost to the sea.\n\nThe worst decay was seen on the starboard side of the officers' quarters.\n\nTitanic historian Parks Stephenson said some of what he saw during the dive was \"shocking\".\n\n\"The captain's bathtub is a favourite image among Titanic enthusiasts - and that's now gone,\" he said.\n\n\"That whole deck house on that side is collapsing, taking with it the state rooms. And that deterioration is going to continue advancing.\"\n\nHe said the sloping lounge roof of the bow section would probably be the next part to be lost, obscuring views of the ship's interior.\n\n\"Titanic is returning to nature,\" he added.\n\nStrong ocean currents, salt corrosion and metal-eating bacteria are attacking the ship.\n\nThe sub dive revealed that some parts of the Titanic are vanishing\n\nThe RMS Titanic has been underwater for more than 100 years, lying about 600km (370 miles) off the coast of Newfoundland, Canada.\n\nThe passenger liner, which was the largest ship of its time, hit an iceberg on its maiden voyage from Southampton to New York in 1912. Of the 2,200 passengers and crew onboard, more than 1,500 died.\n\nThe Titanic expedition was carried out by the same team that recently made the deepest-ever plunge to the bottom of the Mariana Trench, which lies nearly 12km down the Pacific Ocean.\n\nThe dives took place in a 4.6m-long, 3.7m-high submersible - called the DSV Limiting Factor - which was built by the US-based company Triton Submarines.\n\nNavigating the sub around the wreck, which lies in two main pieces about 600m apart, was challenging.\n\nBad weather in the Atlantic and strong underwater currents made the dives difficult. Getting entangled with the wreck was also a significant risk for the team.\n\nThe dives took place in a Triton submersible built to survive the pressures of the deep\n\n1995 - James Cameron visits the wreck - footage is used in his film Titanic\n\n1998 - Section of the Titanic hull is raised\n\n2005 - Two crewed submersibles dive to the wreck\n\nThe dives have been filmed by Atlantic Productions for a forthcoming documentary.\n\nAs well as capturing footage, scientists on the expedition have also been studying the creatures living on the wreck.\n\nDespite the near-freezing conditions, pitch black waters and immense pressure, life is thriving there.\n\nThis though, said expedition scientist Clare Fitzsimmons, from Newcastle University, was a factor in the Titanic's decay.\n\n\"There are microbes on the shipwreck that are eating away the iron of the wreck itself, creating 'rusticle' structures, which is a much weaker form of the metal,\" she said.\n\nThese rusticles - stalactites of rust hanging off the wreck - are so fragile that they can crumble into a cloud of dust if disturbed.\n\nThe captain's bathtub - photographed here during a 1996 expedition - has now gone\n\nThe scientists are studying how different types of metal erode in the deep Atlantic waters, to assess how much longer the Titanic has left.\n\nCommenting on the expedition, Robert Blyth from the National Maritime Museum in Greenwich said it was important to go down and document the wreck in its current state.\n\n\"The wreck itself is the only witness we've now got of the Titanic disaster,\" he said.\n\n\"All of the survivors have now passed away, so I think it's important to use the wreck whilst the wreck still has something to say.\"\n• None Is this the last chance to see the Titanic?\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Many of the victims were targeted on Madrid's Metro\n\nA man has been arrested in Madrid on suspicion of taking upskirt videos of more than 550 women and posting much of the content online.\n\nThe 53-year-old Colombian man allegedly filmed the videos on a mobile phone hidden in a backpack.\n\nPolice say he then uploaded at least 283 videos to pornographic websites, racking up millions of views.\n\nMany of the 555 victims - some of which were underage - were targeted on the capital's Metro system.\n\nThe man is accused of upskirting women on a daily basis since last summer when he began uploading content online.\n\nHe also allegedly operated at supermarkets, sometimes even introducing himself to his targets in an effort to get clearer shots.\n\nPolice started monitoring the suspect and arrested him while filming a woman on the Metro.\n\nIn a video posted to Twitter, the National Police called the suspect \"one of the biggest predators of women's privacy\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Policía Nacional This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nUpon raiding his home, police uncovered a laptop and hard drives with hundreds of videos. His own website had 3,519 subscribers.\n\nThe suspect has been remanded in custody.\n\nIn Spain, upskirting is considered sexual abuse and offenders can face jail.\n\nUpskirting recently became a criminal offence in England and Wales after a campaign by writer Gina Martin.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Gina Martin campaigned for the law to be changed after a man took a picture up her skirt", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nCharges have been dropped against a US man accused of stealing actress Frances McDormand's Oscar trophy at an Academy Awards party in 2018.\n\nTerry Bryant, 58, was arrested last year on suspicion of grand theft after the statuette went missing.\n\nBut a Los Angeles judge has now granted a defence bid to dismiss the case after prosecutors said they couldn't proceed.\n\nMcDormand won the award for best actress in Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri.\n\nThe district attorney's office did not say on Tuesday why the case could not move forward.\n\nFrances McDormand had her Oscar engraved with her name at the Governor's Ball before it went missing\n\nLos Angeles police had said that Mr Bryant was a ticket holder for the Governor's Ball, which is the official formal dinner after the ceremony.\n\nVideo showed a tuxedo-wearing Mr Bryant leaving the party holding the statuette and saying: \"We did it!\" His lawyer argued in previous hearings that Mr Bryant did not intend to keep the award, which was quickly recovered and returned to McDormand.\n\nIt was her second Oscar, 21 years after she won one for her performance in Fargo.", "Police were called to the scene on Wednesday night\n\nA man has been stabbed in one of London's busiest tourist hot spots.\n\nThe victim was found with knife injuries in Trafalgar Square at 21:11 BST on Wednesday.\n\nHe was taken to a major trauma centre but his injuries are not believed to be life-threatening, the Metropolitan Police said.\n\nThe force said the attack is not being treated as terror-related and the victim and attacker may be known to each other. There have been no arrests.\n\nLarge sections of the square were taped off, with five squad cars and two police vans at the scene alongside the London Ambulance Service.\n\nLarge sections of Trafalgar Square were cordoned off\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Health leaders have written to Boris Johnson issuing new warnings on the impact of a no-deal Brexit.\n\nIn a letter to the prime minister, the heads of 17 royal colleges and health charities across the UK say clinicians are \"unable to reassure patients\" their health and care will not be affected.\n\nThey go on to say they have \"significant concerns about shortages of medical supplies\".\n\nGovernment said it was working with the health sector on \"robust preparations\".\n\nThe letter, co-ordinated by the Royal College of Physicians, is signed by the heads of organisations including the British Dental Association, the Royal Pharmaceutical Society, Kidney Care UK and the Royal College of Emergency Medicine.\n\nIt calls for the Health and Social Care Secretary Matt Hancock to be put on the EU exit strategy committee chaired by Michael Gove, who is in charge of no-deal planning.\n\nThe signatories argue that - given the scale of the NHS - without sufficient planning, even the smallest of problems could have \"huge consequences on the lives of millions of people\".\n\nAnd they say: \"The public rightly expects candour from us, and we are simply unable to reassure patients that their health and care won't be negatively impacted by the UK's exit from the EU.\"\n\nThere are also, despite ongoing conversations with the Department of Health and Social Care, \"significant concerns about shortages of medical supplies\", the letter adds.\n\n\"Delays at the border could exacerbate current supply issues and create the very real possibility that life-saving medication is delayed from making it across the Channel.\"\n\nThere have been concerns there will be tailbacks of lorries at Dover and Calais with longer customs checks, if there is a no-deal Brexit.\n\nThe government has said it is drawing up contingency plans to create more ferry capacity for medicines and other vital supplies on other routes.\n\nMore than two-thirds of the UK's pharmaceutical imports come from the EU.\n\nLast week, the government announced a tender for a £25m contract for express freight services to deliver medicines with a short shelf life within 24 hours.\n\nPharmaceutical companies have been told to build up stockpiles of six weeks' supply of drugs.\n\nNovo Nordisk, which manufactures insulin, told the BBC it had 18 weeks' worth of supplies in the UK and had secured ferry capacity to renew stocks.\n\nEnter the word or phrase you are looking for\n\nA spokesman for the Department of Health and Social Care said the government was doing \"everything appropriate to prepare to leave the EU on the 31st October, whatever the circumstance\".\n\nAnd he said it was working closely with the health and care system and industry on \"robust preparations\".\n\n\"Patients can be reassured that our plans should ensure the supply of medicines and medical products remains uninterrupted and they will continue to receive the excellent standard of care they currently do.\"\n\nBut Saffron Cordery, deputy chief executive of NHS Providers, which represents hospitals and other trusts in England, said: \"We are in a very challenging situation 11 weeks out, despite all sorts of planning taking place by health and social care systems.\n\n\"I think we need to look at those items which cannot be stockpiled - short shelf life items such as supplies for radiotherapy, things which need refrigeration\".\n\nHealth leaders have argued elsewhere that the NHS will already be overstretched on 31 October, with winter closing in and the risk that flu cases will increase.\n\nThey have noted that there is a virulent strain of flu in Australia, which has put great pressure on hospitals, and what happens there is usually a pointer to what will take place in Europe.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "George Pell is the most senior Catholic cleric to be convicted of such crimes\n\nReporting on a secret trial can be confronting and confusing.\n\nFor several months, journalists like me have been going back and forth to Melbourne's County Court, unable to broadcast what we'd learnt about George Pell's crimes.\n\nNow the suppression order on the case has been lifted, those details can finally be made public.\n\nOutside court, there was at times high drama - all the sound and fury of cameramen jostling and campaigners brandishing placards at the cardinal as he arrived.\n\nBut after the initial hearings, the crowds and the cameras petered out, and the cardinal no longer needed a police escort to sweep him into the building.\n\nGeorge Pell would sit in the dock with his notebook, listening, writing, but never really betraying any emotion.\n\nHe was excused from standing due to a knee injury, and often sat with his legs stretched out.\n\nHe wasn't called to give evidence, and so we didn't hear a word from him for the majority of the trial.\n\nAs the court heard vivid descriptions of how in 1996 he had forced himself upon two victims, pushing his archbishop's robes to one side in order to expose himself, he didn't flinch\n\nPell's case has drawn huge attention around the world\n\nThe jury was told how one young boy had pleaded for Pell to let him go - only to be shocked into a silence that would last for decades.\n\nPell's defence barrister is one of Australia's most experienced and expensive lawyers - his speeches focused on areas of doubt.\n\nRobert Richter QC repeated over and over how highly improbable - if not impossible - it would have been for any of the abuse to have occurred.\n\nInstead, he insisted that his client had become a scapegoat for the crimes of other Catholic clerics.\n\nAt one stage, Mr Richter even referred to Pell as \"the Darth Vader of the Catholic Church\", painting him as a bold leader vilified by the media.\n\nPell certainly has his critics - some came to the court to watch and see him in the dock.\n\nAlthough the proceedings couldn't be reported, there was nothing to stop members of the public coming in to listen.\n\nCampaigners and abuse survivors sat mixed in with the media, some sighing as they heard accounts of the abuse.\n\nSome of Pell's supporters attended too, sending sympathetic smiles in his direction, and exchanging small talk as he went in and out of the court.\n\nAfter two trials, one hung jury and many months of waiting - the results of this long process are now public.\n\nThe pace of justice has felt slow at times, but it has resulted in one of the Catholic Church's most prominent and powerful figures being held to account.", "Pell has previously given evidence to inquiries into abuse by priests in Australia\n\nCardinal George Pell's child sexual abuse conviction has rocked the Catholic Church, where for years he has been one of its highest-ranked officials.\n\nIt has had the same effect in Australia, Pell's home nation, where his career began decades ago.\n\nThe cleric made his name as a determined figure who championed traditional Catholic values and conservative views against same-sex marriage, abortion and contraception.\n\nBut his career has been dogged first by claims that he covered up child sexual abuse by priests, and then later that he himself was an abuser. He has always denied any wrongdoing, but has been jailed for six year years after being found guilty of abusing two boys in 1996.\n\nPell was born in the city of Ballarat, near Melbourne, Victoria, in 1941, the son of an Anglican father and an Irish Roman Catholic mother.\n\nHis early education was at Loreto Convent and later at St Patrick's College where he excelled in sports, particularly Australian Rules football.\n\nSuch was his prowess on the football field that towards the end of his studies he signed a contract with Richmond Football Club, but then switched his attention to the priesthood.\n\nHe later said he had tried to fight his calling for a long time.\n\nPell began his training for the priesthood in 1960 at Corpus Christi College, the regional seminary for Victoria and Tasmania, and in 1963 went to Rome to continue his studies.\n\nHe was ordained at St Peter's Basilica in Rome in 1966 and went on to take a doctorate in Church history in Oxford.\n\nHe returned to Australia in 1971, taking a post as an assistant priest in Swan Hill, Victoria, and then at parishes in and around Ballarat.\n\nBy 1996, he had risen to be archbishop of Melbourne, where he was responsible for initiating one of the Church's first programmes directly responding to claims of child sexual abuse.\n\nThe plan, called the Melbourne Response, offered modest pay-outs to victims, and was criticised by some who said it was designed to discourage cases in the courts. But supporters called it a pro-active measure to tackle abuse.\n\nHe was later appointed archbishop of Sydney, before Pope John Paul II nominated him to the Vatican's College of Cardinals in 2003, a position that allowed him to vote in papal elections.\n\nPell and then Australian PM Kevin Rudd welcomed Pope Benedict to Australia in 2008\n\nIn 2014, Cardinal Pell was summoned to Rome to become chief of the Vatican's finances, a new position created by Pope Francis in the wake of scandals at the Vatican Bank.\n\nBut he left behind growing anger over revelations of child sex abuse by members of the Catholic clergy in Australia.\n\nCardinal Pell repeatedly faced allegations from abuse victims of a cover-up and his critics accused him of appearing aloof and arrogant.\n\nHe was accused of moving one notorious paedophile priest - Gerald Ridsdale - around parishes rather than reporting him, and of attempting to bribe one of the victims to keep quiet.\n\nVictims of abuse by priests in Australia have been highly critical of Pell\n\nHe strongly denied any wrongdoing but said he could have done more to investigate claims of abuse.\n\nPell has also denied subsequent allegations that he himself committed abuse in Ballarat in the 1970s. Prosecutors have withdrawn charges charges against him relating to that era.\n\nBut he was convicted for abusing two choir boys in a Melbourne cathedral in 1996, during his time as the archbishop of the city.\n\nIn a video of Pell's first police interview in relation to the 1996 allegations, which was recorded in 2016 but released this year, Pell describes the accusations at the time as \"a load of absolute disgraceful rubbish... madness\".\n\nHe was placed on a leave of absence from the Vatican in June 2017.\n\nPell was demoted from Pope Francis' inner circle in December.\n\nHe was sentenced to six years in prison by a Victorian court in March, but immediately lodged an appeal.", "Melania Geymonat, right, and her partner Chris Hannigan needed hospital treatment\n\nFour teenagers have denied harassing two women in a homophobically-aggravated attack on a bus.\n\nMelania Geymonat, 28, and partner Chris Hannigan were on a night bus in Camden, north London, on 30 May when they were allegedly targeted by the boys.\n\nTwo 17-year-olds, a 16-year-old and a 15-year-old allegedly demanded they kiss and perform sex acts when they discovered they were a couple, Highbury Corner Youth Court heard.\n\nThey will stand trial on 28 November.\n\nAll four are charged with using threatening, abusive, or insulting words or behaviour to cause harassment, alarm, or distress.\n\nIt was alleged the boys threw coins at the women, who were both taken to hospital for treatment to facial injuries after the incident.\n\nThe 16-year-old boy, from Wandsworth, admitted stealing a handbag but denied handling her stolen mobile phone.\n\nThe 15-year-old, from Kensington and Chelsea, also denied handling a stolen bank card.\n\nOne of the 17-year-olds, both from Kensington and Chelsea, also denies a charge of possession of cannabis.\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\nUnless the UK's withdrawal agreement with Brussels is reopened and the backstop abolished there is no prospect of a deal, Downing Street has said.\n\nThe strong statement came after the EU pushed back against Boris Johnson's proposal to implement \"alternative arrangements\" for the UK-Irish border.\n\nMr Johnson has said the backstop is \"anti-democratic\" and must be scrapped.\n\nEuropean Council President Donald Tusk said it was \"an insurance to avoid a hard border on the island of Ireland\".\n\nMeanwhile, the government has announced UK officials will stop attending most EU meetings from 1 September.\n\nThe Department for Exiting the European Union said it would \"unshackle\" them from discussions \"about the future of the Union after the UK has left\" and allow them to focus on \"our immediate national priorities\".\n\nLater this week Mr Johnson will meet German Chancellor Angela Merkel and French President Emmanuel Macron for the first time since entering No 10.\n\nAhead of that, in a letter to European Council President Tusk, he called for the backstop to be removed from the withdrawal agreement reached between the EU and his predecessor, Theresa May, arguing it risked undermining the Northern Irish peace process.\n\nMr Johnson said the reaction to his demand for the backstop to be scrapped had been \"a bit negative\" but \"we will get there\".\n\nHe said he would enter Brexit talks with EU leaders with \"a lot of oomph\".\n\nMr Johnson added: \"I think there is a real sense now that something needs to be done with this backstop. We can't get it through Parliament as it is.\"\n\nHe reiterated his view that EU countries were less likely to make concessions to the UK \"as long as they think there's a possibility that Parliament will block Brexit\".\n\nThe border is a matter of great political, security and diplomatic sensitivity, and both the UK and EU agree that whatever happens after Brexit there should be no new physical checks or infrastructure at the frontier.\n\nThe backstop is a position of last resort to guarantee that, but if implemented, it would see Northern Ireland stay aligned to some rules of the EU single market.\n\nIt would also involve a temporary single customs territory, effectively keeping the whole of the UK in the EU customs union.\n\nMrs May's withdrawal agreement has been voted down three times by MPs.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nA series of voices from the European side rejected Mr Johnson's assertions.\n\nMr Tusk said those opposing the backstop without \"realistic alternatives\" supported re-establishing a hard border.\n\nThis was the reality \"even if they do not admit it\", he added.\n\nThe European Commission said Mr Johnson's letter did not contain a \"legally operational solution\" to prevent a hard Irish border.\n\n\"It does not set out what any alternative arrangements could be,\" a spokeswoman said, and \"recognises that there is no guarantee such arrangements would be in place by the end of the transitional period\".\n\nGuy Verhofstadt, Brexit spokesman for the European Parliament, said the backstop was \"a vital insurance policy... supported by the people of the island of Ireland\".\n\nAnd speaking in Iceland, Chancellor Merkel said: \"Once we have a practical solution to ensure that the Good Friday Agreement continues to apply, then we don't need the backstop of course.\"\n\nA Downing Street spokesperson insisted the UK government was \"ready to negotiate, in good faith, an alternative to the backstop, with provisions to ensure that the Irish border issues are dealt with where they should always have been: in the negotiations on the future agreement between the UK and the EU\".\n\nThe question is whether Boris Johnson's letter to the EU is intended as the start of negotiations - or designed to be the end of them.\n\nHe's suggested the only way to get a deal is to take the backstop out. Not to time limit it, or modify it, but to bin it.\n\nBut if he has a fully-fledged, different plan up his sleeve, why he isn't spelling out more detail of those \"alternative arrangements\"?\n\nAnd why can't Downing Street say what additional reassurances would be available to the Irish government in the absence of a backstop, if trade talks falter?\n\nThe lack of detail on Plan B has made some critics in his own party wonder if his Plan A is simply to make an offer the EU can't accept and then blame them for no deal.\n\nBut No 10 insists he'd do a deal quickly if the EU was more flexible. In other words, Brussels would be expected to blink first as the prospect of no deal approaches.\n\nSo far, though, the EU is staring him out.\n\nLabour leader Jeremy Corbyn said it was unclear what the prime minister thought he was negotiating.\n\n\"He needs to recognise that by just holding the threat of a no-deal Brexit on 31 October towards the European Union isn't going to bring about a change, it's going to make things much worse,\" he said.\n\n\"He created this arbitrary date by his behaviour during the Tory Party leadership campaign. He needs to wise up and stop the nonsense of 31 October and start talking seriously.\"\n\nEnter the word or phrase you are looking for", "Long-suffering bank customers are facing an average of 10 digital banking shutdowns a month, according to new figures.\n\nUK banks began publishing details of the number of operational and security incidents that occur last year.\n\nThe latest data analysed by the BBC reveals that the major banks typically suffer more than 10 outages a month.\n\nBarclays reported the most problems in the past year but RBS/NatWest had the most in the past three months.\n\nBarclays reported 33 incidents in the 12 months to the end of June this year, higher than NatWest which had 25 and Lloyds Bank, which had 23.\n\nA Barclays spokesperson told the BBC: \"Our systems are designed to ensure continuity of service for customers in the event of an incident, with a range of channels available to customers.\n\n\"We have seen a consistent reduction in our operational and security incidents throughout the course of the last year.\"\n\nIn the three months to the end of June RBS and NatWest topped the table with seven incidents reported, followed by HSBC with five.\n\nAn RBS spokesperson said: \"Our incident volumes continue to decrease year on year. We have invested significantly in our systems to help keep our customers safe and secure.\n\n\"However, we are not complacent and we will continue working to improve our service to minimise any incidents of disruption for customers.\"\n\nOn Tuesday credit card customers of RBS became the latest victims of an IT meltdown which it blamed on \"a third party service provider\".\n\nThey were unable to see their information online or on their phones and contacting the bank's call centre didn't help as workers there had no access to information and so couldn't help worried customers.\n\nThe bank said in a statement: \"We apologise to any customers impacted and are working with the third party provider to resolve these issues as quickly as possible. Customers can continue to use their credit cards as usual and no customer will be left out of pocket.\"\n\nMeanwhile Barclaycard has warned customers won't be able to use their app, online or telephone services overnight from 11.30pm on Thursday 22 August until 6am on Friday 23 August while the bank updates its system.\n\nFigures relate to the 12 months between 1 July 2018 and 30 June 2019 (figures in brackets for the 3 months between 1 April and 30 June 2019)\n\nSince 2018 banks are required by the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) to publish information about the number of major operational and security incidents they have experienced.\n\n\"It is now a year since we required firms to start publishing this data, providing people with the tools to work out how easily they can carry out day to day banking activities, as well as the reliability of the service they receive,\" said Christopher Woolard, executive director of strategy and competition at the FCA.\n\n\"The information published should increase the incentive for firms to offer better service, helping consumers to get the most out of their banking experience.\"\n\nUK Finance, the organisation that represents the banking industry, said its members \"invest billions to ensure systems, human and digital, are robust and secure\".\n\n\"Operational resilience is crucial in a modern financial system and is a key priority for the industry. When incidents do occur, firms work around the clock to minimise disruption and get services back up and running as quickly as possible,\" a spokesman said.", "An estimated 240,000 UK businesses trade with the EU\n\nThe government has said it will start automatically enrolling UK firms in a customs system as it speeds up its preparations for a no-deal Brexit.\n\nThe move will enable UK firms to continue to trade with EU member states after the UK leaves the EU.\n\nBusiness trade groups had urged the government to act after many firms failed to register for the system.\n\nThe CBI said it was \"a sensible move\" but \"one of hundreds of things that needed to be done\" in a no-deal event.\n\nHMRC said all VAT-registered firms in the UK - which had not already signed up to the customs system - would receive an ID number within the next two weeks.\n\nThe so called Economic Operator Registration and Identification (EORI) number will allow firms to continue to trade with customers and suppliers in the EU once the UK has left the EU on 31 October.\n\nFirms without an EORI number will not be allowed to trade with EU member states after Brexit.\n\nSo far, 72,000 companies had registered for an EORI number. The government said its auto-enrolment scheme would mean 88,000 more firms would be registered.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nChancellor Sajid Javid said the move would help \"ease the flow of goods at border points and support businesses to trade and grow\".\n\nBut business lobby groups urged the government to do more to avoid a no-deal.\n\nNicole Sykes, CBI head of EU negotiations, said auto-enrolment would reduce the risk of lorries turning up at ports without one of the necessary pieces of paperwork.\n\n\"But the web of short and long-term consequences of no deal go well beyond this, which are both complex and damaging,\" she added.\n\n\"That's why the government must put just as much time and effort into securing a deal.\"\n\nDr Adam Marshall, director general of the British Chambers of Commerce (BCC) said auto-enrolment was \"long overdue\" but still only \"a first step\".\n\n\"For many firms, it will trigger more questions. Businesses still need clarity on many other cross-border trade issues, such as customs procedures at borders following a no-deal exit and when the government will launch an official database to provide ease of access to information on tariffs and quotas.\"\n\nMeanwhile, the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government said it will allocate £9m to councils to help make sure they are staffed to deal with any issues at ports.\n\nKent Council will get over £2.6m due to the pressures it faces around the Port of Dover.\n\nEnter the word or phrase you are looking for", "From difficulties in getting jobs to mounting online abuse, some Muslims in Myanmar are uneasy over what they say are signs of daily discrimination, which have grown since the Rohingya crisis erupted in 2012. Three Muslims share their stories with the BBC.\n\nVideo by Tessa Wong, Nick Beake and Closay Saw.", "Brazil's Amazon rainforest is facing a record number of fires this year, according to new data from the country's space research agency.\n\nThe National Institute for Space Research said there had been an 83% increase on the same period in 2018.\n\nSmoke from the fires caused a blackout in the city of Sao Paulo on Monday, more than 2,700km (1,700 miles) away.\n\nBut some meteorologists say the smoke came from major fires burning in Paraguay, which is much closer to the city and not in the Amazon region.", "The air ambulance landed in a field next to the overturned car\n\nTwo children have been flown by air ambulance to hospital after a car overturned in a crash in north Wales.\n\nThe passengers were taken to Alder Hey Children's Hospital in Liverpool and a third person was transferred to Ysbyty Gwynedd Hospital in Bangor.\n\nEmergency services were called to the single-vehicle crash on the A55 between Abergwyngregyn and Tal y Bont, in Gwynedd, at 08:30 BST.\n\nThe westbound carriageway was closed for 90 minutes but has since reopened.\n\nTraffic was diverted with congestion at one point stretching back to junction 15 at Llanfairfechan.\n\nThe carriageway was closed for 90 minutes, causing congestion", "UK tech companies secured a record £5.5bn in foreign investment in the first seven months of this year, research shows.\n\nThis was more than the amount invested per capita in the US tech sector in the same period, the Department of Digital, Culture, Media and Sport said.\n\nExperts say the weaker pound is drawing investors to the UK tech sector, which leads Europe in terms of funding.\n\nUS and Asian firms invested most in the period, according to the study.\n\nCollectively, these two regions spent $3.7bn (£3.02bn; €3.31bn) in the first seven months of the year - overtaking the $2.9bn invested across the whole of 2018.\n\nIt comes as overall foreign direct investment (FDI) in the UK is falling, amid uncertainty over Britain's future trading arrangements with the EU.\n\nAccording to the Department for International Trade, FDI hit a six-year low in June.\n\nCommenting on the tech investment figures, culture secretary Nicky Morgan said: \"These fantastic figures show the confidence overseas investors have in UK tech, with investment flows from the US and Asia at an all-time high.\n\n\"We have a long-standing reputation for innovation and the statistics endorse our reputation as one of the best places in the world to start and grow a digital business.\"\n\nIncreasingly, UK companies have been heading abroad to regions like to Asia to raise capital.\n\n\"I've seen a lot more requests from UK start-ups tapping Asian markets capital financing in comparison to a year ago,\" said Aditya Mathur, founder and managing director of Singapore based venture capital fund elev8.vc.\n\n\"They typically want access to the Asian market that is large and diverse, and for that they need an Asian investor to help them understand these markets, and also provide the kind of financing they're looking for.\"\n\nUK tech firms also provide Asian investors with a way to hedge against the trade war, analysts say.\n\n\"Foreign investment into both the US and Chinese tech sectors has gone down because of the trade war and because Europe has provided several attractive investment opportunities lately\" said Yoram Wijngaarde, founder and chief executive of Dealroom, the company that pulled together the figures for the research.\n\n\"The UK provides an attractive opportunity for funds looking to grow their investments.\"\n\nCompanies in the UK's fintech and financial sector were some of the most attractive\n\nRecent deals have included an $800m investment by Japan's Softbank in Britain's Greensill, which provides short term loans to companies to help with their operational needs.\n\nSoftbank and the Singapore-based Clermont Group also invested $400m in UK firm OakNorth Bank, a digital-only bank providing loans for small and medium-sized companies.\n\nMeanwhile, Amazon was the biggest investor in takeaway firm Deliveroo's latest round of fund raising, which in total raised $575m (£450m).\n\nStill, worries about what impact Brexit will have on the UK's tech talent pool are worrying investors and companies, who are concerned the UK will see a brain drain if EU nationals aren't able to work in the UK in the event of a no-deal Brexit.\n\n\"It's our biggest concern right now,\" said Russ Shaw, founder of Tech London Advocates, a campaign group promoting London's technology sector.\n\n\"One in five tech workers in London is from the EU. We're growing these businesses, and the money is flowing in, but we don't have enough talent in the country.\n\n\"We need a transition plan for companies who need to know what to do about staffing after 31 October. Otherwise it undermines our credibility.\"\n\nMr Shaw has said one of the ways the UK could mitigate these risks is by making the immigration process for overseas workers easier and more welcoming in the future.\n• None Slack: Why is this money-loser worth $20bn?", "A man has appeared in court charged with murdering a police officer who was killed while investigating a burglary.\n\nJed Foster, 20, appeared at Reading Magistrates' Court charged with the murder of 28-year-old PC Andrew Harper, and the theft of a quad bike.\n\nPC Harper, of Thames Valley Police, died on Thursday after being dragged along the road by a vehicle in Sulhamstead, Berkshire.\n\nMr Foster has been remanded to appear at Reading Crown Court on Wednesday.\n\nRobert Jacques, defending, said Mr Foster, of Pingewood in Burghfield near Reading, denied any involvement in PC Harper's death.\n\nPC Harper's wife Lissie, whom he married four weeks ago, paid tribute to her husband as the \"kindest, loveliest, most selfless person you will ever meet\".\n\nIn a statement, Mrs Harper said her \"heart is broken\" after the death of her \"darling boy\".\n\nShe added: \"We had so many plans for the future, you wanted to do it all.\n\n\"My darling boy I do not know how I will be able to survive without you.\n\n\"I want to be angry that your job took you away from us but I know you loved it and always wanted to keep everyone safe, especially me.\n\n\"My heart is broken without you my sweetheart but my god I feel so lucky that it was me you chose to share your amazing life with.\n\n\"Although we were married for only 28 days before you were cruelly taken away from me, my husband you were perfect.\"\n\nPC Harper and his wife Lissie on their wedding day\n\nPC Harper, who got married four weeks ago, was killed on the A4 Bath Road.\n\nThe roads policing officer, who became a regular officer in 2011 after joining as a special constable a year earlier, had attended a reported break-in with a fellow officer in Sulhamstead at about 23:30 BST on Thursday.\n\nA post-mortem examination concluded that he died of multiple injuries.\n\nThe officer on duty with PC Harper was not physically injured but is being given emotional support, Thames Valley Police said.\n\nNine other boys and men who were arrested, aged between 13 and 30, have been released on bail until 13 September.\n\nMr Foster was remanded in custody to appear at Reading Crown Court on Wednesday\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Two fishermen have been rescued after getting stranded by flooding at the Tawi River in Jammu, northern India.\n\nAt least 38 people have died in floods that have hit northern states during this year's rainy season.", "Malcolm McKeown was found dead in his vehicle behind a petrol station\n\nPolice investigating the murder of Malcolm McKeown in Waringstown, County Down, have said the father of three was \"shot in cold blood in broad daylight\".\n\nThe 54-year-old was found dead in his car behind Dewart's service station on Main Street on Monday night.\n\nDet Ch Insp Peter Montgomery said the victim had gone into Dewart's shop at about 19:15 BST and was shot after he came out a few minutes later.\n\nHe added police are keeping \"an open mind\" about the motive for the murder.\n\nMr McKeown had been due to appear in court on Monday on a charge of aggravated burglary.\n\nPolice officers revisited the scene of the shooting on Tuesday\n\nThe charge against him was connected to an incident in Lisburn, County Antrim, last November in which a householder was allegedly tied up and robbed.\n\nMr McKeown was remanded on bail and was due to reappear in court in a month's time.\n\nMr Montgomery said the investigation into his murder was \"at an early stage\".\n\nThe detective appealed to the public for information about the movements of the victim's car and a second vehicle which was found burnt out after the attack.\n\nMr McKeown's body was discovered in his silver BMW shortly before 21:00 BST on Monday, about an hour and a half after the time at which police believe the shooting took place.\n\n\"I know that Mr McKeown entered the shop at Dewart's garage at approximately 7:15pm on Monday and when he came out he walked to his vehicle parked to the side of the garage,\" said Mr Montgomery.\n\n\"It was around this time that the gunman or gunmen shot him.\"\n\nA cordon was put in place while forensic officers examined the murder scene on Tuesday\n\nHe appealed to customers who were in the service station between 18:00 and 19:30 BST on Monday to come forward, and to motorists with dashcams who were in the area at the time.\n\nThe detective also asked for sightings of Mr McKeown at any stage on Monday, or of his BMW vehicle, registration XEZ 5518.\n\nAfter the shooting, a blue Volkswagen Passat was found burnt out on Glenavon Road in Lurgan, County Armagh.\n\nMr Montgomery said that vehicle, registration RK62 PLX, was also seen leaving the scene of the murder.\n\nForensic officers examine a Volkswagen Passat which was burnt out near Lurgan\n\nHe appealed to anyone with information about either vehicle to call police or Crimestoppers.\n\nThe murder has been widely condemned by political representatives in the area.\n\nUlster Unionist MLA Doug Beattie said he knew the victim, who had attended his constituency office in the past.\n\n\"The police need to get on and do their job in respect of this horrible murder,\" he said.\n\n\"Yet again we see guns on our streets and that's not acceptable in any shape or form.\"\n\nThe shooting happened on Monday night at a service station in Waringstown\n\nDUP MLA Carla Lockhart said it was \"shocking\" that the shooting had happened in \"somewhere like Waringstown\".\n\n\"It is a generally quiet village with a thriving population,\" she added.\n\nSinn Féin MLA John O'Dowd said \"people are appalled by what has happened\".\n\nSDLP Upper Bann MLA Dolores Kelly said the community was in shock.\n\n\"This is a quiet, settled village and people are appalled that violence has been brought on to their streets.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nMore than 210,000 children are estimated to be homeless, with some being temporarily housed in converted shipping containers, a report says.\n\nThe Children's Commissioner for England says that as well as the 124,000 children officially homeless, a further 90,000 are estimated to be \"sofa-surfing\".\n\nHer report tells of families housed in repurposed shipping containers and office blocks, and whole families living in tiny spaces.\n\nA spokesman for the Department for Communities and Local Government said anyone who feels they have been placed in unsuitable accommodation should request a review.\n\nThe report, entitled Bleak Houses, found the use of shipping containers as temporary accommodation was leading to cramped conditions and inhospitable temperatures.\n\nOne mother told the report's authors she had to sleep with the front door wide open in the summer and her baby got heat rash - but in winter it was too cold.\n\nOften, the units have not been properly designed with children in mind, the report found, with ovens and other dangers too close to the ground and in reach of very young children.\n\nThe Children's Commissioner, Anne Longfield, who visited children affected by homelessness, said it was sad and surprising to learn of the new developments councils were turning to in order to deal with the problem.\n\n\"Office block conversions, in which whole families live in single rooms barely bigger than a parking space, and shipping containers which are blisteringly hot in summer and freezing in the winter months,\" she said.\n\nThe report does not contain data on how many councils are using shipping containers to house families, but it said areas where this happens include Brighton, Cardiff, Ealing, in west London, and Bristol.\n\nBristol City Council said it did not direct families to the containers and only provided land for them, and the units were instead operated by a charity.\n\nThe Children's Commissioner also expressed concern about families living in converted offices.\n\nIn Harlow, Essex, 13 office blocks have been converted into more than 1,000 individual flats.\n\nIn one such building, Templefields House, some units measure 18 sq m and are being used to house whole families, with parents and children sleeping in a single room also used as the kitchen.\n\nThe average size of a home in England and Wales is 90 sq m.\n\nIn the area surrounding another building, Terminus House, also in Harlow, crime rose by 20% in the first 10 months after tenants moved there in April 2018.\n\nOffice block conversions are often located on or near industrial estates, presenting risks to safety, and are far away from shops and other amenities.\n\nLiving in the developments can also be a \"stigmatising experience\", the report said, with children being referred to as \"office block kids\".\n\nThis was \"compounding their sense of isolation and difference to their peers\".\n\nB&Bs are also being used as temporary accommodation, creating \"intimidating and potentially unsafe environments\" for children.\n\nThe bathrooms in B&Bs are often shared with other residents and vulnerable adults, including those with mental health or drug abuse problems.\n\nEaling Council, which has converted shipping containers into temporary housing, says the accommodation is much better than standard B&Bs with shared facilities.\n\nIt says it has been pushed into using novel solutions because of the wider housing crisis.\n\nOf the 2,420 families known to be living in B&Bs in December 2018, a third had been there for more than six weeks - despite this being unlawful.\n\nAnalysis in the report, released on Wednesday, found that in 2017, around two in five children in temporary accommodation had been there for at least six months.\n\nAround one in 20 - an estimated 6,000 children - had been there for at least a year.\n\nThe figures used for the analysis of those in temporary accommodation relate to the end of 2018, while the number of those estimated to be sofa-surfing are taken from an official household survey for the year 2016-17.\n\nThe report warns that a further 375,000 children in England are in households that have fallen behind on rent or mortgage payments.\n\nThis means thousands more are at financial risk of becoming homeless in the future.\n\nPolly Neate, chief executive of housing and homelessness charity, Shelter, said no child should be spending months, if not years, living in a shipping container, office block or emergency B&B.\n\nShe said the charity constantly heard of struggling families being forced to accept \"downright dangerous accommodation\" because they had nowhere else to go.\n\nShe said housing benefit must be increased urgently and that three million more social homes needed to be built.\n\nLocal Government Association housing spokesman Martin Tett said councils desperately wanted to find every family a secure home.\n\n\"However, the severe lack of social rented homes available in which to house families means councils have no choice but to place households in temporary accommodation.\"\n\nHe highlighted a £159m funding gap in councils' homelessness services budgets, and urged the government to fund and give back councils their historic role of building homes with the right infrastructure required.\n\nThe DCLG spokesman said the government had invested £1.2bn to tackle all types of homelessness which had helped reduce the number of families in B&B accommodation.\n\nHave you been housed in a converted shipping container or other converted temporary accommodation? Get in touch by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also contact us in the following ways:", "Boris Johnson says the EU has been \"a bit negative\" over his demand that the Irish border backstop plan should be scrapped.\n\nThe prime minister said the reaction from European Council President Donald Tusk to his suggestion “wasn’t redolent of a sense of optimism”.\n\nBut he added: “I think there is a real sense now that something needs to be done with this backstop. We can’t get it through Parliament as it is.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nIn a quiet corner of northern Germany there is a small community where a Scotsman is in charge.\n\nIain Macnab proudly flies the Scottish flag outside his home in Brunsmark, where he is the burgermeister - or mayor.\n\nHe has been elected to the post three times but Brexit means he will not be able to stay in office for much longer.\n\n\"The minute Brexit occurs, that's me,\" Mr Macnab said. \"That's the end of my tenure because I am no longer an EU citizen.\"\n\nMr Macnab flies the saltire outside his home in Brunsmark\n\nHe has held the post of mayor for 12 years\n\nHe has had that confirmed in writing by the state of Schleswig-Holstein that includes the Lauenburg lakes region of which Brunsmark is part.\n\nThe letter states that when the UK leaves the EU, British \"people won't be allowed to hold any office in a local council or local government\".\n\nThat means giving up control of local services for Brunsmark's 170 residents including the school, the play park and the community fire brigade.\n\nUnless he becomes a German citizen or secures dual nationality before the 31 October, he will be forced to quit the prestigious office he has held for 12 years.\n\nAt his stage in life, he is not prepared to make that switch.\n\n\"I've been 70 years a Scot and I'm going to stay that way\" he said.\n\nMr Macnab grew up in Achiltibuie where his parents ran the Summer Isles hotel\n\nMr Macnab grew up in Achiltibuie, Wester Ross, in the 1950s, where his parents ran the Summer Isles hotel and he won Gaelic prizes at the village school.\n\nAfter a spell reporting for the Perthshire Advertiser he moved to Germany where he worked as a sound engineer for rock bands and now runs an IT business.\n\nAfter 40 years abroad, he speaks German fluently and is immersed in the local culture but Brexit is having a profound effect on his political outlook.\n\n\"It's making me do something that I never ever wanted to do\" he said.\n\n\"It makes me begin to look at Scottish independence. I would never have considered it before this nonsense started.\"\n\nMr Macnab would prefer the Brexit decision to be reversed in a further referendum and for the UK to stay in the EU and push for reform.\n\n\"I think it's got to be completely rethought\" he said.\n\n\"It's got to be much more an organisation which advises the rest instead of imposing an amazing amount of rules and regulations\".\n\nBurgermeister Macnab does, however, support the harmonised rules that allow all EU citizens the freedom to live and work across the continent.\n\nHe wants others to have the opportunities that he has enjoyed.\n\nBrunsmark is near Mölln in the Lauenburg lakes region in northern Germany\n\nWith 10 weeks until the scheduled date for the UK's departure from the EU, Mr Macnab is not sure what the future holds for him.\n\nHe's yet to decide whether to stay on in Brunsmark with his German wife and their two children or to move the family to Scotland.\n\nWhatever happens, Brexit ensures that his career as the elected mayor of a small town in Germany is coming to an end.", "A worker at the UK's Hong Kong consulate has been detained at the border for allegedly violating the law, China has confirmed.\n\nMedia reports on Tuesday said Simon Cheng, who is thought to be from Hong Kong, went missing on 8 August during a business trip.\n\nChina's foreign ministry said Mr Cheng was detained at Shenzhen for 15 days.\n\nThe UK said it was \"extremely concerned\" and the embassy in Beijing was providing support to his family.\n\nChina said Mr Cheng, 28, had been detained for violating public security laws, although the foreign ministry gave no details of the alleged offence.\n\nFollowing large-scale protests in Hong Kong, travellers have reported heightened security measures on the mainland side, with people passing through being subjected to police checks of their mobile phones.\n\nThe protests, now entering their third month, were sparked by a now-suspended extradition bill that would have allowed Hong Kong to send criminal suspects to China for trial.\n\nA small group of protesters gathered outside the British consulate in support of Mr Cheng. Max Chung, a spokesman for the protesters, told Reuters the case had serious consequences for everybody in Hong Kong.\n\nProtesters held posters of Mr Cheng and signs saying \"England expects that every man will do his duty\"\n\n\"We want to urge the UK government to step up and act now. Save Simon now,\" he said, adding that Mr Cheng had not taken part in anti-government demonstrations.\n\n\"Simon is a very good guy, and he's a smart guy - he finished his Masters at LSE (London School of Economics) - so I don't think he would do anything stupid.\"\n\nChina's foreign ministry spokesman Geng Shuang said they had made \"stern representations\" to the UK over comments made since the protests began in Hong Kong.\n\n\"We request they stop making these irresponsible statements, stop meddling in Hong Kong's affairs and stop interfering in China's internal affairs,\" he said.\n\nHe said Mr Cheng was a Chinese citizen and his detention was an internal affair.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nBBC China correspondent Robin Brant said the detention was short compared to many sentences in China and that Mr Cheng should be due for release in the next 48 hours.\n\nHe said China insisted the detention was not a diplomatic incident, but he said the Foreign Office had likely been working out of the public spotlight over the last 13 days to find out what had happened to Mr Cheng and secure his release.\n\nEarlier this month, Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab raised concerns about the treatment of protesters in Hong Kong, prompting China to accuse the UK of \"colonial\" attitudes.\n\nAccording to local outlet HKFP, Mr Cheng is a trade and investment officer at the Scottish Development International section of the consulate.\n\nIt said on 8 August he travelled to a business event in Shenzhen in south-east China, which links Hong Kong to the mainland.\n\nHis girlfriend told HKFP that he planned to travel home the same day, but did not return. In online messages, he wrote that he was passing through the border, adding \"pray for me\".\n\nHong Kong police said they had inquired about Mr Cheng's whereabouts with the mainland authorities but \"results are still pending\".\n\nEarlier this year, China also arrested two Canadians, accusing them of espionage after detaining them for several months. It followed the arrest in Canada of Huawei executive Meng Wanzhou on behalf of the US.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. 'Iran are using my fiancee as a bargaining chip'\n\nA British Council worker jailed for 10 years in Iran for spying is being used as a \"bargaining chip\" by Iran's government, her fiance has said.\n\nAras Amiri, 33, an Iranian citizen who lives in London, was held in March 2018 on a visit to her unwell grandmother.\n\nShe lost an appeal against her prison sentence earlier this week.\n\nIn his first broadcast interview, her husband-to-be James Tyson told the BBC the UK needed to \"get on the phone\" to Iran and \"say this can't happen\".\n\nHe added Ms Amiri is being held in the same prison as Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe, the British-Iranian mother who was also jailed for spying, and the two women are \"close\" and \"very supportive of each other\".\n\nMs Amiri has worked for the British Council for five years, a government-founded body which promotes culture and education. She had been helping to build a greater appreciation of Iranian culture in the UK.\n\nMr Tyson said his fiancee, a UK resident who had been making trips to Iran once or twice a year to visit family, was stopped on the way to the airport as she was leaving the country.\n\n\"She was led into a series of interrogations, imprisoned, solitary confinement and then a period of interrogations over two months,\" he said.\n\nMs Amiri was charged and jailed with \"acting against national security\", with Iran's judiciary claiming Ms Amiri had confessed to co-operating with British intelligence.\n\nThe British Council, says it \"firmly refutes the accusation levied against her\".\n\nSpeaking on the BBC's Victoria Derbyshire programme, Mr Tyson said Ms Amiri and her family had initially tried to overturn the conviction through \"official channels\" - but now believe it is \"actually a problem between the UK and Iran\".\n\n\"It's one of those cases where you know that what's happening is being done for public effect,\" he said.\n\n\"As much as one can try to work within the official channels, one knows that actually we're dealing with a situation about the impression that Iran wants to make to the UK, the pressure they want to put on the UK.\n\n\"And using Aras in this way as a bargaining chip or hostage of some kind to try get what they want, some advantage in their relationships with the UK.\"\n\nJames Tyson gave his first broadcast interview to the BBC after his fiance's appeal was rejected\n\nMr Tyson said when Ms Amiri was arrested, Iranian authorities told her she was there \"because she worked for the British Council\".\n\nBecause of this, he added, he believes the British government is \"at some level responsible for her wellbeing and her duty of care and her work\", since the council is partly funded by the UK government.\n\nHe urged the UK government to talk to the Iranian government, adding: \"It involves listening on both sides\".\n\nHO via Centre For Human Rights in Iran Aras Amiri was put in solitary confinement at some points during her detainment\n\nA spokesperson for the Foreign Office said: \"We are concerned that British Council employee Aras Amiri has had her appeal against a 10 year sentence in Iran rejected.\n\n\"Sentencing a woman to 10 years in prison for seeking to build cultural ties and aid understanding between the peoples of the UK and Iran is unjustifiable.\"\n\nDetailing Iran's treatment of Ms Amiri during the time she has been detained, Mr Tyson said her lawyer had to be \"approved\" by the Iranian authorities, and during the appeal process she had no contact with a lawyer.\n\nHe also claimed that while interrogating her, Iran had asked her to work with the Iranian government \"in some way as an informant in the UK\" in exchange for her release, but she refused.\n\nTalking about his fiancee's friendship with Mrs Zaghari-Ratcliffe, who was jailed for five years in 2016 for spying, which she denies, Mr Tyson said: \"They're very supportive of each other. They're going through what's a very intense experience and in many ways they have to keep a very positive outlook.\n\n\"Sharing books they have, cooking together, that's how they pass their days.\"\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\nOn Tuesday, it was reported that Mrs Zaghari-Ratcliffe had been given less access to her family.\n\nTheir cases are among those that prompted former Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt to warn British-Iranian dual nationals not to visit the country for fear of arrest and imprisonment.\n\nBBC's security correspondent Frank Gardner says analysts believe the imprisonments are part of a response by Iran's hardline judiciary and security establishment to hit back at the West for the country's increasing isolation under international sanctions.\n\nDiplomatic tensions between the UK and Iran have been increasingly strained in recent months.", "Boris Johnson and Angela Merkel will hold a working dinner on Wednesday evening\n\nBoris Johnson has arrived to meet German Chancellor Angela Merkel, where he is expected to reiterate his call for the Irish border backstop plan to be scrapped.\n\nThe pair shook hands outside the Chancellery in Berlin, as protesters nearby shouted \"stop Brexit\".\n\nThe PM has said the arrangement to avoid a hard border after Brexit must be removed to secure a deal.\n\nBut the EU has rejected the possibility of any changes to the backstop.\n\nMr Johnson has said the EU's response to his demand to scrap the backstop, which he describes as \"anti-democratic\", had been \"a bit negative\".\n\nHowever, he said he would enter Brexit talks with \"a lot of oomph\" and there was \"a real sense that something needs to be done\" with the backstop.\n\n\"We can't get it through Parliament as it is,\" he added.\n\nMeanwhile, Jeremy Corbyn has cancelled a trip to Ghana later this week, urging opposition MPs to meet urgently to discuss ways to prevent a no-deal Brexit.\n\nIt comes as an official close to French President Emmanuel Macron has confirmed that a no-deal Brexit is now his government's \"central scenario\".\n\nThe official added that border controls would have to be reintroduced between the UK and the EU immediately if the UK left without an agreement.\n\nSpeaking on Tuesday, Mr Johnson said he did not think it was true the EU would need to impose controls to protect its single market.\n\nThe backstop is part of the withdrawal agreement negotiated between Brussels and former Prime Minister Theresa May, which has been rejected by Parliament three times.\n\nMr Johnson has vowed to do all he can to renegotiate the agreement, but has insisted the UK will leave on 31 October with or without a deal - \"do or die,\" as he put it.\n\nLabour and other opposition parties, as well as a number of Conservative MPs, have vowed to do everything possible to prevent a no deal.\n\nThey say it would severely damage the economy and lead to widespread disruption to areas like travel and food supply.\n\nMr Corbyn has promised to bring a vote of no confidence in Mr Johnson as a means to do that, and some Tories have said they would rather bring down their own government than see no deal happen.\n\nThe BBC's political correspondent Iain Watson said beyond his backstop demand, Mr Johnson would take a second key message to the German chancellor - \"renegotiate now and don't assume the anti-Brexit dissidents in the UK Parliament will find a way to block no deal.\"\n\nSpeaking ahead of the meeting, Ms Merkel stressed that the backstop was a position of last resort and once \"a practical solution\" was found for the Irish border which allows trade and secures the Good Friday Agreement, it would not be needed.\n\nShe also indicated, though, there would be no change to the withdrawal agreement.\n\nThe military band at the German Chancellery is getting good at the British national anthem.\n\nIt is the second time in three years they've laid on full military honours for a new British prime minister.\n\nBoris Johnson's \"do or die\" rhetoric has alarmed and bemused Berlin, but Germany's position hasn't changed since Theresa May first arrived here seeking a Brexit deal for Britain.\n\nThe UK matters to Germany, but the integrity of the EU and its single market matter more.\n\nAngela Merkel will no doubt serve up her Brexit red lines over the working dinner. The Irish backstop is one of them.\n\nPrime Minister Johnson's threat of a no-deal Brexit sends a shiver down the spine of German economists and industrialists, especially at a time of global economic uncertainty.\n\nBut even the business community here believe Germany and Europe must not put the unity and interests of the EU at risk simply to avoid the pain of such a scenario.\n\nMr Johnson's meeting with the German chancellor is the first in a series of talks with EU leaders.\n\nOn Thursday, he will travel to Paris to meet French President Emmanuel Macron and on Saturday he will attend the G7 summit alongside other world leaders including US President Donald Trump.\n\nHe is due to meet the President of the European Council, Donald Tusk, at the summit in Biarritz on Sunday at 11:30 BST.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nConservative MP and former minister Ed Vaizey said Mr Johnson was \"hell-bent\" on a no-deal Brexit and was \"just going though the motions\" in his attempts to talk to the EU.\n\nTherefore, he told BBC Radio 4's Today programme, the only way to avoid no deal was to find a way to persuade Parliament to back the existing deal.\n\n\"We've been looking at the wrong target. The EU has said again and again and again this is the deal. They've got 27 countries to support it; we can't even get 350 MPs to support it.\"\n\nMr Vaizey added that the onus was now on \"people like the Green Party, the Liberal Democrats and the Labour Party\" who should support the withdrawal agreement if they genuinely want to avoid a no-deal Brexit.\n\nEnter the word or phrase you are looking for\n\nIn a letter to Mr Tusk on Monday, Mr Johnson said the backstop risked undermining the Northern Irish peace process and must be scrapped.\n\nHe called for \"flexible and creative solutions\" and \"alternative arrangements\" - based on technology - instead.\n\nThat demand was met with a wall of rejection from the EU.\n\nMr Tusk said those opposing the backstop without \"realistic alternatives\" effectively supported re-establishing a hard border.\n\nThe European Commission said Mr Johnson's letter did not contain a \"legally operational solution\" to the Irish border issue.\n\nSpeaking to RTE, Ireland's foreign affairs minister Simon Coveney said: \"We are not going to abandon a solution that we know works for some kind of promise on the basis of trust...\n\n\"We are not in the business of being steam-rolled at the end of this because a British prime minister has rolled out new red lines.\"\n\nMr Coveney also insisted Ireland would not be entering into bilateral negotiations with the UK regarding no-deal Brexit planning.\n\nThe Irish border is a matter of great political, security and diplomatic sensitivity, and both the UK and EU agree that whatever happens after Brexit there should be no new physical checks or infrastructure at the frontier.\n\nThe backstop is a position of last resort to guarantee that, but if implemented, it would see Northern Ireland stay aligned to some rules of the EU single market.\n\nIt would also involve a temporary single customs territory, effectively keeping the whole of the UK in the EU customs union.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nOn Tuesday, the government has announced that British officials would stop attending most EU meetings from 1 September, only taking part in those where the UK has a \"significant national interest\".\n\nThe Department for Exiting the European Union said it would \"unshackle\" them from discussions \"about the future of the Union after the UK has left\" and allow them to focus on \"our immediate national priorities\".\n\nBut the SNP's Fiona Hyslop expressed concern the move could leave Scotland and the UK unrepresented while it was still a member of the EU.\n\nThe government is also ramping up its preparations for no-deal, announcing it will automatically enrol UK firms in a customs system to enable them to continue trading with the EU after Brexit.\n\nAnd the communities department has allocated £9m to councils in areas with key ports to help prepare for Brexit.\n\nBut the Lib Dem leader of Portsmouth council said the money was \"too little, too late\".\n\nHowever, Labour called for ministers to \"put businesses and the economy first, and rule out a no-deal Brexit\".\n\nShadow chief secretary to the Treasury Peter Dowd said the \"panicked announcement\" was \"late in the day\" for businesses and would \"not come close to mitigating the disastrous effects a Tory no-deal Brexit will have on small business exporters\".", "A 25-year-old man has been arrested on suspicion of murdering Hull University student Libby Squire.\n\nHer body was recovered from the Humber Estuary six weeks after she disappeared on 1 February following a night out.\n\nHundreds of police officers and members of the public were involved in an extensive search after 21-year-old Ms Squire was reported missing.\n\nThe man was held on Wednesday and has been released under investigation as inquiries continue, police said.\n\nDet Sup Martin Smalley, of Humberside Police said: \"A file is being prepared for the Crown Prosecution Service as the investigation progresses.\"\n\nLibby Squire's mother Lisa had appealed for information about her missing daughter\n\nMs Squire was last seen at just after midnight near her home on Wellesley Avenue, Hull.\n\nLater that morning she was reported missing and search specialists, dog handlers, underwater officers and the public began a search.\n\nAt one stage, about 200 students gathered in the rain as a show of solidarity and support for the student and her parents.\n\nThe body of the philosophy student, from High Wycombe, was recovered from the Humber Estuary on 20 March.\n\nAppealing for information during the search, her mother Lisa said: \"Libby, my darling pie, we just want to know that you are safe.\"\n\nIn an emotional Facebook post following the discovery of her body, her mother said: \"I cannot thank you enough my darling Pie for making me a mummy.\"\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 chairman of the High Speed 2 rail project has reportedly warned that its cost could rise by £30bn.\n\nHS2 chairman Allan Cook has written to the Department for Transport to say the high-speed line cannot be delivered within its £56bn budget, according to the Financial Times.\n\nThe DfT said a review of HS2's costs is continuing.\n\nThe line will connect London, the Midlands and northern England using trains capable of travelling at 250mph.\n\n\"The chairman of HS2 Ltd is conducting detailed work into of the costs and schedule of the project to ensure it delivers benefits to passengers, the economy and represents value for money for the taxpayer,\" the DfT said in a statement.\n\n\"This work is ongoing. We expect Allan Cook to provide his final assessment in due course.\"\n\nThe first segment of the project between London and Birmingham is due to open at the end of 2026, with the second phase to Leeds and Manchester expected to be completed by 2032-33.\n\nAn HS2 spokesperson said: \"We don't comment on leaks or speculation.\n\n\"We have previously noted that our chair, as you would expect, continues to scrutinise the programme, and regularly reports back to the Department [for Transport].\n\n\"We are determined to deliver a railway that rebalances the economy, creates jobs, boosts economic growth and is value for money for taxpayers.\"\n\nMr Cook was appointed to head HS2 in December 2018 after his predecessor, Sir Terry Morgan, resigned as chairman because of delays at the Crossrail project in London which he was also leading.\n\nThere has been no denial that this letter was sent by the chairman of HS2 to the top civil servant at the Department for Transport.\n\nAnd none of my contacts have rubbished the \"potential £30bn overspend\" idea outright.\n\nSources at HS2 and at the DfT insist Allan Cook's review is ongoing and that he has not settled on a final figure.\n\nThat may be true, but there has been a subtle shift of tone in recent months from both HS2 and the government; a creeping acceptance that the project, in its current form, is increasingly unlikely to come in within its £56bn budget.\n\nAnd there has already been plenty of evidence suggesting that the project's original estimates of how much it would cost to purchase land and property along the route were significantly below the true values.\n\nThis leak, which feels at the very least like a case of 'no smoke without fire', comes at a very sensitive time.\n\nTransport Secretary Chris Grayling, who has repeatedly insisted that the project HAS to be delivered within budget, is possibly leaving his post in a matter of days.\n\nBoris Johnson - considered the front-runner to be the UK's next prime minister - is by no means a die-hard fan of the scheme.\n\nAnd Mr Johnson has already nominated a former HS2 executive, Douglas Oakervee, to carry out a separate review of the project if he gets the keys to No 10 next week.\n\n£56bn was already a hefty sum. As a former senior official at the Treasury puts it: \"In terms of value for money it [HS2] scores lower than lots of other projects.\"\n\nAnd the government \"is taking quite a big risk\" by putting so much money into high-speed rail, the source told me.\n\nThat risk looks set to rise.", "The decision to cast the president's former press secretary has been controversial\n\nThe host of Dancing with the Stars has voiced his opposition to the casting of Donald Trump's former press secretary, Sean Spicer, for the upcoming series.\n\nTom Bergeron said he had wanted the television show to be a welcome relief from politics for its viewers.\n\nIn a tweet, he said he thought the producers had agreed with him, but acknowledged they clearly had not.\n\nMr Spicer drew controversy while serving as Mr Trump's first press secretary, for some six months in 2017.\n\nHis reaction to the announcement was quite different to Mr Bergeron's. \"It's time to have some fun. Excited to join a great cast and show,\" he tweeted.\n\nIn his tweet, Mr Bergeron said he had hoped this show would \"be a joyful respite from our exhausting political climate and free of inevitably divisive bookings from ANY party affiliations.\"\n\nHe had left a meeting with his producers \"convinced we were in agreement\".\n\n\"Subsequently (and rather obviously), a decision was made to, as we often say in Hollywood, 'go in a different direction,'\" he added.\n\n\"We can agree to disagree, as we do now, but ultimately it's their call.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or 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 Bergeron This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy 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 Spicer served as press secretary for little over half a year in 2017.\n\nDuring that time he made some notable false and misleading statements, including when he stated that Mr Trump's inauguration was bigger than that of his predecessor Barack Obama, despite photos clearly showing otherwise.\n\n\"This was the largest audience to ever witness an inauguration, period.\" he said.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. They were the largest crowds. Period.\n\nMr Spicer has since said he regrets making the claim and made a cameo at the Emmys mocking the incident.\n\nHe has also written a book called The Briefing: Politics, the Press and the President in which he referred to Trump as \"unicorn riding a unicorn across a rainbow\".\n\nOther stars joining the next series of the US version of the BBC's Strictly Come Dancing include actor James Van Der Beek, cast member of Netflix's Queer Eye Karamo Brown and former NFL player Ray Lewis.", "The US retail giant Amazon has been criticised by customers for increasing its use of plastic packaging.\n\nWhile UK supermarkets and shops try to use less plastic, Amazon earlier this year introduced a new range of padded plastic envelopes for deliveries.\n\nOne fed-up customer told the BBC: \"Amazon shouldn't be creating more plastic waste.\"\n\nAmazon said its SmartPac envelopes are recyclable and that it is \"working to improve\" its packaging options\".\n\n\"Over the past 10 years, our sustainable packaging initiatives have eliminated more than 244,000 tons of packaging materials, avoiding 500 million shipping boxes,\" an Amazon spokesperson said.\n\n\"SmartPac mailers are kerbside recyclable in some cities, and in all store drop-off locations.\"\n\nConcern is growing about the amount of plastic waste that ends up in our oceans, harming marine life.\n\nBut Amazon said it urged customers to recycle its plastic envelopes, along with its Prime Now plastic bags.\n\nIf your local council doesn't take them through its normal kerbside pick-ups, you can see where you can recycle plastic bags locally at the Recycle Now website.\n\nAlex, who works in higher education and did not want to share her surname, said Amazon \"has a duty to act and set the standard for others\".\n\n\"I haven't been buying from Amazon because of the way they treat their workers, and really this is the last straw,\" she told the BBC.\n\n\"Now that Greenpeace has found that microplastics and hazardous chemicals have reached Antarctica, this should be a stark warning to all of us that this is no time to be complacent.\"\n\nA plastic bag along a coral reef off the coast of the Red Sea\n\nAndy Taylor, a retail manager from Leighton Buzzard, also said that he was upset about Amazon using more plastic packaging. \"I've had a few of these deliveries recently,\" he told the BBC.\n\n\"They almost seem to be completely blind to the shift to more ecologically sound practices generally by business.\"\n\nIs there a sound reason for opting for plastic rather than paper envelopes? Not according to the Confederation of Paper Industries.\n\nA spokesperson for the CPI said: \"Not only is paper and cardboard a uniquely renewable, recyclable and re-usable resource, it's also strong and flexible enough to keep goods safe while in transit making it the perfect packaging material.\n\n\"Many supermarkets, shops on the high street and online retailers have been making the switch from plastic to cardboard for their packaging recently and it's a trend we would like to see continue.\"\n\nAlex wants Amazon to rethink its plans. She said: \"Even if the plastic is recyclable I am not confident that it all gets recycled, so where does it end up?\n\n\"Also Amazon's move places the onus on the customer. I don't believe creating plastic packaging and then expecting consumers to recycle it is the answer.\"\n• None Plastic or paper: Which bag is greener?", "Nearby residents were forced to leave their homes for several hours\n\nPolice surrounded flats in east London when a man barricaded himself in and threatened to blow up the block.\n\nNearby residents in Barking were forced to leave their homes after the man also threatened to burn down the building.\n\nFire and ambulance crews were called to Elsdown House, Wheelers Cross, late on Tuesday, although there were no injuries reported.\n\nA man was later detained and was given medical treatment by paramedics at the scene, the Met Police 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\nEvacuated residents, who had been told to go to The Gascoigne Community Centre, in St Ann's, were later told they could return home.\n\nA man barricaded himself in one of the flats in Earlsdown House, Barking and allegedly threatened to blow it up\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Lucas Dobson fell into the River Stour in Sandwich on Saturday\n\nA body found in a river is that of missing Lucas Dobson, police have confirmed.\n\nThe six-year-old slipped into the River Stour in Sandwich, Kent, at about 13:30 BST on Saturday while out fishing with his family.\n\nA body found earlier has been formally identified as Lucas, and his family have been informed, Kent Police said.\n\nHundreds of volunteers joined emergency crews in the search for the boy over the past five days.\n\nLucas' body was discovered at about 09:15 on Wednesday in the river close to a jetty where he fell in.\n\nCh Insp Mark Weller said: \"We were all holding on to hope to try and find Lucas alive, but sadly I can confirm now that we have formally identified the body as Lucas.\"\n\nThe officer said it was \"deeply tragic and upsetting\" and Lucas' family were \"understandably devastated\".\n\nFloral tributes have been left in Sandwich\n\nCh Insp Weller added: \"We were inundated with offers of assistance from members of the public, who turned out in large numbers to help search for Lucas.\n\n\"I know his family are very grateful and touched by the support provided, and I too would like to offer my own personal thanks.\"\n\nLucas slipped into the river between a boat and jetty on Saturday. His father and two adults jumped into the water in an attempt to rescue him but he was swept away by a strong current.\n\nPeople lit candles at vigils across Kent on Monday in an attempt to \"light up the coast for Lucas\"\n\nKent Fire and Rescue Service, HM Coastguard, the RNLI, Kent Search and Rescue and the Specialist Group International dive team joined the search for him.\n\nVigils were held on Monday evening across Kent, with people lighting candles in an attempt to \"light up the coast for Lucas\".\n\nPeter Faulding, of the Specialist Group International, said search teams had been \"working incredibly hard\" to find Lucas and it had been a \"real community effort\".\n\nEach day, hundreds of people gathered outside Sandwich Fire Station to be briefed on the search effort, and what they could do to help.\n\nMore than 200 volunteers helped in the hunt, with some coming from outside the county to take part in the rescue.\n\nBut on Tuesday they were urged to \"stay away\" by police as the river had become the \"sole focus\" in the search.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The average salary for chief executives fell by 13% between 2017 and 2018, but they still earned 117 times more than the average UK full-time worker, a report has found.\n\nA boss of one of the UK's largest listed 100 companies earns £3.5m a year on average, the CIPD, the professional body for HR found.\n\nThe average full-time worker in the UK earns £29,574.\n\nThe report also showed a continued big gender gap at the top of big firms.\n\nIn 2018, only six of the FTSE 100 companies had a female boss, down from seven in 2017.\n\nThe CIPD analyses executive pay, together with the High Pay Centre think tank every year.\n\nCIPD chief executive Peter Cheese said: the gap between pay at the top and bottom of firms remained \"unacceptably wide\".\n\n\"We must question if CEOs are overly focused on financial measures and are being incentivised to keep share prices high rather than focusing on the long-term health of their business,\" he said.\n\nHigh Pay Centre director Luke Hildyard said: \"There is still more to be done to align pay practices with the interests of wider society.\"\n\nHe added it was important to \"give the public confidence that our biggest businesses are working for the good of the economy as a whole, rather than the enrichment of a few people at the top\".\n\nThe CIPD and High Pay Centre made a number of recommendations:\n\nFor the first time, the study also looked at pay in the FTSE 250 companies, the 250 largest firms listed on the stock exchange after the FTSE 100 firms.\n\nIf found that, in contract to FTSE 100 pay, the salaries of chief executives in this group had stayed relatively steady. Pay averaged £1.58m in 2016 and 2018 with a 2% rise to £1.61m in 2017.\n\nThe drop in chief executive pay was welcomed by trade body The Investment Association.\n\nIts director of stewardship and corporate governance, Andrew Ninian, said that this year, more than 50 companies had promised to cut their executive pensions because of a campaign by shareholders.\n\nHe added: \"Investors have repeatedly highlighted their concerns with excessive CEO pay, so the fall in pay is a welcome sign that companies are beginning to listen.\"\n\nHowever, unions were angered by the total pay still being earned by chief executives every year.\n\nFrances O'Grady, general secretary of the Trades Union Congress (TUC), said: \"It would take most workers two lifetimes to earn what top execs get in a single year. That's not right.\n\n\"This shocking pay gap won't change without major reform. We need new rules to give workers seats on executive pay committees. This would help bring some much-needed common sense and fairness to boardroom pay.\"\n\nAnd GMB union general secretary Tim Roache said: \"It's an absolute scandal the average worker will have to graft for more than a century to earn the same pay a CEO gets in just a year.\n\n\"GMB has never been against people getting well paid for doing a good job - but we need a maximum pay ratio enshrined in law to keep our society fair and healthy.\"", "The UK has been in a transition period with the EU since last January, during which rules and trade have stayed the same. But all of this will come to an end on 1 January 2021.\n\nWith just a few weeks left for the UK and the EU to negotiate a trade agreement, both sides are now talking about the prospect of a no-deal outcome. If there's no trade agreement in place, they will have to adjust quickly to doing things very differently.\n\nSo how are both sides preparing?\n\nFor the first six months from 1 January, the British government will bring in only minimal checks on goods coming in to the UK, but the EU will have full border checks on goods coming into the EU from the UK straight away.\n\nThe UK government has warned that a reasonable worst-case scenario could see queues of 7,000 trucks clogging up the roads around Dover and the Channel Tunnel.\n\nThe UK government has two contingency plans for this: Operation Brock and Operation Fennel.\n\nOperation Brock is a traffic management plan, which it is hoped will prevent more than 10,000 lorries a day from clogging up roads in Kent.\n\nUnder the scheme, drivers of very large lorries will need to get a special permit - a Kent Access Permit - before they enter the county, and permits will only be issued if they have completed the correct paperwork for exporting goods.\n\nOther traffic will be kept flowing around them, in what is known as a contraflow system. Highways England is trialling the moveable road barrier, which makes the contraflow system possible, on the M20 over four nights from 11 December.\n\nIf there are more than 2,000 lorries queued up, the government has made plans for several temporary lorry parks - it bought a 27-acre site in Ashford in Kent. There is also a plan called Operation Fennel in which as many as 7,000 heavy goods vehicles (HGVs) could be diverted to the disused Manston airfield, near Ramsgate.\n\nThis is part of the government's plans for building facilities away from ports.\n\nIf further capacity is needed, a \"last resort\" would be to turn the 10-mile M26 motorway into a temporary lorry park.\n\nThe UK government has also set up the Border Operations Centre to co-ordinate the response to any further disruption.\n\nQueuing at ports is not the only problem for lorry drivers.\n\nIf no further steps are taken, UK lorry drivers would need to apply for documents called ECMT permits to be allowed to enter EU countries. The European Commission has warned that there are not enough of these permits available, which would mean not enough UK lorries being able to travel to the EU to pick up goods to bring back to the UK.\n\nThe European Commission said this could result in serious disruptions, \"potentially even threatening public order\".\n\nTo prevent this, it proposed allowing UK lorries and buses into the EU for six months without special permits, as long as EU drivers are also allowed into the UK.\n\nThe proposals would also allow regular bus services that pick up and drop off passengers on either side of the border between Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland to continue to do so.\n\nThe UK has not been clear yet on whether it plans to continue to allow EU operators to enter the country.\n\nA similar proposal is on the table for aviation. In the event of no deal, the UK would no longer be a member of the European Common Aviation Area, which allows British airlines to fly to destinations in the EU, and vice versa.\n\nThe European Commission is proposing a six month regulation to allow flights to continue until a new agreement is in place, but it would require the UK government to offer the same to operators from EU countries. The UK has not yet responded to the proposal.\n\nThe UK government has told pharmaceutical companies to stockpile and plan alternative supply routes in case of border problems. It has also arranged extra freight capacity for pharmaceutical companies should they need it.\n\nIn a memo, seen by the BBC in June, pharmaceutical companies warned the government that some stockpiles of medicines have been \"used up entirely\" by the coronavirus pandemic and said these could not be replenished in time for the UK's exit from the EU.\n\nThe head of the Association of the British Pharmaceutical Industry warned that not having any sort of deal would cause \"increased complexity, duplication and cost\" in the middle of a pandemic. The government insisted, however, that \"robust contingency plans are in place\".\n\nFor the coronavirus vaccine, the government says there are contingency plans for making sure the Pfizer Covid-19 vaccine made in Belgium can be shipped to the UK if border problems arise. These include alternative sea routes and the use of freight or even military aircraft.\n\nThe European Commission has also proposed extending the deadline to reach an agreement on fishing until the end of December 2021.\n\nThis would allow European fishing vessels to continue fishing in British waters and vice-versa for another year, or until an agreement is reached.\n\nBut a Downing Street spokesman said the UK \"would never accept arrangements and access to UK fishing waters which are incompatible with our status as an independent coastal state\".\n\nThe Ministry of Defence has said it will make four patrol boats available to monitor UK waters and added that it would have \"robust enforcement measures in place\".\n\nAs things stand, if nothing is agreed then non-UK boats will not be allowed to fish in UK waters from January.\n\nBut without a deal, the UK fishing industry would find its extensive exports to EU countries being hit by tariffs (import taxes) and regulatory hurdles.\n\nThe French government has said it would hand out compensation to trawlers if they were not able to fish in UK waters.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Simon Coveney said trade was a matter for the EU and the Irish government cannot come to a separate arrangement with the UK\n\nIreland will not be entering into bilateral negotiations with the UK regarding no-deal Brexit planning, Tánaiste (deputy Irish prime minister) Simon Coveney has said.\n\nMr Coveney said trade policy was a matter for the European Union.\n\nHe said the Irish government cannot come to a separate arrangement with the UK.\n\nThe Tánaiste also said it was realistic to expect a return of power-sharing before the 31 October Brexit deadline.\n\nMr Coveney met Northern Ireland Secretary Julian Smith on Tuesday about Brexit and the lack of government in Northern Ireland since January 2017.\n\nThe Tánaiste told Irish broadcaster RTÉ it was important that he developed a good personal relationship with Mr Smith that is based on trust.\n\nHe added that commentary about the events in Northern Ireland over the past two weeks had become \"divisive and difficult\".\n\nMr Coveney said it was not the case that the Irish government was refusing to talk to the UK, but said he would not be facilitating the UK in walking away from commitments in the withdrawal agreement.\n\n\"We are not in the business of facilitating the UK moving away from commitments that they've made to Ireland and the EU to protect the Good Friday Agreement, to protect an all-island economy, which is a commitment that they have made, and to replace that with some sort of makeshift deal in the weeks before a no-deal,\" he said.\n\n\"Instead what we have been doing for over a year now, is we have been planning for contingency in the context of a no-deal Brexit should that happen.\"\n\nSimon Coveney had a meeting with Northern Ireland Secretary Julian Smith (pictured) on Tuesday\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson met German Chancellor Angela Merkel in Berlin, and reiterated his call for the Irish border backstop plan to be scrapped.\n\nMr Johnson has said the arrangement to avoid a hard border after Brexit is \"anti-democratic\" and must be removed to secure a deal.\n\nBut the EU has rejected the possibility of any changes to the backstop.\n\nMr Coveney said the government will not abandon its approach for \"some kind of promise on the basis of trust\".\n\n\"We are not in the business of being steam-rolled at the end of this because a British prime minister has rolled out new red lines,\" he said.", "Nicola Marshall said Lucas was \"my life, my soul, my everything\"\n\nA boy has died after falling from the balcony of a Spanish apartment while on a holiday with his mum and a friend.\n\nLucas Briscoe, 12, from Lostock Gralam, Cheshire, was due to return home after a two-week break in the Costa Del Sol resort of Fuengirola when he fell on Tuesday afternoon.\n\nHis death is being treated as an accident.\n\n\"I can't believe he's gone. He was my world,\" said his mum Nicola Marshall in tribute to her only son.\n\n\"Please grab your child and cuddle them today and tell them how much you love them because they're precious and you never know when tomorrow will never come,\" she added.\n\nLucas, a talented singer and rugby player, went to St Nicholas High School in Hartford, Northwich, and had been due to audition for TV talent show The Voice this weekend.\n\nLucas's dad Gary Briscoe said his death will \"leave a big hole in a lot of lives\"\n\nLucas, his mum and his schoolfriend had been staying in a holiday apartment owned by Lucas's father, and Ms Marshall's ex-husband, Gary Briscoe.\n\n\"What should have been the final day of an amazing holiday ended up being the worst day of my life,\" said Ms Marshall, who was in the kitchen preparing lunch when Lucas fell at 13:30 local time.\n\nHis friend witnessed him fall and has been left \"devastated\", a family spokesperson said.\n\n\"We had the usual complaints over hoovering and cleaning…all the usual chaos before you go home,\" Ms Marshall said.\n\n\"I lost my world, my everything, when Lucas went over the balcony. A fall, a jump, a slip, a moment of silliness, boyish behaviour, annoyed at his mum for nagging him over hoovering. I will never know.\n\n\"What I do know one million per cent is that if Lucas had truly known the repercussions of climbing over, he wouldn't have wanted that. He wouldn't have wanted to leave this world. Not yet.\"\n\nMr Briscoe, who has flown out to Spain, said: \"I am devastated. No-one expects to say goodbye to a child and not in circumstances like this. We are devastated at losing our precious, vibrant and loving son.\n\n\"Lucas was a memorable character - funny, outgoing, sociable - he is going to leave a big hole in a lot of lives.\"\n\nA Foreign Office spokesman said it was offering support to the family and is in contact with the Spanish police.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Dale Kelly sleepwalked into a couple's bedroom when he was staying at the house\n\nA man with a history of sleepwalking has been found not guilty by reason of insanity of sexually assaulting his friend's girlfriend.\n\nDale Kelly, 21, sleepwalked into the couple's bedroom, got into their bed and touched the woman intimately.\n\nHis defence barrister told jurors Kelly could not say what happened as he was asleep at the time.\n\nJudge Simon Hickey told Kelly, of Dalton-le-Dale in County Durham, he was considering a hospital order.\n\nJurors took just over two hours to decide that Kelly had committed the offence but was suffering from parasomnia at the time - meaning he was not responsible for his actions.\n\nJudge Hickey described it as an \"unusual\" case and said sentencing options were limited to a hospital order, a supervision order or an absolute discharge\n\nYork Crown Court heard Kelly had been to a nightclub with his friend and the woman before they returned to a house in North Yorkshire in a taxi on the morning of 17 April.\n\nKelly fell asleep in the taxi and went straight to bed when they arrived but about an hour later the woman awoke to find him in the bed she was sharing with her partner.\n\nShe said she believed Kelly had sexually assaulted her and called the police.\n\nEleanor Fry, defending, said Kelly could not say what happened that morning as he was asleep at the time.\n\nThe court heard he had suffered from parasomnia since childhood and experts said he was \"possibly\" or \"likely to be\" suffering from the sleep disorder at the time of the alleged assault but they could not say for certain.\n\nJudge Hickey said doctors in the case believed Kelly's \"mental disorder\" was treatable and needed treating.\n\n\"At the moment I'm leaning towards a hospital order but I will wait to hear what the experts say,\" the judge added.\n\nKelly was granted conditional bail and will be sentenced on 23 September.\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.", "Scarlett Johansson has topped Forbes' list of best-paid actresses for a second year - but is only the eighth highest paid actor overall.\n\nThe 34-year-old's income of $56m (£45.7m) lands her below seventh-placed male actor Adam Sandler.\n\nShe earned $15.5m (£12.6m) more than she did in 2018, thanks largely to the success of Avengers: Endgame.\n\nModern family actor Sofia Vergara is the only other woman to break into the overall top 10.\n\nEarlier this week, Dwayne Johnson was announced as the highest-paid actor of the last 12 months, making $89.4m (£73.6m) according to the latest annual rankings from the financial experts.\n\nNotably all of the top 10 actresses earned above $20m (£16.3) this year, compared with last year when only the top two - Johansson and Angelina Jolie made that amount.\n\nJohansson is set to reprise her title role in the Avengers spin-off Black Widow next year.\n\nMeanwhile, Jolie - who earned $28m (£22.8) in 2018 - drops out of this year's top 10 due to increased earnings for several of the highest earners in the top 10.\n\nShe is currently acting in and producing two forthcoming films - Maleficent: Mistress of Evil and The One and Only Ivan.\n\nOther names to drop out of the top 10 this year include Mila Kunis, Julia Roberts, Cate Blanchett, Melissa McCarthy and Gal Gadot.\n\nUnlike the male actors list, there's a notable lack of diversity among this year's highest earning women. Vergara is Colombian-American, but there are no black actresses in the top 10.\n\nDwayne Johnson will star in Jumanji: The Next Level later this year\n\nThe list of top earning male actors was released on Wednesday.\n\nDwayne Johnson - aka The Rock - climbed from his number two placing last year - despite his earnings actually being less than the $119m (£98.1m) he made in 2018.\n\nLast year's number one actor George Clooney has dropped out of the top 10.\n\nThat's because his high earnings on 2018's list were down to the sale of his tequila company, in a deal worth $1bn (£753m).\n\nThe lists include celebrities' overall earnings, including brand endorsements and don't solely consist of payments for acting.\n\nIn the last year, he has starred in the Fast & Furious spin-off Hobbs & Shaw, Skyscraper and has produced films like Fighting with My Family and Shazam!.\n\nLater this year, he will star in Jumanji: The Next Level alongside Kevin Hart and Jack Black.\n\nElsewhere in this year's top 10, Chris Hemsworth has climbed to second place with earnings of $76.4m (£62.9m)\n\nBradley Cooper has re-entered the top 10 for the first time since 2015 thanks in large part to directing, co-writing, co-producing and starring in the Oscar-winning A Star Is Born. He is the sixth highest earner at $57m (£46.9m)\n\nHaving only appeared in one major film in the last year (Aladdin), Will Smith is down slightly this year, with his earnings of $35m (£28.8m) placing him 10th.\n\nBollywood star Akshay Kumar is one of the most significant climbers, moving up to number four with earnings this year of $65m (£53.5m)\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Thousands of Dr Michael Watt's patients have been re-examined due to concerns about possible misdiagnoses\n\nA hearing into the actions of Dr Michael Watt, the consultant at the centre of Northern Ireland's biggest ever patient recall, will not happen until next year, the BBC understands.\n\nThe recall was sparked by concerns over possible misdiagnosis.\n\nA preliminary hearing due to be held in June was adjourned.\n\nSome charities and patients have voiced concerns at the pace of the investigations and the lack of information on developments.\n\nThe Medical Practitioners' Tribunal Service (MPTS) hearing was to examine the circumstances surrounding the recall of 3,500 of the neurologist's patients in May 2018.\n\nAround the same time that it was adjourned, the Department of Health also cancelled the publication of an outcomes report during which charities, politicians and the media were to be updated on the condition of Dr Watt's patients.\n\nThe Irish News has reported that Dr Watt is to retire on medical grounds.\n\nNeurology is the treatment of brain conditions including multiple sclerosis, Parkinson's, stroke and motor neurone disease\n\nIt is understood the process for that to happen within the Belfast Health Trust has stepped up a gear, as retiring under these circumstances has always been an option open to Dr Watt.\n\nWhile thousands of patients have been re-examined, with some receiving a different diagnosis, little light has actually been shed by the authorities on what exactly is happening.\n\nWhat we do know is that in January this year, Dr Watt was suspended from practising as a doctor in the UK by the MPTS, but remained on full pay.\n\nIt is unclear whether the GMC's investigation would still go ahead if Dr Watt retires on medical grounds.\n\nWhen asked if that was a possibility, a GMC spokesperson told the BBC: \"A doctor's decision to retire or leave their place of employment is separate to the GMC's processes and does not mean an investigation would come to an end.\"\n\nThat would suggest that a doctor could apply to leave the register, but that process is separate to their retirement and an investigation by the GMC could continue.\n\nHowever, the BBC understands that in other cases where a person under investigation retired, the investigation ended.\n\nMeanwhile, the independent review established by the Department of Health in 2018 into the neurology recall continues. To date, it has not reported any findings.\n\nAt the time, the Department of Health's permanent secretary Richard Pengelly said he was conscious of the level of public interest and concern.\n\nHe said that a preliminary report would be produced as soon as practicable, with the final report issued on the completion and review of all other relevant actions initiated by the department.\n\nThe way things are proceeding, that independent review, chaired by Brett Lockhart QC and Dr Hugo Mascie-Taylor, might just be the only show left in town when it comes to examining what exactly happened behind Northern Ireland's biggest patient recall.\n\nSinn Féin health spokesperson Pat Sheehan said that patients were entitled to information and urged the Department of Health to keep them up to date at all stages.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Robert Lockhart says he had to continually chase officials over compensation and information\n\nScrapping the high-speed rail link HS2 would be a \"disaster\" and prevent a transformation of the road and rail network, a strategy group has said.\n\nThe government is to examine the costs and benefits of the project and make a decision on its future later this year.\n\nAlthough a review will \"rightly scrutinise\" the scheme, Midlands Connect said HS2 must not be dropped or the scope of the scheme changed.\n\nBut farmer Robert Lockhart who has lost land to HS2 said it was a \"whitewash\".\n\nPhase 1 of HS2 between London and Birmingham is due to open at the end of 2026, with a second phase to Leeds and Manchester scheduled for completion by 2032-33.\n\nThe government approved the scheme in January 2012, but last month the project chairman reportedly warned its cost could rise by £30bn and said it cannot be delivered within its £56bn budget.\n\nLottie Jones met with her MP Boris Johnson in 2015\n\nMidlands Connect, which works with local authorities and enterprise partnerships on the region's transport strategies, said the \"massive benefits of HS2 to the Midlands\" were already being felt.\n\nIts director Maria Machancoses said: \"We must not lose sight of the fact that HS2 will transform our transport network for the next century.\"\n\nShe said scrapping the project would \"be a disaster for the Midlands and the whole country\".\n\nBut farmer Mr Lockhart, who has lost about 35 of his 280 acre farm on the Staffordshire/Warwickshire border to the project said he felt the scheme would not go ahead in full.\n\n\"There are so many people and companies involved that no-one knows what they're doing and they're chucking money at it and I've noticed such a waste of resources and time,\" he said.\n\n\"They've made so many promises over it and now the government is so fragile.\"\n\nCurzon Street is due to open with seven high-speed platforms in 2026\n\nLottie Jones, a campaigner for Ruislip Against HS2, said she was glad the new Prime Minister Boris Johnson, who is her local MP, was \"taking HS2 seriously\".\n\nBut she said she doubted the independence of the \"long overdue review\".\n\n\"It is not too late to stop HS2. Even if billions have already been spent it would be better to put it out of its misery now than waste tens of billions more,\" she added.\n\nTed Pawley, 69, who is a Perivale resident and campaigner against HS2, said he thought the review was \"fantastic news.\"\n\n\"All these people who are for HS2 are the investors, living miles away from where all this will be happening, trying to convince us that we want this when we don't, not yet anyway.\n\n\"Let's spend that money on things we really need like improving the NHS, on schools.\"\n\nMaria Machancoses said it would be a disaster if HS2 was scrapped\n\nThe rail network is due to arrive in Crewe by 2027 and the station will become a hub when the line later extends to Manchester.\n\nEarlier this month, it was revealed a £137m extension to the West Midlands Metro passing underneath Curzon Street Station - a yet-to-be-built hub for the proposed route - had been delayed by HS2.\n\nCurzon Street is due to open with seven high-speed platforms in 2026 and the Department for Transport said work would continue at the site during the review.\n\nMany businesses have already relocated to Birmingham in anticipation of the project going ahead\n\nWork is already under way at Curzon Street in Birmingham to prepare the ground for where the new HS2 terminal will be built.\n\nBesides the facade of the old Victorian station and the sound of diggers there isn't much to see. However if you look back towards the city it becomes clear what HS2 means to Britain's second city.\n\nThe skyline is filled with new office buildings and hotels which in turn are surrounded by more than a dozen giant cranes which are building the next developments.\n\nMany of those businesses which have already relocated to Birmingham, or are planning to do so, have made the decision based on the promise of faster connections to London and beyond.\n\nIf the project were scrapped or downgraded it's feared that the city's great revival will falter or stop.\n\nHowever, if you live along the route and have seen little or no benefit from the new high speed rail line then today's announcement may be more welcome.\n\nThe government's review will be chaired by Douglas Oakervee, a civil engineer and former chair of HS2 Ltd.\n\nWest Midlands Mayor Andy Street, who will be part of the panel, said he was behind the review and was confident the scheme would go ahead.\n\nHe said: \"HS2 is mission critical for the West Midlands as it will free up the capacity we so desperately need on our existing railways, drive huge economic growth, and is already creating jobs and building new homes in the region.\"\n\nAndy Street said he was confident the case for HS2 could be won\n\nLeader of Birmingham City Council, Ian Ward, said \"a U-turn would be disastrous\" and he would be making the case for the city when he meets Mr Oakervee.\n\n\"HS2 is about so much more than fast trains to and from London,\" he said.\n\n\"It's about jobs, homes and life chances. It's a once in a lifetime opportunity to rebalance the UK economy.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Prime Minister Boris Johnson said the UK will leave the EU on 31 October \"come what may\"\n\nThe Welsh Government would campaign for Remain in any future EU referendum, even under a Labour-led UK government, the first minister has said.\n\nIt comes after Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn refused to say if he would support Remain in a second Brexit vote.\n\nMr Corbyn's plan to stop no-deal Brexit involves defeating Boris Johnson's government in a no-confidence vote and becoming prime minister himself.\n\nThe UK is due to leave the European Union on 31 October.\n\nFollowing the Leave vote in the 2016 referendum, the Welsh Government initially supported leaving the EU, while retaining close economic ties to the continent.\n\nMr Drakeford said a future Labour government would \"seek to have a different conversation with the European Union, but that in any referendum that then followed, remain would be on the ballot paper.\n\n\"The conclusion of Welsh Labour and the Welsh Labour government is clear - Labour will put remain on the ballot paper and this government will campaign in Wales for a remain outcome.\"\n\nThe first minister also called on Mr Johnson to confirm beyond any doubt that he would not take steps to suspend Parliament in the run-up to 31 October to prevent MPs from stopping a no-deal Brexit.\n\nA UK government spokesperson said the prime minister \"has been clear that he is not attracted to archaic devices like prorogation\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nMr Drakeford pointed to a leaked cross-government study, which warned of food and medicine shortages, months of disruption at UK ports and a rise in public disorder in the event of no deal, \"reflects\" the concerns of the Welsh Government.\n\nMichael Gove, who is in charge of no-deal planning for the UK government, said the document was old and Brexit planning had accelerated since Mr Johnson became prime minister.\n\nThe leaked documents also suggested a no-deal Brexit could lead to the closure of two of the UK's six major oil refineries.\n\nValero employs more than 500 people at its Pembroke refinery.\n\nThe Milford Haven waterway in Pembrokeshire is home to petro-chemical firms, including Valero\n\nStephen Crabb, Tory MP for Preseli Pembrokeshire, warned a no-deal Brexit would make it harder for Valero to increase investment in its Pembrokeshire plant, but said the company is \"not suggesting in any way\" that a no-deal Brexit would mean the end of the site.\n\nThe Welsh and Scottish governments have both expressed concern over the UK government's decision not to apply tariffs - taxes on trade - to imports of petrol in the event of no deal.\n\nA letter, seen by BBC Wales, said: \"We are alarmed by the UK government's apparent absence of industry consultation in preparing these tariffs, as well as their harmful impact upon a strategically important sector, crucial to our economies.\n\n\"Losing access to necessary free trade arrangements, in a no-deal outcome, alongside the imposition of the temporary import tariffs regime risks placing the sector at a competitive disadvantage.\"\n\nThe UK government said it was working with the industry to prepare for Brexit.\n\n\"We will continue to work flat out to prepare for the potential impact on UK refineries in the event of Brexit without a deal, and to be responsive to the needs of all UK businesses and consumers both as we prepare to leave the EU and afterwards,\" it added.", "The pilots were arrested before boarding a scheduled flight to Newark\n\nTwo United Airlines pilots have been arrested at Glasgow Airport for allegedly failing a breath test before boarding a flight to Newark, New Jersey.\n\nThe men, aged 45 and 61, have not been charged but remain in custody and are expected to appear before Paisley Sheriff Court on Tuesday.\n\nPolice Scotland confirmed officers were called to the airport at 07:35 BST.\n\nThe men were arrested before boarding flight UA162.\n\nIt was expected to take off for Newark at about 09:00 but was cancelled.\n\nUnited Airlines said in a statement the safety of its customers and crew was \"always our top priority\".\n\nIt said: \"We hold all of our employees to the highest standards and have a strict, no tolerance policy for alcohol.\n\n\"These pilots were immediately removed from service and we are fully cooperating with local authorities.\n\n\"At this time, we are working to get our customers back on their journey as soon as possible.\"\n\nA Police Scotland spokeswoman confirmed two men, aged 61 and 45, have been arrested and remain in police custody pending a scheduled court appearance on Tuesday 6 August for alleged offences under the Railways and Transport Safety Act 2003.\n\nThe legislation covers carrying out pilot duties while under the influence of alcohol or drugs.\n\nThe limit for alcohol detected in the breath for pilots is less than half the limit for drivers in Scotland.\n\nIn 2017, two United Airline pilots were jailed for breaching drink-fly limits at Glasgow Airport.\n\nFirst Officer Paul Grebenc, 35, was sentenced to 10 months in prison.\n\nHis colleague Carlos Roberto Licona, 45, was jailed for 15 months.\n\nBoth had been arrested while preparing to take off from Glasgow on 27 August 2016.", "The attack took place late on Friday\n\nA house and a car have been deliberately set on fire in North Lanarkshire.\n\nThe attack took place in Balvenie Street in Coatbridge at about 2350 on Friday.\n\nA man and a woman inside the house, who were both 62, were not injured. The car was, however, extensively damaged and there was also damage to the house.\n\nPolice have said they do not believe it was a random attack and have appealed for information.\n\nDet Sgt Clare Cassidy said: \"Thankfully the occupants of the house, a man and a woman, both aged 62 years, were not injured, however, this was very frightening for them and if they hadn't heard the noise outside and called the emergency services so quickly, this could have been so much worse.\n\n\"Whilst we don't think this was a random attack on the property, at the moment were are still trying to find out why this house and car was targeted.\n\n\"Witnesses report seeing three or four people wearing dark clothing making off from the incident.\n\n\"Officers are checking CCTV and carrying out house to house inquiries but would ask anyone who was in the area at the time, maybe driving in the street and their cars have dash-cam footage, to get in touch.\"\n\nShe added: \"To be so reckless as to throw accelerant at a home knowing people were in is shocking and we need to catch those responsible.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Sharon Gayter says she will be back at work on Monday\n\nA 55-year-old ultra-runner has become the fastest woman to travel by foot between John O'Groats and Land's End.\n\nSharon Gayter said she felt \"about 105\" but was \"relieved\" after covering the 822 miles in 12 days, 11 hours, 6 minutes, and 7 seconds.\n\nThe previous record, set in 2008 and run from Land's End to John O'Groats, was more than four hours longer.\n\nMrs Gayter, from Guisborough, near Middlesbrough, said the final day was \"painful\" after only 90 minutes' sleep.\n\nShe added she was severely sleep deprived having only got about three hours on each of the other nights of the challenge.\n\n\"I wanted to break the record by as much as I could and push to my limits because you never know what's round the corner, like road closures.\"\n\nMrs Gayter set off from the northern tip of Britain at 07:30 BST on 21 July and finished in the south-west corner at 18:36 on 2 August.\n\nHer time is yet to be verified by Guinness World Records.\n\nHer planned route, which included some off-road sections, was 822 miles - the actual distance she ran will be confirmed only when her GPS tracker is downloaded.\n\nThe previous fastest journey was set by British runner Marina Anderson in July 2008. The men's record, set in 2001, is nine days, two hours, and 26 minutes.\n\nIn 2011, the lecturer at Teesside University Business School broke both the men's and women's records for the distance covered running on a treadmill in seven days.\n\nOn her motivation, Mrs Gayter said: \"I'm getting on now and I keep thinking that I can't do any more, but the body surprises me that it can.\n\n\"And while I can still [break records] I will.\"\n\nSpeaking from underneath the Land's End signpost, she added the first thing she was going to do was have her first shower in nine days.\n\nThe university lecturer said she would be back at work at 09:00 on Monday morning.\n\n\"I'm not looking forward to that I can assure you,\" she added.\n\nMrs Gayter was raising money for the mental health charity Mind, after three of her friends took their own lives.", "Cian Daly, 20, from Leigh-on-Sea, was among those who died\n\nTwo men have been arrested by officers investigating suspected drugs-related deaths of six people in Essex.\n\nThree men and three women from Southend, Leigh-on-Sea, Canvey Island and Westcliff-on-Sea have died in the period between 28 July and 30 July.\n\nTests are being carried out to identify the substance or substances involved in the deaths.\n\nA 26-year-old from London and a 29-year-old from Grays were arrested in Barking on Friday and later bailed.\n\nThey were arrested on suspicion of possession with intent to supply Class A drugs.\n\nThe force has urged anyone with information about the sale of Class A drugs in the county to contact them.\n\nTwo of the deaths happened on Canvey Island\n\nPublic Health England has urged drug users to be extra careful and to not use alone and to test a small amount first.\n\n\"They need to look out for each other and be alert to any signs of an overdose, such as lack of consciousness, shallow or no breathing, 'snoring', and blueing of the lips and fingertips,\" it said.\n\n\"They should immediately call for an ambulance and use any available naloxone if someone overdoses on opioids. We strongly advise all dependent drug users to get support from local drug services.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Kerry McDowell's dad came out as transgender when she was 10 years old.\n\nNine years on, she speaks to BBC News NI about her experiences and gives advice on how to support someone who is transitioning.", "Protesters have lit a fire outside a police station during the ninth weekend of demonstrations against a controversial extradition bill in Hong Kong.\n\nMeanwhile, supporters of Hong Kong's police force also gathered on Saturday, for an open air rally in Victoria Park.", "All publicly-funded sports and leisure centres in Scotland have banned the sale of energy drinks to children under the age of 16.\n\nThe move on high-caffeine drinks is the result of work by umbrella body Community Leisure UK and the Scottish government.\n\nIn total, 1,300 sites have introduced the restriction.\n\nPublic Health Minister Joe FitzPatrick welcomed the \"leadership\" they had shown in announcing the ban.\n\nThe drinks, which can also have high levels of sugar, have been linked to health problems in children.\n\nThe World Health Organisation has published research suggesting an association with headaches, sleep problems, irritability and tiredness.\n\nKirsty Cumming of Community Leisure UK said: \"After working closely with both our members and colleagues at Scottish government, Community Leisure UK is delighted that all members in Scotland have chosen to ban the sale of energy drinks to young people under 16.\n\n\"This is an important step in protecting the health of young people across Scotland and we are proud to support the Scottish government's promise made in the Diet and Healthy Weight Delivery Plan.\"\n\nHospital shops and catering facilities have already introduced a similar restriction.\n\nMr FitzPatrick said: \"I welcome the leadership shown by all publicly funded leisure centres in restricting the sale of energy drinks to young people.\n\n\"This builds on our recent ban of energy drinks to under 16s in all hospital retail units and NHS-run catering sites.\n\n\"The Scottish government recognises that consumption of energy drinks is a significant concern to parents, healthcare professionals and young people.\"\n\nHe added: \"We have committed to a consultation on restricting the sale of energy drinks to under-16s later this year.\"", "The new prime minister has lamented that the UK falls far behind Spain in terms of the number of homes with access to full-fibre internet\n\nThe UK's telecoms industry has issued the prime minister a challenge of its own after Boris Johnson said he wanted full-fibre broadband \"for all\" by 2025.\n\nAn open letter says the target is possible, but only if the government tackles four problems causing delays.\n\nIt adds that all of the issues must be resolved \"within the next 12 months\" to achieve the high-speed internet goal.\n\nBut one expert said at least one of the measures was unachievable in that time frame.\n\nMr Johnson originally declared his desire to deliver the 100% rollout of fibre-optic broadband to properties across the UK \"in five years at the outside\" in an article for the Telegraph published before he won the leadership vote.\n\nIn it, he described the government's former target of 2033 as being \"laughably unambitious\".\n\nThe letter sent to 10 Downing Street lists four policies that the industry says require urgent attention:\n\n\"Nationwide full fibre coverage is not a can that can be kicked down the road,\" the letter concludes.\n\n\"Work needs to start now, and 100% fibre coverage requires a 100% commitment from government.\"\n\nThe letter has been signed by the chair of the Internet Services Providers Association, the interim chief executive of the Federation of Communication Services and the chief executive of the Independent Networks Co-operative Association.\n\nTheir members include BT, Openreach, Sky, Gigaclear, CityFibre, Hyperoptic, Virgin Media, Google and Vodafone among many others.\n\nOpenreach, which maintains the UK's digital network infrastructure, said it welcomed the government's ambition but warned: \"Upgrading the entire UK network is a major civil engineering challenge.\"\n\nIt urged the government to \"boost the build\" by \"creating an environment that encourages greater investment\".\n\nNumber 10 referred the BBC to the Department of Digital, Culture, Media and Sport for comment.\n\nInstalling fibre connections to every home involves disruption, cost and a lot of work\n\n\"We are pleased industry shares our ambition to turbo-charge the economy by delivering world-class, gigabit-capable broadband across the country as soon as possible,\" a DCMS spokesman said.\n\n\"The government is committed to creating the right opportunities for investment and speeding up the rollout of the required digital infrastructure.\"\n\nHe declined to comment specifically on the four demands, but indicated that a more detailed response would be given later.\n\nOne industry-watcher noted that the Scottish government had already pledged 100% tax relief to companies that install fibre broadband in Scotland, and suggested a similar reform would address the fibre tax request.\n\nBut she added that it would be almost impossible for ministers to resolve the access issue by the next summer.\n\n\"That is going to require a very carefully worded piece of legislation that takes into account business owners, property owners, landowners, as well as the telecommunications and service providers,\" explained Fiona Vanier from the consultancy CCS Insight.\n\n\"It's going to be a difficult piece of legislation to draw up.\n\n\"And there's just recently been a change in Prime Minister, the majority is very slim, and they have things to be getting on with the [Brexit] deadline at the end of October.\"\n\nFull-fibre broadband, fibre to the premises - the terms may leave you scratching your head especially if you already thought you had a fast connection and you were pretty sure that it went all the way into your house.\n\nBut the reality is that only about 7% of UK properties have full-fibre optic cables running all the way from the green cabinet on the street to their front doors.\n\nThere are actually three main types of broadband connections.\n\nADSL (asymmetric digital subscriber line) involves a situation where both the link between the telephone exchange and the street cabinet, and the onward connection to the property are achieved via copper phone cables.\n\nFibre to the Cabinet (FTTC) achieves higher speeds by giving the roadside cabinet its own fibre link.\n\nAnd Fibre to the Premises (FTTP) addresses the final part of the connection - which is often referred to as the \"last mile\". Under this system, properties can be directly connected to the exchange without passing through a street cabinet, But intermediary boxes - often hidden from view - where fibre links are \"split\" to serve individual buildings may still be used.\n\nFibre transmits more bits of data per second by sending pulses of light along optical cables made of glass or plastic. While FTTC offers users average speeds of around 66 megabits per second, FTTP can offer average speeds of one gigabit per second today and potentially terabits per second in the future.\n\nSo, we would benefit from a full-fibre diet, but making it happen as quickly as the prime minister has in mind could be hard to achieve.\n\nThe UK ranks far behind some other European nations including Latvia, Lithuania and Spain where roughly half of all homes have access to FTTP connections, according to an industry study.\n\nBut while the technology offers a degree of future-proofing, some internet chiefs have suggested it would be more cost-effective to fall back on other solutions in the medium-term.\n\nVirgin says that copper-based connections can be used to deliver fast enough speeds for the coming years\n\nLast month, Virgin Media said that it would soon be able to provide gigabit download speeds over copper-based coaxial cables, meaning households could benefit from faster, more reliable connections without having to dig up streets and paths to lay new fibre.\n\nO2's chief executive also recently told the BBC that the Prime Minister would be wiser to fall back on 5G for sparsely populated parts of the UK.\n\n\"At what level does it become uneconomic to [provide fibre] versus mobile?\" Mark Evans asked.\n\n\"I would suggest that isn't at 100% fibre connectivity because, for example, the Scottish farmer that lives remotely - we can reach that person, give them the bandwidth, give them a 5G experience - it's much cheaper than digging the fibre connectivity to that home. That's just nonsensical.\n\n\"So I applaud him on his desire to improve fibre connectivity in the UK - but I do think there's a level that he needs to weigh up as to which type of technology meets the need.\"", "Joe Longthorne was best known for his singing and impressions\n\nEntertainer Joe Longthorne, whose career spanned five decades, has died aged 64.\n\nBest known as a singer and impressionist, he regularly appeared on TV shows and toured overseas.\n\nLes Dennis tweeted he was \"a supreme talent and a nice man\". Cold Feet actor John Thomson said he was a \"great entertainer\".\n\nA statement on the Hull-born performer's website said he died in the arms of his husband Jamie.\n\nIt said: \"Joe died in his bedroom, laying in the arms of his devoted husband of 21 years Jamie, with his rosary beads clutched tight to his chest. He leaves behind sister Ann and brother John.\"\n\nJoe Longthorne (second from right) in a Radio 2 special celebrating the songs of Don Black\n\nBorn to a travelling background, Longthorne started in the entertainment business at an early age after winning a local talent contest, and latterly lived in Blackpool.\n\nHe regularly appeared on the ITV series \"Junior Showtime\" from 1969 until the age of 16.\n\nAfter working the club circuit, he received his big break on the ITV series Search For A Star in 1981.\n\nHe regularly featured on other TV programmes in the 1980s, including the Les Dennis Laughter Show and the Royal Variety Performance, and also appeared in theatre in the US and at the Sydney Opera House.\n\nPrince Charles presented Joe Longthorne with an MBE in 2012\n\nHowever, at the peak of his career in 1989 he was diagnosed with the blood cancer lymphoma.\n\n\"Cancer is not a word you expect to hear when things are going so well,\" he later said.\n\n\"I felt invincible and suddenly out of the blue I felt helpless. I had two choices - to give in or fight.\n\n\"I chose the latter. I got up, dusted myself off and got on with life\".\n\nHe launched a number of albums in the 1990s and continued to perform despite being diagnosed later with leukaemia.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or 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 was beset by further health complications after a bone marrow transplant in 2005, and was given the last rites by a priest. But he recovered and continued singing at sell-out concerts.\n\nIn 2011, he was also involved in a serious road crash, suffering a broken nose and broken ribs.\n\nA year later, he was awarded an MBE for charitable services.\n\nHis health further declined when he was diagnosed with mouth cancer, but he returned to work in time for his 60th birthday celebrations.\n\nJoe Longthorne would regularly perform impressions with fellow entertainer Les Dennis (right)\n\nComedy writer Derren Litten, who created the hit show Benidorm, tweeted: \"He came back so many times from such a terrible illness.\n\n\"From first sneaking into seeing him at The Ferry Boat pub in Hessle, when I was a kid, to watching him play the London Palladium many times, I've always been in awe of his amazing talent.\"\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. Painted lady butterflies have been seen across the country\n\nLarge clouds of painted lady butterflies are being spotted across the UK and Ireland - and experts believe we are seeing a mass emergence that happens every 10 years.\n\nWeather conditions and food sources are providing ideal conditions for the species to thrive.\n\nSightings of painted ladies - otherwise known as Vanessa cardui - have prompted countless pictures and videos to be posted to social media.\n\nAbout 11 million of the butterflies were seen in the UK during the last \"painted lady year\" in 2009.\n\nSimon Milne, Regius Keeper at the Royal Botanic Garden in Edinburgh, describes the phenomenon as \"an amazing wonder of nature\".\n\nOn a normal day, in a regular year, Simon said he would expect to see about 10 to 15 of the species at the botanic gardens.\n\nBut he has encountered thousands of painted ladies in the past few days, and predicts that this year could see bigger numbers than ever before.\n\nWe are currently seeing a wave of home-grown butterflies, which are the descendants of those carried on winds from sub-Saharan Africa, along with newer arrivals from continental Europe.\n\nDespite their delicate appearance, the insects can cover up to 100 miles each day as they migrate.\n\nPainted ladies complete their life cycle in five to eight weeks. It can take up to six generations to make the annual migration, leaving Africa in April to head north and returning once cooler weather settles at this latitude.\n\nTom Prescott, senior conservation officer with Butterfly Conservation Scotland, says that favourable breeding conditions mean we could see another wave of butterflies at the end of the summer \"come early autumn, we could be up to our knees in them,\" he said.\n\nNumbers depend on favourable conditions earlier in the year, where the butterflies spend winter, warmer temperatures and favourable wind conditions as they migrate north.\n\nThe species often lay eggs on thistles, giving them the name Thistle Butterfly. Adults tend to feed on flowering plants and are often attracted to buddleia plants.\n\nThe public is being asked to submit butterfly sightings online to help Butterfly Conservation monitor numbers of this and other species.\n\nMany butterfly species have been in decline.\n\nAccording to the Butterfly Conservation Society, there is \"evidence of the serious, long-term and ongoing decline of UK butterflies\".\n\nHowever, the society believes the Common Blue could be making a comeback.\n\nDuring 2018's record-breaking hot weather, numbers increased in Scotland by 29% on the previous year. They are now predicting the butterfly could be in line for its best year yet.\n\nThe society's five-yearly research - last published in 2015 - indicated 70% of species declining in occurrence and 57% declining in abundance since 1976.\n\nAll pictures are subject to copyright.\n• None Which butterflies to look for in the UK-wide count", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The esports club looking for female members\n\nAn esports club is opening its doors to women-only games nights in the hope of attracting a wider pool of talent.\n\nCardiff Saints hopes monthly \"ladies nights\" become a regular fixture in the Welsh competitive gaming calendar.\n\nWomen and girls make up 42% of gamers in the UK, according to industry body UKIE.\n\nKelly McMahon, of Belong Cardiff gaming arena, hopes clubs such as Cardiff Saints can help increase the number of competitive female players in future.\n\nEsport is competitive video gaming, where competitors can earn millions taking other gamers on, often in teams.\n\nKelly McMahon says many female gamers do not feel \"good enough\" to play competitively\n\n\"A lot of the ladies that come down feel like they're not good enough for games, so we try to make it a really chilled experience,\" Ms McMahon said.\n\n\"We grab pizza, do mini-tournaments. It's literally a hang-out spot.\"\n\nShe said there was still quite a lot of negative reaction when people hear the term \"esports\".\n\n\"Once you go to the big events you can see how big this is and how many people have an interest in it,\" Ms McMahon added.\n\nJessica is one of a growing number of women who now regularly attend team nights, something she said she would have little access to otherwise.\n\nGamer Jessica said outside of \"ladies night\", every single person she plays with is male\n\n\"Other than ladies night and the girls I've been playing with tonight, every single person I play a game with is a boy,\" she explained.\n\n\"Games need to be looked at as more than just something teenagers do to waste their time.\"\n\nFor some, like Nate Mark from Llanberis, Gwynedd, those hours spent playing games have been lucrative.\n\nKnown as Ataraxia, he is one of a new generation of professional e sports players who are making a living out of computer games.\n\nNow a member of a team competing on Smite, a massive online multiplayer game, he's moved to the USA in order to pursue his dream of becoming world champion.\n\n\"I did psychology at the University of Liverpool. That's when I started playing Smite,\" he said.\n\nThe Smite World Championship had a prize pool of £2.1m and the players on the top teams will usually earn up to £37,000 - not including any prize money.\n\nLast weekend, a 15-year-old boy won half of $2.25 million (£1.8m) after coming second with his teammate in the Fortnite World Cup finals.\n\nWelsh politicians have raised the possibility of holding a major esport event in Wales\n\nWith the global esports industry estimated to grow to £1bn by 2022, Wales is the latest country looking to cash in.\n\n\"People don't really get to see the whole picture so they think 'it's just computer games',\" added Ms McMahon.\n\n\"As a global or as a national thing, we're not where we could be.\"\n\nThe idea has been discussed in the Welsh Assembly, with Conservative AM David Melding raising the possibility of Wales attracting a major event in the future.\n\nHe said the level of spectator interest was \"astonishing\".\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Last updated on .From the section Cricket\n\nMen's Ashes: First Specsavers Test, Edgbaston (day three of five)\n\nEngland are once again searching for a way to remove Australia's Steve Smith after a see-saw third day left the first Ashes Test deliciously poised.\n\nSmith, who crafted a superb 144 in the first innings, moved serenely to 46 not out to take the tourists to 124-3, a lead of 34 when bad light ended play early at Edgbaston.\n\nAt 27-2, Australia were in danger of being blown out of the contest on Saturday evening, only for Smith - in his first Test since returning from a year-long ban - to add 48 with Usman Khawaja and an unbroken 49 with Travis Head.\n\nFormer captain Smith silenced a riotous crowd, one that was baying for Australian misery when David Warner was dismissed and, earlier, during a ninth-wicket stand of 65 between Chris Woakes and Stuart Broad.\n\nWoakes made 37 not out and Broad 29 to rescue England from a collapse of four wickets for 18 runs, which included 3-4 in 11 balls.\n\nThey helped the hosts to 374 all out and a first-innings advantage of 90, which seemed about the minimum required to negate the challenge of batting last on a surface offering increasing amounts of turn.\n\nHowever, the pitch is also losing pace, removing the encouragement on offer for the pace bowlers.\n\nIn their quest to dislodge Smith and run through Australia on Sunday, England again look set to be without their all-time leading wicket-taker James Anderson, who batted but did not bowl on Saturday because of a calf injury.\n• None Agnew: Smith is not immortal - he is just batting rather close to it\n• None England already on Plan X to Smith - Vaughan\n\nSaturday at Edgbaston is renowned for its boisterous, beer-fuelled crowd, many of whom make the effort of fancy dress.\n\nWhile the Pope, builders, some crayons and the England 1966 World Cup winners partied in the Hollies Stand, singing long after the light intervened, the game was manoeuvred into a tantalising position.\n\nEngland began with the opportunity to bat Australia out of the game, only for the collapse, then the Woakes-Broad partnership to see fortunes fluctuate throughout the morning and afternoon.\n\nThe key to the whole contest, though, appears to be Smith, who arrived when his team were wobbling but simply picked up from where he left off in the first innings.\n\nIf England can find a way to prise him out early on Sunday, they will be in prime position to limit the chase to something manageable. If he bats into the afternoon, he could put the game beyond the hosts.\n\nFourteen years on from the memorable Ashes contest that England won by two runs, Edgbaston could yet serve up another classic.\n\nEven without Anderson, England made early inroads into the Australia batting, removing Warner and fellow ball-tampering conspirator Cameron Bancroft to fuel the fervour of the Edgbaston crowd.\n\nWhen Warner got stuck between playing and leaving Broad to be caught behind on review, he was given a deafening and prolonged send-off, with Bancroft shovelling off-spinner Moeen Ali to short leg soon after.\n\nHowever, that signalled the arrival of Smith and a change in the complexion of the evening.\n\nAfter being dropped by Jos Buttler at gully off the expensive Moeen on 11, Khawaja played some sweet drives, while Smith slipped into his trademark fidgeting, shuffling and working the ball off the pads.\n\nIt took a vicious delivery from Stokes to remove Khawaja, one that jagged back off the pitch and found the inside edge on the way through to Jonny Bairstow.\n\nHead, though, was a solid ally to the former captain, and the only other hint of further alarm came when a Rory Burns shy at the stumps missed when Head was short of his ground.\n\nThe greatest discomfort Smith felt was being hit on the helmet by Stokes and, in truth, the bad light and rain that followed gave England a welcome opportunity to regroup.\n\nEngland were in danger of wasting the position earned on Friday as Australia got the rewards their second-day bowling deserved.\n\nFrom 267-4, Stokes looked fluent in moving from 38 to 50, only for his loose waft at Pat Cummins to begin the slide.\n\nOff-spinner Nathan Lyon finally took the edge of Burns, who added eight to his overnight 125, and in the same over, the horribly short-of-form Moeen shouldered arms and lost his off stump. When Bairstow slashed at Peter Siddle, England were only 16 ahead.\n\nThey were steadied by the experience and calm authority of Woakes and Broad, who defended stoutly and accumulated without risk, steadily raising the level of noise in a Hollies Stand that rejoiced when Warner fielded on the boundary and Smith was asked to bowl.\n\nCuriously, Australia left gaps for singles and were reluctant to test Broad with the short ball. When they did, he helped Cummins into the hands of fine leg.\n\nAnderson bravely offered hobbling support to Woakes for another six overs and nine runs, before the number 11 miscued Lyon to mid-on.\n\n'Smith is a freak of nature' - what they said\n\nFormer England captain Michael Vaughan on BBC Test Match Special: \"I can't say which team is on top at the moment - it all hinges on that first half-hour tomorrow morning.\n\n\"Steve Smith is a freak of nature. If England can remove him, they will go on to win the match. If he bats for another hour, England could be chasing 180-plus. And that's where I get nervous.\"\n\nEngland's Chris Woakes on TMS: \"If you could sort out a dodgy breakfast for him that would be great.\n\n\"We'll go back to the drawing board and figure out what works best on this wicket. We might have to look to attack at one end and hold at the other.\"\n\nAustralia's James Pattinson on TMS: \"It's about getting stuck in again and trying to bat all day tomorrow. Whatever lead we can get, it's going to be a tricky chase.\n\n\"Steve Smith is a superstar and superstars peel off runs. He's been waiting for this moment for a long time.\"", "The Dark Rigi, the Lake of Lucerne is worth £10m and currently belongs to a private collection\n\nA temporary export bar has been placed on a £10m painting by one of the UK's most celebrated artists, JMW Turner.\n\nThe masterpiece, The Dark Rigi, the Lake of Lucerne, depicts a scene in the Swiss mountains - but there are fears it could be exported for sale abroad.\n\nArts minister Rebecca Pow said it would be a \"terrible loss to the whole country\" if the painting went overseas.\n\nThe export ban runs until 1 December, in the hope the money can be raised to buy it and keep it in the UK.\n\nThe famous work, a watercolour painted in 1842, is the only remaining work from the Rigi series - Turner's three paintings of the Rigi mountain - which is not in a public collection.\n\nMs Pow said: \"Turner is one of Britain's greatest ever artists and The Dark Rigi is a beautiful and emotive work painted at the pinnacle of his career.\n\n\"This work is of national importance and if it were to go abroad it would be a terrible loss to the country.\n\n\"I hope that by placing a temporary export bar, we can ensure that funds can be raised to save The Dark Rigi for the nation so it is able to go on public display.\"\n\nAnother watercolour in the Rigi series, The Blue Rigi, belongs to the Tate and was bought in 2007\n\nMs Pow, who has been in her current post since May, made her decision after advice from the Reviewing Committee on the Export of Works of Art and Objects of Cultural Interest.\n\nThe committee's job is to advise the government on exporting cultural property.\n\nFor example, if an artwork is sold to a foreign buyer, it can suggest delaying the granting of an export licence to allow time for a British buyer to raise funds to buy the work instead and keep it in the UK.\n\nThe decision on the export licence applications for the watercolour has now been deferred until 1 December.\n\nIf a serious intention is made to raise the £10m funds to purchase the artwork, the export bar may be extended until 1 June 2020.\n\nTurner, who was born in London in 1775, is considered one of the greatest figures in the history of landscape painting.", "Last updated on .From the section Fulham\n\nFulham will take the \"strongest action possible\" after full-back Cyrus Christie alleged that his sister was hit and racially abused by fans during Saturday's 1-0 defeat at Barnsley.\n\nChristie said on Twitter after the game: \"To the Fulham fan that decided to hit my sister at the game today and his wife who justified his action with racist remarks I hope you're proud of yourself and feel like a big man.\n\n\"You'll get what's coming to you. Regardless how you felt about the result your actions are shameful.\"\n\nThe Whites, relegated to the Championship last season, said in a statement: \"Fulham Football Club is investigating an incident which took place in the away end at the Barnsley v Fulham fixture this afternoon.\n\n\"Should the perpetrators be identified, the club will be taking the strongest possible action.\"\n\nIn a statement, South Yorkshire Police said they were yet to receive a report of the incident.\n\n\"We are aware of claims circulating on social media,\" the statement said. \"We are looking into the circumstances of the alleged incident and are in the process of contacting Fulham Football Club to progress the matter.\"\n\nRepublic of Ireland international Christie, 26, joined Fulham from Middlesbrough in January 2018 and has made 33 appearances for the club.\n\nIn November 2017 and April 2018 he shared racist abuse he had received on social media.", "Rory Burns' maiden Test century led a determined England batting effort on the second day of the first Ashes Test against Australia at Edgbaston.\n\nThe left-handed opener, playing his eighth match, battled through an attritional day for 125 not out.\n\nWith Joe Root making 57 in a second-wicket stand of 132 and Ben Stokes an unbeaten 38, England reached 267-4, trailing by 17.\n\nEngland had slices of luck. Burns was on 21 when he would have been lbw to Nathan Lyon had Australia opted to review, while Root survived a James Pattinson delivery hitting off stump but not dislodging the bails when he was on nine.\n\nThose incidents were characteristic of a day when Australia bowled well for little reward in front of another noisy crowd that celebrated every England run and basked in the warm evening sunshine.\n\nOnly when they persuaded the umpires to change the ball did the tourists have a period of success, with Joe Denly and Jos Buttler falling in the space of four overs.\n\nBut Stokes, given a hero's welcome after his performance in the World Cup final, joined Burns in an unbroken stand of 73 for the fifth wicket.\n\nIt leaves England in a strong position, even if they are likely to need a healthy first-innings lead to negate the disadvantage of batting last on a pitch already offering sharp turn.\n• None 'I was ready to run through a brick wall' - Burns inspired by 2005 Ashes winners\n• None 'Burns finally cracks the curse of the England opener'\n• None Listen: TMS podcast - Burns batting something 'Alastair Cook would be proud of'\n\nEngland batsmen come through first examination\n\nSpeaking before the series, England coach Trevor Bayliss said \"you do not have to be Einstein\" to deduce that an unreliable top order was their biggest obstacle to regaining the Ashes.\n\nIn an unconvincing display against Ireland last week, when England were bowled out for 85 in the first innings, it was Burns who looked the most vulnerable.\n\nHere, though, the Surrey man was the mainstay of a collective England showing of old-fashioned batting values - patience, watchfulness and occupation of the crease.\n\nIt meant that the action was much more sedate than the chaos of the opening day, but the home crowd were just as keen to sing for England and taunt the Australians.\n\nLike Thursday, umpiring errors were a feature, but more forgivable. It was a surprise when Burns was shown to be lbw to Lyon, the noise of ball hitting stump actually led to Root being given caught behind and a tiny inside edge was not detected when he was given leg before to Peter Siddle on 14. Both were overturned.\n\nOn top of England's solid day with the bat, there was also the welcome sight of James Anderson running on the outfield, but there is still no news from the scan on his injured calf.\n\nFollowing Australia's Steve Smith on day one, Burns became the second idiosyncratic centurion of the Test, with his leaning stance, glance to mid-wicket as the bowler runs in and bat that comes down from the direction of gully.\n\nAfter England resumed on 10-0, Jason Roy edged to first slip for 10, leaving Burns and Root to grind through the rest of the morning and well into the afternoon.\n\nRoot scored only 11 from his first 60 balls, but gradually increased in fluency. Burns left well, scored mainly square of the wicket on both sides and had the fortune of a number of edges not going to hand.\n\nJust as England were gaining momentum, Root patted a drive back to Siddle that the bowler held one-handed, with Denly and Buttler following soon after.\n\nBurns continued the battle. He spent 37 minutes on 92 and 35 balls in the 90s before a single off Lyon - confirmed after he was shown to have beaten a direct hit to the non-striker's end - sparked an emotional celebration and chants of his name from the Hollies Stand.\n\nTogether with Stokes, he repelled the second new ball to take England to the brink of parity.\n\nBar bowling a fraction too short in the morning and off-spinner Lyon occasionally drifting on to the pads of England's left-handers, Australia toiled honestly and without the rub of the green.\n\nHow different might the day have been had the bails fallen when Pattinson got through Root to hit the off stump? On another occasion, one of Burns' edges could have found a slip fielder.\n\nThey were at least boosted 58 overs into the day when they convinced the umpires that the ball had gone out of shape and were given a replacement that swung much more than the previous version.\n\nPattinson immediately shaped one into Denly that pinned him leg before, while Cummins' away movement had Buttler edge to third slip.\n\nThat, though, was the best it got for the visitors, who at one point gave an over to Matthew Wade, a wicketkeeper by trade.\n\nAfter an unsuccessful review against Burns, the day ended with Australia being subjected to a barrage of mock appeals from the Hollies.\n\n'Cook would have been proud of that innings' - what they said\n\nEngland's Rory Burns on BBC Test Match Special: \"It is something I have dreamt of. I was on 99 for a while - to get over the line is awesome. I was calm throughout it. I was waiting for a ball to come into my area.\n\n\"It was one for the purists - hard work. I enjoy that. Getting in the battle and doing what you can is enough for me.\"\n\nFormer England captain Michael Vaughan on BBC Test Match Special: \"Rory Burns has arrived here at Edgbaston. Mentally, he showed he is made of strong stuff.\n\n\"Alastair Cook would have been proud of that innings. There is no greater compliment for an England opening batsman.\n\n\"He was all over the shop against Ireland last week. His technique was not with him. He has gone away and worked with his coaches. He has got his hands tighter to his body and had a great game plan. To bat all day was fantastic.\n\n\"That was the best day of Test match batting I have seen from England in a long, long time.\"\n\nBBC cricket correspondent Jonathan Agnew: \"England really should be looking to establish a sizable first-innings lead tomorrow - and they will need it.\"\n• None Burns is the first England opener to bat through a day in a Test since Alastair Cook against Australia at Melbourne in 2017\n• None He is the first opener to score a hundred in England other than Alastair Cook since Adam Lyth in 2015", "At least 20 people have been killed and many more injured in a mass shooting in the Texas city of El Paso.\n\nGovernor Greg Abbott described it as \"one of the most deadly days in the history of Texas\".\n\nThe massacre happened at a Walmart store near the Cielo Vista Mall, a few miles from the US-Mexican border.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Boris Johnson: \"I flew over the dam and it looks pretty scary\"\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson has visited crews working to repair a damaged reservoir that threatens to flood a Derbyshire town.\n\nSome 1,500 residents of Whaley Bridge have been evacuated in case the dam holding back the 300-million-gallon Toddbrook Reservoir fails.\n\nMr Johnson flew over the dam and said it looked \"dodgy but stable\".\n\nPolice said some residents would be allowed home due to concerns for animal welfare, but only for 15 minutes.\n\nPart of the reservoir's spillway broke away on Thursday and rescue teams have been trying to drain the reservoir and shore up the dam.\n\nIt was damaged after large swathes of the country were battered by heavy rain and floods earlier in the week and has been described as a \"critical situation\" posing a \"risk to life\".\n\nPolice, the Environment Agency, and the Canal and River Trust, who own the reservoir, have all said there is a \"real risk\" the dam could collapse.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. An RAF Chinook is dropping 400 tonnes of aggregate to shore up the dam and divert water\n\nMeeting residents at nearby Chapel-en-le-Frith High School, Mr Johnson said: \"I flew over the dam and it looks pretty scary. I can see the problem.\"\n\nThe prime minister described the dam as looking \"dodgy but stable\", but he told residents they would be \"properly housed\" if the dam burst.\n\nMr Johnson spent about 45 minutes talking to police officers and different groups of residents in the school gym.\n\nHe told one group of evacuees: \"The plan is to try and stop the dam breaking, clearly, so a huge amount of effort is going into that.\n\n\"The Chinook's been over putting in the aggregate and putting in the sandbags to try and stop it bursting. They're pumping out huge amounts of water.\n\n\"They've got a long way to go. Whatever we do, we'll make sure we rebuild it.\"\n\nBoris Johnson has been meeting emergency teams and residents\n\nDerbyshire Police Assistant Chief Constable Kem Mehmet stressed there was still a risk to life and it was not clear when residents would be able to go home for good.\n\n\"There are concerns about animal welfare. We will be putting plans in place for residents to return to their addresses for a very short time, in a very controlled manner, to collect belongings,\" he said.\n\n\"We will be restricting it to one person per household. The plans are being worked through at the minute and the residents will be informed when it's in place.\"\n\nIf the dam is about to fall, police said all the emergency service vehicles will sound their horns three times as a warning and residents would have to get to higher ground.\n\nResident Mike Breslin said it was \"madness\" to build at the base of the dam\n\nMike Breslin described it as a \"crazy situation\".\n\n\"They should never have built a school and a social club at the bottom of a dam. It's madness,\" he said.\n\nEric Baker, who has lived in the town for 30 years, said: \"It's shocking really, it's like living next to a ticking bomb. If that goes the devastation will be unimaginable.\"\n\nAn RAF Chinook helicopter has put 400 tonnes of sandbags on the affected part of the dam in an attempt to shore it up, while firefighters are using pumps to remove water.\n\nIn the more than 24 hours since the operation began the reservoir has been reduced by half a metre, but Julie Sharman from the Canal and River Trust said it needed to come down \"several metres\" before it would be considered safe.\n\nResidents have praised the emergency services battling to save their town\n\nShe told a press conference workers were \"doing all the things that we should be doing\" to lower the water level of the reservoir and protect the dam from further erosion. She added the dam and the infrastructure used to deal with emergencies had been \"regularly\" inspected.\n\nA specialist panel of engineers on site had been advising the operation and she was \"hopeful\" the dam could be saved.\n\nHowever, she said it was still a \"critical situation\".\n\nFirefighters are removing about 4.2 million litres of water per hour from the reservoir\n\nIt is unclear when the residents will be able to go home but they are being told by police to expect to be gone for days.\n\nA helpline for evacuated residents will be operated by Derbyshire County Council from 09:00 to 22:00 on Saturday. The number will be 01629 533 190.\n\nAlthough the weather is currently dry, the Met Office has issued a yellow weather warning for thunderstorms in the area starting on Sunday afternoon and continuing into the evening.\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.", "Hannah Needham says she feels she has been given \"extra life\"\n\nA 22-year-old who nearly died from a blood clot has said she wants to use her experience to inspire young people into science careers.\n\nHannah Needham, from Northampton, collapsed in 2017 when an embolism blocked both of her lungs.\n\nThe forensic biology graduate wrote a blog to raise awareness, and said that prompted her to \"flip my bad experience and turn it into a positive one\".\n\n\"Being so close to death made me see my life in a whole new light,\" she said.\n\nMiss Needham, who was studying at the University of Worcester at the time, said she had been feeling ill for several days but then went downhill rapidly.\n\nShe was rushed to hospital with signs of heart failure, and said she was \"given a very risky, life-saving treatment\" directly into the main artery of her heart to break up the clot.\n\nShe spent more than three days in intensive care and another four days on a high care ward.\n\nFollowing tests in hospital doctors attributed her blood clot to taking the contraceptive pill.\n\nShe said she wanted to share her experience because \"younger people tend to feel invincible\".\n\n\"Still, to this day, when I tell people they are shocked because of how young I was when it happened,\" she said.\n\n\"Showing them that things can go wrong in their bodies and the signs they should look out for is so important.\"\n\nTwo years after her blood clot, Miss Needham finished her degree in forensic biology and has since started working as a biological technician.\n\nShe was she told she would remain on blood-thinning medication for life.\n\nShe said her blog had sparked a science magazine aimed at teenage girls, and \"kick-started my dream career\".\n\n\"Encouraging young people to consider science is important to keep our world thriving and moving forwards,\" she said.\n\n\"The science world needs more outside-the-box thinking and fresh minds.\"\n\nHannah Needham says that the magazine allows her to combine her science and creative sides\n\nMiss Needham said she felt her blood clot had \"happened for a reason\".\n\n\"I didn't want to sit and think about what could have been, but instead to look forward to the things I could achieve with all these extra years of life I was given.\n\n\"I am very proud of my past and what my family and I have overcome, but I am even more excited to see where my future will take me.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. \"People were running out, screaming and yelling\"\n\nA teenager who killed three people at a California food festival died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound, US authorities have confirmed.\n\nSantino William Legan, 19, opened fire with an assault rifle at Gilroy Garlic Festival in July.\n\nAuthorities initially said he had been killed by police, but a coroner's report has ruled that he shot himself in the mouth after being injured.\n\nInvestigators say they have yet to determine a motive for the attack.\n\nFBI Special Agent John Bennett told reporters that computer equipment, anxiety medication, and extremist materials have been seized from Legan's residence.\n\nBut Mr Bennett did not say if the attack was motivated by extremist views.\n\n\"It doesn't seem clear that he was targeting any particular group,\" said Mr Bennett. \"It seems very random at this point.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nDespite earlier reports of an accomplice, authorities say it is now believed he acted alone.\n\nAccording to Gilroy Police Chief Scot Smithee, three police officers ran towards Legan after he began opening fire with an \"AK-47-type\" assault rifle he had purchased legally in neighbouring Nevada.\n\nHe was then shot \"multiple times\" by the officers, falling to his knees, and finally to the ground where \"he was able to get a round off\".\n\nBut the police chief pushed back at suggestions that the coroner's report contradicted an earlier version of events.\n\n\"In my mind, it changes nothing,\" he told reporters. \"The officers still got there fast ... they eliminated the threat. Whether he fired that final shot, in my mind, changes nothing.\"\n\nA vigil was held for the victims, which include a six-year-old-boy\n\nAuthorities have identified the three victims killed in the attack as six-year-old Stephen Romero, 13-year-old Keyla Allison Salazar and Trevor Deon Irby, 25. Sixteen others were also wounded.\n\nThe incident is the 246th mass shooting in the US this year, according to US tracking website Gun Violence Archive.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. How 5G could make salmon farms more sustainable\n\n5G networks are starting to pop up in UK cities - but for many rural areas even getting a basic mobile signal remains a challenge.\n\nThis was certainly the case in the Orkney Islands, an archipelago of 70 islands off the north coast of Scotland.\n\nIts population of 22,000 is spread across 20 of these islands and has consistently ranked as one of the most under-connected in the country.\n\nBut this could be about to change.\n\nThe 5G Rural First project, a consortium of more than 30 organisations, has been running trials with local businesses, using bespoke 5G networks, for the past 18 months.\n\nNow, a landmark decision from Ofcom, the UK's communications regulator, means these trials could become reality sooner that anticipated.\n\nThe regulator says it is opening up unused parts of the airwaves, also known as spectrum, to rural communities.\n\nThe unused spectrum is mostly owned by mobile phone companies but will now be sold to anyone who identifies a legitimate use for it.\n\nIt will be allocated on a first-come first-served basis, with bids being accepted towards the end of the year.\n\nIf accepted, the bidder will have to cover costs only, which Ofcom says could be as low as £85 for a business wanting to create its own local network.\n\nThe most remote areas of the UK could benefit from locally operated 5G networks\n\n\"Mobile operators want to provide services right across the country but in some places they don't use all the spectrum, so some of it might be available for others to use,\" Ofcom group director of spectrum Philip Marnick said.\n\n\"We want people to be able to use spectrum as a way of deploying new services, be it in rural areas where people are doing new and interesting things or actually inside factories or offices as we go towards more industrial internet of things and 5G services, we just want people to be able to use it and do it.\"\n\nBut at least one of the four major mobile networks has said this new bidding system potentially clashes with its plans for the spectrum.\n\n\"These ambitions must be balanced with the spectrum rights of existing users in the 3.8-4.2GHz band,\" Three UK's general counsel and regulatory affairs director Stephen Lerner said.\n\n\"We have exciting plans to use this spectrum to provide 5G home broadband in competition with BT and Virgin.\n\n\"Continued access to the band is fundamental to this ambition.\n\n\"We therefore call on Ofcom to ensure that new users do not interfere with our planned 5G deployment.\"\n\nOfcom says it will assess each bid to ensure there is no interference with other users.\n\nScottish Sea Farms has been testing 5G technology for monitoring its cages\n\nSalmon is the UK's second largest food export, worth over £720m per year.\n\nWith dangerous weather conditions and distant offshore locations, the ability to monitor the health of fish remotely with a variety of sensors was thought to be an ideal test case for 5G technology, which can connect many different devices in one system.\n\nEach cage holds up to 25,000 fish, so there is a lot of data to be collected.\n\n\"The equipment had to be 'Orkney-fied' originally to make it more robust and to stand up to the winter weather that we get here,\" Scottish Sea Farms regional location manager Richard Darbyshire said.\n\n\"It can get pretty wild in December and January - it can peak at wind gusts of up to 140mph.\n\n\"But we've come through that - we have some good equipment out on the [salmon] pens and we are getting some really good data.\"\n\nHigh-definition video could be used to monitor the health of salmon remotely\n\nSensors in the water measure salinity, temperature and oxygen to work out the best times to feed the fish.\n\nFeeding is the most expensive part of the production process, with food costing up to £1,400 per tonne.\n\nAutomatic feeding systems are working off a wi-fi network over a 5G connection, with four feeders running at once.\n\nIn the future, high-definition cameras could also be deployed to check the health of the fish without removing them from the water.\n\n\"5G brings a couple of elements that maybe we didn't have in 4G,\" said Nick Chrissos, Europe, Middle East, Africa and Russia director of innovation for Cisco, one of the 5G Rural First partners.\n\n\"It brings higher bandwidth and low latency, the time that the signal goes back and forth again becomes much much faster, and this means we can have much more control over remote areas.\"\n\nYou can watch Jen Copestake's film from the Orkney Islands in this week's Click. If you are in the UK, you can watch the whole programme on BBC iPlayer.", "The previous owner of the bowl had \"no idea\" of its value\n\nA porcelain bowl that languished on a shelf for years \"shocked and delighted\" its owner by selling for more than £200,000.\n\nThe blue and white bowl was taken to an auctioneer in Bath by its owner as they prepared to move house.\n\nExperts realised it was extremely rare and dated from the reign of the Chinese Emperor Yongzheng (1722-1735).\n\nThe bowl was given an estimate of £20,000-30,000 but sold to a Chinese buyer for £220,000.\n\nThe bowl sold at auction in Bath to a Chinese collector\n\nIvan Street, from Aldridges of Bath, said the client had \"no idea\" of the bowl's true value.\n\n\"She knew it was a lovely thing but no more than that,\" said Mr Street.\n\nEmperor Yongzheng had a very short reign meaning the best quality pieces from that time are rare, Mr Street said.\n\n\"The sale surpassed all expectations,\" he added.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The new home secretary, Priti Patel, has said she wants criminals to \"literally feel terror\" at the thought of breaking the law.\n\nIn her first interview in the role, Ms Patel told the Daily Mail she hoped more officers on the streets would make criminals fearful.\n\nShe also distanced herself from past comments supporting the death penalty.\n\nLabour said the Conservative Party didn't understand \"tough rhetoric will not bring an end to soaring crime\".\n\nMs Patel was appointed home secretary in July, when Boris Johnson became prime minister and overhauled the cabinet.\n\nHer interview comes after she and Mr Johnson announced last week the recruitment of 20,000 more police officers in England and Wales.\n\nThese extra officers will replace the 21,732 police officers lost since 2010, when the Conservatives came to power.\n\nMs Patel told the Mail: \"I've always felt the Conservative Party is the party of the police and police officers.\n\n\"Quite frankly, with more police officers out there and greater police presence, I want [criminals] to literally feel terror at the thought of committing offences.\"\n\nMr Johnson and Ms Patel met police in Birmingham when they announced details of the recruitment plan\n\nShe added: \"My focus now is restating our commitment to law and order and restating our commitment to the people on the front line, the police.\n\n\"The key thing is that we empower them to stop criminality.\"\n\nShadow home secretary Diane Abbott said evidence showed that \"a public health approach\" was needed to reduce violent crime, rather than the Tories' \"tough\" approach.\n\n\"In this country we have prided ourselves on policing by consent,\" she said.\n\n\"We need more officers and resources for the police to work with our communities, not to risk alienating them with draconian powers.\"\n\nLiberal Democrat home affairs spokesman Ed Davey said Ms Patel's comments showed she was \"out of touch\" with what was leading some young people into crime.\n\n\"So often, young people say they carry knives because they are afraid of other young people in gangs,\" he said.\n\n\"We need more police so these young people can feel less afraid, as they now trust the police to be there, not because the police add to their fears.\"\n\nAsked about her views on capital punishment - after she previously made comments in support of it - Ms Patel said: \"I have never said I'm an active supporter of it and [what I said] is constantly taken out of context.\"\n\nIn 2011, Ms Patel spoke about the death penalty on the BBC's Question Time, where she said: \"I do actually think when we have a criminal justice system that continuously fails in this country and where we have seen murderers, rapists and people who have committed the most abhorrent crimes in society, go into prison and then are released from prison to go out into the community to then re-offend and do the types of crime they have committed again and again.\n\n\"I think that's appalling. And actually on that basis alone I would actually support the reintroduction of capital punishment to serve as a deterrent.\"\n\nMs Patel was elected as MP for Witham in 2010.\n\nShe held ministerial posts in the Treasury and the Department for Work and Pensions, before being promoted international development secretary by Theresa May.\n\nBut she left the international development role in 2017 after holding unauthorised meetings with Israeli officials.\n\nSince then, the prominent Brexiteer has been on the backbenches and supported Mr Johnson in the Conservative leadership contest.\n\nThe campaign to hire 20,000 more police officers will begin in September, Downing Street has previously said.\n\nEarlier this week, the Home Affairs Committee said schools in areas with a higher risk of youth violence should be given dedicated police officers.", "Firefighters are removing about 4.2 million litres of water per hour from the reservoir\n\nWork to prevent a damaged dam in Derbyshire from bursting is continuing as the Met Office warns of thunderstorms and possible flooding.\n\nWorkers have been pumping water out of the 300-million-gallon Toddbrook Reservoir near Whaley Bridge.\n\nExtra pumps are being installed to speed up the work and contractors are putting concrete between bags of ballast placed on the dam wall.\n\nBut the risk of collapse remains at a \"critical level\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Water is being pumped away from the reservoir and sandbags are still being dropped\n\nDaniel Greenhalgh from the Canal and River Trust, which owns the reservoir and dam, said 400 bags had been put in the damaged section on Friday, and a further 70 on Saturday.\n\n\"But we are not out of the woods yet,\" he said. \"The last estimate was that residents could be out of their homes for seven days yet.\n\n\"We need to get the water down so we can properly inspect the damage to the dam.\"\n\nHe defended the maintenance and safety of the structure.\n\nResidents were given very limited access to their homes on Saturday\n\n\"This dam was inspected regularly, by us and an independent engineer.\n\n\"It needs to be remembered there was a huge amount of rain in a short time and this flooded the area.\"\n\nSome 1,500 residents of Whaley Bridge were evacuated after part of the reservoir's spillway broke away on Thursday following heavy rain.\n\nPolice, the Environment Agency, and the Canal and River Trust, which owns the reservoir, have all said there is a \"real risk\" the dam could collapse and flood the town.\n\nThe dam, built in 1831, became damaged after large swathes of the country were battered by heavy rain and floods earlier in the week.\n\nAn RAF Chinook helicopter has put 400 tonnes of sandbags on the affected part of the dam in an attempt to shore it up.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Boris Johnson: \"I flew over the dam and it looks pretty scary\"\n\nThe Labour MP for High Peak, Ruth George, said: \"It's not [a good weather forecast]. It's going to be a race as to how fast they can pump the water out of the reservoir.\n\n\"It fills up very quickly because it has steep-sided hills on either side which run into it.\n\n\"We are going to need to know not just why this happened, after an inspection in November, but also whether there will need to be a different design and a whole new dam.\"\n\nDerbyshire Deputy Chief Fire Officer Gavin Tomlinson said the situation was \"absolutely unique\" and everyone had been \"working till they can't work any more\".\n\n\"Our aim is still the same; to prevent more water getting into the reservoir and working as hard as we can to make sure the dam wall retains its integrity.\n\n\"We will have the Chinooks working today dropping bags of ballast, we have specialist contractors putting concrete grouting between the bags of ballast to bind it together to give it more security.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nOn Friday night and Saturday morning, evacuated residents were allowed to return briefly to collect pets and essentials.\n\nThe controlled operation allowed one resident per household back into their homes for 15 minutes.\n\nPeople had complained they were made to leave in such a hurry that they had barely anything they needed with them.\n\nMartin Codling was one of the residents who was allowed to briefly return\n\nBBC reporters at the scene said there was a \"steady stream\" of people being allowed briefly back home. Police were taking mobile phone numbers in case of emergencies.\n\nResident Margot Graham said: \"We were told it was at our own risk, but it's a calculated risk.\n\n\"Things like bricks and mortar and CDs and books can be replaced, but if my grandmother's ring had disappeared into the water, that couldn't be replaced.\"\n\nA Derbyshire police spokesman said they were keeping a close eye on the empty part of the town\n\n\"We would like to reassure residents and business owners that a staffed cordon around Whaley Bridge remains in place where officers are monitoring who goes in and out of the town.\n\n\"Officers are in the area and will be carrying out patrols at periods throughout the day.\n\n\"We also have a drone in the area which will assist with crime prevention,\" they said.\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson visited on Friday and promised a \"major rebuild\" of the dam.\n\nA helpline for evacuated residents will be operated by Derbyshire County Council from 09:00 BST to 22:00 on Saturday. The number is 01629 533 190.\n\nThere was a message for emergency workers who have been trying to prevent the dam's collapse\n\nAlthough the weather is currently dry, the Met Office has issued a yellow weather warning for thunderstorms starting on Sunday afternoon and continuing into the evening.\n\nIt warns there could be damage and disruption from floodwater and lightning strikes.\n\nRailway lines in the Whaley Bridge area have been closed because of the risk of flooding.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The number of tourists visiting the UK from China has risen by almost a fifth this summer, the latest figures show.\n\nTravel data firm ForwardKeys said that summer flight bookings from long-haul markets were also 6% higher than in the same period last year.\n\nIt credited the weakness of the pound for boosting tourists' spending power.\n\nThis week sterling hit a 31-month low against the dollar amid increasing speculation the UK could leave the EU without a deal.\n\n\"This summer is likely to see the highest number of Chinese tourists to the UK ever,\" said ForwardKeys spokesman David Tarsh.\n\nHe added that the number of Indian tourists was ahead by 20%, with Japan at 10% and the USA at 5%.\n\nSarah Hewin, chief economist for Europe and the Americas at Standard Chartered, said the low pound meant visitors would be feeling wealthier.\n\n\"The fall in the value of the pound against China's currency [the renminbi] means that Chinese tourists coming to the UK have seen their spending power increase by around 5% in the past three months.\"\n\nThis tallies with what Patricia Yates, a director at the UK's tourism promotion agency Visit Britain, is seeing on the ground.\n\n\"The UK is offering great value for inbound visitors right now which gives us a valuable opportunity including in Europe, where we are already running a campaign to promote travel to the UK during the summer.\"\n\nStaycations are also boosting the industry.\n\nThe regional tourist office Welcome to Yorkshire finds that tourism is thriving in the area. Commercial director Peter Dodd said: \"We're hearing from lots of our accommodation members, especially cottages, lodges and other self-catering properties, that business is booming with some already fully booked until October.\"\n\nOne of those is Diane Howarth who runs the holiday letting company Cottage in the Dales and is having a record year.\n\n\"We're at 87% occupancy for the year already, which is much earlier than in previous years. Brexit uncertainty is causing people to choose holidays in Britain this year, which is good news for us.\"\n\nBut when it comes to European visitors, Visit Britain says there is some concern about the impact that the uncertainty of Brexit is having.\n\nThe latest ONS tourism stats showed that visits from Europe to the UK were relatively flat from January to March this year - up just 2% compared to the same period last year.\n\nThey are running a campaign in Europe to persuade people that the UK will still be a good place to visit after it leaves the European Union.\n\nHowever anecdotally, some businesses like Mrs Howarth's Cottage in the Dales are seeing seeing a rise in EU visitors.\n\n\"We're getting repeat bookings from fans of the Tour de Yorkshire race, but also seeing new interest from people in the Netherlands and Germany for example, who are taking advantage of the weaker pound to come and visit this beautiful part of the world in person\"", "The 2019 National Eisteddfod in the Conwy valley has got underway.\n\nThis year the eight-day travelling festival is being held in Llanrwst and is expected to attract up to 150,000 visitors.\n\nThe first production was Y Tylwyth, which turned the main pavilion into a contemporary circus for the first time.\n\nSioned Edwards, deputy artistic director, said they wanted the festival's audience to be \"spellbound\".\n\nIn 2018, the eisteddfod took place in Cardiff, with a record 500,000 visitors.\n\nBetsan Moses, the festival's chief executive, said they have been working for two years to realise the event.\n\n\"The whole of Conwy county and beyond will be here to appreciate it,\" she said.\n\nThis year's festival has proved more challenging to put together than any others Ms Moses has worked on.\n\nA change in its site was announced in March due to flooding fears.\n\n\"At the beginning of the year, it was very problematic,\" she said.\n\n\"We had to find another site for the eisteddfod, but I can assure everybody that the site itself - the main site and the car parks and caravan parks - they're on land which isn't a flood risk area.\"\n\nTrystan Lewis, chairman of the organising committee for this year's eisteddfod, said the Welsh Government should consider increasing its grant towards the festival in a bid to encourage more Welsh speakers.\n\n\"If the government are serious about achieving their target of a million speakers, then they have to provide more funding for the eisteddfod,\" he said.\n\nA government spokesperson said it had \"provided extra money this year in order to appeal to a wider audience\".\n\nIn 2017-18, it provided a grant of £739,900.", "Prime Minister Boris Johnson has announced a one-off cash boost of £1.8bn for NHS hospitals in England.\n\nOf this, almost £1bn will be available immediately to go towards new equipment and upgrades to 20 hospitals.\n\nWriting in the Sunday Times, Mr Johnson said he was \"determined to deliver\" the promises of the Brexit referendum campaign and increase NHS spending.\n\nBut Labour said it fell \"significantly short\" of the amount needed by the NHS and would not reverse years of cuts.\n\nThe money is coming from the Treasury and is not a re-allocation of funds from the Department of Health.\n\nIt is on top of an extra £20bn a year by 2023 announced by former prime minister Theresa May last year.\n\nAround £850m - spread over five years - will go towards funding the 20 hospital upgrades that Mr Johnson promised in his first speech as PM outside Downing Street.\n\nThe remaining money is expected to help clear a backlog of existing upgrade work and infrastructure projects.\n\nHe will formally announce the funding on Monday, when he is expected to identify the hospitals which will get money to upgrade wards and repair buildings.\n\nBut the health think tank the Nuffield Trust said the latest funding, which is less than 1% of NHS England's annual budget, would \"only be a fraction of what it would cost to really upgrade 20 hospitals\".\n\nNigel Edwards, the Nuffield Trust's chief executive, added that it it was a \"down payment on the staggering £6bn needed to clear the backlog\" of NHS maintenance.\n\nHowever, he said it was encouraging to see money put towards capital funding - used for equipment and repairs - \"which will help stop hospitals deteriorating even further\".\n\nIn October, NHS Digital figures showed that NHS trusts had a backlog of around £6bn of repairs or replacements that needed carrying out.\n\nThe NHS in England can hardly do anything other than welcome new money from the Treasury to invest in hospital buildings and launch new construction projects.\n\nBut the £1bn this year to clear the backlog should be set against a total of £6bn which hospital leaders and think tanks believe is the total of work outstanding, including repairs and refurbishment of dilapidated facilities.\n\nOn top of that is £850m for 20 hospitals to carry out major upgrades, but spread over five years.\n\nThe latest announcement covers capital spending as opposed to day-to-day running costs.\n\nAfter raids on these capital budgets to prop up NHS frontline services in recent years, health service staff will feel there is some way to go to make up the lost ground - and only a small step forward has been taken.\n\nSorry, your browser is unable to display this content. Please upgrade to a more recent browser.\n\nIf you can't see the NHS Tracker, click or tap here.\n\nWriting in the Sunday Times, Mr Johnson praised the \"astonishing achievements\" of the NHS, but highlighted the staffing pressures, along with the delays and cancellations facing patients.\n\n\"Which is why I am so determined to deliver now on the promises of that 2016 referendum campaign: not just to honour the will of the people, but to increase the cash available for this amazing national institution,\" he said.\n\nIn the run-up to the Brexit referendum, a campaign bus used by Vote Leave claimed the UK sent £350m a week to the European Union and suggested the money could instead be spent on the NHS.\n\nHowever, analysis by the BBC found that claim to be misleading.\n\nIn his column on Sunday, Mr Johnson wrote: \"It is thanks to this country's strong economic performance that we are now able to announce £1.8bn more for the NHS to buy vital new kit and confirm new upgrades for 20 hospitals across the country.\"\n\nHe said the government was also starting work on plans to \"tackle the injustice\" of social care - a problem \"that has been shirked for decades\".\n\nThe PM added that Health Secretary Matt Hancock and Chancellor Sajid Javid had already met the head of NHS England, Simon Stevens, as they wanted to ensure the cash \"gets through to the right places\".\n\nWriting in the Sun on Sunday, Mr Hancock said the money would boost hospitals across the country - from Cornwall to Newcastle - by providing new intensive care wards, children's units and mental health facilities.\n\nSaying that the upgrades \"are just the start\", he added that the government wanted to take a more \"strategic\" approach to capital spending, and move away from \"piecemeal and uncoordinated\" decisions.\n\nThere are also expected to be extra funding settlements for Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland, as part of the Barnett formula - which is used to decide how much devolved governments will receive when funding is increased in areas such as health and education in England.\n\nAround £115bn was spent on the NHS England budget last year.\n\nResponding to the funding announcement, shadow health secretary Jonathan Ashworth said the £1.8bn pledged fell \"significantly short of what's needed to provide quality, safe care to patients after years of Tory cuts\".\n\nHe added: \"Tory ministers have repeatedly cut capital investment budgets in recent years. These smash-and-grab raids have meant over £4bn slashed and seen the NHS repair bill spiral to £6bn, putting patient safety seriously at risk.\"\n\nHe told Sky's Sophy Ridge On Sunday programme the investment promised by Mr Johnson might not actually take place, claiming only £100m of £2.5bn of health spending announcements over the past two years had been delivered.\n\nLiberal Democrat health spokeswoman Baroness Jolly said Mr Johnson's pledge would \"not be worth the paper it's written on\" if and when a no-deal Brexit took place.\n\nCancer Research UK said the investment would go \"some way to address the immense strain\" the NHS is under but said the staffing shortage should take priority.\n\nPolicy director Emma Greenwood added: \"Upgrades to hospitals are welcome but the NHS is experiencing a staffing crisis. And it's impossible to diagnose more cancers at an early stage without the right staff.\"", "Nato Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg told the BBC time is running out to save the key missile treaty\n\nTime is running out to save a key nuclear missile treaty with Russia, Nato Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg has told the BBC.\n\nMr Stoltenberg pledged a \"measured, defensive\" response if Russia did not come back into compliance with the deal by the 2 August deadline.\n\n\"We have to be prepared for a world... with more Russian missiles,\" he said.\n\nThe 1987 agreement signed by the US and USSR banned short and medium-range nuclear missiles.\n\nPresident Trump announced the US would suspend its obligations under the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty in February, accusing Russia of breaching its terms.\n\nRussia denied the allegation but suspended its own obligations shortly afterwards and announced plans to develop new weapons systems.\n\nIn a wide-ranging interview with the BBC, Mr Stoltenberg says the Russian missiles - which he says are in \"clear violation of the treaty\" - are nuclear capable, mobile, very hard to detect, and able to reach European cities within a few minutes.\n\n\"This is serious. The INF treaty has been a corner stone in arms control for decades and now we see the demise of the treaty,\" he said.\n\nWhile the priority was to get Russia to come back into compliance with its terms, Mr Stoltenberg said there were \"no signs whatsoever\" the country will do so. \"Therefore we have to be prepared for a world without the INF treaty and with more Russian missiles.\"\n\nSoviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev and US President Ronald Reagan signed the INF Treaty in 1987\n\nWhile Nato has no plan to deploy nuclear land-based missiles of its own in Europe, Mr Stoltenberg said the alliance would respond in a \"measured, defensive way\" if Russia refused to come back into compliance by 2 August.\n\nConventional air and missile defence, new exercises and readiness of forces, and new arms control initiatives could all form part of that response, he said. Any final decision will come after the deadline.\n\nMr Stoltenberg also addressed Russia's delivery of its advanced S-400 missile defence system to Nato member Turkey last week.\n\nThe US says it will remove Turkey from its F-35 fighter jet programme in response. Ankara has recently moved closer to Moscow, raising tensions between Turkey and the US.\n\n\"It is a serious issue because it is a serious disagreement which involves two important allies,\" Mr Stoltenberg said. Nato supports efforts to resolve the disagreement, he added, while praising Turkey's key role in the organisation.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe secretary general also praised efforts among members to raise their defence budgets to a target of 2% of their budgets. US President Donald Trump has repeatedly called on other members to contribute more to the organisation in recent years.\n\n\"We have turned a corner - the picture is much better than it was just a few years ago, and I am quite optimistic that allies will continue to invest more,\" he said. Eight member states are expected to reach the target in 2019.\n\nMore recently, Mr Trump has also called on US allies to avoid using technology provided by Chinese tech firm Huawei, arguing the company is a security risk - something China denies.\n\nMr Stoltenberg said the alliance was drawing up new guidelines to tackle the issue, so members can have some \"minimum agreed standards or guidelines for how to deal with these challenges\".", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Willenhall Holiday Inn has been 'almost completely destroyed' in a fire\n\nA Holiday Inn has been ravaged by fire that tore through hotel rooms and sent up smoke that could be seen from miles around.\n\nThe building has been almost completely destroyed, according to one emergency crew.\n\nMore than 50 firefighters fought the \"severe\" blaze at the hotel in Walsall close to the M6 motorway.\n\nThe fire is believed to have started in the sauna at the site on Wolverhampton Road West in Willenhall at 15:50 BST.\n\nNeil Griffiths, incident commander at the scene, said the blaze caused \"devastation\".\n\nHe said: \"We want to restore everything back to normality, find out what the cause of the fire is... and we are going to be here for a considerable amount of time due to the size of the building.\n\n\"The smoke shouldn't affect any of the surrounding houses but it would be advisable, if you're in the vicinity, to keep your windows and doors shut for the rest of the evening.\"\n\nThe hotel says all staff and guests are accounted for\n\nHotel staff evacuated the two-storey building and carried out a roll call, according to West Midlands Fire Service.\n\nA Holiday Inn spokesperson said: \"We can confirm that our guests and employees have been accounted for and no-one has been injured.\"\n\nIntense flames could be seen at the building's windows\n\nFootage shared by emergency services shows burnt-out sections of the roof and fierce flames.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nCrews informed Highways England of the fire due to a large amount of smoke close to junction 10 of the M6.\n\nThere have been no reports of major traffic disruption, although police are understood to be overseeing road closures close to the site.\n\nThis photograph of the smoke was taken by a passenger in a car on the M6\n\nWest Midlands Ambulance Service - which shared drone footage of the surrounding area - said the building was almost completely destroyed.\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\nAccording to social media reports, smoke could be spotted from Wolverhampton city centre and Romsley in Bromsgrove, Worcestershire.\n\nSmoke as it looked neighbouring the scene\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The National Crime Agency said 60 weapons were found concealed in the car\n\nA man from Dublin has been charged with illegally importing firearms after 60 weapons were found in a car arriving in Dover from Calais.\n\nThe National Crime Agency (NCA) said the guns were found concealed in a Volkswagen Passat by the Border Force and NCA on Friday.\n\nIt is believed to be the largest seizure of lethal-purpose weapons at a UK port.\n\nRobert Keogh, 37, is due to appear at Margate Magistrates' Court on Monday.\n\nThe NCA's Andrea Wilson said the removal of a \"huge haul\" of lethal firearms would make \"a significant impact\" on the organised crime group which tried to import them.\n\nShe said: \"There's little doubt that these weapons would have gone on the criminal market and into the hands of seriously dangerous individuals.\"\n\nAmong the weapons discovered in the car was a Sig Sauer P226 blank-firing handgun with a barrel converted to fire live ammunition.\n\nAnother 59 firearms were found hidden deep inside the car's bumper and both rear quarter panels.", "Parish councillor Charles Lawley went to Chapel-en-le-Frith leisure centre to help evacuated residents\n\nThere's nothing like a crisis to show you what people are made of.\n\nAnd the people of Whaley Bridge, in Derbyshire, forced to evacuate their town due to Toddbrook Reservoir's crumbling dam wall, have found the kindness of strangers invaluable.\n\nMany have spoken warmly of the community spirit within the town itself, as well as the offers of help from charities, hotels and neighbouring communities.\n\nPhilip Jupp, a resident for 30 years who has left his home to stay with family, requires regular kidney dialysis.\n\nMuslim-led charity Penny Appeal have delivered sandbags, toiletries, sleeping bags and blankets the people of Whaley Bridge\n\n\"I'm fortunate that I dialysed yesterday but I'll need to be on dialysis again by Saturday or I might get a little bit ill,\" he said.\n\n\"I'm sure I'll be all right. People have been so kind - so helpful.\n\n\"We are quite stalwart in Derbyshire. People are calm and getting on with trying to cope in this extreme situation.\"\n\nVolunteers and emergency services staff have been praised for their response\n\nAs residents were informed they had to be evacuated, people in surrounding communities begin to offer spare rooms on social media.\n\nBev Goodwin lives three miles (5km) away in Chapel-en-le-Frith, and has put up her mum and dad, Joy and Steve, and two friends - Susie and Angela from Whaley Bridge.\n\nJoy said: \"I'm very lucky that we could get to Bev.\n\n\"We have nothing. No clothes, no toothbrush, nothing.\"\n\nBev Goodwin is putting up her family and friends\n\nTeams of firefighters worked through the night to pump water out of the reservoir\n\nAbout 20 people, including emergency workers, spent a free night at The Palace Hotel in Buxton, which was expecting more to arrive on Friday and said it was \"all hands on deck\".\n\nAs well as offers of a place to stay, supplies of food and drink were also brought in to give evacuees some sustenance.\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 The Shady Oak Country Inn 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. 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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\nSupplies have been donated for families who have had to leave their homes\n\nEmergency services staff and volunteers are also being thanked for their efforts by grateful local businesses.\n\nBuxton Mountain Rescue, which has been assisting local residents, volunteers and other emergency services, thanked The Soldier Dick pub in nearby Furness Vale for supplying free food and drinks for rescue workers and emergency services on Thursday night.\n\n\"On behalf of all of the emergency services, we'd like to thank the massive support from the local community in these testing times,\" it said.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nAs might be expected on such a dramatic day, there were odd moments of panic, as Barry Rudd wrote on the Whaley Bridge Facebook page.\n\n\"In true British style there was a minor crisis in that we run out milk for the copious amounts of tea that hundreds of crew get though,\" it said.\n\n\"Well done to all those that turned up to volunteer.\"\n\nLocal communities have rallied around residents of Whaley Bridge\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 incident happened shortly after midday on Saturday\n\nAn elderly man has died following a crash outside Belfast City Cemetery on Saturday.\n\nSeamus Conlon, 70, was one of three men struck by a stolen Vauxhall Vectra on the Whiterock Road, in the west of the city, shortly after 12:00 BST.\n\nPSNI Ch Insp Gary Reid said the two other men are in hospital, where their conditions are described as serious.\n\nA 32-year-old man has been arrested on suspicion of a number of driving offences and remains in custody.\n\nThe incident took place just after a funeral in the cemetery.\n\nFr Patrick McCafferty said the incident was \"unbelievable\"\n\nFr Patrick McCafferty was leaving the cemetery when the collision took place.\n\n\"People were standing around in shock, people are stunned,\" he said.\n\n\"They're bewildered something like this could happen, just literally after the funeral had been completed. It's unbelievable.\"\n\nPolice have asked people to avoid the area\n\nSinn Féin Councillor Micheal Donnelly described the scene as one of \"sheer devastation\".\n\n\"My thoughts are with those caught up in today's incident\", he said.\n\nThe Whiterock Road has reopened to traffic.", "Sandbags are being dropped to shore up the dam\n\nEmergency work is under way to repair the Toddbrook Reservoir dam in Derbyshire after it was damaged by heavy rain.\n\nAbout 1,500 residents were evacuated from Whaley Bridge on Thursday evening amid fears they were in \"mortal danger\".\n\nEngineers pumped water out of the reservoir in an attempt to stop up to 300 million gallons of water bursting through the damaged dam.\n\nAn RAF Chinook has been flying in repair materials to shore up the dam and has dropped more than 500 tonnes of aggregate.\n\nEfforts are being made to release water from the reservoir while also shoring up the dam\n\nThe operation has been going since Thursday\n\nThe helicopter has come and gone from the scene\n\nPolice, the Environment Agency and the Canal and River Trust have all said there is a \"real risk\" the dam could collapse\n\nBy Saturday morning, sandbags dropped by the helicopter covered most of the collapsed section\n\nPart of the reservoir's spillway broke away on Thursday\n\nEngineers feared Whaley Bridge could be swamped if the Toddbrook Reservoir burst\n\nMost of the residents of Whaley Bridge were evacuated on Thursday\n\nResidents were asked to gather in the neighbouring town of Chapel-en-le-Frith\n\nThe dam was built in 1831\n\nTeams have been working non-stop to try to stop the dam from bursting\n\nWhaley Bridge town centre was said to be like a ghost town after residents and business people left\n\nThe water level has now been reduced significantly\n\nEngineers have built two roads to allow pumps to be moved closer to the site\n\nAbout 20 residents remain in properties despite warnings they are at risk\n\nFollow BBC East Midlands on Facebook, on Twitter, or on Instagram. Send your story ideas to eastmidsnews@bbc.co.uk.", "PC Munn found the reptile three miles from home and being held by a woman to stop it wandering off again\n\nA giant tortoise has been reunited with his owner after the \"world's slowest police chase\".\n\nHerbert managed to escape from his home and stroll for three miles before being found by a member of the public in Bovingdon.\n\nHertfordshire Police said he was \"spotted plodding across the road and rescued by the plod\".\n\nPC Munn, from the force, said it was the first time in 18 years he had dealt with a \"tortoise, giant or not\".\n\nWhen the officer arrived he found the huge animal was \"being held by a lady to stop it wandering off again\".\n\n\"It initially had a tracker fitted to its back, but that had been ripped off during its adventure,\" added Mr Munn.\n\nHerbert was taken to Hemel Hempstead police station and looked after by an officer licensed to care for exotic animals.\n\nThe force said the owner was quickly found after it posted about his exploits on social media.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Senior Tory MP Sir Oliver Letwin has said he does not support Jeremy Corbyn becoming a caretaker prime minister in a bid to avoid a no-deal Brexit.\n\nBut he backed discussions across the Commons to prevent the UK crashing out of the EU without a deal.\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson has pledged that the UK will leave the EU by 31 October \"do or die\".\n\nMr Corbyn said the UK needs a government that is \"prepared to negotiate\" with the EU.\n\nHis current plan is to win a no-confidence vote in the government, become interim prime minister and \"do everything we can\" to stop a no-deal Brexit.\n\nOnce in the role of caretaker prime minister, Mr Corbyn say he intends to delay Brexit, call a snap election, and campaign for another referendum.\n\nSir Oliver, who was among senior Tories who received a letter from Mr Corbyn about the plan, was asked about Mr Corbyn's proposal on BBC Radio 4's Today programme.\n\n\"That appears to be his agenda. I have to say it is not one I personally share,\" he said.\n\n\"I don't think it's at all likely that a majority would be formed for that and I personally wouldn't want to vote for it. I wouldn't be able to support that, no.\"\n\nSir Oliver, a former cabinet minister, has led several attempts in Parliament to break the Brexit impasse and prevent a no-deal Brexit.\n\nBut he said he was \"not very inclined\" to help bring down the government in a no-confidence vote and would \"rule it out\" if it led to Jeremy Corbyn becoming prime minister.\n\nHis comments came amid an ongoing row among MPs who oppose no deal, with Liberal Democrat leader Jo Swinson initially dismissing Mr Corbyn's plan as a \"nonsense\".\n\nMr Corbyn said he assumed everyone who wanted to avoid a no-deal Brexit - including the Liberal Democrats - would vote for the motion of no confidence that Labour intends to launch against the government.\n\n\"What we need is a government that is prepared to negotiate with the European Union so we don't have a crash-out on the 31st,\" he added.\n\nAnna Soubry, leader of the Independent Group, said she would \"not support nor facilitate any government led by Jeremy Corbyn\".\n\nBut the head of the SNP, Nicola Sturgeon, was among those applying pressure to Ms Swinson to change her stance.\n\nThe Liberal Democrat leader suggested Tory grandee Ken Clarke or former Labour deputy leader Harriet Harman could head a temporary government instead of Mr Corbyn.\n\nMr Clarke responded on Friday to say he was willing to lead a government of national unity to avoid a no-deal Brexit.\n\nAsked if Mr Clarke or Ms Harman could lead the country through a political crisis, Mr Corbyn said: \"What we need is a respect for the electoral process that brought about the results from the last general election.\"\n\nSir Oliver suggested the majority of MPs did not want a no-deal Brexit, although he said he was \"not terribly optimistic\" they would reach an agreement.\n\nThe former minister, who has agreed to meet with Mr Corbyn to discuss plans to avoid a no deal, said opponents of the government's Brexit position needed to \"talk a lot\" and \"talk frankly\".\n\nMeanwhile, fellow senior Tory MP Dominic Grieve said there was a \"a considerable head of steam growing to try to make sure that no deal doesn't occur\".\n\nHe also refused to back the Labour leader to be a caretaker prime minister, telling BBC Radio Scotland's Good Morning Scotland programme it was \"absolutely vital\" any interim PM commanded \"high levels of trust\".\n\n\"I simply don't think that Jeremy Corbyn, as leader of the Labour Party - and particularly with his very strong views, which he's entitled to - is the right person,\" he said.\n\nAlthough he said he himself would be willing to be a caretaker prime minister, he said, \"there are others who are rather more suitable for doing it than I am\".\n\nMr Grieve, a former attorney general, said there was a \"growing number\" of Tory MPs who were \"horrified\" by the direction of Mr Johnson's government.\n\n\"His views, and the way he's expressing them, are so removed from what I would describe as proper and traditional conservatism as to cause real disquiet,\" he said.\n\n\"We have a deeply divided country and we are not going to resolve this problem by this type of tub-thumping populism. \"\n\nHe accused the prime minister of \"behaving like a demagogue\". He said Mr Johnson's language had led to members of the public sending death threats to him for his role in trying to prevent a no-deal Brexit.\n\nMr Johnson earlier this week accused MPs \"who think they can block Brexit\" of a \"terrible collaboration\" with the EU.\n\n\"If leading politicians use language - collaborator is an obvious one - or call people a traitor, you immediately start to receive really vile emails and communications,\" Mr Grieve said.\n\nTory MP and Brexiteer Sir John Redwood told Today he was not worried about opposition to the government's Brexit stance.\n\n\"I would be surprised if this parliament developed a majority to thwart the British people because the overwhelming majority of MPs were elected on a clear promise to see us out of the European Union with a deal if there's a good deal on offer and without the deal if there wasn't a good deal on offer,\" he said.", "Andy Murray will switch attention back to his singles comeback after losing to older brother Jamie in the Cincinnati Masters quarter-finals.\n\nIn the second meeting of the Scottish brothers' careers, Jamie Murray and Neal Skupski beat Andy Murray and Feliciano Lopez 6-7 (5-7) 7-5 10-4.\n\nA tight match went in favour of the doubles specialists when Lopez, 35, lost his way on serve.\n\nMurray and Skupski face Ivan Dodig and Filip Polasek in the semi-finals.\n\n\"It was tough, not the most enjoyable match. The atmosphere kind of felt a bit flat on the court which I think is in some ways normal in those sorts of matches,\" said Andy Murray.\n\n\"But it was fine, and I'm happy Jamie got through. You want to go out there and compete and play as well as you can, but you're not getting the same enjoyment out of serving an ace or hitting a great return as you might be in other matches.\n\n\"Obviously we tried to do our best but it wasn't enough today.\"\n\nBoth Andy and Jamie, who played together in Washington earlier this month, said it would be a \"weird\" feeling playing against each other in a competitive scenario and the match ended up lacking intensity.\n\nA double fault from Lopez swung a second set, which saw just one receiving point won in the opening seven games, in the favour of Jamie Murray and Skupski and the Spaniard produced two more in a one-sided first-to-10 match tie-break.\n\nOf playing his brother, Jamie said: \"It was a bit awkward, but it wasn't as bad as I thought it was going to be. It was probably harder for him to be honest, but we both went out there and battled hard.\n\n\"You're looking across the net 99% of the match so you're constantly seeing your brother but honestly it wasn't too bad. Just kind of head down and play and focus on the ball and not overthink things too much, and obviously happy to win in the end.\"\n\nAndy Murray will play singles at next week's ATP event in Winston-Salem before considering entering a tournament on the Challenger Tour during the US Open.\n\nThe former world number one, who had career-saving hip surgery in January and made his singles comeback on Monday, will not play at Flushing Meadows later this month.\n\nThe 2012 champion had intended to play doubles in New York but said \"doubles is done for me for the time being\".\n\nThe 32-year-old has taken the final wildcard for next week's event in Winston-Salem.\n• None Alerts: Get tennis news sent to your phone", "Last updated on .From the section Athletics\n\nSix-time Olympic gold medallist Allyson Felix says female athletes will \"no longer be financially penalised for having a child\" after Nike changed its contracts for pregnant athletes.\n\nIn a letter shared by Felix on social media, Nike says it will \"not apply any performance-related reduction\" for 18 months if an athlete becomes pregnant.\n\nIn May, she said Nike wanted to pay her 70% less after she became a mother.\n\nWriting in the New York Times at the time, Felix, 33, said: \"I asked Nike to contractually guarantee that I wouldn't be punished if I didn't perform at my best in the months surrounding childbirth.\n\n\"I wanted to set a new standard. If I, one of Nike's most widely marketed athletes, couldn't secure these protections, who could? Nike declined.\"\n\nFelix returned to racing for the first time in 13 months in July at the US National Championships. After the meet, she decided to not renew her Nike contact and joined women's athletic wear company Athleta.\n\nOn social media on Friday, Felix posted a picture of the letter from Nike executive vice president of global sports marketing John Slusher. She wrote: \"Our voices have power.\n\n\"Nike has joined in officially and contractually providing maternal protection to the female athletes they sponsor. This means that female athletes will no longer be financially penalised for having a child.\"\n\nIn a statement Nike said: \"Female athletes and their representatives will begin receiving written confirmation reaffirming Nike's official pregnancy policy for elite athletes.\n\n\"In addition to our 2018 policy standardising our approach across all sports to ensure no female athlete is adversely impacted financially for pregnancy, the policy has now been expanded to cover 18 months.\"", "Chancellor Sajid Javid has said he wants to simplify the tax system ahead of his Budget in the autumn.\n\nIn his first interview since becoming chancellor, Mr Javid told the Times he was a \"low tax guy\" but said it was important to \"always be thinking about the lowest paid\".\n\nHe added that maximising revenue \"doesn't always mean that you have to have the highest tax rate possible\".\n\nLabour said Mr Javid's proposals would make the UK more unequal.\n\nWhen asked about taxes for higher earners, the chancellor said people would have to wait for the Budget.\n\n\"I think taxes should be efficient,\" he said.\n\n\"Generally I want to see lower taxes, but at a level that is going to pay for the public services.\"\n\nSpeaking to Radio 4's Today programme, Paul Johnson from the Institute for Fiscal Studies said: \"All chancellors come in saying they want simpler taxes but they always end up leaving office with a longer and more complicated tax code than they started [with].\"\n\nMr Javid said he was still thinking about whether changes might be needed to the government's current long-term plan of eliminating the deficit by the mid 2020s.\n\n\"It is obvious to me that when you've got some of the lowest rates on government debt this country has ever seen, I wouldn't be doing my job if I wasn't thinking seriously about how do we use [that opportunity],\" he said.\n\nMr Johnson said the chancellor could take advantage of \"extremely low interest rates\" and begin \"borrowing more to pay for more infrastructure\".\n\nThe Times reported Mr Javid was considering shifting the burden of stamp duty on to sellers, rather than buyers\n\nThe Times also reported that Mr Javid is considering switching the burden of stamp duty from buyers to sellers, meaning first-time owners would never pay the tax.\n\nStamp duty - a purchase tax paid in England and Northern Ireland on properties worth more than £125,000 - was abolished in 2017 for first-time buyers spending up to £300,000 on a house.\n\nIn June, Prime Minister Boris Johnson outlined plans to raise the threshold for the higher rate of income tax from the current threshold of £50,000 to £80,000.\n\nPaul Johnson said the prime minister's plans on spending would require \"extra borrowing particularly [if it's] accompanied by tax cuts\".\n\nMr Javid said he had not yet decided whether to hold the Budget before 31 October, the date the UK is expected to leave the EU.\n\nHe also warned that a no-deal Brexit might require what he termed \"a significant economic package as a response\".\n\nResponding to the chancellor's interview, Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn said the proposals put forward by Mr Javid and the prime minister would make the UK more unequal.\n\nHe added that a Labour government would increase corporation tax to fund university places, local government and other public services.\n\n\"We cannot go with austerity year-on-year and at the same time giving tax cuts to the best off,\" Mr Corbyn said.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The hashtag #BoycottMulan began gaining traction on Twitter after Liu Yifei's post\n\nDisney's live-action remake of the animated film Mulan is facing calls for a boycott, after its star voiced support for Hong Kong's police force.\n\nThe territory has been convulsed by sometimes violent pro-democracy protests over the past 10 weeks.\n\nRights groups and the UN have accused the police of a heavy handed response.\n\nMs Liu had shared a Weibo post from the government-run Beijing newspaper People's Daily that read (in Chinese): \"I also support Hong Kong police. You can beat me up now.\"\n\nThe post adds in English: \"What a shame for Hong Kong.\"\n\nThe film is a remake of the 1998 animation\n\nThe quote referred to what are said to be the words of a reporter for the state newspaper Global Times, who was attacked by protesters at Hong Kong's airport earlier this week after being accused of being an undercover police agent.\n\nMs Liu shared the post and echoed the comment by saying: \"I also support Hong Kong police.\"\n\nShe received widespread support on the platform, which is subject to censorship.\n\nBut on Twitter, which is banned in China, the hashtag #BoycottMulan began gaining traction.\n\nTwitter users accused the actress of supporting police brutality, and also pointed to the freedoms she enjoys as an American citizen.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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 protests in Hong Kong began over a draft bill that would have allowed extraditions from Hong Kong to mainland China.\n\nThe bill has since been shelved, but the protests have now broadened into a wider pro-democracy movement and demands for an inquiry into alleged police brutality.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. A police officer draws his gun and aims at protesters in the airport building", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nPolice arrested 13 people as far-right groups rallying in the north-western US city of Portland, Oregon, skirmished with left-wing counter-protesters.\n\nA huge police operation kept the right-wing rally separated from supporters of the antifa, or anti-fascist movement.\n\nSmall clashes that did take place occurred as the rival factions moved away after the rally.\n\nRally organisers were calling for antifa to be declared a domestic terror organisation.\n\nPortland, one of the most liberal cities in the US, is regarded as an antifa stronghold.\n\nPolice said they seized weapons including metal poles and shields from both sets of protesters.\n\nAt least six people suffered minor injuries and one person was taken to hospital.\n\nPortland Police Chief Danielle Outlaw said those arrested faced charges including disorderly conduct, interfering with police, resisting arrest and unlawful use of a weapon.\n\nAt the height of the demonstrations there were about 1,200 people on the streets of the city centre, she told a news conference.\n\nThe rally had mainly been promoted by Joe Biggs, a member of the far-right Proud Boys group and former employee of Alex Jones's Infowars.\n\nProud Boys - which The Southern Poverty Law Center, a major US civil rights organisation, has classified as a hate group - have been involved in previous far-right rallies, and violent street clashes, in Portland.\n\nProud Boys says incidents of violence allegedly involving members of the loosely organised antifa movement, an international coalition of militant activists and protesters opposed to the far right - justifies a ban.\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\nMembers of the local Rose City Antifa group mounted the counter-demonstration in the city.\n\nA statement on its website accused far-right groups of planning \"to bring their branded political violence to our streets\" and encouraged people \"to defend Portland against far-right attack\".\n\nAs well as Proud Boys, a number of other far-right groups said they would be there - including the American Guard, which the Anti-Defamation League has called \"hardcore white supremacist\", and the militia group Three Percenters.\n\nIt follows two years of increasingly violent rallies in Portland, many of which were organised by Joey Gibson, the leader of far-right group Patriot Prayer, who is currently facing criminal charges connected to a right-wing riot outside a bar in May.\n\nBut organisers said this particular rally was a response to an incident said to have taken place at the last far-right rally held in the city, in June.\n\nPresident Donald Trump had said the Portland situation was being closely watched by his administration, and indicated that naming antifa \"an organisation of terror\" was being considered.\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 Trump has previously mentioned white supremacists, as well as antifa as being a major issue.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. \"I'm concerned about any group of hate,\" says President Trump", "PC Andrew Harper was killed while attending a burglary on Thursday - the third serious attack against an officer on the job in recent weeks.\n\nEarlier this month, a Met police constable was stabbed in the head just days before a West Midlands Police officer was run over with his own vehicle.\n\nBut are police officers facing more violence? The BBC's Ella Wills spoke to one serving officer, who asked not to be named, about life on the frontline.\n\nI've been spat on, I've been bitten, I've been punched and kicked. I know officers who have been stabbed. Any one of us could be attacked on any one day.\n\nI have 15 years' experience as an officer including armed response and the Roads Policing Unit. In that time I've noticed an increasing propensity for violence against police by criminals.\n\nIt's absolutely rife in the UK and it can make cops scared to do their job.\n\nThe last 10 years have been a nightmare. We have lost around 22,000 staff and criminals know that we are spread more thinly, with officers often out alone and back up further away.\n\nPC Andrew Harper was killed on duty on Thursday\n\nI've been in some nasty fights with suspects. A few years ago I was out with my colleague when he was strangled.\n\nWe were called to a maze-like inner city area at 02:00, following reports of a bloke banging outside a window. When we arrived he was throwing stuff around and it quickly descended into a battle.\n\nMy mate tried to take hold of him but the suspect just threw him straight off.\n\nWe ended up in a heap on the floor with my friend on the bottom. The suspect got his hand round his throat and was squeezing.\n\nI pressed the emergency button on my radio for urgent assistance. However, it was a few minutes before other officers managed to find us and we arrested the suspect.\n\nWe still talk about it now when we go for coffee. He suffered bruising on his neck, but it had more of a mental impact on him.\n\nOther colleagues who have been badly attacked have either had to step back from a front-facing role, or leave work entirely.\n\nYou can forget how vulnerable you are in the job. I don't want to lose anybody at work, and I want to go home to my family.\n\nSituations like that leave you thinking it could be you.\n\nIn the Roads Policing Unit, I will patrol by myself and often chase highly dangerous individuals. I have to wait for back up if I come across an incident.\n\nI aim to dominate suspects from the outset, either verbally or physically.\n\nThey have to know that I am in control because they will be willing to take a chance against me if they sniff out weakness.\n\nDo I feel scared sometimes? Of course I do, but I use bravado and subterfuge while waiting for my colleagues to arrive as back up. If the suspect resists they will be dealt with robustly.\n\nI sometimes let them think they are going to be let go and say it's just a routine check, to pass time until my mates have arrived.\n\nI don't want to get into a fight, but if it has to go that way I'm prepared to do so.\n\nI've noticed a huge increase in weapon carrying since I joined. People used to attack us, but they would use their fists.\n\nNow we are confiscating machetes, baseball bats, crowbars, knives and firearms.\n\nThe increased violence can make officers risk averse. You are left with those that are prepared to get stuck in and those who stand aside and let the suspect go.\n\nIf we don't get stuck in, we are not doing what we get paid to do.\n\nMore police officers would help because forces would be able to send officers out in pairs. There would also be greater resources to investigate crime thoroughly.\n\nIt's not possible to offer the same service on the frontline after losing so many officers.\n\nWhen it takes us up to four days to respond to a house burglary, it's clear that we do not have the staff to do our job.", "Iman Barlow and Stan Stannard confronted two robbers on a motorbike in Mallorca\n\nA professional boxing couple from Leicestershire successfully stopped a thief while on holiday in Majorca.\n\nDouble world Thai boxing champion Iman Barlow, and her middleweight boxer boyfriend Stan Stannard, stopped a man from having his watch stolen.\n\nThe pair said two people on a motorbike repeatedly hit the victim on the head.\n\nMr Stannard, from Melton Mowbray, said: \"Fortunately we were in the right place at the right time and the robbers weren't.\"\n\nThe couple were on the Spanish island with friends when they saw what appeared to be a fight outside the Don Bigote Hotel in Palma Nova on Saturday.\n\nMs Barlow, 26, said: \"It appeared that there were two people on a motorcycle, and another person that was being robbed.\n\n\"We worked out that the robbers were trying to nick the man's watch.\"\n\nMs Barlow and Mr Stannard were enjoying a holiday in Mallorca with friends before the incident\n\nMs Barlow, a Muay Thai boxer, added: \"[One guy] ran straight past me and I thought, 'should I do something?'\n\n\"I took the opportunity and front kicked him, he went flying and made a strange noise.\"\n\nThe man continued running, which led 23-year-old Mr Stannard to run after him.\n\n\"Stan left hooked him when we caught up with him, and he fell to the floor,\" Ms Barlow said.\n\nThe pair then sat on one of the assailants until police arrived.\n\nMs Barlow said: \"The family were just really grateful and happy. They offered us money but we refused. That's not why we did it.\n\n\"But the lady persisted and gave us 50 Euros, so it bought our group some burgers for the afternoon.\"\n\nMr Stannard, who makes his professional boxing debut later this month, said: \"I think instinct kicked in, and we saw that there was a distressed family and someone getting hurt.\n\n\"When he decided to run away with the watch we just leapt into action.\"\n\nFollow BBC East Midlands on Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram. Send your story ideas to eastmidsnews@bbc.co.uk.", "PC Andrew Harper was killed near Sulhamstead in Berkshire\n\nTen suspects arrested on suspicion of murdering a policeman remain in custody - as officers search a caravan site near the scene of his death.\n\nPC Andrew Harper, 28, who got married four weeks ago, was responding to a burglary report on Thursday when he was dragged along a road by a vehicle.\n\nHe was killed on the A4 Bath Road in the Berkshire village of Sulhamstead.\n\nTen people aged between 13 and 30 were arrested.\n\nPolice have been at the Four Houses Corner Caravan Site, about three miles from the death scene, since Friday.\n\nRun by West Berkshire Council, it is described as a traveller site on the authority's website.\n\nFurther searches are also taking place on the road where PC Harper died.\n\nAround 10 forensics officers in white overalls could be seen combing the area as police widened the cordon around the scene.\n\nPolice officers have been at a caravan site near to the scene where PC Harper was killed\n\nThames Valley Police Chief Constable John Campbell said the death of PC Harper had left the entire force \"shocked and saddened\".\n\nMr Campbell said the officer was a \"highly regarded, popular member of the team\" and his death was a \"significant loss\" to the force and also to his colleagues and friends.\n\nThe 10 boys and men remain in custody at various police stations.\n\nThe Independent Office for Police Conduct said it was not investigating.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The officer was killed at the crossroads of Ufton Lane and Lambdens Hill\n\nPC Harper was killed at the crossroads of Ufton Lane and Lambdens Hill and Thames Valley Police said it was still trying to establish the exact chain of events.\n\nThe force said PC Harper, who became a regular officer in 2011 after joining as a special constable a year earlier, had attended the reported break-in with a fellow officer.\n\nThe officer on duty with PC Harper was not physically injured but it being given emotional support, Thames Valley Police added.\n\nForensics officers in white overalls combed the road on Saturday\n\nMr Campbell said: \"What we do know is Andrew had been dragged along by a vehicle.\"\n\nHe said the suspects were detained within about an hour and officers are working \"hard and diligently to find out what happened\".\n\nA post-mortem examination is taking place to establish the cause of death.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. \"We are shocked and saddened by the death of our colleague\"\n\nMr Campbell said PC Harper was a \"highly regarded, popular member of the team\", adding: \"Everybody I've spoken to about Andrew talked about the incredible personality he was, what a fantastic police officer, and what a great friend and man he was, and he'll be sorely missed by everybody.\n\n\"My thanks go to all those staff and officers who attended this incident, as well as our colleagues at the fire service and also the ambulance service for their professionalism and support at what you can imagine was obviously a distressing scene.\"\n\nHe said the force's flags are flying at half mast as a sign of respect \"in honour and memory of Andrew\".\n\nPC Harper got married to fiancee Lissie just four weeks ago\n\nThe Deputy Police and Crime Commissioner for Thames Valley, Matthew Barber, said he had received messages from members of the public PC Harper had helped.\n\nA domestic violence victim said the officer had given her the confidence to come forward about her abusive partner, Mr Barber said.\n\n\"He was clearly a man who, in his short time, touched many lives\", he added.\n\nRelatives of PC Harper paid tributes on social media to the \"loveliest person that you will ever meet\".\n\nMaureen Shrimpton wrote: \"Just a really horrible day. Our grandson Andrew was killed last night while doing his police work.\n\n\"So proud of him. Our love goes to his lovely wife, mum and dad, brother and all of his family and friends.\"\n\nColleagues and members of the public have left floral tributes at the scene\n\nThe attack on PC Harper is the third time in recent weeks an officer has been seriously hurt in the line of duty.\n\nMetropolitan Police officer Stuart Outten was stabbed in the head on 8 August.\n\nDays later a 42-year-old West Midlands Police officer suffered serious head and pelvic injuries when he was run over with his own vehicle.\n\nPolice Federation chairman John Apter said 10 officers had died in the line of duty in the past decade - a figure he called \"truly shocking\".\n\nWhile policing was \"dangerous and unpredictable\", it was difficult to ignore the loss of 22,000 officers as a result of budget cuts, he said.\n\nThis had left those in the job more vulnerable than they were 10 years ago, he said.\n\n\"Society has become a much more violent place and, for some, life is cheap,\" he said.\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson called PC Harper's death a \"mindless and brutal\" crime, adding he was \"shocked and appalled\" by the attack.\n\nLabour leader Jeremy Corbyn said: \"I'm totally shocked at Andrew Harper's death and my immediate thoughts are condolences to his family and to his colleagues.\"\n\nHome Secretary Priti Patel said: \"PC Harper died in the line of duty protecting the public and his incredible bravery and extraordinary sacrifice will not be forgotten.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn has announced proposals to help Britain's \"struggling\" high streets.\n\nHe said he wanted to give councils the power to reopen shops in premises left vacant for more than a year.\n\nMr Corbyn also said empty shops should be given to start-up business and community projects in an effort to reverse a \"retail apocalypse\".\n\nThe government responded: \"Jeremy Corbyn would wreck the economy, meaning more boarded-up shops and fewer jobs.\"\n\nMr Corbyn would \"tax small businesses and scare off the investment needed to help our high streets\", local growth minister Jake Berry said.\n\nThe number of retail units which have been vacant for more than 12 months is currently estimated at 29,000.\n\nLarge retailers, including Debenhams and House of Fraser, have closed stores across the UK and the shop vacancy rate is now at its highest level since January 2015.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. John Healey: Councils should have \"back-up powers\" to manage vacant shops\n\nShadow housing secretary John Healey said Labour wanted councils to be given back-up powers to manage shops that have been vacant for more than a year.\n\nHe said it was about \"stopping that downward spiral we often see of boarded-up shops and premises in the town centre\".\n\nShops are facing pressure from a variety of sources, including the rise of online shopping and increasing costs.\n\nMr Corbyn, who will be visiting Bolton on Saturday, described his proposals as a \"radical plan\" to turn \"the blight of empty shops into the heart of the high street.\"\n\nHe said: \"Boarded-up shops are a symptom of economic decay under the Conservatives and a sorry symbol of the malign neglect so many communities have suffered.\n\n\"Once thriving high streets are becoming ghost streets.\"\n\nAndrew Gwynne, Labour's shadow local government secretary, said: \"High street closures are at a historic high, leaving too many of our once thriving towns abandoned and awash with boarded-up shop fronts.\"\n\nBut Mr Berry said the government would \"deliver Brexit by 31 October, so that we can get on with levelling up opportunities across our country and breathe new life into high streets and town centres\".\n\nIn October 2018, the government announced the creation of the Future High Streets Fund - with £675m allocated to investing in infrastructure and regeneration.", "A search operation has been launched after a six-year-old boy fell into a river in Kent.\n\nKent Fire and Rescue Service said the child fell into the River Stour close to Richborough Road and the A256 in Sandwich at about 13:30 BST.\n\nA Coastguard helicopter, an inshore lifeboat, firefighters and police are hunting for the child.\n\nLocal people offering assistance were given briefings on how to help search for the boy safely.\n\nEmergency services warned them not to place themselves at risk, especially as the light fades.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Jake and Chloe Ford died at a house in Margate, Kent on 26 December last year\n\nA mother who drowned her twins in the bath as an act of \"revenge\" against her estranged husband has been given a 10-year sentence.\n\nSamantha Ford, 38, killed 23-month-old Jake and Chloe on 26 December after their father Steven Ford left her.\n\nFord denied murder and prosecutors at the Old Bailey accepted her earlier guilty plea to manslaughter by diminished responsibility.\n\nMr Justice Edis said Ford would begin her sentence in a psychiatric hospital.\n\nShe will complete her sentence in jail after receiving treatment, he said.\n\nSamantha Ford became angry over leaving her affluent lifestyle in Qatar, the Old Bailey heard\n\nThe judge told Ford: \"The horror of what happened does not need any explanation by me.\n\n\"Anyone with any imagination can envisage for themselves what must have happened in that bathroom.\n\n\"It is unlikely that they died simultaneously and it must have taken some time and required some determination,\" he said.\n\nHe said Ford was \"preoccupied\" with her husband and her anger was a \"significant contributory factor\".\n\n\"You knew it would devastate him and I'm sure that is a reason why you did it.\"\n\nThe twins' bodies were found in a house in Margate, Kent, after Ford had tried to take her own life.\n\nShe drove without a seatbelt at about 100mph into the back of a lorry.\n\nThe court heard she told police: \"I've killed my babies. Please let me die.\"\n\nToys were left outside the twins' house after their deaths\n\nFord had been angry about leaving her affluent lifestyle in Qatar for Charing, Kent, last year, prosecutors said.\n\nIn November, the couple split and Ford moved to a rented house in Castle Drive, Margate.\n\n\"She was very upset that the relationship had broken down and didn't like the idea of becoming a single mother,\" prosecutor Tom Kark QC said.\n\nA psychiatrist told the court Ford had killed her children in an act of \"retaliation and punishment\" against Mr Ford.\n\nIn a victim impact statement read out a previous hearing, Steven Ford called the killings \"the most heinous, spiteful act on two innocent children\".\n\n\"I have no doubt [she] did this with the intention of taking her own life and punishing me in the process,\" he said.\n\nIn a tweet from an account which appears to have been set up by Mr Ford, he wrote he was \"devastated, disgusted and appalled\" by the 10-year sentence, and called on Boris Johnson to \"step up and get a handle on tougher sentencing\".\n\nFollow BBC South East on Facebook, on Twitter, and on Instagram. Send your story ideas to southeasttoday@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "A man was arrested after a woman ran, naked and distressed on to a street to raise the alarm, a court in Newry has heard.\n\nA police officer was speaking as Silinskas Andrius, 38, Castleblaney Street, Newtownhamilton, appeared on charges of rape and threatening to kill the woman.\n\nHe is also charged with choking, assault and breach of a UK deportation order on 15 August.\n\nHe denies all the charges against him.\n\nOutlining the prosecution's case, a detective told the court on Saturday that the woman had caught a flight to Northern Ireland after replying to an advertisement for work.\n\nShe met Mr Andrius at the airport. He was drunk. He took her to his home where he continued drinking.\n\nThe detective said the man wanted to have sex, but she refused and threatened to kill her, assaulted her, slapped her on the face and raped her.\n\nShe ran out of the back door of his home, naked, and raised the alarm.\n\nWhen arrested, Mr Andrius denied having any sexual contact with the woman.\n\nThe court was told that he had broken a UK deportation order made by Norfolk police in 2017.\n\nProsecution objected to his bail application on grounds that he might leave the country.\n\nA defence lawyer said his client had mistakenly broken the UK deportation order as he had travelled into Dublin before moving to Northern Ireland.", "Mariam the dugong died from an infection caused by bit of plastic in her stomach\n\nAn orphaned dugong, made famous after it was rescued earlier this year in Thailand, has died.\n\nThe animal named Mariam died on Saturday from an infection that was exacerbated by bits of plastic lining her stomach, according to officials.\n\nMariam became an internet star after images showed her nuzzling into rescuers when she became stranded on a beach in April.\n\nThere are only a few hundred of the sea mammals left in Thailand.\n\nThe eight-month-old dugong was found ill a week ago and refused to eat. She died around midnight on Saturday after going into shock. Efforts to resuscitate her failed.\n\nChaiyapruk Werawong, head of Trang province marine park, told AFP: \"She died from a blood infection and pus in her stomach.\"\n\nDuring an autopsy, several pieces of plastic including one measuring 20cm (eight inches) were found inside her stomach.\n\nNantarika Chansue, one of the vets who looked at Mariam, said: \"Everyone is saddened by the loss, but it reiterates that we need to save the environment to save these rare animals.\"\n\nMariam featured in live webcasts alongside Jamil, another dugong rescued shortly after her. The webcasts showed her being fed and receiving treatment from vets.\n\nMany people have shared their sadness at her death on social media.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. 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End of twitter post by Seaweed and Seagrass Research Unit\n\nLast year, a pilot whale in Thailand died after eating more than 80 plastic bags.", "Men's Ashes: Second Specsavers Test, Lord's (day four of five)\n\nThe second Ashes Test is poised for a thrilling conclusion after a memorable fourth day in which the fast bowlers of England and Australia illuminated Lord's.\n\nIn a ferocious spell in which he touched 96mph, England debutant Jofra Archer struck Steve Smith on the neck and forced the world's best batsman to retire hurt on 80.\n\nSmith returned 40 minutes later but, clearly shaken, shouldered arms to be lbw to Chris Woakes for 92 as Australia were bowled out for 250 - eight behind.\n\nPat Cummins used his own pace to remove Jason Roy and Joe Root in successive balls and, although Rory Burns and Joe Denly steadied England, both fell to Peter Siddle.\n\nAt the end of it all, England scraped to 96-4 - a lead of 104 - leaving all four results possible in a Test where the entire first day and most of the third were lost to rain.\n\nTo be out of danger, England will probably need to bat beyond lunch on Sunday.\n\nBut it may also be that their best chance of winning is to run through an Australia side chasing a low target, potentially without Smith, who, as well as being hit on the neck, required an X-ray on his left arm.\n\nThe finale will be played out on a pitch that is showing increasing signs of uneven bounce and in front of a sell-out crowd with the weather set fair.\n\nAfter England were heavily beaten in the first Test, Sunday could see them back in the series, or the Ashes as good as gone.\n• None Smith falls for 92 after retiring hurt from Archer blow\n\nLord's has witnessed some incredible cricket this summer: the astonishing World Cup final, Ireland bowling England out for 85, and Jack Leach making 92 as a nightwatchman.\n\nThis ranks alongside them all and served as a perfect example of how exhilarating Test cricket can be when ferocious bowlers produce pace that rattles even the best batsmen.\n\nThe battle between Archer and Smith was sporting theatre, with the sickening blow suffered by the former captain leaving a previously baying crowd in worried silence.\n\nThe next act was Smith's surprising return, with Cummins then bringing his own fire and celebrating as if the Test was on the way to being won.\n\nAs England battled to stay afloat, the drama grew through two David Warner dropped catches and two lbw appeals from off-spinner Nathan Lyon that should have been given but were not reviewed.\n\nIn gathering gloom that necessitated the use of the floodlights, Ben Stokes and Jos Buttler doggedly took the lead past 100 and left the match hanging in the balance.\n• None Quiz: Can you name England's Ashes debutants since 2000?\n\nUntil lunch, it seemed inevitable that the prolific Smith would nudge, shuffle and occasionally drive his way to his third century in as many innings and put Australia into the lead.\n\nThat was all changed by Archer, who not only provided the pace that England have so badly needed in their previous battles with Smith, but also proved that the anticipation surrounding his entrance into Test cricket was worth the hype.\n\nArcher had been worked over by Cummins when batting on the second day and dished out his revenge here. First he had skipper Tim Paine caught at short leg before striking a blow to Smith's forearm which required the X-ray but did not cause a fracture.\n\nIn the next four balls he faced from Archer, the uncomfortable Smith played three uncontrolled hooks and almost fended to short leg. From the fifth, the horrible impact to the neck forced him from the field.\n\nWhen Smith was cleared by medical staff to make his return, Archer was out of his attack, but the batsman was clearly not himself. From the second ball he faced, he swiped Woakes into the leg side and, after a classical back-foot drive, edged another four.\n\nFinal proof that Smith was rattled came when his usual impeccable judgement failed, leaving him to play no shot to a straight ball from Woakes that would have hit middle stump.\n\nEven if this day will mainly be remembered for the Archer-Smith battle, it was still one that Australia had the better of, first by moving from 80-4 to virtual first-innings parity, then by taking four wickets in the evening session.\n\nPaine and Cummins made useful contributions of 23 and 20 respectively before Cummins hurtled in after tea.\n\nRoy offered a leading edge which Cummins slid to take and, from the next ball, Root edged to Paine.\n\nBurns and Denly added 55, the former gritty and latter occasionally loose. Denly was dropped on seven by Warner at first slip off Siddle, while Burns should have been given leg before to Lyon on 24.\n\nWhereas Burns added only five more before got a lifter from Siddle that he edged behind, Denly took his score to 26 by the time he tamely patted back to the same bowler.\n\nAt 71-4, England were in real danger, but were seen through by Stokes and Buttler. Still, Stokes was dropped at slip on six by Warner and escaped being lbw, both off Lyon.\n\nWhat will happen on the final day?\n\nEngland's Chris Woakes on BBC Test Match Special: \"We have got 98 overs tomorrow so more time than you think.\n\n\"It's hard to put a number on it but we have got to bat sensibly. We have two guys at the crease who can accelerate quickly so the morning session will be crucial.\"\n\nFormer England captain Alec Stewart on TMS: \"Absolutely even stevens at the moment. England need to be batting at lunch - can they get a 250 lead before bowled out?\n\n\"For that to happen Stokes and Buttler need to play like we haven't seen them bat so far in this series. Stokes was as bad as I have seen him play today but the good thing is both frontline batsmen are still there.\"\n\nEx-England captain Michael Vaughan on TMS: \"England can get another 100. But they could lose four wickets inside the first 30 minutes and it could be Australia are chasing 150.\"", "Richard Williams, the Oscar-winning animator who worked on the hit film Who Framed Roger Rabbit, has died aged 86.\n\nWilliams, who was born in Toronto but moved to the UK in the 1950s, won two Oscars and a Bafta for his work as animation director on the 1988 film, which starred Bob Hoskins.\n\nThe triple Oscar and triple Bafta winner also worked on two of the Pink Panther films and Casino Royale.\n\nWilliams died at his home in Bristol on Friday, his family announced.\n\nWho Framed Roger Rabbit, a live-action animated comedy set in Hollywood in 1947 in a world where humans and cartoon characters co-exist, was a critical and commercial success.\n\nWilliams, who was hired to supervise animation sequences, helped create the film versions of Roger Rabbit and his wife, Jessica, first depicted in the book, Who Censored Roger Rabbit.\n\nWilliams won two Oscars for the film, in the special academy award category and for special effects.\n\nHis daughter, Natasha Sutton Williams, said her father - who had six children - had been suffering from cancer, in what she said had been quite a swift illness.\n\nShe said: \"He really was an inspiration to everyone that met him. Whether they were animators, or from the top to the bottom of society.\n\n\"An incredibly generous, warm-spirited person who really wanted to learn about the world.\"\n\nRichard Williams won two Oscars and a Bafta for his work as animation director on Who Framed Roger Rabbit?\n\nWilliams, who was also a voice actor and writer, credited Snow White - which he saw at the age of five - as having a \"tremendous impression\" on him.\n\n\"I always wanted, when I was a kid, to get to Disney. I was a clever little fellow so I took my drawings and I eventually got in,\" he told the BBC in 2008.\n\n\"They did a story on me, and I was in there for two days, which you can imagine what it was like for a kid.\"\n\nAfter that, he said he was advised to learn how to draw properly and admitted he \"lost all interest in animation\" until he was 23 - throwing himself into art.\n\nWilliams said he was drawn back to the craft because his \"paintings were trying to move\".\n\nHis first film, The Little Island, was released in 1958 and won a Bafta, while his animated adaptation of Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol in 1971 led to him winning his first Oscar.\n\nDuring his lengthy career, Williams also wrote a how-to book called The Animator's Survival Kit and was animating and writing until he died.", "Antonio Basco was expecting a near-empty church for the funeral of his wife who died in the El Paso mass shooting in Texas, US, in August.\n\nMr Basco said he did not have family so he invited the community - but was shocked to find people queuing to get in.\n\nThe size of the crowd was so huge that the funeral company had to move the service to a larger facility.\n\nAs he walked in, Mr Basco said: \"This is incredible.\"\n\nAbout 700 people queued to pay their respects to Margie Reckard, 63, one of 22 people killed when a gunman opened fire at a Walmart store.\n\nThe line went around the church and along another road.\n\nMany people came from across the US.\n\nHala Hijazi travelled from San Francisco to attend the service. She said that she read Tony Basco's story and knew she had to attend.\n\n\"It pierced into my heart and soul and made me book a flight to El Paso. We need to show when America is in pain, we are all in pain,\" she said.\n\nAccording to the New York Times, about 900 floral arrangements sent from as far afield as Asia were sent to the service.\n\nSome were sent from Dayton, Ohio, where another mass shooting killed nine people just hours after the attack in El Paso.\n\nIt was standing-room only inside the El Paso venue.\n\nDean Reckard, Margie Reckard's son from another marriage, said his mother \"loved everyone regardless of colour, religion or politics\".\n\nHe added: \"Everywhere I look, I just see all these flowers. I don't think I've ever seen this many flowers.\"\n\nHer grandson Tyler said: \"People were telling me they came from different faiths, different cities. It's just incredible how much love and support every single one of you has shown.\"\n\nMr Basco and Ms Reckard met at a bar in Nebraska 22 years ago and eventually settled in El Paso. They enjoyed travelling around the US by train.\n\nHe said their life was \"like a fairytale\".\n\n\"She was a lady and she was the love of my life.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Roman's friend died in the attack: 'I wish the killer had known the real El Paso'\n\nAfter hearing Mr Basco's story, the funeral home director told the BBC they had decided to cover the full cost of the funeral.\n\nHarrison B Johnson said: \"We have had a tremendous outpouring of support after we shared the post. It is our privilege to honour and serve the community to try and make that burden lighter after a tragedy that has devastated our community.\n\n\"We just wanted to do our part to help in some small way.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nConservative MP Ken Clarke has said he would not reject an offer to become caretaker prime minister if it was \"the only way\" to stop a no-deal Brexit.\n\nLiberal Democrat leader Jo Swinson has suggested the ex-chancellor or former Labour deputy leader Harriet Harman could head a temporary government.\n\nMr Clarke told the BBC the idea was \"not inconceivable\".\n\nBut Prime Minister Boris Johnson has pledged that the UK will leave the EU by 31 October \"do or die\".\n\nHe has said he wants to strike a deal with Brussels, but if this is not possible, Brexit will go ahead as planned.\n\nMeanwhile, Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn has said he plans to win a no-confidence vote in the government, become an interim prime minister, delay Brexit, call a snap election and campaign for another referendum.\n\nHowever, some MPs have said Mr Corbyn does not have enough support in Parliament to enter Downing Street.\n\nLib Dem leader Ms Swinson has instead suggested Mr Clarke or Ms Harman - the longest-continuously serving male and female MPs - as alternative potential caretaker prime ministers, arguing that they command respect across Parliament.\n\nMr Clarke, a strong supporter of the EU who has three times run to become Conservative leader, told BBC Radio 4's PM he would \"not object to\" the idea if it was \"the only way in which the plain majority in the House of Commons that is opposed to a no-deal exit\" could find a way forward.\n\nHe said that preventing a no deal through legislation could be the \"best method\" but added: \"If that fails, you need a government of national unity... It is not a senseless suggestion.\"\n\nLabour's Harriet Harman has been put forward as another potential temporary PM\n\nMr Clarke also said: \"A government of national unity is just one of the things that might be called for. It's not inconceivable. I mean, we're in a similar situation to 1931 [when the world faced a large recession] and rather wildly to the two world wars, when the same thing happened.\n\n\"But there's an awful lot to be gone through before then and I haven't been taking part in any talks with anybody for the last fortnight. I've been on the phone to one or two people in the last couple of days just to find out what the devil's going on.\"\n\nHe added that it would be a \"single-issue, short-term government\" that would seek an extension to the Brexit negotiation process.\n\nBusiness Minister Kwasi Kwarteng said he was \"a great fan\" of Mr Clarke, but dismissed talk of him becoming prime minister as \"speculation\".\n\nMr Corbyn said he was \"disappointed\" by Ms Swinson's response to his plan, adding that he hoped she would \"come round\" to it.\n\n\"Under normal constitutional processes in Britain, when a government collapses, the leader of the opposition is called on to form a government,\" he said.\n\nMr Johnson has said the EU has become less willing to compromise on a new deal with the UK because of the opposition to leaving in Parliament.\n\nHe said this increased the likelihood of the UK being \"forced to leave with a no deal\" in October.\n\nMr Clarke was first elected to Parliament as a Conservative MP in 1970 for the Nottinghamshire constituency of Rushcliffe.\n\nHe held several senior government posts under Margaret Thatcher and John Major, including health secretary, education secretary and chancellor.\n\nHowever, his pro-European stance put him at odds with many in his party and despite three attempts in 1997, 2001 and 2005, he failed to become Conservative leader.", "Speaking at a press conference following the death of PC Andrew Harper, Thames Valley Police Chief Constable John Campbell said it was a \"terrible day\" for the force.\n\nPC Andrew Harper, who got married four weeks ago, died at about 23:30 BST on Thursday in Berkshire, when he was \"dragged along by a vehicle\" while attending a reported burglary.\n\nRead more: Killed PC was 'dragged by vehicle'", "Owen Jones was leaving a pub in north London when a group of men assaulted him\n\nPolice are investigating after Labour activist Owen Jones was \"kicked in the head\" by a group of men outside a pub.\n\nThe Guardian columnist said he had been celebrating his birthday with friends when the men made a \"direct beeline\" for him in the early hours of Saturday.\n\nLabour leader Jeremy Corbyn said an attack on a journalist was \"an attack on free speech and our fundamental values\".\n\nThe Met said it was working to establish the \"full circumstances\".\n\nMr Jones told the BBC he had spent Friday night with his partner and some friends at the Lexington pub on Pentonville Road, Islington.\n\nThe six of them left the pub at about 02:00 BST on Saturday. As they were saying goodbye to each other, a group of \"three or four\" men made a \"direct beeline\" for Mr Jones.\n\nMr Jones claimed it was a \"premeditated\" move by \"far right\" activists.\n\n\"[They] marched over, kicked me in the back, threw me on the floor... and then kicked me in the head,\" he said.\n\nMr Jones said his friends were also punched in the head as they tried to stop the \"frenzied\" attack on him - and that there was \"no question\" the men were \"specifically\" targeting him.\n\nIn response to the incident, Mr Corbyn tweeted: \"Owen believes it was politically motivated, and we know the far right is on the march in our country.\n\n\"An attack on a journalist is an attack on free speech and our fundamental values.\"\n\nA spokesman for the Metropolitan Police confirmed it had spoken to witnesses and would review CCTV footage.\n\nNo arrests have been made and the investigation continues.\n\nThe Lexington's general manager, Chris Smith, said he had looked back at the venue's CCTV and thought it was \"possible\" the suspects were caught on footage.\n\nHe said his staff were \"all upset\" that Mr Jones had been targeted and would \"do everything\" to aid the police investigation.\n\nMr Jones said the attack was the latest in a series of assaults since he was verbally abused by protesters on College Green in Westminster earlier this year.\n\n\"The far right is an increasingly scary, violent and threatening menace in this country and other countries as well,\" he said.\n\nMr Jones said he would not let far right groups \"scare or intimidate\" him.\n\nBut he added: \"I'm obviously very concerned and worried - not simply about my own personal safety, but of others, and the fact that the far right feels increasingly emboldened and far right-types are feeling increasingly prepared to resort to thuggery and violence.\"\n\nShadow attorney general Shami Chakrabarti said: \"This is a very febrile moment in Britain - and I'm sure that everyone, regardless of their politics, will want to send their solidarity to Owen Jones.\"\n\n\"The police will no doubt be concerned to investigate any political and homophobic motives behind what may be a very serious hate crime,\" she added.\n\nShadow home secretary Diane Abbott was one of hundreds of people to respond to Mr Jones's tweet about the incident, saying: \"The times we live in are increasingly dark and dangerous\".", "Last updated on .From the section Rugby Union\n\nWales will rise to the top of the world rankings for the first time after they ground out a 13-6 victory over England in the World Cup warm-up in Cardiff.\n\nGeorge North's try after inspired play from Dan Biggar helped Wales build a 10-0 lead at the end of a keenly contested but disjointed first-half.\n\nEngland edged into it with two George Ford penalties as defences dominated.\n\nBut Leigh Halfpenny struck the decisive penalty on his return to the Wales side after an injury-ravaged year.\n• None How to follow the World Cup warm-ups on BBC Sport\n\nThat means on Monday morning, when the next world rankings are released officially, Warren Gatland's men will sit at the summit for the first time since World Rugby introduced the ranking system in 2003.\n\nIt also ends New Zealand's uninterrupted 10 years at the top, despite the All Blacks' 36-0 victory over Australia earlier on Saturday.\n\nBy making only three changes to the team that lost 33-19 to England at Twickenham last Sunday, Gatland said he was giving his players the chance to \"redeem\" themselves in Cardiff.\n\nAnd while this Wales side is still evidently a work in progress where the World Cup is concerned, this was a marked improvement.\n\nWhereas they were 14 points down in as many minutes at Twickenham, Wales wrestled their way into a position of strength at the Principality Stadium.\n\nTheir scrum may have still creaked a little against a powerful England pack, but in Biggar they had a fly-half made for these tight encounters - and perhaps with a point to prove after former British and Irish Lions wing JJ Williams claimed Wales would not win the World Cup with the Northampton man at 10.\n\nBiggar was starting as a result of fellow fly-half Gareth Anscombe's tournament-ending knee injury and he peppered England's back three with an early bombardment of high balls that was a taste of things to come.\n\nWhen England wing Anthony Watson was sent to the sin-bin for a deliberate knock-on, Biggar - whose earlier penalty had put Wales 3-0 up - sensed an opportunity from the resultant penalty and took it quickly.\n\nHis long cross-field kick found Josh Adams and, after the wing made ground, from the next phase Biggar repeated the trick to set up North in the opposite corner for a fine try that the fly-half converted for a 10-0 lead.\n\nThere were precious few opportunities for Biggar to demonstrate such creativity in a second-half in which both attacks were frustrated by disciplined defences.\n\nHe did, however, show his appetite for the physical side of the game, stopping galloping England lock Maro Itoje with a shuddering tackle that might have been called high had referee Pascal Gauzere reviewed the footage.\n\nBut the intervention illustrated Biggar's willingness to put his body on the line for his country and sealed his deserved man-of-the-match award.\n\nWhile Wales' players were still auditioning for a place in their final World Cup squad - expected to be named on 1 September - England coach Eddie Jones has already decided on his 31-man party for Japan.\n\nThere was therefore less on the line for them in Cardiff perhaps, but there was no lack of motivation, with Jones imploring his side to be \"absolutely brutal\" in their attempts to halt Wales' 10-match winning run at home that stretches back to a defeat against New Zealand in 2017.\n\nThe likes of Billy Vunipola certainly heeded that call, the man mountain of a number eight bulldozing towards Welsh tacklers at every opportunity.\n\nBut England struggled to cut through the opposition defence as they did at Twickenham and, while the scrum remained a weapon, their driving maul was less of a threat.\n\nNeither side was at its fluent best in attack and it was not until Watson's yellow card left England a man down that the visitors found their defence meaningfully breached.\n\nThe Principality Stadium crowd found its voice after North's try but, despite that setback, Jones' men gathered themselves and chipped away at Wales' advantage in the second-half.\n\nFord, keeping the kicking duties despite the introduction of Owen Farrell at centre, struck two penalties to reduce England's deficit to 10-6.\n\nThere was no way through Wales' determined defence though as England failed to replicate their attacking precision from Twickenham and missed out on their own opportunity to top the world ranking.", "PC Andrew Harper was killed in Berkshire on Thursday\n\nDetectives investigating the death of a police officer have said he died of \"multiple injuries\", as they were given more time to question 10 suspects.\n\nPC Andrew Harper, 28, was responding to a burglary report on Thursday in Sulhamstead, Berkshire, when he was dragged along the road by a vehicle.\n\nTen males aged between 13 and 30 have been arrested on suspicion of murder.\n\nThames Valley Police said on Saturday it had been granted an extra 36 hours to question the suspects.\n\nPC Harper, who got married four weeks ago, was killed on the A4 Bath Road.\n\nDet Supt Ailsa Kent told a press conference: \"A post-mortem was carried out on Andrew's body and the cause of death has been recorded as multiple injuries.\n\n\"[That] is consistent with our current belief that Andrew was caught between a vehicle and the road and then dragged for a distance.\"\n\nPolice officers have been at a caravan site near to the scene where PC Harper was killed\n\nDet Supt Kent said it remained unclear how PC Harper \"came to be out of his vehicle and then caught under the suspect vehicle\".\n\nShe said the 10 boys and men had been arrested at council-run caravan and mobile home site, Four Houses Corner, about three miles from where PC Harper died.\n\nOfficers are carrying out house-to-house inquiries, reviewing CCTV footage, interviewing witnesses and conducting forensic examinations, Det Supt Kent added.\n\nForensics officers could be seen combing the area as police widened the cordon around the scene earlier.\n\nChief Constable John Campbell said the death of PC Harper had left the entire force \"shocked and saddened\".\n\nMr Campbell said the officer was a \"highly regarded, popular member of the team\" and his death was a \"significant loss\" to the force and also to his colleagues and friends.\n\nTributes to PC Harper have been laid at the scene\n\nA group of officers could be seen gathered around floral tributes reading messages to their fallen colleague.\n\nOne tribute, accompanied by an image of PC Harper smiling with a friend, said: \"Harps, I am truly gutted. A great cop, a great man, a great friend.\n\n\"There will always be a part of my heart missing now. RIP mate, love you. Chef, Sarah and Harry.\"\n\nAnother read: \"Such a shocking, mindless, horrific act of brutality. This has been impossible for us to get our heads around.\n\n\"Pc Harper was a beautiful young soul. A brave man protecting us all and just doing his job.\"\n\nPC Harper, who became a regular officer in 2011 after joining as a special constable a year earlier, had attended the reported break-in at about 23:30 BST with a fellow officer.\n\nThe officer on duty with PC Harper was not physically injured but is being given emotional support, Thames Valley Police said.\n\nOne message described PC Harper as \"Thames Valley's finest\"\n\nDeputy Police and Crime Commissioner, Matthew Barber, said he had received messages from members of the public whom PC Harper had helped.\n\nA domestic violence victim told him the officer had given her the confidence to come forward about her abusive partner.\n\n\"He was clearly a man who, in his short time, touched many lives,\" Mr Barber added.\n\nPC Harper's colleagues have been laying floral tributes at the scene, with one message describing the officer as \"Thames Valley's finest\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. \"We are shocked and saddened by the death of our colleague\"\n\nRelatives of PC Harper have also paid tribute on social media to the \"loveliest person that you will ever meet\".\n\nHis grandmother Maureen Shrimpton wrote: \"Just a really horrible day. Our grandson Andrew was killed last night while doing his police work.\n\n\"So proud of him. Our love goes to his lovely wife, mum and dad, brother and all of his family and friends.\"\n\nPC Harper got married to his fiancée Lissie just four weeks ago\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Boris Johnson's partner Carrie Symonds has made her first public speech since moving into Downing Street last month.\n\nIn a speech at a Birdfair event, Ms Symonds said politicians have a \"gigantic responsibility\" to care for the environment.\n\nShe also joined a question and answer session with Chris Packham, presenter of BBC Springwatch.\n\nThe 31-year-old quit her role as a director of communications for the Conservatives last year.\n\nThe prime minister's girlfriend is now a senior adviser for US environmental campaign group Oceana.\n\nShe works with the charity's marketing operation in London and a profile on its website describes her as being \"passionate about protecting the oceans and marine life\".\n\nIn her speech Ms Symonds said she was a newcomer to bird-watching, having become interested after visiting a puffin colony at Bempton in East Yorkshire.\n\nShe said she had been alarmed at seeing a picture of a slaughtered bird in a newspaper shortly afterwards, and condemned the trophy hunting of puffins.\n\nHowever, Ms Symonds said she was \"profoundly optimistic\" that the people who care \"far outnumber the people who don't, especially among young people\".\n\nShe said while she is not \"perfect\", she is \"learning\" and referred to the floral print sustainable dress she wore to the event.\n\nThe £225 garment is reported to be eco-friendly, having been made locally in London from a cotton blend that is biodegradable and which does not contain microplastics or dyes that pollute the environment.\n\nMore than 24,000 people attended Birdfair last year over three days.\n\nTim Appleton, founder of the annual event for birdwatchers, said it has raised £40m for global conservation projects in the 31 years that it has been running.\n\nHe said: \"We're absolutely over the moon that Carrie is supporting us and we hope she will continue supporting us and conservation for many years to come.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Shauna has dissociative amnesia, a condition that can leave her with no memories\n\nImagine waking up and not knowing your own name or who your child is.\n\nShauna Loader has suffered \"countless\" episodes of memory loss, which can last anywhere from hours to months.\n\nHer first experience of dissociative amnesia happened when she was 18, when she totally forgot who she was.\n\nThe 25-year-old, from Caerphilly, said one particularly difficult incident came after she gave birth to her son years later: \"He was two days old and I forgot him, and that was really hard.\"\n\nIt was a phone call from her mother in 2012 that first made her realise something was wrong.\n\nShe had stayed at her boyfriend's house and woke to her phone ringing, unaware of who or where she was.\n\nWhen Shauna finally answered, she did not know who she was talking to. Eventually, her grandmother arrived at the door.\n\n\"I didn't realise [who it was], but I just felt safe and comfortable to go with her,\" she said.\n\nAfter a hospital stay, scans and tests, she was sent to a mental health team for talking therapy and was diagnosed with dissociative amnesia.\n\nThe fear of going to bed and forgetting can cause anxiety for Shauna\n\nShauna's memories came back \"as a staged process\", but she never knows if her memory is completely intact as she cannot remember if she has forgotten.\n\nShe described waking up without her memories as \"petrifying\".\n\n\"It's almost an out-of-body experience, where you've just jumped into someone else's body and you're experiencing their life, and you don't know what to do,\" she added.\n\nWhen she forgot who her son was, she said she happily looked after him, waiting for the woman who was his mother to come back and collect him.\n\nShe remembered her husband crying, which confused her, as she felt sorry for him but did not know why.\n\nWhen the memory of her son came back to her, it was \"really overwhelming\".\n\n\"I felt guilty. I thought he was going to hate me forever,\" she added.\n\nAmnesia does not just rob Shauna of her memories, it can also cause her to regress to being a younger age and she can forget to do basic things.\n\nShe has showered fully clothed and wet herself, but is not embarrassed about her condition and said: \"It's my reality.\n\n\"I've got no control over it, if it happens it happens, and you have to deal with it in the morning,\" she said.\n\nShauna now monitors her stress and has what she calls \"funny headaches\" where she needs to \"take a step back and look after myself\".\n\nWhen Shauna was in her teens, she was bullied and transferred to a different school, but later returned for sixth form, which she found traumatic.\n\n\"I had a lot at home going on as well at the same time with family illnesses and things, and it was just too much at once,\" she said.\n\nNow if she has an episode, her husband \"steps up and he'll take over and do everything\".\n\n\"My husband's a great help, he'll help me back into being me. He has this certain aftershave, and it's just a safety smell.\n\n\"It's almost living a normal life, even though I'm here but I'm not here mentally, and just hopefully something along the day will click.\n\n\"What I say is: 'There's always someone else worse off'.\n\n\"For me, yeah it's frustrating and annoying but it will never define me. I'll always find another way around it, turn it into a positive and help someone else.\"\n• None What's the best way to fight memory loss?", "Los Angeles Airport was one of several US airports reporting problems with its customs system\n\nTravellers have been delayed at several major US airports due to a technical issue affecting customs checks.\n\nUS authorities said computers are coming slowly back online after a nationwide outage caused delays for international passengers.\n\nLos Angeles airport tweeted that its systems were slowly returning to normal, and the outage had \"no significant impacts to flights\".\n\nThe glitch led to lengthy delays in at least four states.\n\nTravellers also posted photos and footage of long airport queues on social media.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Rebekah Tromble This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nUS Customs and Border Patrol (CBP) earlier said it would use \"alternative procedures\" until the unexplained problem was resolved.\n\nThe agency later tweeted: \"The affected systems are coming back online and travellers are being processed.\"\n\nIt added: \"There is no indication the disruption was malicious in nature at this time.\"\n\nAs well as in Los Angeles, issues with customs checks were reported by travellers in Seattle, Philadelphia, San Francisco, Houston, Chicago, New York's John F Kennedy Airport, and Dulles Airport in the US capital.\n\nSeattle-Tacoma Airport has also since tweeted that its systems are \"back online\".", "The Islamic State group has claimed responsibility for the attack\n\nBurials are taking place in the Afghan capital, Kabul after a bomb exploded at a wedding hall killing 63 people and wounding more than 180.\n\nThe Islamic State (IS) group said it was behind the attack.\n\nThe blast happened on Saturday during a wedding ceremony at around 22:40 local time (18.10 GMT).\n\nPresident Ashraf Ghani has condemned the attack, describing it as \"barbaric\". He blamed the Taliban for \"providing a platform to terrorists.\"\n\nThe Taliban has denied involvement and condemned the attack.\n\nAn IS statement said that one of its fighters blew himself up at a \"large gathering\" while others \"detonated a parked explosives-laden vehicle\" when emergency services arrived.\n\nThe Afghan interior ministry confirmed the death toll hours later. Pictures on social media showed bodies strewn across the wedding hall amid overturned chairs and tables.\n\nAfghan weddings often include hundreds of guests who gather in large halls where the men are usually segregated from the women and children.\n\nThe groom who gave his name as Mirwais told local TV: \"My family, my bride are in shock, they cannot even speak. My bride keeps fainting.\n\n\"I lost my brother, I lost my friends, I lost my relatives. I will never see happiness in my life again.\"\n\n\"I can't go to the funerals, I feel very weak ... I know that this won't be the last suffering for Afghans, the suffering will continue,\" he said.\n\nBurials are taking place in Kabul following the attack\n\nThe bride's father told local media that 14 members of his family were killed in the attack.\n\nWedding guest Mohammad Farhag said he had been in the women's section when he heard a huge explosion in the men's area.\n\n\"Everyone ran outside shouting and crying,\" he told AFP news agency.\n\n\"For about 20 minutes the hall was full of smoke. Almost everyone in the men's section is either dead or wounded.\"\n\nMore than 180 people were injured in the bombing\n\nA waiter at the hall, Sayed Agha Shah, said \"everybody was running\" after the blast.\n\n\"Several of our waiters were killed or wounded,\" he added.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The floor of the wedding hall was covered in blood after the explosion\n\nWriting on Twitter, president Ashraf Ghani said he had called a security meeting to \"review and prevent such security lapses.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Ashraf Ghani This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy 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 explosion took place in the west of the city, mostly populated by Shia Muslims.\n\nSunni Muslim militants, including the Taliban and the Islamic State group, have repeatedly targeted Shia Hazara minorities in Afghanistan and Pakistan.\n\nA Taliban spokesman said the group \"strongly condemned\" the attack.\n\n\"There is no justification for such deliberate and brutal killings and targeting of women and children,\" Zabiullah Mujaheed said in a text message to the media.\n\nThe latest blast comes just 10 days after a huge bomb outside a Kabul police station killed at least 14 people and injured nearly 150.\n\nThe Taliban said they carried out that attack.\n\nOn Friday a brother of Taliban leader Hibatullah Akhundzada was killed by a bomb planted in a mosque near the Pakistani city of Quetta.\n\nNo group has so far claimed that attack.\n\nA source in Afghan intelligence told the BBC that Hibatullah Akhundzada had been due to attend prayers at the mosque and was probably the intended target.\n\nTensions in the country have been high even though the Taliban and the US, which has thousands of troops stationed in Afghanistan, are reportedly getting closer to announcing a peace deal.\n\nWorried relatives gathered outside a hospital in Kabul on Saturday\n\nTaliban and US representatives have been holding peace talks in Qatar's capital, Doha, and both sides have reported progress.\n\nOn Friday, US President Donald Trump tweeted that both sides were \"looking to make a deal - if possible\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript 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\nThe deal would include a phased US troop pullout in exchange for Taliban guarantees that Afghanistan will not be used by extremist groups to attack US targets.\n\nThe Taliban would also begin negotiations with an Afghan delegation on a framework for peace including an eventual ceasefire. The militants have been refusing to negotiate with the Afghan government until a timetable for the US withdrawal is agreed upon.\n\nThe Taliban now control more territory than at any point since they were forced from power in 2001.", "Last updated on .From the section Cricket\n\nMen's Ashes: Second Specsavers Test, Lord's (day three of five)\n\nStuart Broad believes England can still win the second Ashes Test, despite five sessions having been lost to rain.\n\nThe hosts reduced Australia to 80-4, 178 behind, before the Lord's weather wiped out the final two sessions of the third day, following on from the complete abandonment on day one.\n\n\"It's set up for two brilliant days,\" Broad told Test Match Special.\n\n\"We probably have to knock Australia over by lunch tomorrow [Saturday] and that will be our aim.\"\n• None Stone ruled out for rest of season\n• None Quiz: Can you name England's Ashes debutants since 2000?\n\nIn the 24.1 overs that were possible on Friday, England's bowlers were in danger of wasting some helpful conditions, but improved to take three Australia wickets for only 11 runs.\n\nThe rain arrived just before lunch and even though it relented enough for two inspections to be scheduled for late afternoon, a resumption was never possible.\n\n\"We were desperate to continue,\" added pace bowler Broad, who trapped Travis Head lbw on Friday after bowling David Warner late on Thursday.\n\n\"A lot of time has been lost in this Test but with the way we bowled this morning there is still a chance of a result.\"\n\nEngland trail 1-0 after being beaten in the first Test at Edgbaston, but with the forecast improved for Saturday and Sunday, potentially have two days of 98 overs each in which to level the series.\n\nThey came close to ending the day in an even stronger position - Matthew Wade initially given out lbw to Ben Stokes only for the decision to be overturned on review with the ball pitching outside leg stump.\n\nInstead, Wade will return in the company of prolific Australia batsman Steve Smith, who is unbeaten on 13.\n\n\"We've given ourselves a chance,\" said Broad. \"Five would have been lovely when Wade was given out. If conditions suit tomorrow morning, we could take six wickets in those two hours and get batting.\n\n\"The exciting thing for us is that there are 98 overs for two days. We genuinely believe we can force a result and if we do that, the Lord's crowd will enjoy the next two days.\"\n\nFormer Australia captain Steve Waugh, now part of their coaching team, said that even though there are only two days remaining in the match, there is a \"long way to go\" in the contest.\n\n\"It's really only just started so it's hard to put a gauge on where it is at the moment,\" said Waugh.\n\n\"We've got to get some runs in the first innings to get on par with England and then if we can do that and get ahead then we've got a chance of doing well in the game.\n\n\"Both sides are a long way from victory. There's a long way to go.\"", "Peter Duncan died in hospital shortly after being attacked\n\nA 17-year-old boy has been charged with murdering a lawyer who was stabbed to death with a screwdriver.\n\nPeter Duncan, 52, was attacked on Wednesday after what police said was a chance \"coming together\" with a group of youths in Newcastle city centre.\n\nThe boy, who cannot be named for legal reasons, has been charged with murder, possession of an offensive weapon and theft.\n\nHe is due to appear at North Tyneside Magistrates' Court on Monday.\n\nNorthumbria Police said it believed Mr Duncan, from Newcastle, had been attacked after a \"chance encounter\" outside a branch of Greggs in Old Eldon Square.\n\nHe was described by his family as a \"devoted father and husband\".\n\n\"Peter was a kind and caring man who was always first to help others,\" they said in a statement.\n\n\"His death will leave such a huge hole in our lives and he'll be deeply missed by us all.\"\n\nA cordon was put in place in Eldon Square\n\nAccording to his profile on LinkedIn, Mr Duncan trained as an electrical engineer before graduating from Northumbria University with a law degree in 2003.\n\nHe was working as legal counsel in the Newcastle office of Royal IHC Limited, and previously as a solicitor and legal advisor with other companies in Darlington and Newcastle.\n\nCh Supt Ged Noble said: \"This continues to be an extremely difficult time for the family and loved ones of Peter.\"\n\nPolice originally arrested a total of eight teenage boys in connection with his death.\n\nThree boys, aged 14, 15 and 17, have been released under investigation.\n\nTwo 15-year-olds and two aged 17 have been released with no further action.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Tony Martin keeps a copy of a 2018 newspaper reporting the ruling Richard Osborn-Brooks, who also killed a burglar, did not act unlawfully\n\nA farmer who shot dead a burglar breaking into his property has said he realises his conviction continues to divide people, 20 years on.\n\nTony Martin was jailed after killing teenager Fred Barras and injuring Brendon Fearon with an illegal gun at his Norfolk farmhouse.\n\n\"What happened to me is important to every man, woman and child in this country - not just to me,\" said Martin.\n\nFred Barras was 16 when he was shot by Tony Martin\n\nThe farmer, now 74, was convicted of murder in 2000 though it was later downgraded to manslaughter on grounds of diminished responsibility after a diagnosis of paranoid personality disorder, and he was released in 2003.\n\nFearon, 29, and 16-year-old Fred had travelled from Newark in Nottinghamshire on the evening of 20 August to raid Bleak House, the semi-derelict farm building in Emneth Hungate, Norfolk, where Martin stored antiques.\n\nPolice officers guard the scene of the shooting at Martin's farmhouse in August 1999\n\nUpon hearing them, Martin came down from an upstairs bedroom and opened fire with a pump-action shotgun.\n\nMartin claimed to have been acting in self-defence; prosecutors argued he had anticipated the pair and lay in wait for them.\n\nThe case attracted huge public attention, with his supporters casting him as a man taking a stand to defend his home and others seeing him as a violent eccentric who turned vigilante.\n\nTwenty years on from what he calls \"that fateful night\", Martin maintains he does not \"have to excuse myself for anything\", and believes the law still falls short in protecting householders defending their homes.\n\nHe insists his \"problem\" - the term he uses to refer to the break-in, shooting and imprisonment - matters, because he believes he should have been treated as the victim, not the criminal.\n\n\"I've always said when people get into exceptional circumstances which are beyond the norm, the law should leave you alone,\" he said. \"You should be protected in law against these things.\"\n\nMartin, pictured in October 2001, served three years in prison\n\nHe followed closely the case of Richard Osborn-Brooks, the 79-year-old who last year stabbed to death a burglar at his home in south London, and who faced no charges.\n\nIn his car's glove compartment, Martin keeps a well-thumbed copy of a newspaper reporting the inquest conclusion that the burglar was lawfully killed.\n\n\"Every case is different but some people are of the opinion that, personally, he didn't do anything wrong,\" said Martin. \"He didn't go to bed that night to end up killing somebody. It happened because these things do happen.\"\n\nThe law permits homeowners to use \"reasonable force\" to defend their homes against intruders, and was clarified in 2013 to recognise the highly-charged nature of such encounters.\n\nIn Martin's case, prosecutors successfully argued he had used excessive force in shooting both burglars in the back as they climbed out of a window.\n\nThe stairs in Bleak House from which Martin shot Barras and Fearon\n\nThe circumstances of Tony Martin's crime formed a \"perfect storm\" to split a nation over the rights of homeowners to defend themselves, said a leading criminologist - but did not change the law.\n\nProf David Wilson said Martin became a powerful and divisive symbol, held up both by those who believed his actions were justified and those who did not.\n\n\"Was he defending his home from intruders or simply a vigilante taking the law into his own hands?\" said Prof Wilson, emeritus professor of criminology at Birmingham City University.\n\n\"I don't think any journalist missed the opportunity to frame that story in the way that suited their readership.\"\n\nDespite those interpretations, Martin was found guilty - and the impact of his case has not changed the legal facts, Prof Wilson said.\n\n\"The law has not changed. You are allowed to take reasonable steps to defend yourself and your property.\n\n\"The test of what's reasonable was not felt to have been met in Martin's case because the intruders were running away.\"\n\nThe law allows for \"reasonable force\" to be used - a test Martin failed, leading legal experts to warn after the verdict that he should not be seen as \"the typical Englishman trying to defend his castle\".\n\nThough he claims to be a man who sees \"in black and white\", Martin understands his case still divides opinion.\n\nTo some he is \"an icon\", he says, citing the 4,000 cards he received on his first Christmas in prison. To others, such as those who confront him on the street, he is a \"kiddy killer\".\n\nBut he says the law continues to fail to factor in the isolation felt by many targets of burglary, particularly in rural locations.\n\n\"There's no comprehension or understanding of individuals who are on their own. In certain situations, you are on your own - it's as simple as that,\" he said.\n\n\"When I walked down that staircase that fateful night I took back control of my home.\"\n\nMartin says he is still targeted by burglars, and has set up surveillance systems he claims show people trespassing to size up his properties.\n\nBrendon Fearon was wounded in the legs by Martin\n\nDuring the court case in 2000, the jury heard Martin had developed a hatred of burglars after repeated break-ins at the farmhouse he inherited from his uncle.\n\nAfter he was jailed, he says, he confronted a burglar in prison in an attempt to understand.\n\n\"I said: 'I understand you break into people's houses. Why do you do it?',\" said Martin.\n\n\"He said that's how things are. He then turned his back. I said BANG!\n\n\"He said 'What's that?' and I said 'That's how things are.'\"\n\nTony Martin says he does not often think about the men he shot\n\nMost years the anniversary passes without fanfare for Martin, more notable for the rapid drawing in of the nights than the events that sent him to prison.\n\nHe claims to rarely think of the two men he shot, conceding only their encounter changed his life \"in many, many ways\".\n\nTwo years ago, he paid a visit to the grave of Fred Barras in the teenager's home town of Newark.\n\n\"I saw a chap [in the graveyard], and said 'Do you know Barras and where his grave is? Do you mind taking me up there and showing me?'\n\n\"It was right up the other end from the gate. I just stood there and looked at it,\" said Martin.\n\n\"There's a photograph of him on it - it's the same photograph as the one people keep using. The only thing I have ever seen of him is the photograph.\"\n\nThe BBC approached Fred Barras's family but they said they did not want to speak about his death.\n\nFor years after the shooting, Martin refused to return to Bleak House, preferring to stay night-to-night with friends and his other properties in west Norfolk.\n\nTwenty years on from the night that thrust him into the headlines, he remains a recognisable figure in his village and beyond, and one who continues to divide opinion.", "Natalie Crichlow was in Barbados to look after her brother\n\nA British woman died due to infection following serious burns suffered in a fire in Barbados, a post-mortem examination has revealed.\n\nNatalie Crichlow, 44, from Colindale, London, was in Barbados to look after her disabled brother.\n\nHer family has said the mother of three was attacked and set alight while in bed.\n\nHowever, Royal Barbados Police Force said there was no sign of an intruder or flammable liquid on her clothing.\n\nIn a statement on Friday, Barbados Police Commissioner Tyrone Griffith said the \"seat\" of the fire was in the kitchen.\n\nIt rapidly engulfed the house, and residents and workmen on a nearby property \"sprang into action to assist\", he said.\n\nThey found Ms Crichlow in the garden of the house badly burned.\n\nCCTV from an adjacent house \"clearly demonstrated that no-one entered those premises for hours prior to the fire\", the commissioner said.\n\nHe said the footage also showed the blaze originated in the kitchen.\n\nA man who once lived in the house has been interviewed, but the commissioner said he had no involvement in Ms Crichlow's death.\n\nHe said: \"This matter is being treated as an unnatural death and intense investigations are ongoing.\n\n\"At this stage there is nothing to indicate that there was an intruder at the premises.\"\n\nMs Crichlow's niece has said the family is concerned the police force on the island is not treating the death as a murder investigation.\n\nMs Crichlow, who was born in Luton, has three children aged 10, 20 and 26.\n\nHer son, footballer Romoney Crichlow-Noble, has thanked fans for their support following his mother's death.\n\nThey want her body returned to Britain for burial.\n\nThey have set up a crowd-funding page in an attempt to raise the £8,000 needed.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Several neighbourhoods including Fatih, home to the historic Grand Bazaar, were affected.\n\nAuthorities said a homeless man was found in the Unkapani district, apparently drowned.\n\nThey warned the public to take care in the severe weather conditions.", "Although the fire was ferocious, no-one died in the blaze\n\nA massive fire has swept through a slum in the capital of Bangladesh, Dhaka, leaving thousands of people homeless.\n\nAt least 1,200 tin shacks were destroyed in the Chalantika slum late on Friday, officials said.\n\nMany homes had plastic roofs, which helped the flames to spread. No deaths have been reported, although several people were injured.\n\nMost residents are low-wage earners and many were away after the Muslim festival of Eid al-Adha.\n\nThere is no word on the cause of the fire.\n\nThe number of people made homeless by the fire is unclear, with Reuters news agency reporting it to be 3,000 people and AFP putting the number at 10,000.\n\nEarlier reports suggested the number was as high as 50,000.\n\nThe cause of the devastating fire is not yet clear\n\n\"According to our investigation committee 1,200 shanties were damaged and out of this 750 shanties burnt totally,\" Enamur Rahman, junior minister for disaster management and relief, told Reuters.\n\nThe government says relief will be provided for the many thousands who are now without shelter.\n\nDaytime images show the scale of the destruction\n\nSome 10,000 people are currently being sheltered in schools that were shut for the festival, fire official Ershad Hossain told AFP.\n\n\"I could not salvage a single thing. I don't know what will I do,\" Abdul Hamid, who ran a tea stall inside the slum, told the news agency.\n\nAn investigation is under way. Firefighters took more than six hours to put out the flames.\n\nResidents were pictured on Sunday searching through the debris of their homes for belongings\n\nLocal residents sit on the street with their belongings as the fire ripped through the slum", "Peter Fonda died peacefully at his home in Los Angeles, surrounded by relatives, his family said\n\nPeter Fonda, the star, co-writer and producer of the 1969 cult classic Easy Rider, has died at the age of 79.\n\nIn a statement, his family said he suffered respiratory failure due to lung cancer, and died peacefully at home in Los Angeles.\n\nHis older sister Jane Fonda added: \"I am very sad. He was my sweet-hearted baby brother. The talker of the family.\n\n\"I have had beautiful alone time with him these last days. He went out laughing.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nPeter Fonda was part of a veteran Hollywood family. As well as being the brother of Jane Fonda, he was also the son of actor Henry Fonda, and father to Bridget, also an actor.\n\nEasy Rider, in which Fonda appeared alongside its director Dennis Hopper and a young Jack Nicholson, became a cult classic and earned Fonda an Academy Award nomination for Best Original Screenplay.\n\nFonda played a biker in the film - a role he would take up a number of times throughout his career.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Peter Fonda had received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame\n\nThe film, the first counterculture movie to be a huge hit, touched a nerve for America's youth, the BBC's Peter Bowes reports from Los Angeles.\n\nGoodfellas actress Illeana Douglas tweeted a tribute to Fonda, and to the film - which she said \"depicted the rise of hippie culture, condemned the establishment, and celebrated freedom\".\n\nAlmost 30 years later he was nominated for another Oscar - this time, in the Best Actor category for his 1997 film Ulee's Gold.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Illeana Douglas This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nLater in life he put his efforts into environmentalism, and in 2012 he co-produced The Big Fix - a film about the explosion of the BP oil rig Deepwater Horizon.\n\nBorn in 1940 in New York City, Fonda lost his mother when he was 10 years old.\n\nOn his 11th birthday, he accidentally shot himself with a rifle and almost died.\n\nHe later discussed the incident with The Beatles' John Lennon and reportedly inspired the line \"I know what it's like to be dead\" in their song \"She said She Said.\"\n\nOn his website he said: \"Part of my lifestyle you should all remember is having fun. Being funny is a big part of it. After all, if one is in tune, funny is the tune to play. Giving laughter is more fun than giving advice. Giving laughter while giving advice is the jackpot.\"\n\n\"While we mourn the loss of this sweet and gracious man, we also wish for all to celebrate his indomitable spirit and love of life,\" the family's statement said.\n\n\"In honour of Peter, please raise a glass to freedom.\"", "Prime Minister Boris Johnson has paid tribute to PC Andrew Harper who was killed while attending a reported burglary.\n\nPC Harper, of Thames Valley Police, died at about 23.30 BST on Thursday in Berkshire.\n\nTen people have been arrested on suspicion of murdering the police officer. The force said the males were aged between 13 and 30.", "Things didn't quite go to plan when a hungry raccoon tried to pilfer a snack from a vending machine at a Florida high school.", "Different approaches to protecting elephants are set to dominate the debate at a key conservation conference starting in Geneva today.\n\nDelegates from more than 180 countries are gathering for the meeting of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (Cites).\n\nSome African nations are again pushing to reopen the trade in ivory.\n\nHowever others are seeking the highest possible protections for all of Africa's elephants.\n\nThe Cites meeting, held every three years, will discuss a record 56 proposals submitted by governments to the Conference of the Parties, known as COP18.\n\nThe COP was due to be held in Sri Lanka earlier this year but was moved to Switzerland in the wake of the bomb attacks at Easter.\n\nKey among the items on the agenda will be competing ideas on how to protect African elephants, which have seen a huge decline in numbers due to poaching over the past 20 years.\n\nA study published in 2016 estimated that 30-40,000 of the giant creatures were killed by poachers every year with roughly 400,000 left in total.\n\nIn many parts of Africa, elephants are protected under Cites Appendix I, which means that trade is only permitted under exceptional circumstances.\n\nAt this meeting, Zambia is seeking to have its elephants downlisted to Appendix II. This would allow a commercial trade in registered raw ivory with approved trading partners.\n\nBotswana, Namibia and Zimbabwe are also proposing that ivory from elephants in their region be traded.\n\nOn the other end of the scale, a number of countries including Kenya, Nigeria and Gabon are proposing that all elephants in Africa be listed as Appendix I, the highest form of protection available to Cites.\n\n\"The elephant is in the centre of the debate once again,\" said Vera Weber from the Franz Weber Foundation, which campaigns to protect endangered species.\n\n\"Only five countries want to re-open the trade in ivory but there is a 32-country bloc with the African elephant coalition that want full protection and a complete ban on ivory trade.\"\n\nWhile all the elephant proposals are considered unlikely to reach the two thirds majority needed to change the rules, some environmentalists are concerned that the European Union will support the Zambian proposal if the Zambians establish a zero quota and agree to not sell any ivory into approved markets.\n\nVera Weber believes this would be a disastrous signal to send.\n\n\"Thirty years ago in 1989, the parties decided to vote for the uplifting of African elephants and this basically saved the elephant from extinction,\" she told BBC News.\n\n\"And now we look at the recently released IPBES report that says that a million species are going towards extinction in the next years, so now is not the moment to speak about any trade in endangered species and the African elephant is an endangered species.\"\n\nAs well as elephants there are likely to be significant debates at this meeting over giraffes, sharks, rhinos and a number of threatened plant and tree species.\n\nSome environmentalists are very concerned about giraffes, who they say are suffering a \"silent extinction\" with numbers dropping by 40% over the last 30 years because of habitat loss, civil unrest, illegal hunting and the international trade in body parts.\n\nFor the first time a proposal to protect giraffes is on the agenda\n\nFor the first time at Cites, there is a proposal to give these giraffes a measure of protection from trade.\n\n\"It is important that giraffes are listed by Cites because currently we can't say for certain how much of their huge population decline is due to trade,\" said Matt Collis from the International Fund for Animal Welfare.\n\n\"We do know it is a significant factor though as the only country that currently collects data on trade in giraffes, the US, has reported almost 40,000 giraffe items traded in a decade, from 2006 to 2015.\"\n\nSharks are also the subject of efforts to increase protection. Six years ago at the Cites meeting in Thailand, a number of shark species were listed for the first time. Now at this meeting there are proposals to list a further 18 of the most threatened species including both the longfin and shortfin mako shark.\n\nAnother species where countries are seeking to tighten trade restrictions is the Saiga antelope, mainly found in Russia, Mongolia and Kazakhstan. A bacterial infection wiped out huge numbers of the animals in 2015 but it also suffers from poaching due to demand from traditional medicine.\n\nThe US and Mongolia are seeking a ban on all international trade in the species, a move that is being vigorously opposed by Kazakhstan, who say that numbers are starting to rise.\n\nOne other proposal gaining attention, even if it is not likely to secure a majority, is from Israel.\n\nThey are asking the conference to restrict trade in an extinct animal, the woolly mammoth. The intention is to try to stop poachers passing off elephant ivory as mammoth tusks which are sometimes collected in Siberia from melting permafrost.", "Angela Rayner says Labour would change the system \"by the end of our first term in office\"\n\nLabour says it would scrap the system of university places being offered on the basis of predicted grades and bring in a system of applying after results.\n\nThe party says the allocation of places on predicted grades is \"deeply unfair\".\n\nBut universities and schools say any changes would be complex and could mean an overhaul of the school calendar.\n\nThe proposals come as students across England, Wales and Northern Ireland prepare to receive their A-level and BTec results this week.\n\nResearch by the Department for Business Innovation and Skills in 2011 found 51.7% of all predictions were accurate, with 41.7% being over-predicted and 6.6% under-predicted.\n\nBlack applicants had the lowest percentage accuracy with only 39.1% of grades accurately predicted, while white applicants had the highest grade prediction accuracy at 53%.\n\nShadow education secretary Angela Rayner said \"radical change\" was needed for university admissions and is promising a new system of post-qualification admissions \"by the end of our first term in office\".\n\nMs Rayner said predicted grades were wrong \"in the vast majority of cases\" and disadvantaged students \"lost out on opportunities on the basis of those inaccurate predictions\".\n\n\"No-one should be left out of our education system just because of their background,\" she said, \"yet with grants scrapped and fees tripled, the system is now deeply unfair.\n\n\"A Labour government will deliver the reform that is needed... we will put students at the heart of the system, making it fairer, more accurate, and a genuine vehicle for social justice.\"\n\nMs Rayner acknowledged the move may require changes to the school calendar but said a Labour government would consult and work with the sector to design and implement the new system.\n\n\"We may have to look at then calendar and we are willing to do that because what we believe is more important is that students get the opportunity to get the best university for them based upon their actual grades,\" she told BBC Radio 4's Today programme.\n\nUniversities and schools say the proposals are not straightforward.\n\nClare Marchant, chief executive of the admissions service, Ucas, acknowledged a post-qualifications admissions (PQA) service had \"a natural appeal\".\n\nBut she said a UK-wide consultation it had carried out in 2012 had showed that \"if introduced wholesale within the current timetables, it would be likely to significantly disadvantage under-represented and disabled students, unless secondary and/or university calendars changed\".\n\nBlack students have the lowest level of grade prediction accuracy, figures show\n\nMs Marchant said disadvantaged students were more likely to be over-predicted, \"which can encourage them to make aspirational choices, with universities making realistic offers and taking near-miss candidates when confirming places\".\n\nUnder the current system, the Ucas boss added, about 78% of applicants received their first choice of university or college, regardless of their background.\n\n\"Clearing provides a PQA service for those students who want to wait until they have their results before applying. And in 2018, more than 17,500 students were accepted directly through this route,\" she said.\n\nMs Marchant said developing a PQA service that worked for everyone would need the support of students, teachers, qualification awarding bodies, the Student Loans Company, and universities and colleges, as well as a solution to timescale challenges.\n\nAnd Geoff Barton, general secretary of the Association of School and College Leaders, said changing the current system would \"represent a significant and complex change\".\n\n\"It would be extremely difficult to manage the entire applications process in the few weeks between A-level results in mid-August and the beginning of university terms in September or October and it is likely that we would need to rethink the entire calendar.\n\n\"It might be simpler to return to a system in which AS-levels counted towards the first year of the full A-level, as this allowed universities to use actual results in considering applications.\"\n\nBut Jo Grady, general secretary of the University and College Union, said Labour's plan would \"help level the playing field for students, remove the problems associated with unconditional offers and end the chaotic clearing scramble\".\n\n\"The current system, based on inaccurately predicted results, is failing students and it is time we adopted the type of system used around the rest of the world, where university offers are based on actual achievements instead of guesswork,\" she said.\n\nUniversities UK, which represents higher education institutions, is currently carrying out a review of the admissions process and is due to report back next spring.", "The alarm at Castle Sinclair Girnigoe, near Wick, was raised at about 17:00\n\nA French schoolboy has been seriously injured after falling into a gully near a castle in the Highlands while the tide was coming in.\n\nThe alarm was raised at about 17:00 when the 14-year-old became stuck in an \"inaccessible location\" at Castle Sinclair Girnigoe, near Wick.\n\nHe had fallen up to 15ft down the ravine with an incoming tide.\n\nThe 14-year-old was airlifted to Aberdeen Royal Infirmary\n\nA multi-agency rescue included the coastguard, the RNLI, police and ambulance service.\n\nThe teenager was airlifted to Aberdeen Royal Infirmary with head injuries by a coastguard helicopter.\n\nPolice Scotland described his condition as serious but not life-threatening.\n\nA multi-agency team was involved in the rescue\n\nJohn Taylor, Wick RNLI Lifeboat press officer, said: 'We would like to extend our best wishes to the casualty for a full and speedy recovery.\n\n\"This evening's call out highlighted the good teamwork between the various emergency services teams.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nAn armed man has been arrested after stabbing a woman in central Sydney and being detained on the street by members of the public.\n\nA second woman was found dead inside an apartment building on the same street.\n\n\"All the information we have at hand would link these two crimes,\" police commissioner Mick Fuller said at a press conference.\n\nHe said the suspect was a \"lone actor\" with a history of mental health issues.\n\nHe was known to police but \"his history was unremarkable compared to the gravity of the crimes he committed\", Mr Fuller said.\n\nPhotos taken at the scene show the stand-off between the knifeman and a passerby wielding a chair\n\nThe police commissioner said the suspect had some ideologies related to terrorism, but had no apparent links to other terrorist organisations.\n\nIt is believed the man had a USB drive containing details of mass killings in New Zealand and the United States.\n\nMr Fuller said the stabbing is not currently being classed as a terrorist incident but this would be reassessed as the investigation continues.\n\nThree \"heroes\" were praised by New South Wales Police Minister David Elliot for their role in detaining the man and acting \"well and truly beyond the call of any citizen\". He also congratulated the firefighters involved.\n\nThe incident unfolded at about 14:00 local time (04:00 GMT) on Tuesday near Clarence St and King St, a busy area in the city centre.\n\nVideo footage shows the suspect jumping on a car wielding a knife, shouting \"Allahu Akbar\" and \"shoot me\", as another man confronts him with a wicker chair.\n\nPolice said the suspect had stabbed a 41-year-old woman in the back before being restrained by three members of the public.\n\nThey \"placed him essentially under arrest, even though he was brandishing a large butchers knife and was clearly dangerous\".\n\nEmergency services arrived shortly after and following a wider investigation, the body of a 21-year-old woman was found nearby.\n\nThe injured woman was taken to hospital in a stable condition. Police said there was no ongoing threat.\n\nThree British men were among those who helped take the man down.\n\nLee Cuthbert, Paul O'Shaughnessy and Luke O'Shaughnessy, all from Greater Manchester, were working in an office nearby when they heard the commotion outside and ran out to help.\n\n\"I could have easily just looked out of the window and not done anything,\" Luke O'Shaughnessy, a former Thai boxer, told the BBC. \"I thought we've got to run towards it.\"\n\nBrothers Luke (L) and Paul (R) O'Shaughnessy, who say Sydney is their new home\n\nHe described how he helped force \"a chair over his legs, a chair over his torso and then a milk crate on his face\" to keep the man in place.\n\nMr O'Shaughnessy said he was feeling \"shocked\" but happy that everyone he knew was alright, considering that \"some people haven't got that luxury tonight\".\n\nThe taxi driver whose car was jumped on by the man described him as \"completely fearless\".\n\n\"I froze for probably a split second but then I thought I'm hoping that he's not covered in any explosives or anything,\" he told Nine News Sydney. The Uber driver then quickly accelerated to force the man off his car.\n\nOne witness said she saw the man jump on a car before he was confronted by people on the street who tried to fight him with chairs and pipes.\n\n\"The guy had blood on his shirt. He was screaming, holding a knife on his hand, and running up a car just in front of us,\" Japanese tourist Aya Yamada told the BBC.\n\n\"Another guy with a chair and some firefighters were chasing him. I was in the car with my husband and friends, and could run away immediately.\"\n\nEmergency services arrived at the scene shortly after the man was held down\n\nVideos posted online show a man running through the streets brandishing a knife, before people attempt to stop him and eventually tackle him to the ground.\n\nOther images show the suspect being pinned down with a chair and a milk crate, then being taken away by police.\n\nSupt Wood praised those who had intervened in the \"extremely dangerous and hostile\" situation, saying their actions had helped capture the man.\n\n\"They were significantly brave people,\" Supt Wood said.\n\nAuthorities have urged people to avoid the area.\n\nAustralian Prime Minister Scott Morrison tweeted that the \"violent attack\" was \"deeply concerning\" but praised the \"brave actions\" of those who restrained the suspect.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 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.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The ex-chancellor says removing the Irish border 'backstop' is a \"wrecking tactic\"\n\nFormer Chancellor Philip Hammond has accused the PM of trying to wreck the chance of a new Brexit deal, by making demands the EU could never accept.\n\nIn a Times article, Mr Hammond said a no-deal Brexit would be \"a betrayal\" of the 2016 referendum result.\n\nHe told the BBC he was \"confident\" that Parliament \"has the means\" to express its opposition to a no-deal exit.\n\nA No 10 source said the UK would leave on 31 October despite Mr Hammond's \"best efforts to the contrary\".\n\nThe source added that Mr Hammond, as chancellor, \"did everything he could\" to block preparations for leaving and had \"undermined negotiations\".\n\nThe former chancellor rejected this suggestion in a tweet, saying he wanted to deliver Brexit \"and voted to do so three times\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Philip Hammond This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson has said he wants to leave the EU with a deal, but the UK must leave \"do or die\" by the latest Brexit deadline of 31 October.\n\nHe wants the EU to ditch the Irish border backstop plan from the deal negotiated by former PM Theresa May, which was rejected three times by Parliament.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Last week Boris Johnson said the EU should show 'common sense' on Brexit\n\nBut the EU has continued to insist that deal, including the backstop arrangements, is the only agreement possible.\n\nMany of those who voted against the deal had concerns over the backstop, which if implemented, would see Northern Ireland staying aligned to some rules of the EU single market.\n\nIt would also see the UK stay in a single customs territory with the EU, and align with current and future EU rules on competition and state aid.\n\nThese arrangements would apply unless and until both the EU and UK agreed they were no longer necessary.\n\nSpeaking on BBC Radio 4's Today programme, Mr Hammond said a no-deal exit would be \"just as much a betrayal of the referendum result as not leaving at all\".\n\nHe said that Mr Johnson's demand for the backstop to be entirely removed from the deal meant a no-deal was inevitable on the current 31 October deadline.\n\nHe said that agreeing to changes now would \"fragment\" the EU, adding: \"they are not going to take that risk\".\n\n\"Pivoting to say the backstop has to go in its entirety - a huge chunk of the withdrawal agreement just scrapped - is effectively a wrecking tactic,\" he said.\n\nHe also told Today that he was \"very confident\" MPs would be able to pass legislation to express their opposition to a no-deal exit.\n\nHowever he said he did not favour the tactic of replacing the PM with a national unity government designed to prevent no deal, saying: \"I don't think that's the answer\".\n\nIn his Times article, Mr Hammond said \"the unelected people who pull the strings of this government know that this is a demand the EU cannot, and will not, accede to.\"\n\nBBC political correspondent Tom Barton said that remark was an apparent aim at the prime minister's closest adviser, Dominic Cummings - the former Vote Leave campaign director.\n\nIt was a \"travesty of the truth\", Mr Hammond wrote, to pretend that Leave voters backed a no-deal Brexit in the 2016 referendum.\n\nBut Leave-supporting former Tory leader Iain Duncan Smith, also speaking on the Today programme, said he was \"astounded\" by Mr Hammond's remarks.\n\n\"Talk about hubris. This man did nothing to prepare us for leaving with no deal,\" he said.\n\n\"The fact we are now doing that means we have a much better chance to get some kind of agreement from them because they now know we're going to leave with no deal and he's undermining that.\"\n\nMr Hammond's comments come as Downing Street said it expected a group of MPs to try to block a no-deal Brexit by attempting to pass legislation when Parliament returns next month.\n\nThe Daily Telegraph reports that Commons Speaker John Bercow told an audience at the Edinburgh Fringe festival that he \"strongly\" believes the House of Commons \"must have its way\".\n\nHe said he would \"fight with every breath in my body\" any attempt by the prime minister to suspend Parliament to force through a no-deal against MPs' wishes.\n\nAmber Rudd says the government shouldn't work against MPs by suspending Parliament\n\nOn Tuesday, Work and Pensions Secretary Amber Rudd urged Mr Johnson not to force through a suspension.\n\nShe told the BBC: \"I remain a great admirer of Parliament and of parliamentary sovereignty and I will continue to argue for the executive of the government that I'm part of to work with Parliament, not against them.\"\n\nMeanwhile, 20 other senior Tory MPs have written to the prime minister to say his demand to scrap the Irish backstop \"set the bar so high that there is no realistic probability of a deal being done\".\n\nThe MPs said they were \"alarmed by the 'Red Lines' you have drawn which, on the face of it appear to eliminate the chance of reaching agreement with the EU\".\n\nThe group also demands that Mr Johnson declares he is firmly committed to leaving the EU with a deal and is ready to compromise to get one - pointing out those were assurances he gave during the leadership campaign \"both publicly and privately\".\n\nSeven other former cabinet ministers have signed the letter, including David Lidington, David Gauke, Rory Stewart and Greg Clark, all of whom resigned before Mr Johnson took office.\n\nUse the list below or select a button", "Nóra Quoirin went missing from her room on 4 August 2019\n\nThe parents of Nora Quoirin have identified a body found in Malaysia as that of the missing teenager.\n\nNora, who had special needs, was on holiday with her family when she disappeared from her room at the Dusun resort on 4 August.\n\nPolice said the 15-year-old Londoner's parents have confirmed the body discovered by a search team on Tuesday was their daughter.\n\nA post-mortem examination will be carried out on Wednesday.\n\nAbout 350 people had been hunting for Nora, who was of Irish-French descent, in dense jungle near the resort.\n\nHer body was found just over a mile (2km) away from the Dusun, according to BBC correspondent Howard Johnson.\n\nMalaysia's deputy police chief Mazlan Mansor said Nora was found beside a stream in a \"quite hilly\" area of plantation, and was \"not in any clothing\".\n\nRescuers found Nora's body near to the Dusun resort\n\nAuthorities have been treating Nora's disappearance as a missing persons case, but her family have said they believe she may have been abducted.\n\nHer cause of death has not yet been confirmed.\n\nNora was born with holoprosencephaly, a disorder which affects brain development, and her family said she was \"not independent and does not go anywhere alone\".\n\nOn Monday, her parents Meabh and Sebastien, a French-Irish couple who have lived in London for 20 years, put up a 50,000 Malaysian ringgit (£10,000) reward for help to find her.\n\nWhile announcing the reward, they described their daughter as being \"so precious to us\", adding their \"hearts are breaking\".\n\nMore than £115,000 has been donated on two crowdfunding sites set up by relatives to cover costs incurred by the family during the 10-day search.\n\nOver £100,000 has been raised on a page set up by Nora's aunt, while a second created by her uncle which allows people to pay in euros has reached more than €18,000 (£16,700).\n\nInvestigators previously said they had not ruled out a \"criminal element\" in the teenager's disappearance.\n\nAbout 350 people had been searching dense jungle for Nora\n\nNora, her parents and her younger brother and sister arrived at the resort in a nature reserve near Seremban, about 39 miles south of Kuala Lumpur, on 3 August for a two-week stay.\n\nHer father raised the alarm at 08:00 local time the next day after she was discovered missing from her bedroom.\n\nSearch teams were assisted by local Orang Asli people, who have knowledge of the jungle terrain, while two shamans also joined the operation.\n\nThe National Crime Agency (NCA), the Met Police, Irish and French police have also been providing support to Malaysian authorities.\n\nIrish President Michael D Higgins has offered his \"deepest condolences\" to Nora's family and thanked Malaysian authorities for their search efforts.\n\n\"Our thoughts and prayers are now with Nora's family, at this most difficult time,\" he said.\n\nTaoiseach Leo Varadkar tweeted: \"Our thoughts and sincere condolences are with Nora Quoirin's parents, siblings and wider family at this unimaginably difficult time.\"\n\nIn a statement, France's Ministry of Europe and Foreign Affairs said French police remain \"at the disposal of the Malaysian authorities so that light can be shed on the circumstances of her death\".\n\nMissing persons charity the Lucie Blackman Trust said it was \"thinking of the family and continue to support them as they come to terms with this news\".\n\nSt Bede's School in south London, which Nora attended, has opened its doors to allow the community \"to join in prayer for Nora and her family... in this heartbreaking and horrific moment\".\n\n3 August: The Quoirins arrive at the Dusun forest eco-resort\n\n5 August: The Lucie Blackman Trust says Malaysian police are treating Nora's disappearance as a potential abduction, but officers deny any foul play is involved\n\n6 August: Nora's family say they believe she has been abducted\n\n11 August: Malaysian police set up a hotline dedicated to receiving information about teenager\n\n12 August: A reward of £10,000 - donated by an anonymous Belfast business - is made available for information leading to Nora's safe return\n\n13 August: A body is found in the search for Nora\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Former White House National Security Adviser John Bolton has written a book alleging that President Trump gave \"personal favours to dictators he liked\".\n\nMr Bolton - also the former US envoy to the UN - was fired by President Donald Trump after repeated policy feuds. Who is he?\n\n\"A disgruntled boring fool who only wanted to go to war. Never had a clue, was ostracized & happily dumped. What a dope!\" the president tweeted on 18 June.\n\nIt followed a preview by US media of Mr Bolton's book, The Room Where It Happened, which is due to go on sale on 23 June.\n\nIn the book, Mr Bolton alleges that Mr Trump sought help from Chinese President Xi Jinping to win re-election. He also says Mr Trump \"remained stunningly uninformed on how to run the White House\".\n\nMr Bolton left his post in September 2019, saying he had decided to quit. Mr Trump tweeted then that he had fired him, and \"disagreed strongly with many of his suggestions, as did others in the Administration\".\n\nIn 2018, the president's decision to appoint Mr Bolton came as a surprise.\n\nAfter taking office Mr Trump was reported to have decided against naming Mr Bolton secretary of state as he disliked his walrus moustache.\n\nThe strident Bush administration neo-conservative remains an unapologetic cheerleader of the 2003 Iraq war, which the US president himself once lambasted as \"a big mistake\".\n\nKnown for that bushy facial hair, curmudgeonly manner and tousled appearance, Mr Bolton was praised by conservative admirers as a straight-talking foreign policy hawk.\n\nBut the Republican was also once memorably branded by a cable television host as \"a massive neocon on steroids\".\n\nKentucky Republican Senator Rand Paul described Mr Bolton in an op-ed as \"hell-bent on repeating virtually every foreign policy mistake the US has made in the last 15 years\".\n\nA Baltimore fireman's son, Mr Bolton has been a staunch conservative from his boyhood.\n\nMr Bolton with President Bush in the Oval Office in December 2006\n\nAt the age of 15 he took time off school to campaign for Barry Goldwater in the 1964 presidential campaign.\n\nAt Yale University, where he studied law with the help of a scholarship, he recalled in his memoir feeling like a \"space alien\" among the campus anti-Vietnam war activists.\n\nBill and Hillary Clinton were among his classmates at Yale, but he said he \"didn't run in their circles\".\n\nHe did befriend future Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas when they lived in a dormitory together.\n\nRichard Blumenthal, now a Democratic Senator for Connecticut, was Mr Bolton's editor on the student newspaper.\n\nDespite his penchant for sabre-rattling, Mr Bolton declined to fight for his country when the first opportunity arose.\n\nAs the Vietnam War raged, Mr Bolton avoided the draft by joining the National Guard.\n\nIn his memoir he said he did so because he felt the war had already been lost by liberals who were preventing America from taking necessary steps to win.\n\n\"I wasn't going to waste time on a futile struggle,\" Mr Bolton wrote.\n\n\"Dying for your country was one thing, but dying to gain territory that antiwar forces in Congress would simply return to the enemy seemed ludicrous to me. Looking back, I am not terribly proud of this calculation.\"\n\nMr Bolton went on to serve in the administrations of Ronald Reagan, George HW Bush and George W Bush.\n\nHe ruffled feathers in the second Bush administration where he initially worked as US Department of State under-secretary for arms control.\n\nMr Bolton was accused of trying to force out two intelligence analysts who disagreed with him and of seeking to undermine his boss, Colin Powell.\n\nHe also helped build the case that Saddam Hussein possessed weapons of mass destruction, which turned out to be wrong.\n\nA 2003 satellite image, which the US State Department claimed showed an Iraqi chemical ammunition depot\n\nBut Mr Bolton was praised for his work establishing the Proliferation Security Initiative, an international agreement to prohibit fissile material shipments.\n\nNevertheless, President Bush dismayed diplomats when he named Mr Bolton as US ambassador to the United Nations.\n\nMore than 100 former US envoys signed a letter urging senators to reject the nomination.\n\nThis was, after all, the man who had once said there was \"no such thing\" as the UN and called the US the world's \"only real power\".\n\nMr Bolton had also previously declared that if the 38-storey UN building \"lost 10 storeys today, it wouldn't make a bit of difference\".\n\nPresident Bush had to use a recess appointment to crowbar Mr Bolton into the job in 2005 after Senate Democrats, and even a few Republicans, blocked the move.\n\nDemocrats ultimately refused to confirm Mr Bolton and he had to step down when his appointment expired in January 2007.\n\nDiplomats at the UN privately criticised his style as abrasive.\n\nEven the state department was not spared the ire of Mr Bolton, who is known for his scorn of dovish multilateral institutions.\n\nHe once derided careerists at the US foreign ministry as having been \"schooled in accommodation and compromise with foreigners, rather than aggressive advocacy of US interests\".\n\nMr Bolton, formerly a senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, did not appear to have modified his views since his last spell in government.\n\nHis interventionist proclivities reportedly angered President Trump, who in early 2019 was said to have accused Mr Bolton of trying to drag the US into a war with Venezuela.\n\nMr Bolton did not appear to enjoy the same access to this White House's inner circle as he did in the Bush era.\n\nMr Trump sometimes confusedly called him \"Mike\", according to the New York Times.\n\nAs he briefly weighed his own run for the US presidency in 2016, Mr Bolton called in an op-ed for Iran to be bombed.\n\nAnd in an op-ed for the Wall Street Journal published shortly before being appointed by Mr Trump, he set out the case for a pre-emptive strike on North Korea.\n\nAfter rejoining the White House, however, Mr Bolton tempered his tone, saying: \"You have to know in advance the president's views are not always yours.\"", "An armed man has been arrested in Sydney after at least one woman was stabbed.\n\nVideo captured in central Sydney shows the dramatic moment bystanders intervened to apprehend the suspect.", "Bosses of more than 50 retailers including Asda and Boots have written to the chancellor urging him to change tax rules to boost the UK High Street.\n\nThe group said it wanted him to fix the \"broken business rates system\", which it called outdated.\n\nIt said the tax had jumped by 50% since the 1990s and had contributed to some retailers going out of business.\n\nThe Treasury said it had announced a £3.6bn fund last month \"to support our High Streets and town centres\".\n\n\"The chancellor will announce further details of the government's policy programme in the coming weeks and months,\" it added.\n\nIn the letter to the chancellor, co-ordinated by the British Retail Consortium trade body, the group pointed out that the retail sector accounted for 5% of the economy but paid 25% of all business rates, a property-based tax.\n\nIt said \"this disparity\" was damaging High Streets and \"harming the communities they support\".\n\nAs a result, the group said there was a growing number of empty shops, with vacancy rates at a four-and-a-half year high.\n\nBusiness rates are a tax on properties used for business. They are charged by the local council, but set by central government. The tenants or owners of offices, shops, pubs, and warehouses all pay business rates.\n\nJames Lowman, the chief executive of the Association of Convenience Stores, told the BBC's Today programme: \"It's a really outdated system, it's designed for a time when there only was physical retail, and people doing business from physical premises. That has been changing for a long time.\n\n\"The biggest thing is the way it's a disincentive to investment - so if you take a retail shop and you improve it, you put in things that are not just important to the business, but are probably important to that community, like CCTV, solar panels perhaps, bringing in a cash machine, that sees your business rates bills significantly increase.\n\n\"Now surely it should be the other way round. We should be encouraging and incentivising investment, rather than penalising businesses for it.\"\n\nAmong other things, the group wants businesses in London and the South East to pay more business rates to take pressure off firms in the North and the Midlands.\n\nHowever, it also said it wanted to avoid a tax rise overall.\n\n\"The likelihood of a no-deal Brexit appears to be increasing, which we believe would place a considerable strain on retailers in the UK,\" says the letter.\n\n\"In this context, the prime minister's intention to pursue an economic package to boost business and investment in the UK is crucially important; we strongly believe that reform of the broken business rates system should be front and centre of that package.\"\n\nRetailers employ three million people in the UK which makes the industry the UK's largest private sector employer, according to the British Retail Consortium.\n\nThe retail sector is not alone in asking for concessions to help it prepare for a potential no-deal Brexit.\n\nThe UK food industry, for example, has asked the government to waive aspects of competition law to allow firms to co-ordinate and direct supplies with each other after a no-deal Brexit.\n\nOn the other hand, government funding to help UK companies cope with a possible no-deal Brexit customs system has had a \"concerningly low\" take-up, the BBC's Newsnight programme reported last week.\n\nIn December, the Treasury and HM Revenue & Customs unveiled an £8m training fund which companies and trade intermediaries, such as freight forwarders, could apply for, but just 741 companies have applied for the grants.", "Alex Salmond still faces multiple charges of attempted rape and sexual assault, which he denies\n\nThe Scottish government has paid out more than £500,000 in legal expenses to Alex Salmond over its flawed inquiry into sexual harassment claims.\n\nThe government admitted breaching its own guidelines after the former first minister challenged how allegations against him were handled.\n\nHe still faces multiple charges of attempted rape and sexual assault, which are separate to this review.\n\nMr Salmond denies the charges, and is expected to go on trial next year.\n\nA spokesman for the Scottish government confirmed that a final settlement of £512,250 had been paid out for legal costs arising from the judicial review case.\n\nA parliamentary inquiry into the handling of the internal complaints has been put on hold until the criminal case is complete.\n\nThe payout relates to Mr Salmond's judicial review at the Court of Session in Edinburgh\n\nThe Scottish government inquiry was sparked after allegations against the former first minister were submitted in January 2018.\n\nMr Salmond described the complaints - which dated back to his time as first minister, in 2013 - as \"patently ridiculous\".\n\nHe quit the SNP and brought a legal action against the government, saying the way the investigation had been handled was \"unfair and unjust\".\n\nThe government initially said it would defend its position \"vigorously\" in court, but admitted in January 2019 - shortly before the first hearing was due to take place - that there had been a \"failure\" in following its complaints-handling process.\n\nThe judicial review was focused entirely on the fairness of the government's procedures, and has no bearing on the separate police inquiry.\n\nMSPs are to hold an inquiry into how the government handled its internal investigation\n\nA Holyrood inquiry into how the government handled the case has been set up, and First Minister Nicola Sturgeon has also referred herself to a conduct panel to check whether she breached the ministerial code in her dealings with her predecessor.\n\nA spokesman for Mr Salmond said the coming parliamentary inquiry \"may wish to ask the very obvious questions of why this unlawful process involving such a huge waste of public funds was undertaken by the Scottish government and who was responsible for these decisions\".\n\nThe Scottish Conservatives also said the scale of the payout was \"outrageous\", and that \"parliament must get to the bottom of exactly what happened\".\n\nHowever, the parliamentary inquiry has been put on hold until after the criminal case against Mr Salmond has run its course.\n\nTwo weeks after his victory in the judicial review, Mr Salmond was charged with 14 offences - including two charges of attempted rape, nine of sexual assault, two of indecent assault and one of breach of the peace.\n\nHe insisted he was innocent of any criminality and said he would defend himself \"to the utmost\".\n\nBBC Scotland understands Mr Salmond's trial will not being until January 2020 at the earliest.", "Campaigners want to prevent the prime minister from closing down parliament to force a no-deal Brexit\n\nA legal challenge to try to prevent Boris Johnson shutting down parliament to force through a no-deal Brexit has begun in a Scottish court.\n\nA group of MPs and peers wants the Court of Session in Edinburgh to rule that suspending parliament to make the UK leave the EU without a deal is \"unlawful and unconstitutional\".\n\nThe prime minister has repeatedly refused to rule out such a move.\n\nLord Doherty agreed to hear arguments from both sides in September.\n\nHowever he refused to accelerate the case through the Scottish courts, with the petitioners voicing fears that they may run out of time before the UK is due to leave the EU on 31 October.\n\nThe start of the legal action came as it emerged the UK government expects a group of MPs to try to block a no-deal Brexit by attempting to pass legislation when Parliament returns next month.\n\nA No 10 source said they expected the challenge to come in the second week of September, when MPs are due to debate a report on Northern Ireland.\n\nThe source assumes the EU will wait until after that date before engaging in further negotiations.\n\nMore than 70 politicians have put their names behind the move, including Lib Dem leader Jo Swinson and SNP MP Joanna Cherry.\n\nA challenge brought by the same group of anti-Brexit politicians last year saw the European Court of Justice rule the UK can cancel Brexit without the permission of the other 27 EU members.\n\nJolyon Maugham QC, director of the Good Law Project which is supporting the latest challenge, said: \"A man with no mandate seeks to cancel parliament for fear it will stop him inflicting on an unwilling public an outcome they did not vote for and do not want.\n\n\"That's certainly not democracy and I expect our courts to say it's not the law.\"\n\nThe court action was brought in Scotland's top civil court as it sits through the summer, while the equivalent court in England is on holiday\n\nThe UK is currently due to leave the EU on 31 October, with the prime minister pledging that Brexit will definitely happen on that day regardless of whether or not a deal has been agreed with the EU.\n\nMost MPs at Westminster are opposed to a no-deal Brexit, and there has been speculation that Mr Johnson could try to get around this by closing parliament in the run-up to 31 October.\n\nThis is known as proroguing, and would require the permission of the Queen.\n\nMr Johnson argued during the Conservative leadership contest that he would not \"take anything off the table\", saying it would be \"absolutely bizarre\" for the UK to \"weaken its own position\" in negotiations with European leaders.\n\nBut the group of pro-Remain politicians involved in the legal action at Scotland's highest court argue that shutting down parliament in this manner would be unlawful.\n\nThe prime minister has not ruled out attempting to prorogue parliament ahead of Brexit day\n\nThe case is beginning in the Scottish courts because they sit through the summer, unlike their English counterparts.\n\nDuring a procedural hearing in Edinburgh, lawyers argued that the case could ultimately be decided in the UK Supreme Court - but only after it has moved through the Scottish system.\n\nLord Doherty refused a motion from the petitioners to skip the first step of this, saying arguments must be heard in the outer house of the Court of Session before they proceed to the next stage, the inner house.\n\nHowever he did agree to move swiftly, fixing a full hearing for 6 September.\n\nThe Commons Speaker John Bercow has said the idea of the parliamentary session ending in order to force through a no-deal Brexit is \"simply not going to happen\" and that that was \"so blindingly obvious it almost doesn't need to be stated\".\n\nOne of the petitioners, Edinburgh South Labour MP Ian Murray, said: \"When Boris Johnson unveiled his vacuous slogan 'taking back control', voters weren't told that this could mean shutting down parliament.\n\n\"The prime minister's undemocratic proposal to hold Westminster in contempt simply can't go unchallenged.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Government contingency planning means the UK is becoming prepared for a no-deal Brexit, says Lord Wolfson.\n\nThe UK can avoid severe disruption in the event of a no-deal Brexit, the boss of one of the country's leading retailers has told the BBC.\n\nLord Wolfson, chief executive of clothing firm Next, said he still hoped a deal could be done before 31 October.\n\nBut he said the government's increased focus on contingency planning meant the UK was close to being well prepared.\n\nSimplified customs and border procedures had made the chance of hold-ups of goods far less likely, he said.\n\nLord Wolfson was a strong advocate of Brexit in the run-up to the referendum but has previously warned that a no-deal Brexit would bring about \"chaos and disorder\", while stopping short of a catastrophe.\n\nIn an exclusive interview with the BBC Today programme, the Conservative peer said the last government had failed to adequately prepare - a situation that was now being addressed.\n\n\"We are a long way from disorder and chaos, the fact that HMRC has introduced these transition methods will make an enormous difference. I think the encouraging thing is that we are rapidly moving from the disorder and chaos camp to the well-prepared camp.\n\n\"I should stress that I would much prefer a deal to no deal, but I am much less frightened by no deal if the government is prepared, and there is every indication it's taking it more seriously.\"\n\nHe said he was still hopeful a deal could be done before 31 October and that increased preparation for no deal would help secure one.\n\n\"In the vast majority of deals I've done, if the deadline is midnight, the deal gets done at 11:55 but we need to have nerves of steel and prepare ourselves for either outcome.\"\n\nEven if the UK ports wave everything through, Lord Wolfson concedes that the government cannot influence what will happen on the other side. He said that Next had moved all its imports and exports out of Calais to other ports.\n\nThere will be some who will say that redirecting all your business away from Calais does not square with being confident that all will go smoothly.\n\nHe did concede that at bottlenecks like Calais, there was a chance that smaller companies without the right preparation could cause a big problem by getting in the way of everyone else. If that was the case, we would need to get them out of the way - sending them back to the EU empty if necessary.\n\nLord Wolfson also said that if there was any issue with getting goods out of the UK in the event of a no-deal Brexit, one solution could be sending empty trucks over to Europe.\n\n\"The cost of an empty leg is around £400. So sending a small number of trucks, that can't get across, empty, rather than putting them into a lorry park means at least you can get goods back,\" he said.\n\nIn such a scenario, he said that the government could \"look at\" compensating hauliers.\n\n\"The government needs to look at what it will take to make sure that the small number of trucks that can't leave the country at least go back empty so that they can come back full.\n\n\"I don't know if the right answer to that is to compensate them, or whether to charge the companies that have sent goods incorrectly to the ports so they can't get through.\"\n\nThe Next chief had sharp criticism for the last government's lack of preparation.\n\n\"There was a wilful attempt to not prepare. They were so scared of no deal they couldn't allow anyone to admit it could happen. That's changing and I think that means in the worst case you get mild disruption - in the best case - you get a deal.\"\n\nLord Wolfson was however critical of the government's approach towards future immigration. He said the imposition of a minimum salary of over £30,000 was a mistake.\n\n\"I think it is a very unwise way to measuring need by looking at someone's salary\".\n\nLord Wolfson summed up his guide to a successful Brexit with four P's: Ports, people, prices and perception. If you can get those right the UK can both cope with no deal and in so doing, increase the chances of getting one.\n\nHis stoic position is at odds with dire warnings from some business groups and some former cabinet ministers who have described no deal as a catastrophic outcome and here will be many who say that it's all very well for a business with a turnover of over £4bn a year to be well prepared.\n\nLord Wolfson acknowledges there will be many smaller businesses who may struggle. But he also argues the government is now doing its job - the rest is down to them.", "Last updated on .From the section Tennis\n\nFormer world number one Andy Murray says he will not play singles at the US Open later this month.\n\nOn Monday Murray played his first singles match since career-saving hip surgery in January - a 6-4 6-4 loss to France's Richard Gasquet in Cincinnati.\n\nHowever, he had been asked to make a decision on accepting a wildcard for the US Open prior to facing Gasquet.\n\n\"I didn't feel I was able to make that decision before today's match,\" said Murray, 32.\n\nThe Briton says he intends to play doubles and mixed doubles at the Grand Slam in New York, which starts on 26 August.\n\nThe three-time Grand Slam winner broke down in tears at January's Australian Open, fearing his career might be over. He believed surgery on his long-standing hip injury may end his chances of playing singles but has instead left him pain free and able to resume his career.\n• None 'I'm not going backwards from here'\n\nMurray consistently said he would not want his first tournament back to be over five sets at the US Open and playing over three in Cincinnati first left the door ajar for a potential follow-up appearance at Flushing Meadows.\n\nThe 2012 US Open champion, now ranked 324th in the world, could have used his injury-projected ranking to enter the Grand Slam but instead decided to wait until nearer the time to assess his fitness.\n\nHe had been offered a wildcard by the United States Tennis Association, but Murray said: \"We were hoping to hold a wildcard until nearer the time and see how it feels.\n\n\"But the US Open were announcing their wildcards today and I didn't feel I was able to make that decision before today's match.\n\n\"I didn't want to take the wildcard today because didn't know how I would feel after the match.\n\n\"I also wanted to maybe wait and see how I felt after maybe playing a couple of matches and how I recover the next day.\"\n\nMurray said he might play singles at the Winston-Salem Open next week.\n\nHe has already confirmed he will play two tournaments in China - the inaugural Zhuhai Championships and the Beijing Open, which he won in 2016 - in late September.\n\nMurray returned to competitive action in the Queen's doubles in June - going on to win the tournament alongside Spain's Feliciano Lopez - and has played in four more doubles events.\n\nBut his ultimate goal was always returning to singles action after having an operation with former Royal surgeon Sarah Muirhead-Allwood which he described as \"life-changing\".\n\nThe Scot feared having the operation - where the femur head is smoothed down and covered with a metal cap - would leave him having to call time on an illustrious career which has also seen him win 45 ATP singles titles and two Olympic gold medals.\n\nNo player had ever had the operation and then resumed their singles career.\n\nFrom the moment Murray emerged onto the centre court in Cincinnati, smiling broadly and holding his mobile phone - presumably filming footage which he will use on his social media accounts - it was clear how much it meant to him.\n\nDespite all the Grand Slam finals and title-defining matches, including many against the game's greats in Roger Federer, Rafael Nadal and Novak Djokovic, nerves were still there as he made a slow start.\n\nStarting with a double fault, he went on to lose his serve in the opening game and fought off another break point as former world number seven Gasquet threatened to move 3-0 ahead.\n\nInstead the Briton levelled at 2-2 after breaking back in the next game, only to trail again when Gasquet tested Murray's ability to change direction quickly on the deuce side of the court - with it being his right hip operated on - with a fizzing forehand winner for a 4-3 lead.\n\nGasquet, 33, served out the set with little problem, then broke again in the first game of the second set.\n\nMurray continued to struggle to land first serves, although he did manage to stretch out Gasquet's service games without managing to break back, as the Frenchman went on to seal victory in one hour and 36 minutes.\n\nGasquet, who missed the first four months of the season after groin surgery, will play Austrian world number four Dominic Thiem in the second round.\n\nHard though he tried, Murray was unable to recover from poor service games at the start of both sets.\n\nBut he moved through the gears nicely after a very edgy start, and was able to put a lot of pressure on Gasquet's serve.\n\nWith his movement improving, there was one game in the middle of the second set in particular which pointed to a brighter future.\n\nMurray covered a lot of ground to produce a flurry of winners, but the battle-hardened Gasquet still hung on to his serve.\n\nThe crowd were very subdued. They were respectful of Gasquet's superiority, but perhaps had unrealistic aspirations for the returning Murray.", "Part of last summer's parade as part of Pride Cymru in Cardiff\n\nA campaigner has called for Pride Cymru to reject support from a company that has donated money to US politicians \"working against\" lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) rights.\n\nPeter Tatchell claimed General Electric (GE) support for Wales' biggest LGBT festival in Cardiff was inappropriate.\n\nHe said this was because it had backed politicians criticised by an LGBT advocacy group for their voting record.\n\nGE said it was \"committed\" to promoting human rights and diversity.\n\nPride Cymru added that it worked with corporate partners to \"raise awareness of challenges faced by the LGBT+ community\".\n\nThe annual event, which takes place later this month, expects to attract around 50,000 people over three days, with live acts including Liberty X, Texas and Atomic Kitten.\n\nGE is among a group of official \"supporters\", who make smaller donations rather than being one of the main event sponsors.\n\nResearch by US journalist Judd Legum found that nine companies who have been given the highest possible rating by the American Human Rights Campaign (HRC), an LGBT advocacy group, had donated more than $1m to politicians who had themselves been given the lowest possible rating by the HRC, based on their voting record on LGBT matters.\n\nMr Legum told BBC Wales: \"The point was to show that the companies that on the outside try to project a very gay-friendly vibe - behind the scenes they're financing the politicians who are working to undermine LGBTQ rights so I do think there's a hypocrisy there that needed to be exposed.\"\n\nOne of the companies identified was GE, which is also a big investor in Qatar, where homosexuality is illegal.\n\nGE Aviation employs around 1,400 people at its maintenance plant at Nantgarw near Caerphilly.\n\nPeter Tatchell during Pride in London last month\n\nMr Tatchell, a veteran gay rights and human rights activist, said it was not appropriate for the company to support Pride Cymru.\n\n\"I've got no objection in principle to corporations funding pride events, providing they're ethically vetted to make sure they're ethical companies that do not invest in countries that criminalise homosexuality and they do not fund organisations and politicians that work against LGBT rights,\" he said.\n\n\"I hope Pride Cymru will reconsider their acceptance of General Electric sponsorship. It's not ethical and it's not appropriate.\"\n\nBut Gian Molinu, chair of Pride Cymru said he was \"disappointed\" with Mr Tatchell's criticism, and felt it was important for the charity to work with multinational companies.\n\n\"By engaging with them, we are working to break down barriers and we are ensuring that they listen to the voices of the LGBT+ community,\" he said.\n\n\"Although this can be problematic, especially with organisations that operate on a larger, international scale, it's necessary that we do not shy away from approaching and working with those organisations.\"\n\nHe added: \"We cannot campaign for change and become an inclusive society by avoiding relationships and conversations with global organisations.\"\n\nA GE spokesman said it operated in 180 countries that all had \"unique political systems and domestic complexities\".\n\nHe added: \"We are committed to promoting human rights, diversity and ethical practices within our operations and supply chain.\n\n\"We believe our engagement helps drive toward human progress through technological improvement, transparency and workforce development.\n\n\"GE is an equal opportunities employer with an active alliance dedicated to supporting and developing our LGBT employees.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The mother of a vulnerable 15-year-old girl who went missing while on holiday in Malaysia has said her family's \"hearts are breaking\" as she announced a reward has been offered for help to find her.\n\nNora Quoirin, who has special needs, disappeared from her room at the Dusan resort on 4 August.\n\nMeabh Quoirin said an anonymous Belfast-based business had offered the 50,000 Malaysian ringgit (£10,000) reward, which she said the family hoped would aid the investigation.", "Police officers were called to Munster Square in Camden on Monday evening\n\nA 16-year-old boy has been stabbed to death in north London.\n\nPolice officers and the London Ambulance Service were called to Munster Square in Camden at about 23:10 BST on Monday.\n\nScotland Yard said the victim had been \"chased around the square by a number of suspects\" before being stabbed repeatedly.\n\nA murder investigation has been launched and a crime scene remains in place. No arrests have been made.\n\nDet Ch Insp Paul Healy said the attackers had fled in a vehicle \"which was discovered burnt out nearby\".\n\n\"Another vehicle believed to be involved in the incident was also found burnt out some distance away,\" he said.\n\nA large police cordon stretching across a number of roads was in place on Tuesday morning.\n\nThe teenager's next of kin have been informed.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The Work and Pensions Secretary Amber Rudd has told the BBC that unemployment \"could go up\" if the UK leaves the European Union without a deal.\n\nShe also said the prime minister and cabinet should remember parliament could not be ignored in a push towards what she said was a \"far inferior\" no-deal Brexit.\n\nThe cabinet minister said she was delighted with Tuesday's record employment figures, which showed wages rising faster than prices for nearly a year and a half.\n\nBut after her apparent U-turn on no deal ahead of rejoining the cabinet under Boris Johnson, Ms Rudd cautioned against both ignoring the Commons and setting an election date to avoid a parliamentary say on no deal.\n\nReminded that she had previously said shutting down parliament would be a ridiculous thing to do, Ms Rudd said she remained \"a great admirer of parliament and of parliamentary sovereignty\".\n\n\"I will continue to argue for the executive of the government that I'm part of to work with parliament, not against them,\" she said.\n\nAsked if she could back a situation where an election was held on purpose so that parliament did not have its say on no deal, she said there had been a lot of speculation.\n\n\"I will play my part in cabinet and privately with the prime minister and with ministers in arguing strongly for respecting parliamentary sovereignty.\n\n\"And you know, I'm a member of parliament. The prime minister and all cabinet members are members of parliament. We need to remember where our authority comes from.\"\n\nMs Rudd was speaking to the BBC in her first full interview after rejoining the cabinet, on a visit to female engineers working on the Thames Tideway infrastructure project.\n\nShe said she was \"jealous\" of \"every single pound\" of the £2bn of new money earmarked towards no-deal Brexit preparations and wanted to see more money going towards universal credit and ending the benefits freeze.\n\nLast month, the Office for Budget Responsibility released a no-deal scenario that showed £9bn extra in welfare spending and a 400,000 reduction in employment.\n\nMs Rudd said she did not accept the specific numbers, and said the government was focused on putting in place measures to mitigate any job losses.\n\n\"Government is certainly aware that if we do have a no-deal exit, there will be adverse consequences. [Unemployment] could go up, yes. And I would much prefer to see us get a deal\".\n\nAsked why her cabinet colleagues were gung ho for an outcome that could hit workers' jobs, she replied: \"I don't think people are gung ho - certainly not the people I sit with in cabinet. We know that no deal is a far inferior prospect than a deal\".", "One coin sees Paddington outside the Tower of London\n\nThey may not be enough to buy a decent jar of marmalade, but new 50p coins featuring Paddington Bear have entered circulation.\n\nTwo new coins - featuring the bear from darkest Peru at the Tower of London and St Paul's Cathedral - have been released by The Royal Mint.\n\nOn Tuesday, they filled the tills at the Mint's museum in Llantrisant, South Wales, and will be circulated more generally in the coming weeks.\n\nThe first Paddington book was published in October 1958 and the series following his adventures have become classics of children's literature. Last year, the Mint released 50p coins depicting the fictional bear visiting other London landmarks - the train station after which he was named, and the guards outside Buckingham Palace.\n\nNow two more of the capital's landmarks feature in the latest designs.\n\nAnother coin has the bear lifting his hat outside St Paul's Cathedral\n\nNicola Howell, director of consumer coins at The Royal Mint, said: \"Following the huge popularity of the coins featuring the much-loved bear last year, we thought it was only right that Paddington continued his adventures around London on UK coinage.\n\n\"Paddington Bear is a massive part of British popular culture and is a favourite amongst fans of all ages, who we're sure will be looking out for him in their change.\"\n\nA host of different designs feature on 50p coins. Just this year, they have ranged from another children's favourite character The Gruffalo to a black hole in memory of Stephen Hawking.\n\nIn addition to placing the Paddington coins in general circulation, the Mint - which is wholly owned by the Treasury - is selling a collector's \"mint condition\" coin, with the same design for £10 and a gold coin for £850.\n\nAny relative buying one for children at such a mark-up will no doubt add the note: \"Please look after this coin\".", "Last updated on .From the section Man City\n\nManchester City have avoided a transfer ban after admitting breaching Fifa rules on signing youth players.\n\nThe Premier League champions have been fined 370,000 Swiss Francs (£315,000).\n\nFifa said City breached article 19 of its regulations: \"International transfers of players are only permitted if the player is over the age of 18.\"\n\nCity say the breaches, which all occurred before December 2016, were as a result of \"misinterpretation of the regulations in question\".\n\nChelsea were banned from signing players for two transfer windows for a similar rule breach - but the club are appealing to have that overturned.\n\nCity said the rule breach was in relation to players on trial and their participation in friendly games, and that the club had been \"fully compliant\" since. The club also said they \"co-operated fully\" with Fifa's investigation.\n\n\"The club accepts responsibility for the breaches which arose as a result of misinterpretation of the regulations in question,\" said City.\n\nLast year, two players from Ghana's Right to Dream football academy - Sierra Leone's George Davies and Ghanaian Dominic Oduro - told Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten that they signed for City and played in youth matches before they turned 18.\n\n\"The Fifa disciplinary committee has sanctioned English club Manchester City FC for breaches relating to the international transfer and registration of players under the age of 18,\" said football's world governing body in a statement.\n\n\"Manchester City FC was found to have breached, among others, article 19 of the Fifa Regulations on the status and transfer of players.\n\n\"The disciplinary committee took into account the fact that Manchester City FC accepted its responsibility and sanctioned the club with a fine of CHF 370,000.\"\n\nChelsea were sanctioned by Fifa in February for breaching rules in relation to 29 youth players, and were fined £460,000 in addition to their transfer ban.\n\nIn June the Blues, who were not allowed to make any signings in the summer transfer window, announced they were taking their appeal to the Court of Arbitration for Sport, having failed with their first appeal to Fifa.\n\nIn May 2017, City were banned from signing academy players for two years and fined £300,000 after breaching Premier League transfer rules.\n\nThe club are currently being investigated by Uefa for alleged financial fair play violations.\n\nFifa bans the international transfer of under-18s unless they meet strict criteria. It brought in the rules to help protect children from exploitation and trafficking.\n\nUnder-18s can only be transferred abroad if:\n• None The player's parents move to the country in which the new club is located for non-footballing reasons.\n• None Both clubs are in the European Union or European Economic Area and the player is aged between 16 and 18. Even then, the buying club must meet more criteria relating to education, training, living conditions and support.\n• None They live within 100km of the overseas club.", "Prisons in England and Wales are to receive £100m to improve security and cut crime, the government has said.\n\nAirport-style security - such as X-ray scanners and metal detectors - would be introduced in more prisons, it added.\n\nPM Boris Johnson said stopping weapons, drugs and phones getting into jails would prevent them becoming \"factories for making bad people worse\".\n\nBut Labour accused him of \"tinkering\", adding cuts had led to \"unprecedented levels of violence in our prisons\".\n\nIt also follows government initiatives for the NHS and immigration, which have sparked speculation about an early general election - although Mr Johnson has ruled one out before the Brexit deadline of 31 October.\n\nWhilst on a visit to HMP Leeds, the prime minister said the government needed to help prevent young people getting sucked into crime by \"wrapping their arms\" around struggling families.\n\n\"I don't want to see prisons just be factories to turn bad people worse. We need to be making sure that they are educated and there's not a culture of gangsterism and drugs in the prison system,\" he said.\n\nThere also needed to be a \"proper plan to resettle\" people when they came out, he added.\n\nAlthough most prisons already have some \"airport-style\" security controls, Mr Johnson said the extra money would be invested in struggling prisons - to help prevent drug smugglers from \"fuelling a rise in violence and self-harm\".\n\nJanuary saw the number of assaults in prisons in England and Wales reach a record high. This number includes attacks by inmates on other inmates and those which target staff.\n\nThe Ministry of Justice said the £100m funding was newly-released by the Treasury and would be made available immediately.\n\nIt will fund an increase in \"cutting-edge technology\" to detect and \"block mobile phones\", which criminals use to \"organise drug supplies\" or harass victims from their cells.\n\nAndrea Albutt, president of the Prison Governor's Association, welcomed the plans but warned continuous funding was needed to reduce drug-fuelled violence in prisons.\n\nShe said: \"This [£100m funding] can't be one-off. We do need to have recurring money because it isn't just around the staff to run the kit.\n\n\"It is around the technology that will give us a rich source of security, so we need to beef up our security departments in prisons, so we can identify who the key players are in prisons.\"\n\nMs Albutt added that \"wrap-around services\" were needed to combat the \"instability\" caused by drugs flowing into prisons, and help inmates stem their addictions.\n\n\"[Drugs] are an absolute driver of violence in our prisons,\" she said. \"It causes debt, it causes bullying, and intimidation.\n\n\"If you look at the prison safety statistics over recent years, month-on-month they hit record highs [for] prisoner on prisoner violence, prisoner on staff violence. We have got high levels of suicides, very high levels of self-harm, and this is all linked to drugs.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The BBC tried out the new body scanner, which caught an inmate smuggling drugs on its first day in use\n\nJustice Secretary Robert Buckland said there was a direct link between crime inside of prison and \"crime on our streets\".\n\n\"This funding will have a transformative effect on prisons and give our hard-working officers the advantage as they tackle this scourge head-on,\" he said.\n\nBut shadow justice secretary Richard Burgon said the announcement fell \"woefully short\" of what was needed.\n\nThe Labour MP said Mr Johnson is \"timidly tinkering at the edges\" and blamed \"reckless Tory cuts to staffing and budgets\" for the \"unprecedented levels of violence in our prisons\".\n\nAnd Frances Crook, chief executive of The Howard League for Penal Reform, said: \"It is shameful that prisons have deteriorated so badly that they have become centres of crime and violence and drugs.\n\n\"Now the government has to pour good money after bad to try and solve a problem that they have created.\"\n\nFrances Crook, the chief executive of The Howard League for Penal Reform.\n\nMeanwhile, Liberal Democrat justice spokeswoman Wera Hobhouse said it was a \"hollow move\" and that more money should be spent on rehabilitation to stop people committing crimes.\n\n\"Boris Johnson can lock people up for longer or search people on their way in and out of prison, but none of this bravado will actually make our streets safer,\" she added.\n\nIn August last year, under former prisons minister Rory Stewart, the government promised to invest £10m to improve security and conditions in some of the worst prisons in England and Wales,\n\nAt the time, Mr Stewart pledged to improve conditions in 10 prisons which the Ministry of Justice said had \"acute problems\" with high drug use, violence and building issues.", "The opera singer Plácido Domingo has been accused of sexually harassing several women over a number of decades.\n\nEight singers and a dancer claim they were sexually harassed by the Spanish tenor from the late 1980s, according to the Associated Press news agency.\n\nOnly one of the women, mezzo-soprano Patricia Wulf, agreed to be named.\n\nDomingo has denied the accusations, and the Los Angeles Opera - which he directs - has pledged to investigate with the help of \"outside counsel\".\n\n\"Still, it is painful to hear that I may have upset anyone or made them feel uncomfortable no matter how long ago and despite my best intentions,\" continued Mr Domingo.\n\n\"People who know me or who have worked with me know that I am not someone who would intentionally harm, offend, or embarrass anyone.\"\n\nSix other women also claim the tenor made them feel uncomfortable by making \"sexual overtures\" towards them, AP reported.\n\nPlácido Domingo has been married to soprano Marta Ornelas since 1962\n\nMs Wulf said he didn't physically touch her but would come up close to her every time she walked off stage and ask if she \"had to go home tonight\".\n\nAnother woman said Domingo put his hand down her skirt on one occasion. Three others said he forcefully kissed them.\n\nThe incidents are said to have taken place in different venues including a dressing room, a hotel room, during a meeting and at opera companies where Domingo held managerial positions.\n\n\"A business lunch is not strange,\" one of the singers told AP.\n\n\"Somebody trying to hold your hand during a business lunch is strange or putting their hand on your knee is a little strange. He was always touching you in some way, and always kissing you.\"\n\nOpera stars Plácido Domingo, Jose Carreras (centre) and Luciano Pavarotti teamed up to become \"The Three Tenors\"\n\nDomingo was due to appear at the Philadelphia Orchestra's opening night concert on 18 September but the organisation said, in the light of the allegations, it had withdrawn its invitation.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by PhilOrch This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy 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 Francisco Opera announced it had also cancelled a concert on 6 October at which Domingo was scheduled to perform.\n\nHowever, the president of the Salzburg Festival in Austria said he would perform there as planned on 31 August.\n\nDomingo is currently the general director of the Los Angeles Opera. He has also been artistic director and later general director at the Washington National Opera.\n\nDomingo added in his statement: \"I recognise that the rules and standards by which we are and should be measured against today are very different than they were in the past.\n\n\"I am blessed and privileged to have had a more than 50-year career in opera and will hold myself to the highest standards.\"\n\nDomingo, 78, remains one of opera's biggest stars, commanding sell-out audiences around the world.\n\nHe has been married to his second wife, the soprano Marta Ornelas, since 1962.\n\nHe performs regularly in London, most recently in January in the Royal Opera House's production of La Traviata.\n\nHe is due to return to Covent Garden in June 2020 in a revival of Verdi's Don Carlo.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "The late Princess of Wales will be played by Jeanna de Waal\n\nA stage musical about Princess Diana's life is to hit Broadway next year.\n\nSimply titled Diana, the show is billed as the story of the woman who \"rocked the Royals\" and \"chose to be fearless, and as a result became timeless\".\n\nIt has music by Bon Jovi keyboardist David Bryan, who won two Tony Awards for his stage show Memphis in 2010.\n\nIn a review of Diana's pre-Broadway run in San Diego, the Los Angeles Times said the show was \"no more British than The Real Housewives of New Jersey\".\n\nThe lead role is taken by Jeanna de Waal, who has previously appeared in American Idiot and Kinky Boots on Broadway.\n\nSpeaking about the late princess, the actress said: \"She made everyone feel special, from the highest person to the lowest ranking person, and I think we want to celebrate her.\"\n\nThis YouTube post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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YouTube content may contain adverts.\n\nSongs reportedly include Snap, Click, about the paparazzi; Welcome To The Windsors; Here Comes James Hewitt, about the ex-cavalry officer who had an affair with Diana; and Secrets and Lies.\n\nThe LA Times' critic Charles McNulty said the show was \"as American as Applebee's\" - a reference to the US restaurant chain - and \"has a generic quality that for all its efficient smoothness seems culturally misplaced\".\n\nHe added: \"The tone is ironic, the pulse is fast-moving and the tragic ending isn't milked for tears. The show doesn't work, but that hardly matters these days for a musical that can draw in the tourist masses.\"\n\nThe Hollywood Reporter decided the musical \"seems to have many of the pieces needed for a hit\".\n\nReviewer Deborah Wilker said: \"While the Royals themselves may be aghast at the thought of actors portraying them half-naked in bed on a stage, the British public would probably eat it up.\"\n\nPrince Charles will be played by Roe Hartrampf. Performances will begin at the Longacre Theater on 2 March next year, with an official opening date set for 31 March. No UK performances have been announced.\n\nA separate show titled Call Me Diana is staging a one-off showcase in London's West End next month in an attempt to raise funds for a full production.\n\nIn 2015, a British \"docu-play\" called Truth, Lies, Diana, about the princess's death in 1997, was called \"patchy\", \"confused\" and \"clueless\" by reviewers.\n\nNews of the Broadway show comes four months after Netflix cast newcomer Emma Corrin to play the Princess of Wales in The Crown.\n\nNetflix announced on Monday that the third series of the royal drama will begin on 17 November. It will cover the years 1964-1977, meaning Diana will not be seen until the fourth season.\n\nNaomi Watts played Diana in a widely-panned film on the big screen in 2013, making $21m (£17m) around the world, according to Box Office Mojo.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The US is delaying imposing tariffs on some imports from China until 15 December because of \"health, safety, national security and other factors\".\n\nThe products include mobile phones, laptops, video game consoles, some toys, computer monitors, and certain footwear and clothing.\n\nThe surprise news from the United States Trade Representative office sparked a rally in share prices.\n\nOther items facing a 10% tariff will go ahead as planned on 1 September.\n\nUS President Donald Trump, speaking to reporters, said that the delay was in part to avoid hitting US shoppers this Christmas.\n\nThe USTR's announcement was released minutes after China's Ministry of Commerce said Vice Premier Liu He had conducted a phone call with US trade officials.\n\nTechnology investors welcomed news of the exemptions, pushing an index of chip stocks up 2.8%. Retailers and industrial shares also rose, with General Electric up 4.4%.\n\nOn Wall Street, the three main share indexes were up more than 2% at one stage. The Dow Jones and S&P 500 finished 1.4% ahead, while the tech-dominated Nasdaq finished up 1.9% - led by a 4% rise in Apple.\n\nIn the UK, stocks exposed to global trade also rose, with miner Glencore closing up 2.3%.\n\nMr Trump said on 1 August he would impose a 10% tariff on $300bn of Chinese goods, blaming China for not following through on promises to buy more American agricultural products.\n\nHe also personally criticised Chinese President Xi Jinping for failing to do more to stem sales of the synthetic opioid fentanyl amid an opioid overdosing crisis in the US.\n\nBut in a tweet on Tuesday, Mr Trump hinted that he was expecting something in return, suggesting that China's failure to \"buy big\" from US farmers could be about to change.\n\nThe USTR's announcement comes amid growing concerns about a global economic slowdown. Goldman Sachs said on Sunday that fears of the US-China trade war leading to a recession were increasing.\n\nSome analysts said Tuesday's delay does not mean the trade war is over. Elena Duggar, associate managing director at credit rating agency Moody's, said: \"This seeming de-escalation in ongoing tensions may be a temporary reprieve... Relations between the world's two largest economies will remain contentious, punctuated with occasional steps towards compromise.\"\n\nEarlier on Tuesday, China's chief trade negotiators, Vice Premier Liu He and Commerce Minister Zhong Shan, spoke to their US counterparts, Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin and Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer.\n\nThe Xinhua news agency said that the Chinese officials issued \"a solemn protest\" against the punitive duties set to come into effect on 1 September. Mr Lighthizer and Mr Liu have scheduled another telephone call in two weeks.\n\nThe two sides were due to hold another round of meetings in Washington in September, but the deterioration in relations in the past two weeks cast doubt on whether the talks would take place.\n\nAdditional details and lists of the specific product types affected by the announcement are due to be published by USTR later.", "Climate change activist Greta Thunberg will spend two weeks travelling across the North Atlantic on a boat with no toilets, kitchens or privacy.\n\nGreta, 16, has stopped flying due to environmental reasons, but is due to attend a crucial climate change conference in New York.\n\nShe told the BBC that travelling by boat sends a signal that \"the climate change crisis is a real thing\".\n\nElectricity on the boat will solely come from wind turbines and solar panels, meaning the journey has a zero carbon footprint.", "Parts of Australia have experienced freezing conditions that have been debilitating for Australia's human residents. However, these kangaroos in New South Wales seem to be enjoying the rare snowfall.", "Argentine stock markets and its currency have both plunged after conservative Argentine President Mauricio Macri suffered a shock defeat in primary elections on Sunday.\n\nThe peso fell 15% against the dollar on Monday after earlier plunging around 30% to a record low.\n\nSome of the country's most traded stocks have also lost around half of their value in one day.\n\nMr Macri, in response, has pledged to \"reverse\" Sunday's election result.\n\nAt a news conference on Monday, the president also said that the drop suggested the market lacked confidence in an opposition government.\n\n\"This [market meltdown] is just a small demonstration of what can happen,\" said Mr Macri.\n\n\"We have much to do still. Every election is a message and we understood it.\"\n\nAt end of trading on Monday, Argentina's main Merval index closed down 31% as some of the country's largest companies saw their market values plummet.\n\nCement producer Loma Negra was among those worst affected, with its share price down around 55%. Financial services firm Galicia Financial also saw a 46% drop in its stock value.\n\nThe embattled president was defeated by his centre-left rival, Alberto Fernández, who is now seen as the frontrunner for October's presidential race.\n\nHis running mate is former President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner, who presided over an administration remembered for a high degree of protectionism and heavy state intervention in the economy.\n\nArgentina is a country that has suffered with all sorts of economic problems that are taught in textbooks.\n\nBut even by its standards, this market meltdown is unprecedented.\n\nIn just two hours, a third of the Merval index (which accounts for the most traded stocks in the country) was wiped out in value.\n\nInvestors are now pushing the \"sell\" button, as many believe it will be impossible for President Mauricio Macri to win the upcoming election in October.\n\nIf he loses, this will be the end of a pro-business agenda to save Argentina's economy that has been implemented since Mr Macri came to power in 2015, which includes IMF loans, austerity measures and the end of capital controls.\n\nSunday's primaries were seen as vindication for \"Kirchnerismo\" which have for years denounced Mr Macri's plan as ineffective. The country is in recession and still suffering with inflation and poverty.\n\nThere are still two more months to go until the election - but few believe there will be surprises as big as this one coming up again.\n\nEdward Glossop, from the London-based consultancy Capital Economics, said Mr Macri's government could pull out all the stops to try to shore up popular support.\n\nThis could include easing budget curbs imposed as part of Argentina's agreement with the International Monetary Fund.\n\n\"An outright loosening of the purse strings is possible. The IMF would probably turn a blind eye to this, since it is in its interest for President Macri to secure re-election,\" he said, but added: \"We doubt that these efforts would be enough to change voter perception.\"\n\nPresident Macri was elected in 2015 on promises to boost Argentina's economy with a sweep of liberal economic reforms.\n\nBut his promised recovery has yet to materialise - Argentina is currently in a recession and posted 22% inflation for the first half of the year, one of the highest rates globally.\n\nMore than a third of the country's population is currently living in poverty, according to official figures.", "Jewellery firm Swarovski has apologised to China for erroneously describing Hong Kong as a country on its website.\n\nIt said it took \"full responsibility\" for the mistake and was updating its websites worldwide.\n\nSeveral firms have come under scrutiny this week for not adhering to China's territorial claims.\n\nVersace apologised at the weekend after an image on one of its T-shirts appeared to imply Hong Kong was an independent territory.\n\nIt comes at a time of heightened tensions between China and Hong Kong.\n\nMass unrest has rocked Hong Kong for several weeks as demonstrations, first aimed at an extradition bill, have evolved into a pro-democracy movement concerned about China's growing influence in the region.\n\nAustrian-owned Swarovski said in a post on Facebook that it had always \"firmly respected\" China's national sovereignty and territorial integrity.\n\n\"Considering the recent happenings in China, Swarovski takes full responsibility and sincerely apologises to the people of China, as well as to our collaborative partners and Brand Ambassador, Ms Jiang Shuying, who have been deeply disappointed due to misleading communication on China's national sovereignty,\" the firm said.\n\n\"We have strengthened our global brand awareness and we will continue to review all our digital platforms globally to correct any inaccuracies.\"\n\nChina has been increasingly strict in policing how foreign firms describe Hong Kong, which is part of China but has a special status, offering its people more autonomy than those on the mainland.\n\nThis Facebook post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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Facebook content may contain adverts.\n\nThis week several foreign companies were caught up in controversies surrounding their description of Chinese territories.\n\nVersace faced widespread criticism on social media in China for its T-shirt, and eventually said it had made a mistake and had stopped selling the tops.\n\nFashion brands Givenchy and Coach also faced backlashes for their representation of Chinese territories on garments they had produced.\n\nIn 2018, several other companies including Marriott and Delta Airlines also issued apologies after information on their websites appeared to conflict with China's territorial claims.", "The UK is \"first in line\" for a trade deal with the US, President Trump's national security adviser has said.\n\nJohn Bolton said the US supported a no-deal Brexit and added Washington would propose an accelerated series of trade deals.\n\nMr Bolton claimed deals could be done on a \"sector-by-sector\" basis, with an agreement on manufacturing made first.\n\nHowever, critics warned the UK would have to give in to some US demands in return for any trade agreement.\n\nHis comments came after meeting Prime Minister Boris Johnson at No 10.\n\nAccording to Mr Bolton, a bilateral agreement or \"series of agreements\" could be carved out \"very quickly, very straight-forwardly\".\n\nA trade deal for financial services and agriculture would not be the first to be agreed, he added.\n\nMr Bolton said \"doing it in pieces\" was not unprecedented and the US understood the importance of doing as much as possible as rapidly as possible before the 31 October exit date.\n\nHe said there would be enthusiastic bipartisan support in Congress for speedy ratification at each stage.\n\nMr Johnson said there \"all sorts\" of opportunities for UK business in the US, particularly service companies, but the negotiations will be a \"tough old haggle\".\n\n\"The single biggest deal we need to do is a free trade deal agreement with our friends and partners over the Channel,\" he said.\n\nBut Nancy Pelosi, who leads the Democrats in the US House of Representatives, said in April that a US-UK trade deal would not be \"on the cards\" if Brexit damaged the Good Friday peace agreement in Northern Ireland.\n\nAsked whether his proposed plan would follow World Trade Organisation rules, Mr Bolton said \"our trade negotiators seem to think it is\".\n\nAnd he insisted the UK was \"constantly at the front of the trade queue\" for the Trump administration.\n\nThere is a problem with sector-by-sector trade agreements. They are not compatible with WTO rules, which say free trade agreements for goods should cover \"substantially all the trade\".\n\nThere is no formal definition of that term but a figure of 90% has often been suggested.\n\nIt is unlikely a deal covering a few sectors would qualify. Other WTO members could start a dispute and would, on the face of it, have every chance of winning.\n\nHowever, it does not mean it would be impossible. WTO rules are not enforceable in national courts so if the UK and the US wanted to go ahead they probably could.\n\nBut it would be a strange move for any country committed to the rules-based global trade system that has the WTO at its heart.\n\nThere is another problem for any trade agreement: whether it meets the \"substantially all the trade\" criterion or not, it would need to be ratified by the US Congress.\n\nThere is a substantial body of American legislators who would be likely to vote against it if they thought that Brexit had taken place in a way that posed a danger to the peace process and the open border on the island of Ireland.\n\nMr Bolton also referenced Mr Johnson's willingness to participate in Operation Sentinel, which aims to beef up the military presence in the Gulf in the face of tensions between the West and Iran, saying he was \"pleased\" as this \"reflects a change\" from Theresa May's government.\n\nMeanwhile, former Labour foreign secretary Jack Straw described Mr Bolton as \"dangerously bellicose\", and suggested the UK would have to agree to some US demands, for example allowing imports of US chlorine-washed chicken.\n\n\"This is a highly transactional administration… you don't get something for nothing,\" he told BBC Radio 4's Today programme.\n\nThe EU currently bans chlorine-washed chicken products on welfare grounds\n\nLewis Lukens, a former deputy chief of mission at the US Embassy in London and former acting US ambassador, said Mr Bolton was aligned to President Trump's \"America first agenda\" and would be making \"strong demands\" on the UK to back the US position on issues like Huawei, China and Iran.\n\nMr Johnson is expected to have his first face-to-face meeting as prime minister with Mr Trump later this month at the G7 summit in France.\n\nIt would be hard to find a more enthusiastic champion of Brexit than John Bolton: a thoughtful, intellectual, highly combative and controversial champion of the nation state.\n\nHe caused havoc as US ambassador to the United Nations between 2005 and 2006 with his open rejection of the UN's usefulness except where it served the direct interests of the US.\n\nSo it should be no surprise that he told us at a briefing during his London visit: \"Britain's success in successfully exiting the European Union is a statement about democratic rule and constitutional government that's important for Britain, but it's important for the United States too.\"\n\nHe stressed it was very much in the US interest and there was no \"quid pro quo\" with any other issues. By that, he was denying all suggestions that Britain would be expected to fall into line with Washington's Iran policy - although he clearly hoped that it might.\n\nLikewise, he welcomed Mr Johnson's position on Huawei and 5G technology, calling it \"Britain going back to square one\" and re-examining the issue.\n\nFor now, Mr Bolton said, Britain was entirely focused on Brexit. The US is willing to wait. But that does leave open many questions about future relations and possible political trade-offs with the United States.\n\nIf Mr Bolton's major intervention in trade negotiations has raised some eyebrows, the National Security Advisor had a forthright answer to that.\n\nHe pointed us to the National Security Act of 1947 and told us firmly that his remit includes economic security, because the security of a nation depends fundamentally on its prosperity.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Electric vehicles account for more than 2% of all cars and vans on the road in Orkney\n\nOrkney is leading the charge on electric vehicles, with one of the highest uptakes in the UK. As BBC Scotland continues its season of special news coverage on the \"climate emergency\", we look at changes needed in transport and what could be learned from islanders.\n\nWhen it comes to energy, Orkney is in the fast lane.\n\nThe islands produce more power than they're able to consume, so diverting some of that into electric vehicles (EVs) seems an obvious move.\n\nThe likes of the Nissan Leaf or Renault Zoe are a more frequent sight here than any other part of Scotland - you'll even see the odd Tesla.\n\nBut despite their prevalence, are people here really bought in?\n\nThe idea of owning an electric vehicle in the future appeals to newly qualified driver Charlotte Baird\n\nFor newly qualified driver Charlotte Baird from Houton, EVs offer the environmental credentials that many young people seek.\n\nBut their hefty price tag can mean they are financially out of reach. Charlotte's petrol car cost her just £600.\n\nOn an EV test drive she told me: \"This is a lot more smooth and a lot less noisy.\n\n\"It will also help the local environment because there's no pollution.\n\n\"When I get the money I'll come and get one. Maybe when I've been to college and I've got a few years under my belt.\"\n\nThe council in Orkney has been able to pack lots of charging infrastructure into a relatively small area\n\nYou might think plug-in cars would best be suited to city driving where average journeys are just a few miles.\n\nBut despite being rural and remote the longest journey in Orkney from north to south is about 60 miles.\n\nSo the council can pack lots of charging infrastructure into a relatively small area.\n\nOrkney now has well over 200 fully electric vehicles, more than 2% of the total cars and vans on the road.\n\nIt costs about £2/£3 to travel 100 miles in a fully electric car compared with £10 or more for petrol or diesel\n\nMost of them have been sold by Jonathan Porterfield, from his business Ecocars, based at home near Evie.\n\nHe believes interest is growing fast and says some customers even buy online, without a test drive.\n\n\"The demand has just gone off the scale in the last 12 to 18 months as more and more people realise that this is an option,\" he said.\n\n\"People just want to get into an electric car, initially to save money but then for the feel-good factor of doing their little bit for the environment as well.\"\n\nOrkney Islands Council claims to have one of the highest proportions of electric cars in the country.\n\nOrkney is home to what is thought to be the first fully electric vehicle in Scotland to be converted into a motorhome\n\nFor our journey, I travelled in a fully electric vehicle thought to be the first in Scotland to be converted into a motorhome.\n\nOwner Paul Hudd, from JP Orkney, explained: \"People have fed back how easy it is to drive an electric vehicle, how easy the automatic gearbox is.\n\n\"From a camping perspective they like the fact that it fits into the environment really well.\"\n\nOrkney has long been a pioneering place when it comes to energy.\n\nThe longest journey in Orkney from north to south is about 60 miles\n\nWind power to the national grid started here in the 1950s and in the last decade they've been harnessing the waves and tide.\n\nThe local authority is even trialling electric vans with hydrogen tanks which can charge the battery on the move and extend the range.\n\nWhile public charging is free across Scotland, here that incentive has just been abolished.\n\nBut it still costs only £2/£3 to travel 100 miles in a fully electric car compared with £10 or more for petrol or diesel.\n\n\"As you put the infrastructure in, the costs need to be met, whether that be electricity, maintenance, fees and charges etc. It's many tens of thousands of pounds,\" said Darren Richardson from Orkney Islands Council.\n\nThe council in Orkney has now introduced a fee for recharging\n\n\"What the council has done is take a decision to introduce a charge. Not to make any profit. It's just a cost recovery model.\n\n\"At the moment we're supported by government in terms of the capital costs - the cost of putting in the chargers - and we hope that continues.\n\n\"But it's inescapable there is a running cost and I think that's an area we need to look at very closely because we want this to grow and we want it to be incentivised so that people continue to use electric vehicles.\n\n\"Councils generally face challenges financially and we need to recover costs unless they were subsidised by government.\"\n\nBut how will large scale behaviour change come about?\n\nProf Iain Black from the University of Stirling explained: \"We're all lazy and we'll change to those things when we have to and when it's no longer convenient for us.\n\n\"That's where the government comes in, in making it much more convenient for us to drive electric cars and also putting a lot of pressure on the businesses, the car manufacturers, to develop the machines that we need.\"\n\nElectric cars are clearly still a specialist vehicle. But Orkney offers a window into the future for all of us.\n\nWith manufacturers already planning for a tipping point away from fossil fuels, the question is not \"if\" but \"when\" it will happen.\n\nBBC Scotland News is running a season of climate change coverage across radio, TV, online and social media.", "Budget airline Norwegian Air has said it will end flights between Ireland and the US next month, blaming the grounding of the Boeing 737 Max.\n\n\"We have concluded these routes are no longer commercially viable,\" it said.\n\nNorwegian, which has struggled to make a profit, said last month the grounding of the Boeing 737 Max plane could undo its plan to return to profitability.\n\nNorwegian said all six routes from Dublin, Cork and Shannon to the US and Canada would end on 15 September.\n\nBoeing's 737 Max fleet was grounded after two fatal crashes, the first a Lion Air flight which crashed into the sea off Jakarta last year, and the second an Ethiopian Airlines flight which crashed shortly after take off from Addis Ababa in March.\n\n\"Since March, we have tirelessly sought to minimise the impact on our customers by hiring replacement aircraft to operate services between Ireland and North America. However, as the return to service date for the 737 Max remains uncertain, this solution is unsustainable,\" said Matthew Wood, senior vice president of Norwegian's long-haul division.\n\nThe airline said any customers who already had flights booked would be rerouted onto other Norwegian services.\n\nIf passengers no longer wanted to travel with the airline, Norwegian said they would be offered a full refund.\n\n\"We will continue to offer scheduled services from Dublin to Oslo, Stockholm and Copenhagen as normal,\" said Mr Wood.\n\nThe airline said any redundancies resulting from the decision to end the Ireland-US routes would be \"a last resort\".\n\n\"Our 80 Dublin-based administrative staff at Norwegian Air International and Norwegian Group's asset company, Arctic Aviation Assets, will not be affected by the route closures,\" Mr Wood added.\n\nNorwegian Air was founded in 1993 as a small domestic airline, but changed strategy in 2002 to become a budget carrier.\n\nIts low fares have helped it grow rapidly, and it is now Europe's third biggest low-cost carrier.\n\nLast year it launched 35 new routes, carried more than 37 million passengers and added 2,000 staff.\n\nIts big innovation has been to operate low-cost long-haul flights between the UK and the US, which it started in 2014. It now flies to 12 US destinations from London's Gatwick airport.\n\nIt has become the biggest international carrier to serve the New York City area, carrying more passengers there than British Airways, Air Canada or Lufthansa, according to figures from the Port Authority of New York & New Jersey.\n\nHowever, that growth has come at the expense of profits.\n\nThe airline lost 1.45bn kroner (£135m) last year, which it blamed on fuel costs, tough competition and issues with engines on its Dreamliner aircraft.\n\nIn March, to shore up its finances, Norwegian raised 1.3bn kroner through a share sale and also sold some aircraft.", "Malika Shamas, 14 and her brother Haider, 18, died after being rescued from the sea off Clacton\n\nThe father of two teenagers who died after getting into difficulties in the sea has urged parents to make sure their children can swim.\n\nHaider Shamas, 18, and sibling Malika, 14, from Luton, were rescued off the coast of Clacton, Essex, on Thursday.\n\nMalika died hours later while Haider died on Saturday.\n\nTheir father Shamas Riaz said: \"I miss both of them. We were close, very close. It's a big shock.\"\n\nShamaz Riaz said Malika was \"very happy\" about a trip to Clacton\n\nWhen asked what he would say to other parents, Mr Riaz said: \"Be careful where you go. If you don't know if your child can swim, make sure they definitely can swim.\"\n\nA 15-year-old girl, who is a relative, was also pulled from the sea with the pair. She is expected to recover.\n\nMalika Shamas liked making new friends, her father says\n\nMr Riaz said Malika \"liked going out and doing different things\".\n\n\"She liked making new friends and she made other people happy.\"\n\nMr Riaz said Haider liked sport and to study.\n\nHaider Shamas died two days after his sister\n\nA witness said the three teenagers had been with a group of up to 30 people at the beach.\n\nOnlookers tried to help the siblings after they were pulled from the water, with some performing CPR on the beach until ambulances arrived.\n\nThe council says extra signs are not necessarily the answer to preventing tragedies\n\nTendring District Council has said it will review water safety at the beach.\n\nLast July, Ben Quartermaine, 15, died after getting into difficulty while swimming with a friend near Clacton Pier.\n\nHis mother and stepfather Vicky and Colin Gentry said a lack of warning signs in Clacton was \"one of the main issues\".\n\nThey also called for better education for \"all year groups in all schools, whether coastal or not\".\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The Edinburgh Festival Fringe has come top of a list of 500 must-do experiences in the UK compiled by travel guide Lonely Planet.\n\nThe festival was voted into first place by travellers asked to rank their most memorable experiences, beating the British Museum and Giant's Causeway.\n\nLonely Planet's Ultimate United Kingdom Travelist also features Glencoe and Arthur's Seat in the top 20.\n\nThere are 67 Scottish entries in total in the list.\n\nThe guide said nowhere could beat the Fringe for spectacle or scale.\n\n\"There is theatre, comedy, dance, circus, cabaret, opera, music and spoken word, and whatever the time of day, an acrobat, trapeze artist, contortionist or tried-and-tested bagpiping busker will be pleased to entertain you,\" it added.\n\nThe list was created by compiling every highlight from the Lonely Planet guidebooks to Great Britain and Northern Ireland and asking writers to rank their top experiences.\n\nTom Hall, from the travel guide, said: \"Lonely Planet's Ultimate United Kingdom Travelist brings together the UK's most compelling sights and experiences, ranging from world-class museums and giant cathedrals to rollicking festivals, inky lochs and tiny pubs.\n\n\"We're thrilled to name the world's largest arts festival, the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, the UK's top experience - it's one of the most exciting and diverse destinations on the planet.\"\n\nShona McCarthy, chief executive of the Edinburgh Festival Fringe Society, said the accolade was \"a true testament to the creativity, energy and imagination that Fringe artists and audiences bring to Edinburgh each year\".\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Nora's disappearance is described as \"completely out of character\"\n\nA 15-year-old girl from London has gone missing while on holiday in Malaysia, a friend of her family has said.\n\nNora Quoirin, who has learning difficulties, arrived there with her family on Saturday for a two week \"trip of a lifetime\".\n\nThey were staying in the town of Seremban, on the edge of rainforest near Kuala Lumpur.\n\nWhen her parents awoke on Sunday morning they found her missing and the window of her hotel room open.\n\nCatherine Morrison, a friend of the family, estimated that by noon UK time she had already been missing for 12 hours.\n\nNora went missing the day after she and her family arrived in Malaysia\n\nA spokesman for the Irish Department of Foreign Affairs said: \"We are aware of the case and providing consular assistance.\"\n\nMalaysian Police are said to be using sniffer dogs in the search for Nora.\n\nAlthough her family have been resident in the UK for at least two decades, she is thought to have been travelling on an Irish passport.\n\nMs Morrison described the disappearance, which was discovered at about 06:30 local time, as \"completely out of character\" and said her parents were \"frantic\".\n\nShe said: \"They had just arrived - it was going to be a trip of a lifetime.\n\n\"They checked into their hotel, the Dusun - it looked beautiful with little cottages and an infinity pool.\n\n\"They went to bed, but this morning Nora was not in her room and the window was open.\"\n\nNora has learning difficulties and going missing was completely out of character, Ms Morrison added.\n\n\"Police are looking for her with sniffer dogs. The hotel have been really helpful,\" she said.", "Criminal gangs are targeting children in care, some as young as 12, in towns and cities many miles from home - the phenomenon known as county lines.\n\nPolice say they are struggling to deal with the scale of the problem.\n\nWatch in full: County lines and the children they exploit", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Éadaoin Agnew said Nora's disappearance had been \"extremely traumatic for the whole family\"\n\nPolice searching for a vulnerable 15-year-old London girl who vanished on holiday in Malaysia have \"not ruled anything out\" in their investigation.\n\nNora Quoirin's family believe she has been abducted after she was discovered missing from her bedroom, which had an opened window, on Sunday.\n\nHer grandfather has described the situation as \"extremely mysterious\".\n\nMore than 200 officers are involved in the search which is focused on the rainforest around the Dusun resort.\n\nNora and her parents Sebastian and Meabh - an Irish-French couple from London - and her younger brother and sister arrived at the resort in a nature reserve near Seremban, about 39 miles south of Kuala Lumpur, on Saturday for a two-week stay.\n\nHer father raised the alarm at 08:00 local time the next day.\n\nNora Quoirin's disappearance has been described as \"completely out of character\"\n\nNora's grandfather Sylvain Quoirin told the BBC it was \"unthinkable\" the teenager, who has special needs, had left on her own.\n\nHe said: \"She's a young girl who is very shy, very reserved, very fearful.\n\n\"It is completely unthinkable that she should have gone out on her own at night, you can completely exclude that possibility.\n\n\"She's somebody who has always needed to be protected.\"\n\nMr Quoirin said the \"adventure escapade line of inquiry is not at all valid\".\n\nNora's aunt Éadaoin Agnew said her disappearance had been \"extremely traumatic for the whole family\".\n\n\"Nora is still missing. She is very vulnerable and we need to do everything we can to bring her home,\" she said.\n\nDivers are searching a nearby river, which police believe Nora may have headed for\n\nSniffer dogs are being used in the search of the rainforest near the resort\n\nState deputy police chief SAC Che Zakaria Othman said: \"We have not ruled out anything and we are probing it as a case of a missing person.\"\n\nHe added \"several\" fingerprints had been found on the window ledge of Nora's room, without providing further details, and said statements had been taken from 20 individuals.\n\nWhen asked whether he thought Nora could survive on her own in the jungle, the deputy police chief said he was unsure as \"I don't know the immunity of her body.\"\n\n\"For indigenous people they can drink the water every day, but for her I do not know,\" he said.\n\nAs the search entered its fourth day more than 200 people, including dive teams, along with sniffer dogs, drones and a helicopter, were involved in the effort.\n\nTeams are being assisted by local Orang Asli people, who have knowledge of the dense jungle terrain.\n\nMissing persons charity the Lucie Blackman Trust, which is supporting the family, has provided a hotline and email address for information.\n\nPeople can remain anonymous and can call +448000988485 or email ops@lbtrust.org.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Celtic have crashed out of the Champions League after conceding four times to CFR Cluj of Romania in a frantic game in Glasgow.\n\nNeil Lennon's side were 2-1 behind on aggregate at half-time thanks to Cirpian Deac's header, but seemed to have turned the tie around with goals from James Forrest and Odsonne Edouard.\n\nBillel Omrani's penalty gave Cluj the lead on away goals with 16 minutes left, and although Ryan Christie forced the hosts in front, Omrani and George Tucudean struck to seal Celtic's fate.\n\nIt means the Scottish champions now drop into the Europa League play-off round, where they will play Moldovans Sheriff Tiraspol or Swedish side AIK, with the latter having won 2-1 away last week.\n\nCeltic reached the last 32 of that competition last season, having been knocked out at the same stage of the Champions League by AEK Athens.\n\nAn abject night began with a selection by Lennon that had a few among the home support a tad perplexed. Callum McGregor, one of his most dynamic midfielders, was picked at left-back.\n\nLennon said that he wanted as many \"technicians\" in his team as possible. What he needed was more resistance, more nous, more defensive discipline. Lennon wanted McGregor and Olivier Ntcham on the field and the only way to do it was to pick the Scot in defence, he said. Of course the other theory is that his trust in his first-choice left-back, Boli Bolingoli, is not exactly complete.\n\nRegardless of the reason, McGregor played at the back and Celtic struggled their way through a testy opening half.\n\nCluj arrived with intent, physicality and pace up front. They pressed Celtic hard and fast and looked dangerous on the counter-attack. When the heat came on them later on, they delivered big-time. A raucous stadium did not make them bat an eyelid. They grew amid the chaos. They exploited Celtic and all the acres of space they afforded them.\n\nThe goal that brought collective palpitations to Celtic Park came just before the half-hour.\n\nFrom an innocuous position, a throw-in on the left touchline, Cluj engineered the opener with an awful lot of help from their hosts. Omrani went up the wing, away from Scott Brown, and swung in a cross that should have been dealt with comfortably. Instead, McGregor let Deac get across him and the Romanian outjumped him and saw his header go in off Scott Bain's left-hand post.\n\nAs it stood, Celtic were out of the Champions League, a fate that brought a mixture of anxiety and anger to the stadium. Celtic looked unsettled. Their supporters sounded furious, not (yet) at their team as such but at Cluj's Venezuelan striker Mario Rondon who, having already picked up a yellow card, then thundered into Kristoffer Ajer without sanction.\n\nA fascinating game only became ever more compelling. Celtic came back out for the restart with a lot more urgency, Ajer's header getting cleared off the line one minute, Jozo Simunovic's header saved the next. The game was madcap. A wide open, toe-to-toe slugfest.\n\nThe equaliser was greeted like a long lost son, McGregor blasting down the left before squaring to Edouard, who dummied deftly and let it run to Forrest. The winger was cool and clinical. Celtic Park erupted.\n\nThey upped it from there, Hatem Elhamed's cross squeezing between the hapless Paulo Vinicius and Andonie Burca to Edouard, who put Celtic in front. Just over an hour had gone and Celtic drove on to get another. Christie lashed one wide as the home team appeared to be setting sail for the Champions League play-off round.\n\nThe violent turbulence of the night started to kick in. From a corner, the ball carried to the back post and Scott Brown handled. Penalty. The silence that descended on the place was something else. Omrani stood up and lashed it past Bain to make it 2-2. Once again, Celtic were going out.\n\nBut, no. Two minutes later it switched again when Edouard burst through on the left side of the box and slipped it across to Christie, arriving ahead of all others. Christie tapped it home. On this crazy night, Celtic were through again. And then they were out again.\n\nCluj were like a prizefighter, behind on points but still possessing the firepower for a knockout. Under the cosh for so long, they broke out and Constantin Paun, under little pressure, fired a shot on Bain's goal. The goalkeeper flung himself away to his right and parried it, but when the ball broke free there wasn't a Celtic man in sight. All of them were posted missing. The one player who was where he needed to be was Omrani, who lashed his shot high past Bain to make it 3-3. Cluj were going through. Celtic tried to save themselves, but couldn't.\n\nThey had six added minutes but it only got worse. As they tried to get a winner they conceded a loser, George Tucudean making it 4-3 with the game's last kick.\n\nA nightmarish night for Celtic. Truly awful. It wasn't supposed to be like this. A shot at the Europa League group stage is all that's waiting for them now.\n\nOmrani scored two and made one. Apart from that, he was a threat with his physicality and his pace. Celtic's defence struggled with him periodically and when the ball broke loose in the game's pivotal moment none of them were anywhere near him. He was the only man on the pitch alive to what was going on.\n\nMore than anybody, Omrani was the one who did the damage.\n• None Goal! Celtic 3, CFR Cluj 4. George Tucudean (CFR Cluj) right footed shot from the centre of the box to the centre of the goal. Assisted by Constantin Adrian Paun Alexandru.\n• None Giedrius Arlauskis (CFR Cluj) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.\n• None Goal! Celtic 3, CFR Cluj 3. Abdel Billel Omrani (CFR Cluj) left footed shot from the centre of the box to the centre of the goal.\n• None Goal! Celtic 3, CFR Cluj 2. Ryan Christie (Celtic) left footed shot from the centre of the box to the high centre of the goal. Assisted by Odsonne Edouard.\n• None Goal! Celtic 2, CFR Cluj 2. Abdel Billel Omrani (CFR Cluj) converts the penalty with a left footed shot to the centre of the goal.\n• None Ciprian Deac (CFR Cluj) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.\n• None Goal! Celtic 2, CFR Cluj 1. Odsonne Edouard (Celtic) right footed shot from the centre of the box to the centre of the goal.\n• None Goal! Celtic 1, CFR Cluj 1. James Forrest (Celtic) right footed shot from the centre of the box to the centre of the goal. Assisted by Callum McGregor.\n• None Hatem Elhamed (Celtic) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.\n• None Mario Rondón (CFR Cluj) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page", "Most of the artefacts would have belonged to women - possibly slaves or servants\n\nArchaeologists working in the buried Roman city of Pompeii say they have uncovered a \"sorcerer's treasure trove\" of artefacts, including good-luck charms, mirrors and glass beads.\n\nMost of the items would have belonged to women, said Massimo Osanna, director of the Archaeological Park of Pompeii.\n\nA room with the bodies of 10 victims, including women and children, was excavated in the same house.\n\nPompeii was engulfed by a volcanic eruption from Mt Vesuvius in AD 79.\n\nThe fatal eruption froze the city and its residents in time, making it a rich source for archaeologists.\n\nThe trove was found in what remained of a wooden box. The wood itself had decomposed and only the bronze hinges remained, preserved by the volcanic material which hardened over it.\n\nIn it were crystals, ceramic, amethysts and amber. Scarabs (beetle-shaped amulets) from the Middle East were identified, along with various gems, including a carnelian with a craftsman figure and a glass bead engraved with the head of Dionysus, the Roman god of wine, fertility and ritual madness.\n\nThe chest contained many valuable items, but no gold\n\nThe objects in the trunk were for use in rituals, archaeologists think\n\nIt was more likely the objects belonged to a servant or a slave, rather than the owner of the house, Mr Osanna told the Italian news agency Ansa. None of the artefacts was made of gold, much favoured by the wealthy of Pompeii.\n\n\"They are objects of everyday life in the female world and are extraordinary because they tell micro-stories, biographies of the inhabitants of the city who tried to escape the eruption,\" Mr Osanna said.\n\nArchaeologists are now trying to establish kinship ties between the bodies found in the house via DNA analysis.\n\n\"Perhaps the precious box belonged to one of these victims,\" Mr Osanna speculated. The items in the box may have been worn during rituals as charms against bad luck, rather than as ornamentation, he said.\n\nThe chest was uncovered in the House of the Garden in Region V of the archaeological park - the same area where an inscription was discovered last year, indicating that the eruption may have taken place in October 79, two months later than previously thought.\n\nThe house itself would have belonged to a man of high status, confirmed by the quality of the amber and glass beads found in the trove, archaeologists say.\n\nMost people in Pompeii were not killed by slow-moving molten lava, but by a vast cloud of hot gas and fragments, called a pyroclastic flow. The cloud surged over the city, killing its residents wherever they were, and burying them in ash, preserving their final moments.", "Last updated on .From the section Commonwealth Games\n\nThe 2022 Commonwealth Games in Birmingham is set to be the first major multi-sports event to have more women's than men's medal events after three sports were added to the programme.\n\nWomen's Twenty20 cricket, beach volleyball and Para-table tennis have been confirmed as additional sports.\n\nThis means there are currently 135 women's medal competitions scheduled, compared to 133 for men.\n\nBirmingham will also have the largest Commonwealth Para-sport programme.\n\n\"We are passionate advocates of women's sport and Para-sport so I am thrilled we are able to make this special announcement,\" said Commonwealth Games Federation (CGF) president Dame Louise Martin.\n\nThere are currently seven mixed events, with the confirmed programme to be announced next year.\n\nThe three additional sports were approved by a majority of the 71 Games associations but shooting and archery have missed out, having also applied to be added to the event.\n\nIndia - which boasts a distinguished record in shooting - has previously said it is considering pulling out of the Games in protest at the sport's exclusion.\n\nHow will the additional sports work?\n\nThe Commonwealth Games has a variety of core sports, but organisers can also add optional sports and three have been added to the Birmingham 2022 programme.\n\nWomen's T20 Cricket - The women's competition is the result of a joint bid by the International Cricket Council and the England and Wales Cricket Board and will feature eight teams playing at Edgbaston.\n\nCricket's only previous inclusion in the Commonwealth Games came in 1998, when South Africa won a men's 50-overs-a-side competition in Kuala Lumpur.\n\nBeach volleyball - Made its debut at the 2018 Gold Coast Games and was considered one of the successes of the Australian programme.\n\nA venue for the 2022 men's and women's beach volleyball event, which will see 48 athletes compete, is expected to be announced in the near future.\n\nPara-table tennis - Another event that was included four years ago, the Birmingham competition will see 32 athletes take part across four medal events. It will be held at the NEC in the same venue as the table tennis competition.\n\nThe addition of table tennis takes the number of para sports to eight - a Commonwealth Games record.\n\nWhy was shooting left out?\n\nShooting had been contested at every Games since 1974.\n\nIt means there will be no place at Birmingham 2022 for David Calvert, Northern Ireland's most successful Commonwealth Games competitor. He has been to 11 consecutive Games and won eight medals, four of them gold.\n\nBut Birmingham 2022 chief executive Ian Reid said the proposed location for shooting, at Bisley in Surrey, \"offered little or no benefit to the West Midlands\".\n\nThe overall total cost of the 2022 Commonwealth Games will be £778m, making it the most expensive sports event Britain has hosted since the London 2012 Olympics.\n\nUp to 4,500 athletes are expected to compete across 19 sports from 27 July to 7 August, 2022.", "The Late Late Show has been a fixture on US television for years\n\nEntertainment giants CBS and Viacom are to merge in the latest media mega-deal as broadcasters adapt to changing consumer demands.\n\nThe new company will have $28bn in revenue and comprise brands like MTV, Comedy Central and Paramount Pictures.\n\nThe deal would reunite the two firms, which were previously under the same corporate umbrella until a 2006 split.\n\nThe move comes amid an increasingly competitive landscape dominated by Netflix, Disney-Fox and other rivals.\n\nThe merged firm, to be called ViacomCBS, would be controlled by National Amusements, the holding company owned by billionaire Sumner Redstone and his daughter, Shari.\n\nThere have been at least three attempts to re-combine the companies, but all failed due to clashes between executives and investors over who got the top jobs as well as the valuations of the business.\n\nThere was also the dramatic fall of CBS's boss Les Moonves, ousted after allegations of sexual misconduct.\n\nViacom chief executive Bob Bakish will be the president and chief executive of the combined company. Joe Ianniello, interim chief executive of CBS, will be named chairman and chief of CBS.\n\nThe companies said they expected about $500m cost savings from the tie-up, which brings together a movie studio, string of cable channels, and some of US TV's most-watched shows, including 60 Minutes and The Big Bang Theory.\n\nIn addition to their US operations, the merged group will have a global reach, including in Britain, Argentina and Australia.\n\n\"I am really excited to see these two great companies come together so that they can realise the incredible power of their combined assets,\" said Shari Redstone, who will chair the new company, ViacomCBS.\n\nThe daughter of Sumner Redstone said: \"My father once said 'content is king,' and never has that been more true than today. We will establish a world-class, multiplatform media organisation that is well-positioned for growth in a rapidly transforming industry.\"\n\nMr Redstone broke up CBS and Viacom 14 years ago. He believed it would unlock the value of Viacom, which was broadcasting some of TV's most popular shows at a time when CBS was becoming less popular.\n\nShari Redstone had been a big backer of re-combining the companies in the face of tough competition. The mergers of Disney with Fox, and AT&T and Time Warner, coupled with expanding streaming services, left CBS and Viacom in a weaker position.", "Police officers announced the new hotline during a press conference earlier\n\nMalaysian police have set up a hotline dedicated to receiving information about teenager Nora Quoirin who has been missing for a week.\n\nA team of 200 people are currently searching for the 15-year-old, who has special needs.\n\nNora was last seen in the Dusan resort on 4 August where she was on holiday with her parents.\n\nPolice officers announced the new hotline in Malaysia - 0111 2285058 - on Sunday.\n\nOn Saturday, her parents Meabh and Sebastien Quoirin thanked the teams searching the Malaysian jungle for her.\n\nNora's mother thanked the emergency crews for their work \"especially at a special festival time\", referring to the Islamic festival of Hari Raya Haji.\n\nNóra Quoirin went missing from her room on 4 August 2019\n\nThe Quoirins, an Irish-French family who have lived in London for 20 years, arrived in the Dusun forest eco-resort in southern Negeri Sembilan state a week ago.\n\nNora was last seen on Sunday 4 August. Her father raised the alarm the following morning when the family realised the teenager had gone missing from her bedroom with the window open.\n\nThe teenager's family said she was born with holoprosencephaly, a disorder which affects brain development, meaning that she \"struggles with co-ordination\".\n\nHer family has said Nora is \"not independent and does not go anywhere alone\".\n\nAt Sunday's press conference the local police force also released pictures of them with Nora's father.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Howard 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\nOver the past few days a recording of Nora's mother saying \"Nora darling, Nora I love you, mum is here\" has been played out on loudspeakers into the jungle.\n\nMissing persons charity the Lucie Blackman Trust, which is supporting the family, has also provided a hotline and email address for information.\n\nPeople can remain anonymous and can call +448000988485 or email ops@lbtrust.org.\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. Graeme Stenhouse said the Apprentice Boys had no prior knowledge of the uniform worn by Clyde Valley Flute Band\n\nThe Apprentice Boys of Derry have said they recognise the potential upset caused to nationalists by a Parachute Regiment emblem worn by a visiting flute band during a parade in the city.\n\nThey said they had no prior knowledge of the uniform worn by Clyde Valley Flute Band during Saturday's march.\n\nThe Larne group wore a Parachute Regiment insignia on their shirts as they paraded, bearing the letter 'F'.\n\nPolice escorted them during the parade, and later stopped the band's bus.\n\nThe Apprentice Boys governor said on Tuesday night that the Apprentice Boys were unaware of the incident until after the parade.\n\n\"We had no prior knowledge of the band's uniform, or this incident, until the conclusion of the main parade on Bond Street,\" he said.\n\n\"We recognise this may have caused upset to many in the nationalist community.\"\n\nSDLP leader Colum Eastwood described the Apprentice Boys statement as a \"positive step that will contribute to healing in the city\".\n\n\"It is welcome and demonstrates the kind of leadership that Derry and the north needs right now,\" he added.\n\nMr Stenhouse added that the main focus of the parade is to commemorate the 1689 Siege of Derry.\n\nHe said it should in no way be used as a means to \"heighten tensions in a shared city\".\n\nThe governor again rejected claims that an agreement about symbols supporting the Parachute Regiment had been put in place before the march.\n\n\"This agreement never took place,\" he said.\n\n\"We would never place our marshals under such difficult circumstances.\"\n\nMembers of Clyde Valley Flute Band from Larne wore the symbol with the letter 'F' on their shirts\n\nMr Stenhouse said the police were \"heavy handed\" in how they dealt with the band and that he would discuss the matter further with local police commanders.\n\n\"A lot of hard work has been contributed to ensuring peaceful parades over many years,\" he said.\n\n\"We wish to continue with this constructive dialogue to ensure that good will and understanding prevails.\n\n\"We also wish to ensure our city continues to lead in promoting reconciliation and is a model of respect to all communities.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Arlene Foster said the policing of an Apprentice Boys parade in Londonderry was not balanced.\n\nEarlier on Tuesday, Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) leader Arlene Foster said that a lot of loyalists are concerned by the police approach.\n\n\"It is important that everybody in the community in Northern Ireland has support for the police service. That's a fundamental of our society,\" she said.\n\n\"Therefore it concerns us greatly if there's a perception building that there isn't that confidence in policing. It's something that we are very concerned about.\"\n\nThe DUP and UUP met PSNI officials separately to discuss Saturday's policing operation.\n\nUUP leader Robin Swann, who led his party's delegation, said \"intervention could've been handled in a completely different way\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\n\"The deployment of the TSG (Tactical Support Group), in my opinion, was uncalled for, unnecessary, and obviously too early because they should have given the elected representatives and stewards from the Apprentice Boys of Derry an opportunity to see what resolution could have come about before the TSG was deployed,\" he added.\n\nDeputy Chief Constable Stephen Martin said he \"listened carefully to all the strong concerns that have been raised\" and that there will be a full debrief of the force's actions.\n\nThirteen people were shot dead when members of the Army's Parachute Regiment opened fire on civil rights demonstrators on Bloody Sunday in Derry in 1972.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nAn ex-paratrooper, known as Soldier F, is facing prosecution for two murders.\n\nRelatives of the victims of Bloody Sunday said the band's display caused great hurt.\n\n\"People are very angry about what happened,\" said John Kelly, whose brother, Michael, was killed on Bloody Sunday.\n\n\"The way we look at it, and I'm talking about the families, and the people of Derry, we found it very, very provocative.\"\n\nMembers of the Apprentice Boys, one of the Protestant Loyal Orders, made their way around the city's historic walls accompanied by bands\n\nPolice said an agreement had been put in place before the march, and officers flanked the band during the parade.\n\nBut DUP MP Gregory Campbell shared Mr Stenhouse's opinion that there was no such agreement.\n\nSinn Féin MP Elisha McCallion said the insignia display by the band had caused \"deep anger in the city\".\n\n\"Ahead of Saturday's parade, assurances were given that there would be no Parachute Regiment or Soldier F imagery involved but this agreement was broken,\" she said.\n\n\"Subsequent Apprentice Boys denials of such an agreement do not stand up to scrutiny, and are in direct contravention of the accounts from the PSNI and the Bogside Residents Group.\"\n\nResponding to criticism of how police handled the incident, Assistant Chief Constable Alan Todd it was \"proportionate, responsible and constructive\".\n\nThe Parades Commission said it had received a number of complaints regarding the Apprentice Boys parade.\n\nGovernor of the Apprentice Boys, Graeme Stenhouse, laid a wreath at the cenotaph in Derry on Saturday\n\nClyde Valley Flute Band said that the symbol on their shirts was an expression of \"a legitimately held view which they are entitled to hold\".\n\n\"The officers of the band wish to correct any false impression which may be held regarding the band's uniform being deliberately provocative and specifically designed for the parade in Londonderry,\" the band said in a statement.\n\nMr Stenhouse earlier said he would be willing to meet the Bloody Sunday families and other community representatives.\n\n\"I'm more than willing to meet them if that's something that they wish to do,\" he said.\n\n\"What the Apprentice Boys have achieved over the last 20 years is taking things forward by talking to different communities.\n\n\"That's why we do have very successful parades now in the Maiden City. We'll discuss with other community representatives and if there's some hard, straight talking to be done, then that's something that we'll have to do.\"\n\nIt was the third consecutive night police have been attacked in the city.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Dr Nigel Ruddell, NIAS medical director, said measures were being put in place to deal with the shortages\n\nOver the weekend, it was down by about 20 crews - roughly a quarter of its normal workforce - but management say there was no major incident.\n\nTwo ambulance crews were drafted in from the Republic of Ireland over the weekend.\n\nThe NIAS was short of 12 crews on Monday, according to chief executive Michael Bloomfield.\n\nMr Bloomfield told the BBC that over the summer period, many shifts will not be covered.\n\n\"We rely on staff overtime and our partners in the voluntary and private ambulance services\", he said.\n\nHowever, he added that there will be \"intensive work going on\" to improve the situation.\n\nThere have been staff shortages for the past four nights, with 20 crews unavailable on Sunday night.\n\nThe crews from the Republic of Ireland were based at Altnagelvin Hospital in Londonderry on Saturday and Newry ambulance station on Friday.\n\nDr Nigel Ruddell, NIAS medical director said voluntary ambulance services were being drafted in and NIAS had been working with private services.\n\nNorthern Ireland does not have enough paramedics.\n\nBetween 2014 and 2018, practically no new paramedics were trained.\n\nThere was no forward planning to allow for those retiring or the high numbers off on sick leave.\n\nThis is a familiar story throughout the health service - all front-line services are reporting gaps.\n\nThe Royal College of Nursing is reporting 2,600 unfilled nursing posts. General practice is also reporting too few doctors.\n\nIt is a problem across the system and across the UK.\n\nAccording to sources, wards, surgeries and - as we have known for some time - the ambulance and fire services are often being run on a wing and prayer.\n\nThe service had appealed for staff to come to work at the weekend because of difficulties filling rotas.\n\n\"We are doing everything we can to provide as high a level of cover as we can,\" said Dr Ruddell.\n\n\"We are going to prioritise those calls which have the most critical need.\n\n\"Unfortunately, those people who have a less critical need are the ones who wait longer and we apologise for that.\"\n\nHe also thanked staff for \"stepping up to the plate\" and volunteering to take on extra shifts.\n\nThe medical director said NIAS received about 600 emergency calls to its control room every day.\n\n\"We have 46 extra paramedics due to qualify in November and around 48 extra technicians who qualified in May,\" he said.\n\n\"We are training and recruiting people as quickly as we can.\"\n\nJohn Compton, the former head of the Health and Social Care Board, told BBC Radio Ulster's Good Morning Ulster programme that it is not unusual for the trust to be under pressure with annual leave.\n\n\"While under staff pressure they [the NIAS] have maintained a reasonable service for the population,\" he said.\n\n\"But if the disruption persists for more than six to eight weeks there needs to be other things we look at.\"", "The Scottish and Welsh Governments have expressed concerns about the future of the scheme\n\nThe Scottish and Welsh governments have expressed fears over the future of the Erasmus student exchange programme in the event of a no-deal Brexit.\n\nBoth administrations have jointly written to the UK education secretary to express their concerns.\n\nThe EU programme helps students study in other countries.\n\nThe UK government has guaranteed payments for successful applicants and said it is \"exploring participation\" in a successor scheme.\n\nErasmus is an EU-funded programme which enables students to either study part of their degree or undertake a work placement abroad.\n\nAbout 53% of UK university students who learn abroad do so through the initiative.\n\nSome countries which are not in the EU - including Iceland, Norway and Serbia - also take part.\n\nThe letter is signed by the Scottish higher education minister, Richard Lochhead, and the Welsh education minister, Kirsty Williams.\n\nBoth devolved administrations are opposed to a hard Brexit but if the UK leaves the EU without a deal, they would like participation in Erasmus to continue.\n\nThe letter argues that leaving the EU without a deal or an arrangement covering the scheme will result in universities, colleges, and schools being ineligible to submit applications to participate in the final year of the current Erasmus+ programme in 2020.\n\nIt says: \"This will be a significant loss to both our education sectors.\n\n\"Between 2014 and 2018, Erasmus+ has enabled an estimate of over 10,000 students and staff in Wales to undertake mobility visits to benefit their learning and career development.\n\n\"In Scotland, proportionally more students take part in Erasmus+ than from any other country in the UK.\"\n\nIt calls for an urgent meeting of education ministers to discuss the steps being taken towards ensuring that a hard Brexit does not lead to a loss of provision and opportunities for universities, colleges and schools.\n\nThe letter continues: \"As we understand the position, the UK government has not, that we have seen, made or planned alternative domestic UK arrangements to ensure that the education sector can continue to access international mobility opportunities in place of those which will no longer be available due to the UK's exclusion from Erasmus.\"\n\n\"Any such plans would, of course, require discussion and agreement with the devolved administrations.\"\n\nIn 2016-17, more than 16,500 UK students participated in overseas programmes through Erasmus while almost 32,000 EU nationals came to the UK through the scheme.\n\nThe UK government insists Britain will leave the EU on 31 October but hopes it will be able to do with a deal. Opponents fear a so-called hard Brexit appears an increasingly likely possibility.\n\nMr Lochhead said: \"It is the Scottish government's preference to remain in the EU, but in the event of a damaging 'no-deal' Brexit, students could now see the door to this fantastic cultural and educational exchange slammed shut.\n\n\"It is unacceptable that with less than 12 weeks left until the UK government plans to take the United Kingdom out of the EU without an agreement in place, there is still no plan for alternative arrangements.\"\n\nA Department for Education spokesperson said: \"This government is working to negotiate a new deal, but in the event the UK leaves the EU without an agreement in place, we have already guaranteed cover for the payments for successful UK applicants for Erasmus+ and ESC bids.\n\n\"Successful bids are those that are approved directly by the European Commission or by the UK National Agency and ratified by the European Commission.\n\n\"The UK government has also repeatedly made clear that it values international exchange and collaboration in education, which is why we are exploring participation in the successor scheme and preparing for a range of potential outcomes.\"\n• None Turing Scheme: What is the Erasmus replacement?", "A couple who claim that the \"angel's share\" from a whisky bond has blighted their property have been given the go-ahead to take the case to court.\n\nThomas and Gail Chalmers claim that the vapour has caused damage to outdoor furniture and their house in Bonnybridge, near Falkirk.\n\nThe couple are suing drinks giant Diageo for £40,000.\n\nThe firm is contesting the Court of Session action, claiming the property's value is not adversely affected.\n\nThe \"angel's share\" is the term given to the loss of whisky volume, into the wooden cask and through evaporation, as the spirit matures. Up to 2% can enter the atmosphere a year.\n\nIn the action, the couple, from the town's Woodlea Gardens, claim that the \"nuisance\" of the ethanol vapour has caused a black fungus on houses in the area.\n\nThey say the fungus has also attacked wooden garden furniture, paving stones and damaged a sundeck.\n\nThe issue was first raised more than a decade ago.\n\nThe couple maintain that the value of their house has been reduced by between 5 and 10% because of the effects of the fungus on properties.\n\nThey also said their cars were affected by the fungus.\n\nDiageo claims that the blackening complained of does not cause serious disturbance, substantial inconvenience or material damage and property values are not affected.\n\nThe firm previously tried to have the claim dismissed but a judge rejected the move and a second bid to get the case thrown out has been rejected. It will now go to an evidential hearing.\n\nIn 2009 a Health Protection Scotland study could find \"no direct link\" between the mould affecting homes and the Bonnybridge whisky bond", "Talking to reporters at the White House, President Donald Trump said he's concerned about the rise of hate groups - he mentioned white supremacists as well as the left-wing militant antifa.", "The competition to operate rail services between London, Kent and parts of East Sussex has been cancelled, the government has said.\n\nThe current incumbent, Southeastern, has been given a five-month extension to run the route until April 2020.\n\nGo-Ahead runs Southeastern with Koelis through their joint venture Govia.\n\nGo-Ahead chief executive David Brown said he was disappointed his firm's bid was not going to be considered by the Department for Transport.\n\nA Department for Transport spokesperson said: \"We have taken the decision to cancel the South Eastern franchise competition.\n\n\"This follows significant concerns that continuing the competition process would lead to additional costs incurred to the taxpayer, with no certainty that this would deliver envisaged benefits for passengers in a timely fashion.\"\n\nThe spokesperson said the department would \"use this period to develop a solution that delivers the capacity and performance benefits that passengers are expecting\".\n\nIt will also allow the government to ensure that the recommendations of the review being conducted by the former boss of British Airways, Keith Williams, in to the railways, are taken into account.\n\nHis Williams Review will be published in the autumn but he has previously told the BBC government involvement should be limited to overall policy and budget decisions, and the Department for Transport should not manage the system.\n\nDavid Statham, Southeastern's managing director, said: \"Over this next extension period, our focus remains squarely on our passengers, delivering more improvements and continuing to improve the punctuality and reliability of our services.\"\n\nThe process has frustrated other bidders for the franchise, which was put out to tender in November 2017 and again last year before being cancelled by new Transport Secretary Grant Shapps.\n\nAbellio, which also operates Mersey Rail and Greater Anglia, said it had been working for \"many months\" with consumer groups, councils and businesses.\n\n\"This is a really disappointing outcome for customers across the Southeastern network,\" a spokesperson for Abellio said.\n\nStagecoach was another bidder but was barred from bidding for this franchise and two others in a row over pensions.\n\nSoutheastern also runs the only high-speed network in the UK from London St Pancras International to destinations in Kent.\n\nDyan Crowther, chief executive of HS1, said: \"Confusion about the future of these franchised services is frustrating for the very passengers who have driven the phenomenal growth in high-speed train travel.\n\n\"This pause does provide a real chance to re-think the specifications of the franchise and consider the benefits more high-speed trains between London and Kent can bring\".\n\nIn 2012, bidding on two other rail franchises - the West Coast Partnership and Great Western - was also cancelled.\n\nRachael Maskell, Shadow Rail Minister, said the decision to keep the franchise with Govia meant important investment decisions such as new trains \"are kicked into the long grass\".\n\nLabour has raised the prospect of nationalising the railways and she said: \"It's clear that the government does not believe franchising competition can deliver benefits for passengers - but they have no ideas for how to deliver better services.\"", "An actor whose credits include a raft of medical dramas has become an A&E nurse in real life.\n\nVicky Hall played nurses and other roles in programmes including Casualty, Holby City and Doctors before deciding on a career change, training to become a medic off screen.\n\nShe said her two children meant the travel demanded by acting was proving harder to juggle, but she also wanted her next challenge to have acting's excitement.\n\nThe 42-year-old now works part time at the Alexandra Hospital in Worcestershire near her home, although she continues to do voiceover work.", "More than 100 MPs have spoken to the police after facing threats and abuse in the past year, a BBC survey has found.\n\nWe spoke to MPs from various parties about the abuse they receive both online and offline.", "The system will now comprise two nodes in the sky - with a third to follow before 2025\n\nEurope has launched the second satellite in its space laser telecommunications network.\n\nIt will use optical beams to pull pictures and data from other spacecraft and then speed that information to the ground.\n\nEDRS-C, as it is known, was sent into orbit on Tuesday by an Ariane-5 rocket from the Kourou spaceport in French Guiana.\n\nIt joins the first node in the network, EDRS-A, which was put up in 2016.\n\nThat spacecraft was positioned over Central Africa to service Europe.\n\nThe new satellite will sit slightly to the east, where it will provide additional capacity.\n\nThe European Data Relay System is a joint venture between the European Space Agency and aerospace giant Airbus.\n\nIt is used predominantly by the European Union's Sentinel-1 and Sentinel-2 Earth observation spacecraft. These platforms take images of the planet's surface.\n\nRapid retrieval of space images is important for emergency response\n\nOrdinarily, such satellites would have to wait until they pass over a radio receiving dish on the ground before downloading their pictures, which could mean a delay of over an hour as they circle the globe.\n\nBut the Sentinels were equipped to connect with the EDRS satellites' 1.8-gigabit laser links.\n\nThe relay platforms orbit much higher in the sky - some 36,000km in altitude - and always have visibility of a radio antenna on the ground.\n\nThe capability has particular relevance in the realm of natural disasters, such as major floods or big earthquakes.\n\nInformation about the scale of these emergencies can be put in the hands of first responders much faster than would normally be the case.\n\n\"We have demonstrated that it's possible to get a Sentinel image on the ground and ready to use after just 15 minutes of it being acquired,\" Magali Vaissiere, the director of telecoms at Esa, told BBC News.\n\n\"The launch of EDRS-C brings additional capacity to the network, obviously, but it also provides redundancy, a back-up, which you need in an operational system.\"\n\nBetween a third and a half of all image data from Sentinels 1 and 2 is now routed through EDRS, and usage is certain to expand with the second node now in orbit.\n\nThere are plans to use the relay system to regularly pull data to the ground from the European Columbus science laboratory on the space station. Future Earth observation satellites are also actively being planned with EDRS in mind, including the EU's next batch of Sentinels and Airbus's Pléiades Neo satellites which will take Earth images at 30cm resolution. Airbus says airborne reconnaissance could make use of the laser links, too.\n\nA third node, EDRS-D, should be launched over the Asia-Pacific region before 2025.\n\nEsa wants to see optical technology play a much bigger role in space communications.\n\nTelecoms satellites that rely solely on radio frequency transmissions are being left behind by the performance of terrestrial fibre networks.\n\nIn time, this is going to put significant constraints on applications that include TV broadcasting and the services carrying the messages of connected devices (the so-called Internet of Things).\n\nIt is why the space agency will propose to Europe's research ministers in November that they fund the R&D necessary to break the \"bottleneck in the sky\".\n\nEsa's High Throughput Optical Network (HyDRON) project envisages laser links, not just between satellites but between spacecraft and the ground.\n\nThis brings certain challenges, including the issue of how to manage light transmissions through a turbulent - and often cloudy - atmosphere.\n\nHowever, if the technologies can be mastered they should permit terabit-per-second connections.\n\n\"We have shown with EDRS that we have some leadership in Europe in these technologies, and one of the strategic lines we have defined for [the ministerial meeting] will be dedicated to optical uses so that we strengthen that leadership,\" the Esa telecoms director said.\n\nThe 3-tonne EDRS-C satellite also hosts a Ka-band radio frequency payload for the London-based Avanti telecommunications company.\n\nAvanti calls the payload Hylas-3 and will be using it to deliver broadband and other data services to markets in Europe, the Middle East and Africa.\n\nJonathan.Amos-INTERNET@bbc.co.uk and follow me on Twitter: @BBCAmos", "Walt Disney's latest profit has failed to impress Wall Street, despite producing blockbuster movie hits including Avengers: Endgame and Toy Story 4.\n\nDisney's shares fell 5% in after-hours trading when the firm posted figures that missed analysts' forecasts.\n\nProfits at the entertainment giant fell 51% to $1.4bn in the last three months, despite revenues rising 33% to $20.2bn.\n\nAvengers has become the biggest grossing movie ever, beating Avatar.\n\nBut profits from a string of movie hits, including Aladdin, failed to offset other costs at the company.\n\nIn March, Disney bought the TV and film assets of 21st Century Fox for $71bn.\n\nDisney chairman and chief executive Robert Iger said the third quarter results \"reflect our efforts to effectively integrate the 21st Century Fox\".\n\nThe company is also gearing up for a new digital streaming service, Disney+, which it is launching in November to challenge Netflix.\n\nCosts to build online services will weigh on profits for several years, the company has said.\n\nStreaming competitors from AT&T's Warner Media and Comcast's NBC Universal are expected next year.\n\nDisney's direct-to-consumer and international unit reported an operating loss of $553m, up from $168m a year earlier, from consolidation of Hulu and spending on Disney+ and the ESPN streaming service.\n\nAt the theme parks unit, overall operating income rose 4% to $1.7bn but fell at Disney's US parks. The company attributed the drop to expenses for an ambitious Star Wars-themed expansion in late May at California's Disneyland and lower attendance.\n\nMedia networks, which includes ESPN, the Disney Channels and FX, reported a 7% increase in operating income to $2.1bn.\n• None The Disney-Fox giant in four charts", "One source told Newsnight the culling of cattle could start within weeks of a no-deal Brexit\n\nSome 45,000 dairy cows could be culled in Northern Ireland, in the event of a no-deal Brexit if new higher tariffs are applied to British milk, senior industry figures have warned.\n\nNorthern Ireland is particularly vulnerable because about a third of its dairy output is processed in the Republic of Ireland, which would continue to be part of the EU.\n\nThe UK is due to leave the EU on 31 October and one source said the culling of cattle could start within weeks of that date if that happened without the UK and EU agreeing a deal.\n\nBBC Newsnight has been told that officials and ministers from the Department for the Environment, Farming and Rural Affairs (Defra), have been warned about the potential for a \"major cull of dairy cattle, but they are not listening\".\n\nIn a statement Defra said: \"A widespread cull of livestock is absolutely not something that the government anticipates nor is planning for in the event of no-deal.\n\n\"We will always back Britain and Northern Ireland's great farmers and make sure that Brexit works for them.\n\n\"The government is boosting its preparations to ensure we are fully prepared to leave the EU on 31 October, whatever the circumstances.\"\n\nBut another industry insider told Newsnight that despite their warnings there had been a \"metaphorical shrug of the shoulders from ministers\".\n\nIt comes after reports on Monday that the prime minister's de facto chief of staff, Dominic Cummings had said all government departments should be \"interrogated\" on Brexit planning and raise any issues with No 10 as soon as possible.\n\nThere are approximately 310,700 dairy cattle in Northern Ireland, and the industry exports between 700 and 800 million litres of milk to the Republic of Ireland each year.\n\nAt present the average trade price of a litre of British milk is 26p. In the event of a no-deal Brexit, where 19p tariffs could be applied, that price would be pushed up to 45p in the Republic.\n\nHowever, the concerns are not solely based on the introduction of tariffs, which would make British milk expensive.\n\nCustoms checks and paperwork relating to traceability and standards could add further complications, and crucially it may no longer be legal to mix milk from the north and south.\n\nThe fear among producers in Northern Ireland is that, if no agreement is reached and traditional trading relationships with the south become difficult, the country will be left with a glut of milk that it will not be able to process or sell.\n\nAn industry insider said: \"Dairy herds have to be milked, it's not like you can leave the milk in the cows they would bloat up and ultimately die.\n\n\"If there is no market, and farmers cannot sell their milk, they could only keep going for a very short period.\n\n\"We're talking about hundreds of thousands of litres of milk going to waste, and then the farmers would have no choice but to reduce their herds.\"\n\nIndustry insiders say they arrived at the figure having considered Northern Irish processing plants maximising their output and some milk being sent to other parts of the UK.\n\nDairy farmers in Northern Ireland and the rest of the UK could face a further threat if current government plans to apply a 0% tariff on dairy imports in the event of a no-deal Brexit allow foreign milk to enter the UK market at a comparative advantage.\n\nMichael Bell, executive director of Northern Ireland Food and Drink Association (NIFDA), said: \"The impact of a no-deal Brexit on food and drink - Northern Ireland's largest industrial sector - will potentially be very severe.\n\n\"Given our reliance on EU exports, and the fact that the agri-food sector on the island of Ireland is highly integrated, leaving the European Union without a deal would leave us uniquely exposed.\n\n\"Locally, the lack of a Northern Ireland executive at a time of immense uncertainty for the industry is a major problem.\n\n\"The Northern Ireland food industry and the economy as a whole is potentially facing unprecedented difficulty, yet we remain without ministers able to take important decisions and fight our corner.\n\n\"I would strongly urge the UK government, and our local politicians, to work together to avoid a no-deal at all costs, before it is too late.\"", "The latest series of Line of Duty was a ratings hit\n\nWatching programmes on a TV set is still the most popular way for UK audiences to watch television - but streaming is catching up.\n\nTraditional viewing - including catch-up within 28 days - still accounts for most TV watching, with an average of three hours and 12 minutes per day.\n\nBut according to Ofcom's latest Media Nations report, this marks a drop of 11 minutes since 2017.\n\nAverage daily viewing of streaming services rose last year to 26 minutes.\n\nThe number of UK households signed up to the most popular streaming platforms - Netflix, Amazon Prime Video, Now TV and Disney Life - increased from 11.2m (39%) in 2018 to 13.3m (47%) in 2019.\n\nThe total number of UK streaming subscriptions rose by a quarter in 2018 - from 15.6m to 19.1m - with many homes signing up to more than one service.\n\nThe report found that two in five of UK adults now consider online video services to be their main way of watching TV and film.\n\nDespite traditional TV viewing declining, the five main public service broadcasters - BBC One, BBC Two, Channel 4, ITV/STV and Channel 5 - held their share of viewing, at 52%.\n\nBut viewers now watch 50 minutes less traditional TV each day than in 2010 - and those in the younger age bracket (16 to 24) have halved the time they spend watching TV that way during the same period.\n\nThis is the second Media Nations report to be published by Ofcom.\n\nFriends is still the most streamed show on paid-for services in the UK\n\nThe first, which came out in 2018, found that Friends topped a list of the UK's most popular shows on paid-for streaming services.\n\nIt was the same again this year, with Friends at number one and accounting for around 2% of total streams.\n\nThe US sitcom, which first aired in 1994, was added to Netflix early last year.\n\nAmazon's car show Grand Tour was the second most streamed, followed by You, The Good Place and Brooklyn Nine-Nine, which are all on Netflix.\n\nBBC One's Line of Duty is the most-watched programme overall this year so far with 12.1 million tuning in to the final episode.\n\nThe channel's Bodyguard was the most-watched drama in 2018, with 14.3 million viewers for its final outing.\n\nYih-Choung Teh, strategy and research group director at Ofcom, said: \"The way we watch TV is changing faster than ever before. In the space of seven years, streaming services have grown from nothing to reach nearly half of British homes.\n\n\"But traditional broadcasters still have a vital role to play, producing the kind of brilliant UK programmes that overseas tech giants struggle to match.\n\n\"We want to sustain that content for future generations, so we're leading a nationwide debate on the future of public service broadcasting.\"\n\nFollow us on Facebook, on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Texas police have apologised after an image of two white officers on horseback leading a handcuffed black man by a rope caused an outcry online.\n\nGalveston Police Chief Vernon Hale said on Monday the technique was acceptable in some scenarios, but that \"officers showed poor judgment in this instance\".\n\nHe said there was no \"malicious intent\" and has changed department policy to \"prevent the use of this technique\".\n\nMany people on social media said the photo evoked images of the slavery era.\n\nAccording to a news release from the Galveston Police Department, the two mounted officers, named only as P Brosch and A Smith, arrested Donald Neely for criminal trespass.\n\nThe officers were taking Mr Neely to a police staging area. Police clarified that he was not tied with the rope, but \"was handcuffed and a line was clipped to the handcuffs\".\n\nThe department added: \"We understand the negative perception of this action and believe it is most appropriate to cease the use of this technique.\"\n\nEtching depicting a group of slaves marched while they are bound together, led by white men on horses who carry guns and whips\n\nMr Hale apologised to Mr Neely for the \"unnecessary embarrassment\".\n\nHe added the officers \"could have waited for a transport unit at the location of the arrest\".\n\n\"We have immediately changed the policy to prevent the use of this technique and will review all mounted training and procedures for more appropriate methods,\" the police chief said.\n\nMr Neely is free on bond but could not be reached for comment, the Houston Chronicle reported.\n\nLeon Phillips, director of the Galveston County Coalition for Justice, told the BBC the image that went viral on social media was taken by an individual who wished to remain anonymous.\n\nMr Phillips said the incident is \"difficult to talk about\" as a Galveston resident.\n\n\"This was a stupid mistake,\" he said. \"What I do know is that if it was a white man, there's no way they would have done that to him.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Her ancestors enslaved mine. Now we're friends\n\nHe noted that Mr Neely is a mentally ill individual, and officers should have waited regardless of how long it took a vehicle to arrive, since \"it's not as if they're getting paid by the arrest\".\n\nMr Phillips said he plans to file an open records request at city hall this morning to look at law enforcement policies.\n\n\"The police chief says they didn't break any policy, but what is the policy on transporting a prisoner?\n\n\"How do I know that the policy wasn't written in 1875? There are a lot of unanswered questions.\"", "As President Trump meets victims of a deadly mass shooting, Dayton is divided over his visit.", "If you're tempted to sit on the Italian capital's famous Spanish Steps, you might want to stand up again.\n\nThe Scalinata di Trinità dei Monti is classified as a monument, so it's subject to one of Rome's new strict laws where tourists could be given a hefty fine.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. A determined cyclist makes it through flood water in Edinburgh\n\nA major clear-up operation is under way after torrential rain caused severe disruption to commuters.\n\nThe main rail line from Edinburgh to Glasgow was shut after flooding at Winchburgh tunnel in West Lothian resulted in passengers on five trains being trapped for several hours.\n\nScotRail said engineers had been working through the night to pump 2ft of water from the tunnel.\n\nNetworkRail aims to have the line open for early-morning commuters on Friday.\n\nIt said engineers would be sent in to check the tunnel and signalling system for damage caused by the flood before it gets the all-clear.\n\nThe issue is continuing to affect rail services across the central belt.\n\nEngineers have been working to pump water from Winchburgh tunnel since Wednesday night\n\nScotRail said water levels were \"falling slowly\" and thanked crews from the Scottish Fire and Rescue Service who joined efforts on Thursday.\n\nIt tweeted: \"Once the water's cleared, engineers will need to ensure that the tunnel is safe for use. This will involve a thorough inspection and an empty train being driven through to test the lines.\"\n\nThe Scottish Fire and Rescue Service has deployed a high-volume pump to help Network Rail tackle the flood in the 340m-long tunnel. The pump can remove 7,000 litres a minute.\n\nFire crews lower the high-volume pump down to the tunnel\n\nRail passengers travelling between Glasgow and Edinburgh are being advised to make alternative arrangements for travel and to check ahead before setting off on journeys.\n\nSuz Scott was among passengers stuck on one of the five trains stranded in floodwater outside Linlithgow.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by ScotRail This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy 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 told the BBC Scotland website that there was an announcement that there was too much water ahead and behind the train to continue their journey.\n\n\"Then we saw this deluge of water start to submerge the tracks,\" she said.\n\nThe \"poor train staff\" were trying to find a solution to the problem but did not seem to have a \"plan B\", she added.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 2 by Suz Scott This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy 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 rail firm later tweeted to say the Glasgow-bound stranded trains would return to Edinburgh due to the depth of the water in the Winchburgh tunnel.\n\nReplacement bus services have been put in place between Linlithgow and Falkirk Grahamston to Edinburgh Park.\n\nEdinburgh/Gogarbank was the wettest spot in Scotland on Wednesday, with 36mm of rainfall.\n\nThis was for a 12-hour period from 07:00 to 19:00, but most fell between 16:00 to 19:00. The total included 13.4mm between 16:00 and 17:00. The nearby site of Murray Burn recorded 19mm in one hour.\n\nThere was 27mm of rain at Lossiemouth for the same 12-hour period, with 11mm falling between 15:00 and 16:00.\n\nDrumnadrochit recorded 24mm in 12 hours, of which 15mm fell in the hour from 17:00 to 18:00.\n\nThe village of Dipple in Moray saw 69.4mm in the 36 hours up to 13:00 on Thursday - which is the local average for a month.\n\nThe heavy rain also caused problems around Edinburgh Airport on Wednesday evening, with access roads flooded and cars stuck in floodwater.\n\nCars and buses were unable to access the airport for a time after the approach road from the M8 motorway came under several feet of water.\n\nA man was spotted cycling through flood water at a roundabout just off Eastfield Road, as the rain water left vehicles on the road partially submerged.\n\nFlooding in Dunfermline saw vehicles stranded on Admiralty Road\n\nPolice in Fife warned drivers to take care as water levels reached up to car bonnets on Admiralty Road, Dunfermline.\n\nA spokesperson posted on social media: \"Some serious rain out there causing widespread flooding and awful driving conditions across the south west Fife area.\n\n\"Please drive with care, switch your lights on and leave a large gap between the vehicle in front.\"\n\nThe Met Office has issued a yellow warning for further heavy rain and thunder storms for much of the UK on Friday.\n\nMeanwhile, part of a railway route in the west of Scotland will remain closed until 22 August after severe flooding swept away part of the track.\n\nThe decision was taken to keep the line closed between Ardlui and Crianlarich following detailed geotechnical and aerial surveys of the damage.\n\nHowever, services will be reintroduced between Crianlarich and Oban from Monday.\n\nHeavy rain washed the trackbed from under the railway last Sunday.", "Vigils were held in both El Paso (seen here) and Dayton\n\nIn distant parts of the country, just 13 hours apart, two mass shootings rocked the US over the weekend.\n\nThe first, a massacre in the Texan border-city of El Paso, left 22 people dead. Nine people were later killed in a shooting in Dayton, Ohio.\n\nHere's what we know about the attacks.\n\nPolice in El Paso, a large city on the Mexico-US border, first received reports of gunshots at 10:39 local time (16:39 GMT) on Saturday.\n\nA gunman had opened fire with an assault-style rifle in a crowded Walmart on the city's east side. Nearby businesses were placed on lockdown and shoppers were evacuated.\n\nThe store is near a retail park, the Cielo Vista Mall, which is popular with El Paso residents as well as shoppers from just across the Mexican border.\n\nIn addition to the 22 fatalities, 24 people were injured in the shooting. Eight Mexican nationals were among the dead and the victims' ages range from 15 to 90.\n\nOfficers arrived on the scene within six minutes and the attacker surrendered after he was confronted by police outside the store.\n\nSecurity camera images from inside the Walmart show an armed man in a dark T-shirt wearing glasses and what appear to be ear protectors. He has been named by US media as Patrick Crusius, a resident of the city of Allen, in the Dallas area, which is about 650 miles (1,046km) east of El Paso.\n\nHe purchased the weapon legally, police say, and was able to carry it into the Walmart because of the state's \"open carry\" laws.\n\nThe 21-year old has been charged with capital murder, meaning he could face the death penalty.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Police were filmed responding to the shootings\n\nHe is believed to be the author of a text posted on 8chan, an online message board frequently used by the far right, which says \"this attack is a response to the Hispanic invasion of Texas\" and rails against a \"cultural and ethnic replacement brought on by invasion\".\n\nThe vast majority of El Paso's 680,000 residents identify as Hispanic or Latino.\n\nThe four-page document, reportedly posted some 20 minutes before police received the first emergency call from the Walmart, also expresses support for the gunman who killed 51 people in Christchurch, New Zealand, in March.\n\nThe US Attorney for the Western District of Texas, John Bash, said prosecutors were considering bringing hate crime charges against the gunman.\n\nHours later, almost 1,600 miles away in Dayton, Ohio, shooting began at 01:07 local time (05:07 GMT) on Sunday in an area popular for its nightlife.\n\nSecurity camera footage shows dozens of people racing through the doorway of the local Ned Peppers nightclub on E 5th Street. Nine people were killed and 27 were injured.\n\nJust seconds later, the gunman is seen running towards the venue and being hit by police gunfire as he reaches the door. Police have confirmed they killed the gunman at the scene within 30 seconds of him opening fire.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nHad the gunman made it through the door, Dayton Police Chief Richard Biehl said, the loss of life would have been \"catastrophic\".\n\nThe suspect, 24-year-old Connor Betts, used a .223-calibre assault rifle with high-capacity magazines that he had ordered legally from Texas. There was nothing in his history that would have stopped him from buying the gun legally, police said.\n\nHe was wearing a mask, body armour and had additional ammunition with him, law enforcement officials said. A second weapon, which the suspect left in his vehicle, was bought locally.\n\nHe fired dozens of rounds in the attack. His 22-year-old sister, Megan, was among those killed.\n\nCCTV footage obtained by CNN showed Betts, Megan Betts and another man, Charles Beard entering a nearby bar a little after 23:00.\n\nBetts is seen leaving about an hour later, with Mr Beard and Megan Betts exiting at 12:59. It is not clear what Betts did after leaving the bar but minutes later his sister was dead and Mr Beard was wounded.\n\nPolice have searched his house and his motives remain unclear. When responding to questions about a possible racial element to the killings, Mr Biehl said there was nothing to suggest a \"bias motive\".", "Natalie Christopher was last seen going for a run on Monday morning\n\nPolice searching for a 35-year-old British woman who disappeared on the Greek island of Ikaria say they have found her dead in a ravine.\n\nNatalie Christopher, an astrophysicist from London, was reported missing by her partner on Monday after failing to return from a run.\n\nThe couple, based in Cyprus, were on holiday on Ikaria, 130 miles (210km) south-east of Athens.\n\nDetectives are investigating the circumstances of her death.\n\nA major air-and-land search had been launched with island authorities joined by specialist teams.\n\nThe body was found around three miles from where she was last seen in a 20m (66ft) ravine, police said.", "Residents in Whaley Bridge are returning home after almost a week away.\n\nThe Toddbrook Reservoir dam wall was damaged on Thursday 1 August following a night of intense rainfall.\n\nIt prompted 1,500 people to be evacuated from their homes in the Derbyshire town amid work to drain the reservoir and shore up the dam.", "Mark Acklom was extradited to the UK from Switzerland earlier this year\n\nA conman who duped his ex-girlfriend out of her life savings worth nearly £300,000 has been jailed.\n\nMark Acklom convinced Carolyn Woods to lend him money for renovation work at a string of properties he owned after he promised to marry her.\n\nAt Bristol Crown Court, 45-year-old Acklom, of no fixed address, pleaded guilty to five fraud charges worth a combined £299,564.\n\nHe was jailed for five years and eight months.\n\nThe court heard Acklom deceived Ms Woods into thinking they were in a \"committed relationship\" and would get married, so that she would loan him money.\n\nMs Woods previously told the BBC that Acklom had \"confided\" in her that he was an MI6 agent during their year-long relationship in Bath in 2012.\n\nBut she said he vanished at the end of the year leaving her \"with no money left\".\n\nIn a victim impact statement read to the court she said Acklom acted \"deliberately, and in the most calculated, pre-meditated way\" and she had \"suffered total financial ruin\".\n\nMs Woods said the man she fell in love with \"never actually existed\" and was simply \"the fictitious creation of Mark Acklom\".\n\n\"I have felt deeply betrayed and have suffered a loss of identity,\" she added.\n\nSentencing, Judge Martin Picton said: \"No one listening to the victim's personal statement could fail to appreciate the harm your offending has brought about.\"\n\nHe said Acklom had taken advantage of Ms Woods in a \"ruthless and selfish manner\" and \"did not care about the effect your criminal and self-serving actions would cause\".\n\nMark Acklom duped Carolyn Woods into thinking they were in a \"committed relationship\", the court heard\n\nIn October 2016 Acklom was among 10 British fugitives named by the National Crime Agency (NCA) as the most wanted in Spain.\n\nHe was later seen in Geneva where he had been living under an assumed name.\n\nAcklom was arrested at a luxury apartment in Zurich last summer and extradited back to the UK.\n\nHe originally faced 20 charges, but his barrister Gudrun Young asked for him to be re-arraigned after a jury had been sworn in for his trial.\n\nProsecutor Charles Thomas said the guilty pleas to five counts of fraud were acceptable to the Crown.\n\nA proceeds of crime hearing will take place at a later date.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "People have begun protesting, throwing stones at Indian armed forces in some parts of Indian-administered Kashmir, days after the government revoked the region's special status.", "The Rapid Relief Team is offering a free-of-charge BBQ for the residents of Whaley Bridge to thank them.\n\nA spokesman said: “We’ve really appreciated the outstanding residents of Whaley Bridge.\"\n\nHe said to recognise the community they will set up a BBQ once things have settled down and everyone has had a chance to get back home.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Michael Gove says it is \"wrong\" of the EU to refuse to re-open talks\n\nCabinet minister Michael Gove says the EU \"seem to be refusing to negotiate with the UK\" over a new Brexit deal.\n\nMr Gove, who is responsible for no-deal planning, said he was \"deeply saddened\" that Brussels was, in his words, saying \"no, we don't want to talk\".\n\nIt comes after the EU said UK demands to remove the Irish backstop from Theresa May's deal were unacceptable.\n\nIrish PM Leo Varadkar has reiterated that the withdrawal deal, including the backstop, cannot be renegotiated.\n\nThe European Commission said it was willing to hold further talks, \"should the UK wish to clarify its position\".\n\nMeanwhile, a group of politicians has started a legal action aimed at preventing Boris Johnson shutting down Parliament to force through a no-deal Brexit.\n\nTheresa May's deal has been rejected three times by MPs and as things stand, the UK will leave the EU on 31 October whether it has agreed a new one or not.\n\nOn Monday, EU negotiators told European diplomats there was currently no basis for \"meaningful discussions\" and talks were back where they were three years ago.\n\nA senior EU diplomat reportedly said a no-deal Brexit appeared to be the UK government's \"central scenario\".\n\nAddressing those suggestions, Mr Gove said: \"At the moment, it's the EU that seems to be saying they're not interested, they are simply saying 'no, we don't want to talk'.\n\n\"I think that's wrong and sad, it's not in Europe's interests\", he added.\n\nForeign Secretary Dominic Raab denied ministers were now aiming for a no-deal exit, insisting the UK would \"strain every sinew to get the changes we need\".\n\nSpeaking to the BBC during a trip to Canada on Tuesday, he said the EU had so far shown \"no movement, no compromise, no flexibility\" over changing the agreement rejected by Parliament.\n\n\"Of course, if the EU don't move, if they're stubbornly intransigent, then we will leave on WTO [World Trade Organization] rules,\" he added.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nMonday's EU meeting followed discussion last week between the EU and the PM's European envoy, David Frost, where he reiterated Mr Johnson's stance that the backstop plan must be removed from Mrs May's deal.\n\nHe also raised concerns about the UK's \"divorce bill\" and the proposed role of the European Court of Justice, the EU's top court, after Brexit.\n\nMany opponents of Mrs May's deal cite concerns over the backstop - an insurance policy to prevent a hard border returning on the island of Ireland - which if implemented, would see Northern Ireland staying aligned to some rules of the EU single market.\n\nIt would also involve a temporary single customs territory, effectively keeping the whole of the UK in the EU customs union. These arrangements would apply unless and until both the EU and UK agreed they were no longer necessary.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nSpeaking on Tuesday in Belfast, Mr Varadkar told reporters he did not accept that a no-deal Brexit was unavoidable, adding there were \"a number of ways\" in which it could be avoided.\n\nHe said these options included ratifying Mrs May's deal, further extending the UK's EU membership, or the UK cancelling Brexit by revoking Article 50.\n\nMr Varadkar said he had invited Mr Johnson to Dublin for talks on Brexit, and other issues, with \"no preconditions\".\n\nThe BBC's Brussels reporter Adam Fleming said the EU was grappling with how to deal with a prime minister in Boris Johnson who was demanding things they were not prepared to give.\n\nHe said the EU had not given up yet, and all eyes would be on the G7 summit in France at the end of August, which many believe could be the moment of truth - the point at which a no-deal Brexit may become inevitable.\n\nEarlier, Mr Johnson met his first foreign leader since entering Downing Street - Estonian Prime Minister Juri Ratas.\n\nThe country's Foreign Minister, Urmas Reinsalu, said earlier that while the \"reality\" was the withdrawal agreement - including the backstop - had been jointly agreed by EU member states, there was still a need for continued dialogue in the coming weeks to avoid a no-deal Brexit.\n\nHe told BBC Radio 4's Today programme alternatives to the backstop could be discussed after the ratification of the withdrawal deal.\n\nLast week the government announced an extra £2.1bn of funding to prepare for a no-deal Brexit - doubling the amount of money it has set aside this year.\n\nThe plans include more Border Force officers and upgrades to transport infrastructure at ports, as well as more money to tackle queues in Kent created by delays at the Channel.\n\nMr Gove said the government's preparations for no deal had been stepped up and \"the days of drift that we have had in the past have ended\".\n\nHe said the plan to take the UK out of the EU by 31 October was a \"firm deadline\", and \"we will be ready to leave come what may\".\n\nNot for the first time the Brexit process appears to be deadlocked. Both sides say they're willing to talk and both sides want to avoid leaving without a deal.\n\nBut the UK and the EU are not negotiating because each has a position which the other says it can't accept.\n\nFor the time being expect more tough talk from government ministers and similar from the EU.\n\nBut sooner or later, if both sides really do want to avoid leaving without an agreement, someone or something will have to give.\n\nCome September when MPs return from their summer break there may be more attempts to prevent no deal, a move to force a general election - perhaps a subtle shift in the government's position.\n\nThere's nothing like a deadline to focus minds and if this one sticks, things could begin to happen very fast.\n\nThis summer stand-off can only last so long.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. MPs talk about the level of abuse and threats they receive both online and offline\n\nMPs have told the BBC about the threats and abuse they face, including being sent pictures of decapitated bodies, being surreptitiously filmed and having dog mess smeared on their door.\n\nSNP MP Dr Lisa Cameron said she had put in place extra security so her children could play safely in her garden.\n\nConservative Scott Mann said someone threatened to nail bomb his office.\n\nThe Commons Deputy Speaker said some MPs had told him they would not run for office again because of safety fears.\n\nThe BBC carried out a survey of MPs in writing and by phone between May and July this year. Out of a total of 650, 172 responded.\n\nOf those, 139 said either they or their staff had faced abuse in the past year.\n\nMore than 60% (108) of those who replied said they had been in contact with the police about threats in the last 12 months.\n\nSeparate analysis carried out by academics at the University of Sheffield for BBC News looked at levels of abuse directed at MPs on Twitter.\n\nMPs from across the House of Commons and with differing views on issues like Brexit told the BBC about threats they had experienced.\n\nDr Cameron said as soon as she was elected in 2015 she started to receive death threats and pictures of decapitated bodies.\n\nOn the advice of police, she cordoned off part of her garden so that her children had somewhere safe to play with increased security.\n\n\"It makes you wonder whether you've put your family inadvertently at risk as a result of your choices,\" she said.\n\nEarlier this year, she secured a four-year non-harassment order against a constituent who branded her a child abuser on Twitter.\n\nSpeaking about a nail bomb threat made to his office, Mr Mann told the BBC: \"In any other profession, an HR team would be in complete meltdown with some of this stuff.\"\n\nLiberal Democrat Tom Brake said he had to have people removed from his constituency office.\n\nAnother Conservative, Bob Blackman, whose constituency office was the target of arson, said he had enhanced security around his home because of attacks on his car.\n\nOthers reported being surreptitiously filmed in the supermarket and having dog mess left on their door.\n\nThe SNP's Lisa Cameron said she feared for her children's safety\n\nIn May, 23-year-old Jack Renshaw was jailed for life for planning to murder Labour MP Rosie Cooper.\n\nThe judge at the Old Bailey said the neo-Nazi had wanted to \"replicate\" the murder of MP Jo Cox, who was stabbed to death in June 2016.\n\nMany MPs told the BBC they expected to receive abuse but were concerned about its impact on their staff and family.\n\n\"I've had staff members resign because of the pressure of such threats,\" the Labour MP John Mann said. He said his wife and daughter had both been threatened with rape.\n\n\"The systems are not coherent, police coordination is not coherent. It should be one specialised unit who deals with it, not multiple police forces across the country,\" he added.\n\nJack Renshaw was jailed for life earlier this year for planning to murder an MP\n\nIn May, Metropolitan Police Commissioner Cressida Dick told a Commons committee threats to MPs were at \"unprecedented levels\", with the number of crimes reported more than doubling in 2018 - from 151 to 342.\n\nMet Police Commander Adrian Usher, who leads policing at the Palace of Westminster, called it a \"dramatic rise\" and said there was \"no doubt\" that since the middle of 2018 \"we have seen a more febrile atmosphere in political debate\".\n\nLord Evans, who chairs of the Committee on Standards in Public Life, said the survey demonstrated there was \"an urgent and serious problem with intimidation and abuse... and it's getting worse\".\n\nAlthough the police response had improved, he said, it was \"patchy\" and needed to be \"centrally co-ordinated as a national threat\".\n\nLabour MP Yasmin Qureshi said: \"When all they say is 'you're a traitor and you shouldn't have a British passport,' or 'you're an ISIS sympathiser and you should be sent back to whichever Muslim country so you can be raped and abused,' I do think that you can't then engage with these people.\"\n\nShe called on social media companies to spend more on monitoring as the University of Sheffield researchers said abuse appeared to be reaching new levels of intensity.\n\nThe team from the Department of Computer Science studied the replies MPs received to their tweets in the first half of this year.\n\nThey found the proportion of abusive replies increased significantly month on month, and by June, just under 4% of all replies were abusive in nature.\n\n\"We've not seen that kind of figure before,\" said Prof Kalina Bontcheva, who led the team. She added that the top 10 most targeted MPs received almost half of all abuse.\n\nDavid Lammy told BBC News: \"I will not compromise what I say in public life and let the bullies win.\n\n\"But it saddens me greatly that this is a growing stain on our national democracy. It needs to be challenged and it needs to be dealt with.\"\n\nDeputy Speaker of the House of Commons Sir Lindsay Hoyle said the BBC's findings were the \"tip of the iceberg\".\n\nHe said complaints he received from MPs in his capacity as chair of the Consultative Panel on Parliament Security reached the same level in the first six weeks of 2019 as they used to see in a year.\n\n\"When MPs turn around to me and say 'I'm not going to stand again, I don't feel safe, I don't need this,' we're in danger of losing democracy in this country,\" he added.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Some festival-goers vowed to have a good time despite travelling for twelve hours\n\nThe Boardmasters festival has been called off just hours before gates were due to open, after warnings the site would be battered by storms.\n\nAbout 55,000 people were expected in Newquay to see headliners Wu-Tang Clan, Florence + The Machine and Foals.\n\nMany revellers were already on their way, with crowds now gathered at the town's railway station or searching for somewhere to stay.\n\nOrganisers said ticket holders would get a full refund.\n\nFestival bosses said the forecast was \"too severe\" for the event to go ahead and felt they had no option but to cancel because they \"just could not compromise the safety of our customers\".\n\nPeople were queuing at Newquay railway station on Wednesday after Boardmasters was cancelled\n\nOrganisers said refunds were available for anyone who bought a ticket via the festival website or an official ticket seller.\n\nFern Jameson said she had received no news on when she would get her refund and said the \"£10 booking fees and the £10 litter bond\" were not getting refunded.\n\nBut Taia, who was coming to the festival from Farnborough, said the festival had been \"amazing at keeping us all posted since they made the announcement\".\n\nShe said she had not heard when the refund would come through, but said it was a \"huge relief\" to hear they would be receiving one.\n\nJosh, Jack and Ellis Fitzgerald, from Northampton, say they are now booked in a hotel for three nights but are still \"planning to have a good time\"\n\nThe Met Office has issued a yellow weather warning for heavy rain and thunderstorms for much of England and Wales on Friday and Saturday, with strong winds forecast for Cornwall.\n\nDeputy Chief Constable Paul Netherton said from looking at the weather warnings it would make the festival site \"very dangerous\".\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\nEvent organiser Andrew Topham said the decision was taken after discussions with the Met Office, the event safety team, emergency services and representatives from Cornwall Council.\n\nHe said the priority now was to de-rig the festival site to mitigate the risk it posed.\n\nEllie Fraser and Shannon Manley, from Nottingham, said they spent nearly £700 each and \"it took us 10 hours to get here\"\n\nBrook Bell, from Dover, said he was \"fuming\" having \"literally travelled the whole country to be here\"\n\nNightclubs and bars across Newquay have said after-parties are still going ahead and some new events will be added.\n\nAll campsites in Newquay are full and people are being directed to stay on the outskirts of the town, tourism bosses said.\n\nThe main acts were not set to play until Friday but gates were due to open on Wednesday.\n\nTicket prices ranged from £69 for day-entry passes through to VIP packages for five days of camping from about £370 per person.\n\nTicket-holders have been considering whether to stay in town or go home\n\nSarah Eames, 18, from Spalding, Lincolnshire dyed her hair pink and purple just a few hours before the cancellation, and is scared to tell her parents\n\nKristina Powell said she had not been able to sleep for shock after learning that the festival was cancelled after travelling from Cheshire.\n\nShe said she and her friends \"at first couldn't and didn't want to believe it and honestly thought it was a hoax\".\n\n\"It all seemed a bit unprofessional - a screenshot of a statement written on a Notes app?\n\n\"The website was down, which added to our doubt. Then, when it did come back up, tickets were still available to buy.\"\n\nShe said tickets were still available on the website until 01:30, despite the festival being cancelled hours earlier.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript 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 yasminefletcher This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy 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\nOne teenager who spent about £450 said he was \"never coming to Cornwall again\".\n\nDan Ahern, 17, from Canterbury, travelled with friends, Grace Harvey, 16, from Margate, and Kieran Noble, 17, from Whitstable.\n\nHe said: \"We could stay and go camping but it's just even more money.\"\n\nThe site near Newquay had been set up before it was confirmed the event was cancelled\n\nThe Boardmasters stage is being taken down after the cancellation decision\n\nBus company Megabus said on Twitter it would be making extra seats available on its Newquay to London service for passengers affected by the cancellation.\n\nRail operators GWR and CrossCountry both tweeted that those with return tickets from Newquay between now and Monday could use their returns on Wednesday.\n\nResponding to one customer, GWR added that those with refundable tickets could get refunds if they do not travel.\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\nActs due to take part have given their reaction, with Foals reposting Boardmasters' cancellation notice on Facebook and adding the single word: \"Gutted\".\n\nBBC forecaster Paul Goddard said that while the weather warning currently predicted high winds on Saturday, his weather maps were showing they were likely to hit on Friday night.\n\nHe added there could be average wind speeds of about 40mph, and gusts of up to 60mph.\n\nMalcolm Bell, Visit Cornwall chief executive, said that despite the cancellation the county was \"still open for business\".\n\nHowever, local businesses say they are already concerned about the effects of the cancellation.\n\nSurf shop manager Tim Rowe said he was concerned at losing festival trade and family trade\n\nTim Rowe, manager of Newquay's Rip Curl shop on Bank Street, said: \"My biggest problem is that families are put off coming this week because of Boardmasters.\n\n\"Not only have we lost the T-shirt and hats trade from the festival-goers, we won't get the families buying wetsuits and surfboards either.\"\n\nOther acts that were set to perform at the site in Watergate Bay included Razorlight, Dizzee Rascal and Jorja Smith.\n\nHundreds had arrived in Newquay for five days by the sea\n\nThe cancellation means those who are now going home will do so with bags still full\n\nThe five-day surfing side of event, at nearby Fistral beach, is still going ahead.\n\nThe surfing competition is often overlooked because the swell at this time of year is usually small. However, the current forecast is for waves of up to 10ft (3m) at Fistral.\n\nThe final day of the 2014 festival was cancelled because of bad weather.\n• None Boardmasters is off but festival vibes go on\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This isn't actually a tardigrade floating in space, but they are the first animal shown to be capable of surviving space exposure\n\nThe moon might now be home to thousands of planet Earth's most indestructible animals.\n\nTardigrades - often called water bears - are creatures under a millimetre long that can survive being heated to 150C and frozen to almost absolute zero.\n\nThey were travelling on an Israeli spacecraft that crash-landed on the moon in April.\n\nAnd the co-founder of the organisation that put them there thinks they're almost definitely still alive.\n\nThe water bears had been dehydrated to place them in suspended animation and then encased in artificial amber.\n\n\"We believe the chances of survival for the tardigrades... are extremely high,\" Arch Mission Foundation boss Nova Spivack said.\n\nThe Arch Mission Foundation keeps a \"backup\" of planet Earth - with human knowledge and the planet's biology stored and sent out to various solar locations in case of a life-ending event.\n\nThe \"lunar library\" - something resembling a DVD that contains a 30-million-page archive of human history viewable under microscopes, as well as human DNA - was being carried on the Beresheet robot lander.\n\nAnd alongside them were dehyrdrated tardigrades - some in amber and some stuck on tape.\n\nFor most creatures there would be no coming back from being dehydrated - life without water is almost impossible.\n\nThey shouldn't be cute, but we don't make the rules\n\nBut water bears - which have another very cute nickname, moss piglets - are not most animals.\n\nThey can be brought back to life decades after being dehydrated.\n\nScientists have found that tardigrades have what seems almost like a super power.\n\nWhen dried out they retract their heads and their eight legs, shrivel into a tiny ball, and enter a deep state of suspended animation that closely resembles death.\n\nThey shed almost all of the water in their body and their metabolism slows to 0.01% of the normal rate.\n\nAnd if reintroduced to water decades later, they're able to reanimate.\n\nNext time you're looking up at the moon, give a little wave to the moss piglets\n\nAll of that, plus the fact they became the first animal to survive in space back in 2007, made them a perfect candidate for Arch Mission's lunar library.\n\n\"Tardigrades are ideal to include because they are microscopic, multicellular, and one of the most durable forms of life on planet Earth,\" Nova said.\n\nEven though the little moss piglets are likely to have survived the moon crash, it might not be great that they're there.\n\n\"What it means is the so-called 'pristine environment' of the moon has been broken,\" says Open University professor of planetary and space sciences Monica Grady.\n\nWhen spacecraft leave Earth they are bound by the Outer Space Treaty not to contaminate their environment.\n\n\"You might say it was broken in 1969 when Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin were there, which is true, but since then we've become much more aware of how we should preserve these planetary bodies.\n\n\"I don't think anybody would have got permission to distribute dehydrated tardigrades over the surface of the moon. So it's not a good thing.\"\n\nThe Israeli spacecraft crash might have had unintended consequences - these guys should not be on the moon\n\nIf the tardegrades are on the moon, it's very unlikely they'll be able to spring back to life without being reintroduced to water.\n\nBut it would theoretically be possible for the tardigrades to be collected, brought back to earth, reanimated, and studied to see the effects of being on the moon.\n\nStill, it's nice to think that next time you look up at the moon, there might be thousands of (dehydrated) moss piglets looking back at you.\n\nAnd alternatively, there's definitely some great source material for a sci-fi/horror movie.\n\nAttack of the Moss Piglets from the Moon? We'd watch it.\n\nListen to Newsbeat live at 12:45 and 17:45 weekdays - or listen back here.", "Disney has announced it's going to remake Home Alone for its new streaming service.\n\nThe studio's chief exec Bob Iger said there will also be \"reimaginations\" of Night At the Museum, Diary of a Wimpy Kid and Cheaper By the Dozen.\n\nDisney now owns the franchises after it bought the film studio 20th Century Fox.\n\nThe new service Disney+ launches in the US in November and is expected to hit the UK next year.\n\nThe Christmas classic starring Macaulay Culkin was originally released back in 1990 and has an audience rating of 80% on Rotten Tomatoes.\n\nIt's also impossible to avoid if you have a TV on around Christmas time.\n\n\"So far this year we've released five of the top six movies,\" Iger told a conference call with investors.\n\n\"Including four which have generated more than a billion dollars in global box office.\"\n\nIn addition to Avatar, Planet of the Apes, X-Men and Deadpool, \"we're also focused on leveraging Fox's vast library of great titles to further enrich the content mix on our ... platforms,\" he said.\n\nOwen Wilson, Rebel Wilson, Ben Stiller, Ricky Gervais and Dan Stevens starred in the most recent Night at the Museum.\n\nAlso in line for one of these \"reimaginations\" is Night at the Museum. You know, Ben Stiller running around a museum at night.\n\nThe 2006 original only has a modest audience rating of 42% on Rotten Tomatoes, so maybe there is room for improvement?\n\nIn addition to these remakes, Disney+ will also have content from both the Star Wars and Marvel franchises as it enters a crowded marketplace, trying to become the latest streaming giant.\n\nIt'll have more than 7,500 episodes of TV and 400 movies.\n\nThere aren't any details yet on how exactly the likes of Home Alone will be adapted, so no word yet on who will get to shout \"Kevin!\" on a plane, or indeed who will take on the iconic roles of the Wet Bandits.\n\nDisney merely says it hopes the remake will have the \"same standards and the same creative discipline\" as the original.\n\nListen to Newsbeat live at 12:45 and 17:45 weekdays - or listen back here.", "Strictly's class of 2019 - but Jamie Laing (centre) had to pull out after the red carpet launch\n\nTV and radio presenters, soap stars, sportspeople, a YouTuber and a Viscountess - that's who is taking to the dancefloor for the 17th series of Strictly Come Dancing.\n\nBroadcaster Anneka Rice rose to fame on Channel 4's Bafta-nominated game show Treasure Hunt in the 1980s, before being given her own BBC One show, Challenge Anneka.\n\nShe joked: \"I haven't danced since I was seven and Miss Beer sent me home from my ballet class because I was hopelessly uncoordinated. My family and friends haven't seen me dance since, not at a wedding or round a handbag so it's going to be a challenge for my partner.\n\n\"In fact I've asked for two, one on each side. I can't see myself in a long frilly dress either. But I'm feeling recklessly excited. Strictly has always been my autumn's entertainment and now I'm part of it! My children will probably leave the country.\"\n\nMore recently, the 60-year-old has appeared on Celebrity Mastermind and Come Dine With Me, as well as Celebrity Hunted.\n\nOlympic rower James Cracknell promised to bring some \"dad dancing\" to the show early on. Cracknell was made an OBE in 2005 after winning gold in the coxless fours at the 2000 and 2004 Olympics.\n\nThe 47-year-old oarsman, who rowed for Cambridge in this year's Boat Race, said: \"It's going be really interesting having no confidence in it and then going 'OK, can you do it?'\"\n\nIn the official Strictly press release, Cracknell joked he was looking forward to taking part \"having spent so many years mucking around in a rowing boat with big men in tight lycra,\" and that \"it's time I learned a new skill\".\n\nHe added: \"I need to apologise to my kids in advance for the embarrassment.\"\n\nBBC Radio 1 DJ Dev Griffin - who presents the afternoon weekend show alongside Alice Levine - came second in a dance competition at a Pontins holiday park in 1996, when he danced to MC Hammer's Can't Touch This.\n\nGriffin was a finalist on 2017's Celebrity MasterChef and has appeared on other celebrity programmes, such as Mastermind. He's vowed to improve on those results by winning Strictly.\n\nHe said: \"I am really good at dancing. I never had any formal dance training, but I am pretty good, I have made myself good. All I want is to win. I don't believe in doing things for taking part, if you are going to do something, you do it to win.\"\n\nFormer Arsenal and England footballer Alex Scott said she \"felt like a kid at Christmas\" after her participation was revealed.\n\nScott, who is now one of the country's leading football pundits, won the Strictly Comic Relief special in 2018. \"This is a show that I've always wanted to be a part of,\" Scott admitted. \"When I did [Comic Relief], I was like, 'I want to be part of the main one.'\n\nThe former Lioness out-danced fellow ex footballers Chris Kamara and David Ginola en route to winning the 2018 Comic Relief Strictly special, alongside dance partner Pasha Kovalev.\n\nSeduction singer Michelle Visage - best known for her role as a judge on the US reality TV show RuPaul's Drag race - is also among the contestants.\n\nShe took part in Celebrity Big Brother in 2015, and was recently seen on the West End stage in Everybody's Talking About Jamie.\n\nTable tennis champion Will Bayley took gold for Great Britain at the 2016 Summer Paralympic Games in Brazil.\n\n\"I'm so proud to be on the show, it's my family's favourite show,\" he said. \"I have no dance experience at all, but I hope I can do well. I want to inspire people with a disability - that would mean a lot to me. I want to prove to people I can do this.\"\n\nEmma Thynn, Viscountess Weymouth, is a chef, model and a contributing editor for British Vogue, and also runs Longleat safari park with her family.\n\nThe 33-year-old mother of two - who married Ceawlin Thynn, Viscount Weymouth, in 2013 - said she had never danced professionally but was sure it would be \"such an amazing experience from start to finish\".\n\nCBBC presenter Karim Zeroual is a former child actor who starred in CBBC's The Sparticle Mystery. He said he was \"pinching\" himself after being offered the chance to take part.\n\nHe said: \"I want the lot. The skimpiest of clothes, the widest of flares, the brightest of colours and the tallest Cuban heels a guy can find! The more flamboyant the better... sequins galore please!\"\n\nBBC sports news presenter Mike Bushell said being revealed as a Strictly contestant felt \"like a weird dream\" but he wanted to fly the flag for \"all the dad dancers\".\n\nThe 53-year-old added he \"thought they'd got the wrong person\" when he got the call from the producers, because people frequently confuse him with former BBC colleague and 2009 Strictly winner Chris Hollins.\n\nFormer Coronation Street actress Catherine Tyldesley, 35, played Rovers Return barmaid Eva Price on the ITV Soap from 2011-2018 and said she was \"so excited\" and equally \"terrified\" because she \"literally can't dance\".\n\nShe said: \"I love to dance on a night out if I've had a couple of drinks and me and Alfie [her son] silly dance in the kitchen, but that's it, I'm terrified.\"\n\nTeenage social media star Saffron Barker - whose book Saffron Barker Vs Real Life topped the Sunday Times bestseller list - said she was \"very grateful for the opportunity\".\n\nShe added that she was inspired by the success of another of last year's finalists, fellow YouTuber Joe Sugg. \"I'm excited to follow in his footsteps,\" she declared. \"He did absolutely amazing... I've got a lot to live up to.\"\n\nEastEnders actress Emma Barton, who plays Honey Mitchell, was one of the first names to be announced.\n\nBarton said she was a big fan of Strictly and was therefore \"over the moon\" to be asked to appear in series 17.\n\nFormer England goalkeeper David James said he was persuaded to compete by ex-contestant and former swimmer Mark Foster, who had an \"amazing experience\" on the dancefloor.\n\nJames, 49, who was the oldest player at the 2010 World Cup in South Africa, said he was \"really excited\" to be chosen and had \"some big shoes to fill\" following previous appearances by sports stars.\n\nComedian Chris Ramsey, who starred as Jack Pearson in the BBC Two sitcom Hebburn, said he was \"really buzzing\" but noted that while he is hungry for success, he has never been a natural shoe shuffler.\n\n\"You will not find me on the dancefloor at parties,\" said the 32-year-old. \"You will find me at the buffet table... All night.\n\n\"At my wedding, I danced with my wife; that one song took about six months' practice, and I definitely stood on her feet a couple of times.\"\n\nKelvin Fletcher is best known for playing Andy Sugden on ITV soap Emmerdale between 1996 and 2016.\n\nThe 35-year-old was drafted in as a late replacement after Made In Chelsea's Jamie Laing was forced to pull out after injuring his foot while recording the group dance in the launch show.\n\nFletcher said being on Strictly was \"a dream come true\", but was also \"bittersweet\" because it came about as a result of Laing's withdrawal.\n\nLaing said: \"I'm absolutely devastated that I'm unable to continue in the competition. I was so excited to hit the dance floor.\"\n\nHosts Claudia Winkleman and Tess Daly are clearly excited. Are you?\n\nThis year's series will see the return of judges Shirley Ballas, Craig Revel Horwood and Bruno Tonioli, but Dame Darcey Bussell will be replaced by Motsi Mabuse - sister of Strictly professional Oti.\n\nLatin dancer Nancy Xu, a dancer in West End show Burn the Floor and a finalist on So You Think You Can Dance? in China, will replace the outgoing Pasha Kovalev as a professional dancer.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nKnife possession offences involving women in England have increased steeply since 2014 - rising by at least 10% every year, police figures show.\n\nSome 1,509 offences were recorded in 2018 - an increase of 73% over the last five years - data obtained following freedom of information requests shows.\n\nYouth workers say some women carry weapons for gangs as they are less likely to be stopped by police.\n\nThe Home Office said it funds schemes to help gang-affected women and girls.\n\nFigures for England show that between 2014 and 2018 there were more than 5,800 recorded knife possession crimes involving women.\n\nThe BBC contacted the four police forces in Wales but the figures are incomplete. Police Scotland and Police Northern Ireland figures were unavailable.\n\nIt comes against a backdrop of rising knife crime nationally and after the number of fatal stabbings in England and Wales was last year the highest number since records began.\n\nSome 1,509 knife possession offences involving women were recorded in 2018\n\nWest Midlands Police found a gun, bullets and a knife in a designer handbag after searching a car\n\nData from 38 forces out of 39 in England shows almost a quarter of recorded offences involved girls under the age of 18 - with the youngest aged seven.\n\nWhile London's Metropolitan Police saw the highest number of possession cases involving women, parts of northern England have seen female knife possession crimes increase at a faster rate.\n\nLondon's Metropolitan Police recorded a 52% increase over five years, with a total of 916 recorded offences from 2014 to 2018.\n\nDuring the same time, Merseyside Police saw a 54% rise, to 499 offences, while the number of offences in Greater Manchester doubled, with 95 recorded offences last year.\n\nIn South Yorkshire there was an 82% rise over five years - with 248 offences involving women.\n\nTheresa John regularly carried a knife for 12 years. She said it \"became part of my identity\" on the streets in Essex.\n\n\"I used to name my knives. When I was 16 I had one that was like a flick Stanley blade and I used to call it Uncle Stan.\n\n\"If anyone asked me 'have you got Unc on you', I'd be like 'yeah'. That was my pet until I was 21.\"\n\nAfter a chaotic and difficult childhood, Theresa's life spiralled out of control. In her early 20s she became addicted to heroin and crack cocaine and worked as a prostitute to fund her addiction.\n\nTheresa says she regularly carried a knife for 12 years\n\n\"I'd either have a knife or a pair of scissors because when I was out working on the streets. There would be different guys who would force you to do stuff.\n\n\"I stayed in this lifestyle of crime and madness and just brokenness. I was in a very abusive relationship to the point that my kids were taken into care and at that point I just lost all hope.\n\n\"I started taking heroin, I was out on the streets working in prostitution. I used to get in a lot of fights - there was a lot of violence.\"\n\nOne night, the scissors were used as a weapon on her and a man stabbed her in the back of the head.\n\nAnd in 2012, Theresa stabbed her next door neighbour and was sentenced to 10 months in prison for actual bodily harm and possession of a knife.\n\nNow 35 years old, she says: \"It was like this mist came over me and I charged at her with the knife, and just stabbed her straight in the top of her head.\"\n\nJennifer Blake is a former gang leader from Peckham, in south London, who now works as a community support worker and independent gangs consultant.\n\n\"For some women it's a normal thing to have in your bag, like lipstick,\" she says.\n\n\"We have got girls that stab, but it's just like the elephant in the room. No-one wants to talk about it because no one knows how to deal with it.\n\n\"Everywhere you go you have problems with girls and their identity, their self-worth and those are the vulnerable ones that boys end up picking up.\"\n\nShe says some girls and women from broken homes see street gangs as their family and will do anything to fit it.\n\n\"Knife, guns, drugs - they are the couriers for it. They're not going to get stopped by police, and the men know that.\"\n\nThe Home Office said it was investing £220m into steering both young men and young women away from violent crime.\n\nFor female offenders specifically, it supports and funds young people's advocates who work with gang-affected young women and girls in London, Manchester and the West Midlands.\n\nA spokesman added: \"We recently announced plans to recruit 20,000 more police officers and empower them to use fair and intelligence-led stop and search, to prevent more young people falling victim to knife crime.\"\n\nEarlier this year South Yorkshire Police was one of seven forces to receive extra Home Office funding to tackle violent crime.\n\nThe force's assistant chief constable, Tim Forber, said while knife crime is still predominately a male problem, it is increasingly about \"vulnerability\" rather than gender.\n\n\"It's a very small proportion [of women] but it's a worrying proportion - we don't want to see any young people, any women carrying knives in society.\n\n\"I don't think it's any more nuanced, than it is for men, it's about vulnerable young people getting drawn into the fringes of organised crime.\"", "Katie Stevenson and her three daughters, Lacey, 11, Taleisha, seven, and Skyla, one had to be put in isolation\n\nA woman said she thought she was going to die after she was poisoned while cleaning out her fish tank.\n\nKatie Stevenson, 34, and her husband Mark were scrubbing coral in the tank at their home in Newport, Telford, when they began to feel ill.\n\nMrs Stevenson began \"shivering, shaking and hallucinating\" after the coral released deadly toxic fumes.\n\nThe couple and their three daughters had to be put in isolation and their home was sealed off for two days.\n\nMrs Stevenson was cleaning coral from an ornamental bridge on 30 July after the family's fish had died while they were on holiday.\n\n\"When you scrub it, because it's alive, it lets off toxins,\" she said.\n\nAfter 10 minutes, the couple began coughing and within an hour Mrs Stevenson \"started getting really bad shivers\".\n\nParamedics were called and the family had to be put in isolation for 48 hours while their house was sealed off and deep cleaned.\n\nMrs Stevenson had been cleaning coral from an ornamental bridge in the tank\n\nMrs Stevenson later learned she had been poisoned by palytoxin - a potentially lethal chemical released by coral when stressed.\n\n\"My kids could have died. We could have died. I've not slept properly since,\" she said.\n\n\"Nobody seems to know how dangerous coral can be and we only found out the hard way.\"\n\nShe criticised the lack of information she received when she bought the coral - admitting she was not told, and did not know, it was a living organism.\n\nThe family are now back at home but Mrs Stevenson is still unable to eat due to an inflamed stomach.\n\n\"It nearly killed us,\" she said. \"I don't want people to go through what we went through.\"", "Mental health charity Young Minds said violence towards parents could indicate a cry for help\n\nThe number of reported crimes involving children attacking parents has doubled in the past three years, data suggests.\n\nComparable data for 19 police forces in England, Wales and the Channel Islands saw annual incidents jump from 7,224 in 2015 to 14,133 in 2018.\n\nA charity said violence towards parents could indicate a cry for help, with support \"often too hard to access\".\n\nThe National Police Chiefs Council (NPCC) said the rise was due to a change in recording practices.\n\nThe data, provided following BBC Freedom of Information requests, was gathered by asking police for adolescent to parent violence and abuse (APVA) statistics from 2015-2018.\n\nAPVA, which falls under the wider category of domestic violence, is only recorded by some forces, with 19 out of 44 providing the specific data to the BBC.\n\nDespite the rise in recorded APVA incidents, comparable data for 17 forces showed a 36% drop in prosecutions over the same time frame, going from 742 to 471.\n\n'Helen', a single parent from South Yorkshire, has called the police three times to deal with her 11-year-old daughter.\n\n\"She'd hit me in the car while I was driving, she'd grab hold of my throat while I was driving along and she'd hit her brother in the car,\" Helen said.\n\n\"The last time I actually made a 999 call because she was attacking me that much that I was sat behind a door while she was trying to get through it to get to me.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. 'Helen' has been threatened with knives and scissors by her 11-year-old daughter\n\n\"I just ended up sitting there and waiting for the police to come but just trying to make sure she couldn't get to me.\n\n\"I've been off work ill with it, just couldn't cope with it, I've lost a relationship through it. I lost the support of my parents for a while because they couldn't cope with it either and literally I felt like I was just left completely on my own, not knowing where to go or what to do.\n\n\"It's hard because you don't want them to get a criminal record, at 11 you don't want that start in life, but there's no support.\"\n\nIt is not mandatory for police to record the relationship between the suspect and the victim in domestic violence cases, but some forces opt to do so.\n\nWest Midlands Police saw APVA incidents nearly treble, from 1,084 in 2015 to 3,067 in 2018.\n\nMetropolitan Police figures also rose but by a smaller rate, from 2,851 in 2015 to 3,233 in 2018.\n\nGwent Police saw a drop, with 66 cases in 2015 and 51 in 2018.\n\nThe Getting On scheme holds courses for adults impacted by APVA, with their children also given advice in a separate room\n\nTom Madders, from mental health charity Young Minds, said: \"The figures are alarming but they don't surprise us.\n\n\"When a young person is behaving in this way towards their parents there is a high likelihood that there is some sort of mental distress involved and that young person is communicating that they do need some support and too often that support is too hard to access.\n\n\"People are reaching out for support and not getting it and often having to resort to calling the police as the only line of support.\"\n\nAccording to Home Office information, there is currently no legal definition of APVA, but it is increasingly recognised as a form of domestic violence and abuse.\n\nChief Constable Simon Bailey, from the National Police Chiefs' Council, said an \"increasing focus\" had been placed in recent years on tackling domestic violence.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Break4Change has supported about 600 families over the past decade\n\n\"In the past many verbal arguments would not have been recorded as a crime when they would now be recognised as a common assault, harassment or a threat of violence,\" Mr Bailey said.\n\n\"In cases like this the victim is often unwilling to support a prosecution and so it can be difficult for the police to proceed.\n\n\"In this situation officers will offer other types of support and referrals to other agencies.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "'As an American, you need to stand behind the president'\n\nTito Anchondo, who lost his brother Andre and sister-in-law Jordan in the shooting at El Paso's Walmart, voiced his support for Trump earlier this week. \"As an American, you need to stand behind the president,\" he told the BBC. He noted there were differing views in his hometown, with Trump supporters and those who back Democrat Beto O'Rourke, but said everyone coexisted happily. His father Gilbert, he added, is a Mexican American who is proud of his roots and has always said America is the greatest nation on earth. Both said they were pleased with Trump's comments in the immediate aftermath of the tragedy, and the fact he had expressed his sympathy. \"Mr Trump made a good statement,\" said Gilbert Anchondo. \"He's making reforms and we appreciate it.\" Read the full interview: \"Victim's father says he forgives his son's killer.\"", "Andreas Pittadjis has resigned as the lawyer of a British woman accused of making a false rape allegation in Cyprus\n\nThe lawyer for a British woman in Cyprus accused of making a false allegation of rape has resigned from the case.\n\nA court heard that Andreas Pittadjis had an unspecified \"serious\" disagreement with his client.\n\nThe case was adjourned and the 19-year-old woman returned to custody.\n\nIn July the woman said she had been gang-raped by 12 Israeli tourists in Ayia Napa, but later withdrew the allegation.\n\nShe was said to have made the rape claim in anger after the men filmed the sex act, which was later released online.\n\nThe woman faces up to a year in prison and a fine, if found guilty of the charge of causing public mischief.\n\nBut an organisation called Justice Abroad, which is providing legal assistance to the woman, recently said that Cypriot police had pressured her to retract the rape allegations.\n\nMr Pittadjis asked a court in Paralimni to relieve him of his duty as the woman's defence lawyer.\n\n\"There is a serious disagreement with the defendant on how to handle the case, so I ask for the court's permission to withdraw,\" he said.\n\nThe woman was tearful after her lawyer handed her the case file and exited the Famagusta District Court.\n\nMr Pittadjis later told reporters his resignation should not be connected to whether the woman was guilty or not guilty.\n\n\"This would be prejudicial to her defence, and unfair to her as well,\" he said.\n\nMichael Polak, a British barrister with Justice Abroad, said in a statement that the woman had been refused legal representation.\n\nHe said her apparent confession was dictated to her and came with the threat of further arrest.\n\nThe alleged attack was said to have taken place on 17 July at a hotel in Ayia Napa, a town popular with younger tourists.\n\nThe Israelis arrested spent a week in prison before being released. They have since returned home.", "Young Chelsea players were targeted for years by a \"prolific and manipulative sexual abuser\" who was able to operate \"unchallenged\", says a damning report.\n\nEvidence from 23 witnesses details how ex-chief scout Eddie Heath, who died in 1983, groomed and abused young boys aged between 10 and 17 in the 1970s.\n\nAn external review said some adults at Chelsea must have been aware of Heath's abuse but \"turned a blind eye\".\n\nThe report - led by barrister Charles Geekie QC - is also heavily critical of former assistant manager Dario Gradi, who is accused of failing to tell more senior club staff about an allegation regarding the sexual conduct of Heath, brought to him by the parent of a young player.\n\nGradi's alleged failure to report the claim \"was a lost opportunity to expose Heath and prevent further abuse\".\n\nThe BBC has approached 78-year-old Gradi for comment. In his evidence to the review, he denied trying to \"smooth over\" the matter in a meeting with the boy's father. He also said he reported the allegations to the club's assistant manager.\n\nMeanwhile, a separate review into allegations of racial abuse from 1982 up until the late 1990s conducted by charity Barnado's concluded that \"black players were subjected to a daily tirade of racial abuse\".\n\nHeath was employed by Chelsea from 1968 until he was sacked in 1979 and, as far as the review was able to establish, was not investigated nor charged with any offences before his death.\n\nThe reports details how most of the witnesses recalled Heath being \"inappropriate\" and using \"sexual innuendo\" in the changing room, but that he \"took care that his most serious sexual assaults took place in private\".\n\nOf the 23 witnesses, 15 reported \"serious and unambiguous sexual assaults\", including rape by Heath when he was alone with a boy, while three witnesses detailed abuse in the presence of other young players.\n\nOne witness recalls Heath being regarded as \"nightmare Eddie\" by youth players and that the boys were intimidated by his physical presence and fearful of him because of the influence he had over their careers.\n\nGeekie concludes that Heath targeted vulnerable children in particular, manipulated their families, used pornography to \"sexualise\" boys and abused his role at the club to secure \"compliance\" and \"silence\" through fear.\n\nMost of the witnesses told the report that the abuse can still affect their \"day-to-day\" lives and many stopped playing football as a result.\n\nThe report states there is not enough evidence to \"provide ground for concluding that any adult related to Chelsea had actual knowledge of the serious acts of abuse described by the 15 witnesses as having taken place in private\".\n\nIt also said \"there is no evidence to support a conclusion that the Chelsea board knew of Heath's conduct\".\n\nHowever, Geekie adds that adults at Chelsea \"were aware of and observed Heath's lewd...behaviour\" and that \"the unhappy reality is that some must have seen things and turned a blind eye to what they saw\".\n\nGradi was suspended by the Football Association from his role as a director at Crewe Alexandra in 2016 pending an investigation into claims he \"smoothed over\" a complaint of sexual assault against Heath.\n\nHe has always denied having any knowledge of the crimes of convicted paedophile Barry Bennell, who is serving a 31-year sentence for abusing boys while a coach at Crewe in the 1980s, when Gradi was manager of the club.\n\nIn the Geekie report, one witness said Heath had \"grabbed and caressed\" him at the training ground, and Gradi subsequently visited them at their home after the boy's father had contacted Chelsea to complain.\n\nIn his interview for the report, Gradi repeatedly claims the boy's father said he \"did not want to get Heath into trouble\" and that \"took the pressure off me as far as I was concerned\". Geekie said the boy's father was \"shocked\" when told of Gradi's claim he did not want the matter to go further.\n\nGradi said he thought the allegation related to sexual touching of the boy's \"privates\" but he \"hadn't been raped or anything like that\".\n\nAccording to the report, Gradi also said he had not recognised the boy on his visit, suggesting to him that the youth player was not an outstanding prospect and \"he is blaming the sexual stuff going against him becoming a footballer\".\n\nThe witness told the review Gradi had said he would \"have a word\" with Heath, but Gradi denied telling the chief scout of the complaint. Instead, Gradi claimed he decided on the drive home to report the complaint and, on hearing on the radio that the Chelsea manager had been sacked, told an assistant manager, who died in 2015.\n\nThe witness said the next time he saw Heath after meeting with Gradi, the chief scout said \"do you still love me\" and \"publicly tore into\" him during training, which led the witness to feel \"humiliated\" and he \"stopped enjoying football\".\n\nThe report concluded that Gradi spoke to Heath and not the assistant manager, and that \"by telling Heath alone, Gradi exposed the victim to bullying and intimidating behaviour by Heath\".\n\n\"Gradi should have reported the matter to more senior staff,\" said the report. \"It was a lost opportunity to expose Heath and prevent further abuse.\"\n\nGradi said reporting the allegation to the assistant manager was \"the end of my involvement in the matter\".\n\nHe added: \"I completely deny that I ever attempted at any stage to 'smooth over' the matter as has been reported in the press.\"\n\nWhat about the separate bullying & racism claims?\n\nChelsea began an investigation in January 2018 into allegations by three former youth players that former youth team coaches Graham Rix and Gwyn Williams racially abused them during the 1980s and 1990s, before seven more players made further claims.\n\nRix joined the club in 1993 and left in 2000, a year after being jailed for having sex with an underage girl. Williams joined Chelsea in 1979 as youth development officer and worked as assistant manager under former boss Claudio Ranieri before leaving the club in 2006.\n\nThe review by children's charity Barnardo's interviewed 22 people, during which process the culture at the club was described as a \"dog-eat-dog environment\".\n\nFormer players who were interviewed gave examples of bullying between players including throwing excrement, deep heat rubbed in genitalia and beatings - carried out irrespective of race.\n\nThe report stated that this \"bullying\" helped create a culture \"in which racially abusive behaviour also could take place\".\n\nThe review received numerous claims of Williams \"humiliating and ridiculing black players by making racially derogatory remarks\" including specific allegations he made monkey noises and called black players \"shoe shine\" and \"darkie\".\n\nSome former players said Williams would claim he was preparing young players for abuse they would receive if they went on to represent the first team.\n\nFormer staff told the report that Williams and Rix were \"quite aggressive\" but that Williams was \"on a par with what football was like in those days\", while a former first team manager said Rix had \"a great ability to deal with young players and had a good emotional empathy\".\n\nThe review said there was \"much less information\" available on allegations against Rix and that the three former youth players who initially spoke to the Guardian did not come forward to be interviewed by Barnardo's.\n\nIn conclusion the report found, despite \"clearly conflicting accounts\", the evidence \"strongly indicates\" that there was \"racially abusive behaviour towards black young people at Chelsea during the 1980s and 1990s and that based on information from those spoken to, that Gwyn Williams was the instigator of such abuse\".\n\nIt added that while Rix \"could be aggressive and bullying\", on the evidence presented to the report, \"he was not racially abusive\" but \"the same cannot be said about Williams\".\n\nIn response, Williams wrote to the review, saying he \"denies any and all allegations\" and that \"he did not act in a racist way towards any youth or other player\" at Chelsea.\n\nHe claimed the extracts of the report shown to him were \"biased, untrue, unfair and artificial and part of a concerted effort to scapegoat him\".\n\nRix also gave a statement to the review through his solicitor, saying he \"denies he was bullying or aggressive. He denies he was (or is) a racist\".\n\nWhat did Chelsea say?\n• None In a statement, Chelsea apologised for the \"terrible past experiences of some of our former players\" and said their own \"exhaustive investigation\" would \"ensure that abhorrent abuse like this can never happen again\".\n• None Chelsea also committed to assessing compensation claims for victims.\n• None A Barnardo's report said Chelsea now had a \"healthy culture where young people are encouraged to speak up and are heard\" and that their safeguarding culture and measures \"bear no resemblance\" to that of the past.\n• None Barnardo's has given the club made a number of recommendations for further improvement, all of which are being implemented.\n• None On Heath, Chelsea said: \"It is evident from the review that Heath was a dangerous and prolific child abuser. His conduct was beyond reprehensible.\"\n• None Chelsea acknowledged the \"overwhelming information\" that a member of staff during the 1980s and 1990s subjected young players to bullying and racially abusive behaviour.\n• None The club apologised to all players who experienced this deeply shocking behaviour.\n\nIf you, or someone you know, have been affected by any of the issues in this article, information and support is available via BBC Action Line.", "An estimated 240,000 UK businesses trade with the EU\n\nGovernment funding to help UK companies cope with a possible no-deal Brexit customs system has had a \"concerningly low\" take-up, BBC News has learned.\n\nIn December, the Treasury and Revenue & Customs unveiled an £8m training fund companies and trade intermediaries such as freight forwarders could apply to.\n\nBBC Newsnight has learned that just 741 companies have applied for the grants.\n\nHMRC says it is doing \"everything we can to help businesses get ready for leaving the EU\".\n\nAn estimated 240,000 UK businesses currently trade with the EU. Many of these would be expected to need training if the customs system changed.\n\nThe government funding aims to support employee training and IT improvements to complete customs declarations, in a no-deal scenario.\n\nAs the UK is in the EU single market and customs union - which help trade between EU members by eliminating checks and tariffs (taxes on imports) - these businesses currently face no customs barriers at all.\n\nBut in a no-deal scenario, the UK would immediately leave the EU with no withdrawal agreement.\n\nAnd that would include leaving the single market and customs union, so the way in which companies trade with the EU would change.\n\nThe application period for the grants closed in May 2019.\n\nOf the £8m, an HMRC employee told Newsnight, £3m earmarked specifically for training customs brokers had been completely allocated.\n\nThey did not say how much of the remaining £5m had been allocated.\n\nBritish Chambers of Commerce director of policy Mike Spicer said: \"Such a low number of firms applying for grant-funding is concerning and signals the need for much greater levels of awareness among affected firms to ensure they are prepared.\n\n\"Ultimately this is another example of why avoiding a messy and disorderly exit in October is so important.\"\n\nNicole Sykes, head of EU Negotiations at the Confederation of British Industry (CBI), said the government had failed to adequately publicise the scheme.\n\n\"Many small firms would bite the government's hand off to access funds to support no-deal preparation,\" she said.\n\n\"But if information about those funds is buried in a corner of a website, then take-up is going to be low.\"\n\nHMRC, however, says the scheme was widely promoted through social media, emails to stakeholders and articles in bulletins for customs agents.\n\nIn June, Newsnight revealed less than a third of relevant companies had so far applied for an economic operator and registration identification (EORI) number from HMRC.\n\nThis is the most basic official authorisation that companies would need to continue trading with the EU in the event of a no-deal Brexit.\n\nBoris Johnson's new government is reported to be planning a £100m public information campaign to prepare the country for a no-deal outcome.\n\nDuring the Conservative leadership campaign, Mr Johnson said a no-deal Brexit would be \"vanishingly inexpensive, if we prepare\".\n\nWhen the grant scheme was unveiled, the then Financial Secretary to the Treasury, Mel Stride, said: \"I'm really pleased we are investing £8m to support the sector and help them expand their capacity as we prepare to leave the EU.\"\n\nIn a statement, HMRC said: \"HMRC has been preparing energetically for Brexit every day since the referendum.\n\n\"We will continue to remind and support businesses to prepare to leave the EU on 31 October 2019.\"\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.", "Poor harvests have left many in need of humanitarian aid\n\nMore than five million people in Zimbabwe - about a third of the population - need food aid, with many coming close to starving, the UN says.\n\nIt has launched a $331m (£270m) appeal for aid as the country battles the effects of drought, a cyclone and an economic crisis.\n\nThe UN's World Food Programme (WFP) said many were \"in crisis emergency mode... marching towards starvation\".\n\nOnce a regional bread basket, Zimbabwe has suffered years of turmoil.\n\nRecent harvests have been badly affected by drought and the price of food has risen sharply. Low water levels have also hit the main hydro-electric plant at Kariba, triggering rolling power cuts across the country.\n\nThe country is also facing a financial crisis and has reintroduced the Zimbabwe dollar a decade after it was abandoned amidst rampant inflation.\n\nLaunching the appeal on Tuesday, WFP head David Beasley said about 2.5 million people were on the cusp of starvation.\n\n\"We are talking about people who truly are marching towards starvation if we are not here to help them,\" he said.\n\n\"We are facing a drought unlike any that we have seen in a long time.\"\n\nThe drought has reduced water levels at Kariba, cutting electricity generation\n\nZimbabwe's problems were exacerbated when Cyclone Idai swept through the region earlier this year.\n\nThe huge storm, which also hit parts of Malawi and Mozambique, affected 570,000 Zimbabweans and left tens of thousands of them homeless.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nLast week, Finance Minister Mthuli Ncube said the government had been providing grain to 757,000 homes since January, in both rural and urban areas.\n\nAnd on Tuesday, President Emmerson Mnangagwa, who took over from long-time ruler Robert Mugabe in November 2017, declared the drought a national disaster.\n\nThe UN was already appealing for $294m for Zimbabwe but says it now needs more funding as the impact of the drought has spread.", "An escaped cockatiel called Joey was recaptured and handed back to his owner\n\nAs emergency workers battled through the weekend to stop the damaged dam at Toddbrook Reservoir from collapsing and devastating Whaley Bridge, another major operation was taking place in the town.\n\nHundreds of residents who had been told to leave their homes on Thursday had contacted missing pet organisation Animal Search UK for help to retrieve and feed beloved animals they had left behind.\n\nMany pet owners had been at work when the evacuation began and were unable to collect their cats, dogs, rabbits, hamsters and birds.\n\nOther animals had been abandoned in the rush to evacuate with only enough food and water to last a day or two.\n\nThe pet detectives worked their way through a list of worried owners\n\nFollowing discussions with Derbyshire Police, Animal Search UK deployed a team of pet detectives on Saturday morning.\n\nIsobel Johnson, from the service, said: \"During the Friday evening and through Saturday and Sunday, we had nearly a thousand calls coming in from residents or people in the local area asking for or offering help.\"\n\n\"On Saturday morning one of our specialist teams began numerous trips into the 'danger zone' behind police lines to capture, feed and rescue abandoned pets.\n\n\"The team conducted 15-minute missions in and out of the area either alongside the owners, or at their request.\"\n\nDerbyshire Police had imposed a strict 15-minute limit for one person from each household in the exclusion zone to return to attend to pets and grab essential medication.\n\nLiaising with officers and worried owners, and against the clock, the pet detectives worked through a list of stricken pets, collecting them or sorting them out with food.\n\nMeanwhile, back at the service's Chester base, new calls were coming in all the time.\n\nThe organisation usually charges owners a search team call-out fee, but waived the fees due to the extraordinary circumstances.\n\nThe operation was also supported by the volunteers from the RSPCA's Stockport, East Cheshire and West Derbyshire branch.\n\nRetailer Pets at Home also contacted the team to donate food and pet essentials.\n\nMs Johnson said: \"We found many animals were very confused and disorientated with the massive change to their daily lives.\"\n\nThe two-man team arrived at one home to fetch a cockatiel called Joey which had run out of food since his owners evacuated.\n\nThey found the baffled bird had escaped his cage and faced a race against time to recapture him.\n\nMs Johnson said: \"Ben and Andrew are both highly trained search team members - they were taught by a former police detective. That knowledge certainly came in handy as Joey was safely captured and calmed down by his owners.\"\n\nPet detectives spent two days entering the danger zone to fetch pets\n\nAfter two days of reuniting grateful owners with their confused pets, the team left Whaley Bridge on Sunday.\n\n\"It really has been the most overwhelming experience for everyone within the team, the kindness of all the people who have volunteered their help has been truly incredible,\" Ms Johnson said.\n\n\"The police have been fantastic in giving such a high level of support and understanding of everyone's needs. We couldn't be more grateful.\"\n\nBefore leaving, the team left cat food dotted around the exclusion zone, so any loose felines would not go hungry, and invited any residents whose pets remain missing to get in touch.\n\nCharlotte Stonier's dog Coco has been staying with her at a hotel in Buxton\n\nMeanwhile, it has been an unusual few days for residents who were able to take their pets with them when they left on Thursday.\n\nCharlotte Stonier has been staying at the Palace Hotel in Buxton with her dog Coco.\n\nShe said: \"Having a little dog, coming here and being completely out of routine is unusual but it is quite exciting in other ways.\n\n\"The staff have been wonderful and it's a true reflection of community spirit in High Peak.\"\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 Japanese convenience store chain has apologised after a video of rats scampering around one of its branches emerged.\n\nFamilyMart said it had shut a store and was sorry if the \"unsanitary\" footage had made customers feel \"uneasy\".\n\nA video circulated on social media on Monday appears to show as many as six rodents scurrying through a store, near sushi displays and down aisles.\n\nBroadcaster NHK said the clip had been viewed more than five million times.\n\nThe footage shows several rats racing down the side of a refrigerated cabinet storing fresh food like sushi and rice boxes, while another rodent rushes under shelves holding packaged items.\n\nThe BBC could not independently verify the authenticity of the video.\n\nIn a statement, FamilyMart said it had closed a store in the busy Shibuya district on 5 August as it investigated the cause.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by 盧 銀海/GINKAI RO This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy 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] apologise deeply for making you feel uncomfortable and uneasy,\" a translation of the Japanese statement said.\n\nThe company said it would disinfect the site, as well as remove and dispose of any tainted products.\n\n\"We will proceed with measures such as disinfection... and will consider the possibility of resuming operations [after considering the]...environment of the store.\"\n\nFamilyMart is a popular convenience store chain in Japan, and also has outlets across Asia.", "North Korea says recent missile launches are a warning to the US and South Korea\n\nNorth Korea has stolen $2bn (£1.6bn) to fund its weapons programme using cyber-attacks, a leaked United Nations report says.\n\nThe confidential report says Pyongyang has targeted banks and crypto-currency exchanges to collect cash.\n\nSources confirmed to the BBC that the UN was investigating 35 cyber-attacks.\n\nNorth Korea launched two missiles on Tuesday, the fourth such launch in less than two weeks.\n\nIn a statement on Wednesday, the North's leader Kim Jong-un said the launches were a warning against joint military exercises being carried out by the US and South Korea.\n\nPyongyang has described the exercises as a violation of peace agreements.\n\nThe leaked report, sent to the UN Security Council's North Korea sanctions committee, says Pyongyang \"used cyber-space to launch increasingly sophisticated attacks to steal funds from financial institutions and crypto-currency exchanges to generate income\".\n\nExperts are also investigating cyber-mining activity - the use of powerful computers to generate virtual currency - designed to earn foreign money.\n\nThe report adds that North Korea's attacks against crypto-currency exchanges allowed it to \"generate income in ways that are harder to trace and subject to less government oversight and regulation than the traditional banking sector\".\n\nThe report also says North Korea has violated UN sanctions by means of illicit ship-to-ship transfers, as well as obtaining items related to weapons of mass destruction.\n\nSince 2006, the UN Security Council has imposed sanctions on North Korea that ban exports including coal, iron, lead textiles and seafood. There has also been a cap on imports of crude oil and refined petroleum products.\n\nKim Jong-un agreed during a summit with US President Donald Trump in Singapore last year that he would stop nuclear testing.\n\nMr Kim also agreed that North Korea would no longer launch intercontinental ballistic missiles.\n\nA second summit between the two leaders in Hanoi in 2019 ended without agreement.\n\nSince then, denuclearisation talks have stalled although both sides say they still want to pursue diplomacy.\n\nIn response to the UN report, a US state department spokeswoman told Reuters news agency: \"We call upon all responsible states to take action to counter North Korea's ability top conduct malicious cyber activity, which generates revenue that supports its unlawful WMD and ballistic missile programmes.\"", "The government is assuming that French preparations for customs and regulatory checks have markedly decreased the anticipated trade disruption from a no-deal Brexit, the BBC has learned.\n\n\"Reasonable worst case scenarios\" still anticipate long disruption to about half the freight crossing the Channel.\n\nBut the assumption, the basis for a lot of the government's no-deal planning, has been upgraded twice recently.\n\nThe scenarios were told to industry, but kept secret from the public.\n\nLast year the government's original \"reasonable worst case scenario\" for no deal was that for three to six months, 75-87% of \"flow\" across the \"short straits\" would be interrupted and forced to join queues on motorways approaching the Channel Tunnel and ports.\n\nThat assessment assumed that French authorities would check every lorry coming into its country manually. As there had been no talks between authorities, UK officials had to use satellite photographs to estimate the potential for holding and processing facilities around French ports.\n\nIn April this secret assessment, shared with industry via non-disclosure agreements, was improved to 50-70% of freight stopped.\n\nThis was principally because of the new preparations made on the French side of the border. For example, the Eurotunnel facility for UK freight can check nine lorries at the same time and provides parking for 100 vehicles.\n\nIn the past few days, the possible disruption to trade flow in the \"short straits\" has been further downgraded to 40-60% of traffic.\n\nBetter than it was, but still meaning thousands of lorries stuck on motorways in Kent and around Calais, blocking and delaying crucial trade. Even at this improved rate of flow, the available spaces for emergency lorry parking on the M20 and at disused airfields, would fill up over a fortnight, better than the two or three days assumed last year.\n\nIt is understood that even if the flow rate was 80%, much higher than currently assumed, medicine suppliers say they would require access to emergency freight provision currently being sought by the government again.\n\nIn reply, a government spokesperson said: \"We are pushing on with all preparations for a no-deal scenario. There are already well-developed plans in place to manage any traffic disruptions in Kent.\"\n• None Brexit: Two can play that game theory", "Last updated on .From the section Man City\n\nManchester City have completed the signing of Portugal right-back Joao Cancelo from Juventus for £60m.\n\nThe agreement sees City full-back Danilo, 28, move in the opposite direction for a fee of £34.1m.\n\nCancelo, 25, has signed a contract at the Etihad Stadium until the summer of 2025 and becomes City's third signing of the summer after Angelino and Rodri.\n\n\"City are a fantastic club, with a brilliant manager and I am delighted to be here,\" said Cancelo.\n\nFind all the latest football transfers on our dedicated page.\n\n\"Everything about them has impressed me, from the facilities, to their style of play.\n\n\"I am always looking to develop my game and win trophies and I believe I can do that here, so now I'm really looking forward to the new season and testing myself in the Premier League.\"\n\nCancelo, who can play further forward as well as at left-back, joined Juventus from Valencia for £35m in 2018 after a season on loan at Inter Milan.\n\nHe was part of the Portugal squad that won the Nations League in June, although he did not play.\n\nCity director of football Txiki Begiristain said: \"Joao is a fine player and an excellent attacking full-back who will provide us with a real threat on the right-hand side.\n\n\"We have been impressed with his progress and have no doubt he can continue to shine here in Manchester.\n\n\"He fits the profile of player we want here at Manchester City. His best years are ahead of him, he's technically proficient and has the physical attributes we desire.\"\n\nCity signed Danilo from Real Madrid for £26.5m in 2017, and he made 22 league starts in 60 appearances for the Blues across all competitions.\n\nThe Brazilian, who has agreed a five-year contract at Juve, has been involved in back-to-back Premier League title wins under manager Pep Guardiola but has rarely been viewed as a first choice. He becomes City's record sale.", "The aunt of missing teenager Nora Quoirin has made an emotional appeal for help in locating her niece.\n\nÉadaoin Agnew asked people to keep the 15-year-old, who disappeared in Malaysia on Sunday, in their thoughts.\n\nFighting back tears at one point, she said Nora's disappearance had been \"extremely traumatic for the whole family\".\n\n\"Nora is still missing. She is very vulnerable and we need to do everything we can to bring her home,\" she said.\n\nMalaysian police said they had \"not ruled anything out\" as to the reason for Nora's disappearance.", "Mr Boreland had been warned by police that his life was under threat\n\nThe family of a prominent loyalist shot dead three years ago is offering a £10,000 reward in return for new information.\n\nJohn Boreland, 46, was shot dead outside his north Belfast home by a lone gunman in August 2016.\n\nLast year, three men were jailed for perverting the course of justice.\n\nNo-one has been prosecuted for the killing and Mr Boreland's parents say they \"can't get peace knowing that his murderer is still out there\".\n\nWinnie and Billy Boreland said no-one had been \"held accountable for taking John's life\" and \"destroying\" their lives.\n\n\"We are offering a £10,000 reward if someone can provide information that leads to the arrest and conviction of the person responsible for our son's murder,\" they said.\n\n\"Please help us catch his killer - it's never too late to come forward. Please tell police what you know. The number to call is 101.\"\n\nMr Boreland was found slumped beside his car after the shooting in Sunningdale Gardens\n\nJohn Boreland was well known in north Belfast as a senior member of loyalist paramilitary group, the Ulster Defence Association (UDA).\n\nThe father-of-three was shot three times as he got out of his car at his flat in Sunningdale Gardens, off the Ballysillan Road, on Sunday, 7 August 2016.\n\nIn the months leading up to the shooting, Mr Boreland had been warned by police that his life was under threat.\n\nHe had survived a previous attempt on his life in 2014.", "A look inside the operation to save the town of Whaley Bridge with the BBC's Justin Rowlatt.", "Much of the town lies beneath the reservoir's water level\n\nHundreds of residents evacuated last week amid fears the damaged Whaley Bridge dam could collapse are hoping to learn they can return to their homes.\n\nPeople living in about 50 homes in Horwich End, Derbyshire, were told on Tuesday that they could go home.\n\nBut most of the 1,500 evacuated residents are waiting for a further inspection to be carried out later.\n\nCrews pumping water from Toddbrook Reservoir have reduced water levels by more than nine metres.\n\nAt a public meeting police said a safe water level at the reservoir had been reached and engineers would further assess the damage to the wall before deciding whether to allow more people to return.\n\nWhaley Bridge residents have been told they must wait until experts confirm the site is \"absolutely safe\" before they can go home, and a decision will not be made until after noon.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nDeputy Chief Constable Rachel Swann said she was confident of \"good news\" to come for residents who are still displaced.\n\n\"We have obviously been pumping the water out and it has gone down at a fast speed,\" she said.\n\n\"We will keep draining the water until it is safe to stop.\"\n\nThe water is being taken out of Toddbrook Reservoir and being pumped into the River Goyt\n\nReturning resident Melissa Broxup said the last few days have been \"an absolute nightmare\", but said it was \"great\" to be allowed to go home.\n\n\"I can finally get some sleep,\" she said.\n\n\"I'm happy but on the other side I'm gutted for those who can't come back.\"\n\nMelissa Broxup said everyone in Whaley Bridge \"has been amazing\" since the evacuation\n\nRuth Ashton and her family, who were evacuated from Whaley Bridge on Thursday, are not among the first swathe of residents able to return home, but hope to get the green light.\n\n\"We don't know when we're going to go back,\" she said.\n\nFire crews said they had used miles of pipe work to pump out the water\n\nFire crews have been using 23 high-volume pumps to remove the reservoir's water since part of its spillway collapsed on Thursday following heavy rainfall.\n\nThe Canal and River Trust said the reservoir was at about 17% of its capacity.\n\nFirefighters used miles of pipes to remove water and engineers had built two roads to allow the pumps to be moved closer to the site.\n\nThe dam wall has been packed with 530 tonnes of aggregate, which is being cemented into place to reinforce the spillway.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. A look inside the operation to save the town of Whaley Bridge\n\nDaniel Greenhalgh, from the trust, said the dam would eventually be rebuilt, but told residents it would be \"a long-term construction project\".\n\n\"We are very much in the emergency phase now and we are currently repairing and carrying out construction work,\" he said.\n\n\"It could take 18 months, two years, three years, who knows?\"\n\nThe Met Office has issued a yellow weather warning for the area for Friday and Saturday.\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. Éadaoin Agnew said Nora's disappearance had been \"extremely traumatic for the whole family\"\n\nPolice searching for a vulnerable 15-year-old London girl who vanished on holiday in Malaysia have \"not ruled anything out\" in their investigation.\n\nNora Quoirin's family believe she has been abducted after she was discovered missing from her bedroom, which had an opened window, on Sunday.\n\nHer grandfather has described the situation as \"extremely mysterious\".\n\nMore than 200 officers are involved in the search which is focused on the rainforest around the Dusun resort.\n\nNora and her parents Sebastian and Meabh - an Irish-French couple from London - and her younger brother and sister arrived at the resort in a nature reserve near Seremban, about 39 miles south of Kuala Lumpur, on Saturday for a two-week stay.\n\nHer father raised the alarm at 08:00 local time the next day.\n\nNora Quoirin's disappearance has been described as \"completely out of character\"\n\nNora's grandfather Sylvain Quoirin told the BBC it was \"unthinkable\" the teenager, who has special needs, had left on her own.\n\nHe said: \"She's a young girl who is very shy, very reserved, very fearful.\n\n\"It is completely unthinkable that she should have gone out on her own at night, you can completely exclude that possibility.\n\n\"She's somebody who has always needed to be protected.\"\n\nMr Quoirin said the \"adventure escapade line of inquiry is not at all valid\".\n\nNora's aunt Éadaoin Agnew said her disappearance had been \"extremely traumatic for the whole family\".\n\n\"Nora is still missing. She is very vulnerable and we need to do everything we can to bring her home,\" she said.\n\nDivers are searching a nearby river, which police believe Nora may have headed for\n\nSniffer dogs are being used in the search of the rainforest near the resort\n\nState deputy police chief SAC Che Zakaria Othman said: \"We have not ruled out anything and we are probing it as a case of a missing person.\"\n\nHe added \"several\" fingerprints had been found on the window ledge of Nora's room, without providing further details, and said statements had been taken from 20 individuals.\n\nWhen asked whether he thought Nora could survive on her own in the jungle, the deputy police chief said he was unsure as \"I don't know the immunity of her body.\"\n\n\"For indigenous people they can drink the water every day, but for her I do not know,\" he said.\n\nAs the search entered its fourth day more than 200 people, including dive teams, along with sniffer dogs, drones and a helicopter, were involved in the effort.\n\nTeams are being assisted by local Orang Asli people, who have knowledge of the dense jungle terrain.\n\nMissing persons charity the Lucie Blackman Trust, which is supporting the family, has provided a hotline and email address for information.\n\nPeople can remain anonymous and can call +448000988485 or email ops@lbtrust.org.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "A woman who was evacuated from her home in Whaley Bridge has described the ordeal as like being in a disaster movie.\n\nMargot Graham was among about 1,500 residents who were told to leave the Derbyshire town after the dam at Toddbrook Reservoir was damaged during heavy rain.\n\nEmergency services worked to repair the damage to allow people to return.\n\nMs Graham said: “You watch disaster movies on telly and you know that the hero will always survive. We didn’t know we were going to survive.”", "The boy was flown to hospital \"as a priority\", London Ambulance Service said\n\nA six-year-old boy who fell from the 10th floor of the Tate Modern fractured his spine, a court has heard.\n\nThe French national, who was visiting London with his family, was found on a fifth-floor roof after he fell from the gallery's viewing platform on Sunday.\n\nProsecutors told Bromley Youth Court he also suffered a \"deep\" bleed to the brain and leg and arm fractures.\n\nA 17-year-old boy charged with attempted murder was remanded in custody.\n\nThe youth, who cannot be named because of his age, is due to appear at the Old Bailey on Thursday.\n\nProsecutor Sian Morgan said the boy had suffered the \"deep\" brain bleed as she gave details of his injuries during the short hearing.\n\nThe Met Police have said he is in a critical but stable condition.\n\nThere is no link between the suspect and the victim who was visiting London with his family, the force have said.\n\nEmergency services were called to the gallery, in Bankside near London Bridge Station, at 14:40 BST on Sunday.\n\nEmergency services were called to the Tate Modern on Sunday afternoon\n\nThe Tate Modern opened in the disused power station on the River Thames in 2000, while the extension with the viewing platform was opened in 2016.\n\nIt was the UK's most popular tourist attraction in 2018 with 5.9 million visitors, according to the Association of Leading Visitor Attractions.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nHundreds of Whaley Bridge residents have been told they can return home, nearly a week after fears over a damaged dam saw them evacuated.\n\nAbout 1,500 residents were removed from their homes on Thursday after the dam at Toddbrook Reservoir was damaged during heavy rain.\n\nEmergency services worked to repair the dam wall and lower water to safe levels to allow people to return.\n\nDerbyshire Police said it had been an \"unprecedented crisis\".\n\nBut the immediate danger posed to Whaley Bridge and areas downstream in the Goyt Valley has now passed, according to the force.\n\nCordons on roads into Whaley Bridge were lifted on Wednesday\n\nDeputy Chief Constable Rachel Swann said at 13:00 BST on Wednesday the evacuation order for Whaley Bridge and surrounding areas had been lifted.\n\nThe danger posed by the dam \"which would have destroyed homes and livelihoods, could not be underestimated\", she added.\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson tweeted he was \"pleased to hear\" residents were returning and paid tribute to their \"spirit and patience\".\n\nThe first person to walk through the cordon, Liz McCann, said: \"We're home. That's what we wanted. We're all safe and we're all together so there's not a problem.\"\n\nMalcolm Swets wrote a message outside his shop to thank everyone who \"saved Whaley\"\n\nThe BBC's North of England correspondent Danny Savage said the evacuation \"has taken an emotional toll\" on residents.\n\n\"At least two people I talked to were in tears,\" he said.\n\nPhil Sharples returns to his house in Whaley Bridge\n\nJennifer Grant, landlady at The Goyt Inn, said she was \"relieved and pleased\" to have been allowed home.\n\n\"Thursday seems like a long time ago,\" she said. \"It'll be good to catch up with everyone and hear their stories. We all survived.\"\n\nResident Karen Edleston decided to get her hair cut soon after she returned to Whaley Bridge for the first time in six days.\n\nShe said: \"I was desperate to get my hair cut because I'm going to a wedding on Saturday and I didn't know where I would go if I didn't come back here.\n\n\"So as soon as I realised it was open, I contacted [the hairdresser] and he agreed to come down.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nAnother resident, Bernie Sharples said: \"It's been an upsetting time but it's absolutely fantastic [to be back] - all the authorities, the police, all who helped get us back here - a big thank you to everybody.\"\n\nMargot Graham, who spoke to the BBC during the emergency when she was briefly allowed back to her house, was in tears as she returned permanently.\n\n\"It's very, very emotional. It's an emotion I didn't expect to experience at all,\" she said.\n\nKaren Edleston headed straight for a haircut after returning to Whaley Bridge\n\nCamilla Dignan, of The Bridge Bakehouse, aims to open on Thursday despite having had to throw most of her existing stock away.\n\nShe said: \"We got the call [last] Thursday and it was literally just leave it, so it's a bit of a nightmare but we are glad to be back.\"\n\nFifty-five households in Horwich End were allowed to return on Tuesday by police after a public meeting.\n\nThe force and other agencies will help the remaining residents return to their homes on Wednesday, with police staying in the area over the next week \"to help the community and address any concerns\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe Environment Agency (EA) has confirmed measures in place at the dam mean emergency services \"will be able to manage the levels of rain forecast\".\n\nBut it said further inspections will take place as there is still \"significant\" work to be done to bring the dam to a condition where \"long-term safety can be assured\".\n\nMalcolm Swets, manager of Goyt Wines, said he wanted to thank everyone involved in the emergency effort for the \"professional way\" they had gone about their business.\n\nHe said: \"Everyone's had their problems during the disruption but at the end of the day everybody's safe and nobody got hurt.\"\n\nVolunteers have set up a hub in the local primary school, offering household necessities, toiletries and snacks.\n\nEnvironment Agency officials are also there to answer questions about work in the area.\n\nDerbyshire County Council leader Barry Lewis said the authority would provide £160,000 of \"additional funding\" to help residents and businesses recover.\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.", "Lewinsky, pictured left last year, will be played by Beanie Feldstein\n\nPresident Clinton's affair with White House intern Monica Lewinsky and the 1999 impeachment proceedings it led to are to be dramatised on US television.\n\nThe latest series of American Crime Story will air in the run-up to next year's presidential election.\n\nLewinsky is among the producers on the FX show, which follows previous seasons devoted to the OJ Simpson trial and the murder of Gianni Versace.\n\nBooksmart actress Beanie Feldstein will play Lewinsky in the drama.\n\nSarah Paulson, meanwhile, will play Linda Tripp, the civil servant who secretly recorded Lewinsky's private phone calls about her affair with the president.\n\nIt is not yet known who will play Bill and Hillary Clinton in the show, which will be based on a 2000 book by Jeffrey Toobin.\n\nIn a statement given to Vanity Fair, Lewinsky said she was \"hesitant\" and \"more than a little scared\" to be involved in the Ryan Murphy production.\n\nBut she said she had come around to the idea after \"a lengthy dinner\" with the American Horror Story producer and now felt \"privileged to have this opportunity\".\n\n\"People have been co-opting and telling my part in this story for decades,\" she continued. \"It wasn't until the past few years that I've been able to fully reclaim my narrative.\n\n\"I'm so grateful for the growth we've made as a society that allows people like me who have been historically silenced to finally reintroduce my voice to the conversation.\"\n\nSpeaking on Tuesday, FX chairman John Landgraf defended the decision to premiere the show just as the US prepares to go the polls.\n\n\"I don't think Crime Story is going to decide the next presidential election,\" he told journalists in Los Angeles.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. \"I was publicly identified as someone I didn't recognise\"\n\nThe network boss also confirmed he would not be \"reaching out\" to the Clintons in order to seek their input.\n\nLewinsky, now 46, was 22 when she became romantically involved with Clinton, who was 27 years her senior.\n\nThe former president was impeached for perjury and later acquitted by Congress after lying about the relationship.\n\nLast year Lewinsky said Clinton's actions had been \"a gross abuse of power\" and that he had \"enough life experience to know better\".\n\nImpeachment: American Crime Story will premiere in the US on 27 September 2020. The last two series of the show were both shown on BBC Two.\n\nFollow us on Facebook and on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Sandbags are being dropped to shore up the dam\n\nEmergency work is under way to repair the Toddbrook Reservoir dam in Derbyshire after it was damaged by heavy rain.\n\nAbout 1,500 residents were evacuated from Whaley Bridge on Thursday evening amid fears they were in \"mortal danger\".\n\nEngineers pumped water out of the reservoir in an attempt to stop up to 300 million gallons of water bursting through the damaged dam.\n\nAn RAF Chinook has been flying in repair materials to shore up the dam and has dropped more than 500 tonnes of aggregate.\n\nEfforts are being made to release water from the reservoir while also shoring up the dam\n\nThe operation has been going since Thursday\n\nThe helicopter has come and gone from the scene\n\nPolice, the Environment Agency and the Canal and River Trust have all said there is a \"real risk\" the dam could collapse\n\nBy Saturday morning, sandbags dropped by the helicopter covered most of the collapsed section\n\nPart of the reservoir's spillway broke away on Thursday\n\nEngineers feared Whaley Bridge could be swamped if the Toddbrook Reservoir burst\n\nMost of the residents of Whaley Bridge were evacuated on Thursday\n\nResidents were asked to gather in the neighbouring town of Chapel-en-le-Frith\n\nThe dam was built in 1831\n\nTeams have been working non-stop to try to stop the dam from bursting\n\nWhaley Bridge town centre was said to be like a ghost town after residents and business people left\n\nThe water level has now been reduced significantly\n\nEngineers have built two roads to allow pumps to be moved closer to the site\n\nAbout 20 residents remain in properties despite warnings they are at risk\n\nFollow BBC East Midlands on Facebook, on Twitter, or on Instagram. Send your story ideas to eastmidsnews@bbc.co.uk.", "UK-based Ryanair pilots have voted to strike in a row over pay and conditions.\n\nThe British Airline Pilots Association (Balpa) has announced two walkouts, one from 22-23 August, while the second strike will be from 2-4 September.\n\nIt said pilots did not want to disrupt people's travel plans but felt they had no choice after \"decades of Ryanair refusing to deal with unions\".\n\nBut the airline said the \"ill-timed\" strikes would endanger pilot jobs.\n\nIt comes days after the budget airline warned of job losses following a 21% fall in quarterly profits, due to higher costs for fuel and staff, and reduced ticket prices.\n\nBalpa said its members have many disagreements with the airline, including over pensions, loss of licence insurance, maternity benefits, allowances and pay structure.\n\n\"We have had no formal offer from Ryanair and it is imperative that we resolve this dispute urgently to avoid strike action,\" said Balpa's general secretary Brian Strutton.\n\n\"No pilot wants to spoil the public's travel plans but at the moment it seems we have no choice.\"\n\nThe union said 72% of its members at the company had taken part in the ballot with 80% of those supporting strike action.\n\nHowever, Ryanair said that fewer than 50% of Ryanair's UK pilots were members of Balpa, and of these, just 57% voted in favour of industrial action.\n\nIn a letter to Balpa, Ryanair's director of HR strategy and operations Darrell Hughes said senior captains were paid up to £180,000 per annum and, because of this, pilot turnover had fallen to zero \"in recent months\".\n\nHe said: \"At this difficult time for UK pilots facing base cuts and closures, Balpa should be working with Ryanair to save UK pilot jobs, not endanger them through ill-timed and ill-judged disruption of our customers' travel plans, just 10 weeks before the threat of a no-deal Brexit. We remain available for talks at your convenience.\"\n\nOn 31 July, Ryanair boss Michael O'Leary warned staff in a video message to prepare for job cuts in the coming weeks, saying the airline has 900 too many pilots and cabin crew members.\n\nHe said the two weakest markets were Germany, where Ryanair faced fierce competition on price, and the UK, where there were Brexit uncertainties.\n\n\"It's been a challenging summer, we're facing into a very difficult winter,\" he said in the video, seen by the BBC.\n\n\"I'm sorry to advise you that this means we need to cut our aircraft numbers and our staffing, not just for summer 2020 but also in winter 2019.\n\n\"This will result in some base cuts, some base closures, and I'm very sorry to say, some job losses this winter for pilots and cabin crew, at the end of our summer schedule in September and October, and also some immediately after Christmas.\"\n\nMr O'Leary blamed planned cuts to flights next summer due to the grounding of its Boeing 737 Max fleet.\n\nThe 737 Max is grounded worldwide over concerns with its software following two deadly crashes.\n\nMr O'Leary said it been a big factor in the cuts, having delayed the delivery of some 28 planes and having forced the airline to cut flights and close bases.\n\nMr O'Leary also blamed the \"increasing likelihood of a no-deal Brexit in just 12 weeks' time\".\n\n\"We're worried this could have quite a damaging effect, particularly on our UK bases and on some of our Irish bases, which are heavily dependent on people travelling between Ireland and the UK,\" he added.", "Lorries queue on the A20 outside Dover, in Kent, where Operation Stack is being implemented\n\nCouncils have spent money repaving roads, hiring vets, stockpiling food for school meals and registering their own staff for the EU settled status scheme in preparation for Brexit.\n\nDetails of council spending were released to BBC News in response to Freedom of Information requests made to all upper-tier authorities in the United Kingdom.\n\nThe burden fell most heavily on councils in strategically important areas, such as those near ports that may have to deal with increased checks and lorry tailbacks in the event of a no-deal Brexit.\n\nAltogether, 204 upper-tier authorities responded to the BBC's request for information. Of those, 58 provided details of Brexit-related spending, including staffing costs.\n\nA number of councils were unable to estimate the cost of staff time on Brexit-related work.\n\nIn the run-up to March 2019, councils were allocated a share of £56.5m put aside by the Ministry for Communities, Housing and Local Government (MCHLG) to deal with Brexit preparedness.\n\nOf this, £20m was divvied up among councils for 2018-19, ahead of the UK's exit from the EU, and another £20m was earmarked for 2019-20, seen as a fund to deal with the potentially disruptive effects of a no-deal exit.\n\nSome local authorities have also received direct funding from the Department for Transport, for specific projects.\n\nA large chunk of this funding - almost £29m for Operation Brock - went to Kent County Council to deal with a potential increase in traffic around the Port of Dover.\n\nA no-deal exit from the European Union could bung up Britain's ports. Lorries travelling to and from the Continent could be subject to greater checks, creating tailbacks that could go on for miles.\n\nCouncils have responded to this by spending on road improvements.\n\nHampshire County Council spent £178,142 on designs to upgrade routes feeding the Port of Portsmouth, with works estimated to cost £200,000 to follow.\n\nWith its responsibility for the area around the Port of Dover - the UK's most important point of access for the Continent - Kent County Council has spent much of the money from the Department for Transport improving the A256 between Dover and Manston Airfield, where backed-up lorries would be parked.\n\nPortsmouth, Sunderland and Kent, again, all put plans in place for lorry parks in the event of a no deal. In Sunderland, £19,735 was paid to lease land for a lorry park to ease supply-chain pressures at the local Nissan plant and a further £11,942 to furnish it with manhole covers.\n\nOthers looked at ways to smooth the flow of traffic through their ports by employing extra staff.\n\nPortsmouth spent £67,182 on port staffing costs, while Southampton employed more veterinary staff for the port at a cost of £30,380 for 2018-19.\n\nSome councils say a no-deal Brexit could threaten their ability to deliver services.\n\nA risk assessment commissioned by Thurrock Council said the area, home to three major ports, could become a \"gridlocked borough\".\n\nIn response, the council spent over £8,000 on 10 electric bicycles - to ensure carers and support staff for vulnerable individuals could visit them even if the roads were blocked.\n\nThurrock and their neighbours in Southend also bought fuel tanks, for about £4,500, to keep council workers on the road in the event of a \"national fuel shortage\".\n\nAnd it's not just maritime ports concerning councils, Leicestershire Council bought equipment for traffic management in case of any knock-on effects from increased freight checks at East Midlands Airport.\n\nNine councils have taken steps to register EU citizens for the government's settled status scheme. Under this, more than 3.2 million EU citizens resident in the UK before exit or the end of any transition period will have the same rights as they do now.\n\nFive of these were in Greater London, where large numbers of EU citizens live.\n\nIn Brent, the London borough with the highest number of EU citizens, the council spent £1,500 on document-scanning equipment to register residents for settled status.\n\nIn total, five councils bought new devices to register EU citizens - sometimes Google Android devices to replace Apple products, which do not support the government's app.\n\nIn Slough, the council reported using staff time, at an estimated cost of £1,530, to sign up its own workers for the scheme.\n\nIn Bristol, the city council spent £1,500 employing \"a small mobile unit of security officers\" to monitor the European elections in May this year.\n\nRenfrewshire Council stockpiled food to secure supplies for school meals in the event of a no-deal Brexit\n\nIt said it had been responding to \"reports of low level public order issues occurring in neighbouring areas during their 2 May elections, with Brexit cited as a triggering issue\".\n\nMeanwhile, Renfrewshire Council stockpiled £58,232 worth of food to avoid potential supply issues for school meals and care homes.\n\nAnd council spending on preparations to mitigate the potential consequences of a no deal, ahead of the UK's planned exit on 29 March 2019, has had to be extended following the extension granted by the EU to the Article 50 period, until 31 October.\n\nStaff hired in anticipation of exit will have to be retained until they are needed or can be released.\n\n\"Planning exercises held in the run up to 31 March will now have to be repeated in the run up to 31 October,\" Southend-on-Sea Borough Council said in response to a query.\n\nThe Local Government Association said in a statement that councils were \"as prepared as they can be given the uncertainty surrounding the process\" but \"there remains resource, information and advice gaps that councils are facing while helping their communities prepare, which need to be met by the government\".\n• None Councils 'left in the dark over Brexit'", "Alana Cutland was studying natural sciences at Robinson College in Cambridge\n\nThe body of a Cambridge University student who fell from a light aircraft in Madagascar has been found.\n\nAlana Cutland, 19, from Milton Keynes in Buckinghamshire, fell from the plane on 25 July.\n\nLocal police chief Sinola Nomenjahary confirmed Ms Cutland's body had been found in a rural area on Tuesday.\n\nMs Cutland was studying natural sciences at Robinson College and was on an internship on the African island at the time of her death.\n\nEarlier this week Colonel D'y La Paix Ralaivaonary said Ms Cutland had been frustrated and \"disappointed\" with her research project.\n\nHe said within days of arriving she had seemed to conclude that the project would not be a success.\n\nMs Cutland was on an internship in Madagascar when she died\n\nMs Cutland had contacted her supervisor on her second day in Madagascar and at least twice more after that, the colonel said.\n\nPolice previously said Ms Cutland fell to her death after opening a plane door, but the reason why she did so remains unclear.\n\nThey ruled out a possible adverse reaction to anti-malaria medication she was taking, but have since said the theory is \"still on the table\".\n\nIn a statement released through the Foreign Office last week, Ms Cutland's family said they were heartbroken at the death of \"a bright, independent young woman\".\n\n\"She was always so kind and supportive to her family and friends, which resulted in her having a very special connection with a wide network of people from all walks of her life, who we know will miss her dearly,\" her family said.\n\nDr David Woodman, from Robinson College, said they were \"deeply shocked by the news of Alana's death\".\n\n\"In her two years here, she made a huge contribution to many different aspects of life in the college - she will be sorely missed by us all,\" he said.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "A \"disproportionate\" number of female and ethnic minority personnel in the armed forces file internal complaints, MPs have said.\n\nA Commons Defence Committee report said the number of complaints, which often allege discrimination, bullying and harassment, was a \"serious concern\".\n\nSome opted not to raise grievances as they have \"little faith\" in the complaints system, the report added.\n\nThe Ministry of Defence said it would \"overhaul\" the complaints process.\n\nThe report published on Wednesday said there was \"no clear data\" to suggest why, for the third consecutive year, female and black, Asian and minority ethnic (BAME) staff in the Army, the RAF and the Navy were \"overrepresented\" in the armed forces complaints system.\n\nWomen make up 11% of the workforce in the armed forces but made 23% of complaints in 2018, the report said.\n\nIn 43% of cases, concerns raised by women related to bullying, harassment and discrimination - compared with 20% of complaints by men.\n\nPeople from BAME backgrounds make up 7% of the workforce but made 13% of complaints, it added.\n\nFor these people 39% of complaints concerned bullying, harassment and discrimination, compared with 24% for white members of staff.\n\nThe report said it was \"unacceptable\" that the Service Complaints Ombudsman for the Armed Forces (SCOAF) - which aims to provide independent oversight of the complaints process - had not been sent results of internal reviews into the system.\n\n\"This sends the wrong message about valuing BAME and female personnel, with a potentially negative impact on their retention and future recruitment,\" it added.\n\nThe committee also drew attention to the \"unacceptably slow\" handling of cases and said the SCOAF, the Army, the RAF and the Navy had all failed to establish an effective and efficient system for handling grievances.\n\nA Ministry of Defence (MoD) spokesperson said: \"We have already accepted a number of recommendations to overhaul and improve the service complaints system, including encouraging personnel to come forward.\"\n\nThe MoD said the most serious allegations would now be handled by the Defence Authority, a central point in the department to allow complaints to be dealt with more quickly.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "A \"no-deal\" Brexit is where the UK would cut ties with the European Union overnight without a transition period.\n\nTheresa May's government, and many others, believe this would be hugely damaging and want a more gradual withdrawal. But if Parliament can't agree on that, and nothing else takes its place, the UK could still leave without a deal.\n\nThis would mean the UK would not have to obey EU rules. Instead, it would need to follow World Trade Organization terms on trade. Many businesses would see new taxes on imports, exports and services, which are likely to increase their operating costs. That means the prices of some goods in UK shops could go up.\n\nThe UK would also lose the trade agreements it had with other countries as a member of the EU, all of which would need to be renegotiated alongside the new agreement with the EU itself.\n\nManufacturers in the UK expect to face delays in components coming across the border.\n\nThe UK would be free to set its own immigration controls. However some UK professionals working in the EU and UK expats could face uncertainty.\n\nSome countries, such as Spain, Germany and the Netherlands, have given temporary guarantees about residency status and rights, but there is not yet an agreed policy for UK citizens across the EU in the event of a no-deal Brexit.\n\nThe situation for holidays and business trips is a little clearer, as the European Commission has said that even in a no-deal scenario, UK travellers won't need a visa for short visits of up to 90 days.\n\nThe border between Northern Ireland and the Irish republic would become an external frontier for the EU with customs and immigration controls, though how and where any checks would be made is not clear.\n\nSome Leave supporters think that leaving without a deal would be positive if the right preparations were made. They say criticism is scaremongering and any short term pain would be for long term gain.\n\nBut critics - including both Brexit supporters and opponents - say that leaving without a deal would be a disaster for the UK: driving up food prices, leading to shortages of goods and gridlock on some roads in the South East resulting from extra border checks.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Boris Johnson: \"In the last few days there's been a sort of dawning realisation in Brussels and other European capitals\"\n\nBoris Johnson has said the chances of a Brexit deal are \"touch and go\" - having previously said the odds of a no-deal Brexit were \"a million to one\".\n\nIn a BBC interview at the G7 summit in France, he said it \"all depends on our EU friends and partners\".\n\nWhen pressed on the chances, he said: \"I think it's going to be touch and go. But the important thing is to get ready to come out without a deal.\"\n\nDonald Tusk told the PM the EU is open to alternatives to the backstop.\n\nBBC Europe editor Katya Adler said the European Council president and Mr Johnson held talks on Sunday, which were in a \"genuinely positive atmosphere\".\n\nBut she said Mr Tusk repeated the EU's position that any alternatives to the Irish backstop would have to be \"realistic\" and \"immediately operational\".\n\nAn EU official added the meeting had \"mainly restated known positions\" and Brussels had been hoping for \"new elements to unblock the situation\".\n\nMr Johnson and Mr Tusk discussed the possibility of meeting again in New York\n\nThe two men clashed on Saturday over who would be \"Mr No Deal\" - the person to blame in the case of a no-deal Brexit.\n\nMr Johnson has previously said the UK must leave on 31 October \"deal or no deal\", but that the chances of a no-deal Brexit happening are a \"million to one\".\n\nAsked if people would still be able to get their medicine if there was a no-deal Brexit, the prime minister told the BBC: \"That is certainly a guarantee that we can make.\"\n\nBut he added: \"I do not want at this stage to say there won't be unforeseen difficulties.\"\n\nSpeaking at the G7 summit on Sunday, he reiterated his desire to scrap the backstop from the current withdrawal agreement, saying it could keep the UK \"locked in\" EU rules, if a trade deal is not agreed after Brexit.\n\nHe said: \"I think in the last few days there has been a dawning realisation in Brussels and other European capitals what the shape of the problem is for the UK.\"\n\nMr Johnson said he was an \"optimist\" and thought the EU would understand there is an \"opportunity to do a deal\".\n\nThe PM also said if there is no deal, the UK would keep a \"very substantial\" part of the £39bn Theresa May had agreed to pay the EU in her withdrawal agreement.\n\nThe G7 summit - a get-together of most of the leaders of the world's largest economies - comes with just over two months until the UK is scheduled to leave the EU at the end of October.\n\nMr Johnson and other world leaders have gathered for the G7 summit in Biarritz, France\n\nMrs May struck a withdrawal agreement with the EU - the so-called \"divorce deal\" - but British MPs rejected the deal three times.\n\nMr Johnson wants to remove the Irish backstop from the deal but the EU has consistently ruled this out, saying it will not renegotiate the agreement.\n\nIf implemented, the backstop - a last resort should the UK and the EU not agree a trade deal after Brexit - would see Northern Ireland staying aligned to some rules of the EU single market.\n\nIt would also see the UK stay in a single customs territory with the EU, and align with current and future EU rules on competition and state aid.\n\nThis week German Chancellor Angela Merkel suggested there could be an alternative to the backstop but the onus was on the UK to find it.\n\nBut the next day French President Emmanuel Macron said the backstop was \"indispensable\" to preserving political stability and the single market.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. President Trump said Boris Johnson was the \"right man\" to deliver Brexit\n\nAlso on Sunday, the PM met President Donald Trump to discuss a trade deal between the UK and the US.\n\nMr Johnson said the US's aim to strike a deal within a year was \"going to be tight\", adding: \"These [Americans] are tough guys.\"\n\nMeanwhile, former chancellor Philip Hammond has written to the PM about the leaked Operation Yellowhammer documents on preparations for a no-deal Brexit.\n\nHe said it was now apparent the document was dated August 2019, and therefore could not have been leaked by a minister from Mrs May's government.", "Hundreds of thousands of mainly Muslim refugees are living in camps in Bangladesh\n\nBangladesh has said it will harden its stance towards Rohingya refugees currently in the country.\n\nHundreds of thousands of people, mainly Muslims, are living in refugee camps after fleeing violent persecution in neighbouring Myanmar.\n\nForeign Minister Abdul Momen told the BBC that Bangladesh was unable to keep bearing the economic burden but did not say exactly how policy would change.\n\nOn Thursday, officials arranged for buses to start repatriating refugees.\n\nHowever, the scheme failed as it depended on people returning to Myanmar voluntarily. When it was time for the buses to leave, not a single person turned up.\n\nMr Momen accused some non-government groups of persuading refugees not to leave.\n\nMore than 740,000 Rohingya refugees in Bangladeshi camps fled Myanmar's Rakhine state in August 2017, after a military offensive against the Muslim minority there.\n\nUN investigators have said the violence would justify the prosecution of top generals in Myanmar for \"genocide\".\n\nMyanmar continues to deny its troops carried out ethnic cleansing and genocide.\n\nAbdul Momen, pictured earlier this year, said the government would toughen its stance\n\nMr Momen's comments came as two Rohingya men were shot dead by police during a gunfight at a refugee camp in Bangladesh's Cox's Bazar district.\n\nOfficials told AFP news agency that the two refugees were accused of killing Omar Faruk, an official from the ruling Awami League party, on Thursday.\n\n\"Both men died as they were rushed to a hospital\" from Jadimura refugee camp, local police inspector Rasel Ahmad said.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.", "The man was spotted looking unwell in the early hours of Saturday morning but later died in hospital\n\nA man aged 19 has died after falling ill at the Creamfields dance music festival in Cheshire.\n\nSecurity staff had spotted the man looking unwell and took him to a medical tent at the dance music event at Daresbury, near Warrington.\n\nHe was taken to hospital in the early hours of Saturday morning but later died.\n\nA festival spokesperson said staff were \"deeply saddened\" by the incident.\n\nThere were no suspicious circumstances surrounding his death, police said.\n\nThe four-day festival, which started on Thursday, includes artists The Chemical Brothers, Fatboy Slim and Pete Tong.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The man was found in St Mary's Avenue South in Southall\n\nA man in his 60s has been stabbed to death in west London.\n\nEmergency services were called at 18:40 BST on Saturday to St Mary's Avenue South in Southall, where the man was pronounced dead, the Met Police said.\n\nA man in his 30s has been arrested on suspicion of murder and is in hospital under police guard being treated for minor injuries.\n\nAccording to a witness who gave the injured man first aid, he was stabbed after leaving a pub.\n\nA man in his 30s has been arrested on suspicion of murder\n\nRaj Grover, who lives near the victim, said he was getting ready to go to his own birthday party when the man knocked on his front door.\n\n\"He was ringing our doorbell,\" he told the Press Association. \"He rang the bell and I went out, my son was there, he was shouting 'Dad, come out'.\n\n\"I went downstairs and saw he was full of blood, and then I was running to pick up a towel.\n\n\"I put the towel on and I was pressing to stop the blood, then my wife came out, we called the ambulance and the police.\"\n\nMr Grover, who runs a local business, said the victim asked him to call his wife, who then arrived at the house.\n\n\"His wife, she mentioned he went to the pub, I don't know what happened in the pub just around the corner, he came back, was on his way back and somebody stabbed him twice, stabbed him two times with a knife on the stomach and on his side,\" he said.\n\nThe Reverend Dave Bookless, the vicar of St Mary's church which is opposite the street, said the killing had come as \"a huge shock\" as the area has \"quite a village feeling\".\n\n\"A lot of people are saying this is not the kind of area this happens,\" he said.\n\nScotland Yard said a crime scene remained in place but some local roads had reopened.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "At 32 years of age, Fr Conor McGrath has become the youngest parish priest in Ireland.\n\nHe was ordained as a priest in 2012, but felt his calling to the priesthood many years earlier.\n\nFr McGrath told BBC News NI about his new role.", "Naomi Foster Aiton said her partner's death was \"the worst thing that you can ever imagine\"\n\nNaomi Foster Aiton was three months pregnant with her first child when her partner, Paul, took his own life.\n\n\"It was the worst thing you can ever imagine\", she said.\n\nHis death last August was one of an increasing number of suicides recorded in Scotland. Official statistics show that 784 killed themselves in 2018 - 15% more than in the previous year.\n\nNow Ms Aiton is taking part in a \"walk and talk\" event supporting people affected by suicide.\n\nSunday's Let's Walk and Talk About Suicide, in Strathclyde Park, Lanarkshire, has been organised by the charity FAMS (Families and Friends Affected by Murder and Suicide).\n\nIt is designed to make help available for anyone affected by suicide.\n\nNaomi Foster Aiton said her partner's death aged 23 had \"devastated\" his family and friends.\n\nShe told BBC Scotland: \"It's supposed to be the happiest time of your life - for yourself, and your partner as well - when you're expecting a child together.\n\n\"But it was just hell at the time really - it was the worst thing that you can ever imagine.\"\n\n\"At the time, I felt like I had nothing left to live for. But obviously my daughter has pulled me through,\" she added.\n\n\"I hope that anyone that's going through the same will realise that... you just need to reach out.\"\n\nPaul's death last August came as \"a complete shock\".\n\n\"There was no signs, nothing - sometimes there is no signs and that's the worrying thing.\"\n\nShe said she thought for some people it might be easier to talk to a stranger than to speak to their own friends and family.\n\nMs Foster Aiton urged people who are struggling to speak up, contact a charity like FAMS and remember that \"there's nothing that's not fixable\".\n\n\"You're angry, upset, lonely and you don't know the reason why - and because there's no-one to blame, you sometimes blame yourself.\"\n\nLiving life after Paul's death has been difficult. She said: \"There's no one to blame with suicide as well. When someone's murdered or there's an accident then there's someone to blame, but with suicide there's not and that's sometimes hard for people to take.\n\n\"You need to learn to live without the answers, and that's the hardest part - accepting what's happened... and learning to live without the answers, that's difficult.\n\n\"The only person that can tell you [the answers] is not here anymore.\"\n\nAnother woman who will be participating in Sunday's event said families were being torn apart by the \"horrible epidemic\" of suicide.\n\nNatalie Frew lost her partner, Graham Fraser, eight weeks ago. She described him as \"my best friend and my baby's daddy\" and seemed \"the happiest guy in the room\".\n\nShe said: \"It will be eight weeks on Sunday since we lost him so it's really, really fresh for us and really hard at the moment.\"\n\nGraham was the \"happiest guy in the room\", she said.\n\n\"He was the most amazing father, he doted on that baby. She's literally asked for him every morning and every night and he's not here any more.\"\n\nTalking to people who have been through a similar experience to herself has been a great help, she added.\n\n\"We can't have anybody else going through the horrific scenes that we've been through.\n\n\"We need to to do something and stand together and put an end to this.\"\n\nAnn Marie Cocozza, from FAMS, said: \"There's so many triggers being a teenager or young adult in the 21st century.\n\n\"Who do they turn to? Who do they ask? How do they know where to go? So this event lets them see, feel and touch where to go.\"\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. CCTV shows the man pulling the heads down using a rope before walking away with them\n\nModel heads of Guy Fawkes, Oliver Cromwell and Sir Thomas More have been stolen from the front of a London tourist attraction.\n\nThey were taken from the entrance of the London Bridge Experience on Saturday morning.\n\nA man was captured on CCTV using a rope to tug the figures down before walking away with Fawkes's head under his arm.\n\nThe attraction is offering £400 for help to find the models, saying: \"We just want our heads back.\"\n\nThe three heads were installed on spikes above the entrance to the London Bridge Experience\n\nThe custom-made heads were part of a recently-installed entrance at the attraction, which tells the \"dark history of London Bridge\".\n\nThe real heads of Fawkes, Sir Thomas and Cromwell were all thought to have previously been put on display on the bridge.\n\nIn the CCTV footage, the man can be seen kicking Fawkes's head off a spike and walking away with it in his hands and the other two in a bag.\n\nThe thief used a rope to tug the figures down\n\nJames Kislingbury, director of the London Bridge Experience, said the thief had caused significant damage to the entrance.\n\n\"We just want our heads back,\" he said.\n\nThe Met Police said it believed the theft took place between 22:00 BST on Friday and 08:00 BST on Saturday.\n\nNo arrests have been made.\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 G7 leaders and some of their spouses posed for a \"family photo\" after a day of talks\n\nPresident Trump has promised a \"very big trade deal\" with the UK, saying its departure from the EU will be like losing \"an anchor round the ankle\".\n\nMr Trump was speaking after a breakfast meeting with Mr Johnson at the G7 summit in Biarritz in France.\n\nBut Mr Johnson said the US must open up its markets if a post-Brexit trade deal is to be agreed.\n\n\"I don't think we sell a single joint of British lamb in the United States, we don't sell any beef,\" the PM said.\n\nMr Johnson's breakfast meeting came before a day of discussions with other world leaders at the summit.\n\nThe PM also met European Council President Donald Tusk, a day after the two men clashed over who would be held responsible for a no-deal Brexit.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. President Trump said Boris Johnson was the \"right man\" to deliver Brexit\n\nSpeaking to reporters after the working breakfast, Mr Trump said a deal with the UK would happen \"quickly\".\n\n\"We're going to do a very big trade deal, bigger than we've ever had with the UK,\" he said.\n\n\"And now at some point they won't have the obstacle, they won't have the anchor around their ankle, because that's what they have.\"\n\nMr Johnson told Mr Trump: \"Talking of the anchor, Donald, what we want is for our ships to take freight, say, from New York to Boston, which for the moment they're not able to do.\"\n\nIn a later interview with the BBC, Mr Johnson said agreeing any trade deals with the US within a year \"would be tight\".\n\n\"My own experience of the way Americans work, the size and complexity of the deal we want to do probably means we won't be able to do within a year.\n\nWhen asked if it could take five years, he replied: \"No, we'll do it faster than that.\n\n\"We need to do it fast, but to get the whole thing done from soup to nuts within a year is going to be a big ask.\"\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson met with leaders at the annual G7 summit on Sunday\n\nBefore his talks with the US President, Mr Johnson spoke about \"massive opportunities for the UK to prise open the American market\".\n\nAs a member of the European Union, the UK cannot make its own trade deals with other countries - and the EU does not have a free trade deal with the US.\n\nThe UK has already agreed 13 \"continuity\" deals with 38 countries that will apply post-Brexit.\n\nOffering an example of an American trade restriction, Mr Johnson said: \"Melton Mowbray pork pies, which are sold in Thailand and in Iceland, are currently unable to enter the US market because of, I don't know, some sort of food and drug administration restriction.\"\n\nHe continued: \"UK bell peppers cannot get into the US market at all.\n\n\"Wine shipments are heavily restricted. If you want to export wine made in England to the US you have to go through a US distributor.\n\n\"There is a tax on British micro-breweries in the US that doesn't apply to US micro-breweries in the UK.\"\n\nThe government added that tariffs on some UK goods in the US can reach up to 28% for fashion, 15% for machinery and 35% for food and drink.\n\nDonald and Melania Trump arrived in France for the G7 summit on Saturday\n\nDavid Henig, the UK director of the European Centre For International Political Economy, said the US \"would be loathe\" to get rid of the barriers intended to protect US producers.\n\nHe added: \"The US is quite protectionist - the US have never done a trade deal the likes of which Mr Johnson is describing.\n\n\"The question is whether the US is prepared to give the UK something and what we would have to give them in return.\n\n\"It is less clear what Trump wants in terms of trade altogether.\"\n\nAt the G7 summit Mr Johnson was asked if he had made it clear the NHS was not on the table.\n\nHe replied: \"Not only have I made clear of that, the president has made that very, very clear. There is complete unanimity on that point.\"\n\nTrade deals involve two or more countries agreeing a set of terms by which they buy and sell goods and services from each other.\n\nDeals are designed to increase trade by eliminating or reducing trade barriers. These barriers might include import or export taxes (tariffs), quotas, or differing regulations on things such as safety or labelling.\n\nLast month, President Trump said talks about a \"very substantial\" trade deal with the UK were already under way.\n\nHe said a bilateral post-Brexit deal could lead to a \"three to four, five times\" increase in current trade - but provided no details about how that would be achieved.\n\nHowever, the Speaker of the US House of Representatives, Nancy Pelosi, said a UK-US trade deal would not get through Congress if Brexit undermined the Good Friday Agreement.\n\nMs Pelosi said the UK's exit from the EU could not be allowed to endanger the 1998 Irish peace deal, which the US helped facilitate.", "Last updated on .From the section Cricket\n\nMen's Ashes: Third Specsavers Test, Headingley (day three of five) England need further 203 to win\n\nEngland's batsmen showed some much-needed fight on day three of the third Test, but Australia still look set to retain the Ashes at Headingley.\n\nSet 359 - an England record - to win, the home side battled to 156-3 thanks to 75 not out from Joe Root and Joe Denly's 50.\n\nThey repelled the constant threat of the Australia attack with bravery, solid defence and patience - all of the things England were missing when they were bowled out for 67 on Friday.\n\nRoot and Denly's partnership of 126 dragged England from 15-2, when they were in danger of subsiding once more on a glorious day in Leeds.\n• None TMS podcast: England's batsmen show resolve, but is it too late?\n\nAustralia earlier moved their overnight 171-6 to 246 all out, with Marnus Labuschagne run out for 80.\n\nThe tourists' bowling was excellent, yet largely unrewarded and, even though England are in a position from where they could pull off an incredible victory, history is on Australia's side.\n\nHowever, Headingley is the ground where Australia once successfully pursued 404 and, only two years ago, West Indies knocked off 322.\n\nIf England were to pull off the chase and level the series, it would rank alongside Sir Ian Botham's heroics here in 1981 as one of their greatest Ashes wins.\n\nIf the frustration of the first-innings capitulation was over a golden opportunity to square the series apparently going begging, it was compounded by England showing they are capable of proper Test batting.\n\nSaturday was everything Friday should have been: England defying the Australia bowling, making steady progress on a good batting pitch in warm sunshine.\n\nThe Headingley crowd lapped it up, perhaps even keener to see England bat well because of the awful showing on day two.\n\nForward defensive strokes were applauded, edges through the slips were roared and England reaching 100 was given a standing ovation.\n\nJust as Australia were starting to show signs of desperation, their persistence was rewarded by Denly gloving a Josh Hazlewood bouncer behind.\n\nBen Stokes, who survived 50 balls for his two not out, calmly helped Root to the close and England do have batting to come, but any bid for history will first have to overcome the second new ball, which is due eight overs into Sunday morning.\n\nWhen Rory Burns edged Hazlewood to slip and Jason Roy was bowled by a wonderful delivery from Pat Cummins, England were two down just after lunch and in danger of losing in three days.\n\nThat they did not was down to Root and Denly, who responded to the pressure on their shoulders - Root over his position as captain, Denly for his place in the side - by restoring some pride into the England batting line-up.\n\nAt first, the progress was painstaking. Every delivery was full of danger. There were edges and play-and-misses. Denly was struck on the head, arm and twice almost gloved short balls to fielders.\n\nGradually, batting became easier. Root scored square of the wicket on both sides, while Denly played attractive pushes down the ground.\n\nRoot was given out lbw to Hazlewood on 59, only for a review to show a clear inside edge.\n\nHowever, when the same bowler produced a brute of a bouncer directed at Denly's chin, he could only punch it to wicketkeeper Tim Paine.\n\nGiven how meekly England surrendered on Friday, Australia would have been forgiven for thinking that another capitulation was in the offing on Saturday.\n\nTheir failure to wrap up victory was no slight on the bowling attack, in particular the three pace bowlers - Hazlewood, Cummins and James Pattinson - who examined England's defensive technique with line and length or tested their mettle with hostile bouncers.\n\nThe push for victory came after they added 75 runs in the morning, Labuschagne moving his seventh-wicket partnership with Pattinson to 51.\n\nLabuschagne was dropped by a diving Jonny Bairstow on 60 - his fourth reprieve - before he was peppered with short balls from Jofra Archer, fit following a bout of cramp on Friday evening.\n\nIt was Archer who had Pattinson caught at first slip and last man Nathan Lyon chop on. In between, the tireless Stokes got Cummins to fend to gully and Labuschagne failed to beat Denly's throw from deep point when coming back for a second run.\n\nThe last four wickets fell for 31 runs in 7.3 overs, a contrast to the and absorbing battle that would follow.\n\nHow much of a chance do England have?\n\nEngland's Joe Denly on BBC Test Match Special: \"The 67 wasn't good enough but it's about showing character and fight in this second innings.\n\n\"We believe. If we get one or two more partnerships tomorrow, we're in with a real shout. I rate our chances very highly - there are not too many demons in the pitch.\"\n\nEngland's record Test run-scorer Alastair Cook: \"The frustration has been that that collapse happens too often with England and it has cost them dearly in the past.\n\n\"There is the chance that they might get away with it in this game. That partnership was gutsy, it was brave and it has given England a sniff of a chance.\"\n\nFormer England captain Michael Vaughan: \"Why didn't England do that in the first innings? If it needs criticism to fire them up to play the right way, I'll criticise them all the time.\n\n\"You've got to put the hard yards in and England did that today. But I feel yesterday's batting will still cost them this Test.\"\n\nAustralia batsman Marnus Labuschagne: \"We have got to stick to our process, shut that scoreboard down and challenge both edges of the bat - ball in, ball out. If we do that I've no doubt we will win the match.\"\n\nFormer Australia pace bowler Glenn McGrath: \"England have a chance. This is the partnership - Ben Stokes and Joe Root - who have to do the bulk of the work.\n\n\"But Australia know all it takes is a couple of early wickets tomorrow and it can all change quickly. It takes a long time to tick the scoreboard over.\"", "A man has been stabbed to death and four others have been injured in a town centre.\n\nPolice were called to a disturbance involving a number of people in Maidstone High Street at 03:00 BST.\n\nA 21-year-old London man who suffered injuries from stab wounds was declared dead at the scene, police said.\n\nFour men, also from London, two aged 21 and the others aged 19 and 23, have been arrested on suspicion of murder and remain in custody.\n\nA police forensics van was at the scene on Sunday\n\nThree of the four injured men were taken to a London hospital, with the fourth taken to a local hospital.\n\nSupt Simon Thomson of Kent Police said specialist officers were supporting the victim's relatives and said the force's thoughts were with the family of the deceased.\n\nHe told BBC South East it was a \"large-scale, complex\" case and crime scene investigators were carrying out a thorough investigation of the scene.\n\nThe High Street remains closed and anyone with any information has been asked to contact Kent Police.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "British Transport Police said the accident happened close to Ashgill Road in the Milton area of Glasgow\n\nA 12-year-old boy has died after an accident involving overhead railway power lines in Glasgow.\n\nBritish Transport Police were called to the tracks close to Ashgill Road, Milton, after the alarm was raised at about 18:30 on Sunday 18 August.\n\nParamedics took him to the Royal Hospital for Children where he was treated for life-threatening injuries.\n\nPolice said that despite the best efforts of medical staff, the child died on Saturday night.\n\nInsp Alasdair McWhirter, of British Transport Police, said: \"This is a truly tragic incident, and our thoughts and deepest condolences are with the boy's family and friends.\n\n\"We have specially trained officers supporting his family during this incredibly difficult time and I would ask that their privacy is please respected while they come to terms with their loss.\n\n\"We have no reason to believe there were any suspicious circumstances to this incident and we will be preparing a report for the procurator fiscal.\"\n\nLast week police described the incident as \"catastrophic\".\n\nAny witnesses who have not yet spoken to the police should contact the British Transport Police.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Ryan had spent the summer working at a camp in Wisconsin\n\nThe father of a County Tyrone teenager, who was injured during a lightning strike at a major US golf tournament, said he had been \"knocked out cold\".\n\nTerry Murphy, from Cookstown, said his son Ryan, 19, had been following Rory McIlroy at the event in Atlanta when the \"freak\" incident occurred.\n\nMr Murphy said his son had spent the summer working in the US and the golf trip had been a year in the planning.\n\n\"He's bruised and shaken,\" he said. \"And he wants to come home.\"\n\nHe said they had been texting each other throughout Saturday, with Ryan providing a live running commentary of the Tour Championship.\n\nBoth are members of Killymoon Golf Club in Cookstown and Ryan had gone to Georgia on his own hoping to see a McIlroy victory.\n\n\"I was asking what he was wearing to see if I could see him on the TV,\" he said.\n\nRyan's last text was about play being suspended because of storms and then when news broke about the lightning strike, Mr Murphy said he just knew something was wrong.\n\n\"I just felt it in my gut so I tried to call him,\" he said.\n\nThere was no response so the family started calling around hospitals.\n\nThe panic and the not-knowing lasted about 45 minutes. While his wife was speaking to a nurse, Ryan picked up his phone.\n\n\"I heard the beeping of machines and I knew it was medical,\" he said.\n\n\"The first thing he said to me was 'Don't say anything to mummy'.\"\n\nRyan told his father he had been sheltering under a tree when the lightning struck and all he could remember was waking up \"yards away\" with the emergency services all around him.\n\n\"He's had scans just to make sure there is no internal damage,\" said his father.\n\nRyan was back in his hotel by Sunday afternoon and is hoping to fly home to Northern Ireland on Tuesday.\n\nHe had only finished camp a week ago and had headed to Chicago before taking a flight to Georgia.\n\nHe was due to go on to San Francisco and then New York before coming home to start at Queen's University, where he will be studying structural engineering with architecture.\n\nHis father said it was \"unfortunate\" that he had to cancel his plans but \"he's alive\".\n\nCyril Rafferty, manager of Killymoon Golf Club, described Ryan as a prominent member of the club and said he was in \"total shock\" after hearing what had happened to him.\n\n\"He's a fine young golfer, we're just delighted to hear that he's okay\", he added.\n\nThe Irish Department of Foreign Affairs said it was \"aware of the case\" and was providing \"consular assistance\".\n\nFive other people were injured after the lightning struck a tree close to the 15th green at East Lake Golf Club.", "Torrential rain and floods have killed 62 people in Sudan, according to the official state news agency.\n\nThe country has been battered by heavy rains since early July, affecting almost 200,000 people across 15 states. White Nile state in the south of the country has been hit hardest.\n\nThe UN said that more than 37,000 homes have been destroyed or damaged while more flashfloods are expected.\n\nThe rainy season continues until the end of October.\n\nThis house in Wad Ramli, 75km (45 miles) north of the capital Khartoum, was destroyed by flooding several days ago\n\nResidents of Wad Ramli returned by boat to try to salvage their possessions\n\nThey moved what they could to dry ground\n\nGeli was another town which suffered serious damage in the floods\n\nA camp for people displaced from their homes has been established near Wad Ramli", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. \"I'm hit in the right shoulder\": Listen to Mr Reinosa's call to say he'd been shot\n\nAuthorities in Los Angeles say a sheriff's deputy who claimed he had been shot by a sniper actually cut two fake bullet holes in his uniform with a knife and made the whole thing up.\n\nPolice launched a massive manhunt last Wednesday after Angel Reinosa called in to say he was pinned down by gunfire.\n\n\"I'm taking shots from the north of the Lancaster helipad, I'm hit in the right shoulder,\" said a frantic Mr Reinosa.\n\n\"My shirt's ripped to the right. I think it's from the apartment window.\"\n\nMr Reinosa has been relieved of his duties and is facing a criminal investigation.\n\nPolice launched a massive manhunt, focusing on the apartment building cited by 21-year-old Mr Reinosa. A SWAT team and armoured vehicles blocked off roads around the building and officers searched through the night for the alleged sniper. The deputy was taken to hospital.\n\n\"He is doing great, thankfully,\" Sheriff's Captain Todd Weber said at the time. \"The wound was minor and he's been treated and he's doing well, in high spirits.\"\n\nThe only problem was, there was no wound. Mr Reinosa has now admitted fabricating the sniper fire and using a knife to cut two fake bullet holes in the shoulder area of his shirt.\n\nIt was not immediately clear why it took so long to notice that Mr Reinosa had not suffered any wounds.\n\n\"There were many things that didn't add up,\" said Sheriff's Captain Kent Wegener, adding that the deputy's account of events \"didn't make a whole lot of sense\".\n\nHe said the deputy had \"failed to provide information regarding his motivation for this act\".\n\nMr Reinosa had been with the Sheriff's Department for a year and joined the Lancaster station in May for patrol training, the LA Times reported.", "Toshwa Dennis made it to hospital in time to see the birth of Savannah\n\nA firefighter \"on the hose\" at a blaze was released from duty after his wife went into labour early.\n\nToshwa Dennis, 38, was at a scrapheap fire in Highgate, Birmingham, on Saturday when the call came.\n\nHearing the news made Mr Dennis \"kind of freeze up\", but he managed to make it to hospital in time to witness the birth of Savannah.\n\nHis daughter, who weighed 6lbs 10oz (3kg), and her mum Stacy, 38, are \"doing well\", he said.\n\nThe blaze was \"pretty developed\" when he \"put the hose down\" late in the afternoon as a colleague was calling him over.\n\n\"I ran over to him. I was thinking he was calling me for something to do with the job and he said we got a phone call from control - she's gone into labour and she's on the way to hospital.\n\n\"I didn't know what to do... when you're on the job, your mind is just focused. After I got my wits back, it was like I got back into mode... [I would] get myself to hospital.\"\n\nStacy had been due to give birth next month\n\nThe firefighter said he went back to Highgate fire station before driving himself to hospital.\n\nSavannah, who was due on 4 September, was born at 19:40 BST.\n\nMr Dennis, from Sutton Coldfield, said he was \"very grateful\" and appreciated the service's efforts.\n\nHe said it was only a week ago that a colleague suggested he should give fire control's number to his wife.\n\n\"If he hadn't said that, I wouldn't have made it.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Israeli forces in the occupied Golan Heights are on high alert\n\nIsrael has struck Iranian military sites in Syria to prevent what it said was a pending drone strike by Iran.\n\nIsrael's military rarely acknowledges operations in Syria, but it claimed on Saturday its strikes had prevented an attack on Israel \"using killer drones\".\n\nIsrael is believed to have carried out hundreds of strikes in Syria since civil war broke out there in 2011, to try to prevent Iran gaining a foothold.\n\nAn Israeli military spokesman said the strikes on Saturday targeted the Quds Force of the Iran's Islamic Revolution Guard Corps (IRGC) in Aqraba, south-east of the capital, Damascus.\n\nA Syrian military source quoted by the official Sana news agency said that Syrian anti-aircraft defences \"detected enemy targets from Golan heading towards the area around Damascus\".\n\n\"Iran has no immunity anywhere,\" said Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu\n\n\"The aggression was immediately confronted and so far the majority of the enemy Israeli missiles have been destroyed before reaching their targets,\" the source said.\n\nIn a tweet, Mr Netanyahu said: \"I reiterate: Iran has no immunity anywhere. Our forces operate in every sector against the Iranian aggression. 'If someone rises up to kill you, kill him first.'\"\n\nThe head of the Iranian-backed Lebanese militant group Hezbollah, Hassan Nasrallah, said two Lebanese nationals had been killed in the Israeli strike, which he said targeted Hezbollah positions.\n\nSeparately, reports said two Israeli surveillance drones had come down in the Lebanese capital, Beirut.\n\nOne alleged Israeli drone crashed into a Beirut building that houses a Hezbollah media office\n\nHezbollah officials said an unmanned drone fell on the roof of a media centre belonging to the group, and was followed by a second unmanned drone that exploded in mid-air and crashed nearby.\n\nHassan Nasrallah denounced the attack, saying that it was the first since the two sides fought a brief war 13 years ago.\n\nThe group would prevent any future attacks, he said, adding: \"The time when Israeli aircraft come and bombard parts of Lebanon is over.\"\n\nHezbollah released an image it said showed one of the Israeli drones\n\nResidents told the Associated Press they heard a large explosion that shook the area, after hearing the sound of an aircraft. Israel's military declined to comment on the reports.\n\n\"This new aggression... forms a threat to regional stability and an attempt to push the situation towards more tension,\" he said in a statement.\n\nIsrael reportedly also carried out an airstrike last month on a weapons depot in Iraq. The New York Times, citing unnamed US officials, said that Israel was behind the 19 July strike on an arms depot that the officials said was being used by Iran to move weapons to Syria.\n\nThe Israeli military refused to comment on the strike.", "A Japanese immigration scheme has come under fire for widespread reports of the exploitation of workers. The BBC spoke to migrant workers who claim they were overworked and underpaid and found some were making clothes for big, international brands. And as the BBC's Population Reporter Stephanie Hegarty found, workers in other industries have reported abuses such as unsafe working environments and bullying.", "Last updated on .From the section Football\n\nPeople who post racist abuse on social media \"hide behind fake identities\", said Manchester United manager Ole Gunnar Solskjaer after striker Marcus Rashford was targeted.\n\nThe England forward, 21, was abused after missing a penalty in Saturday's shock 2-1 home loss to Crystal Palace.\n\nUnited's Paul Pogba was also targeted after a spot-kick miss on Monday.\n\nAnti-discrimination body Kick It Out called the abuse \"vile\" and said \"decisive action\" needs to be taken.\n\nEarlier this week, Twitter said it will meet any stakeholders to show the \"proactive work\" being done to tackle abuse after 26-year-old France midfielder Pogba was targeted following a missed penalty in a 1-1 draw at Wolves.\n\nSeveral of Pogba's team-mates - including Rashford - criticised the abuse, while England women's manager Phil Neville called for footballers to \"boycott\" social media.\n\nRashford joins a growing list of footballers who have suffered racist abuse after penalty misses, with Chelsea's Tammy Abraham and Yakou Meite of Reading also targeted this week.\n\nIn a statement on Saturday, Kick It Out said: \"The vile racist abuse on social media continued today.\n\n\"This problem will not go away and needs decisive action - that is what we will be making clear to Twitter when we meet.\"\n\nSpeaking before United's Premier League defeat by Palace at Old Trafford, Solskjaer called for \"authorities to do something\" about the problem.\n\nIn a news conference after the game, he said: \"It's unheard of and we need it to stop.\n\n\"I'm just lost for words if it keeps going. We keep having all these campaigns 'No to Racism' and it keeps hiding behind fake identities. It's just crazy that we talk about this in 2019.\"", "Last updated on .From the section Golf\n\nSix people have been injured after two lightning strikes at the season-ending Tour Championship in Atlanta.\n\nPlay was suspended at 4.17pm local time because of thunderstorms in the area and at 4.45pm there were two lightning strikes close to the 15th green at East Lake Golf Club.\n\nA tree was hit and debris from that strike injured six people, the PGA Tour said.\n\nA statement added the injuries \"do not appear to be life-threatening\".\n\nOrganisers said paramedics tended to six fans on the course, with five being taken to hospital by ambulance.\n\nThe third round was suspended with play to resume on Sunday at 8am local time (13:00 BST).\n\nAmerican Justin Thomas was leading by one shot from Northern Ireland's Rory McIlroy and world number one Brooks Koepka when play was suspended.", "It has been the hottest late August bank holiday weekend ever - with temperatures reaching 33.3C (91.94F) in west London.\n\nThe Met Office confirmed the new record temperature, which was set at Heathrow.\n\nIt beats the previous record of 31.5C (88.7F), set in 2001 and again at Heathrow.\n\nAnd BBC Weather said UK temperatures could reach similar levels on Monday - with highs of up to 33C in south-east England.\n\nOn Saturday a new record for Wales was set in Gogerddan, where 28.8C was recorded.\n\nIn Scotland, which does not have a late August bank holiday, temperatures were slightly cooler - but still reached 27C in Auchincruive, Ayrshire.\n\nRevellers at the Notting Hill Carnival enjoyed the weather\n\nA woman cools off by jumping into the sea at Whitby, Yorkshire\n\nBeachgoers made the most of the sizzling temperatures in Yorkshire\n\nBBC Weather said that, on Monday, the south east of England could experience temperatures of between 32C and 33C, which would be a national record for the late August bank holiday Monday.\n\nAnd the London Ambulance Service advised people attending Notting Hill Carnival on Monday to drink plenty of water, use sun cream and remain in the shade where possible.\n\nTemperatures across the UK could get even hotter before the late August bank holiday weekend finishes\n\nThe warm weather meant people had to find ways to stay cool\n\nLast month, the UK's highest ever temperature was officially recorded in Cambridge when 38.7C was measured.\n\nIt beat the previous UK record of 38.5C, set in Kent in 2003.\n\nThe government's advisory Committee on Climate Change has warned the UK is not prepared for the increase in heatwaves that is expected with global warming.\n\nEarlier this summer, it called for more action to make sure homes and other buildings such as hospitals and care facilities could be comfortable and safe in higher temperatures.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The plane crashed in a field in the village of Stonor, near Henley-on-Thames\n\nTwo people have died in a light aircraft crash in Oxfordshire.\n\nThe small bi-plane crashed in a field in the area of Stonor, near Henley-on-Thames, at about 14:00 BST on Saturday.\n\nThames Valley Police said the aircraft's pilot and passenger were pronounced dead at the scene.\n\nThe Air Accidents Investigation Branch (AAIB) said its investigators were travelling to the scene of the crash to examine the aircraft.\n\nPolice said they were assisting the AAIB and no-one on the ground was injured.\n\nAn AAIB spokesperson said the aircraft wreckage would be recovered to a facility at Farnborough in Hampshire for a detailed examination.\n\n\"The AAIB investigation will take some time and an accident report will be released in due course,\" they added.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Liverpool manager Jurgen Klopp says his side \"do not need to excite everyone in every second\" after a comfortable victory over Arsenal maintained their place at the top of the Premier League.\n\nThe Reds also preserved their 100% start to the Premier League season as Mohamed Salah scored twice to add to Joel Matip's first-half header in a dominant performance at Anfield.\n\n\"It was a performance full of power, energy, greed and passion, which I think you need against a team like Arsenal.\" Klopp told Sky Sports.\n\n\"The last 10 minutes I saw the possession - 53 to 47% or something like that - but over 80 minutes it must have been completely different. We were completely in charge of the game.\n\n\"We are not Disneyland, we do not need to excite everyone in every second.\"\n\nThe Gunners, the only other side in the top flight to win their first two games, had opportunities to shock Liverpool in a tight first half, especially when record £72m signing Nicolas Pepe shot straight at keeper Adrian after running clear.\n\nLiverpool took control when Matip put them ahead with a powerful header from Trent Alexander-Arnold's corner four minutes before the interval.\n\nAnd any hopes manager Unai Emery had of watching his side mount a recovery were snuffed out in the 49th minute after a moment of madness from new signing David Luiz, who needlessly dragged Salah back in the area.\n\nLiverpool's Egyptian attacker drilled home the penalty and then embarrassed Luiz again out on the touchline at the start of a dazzling run that ended with a low, curling finish into the bottom corner just before the hour.\n\nArsenal substitute Lucas Torreira pulled one back late on, but nothing was getting in the way of Liverpool's 12th successive league victory, equalling their best sequence in the top flight under Kenny Dalglish between April and October 1990.\n\nLiverpool back in the old routine\n\nLiverpool had moments when they stuttered against Southampton and their defence has looked unusually fallible - but this was a movie we have seen many times before at Anfield under Jurgen Klopp.\n\nArsenal have suffered badly here in recent seasons, losing 5-1 last season and 4-0 in Arsene Wenger's final season. Once again, despite taking their time to hit top gear, Liverpool's ruthlessness and intensity simply proved too much for Arsenal.\n\nTrue, they gratefully accepted Luiz's gifts but once Matip put Liverpool ahead the pressure and intensity applied to Arsenal was simply too much for the Gunners to resist.\n\nAnd, as Arsenal discovered, when you fail to take chances to punish Liverpool, the inevitable outcome is that you will be punished yourselves.\n\nLiverpool do not simply have a prodigious work ethic that makes life permanently uncomfortable for opponents; they also have world-class attacking options as illustrated by Salah's brilliant weaving run and slide-rule finish for their third.\n\nKlopp's side missed out on the title by a single point despite only one loss, to champions Manchester City, last season - and three wins from three has quickly put the marker down that they intend to go one better and claim that first title in 30 years.\n\nLuiz has a track record of success that suggests he may be able to bring moments of quality to Arsenal's defence after his surprise £8m move from Chelsea - but there is no escaping he has the enduring capability to be a complete liability.\n\nThe Brazilian, at 32, is not going to change and so it proved as he delivered a moment of crass stupidity that killed stone dead Arsenal's hopes of taking anything away from Anfield.\n\nIt is a stretch to say Arsenal had Liverpool on the ropes but, despite the overall domination of the European champions, the Gunners certainly had moments of threat through the pace and menace of Pepe and Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang. They would have started the second half with hope.\n\nLuiz made it all count for nothing when he felt his best method of dealing with Salah's 49th-minute raid into the penalty area was to blatantly drag him back by the shirt in a red-mist moment that did not even seriously require the intervention of the video assistant referee.\n\nSalah, despite some ludicrous protests from Luiz, drilled home the penalty before taking him to cleaners when scoring Liverpool's brilliant third.\n\nToo much of the Arsenal's playing out from the back was asking for trouble against this Liverpool side. Throw in the act of stupidity from Luiz and ultimately they got what they deserved, despite some areas for Emery to admire.\n\n\"We were doing some transitions very good and we had some chances but, in the second half, the penalty was very soft,\" Emery told BBC Match of the Day.\n\n\"After 2-0 our reaction was good. We needed to attack and take a different moment in the match. We are disappointed we lost 3-1 but watching some players we can be optimistic.\n\n\"We need to improve in possession and countering the pressure but Liverpool is the best team with this. We have to be realistic but we can fight closer to them.\"\n• None Since Jurgen Klopp took over in October 2015, Liverpool have scored 26 goals in eight Premier League games against Arsenal - the most one side has netted against another in the competition in that period.\n• None Only Everton at Arsenal (64) have conceded more away goals against a single opponent in the Premier League than Arsenal at Liverpool (62).\n• None Arsenal have now failed to win any of their past 23 away league games against fellow 'Big six' sides (D8 L15) - during this run they have conceded 53 goals while keeping just one clean sheet.\n• None Since the start of last season, Arsenal have given away eight Premier League penalties - only Brighton (10) have faced more.\n• None Liverpool have scored 22 headed goals in the Premier League since the start of last season; seven more than any other side. The Reds have scored three in this campaign already, while no other side has scored more than one.\n• None Liverpool manager Jurgen Klopp has faced Arsenal eight times without defeat in the Premier League (W5 D3).\n• None Mohamed Salah has been directly involved in more Premier League goals against Arsenal than against any other side (eight; six goals and two assists). He has scored in all four of his home games against them.\n• None Trent Alexander-Arnold has assisted nine goals in his past 10 appearances at Anfield for Liverpool in all competitions, including assisting once in each of his past five competitive home games.\n• None Nicolas Pepe has become the first player to successfully dribble past Virgil van Dijk in the Dutch defender's past 50 appearances in the Premier League, since Mikel Merino in March 2018 for Newcastle.\n\nLiverpool travel to Burnley in their next Premier League fixture on Saturday, 31 August (17:30 BST). Arsenal resume league action when they host Tottenham in the first north London derby of the season, on Sunday, 1 September (16:30 BST).\n• None Attempt missed. David Luiz (Arsenal) right footed shot from outside the box is high and wide to the left from a direct free kick.\n• None Fabinho (Liverpool) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.\n• None Offside, Arsenal. Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang tries a through ball, but Henrikh Mkhitaryan is caught offside.\n• None Alexandre Lacazette (Arsenal) wins a free kick on the right wing.\n• None Offside, Arsenal. Granit Xhaka tries a through ball, but Alexandre Lacazette is caught offside.\n• None Goal! Liverpool 3, Arsenal 1. Lucas Torreira (Arsenal) right footed shot from the centre of the box to the bottom right corner. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page", "A pop-up shop in west London is helping people fill their social media pages with colourful selfies.\n\nThe Selfie Factory charges would-be influencers £10 an hour to take photos against a variety of backgrounds.\n\nThe BBC's Chris Fox visited the store and asked founder Will Bower whether Instagram was about to be flooded with thousands of similar selfies.", "It is not clear why the artwork has been covered up\n\nA Banksy mural showing a star being chiselled from the EU flag has been mysteriously covered with white paint and scaffolding.\n\nThe artwork appeared near Dover's ferry terminal in May 2017 on a building that was due to be demolished.\n\nIn 2017, the building's owners the Godden family said they were \"exploring options for the retention, removal or sale\" of the artwork.\n\nIt is not clear whether it has been painted over or removed for sale.\n\nThe Godden family previously lost a High Court battle after trying to sell another Banksy mural.\n\nDeal Scaffolding said it was asked to supply scaffolding for general building work to be conducted on the building but was \"unaware of any specific purpose\".\n\nLocal residents have been speculating about the latest Banksy mystery, with some saying erecting the scaffolding was \"cultural vandalism of the highest order\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Katy Bourne is the police and crime commissioner for Sussex\n\nHarsher sentences for people who attack police officers \"would be very welcome\", the head of the national body for police bosses has said.\n\nKaty Bourne, the new chair of the Association of Police and Crime Commissioners (APCC), said anyone who hurts an officer should go to prison, \"no ifs, no buts\".\n\nShe made the remarks after the death of PC Andrew Harper in the line of duty.\n\nIt comes as all chief constables were called to a summit on officer safety.\n\nThe urgent meeting - the first time the chief constables have ever come together outside of their usual quarterly meetings - will discuss how frontline policing can be made safer.\n\nCurrently, people guilty of common assault against emergency services staff can be fined or sent to prison. Last year the maximum jail term was doubled from six to 12 months.\n\nIn her first interview since beginning her new role earlier this year, Mrs Bourne said: \"If you attack a police officer, you need to know you will go to prison.\"\n\nMrs Bourne - who also sits on the prime minister's recently formed National Policing Board - added: \"When we do catch people I think the sentencing needs to be reflective of the seriousness of the crime.\"\n\nOver the last four years, the number of Sussex officers injured in attacks has risen by 16% to an average of three a day, she said.\n\nMrs Bourne, who is the police and crime commissioner for Sussex Police, branded the increase in her \"relatively safe, peaceful\" county as \"unacceptable\".\n\nOn Saturday, Martin Hewitt, the chair of the National Police Chiefs' Council (NPCC), called an urgent meeting for all chief constables, saying: \"If we can't protect our people, how can we protect the public?\"\n\nThe summit, which will be held in early September, will see the top officers share lessons from the recent attacks on their frontline officers as part of a discussion \"to see if there is anything more we can do to tangibly improve their safety\", Mr Hewitt said.\n\nThe Police Federation, which represents rank and file officers, has also been asked to give its input.\n\nAll frontline officers in one force have been offered Tasers after violence against emergency services\n\nAlthough Mr Hewitt said it was important not to have \"knee-jerk\" reactions to events, he added: \"Levels of violence are an increasing concern across the country and attacks on our officers have gone up,\" he said in a statement.\n\n\"It is the responsibility of each chief constable to do all they can to keep their officers as safe as possible,\" he added.\n\nMrs Bourne also said she would ask Home Secretary Priti Patel to consider using Sussex Police's knife crime pilot prevention programme to help to tackle the issue across a wider area.\n\nKnown as Reboot, the early youth intervention programme involves police, health professionals and charities joining forces to encourage children to develop interests and hobbies to help deter them from anti-social behaviour.\n\nMeanwhile, earlier this week, Northamptonshire Police announced it would be the first force in the country to arm all of its frontline officers with Tasers.\n\nDays later it was joined by a second force, Durham Constabulary, which said every frontline officer who wanted one would undergo training to use the stun guns.\n\nSome studies have linked the increased use or presence of Tasers with an increase in hostility between police and the public.\n\nCh Con Giles York - vice chair of the NPCC - told BBC Breakfast: \"There is always a balance to be struck around how we equip our officers and still maintain that British piece of policing that is policing by consent.\"\n\nEarlier this month, a police officer was stabbed in Leyton, east London, and two officers in Merseyside were attacked in separate incidents.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The government has released an assessment of the possible effects of a no-deal Brexit on the UK, after MPs demanded that it be made public.\n\nThe document, marked as \"Official Sensitive\" and dated 2 August 2019, outlines a series of \"reasonable worst-case planning assumptions\".\n\nIt was drawn up as part of \"Operation Yellowhammer\" - the name for the government's contingency plan to prepare for leaving the European Union (EU) without a deal.\n\nThe government says it is spending an extra £2.1bn on no-deal planning and is updating these planning assumptions.\n\nSo, what does the document say and what is being done - as far as we know - to prepare for no-deal?\n\nTo ensure more lorries are ready for customs, the government announced last month that 88,000 companies would be automatically enrolled in a new customs system.\n\nThe Port of Dover in Kent handles approximately 10,500 lorries a day. To prevent nearby roads from clogging up, the government has a traffic management plan codenamed Operation Brock.\n\nIf the plan is activated, up to 2,000 lorries will be held in a queue leading to the port. Other traffic will be kept flowing around the queued-up lorries, in what is known as a contraflow system.\n\nA fallback option would be to divert lorries to the disused Manston airfield, near Ramsgate - and use it to hold up to 6,000 lorries on the runway at any one time.\n\nIf further capacity was still required, a \"last resort\" would be to turn the 10-mile M26 motorway into a temporary lorry park.\n\nBut there is a still a lot of confusion, according to Rona Hunnisett, from the Freight Transport Association.\n\n\"The report shows there's still significant detail to be clarified if Britain is to keep trading efficiently,\" she says. \"Businesses can only prepare for, and implement, new processes once, and still need confirmation of what they are to adopt in the way of new practices.\"\n\nThe government has said that it will continue to recognise EU standards for food being imported into the UK, to minimise disruption.\n\nThe British Retail Consortium has said retailers are doing all they can to prepare for no-deal, but will not be able to prevent all negative effects. It stresses that many fresh fruits and vegetables will be out of season in the UK and that there will be a shortage of warehouse space ahead of Christmas.\n\n\"No deal Brexit would be extremely disruptive to the supply chains that we operate, particularly the fresh food supply chains,\" Mike Coupe, chief executive of Sainsbury's told BBC News.\n\n\"There will inevitably be disruption simply because we've never done this before,\" he added, although he also said that previous delays to the Brexit date mean \"there's probably more understanding of what could go wrong and therefore more contingency planning\".\n\nAnother factor is what tariffs (the taxes on imports) will be charged on food coming into the UK.\n\nThe government published a \"tariff schedule\" in March, which removed most tariffs on imports in the event of a no-deal Brexit\n\nThat means some food from outside the EU that currently attract a tariff could be cheaper, but some goods from the EU that are currently imported with 0% tariffs, like beef and dairy, will now carry tariffs, and so could become more expensive.\n\nAt the end of June, the Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) started putting out contracts for freight, warehouse space and fridges. These will be used to stockpile medicines and fly in those which cannot be stored, like radioisotopes for cancer treatment.\n\nOf the £2.1bn pledged for no-deal preparations, £434m has been set aside for this.\n\nThat includes a £25m contract for planes to bring in emergency medical supplies within 24 hours.\n\nAhead of the UK's original departure date of 29 March - then extended to 12 April - the DHSC said thousands of medicines had been analysed to work out what might be affected by supply disruption from the EU.\n\nSuppliers stockpiled an additional six weeks' worth of these drugs over and above the usual \"buffer\" stock.\n\nThis exercise is being repeated to ensure the department is \"as prepared for leaving the EU without a deal in October as it was on 29 March and 12 April\".\n\nSpecific ferry routes were made available for suppliers to book onto 11 weeks before the no-deal deadline in March.\n\nSix weeks before the 31 October deadline, the government had only just opened the bidding process to freight firms competing to transport medicines. So the pharmaceutical industry doesn't currently know which ports and ferry routes will be made available.\n\nSteve Bates, an industry official working with government on no-deal planning, said the time frame to make sure everything was in place for the October deadline was \"significantly compressed\".\n\nHe said the difference for drug suppliers between three months and potentially three weeks to put plans into action was \"material\".\n\nOn social care, the government website advises providers to draw up contingency plans and support EU staff who may be working for them.\n\nPlans are in place to ensure there are enough essential medicines like insulin\n\nIn the event of no-deal, the UK has said it will not impose tariffs on electricity and gas coming into the country.\n\nHowever, if the value of the pound falls in response to a no-deal Brexit, it will become more expensive to import energy from abroad.\n\nThe government intends to remain part of the single energy market, in order for the UK's energy laws to continue to work after Brexit and that supplies are not disrupted.\n\nWater is unlikely to be affected, although there is still a low risk in the event of a chemical supply problem. The Yellowhammer report says water companies are well-prepared and have significant stockpiles of critical chemicals.\n\nThe UK government has said it is committed not to have any physical infrastructure at the border between Ireland and Northern Ireland.\n\nOn 13 March it published its contingency plan to avoid a hard border in the event of a no-deal Brexit. It said it would not bring in new checks or controls, or require customs declarations for any goods moving from Ireland to Northern Ireland, in the event of no-deal.\n\nBut this will only be a temporary measure while negotiations take place to find longer-term solutions.\n\nTo protect people's health, some plant and animal products that come into Northern Ireland from outside the EU, via Ireland, will still need to be checked. The UK government has said these checks will not happen at the border itself, but it has not specified exactly where they will take place.\n\nIt remains unclear what will happen to goods travelling from Northern Ireland to Ireland. Under EU rules, checks would normally be required at the point certain goods enter the EU single market.\n\nThe Irish government says it is securing additional space, and has recruited more customs and agriculture staff to allow for a \"significant increase in checks and procedures\".\n\nThe National Police Coordination Centre will plan the allocation of officers across the country although it has said there has been no intelligence to suggest that any protests will not be peaceful.\n\nThe government has also established the International Crime and Coordination Centre, which is supposed to help the police cope with the change to the UK's relationship with law enforcement agencies in the EU.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Donald Tusk at the G7: I hope Boris Johnson will not want to go down in history as Mr No Deal\n\nEuropean Council President Donald Tusk and Prime Minister Boris Johnson have clashed over who would be to blame in the case of a no-deal Brexit.\n\nMr Tusk said Mr Johnson risked being remembered as \"Mr No Deal\" - but the PM responded by saying it was Mr Tusk who would become \"Mr No-Deal Brexit\".\n\nThe pair are due to meet for talks at the G7 summit in France on Sunday.\n\nMr Tusk added the EU was \"willing to listen\" to the PM's ideas for Brexit - as long as they are \"realistic\".\n\nBut speaking at his press conference in Biarritz, Mr Tusk said he would \"not co-operate on [a] no-deal\".\n\nSince becoming PM, Mr Johnson has said the UK will leave the EU on 31 October.\n\nMr Johnson has repeatedly stated he would prefer to leave the EU with a deal, but insists the backstop - the insurance policy designed to avoid a hard border on the island of Ireland - must be removed from the withdrawal agreement.\n\n\"I've made it absolutely clear I don't want no deal and that we've got to get rid of the backstop from the treaty and if Mr Tusk doesn't want to go down as Mr No-Deal Brexit I hope that point will be borne in mind too,\" he said.\n\nEarlier in the day, Mr Tusk had used the same moniker when talking about Mr Johnson.\n\n\"I still hope Prime Minister Johnson will not like to go down in history as Mr No Deal,\" he said.\n\n\"The EU has always been open to co-operation. One thing I will not co-operate on is a no deal.\n\n\"We are willing to listen to ideas that are operational, realistic and acceptable to all EU member states.\"\n\nWhen Boris Johnson met President Emmanuel Macron and Chancellor Angela Merkel this week, he got a relatively positive response.\n\nBoth leaders indicated they were willing to listen to any ideas the prime minister may have to avoid a no-deal Brexit.\n\nBut Mr Johnson's meeting with Donald Tusk at the G7 summit on Sunday may now prove more problematic.\n\nThe spat between both men - both of them warning they could go down in history as Mr No Deal - shows that both sides are engaged in a blame game.\n\nNeither side wishes to be seen as the intransigent partner in a negotiation that leads to no deal.\n\nMr Macron and Ms Merkel were implicit in this, while Mr Tusk was explicit, prompting an equally blunt response from Mr Johnson.\n\nIt is, of course, still possible that some political space may be carved out to allow for a compromise at the last minute. But all the signs still point towards a no-deal Brexit at the end of October.\n\nThe G7 summit - a get-together of most of the leaders of the world's largest economies - comes with just over two months until the UK is scheduled to leave the EU at the end of October.\n\nMr Johnson wants to renegotiate the Irish backstop - a key Brexit sticking point - but the EU has consistently ruled this out.\n\nSpeaking on Saturday, Mr Johnson said: \"We've made it very clear we won't be instituting any kind of checks or controls at the Northern Irish border. We don't think such controls are necessary.\n\n\"There are a large range of alternative arrangements - these we will be discussing in the coming weeks.\"\n\nIf implemented, the backstop - a last resort should the UK and the EU not agree a trade deal after Brexit - would see Northern Ireland staying aligned to some rules of the EU single market.\n\nIt would also see the UK stay in a single customs territory with the EU, and align with current and future EU rules on competition and state aid.\n\nAt a news conference on Wednesday with Mr Johnson, German Chancellor Merkel suggested an alternative to the backstop might be achievable, adding that the onus was on the UK.\n\nBoris Johnson met with French President Emmanuel Macron at the Elysee Presidential Palace this week\n\nBut the next day French President Macron said the backstop was \"indispensable\" to preserving political stability and the single market.\n\nAfter visiting his counterparts in Paris and Berlin this week, Mr Johnson said there was \"new mood music\", but reaching a new deal would not be \"a cinch\".\n\nHe has insisted the UK will leave the EU on 31 October, whether or not a new deal is reached.\n\nMr Johnson will also meet with US President Donald Trump, who arrived in France around Saturday lunchtime.\n\nAsked if he would be telling Mr Trump not to escalate the US-China trade war, Mr Johnson said: \"You bet.\"\n\nHe added one of his priorities for the summit was \"the state of global trade\".\n• None Johnson: UK will not retreat from global community", "Carwyn Jones said \"it's not safe\" for women in Wales to come forward with harassment claims\n\nWales has \"gone backwards 30 years\" in terms of women feeling able to come forward with accusations of sexual misconduct, according to Carwyn Jones.\n\nThe former first minister said Wales is \"behind most countries in western Europe\" because of the fallout from Carl Sargeant's death.\n\nMr Sargeant was found hanged at his home in Flintshire in November 2017.\n\nHe was sacked as minister for communities and children over claims of inappropriate behaviour towards women.\n\nThe former Alyn and Deeside AM denied the claims but the investigation by the Labour Party was dropped after his death.\n\nMr Jones doubts whether restarting the investigation would help anybody because of the \"emotional cost\" of the \"brutal process\" to Mr Sargeant's family, himself and others.\n\nHe added: \"I think there comes a point where we've got to say, 'how much further can this go now?'\"\n\nHe insisted he was not calling for a halt to the official investigation - the Bowen Inquiry - into how he sacked Mr Sargeant.\n\nHowever the Bridgend AM added there was \"absolutely no doubt\" that women are now less likely to come forward with accusations of sexual misconduct.\n\n\"Lists of women were given to media outlets - the Telegraph and the Sun were two - because they phoned me and read out a list of names and asked me to confirm who the complainants were,\" he said.\n\n\"What was that all about? How did that help anybody?\n\n\"And, in fact, we're in a situation now where it is not safe for women to come forward in Wales.\n\n\"The people who did this have created a situation where we've gone backwards 30 years.\n\n\"In their anger and temper, what they've actually done is made it far easier for men to harass women because women won't come forward anymore. Why would you if you thought you were going to be vilified, abused or named in newspapers or websites?\"\n\nCarl Sargeant was found dead days after he was sacked from his cabinet level job\n\nFollowing the inquest into Mr Sargeant's death, coroner John Gittins recorded a conclusion of suicide and said more support should be available to sacked ministers.\n\nHowever Mr Jones responded: \"The coroner said there should be things put in place, but he hasn't said what that should look like.\n\n\"You do ask yourself those questions. But that's what I've wrestled with - what exactly could've been done differently?\n\n\"I know this is a tragedy but it doesn't mean the process itself was wrong.\"\n\nMr Jones said he had \"no idea\" Mr Sargeant had been diagnosed with depression in 2012 despite the coroner's claim he would 'probably' have known of the minister's vulnerability.\n\nThe Sargeant's family barrister accused Mr Jones of lying under oath about the nature of the support he had asked Labour's Vale of Clwyd AM Ann Jones to give Mr Sargeant after his sacking. Mr Jones denied the accusation.\n\nThe coroner said Mr Jones had \"properly and appropriately\" corrected information, though only after \"the true picture came to light\" from Ann Jones.\n\nAsked why he made the mistake, the ex-first minister offered: \"At the time, everything was so fast-moving it's very difficult to remember every single detail.\"\n\nMr Jones said he did not think it had been right to reach out to Mr Sargeant's family during the inquest but said he would be \"more than happy\" to meet in the future.\n\nHe added: \"I was never Carl's enemy and I'm not [the family's] enemy. I always got on very, very well with Carl.\"", "Last updated on .From the section Cricket\n\nMen's Ashes: Third Specsavers Test, Headingley (day three of five) England need further 203 to win\n\nEngland are \"in with a real shout\" of completing their highest fourth-innings chase and beating Australia to level the Ashes, says batsman Joe Denly.\n\nNeeding 359 to win and keep their Ashes hopes alive, the hosts reached 156-3 at the close of day three at Headingley.\n\nDenly made a resolute 50 while captain Joe Root's unbeaten 75 leaves England requiring a further 203 to win the third Test with seven wickets left.\n\n\"I rate our chances very highly,\" said Denly.\n\n\"There are not too many demons in the pitch - we are in a very good position.\n\n\"There is a lot of belief in that changing room and excitement going into tomorrow.\"\n• None TMS podcast: England's batsmen show resolve, but is it too late?\n\nEngland began the day with their hopes of winning the Ashes seemingly all but over after they were bowled out for 67 on day two.\n\nIn the morning session Australia reached 246 all out, meaning England would have to better their record chase of 332 against Australia in 1928.\n\nThey were reduced to 15-2 but Root and Denly batted with far greater patience than on the previous day and repelled the Australia attack for 53 overs in a partnership of 126 on a sunny day in Leeds.\n\nDenly was caught behind off Josh Hazlewood late in the day but a determined Ben Stokes reached the close on two not out from 50 deliveries.\n\n\"We were disappointed with the 67 and it was not good enough but it's about showing character and fight in this second innings,\" Denly said.\n\n\"We believe. If we get one or two more partnerships tomorrow, we're in with a real shout.\"\n\nFormer England captain Michael Vaughan said he still expects the hosts' first innings will \"cost them\" and questioned why their batman cannot show the discipline shown on day three more often.\n\n\"For the most part England had the bit between their teeth\" he added.\n\n\"It needs hard work - you cannot just rock up and play this Australia attack. You've got to put the hard yards in and England did that today.\"\n\nBatsman Marnus Labuschagne said he has \"no doubt\" Australia, who lead the five-match series 1-0, will win if they bowl in a similar fashion on Sunday.\n\n\"The wicket has flattened out a bit, we have the new ball due in eight overs which is good for us,\" he said.\n\n\"We have got to stick to our process, shut that scoreboard down and challenge both edges of the bat ball in, ball out.\"", "A cordon is in place near the scene\n\nA man has been taken to hospital following reports of two armed robberies in Swansea.\n\nArmed police were deployed to Oxford Street and Norfolk Street at about 09:10 BST to \"ensure the safety\" of the public and other officers.\n\nSouth Wales Police said a man was threatened by another man who left with a cashbox on Oxford Street.\n\nThe second incident took place in Norfolk Street, a few minutes later, and the suspect then fled the scene.\n\nBoth areas have been cordoned off.\n\nAnyone who witnessed suspicious activity in the area is asked to contact police.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Several US airports have already installed 3D scanning equipment\n\nAll major UK airports must introduce 3D baggage screening equipment before the end of 2022, the government says.\n\nMinisters say the technology will boost security, speed up pre-boarding checks, and could end the restrictions on travelling with liquids and laptops.\n\nThe equipment, similar to CT scanners used in hospitals, is already being installed at London's Heathrow Airport.\n\nIt provides a clearer picture of a bag's contents, which staff can zoom in to and rotate for inspection.\n\nCurrently, passengers taking liquid in their cabin baggage are restricted to containers holding no more than 100ml, which must be shown to security staff in a single, transparent, resealable plastic bag of about 20cm (8in) x 20cm.\n\nThe limits have been in place since November 2006. Their introduction ended a ban on liquids in the cabin imposed three months earlier, when British police said they had foiled a plot to blow up as many as 10 planes using explosives hidden in drinks bottles.\n\nAnnouncing the new plans, Prime Minister Boris Johnson said the scanners would cut down on \"hassle\" for travellers and improve security.\n\n\"By making journeys through UK airports easier than ever, this new equipment will help boost the vital role our airports play in securing the UK's position as a global hub for trade, tourism and investment,\" he added.\n\nHeathrow has revealed it is spending £50m in order to roll out the technology over the next few years.\n\nIt is the first UK airport to install the equipment, which it has been trialling since 2017.\n\nThe airport's chief executive, John Holland-Kaye, said it would make travel \"less disruptive\", adding that the scanners were able to see what liquid was contained in luggage.\n\nThe scanners are set to be rolled out to other UK airports over the next few years.\n\nTransport Secretary Grant Shapps said the new equipment means \"no more pulling out your socks and your underwear, and having to separate your liquids and and take your laptops out\".\n\nHe added that aviation companies would be paying for the changes, rather than the taxpayer.\n\nThe technology is already being used by US airports, including Atlanta's Hartsfield-Jackson and Chicago's O'Hare.\n• None Heathrow scanner can see liquids in bag", "Police tweeted a warning on Friday about some drugs on the site\n\nA 17-year-old girl has died of a suspected drugs overdose at Leeds Festival.\n\nThe teenager, who was from Oldham, died shortly after 03:40 BST at the Bramham Park Site, West Yorkshire Police said.\n\nA 17-year-old boy, also from the Oldham area, has been arrested on suspicion of supplying controlled drugs and is in police custody.\n\nSupt Matt Davison said: \"Our thoughts are with the family of the girl who has died.\"\n\nThe Leeds Festival's police commander said the exact cause of the death was yet to be established, but it appeared the girl had \"taken a combination of drugs\".\n\nMelvin Benn, from organisers Festival Republic, said: \"To say we are deeply saddened about this tragedy is an understatement.\n\n\"West Yorkshire Police have taken action against those that may have supplied the drugs, and we will continue to work with them as usual.\n\n\"I would like to take this opportunity to remind anyone attending Reading and Leeds Festival that there is no safe way to take prohibited drugs and there are no safe prohibited drugs.\"\n\nThe Leeds Festival Police twitter account had tweeted a warning on Friday about some drugs on the site carrying \"three times the normal average adult dose\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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Send your story ideas to yorkslincs.news@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Men's Ashes: Third Specsavers Test, Headingley (day four of five)\n\nBen Stokes' astonishing 135 not out repeated his World Cup heroics and gave England one of their greatest victories to keep the Ashes series against Australia alive.\n\nJust as he dragged England through the super over against New Zealand, Stokes played one of the most incredible Test innings by an Englishman to level the series at 1-1.\n\nIn the chase of an England record 359 at a delirious Headingley, the home side still needed 73 when Stokes was joined by last man Jack Leach.\n\nLike he did in his innings six weeks ago to the day at Lord's, Stokes launched a stunning solo assault.\n\nHe planted off-spinner Nathan Lyon for three sixes and followed that up by hitting Josh Hazlewood for four, six and six in three consecutive balls, during which point he passed 100.\n\nWith 17 needed to win, Stokes was dropped by a diving Marcus Harris. From the next over, with only two needed, Leach should have been run out, only for Lyon to fumble the ball and, from the very next delivery, Stokes could have been lbw, but Australia were out of reviews.\n\nIn the next over, Leach scrambled a single off Pat Cummins and, with one to win, Stokes hammered through the covers and sank to his knees in exhausted celebration.\n\nIt means the series is level with two matches to play, with the fourth Test at Old Trafford beginning on 4 September.\n• None 'The greatest game I have ever seen' - Agnew\n• None 'If I had a sister I'd want her to marry Stokes' - how social media reacted to Headingley heroics\n\nThe World Cup final was one of the most incredible games of cricket ever played, and for the scale of its drama, tension and heart-stopping finish to be matched in the same summer is barely believable.\n\nAt the centre of both was Stokes, who added to his growing legend by single-handedly maintaining England's hopes of regaining the urn.\n\nNot only that, but he added yet another classic memory to a ground steeped in Ashes history by matching the exploits of Sir Ian Botham in 1981.\n\nAn expectant Headingley was full before play began and, even though at one stage England lost five wickets for 41 runs, as long as there was Stokes, there was hope.\n\nThe noise gradually cranked up with every run added in the last-wicket partnership, the Western Terrace growing in celebration with each ball that Stokes dispatched into the crowd.\n\nAs the winning runs were scored, the noise released matched the magnitude of the achievement.\n\nWhen Stokes summoned the energy to drag himself from the field, he paused and soaked up the adulation, once again as England's magnificent match-winner.\n• None Stokes century one of the great innings - Paine\n• None TMS podcast: Stunning Stokes serves up another Ashes classic at Headingley\n\nFrom 156-3 overnight, England lost Joe Root with only two added to his overnight 75, only for Jonny Bairstow to arrive and take the fight to Australia.\n\nAs of Saturday evening, Stokes was almost shotless - he scored only three off his first 73 balls and was dropped by David Warner at slip off Lyon on 34 - but was swept along with Bairstow in a fifth-wicket stand of 86.\n\nHowever, Bairstow was caught at second slip just after lunch, Jos Buttler was run out in a mix-up with Stokes, Jofra Archer heaved into the hands of deep mid-wicket and Stuart Broad was trapped lbw. The game looked gone.\n\nThat was to discount Stokes, who switched from careful defence to clean striking, his strokeplay made all the more brilliant by the knowledge that one mistake would have ended the match.\n\nAt the other end Leach stoutly survived the one or two deliveries he was trusted to defend at the end of each over - his contribution to the partnership of 76 was one not out from 17 balls.\n\nStokes, though, was in one-day mode - his last 84 runs came from 67 balls. He lofted Lyon down the ground and then into the crowd with an outrageous reverse-sweep.\n\nHe heaved the pace bowlers into the leg side, but also picked gaps in the deep-set field and ran hard.\n\nThere was the drama of Harris' dropped catch at third man - almost identical to Simon Jones at Edgbaston in 2005 - Lyon's fumble when Leach was well short of his ground and the leg-before decision that should have accounted for Stokes when there was only two to win.\n\nBut Stokes was not to be denied and one of the most memorable moments in English cricket history was served up in the baking sunshine.\n\nWhen they were dismantled for 67 on Friday, England looked to have wasted a golden opportunity to level the series.\n\nInstead, they became only the third team in Test history to be bowled out for less than 70 in their first innings and go on to win, as well as setting up a grandstand battle in the final two matches.\n\nAustralia's premier batsman Steve Smith and England's all-time leading wicket-taker James Anderson are set to return for the fourth Test, the latter on his home ground.\n\nIf that match, or the finale at The Oval, can follow the fluctuations of the first three Tests - remember, Smith's brilliance won Australia the first and England were denied in the Lord's dark in the second - then the 2019 Ashes will be spoken of in the same breath as the 2005 series.\n\nEngland cannot afford to lose either of the final two Tests, otherwise Australia will retain the urn.\n\nEngland certainly have issues to address, but when Stokes plays like he did at Headingley, anything seems possible.\n• None Australia's Smith hopes to play in fourth Test after concussion\n• None Relive the drama and watch the highlights\n\n'A freak', 'incredible', 'extraordinary' - what they said\n\nPlayer of the match Ben Stokes on BBC Test Match Special: \"It hasn't quite sunk in. I know we've won the game but I'm pretty tired. A great day.\n\n\"We came in to the day with a chance but it's never over until it's over. At nine down with 70 left it was obvious what was to be done. I only got nervous when we were down below 10 needed but I had my pitching wedge at a perfect length.\n\n\"I couldn't look when Jack Leach was batting. I was just waiting for the reaction of the crowd! It's amazing.\"\n\nEngland captain Joe Root on TMS: \"Ben Stokes is a freak; he's incredible. To win a game on your own from there is just amazing.\n\n\"That will not sink in for a while. We've still got two Tests to play after this! It's crazy.\"\n\nEngland's Stuart Broad on Sky Sports: \"It was one of those 'I was there' moments. It was absolutely spectacular. I don't think anyone in this ground will see a better innings. It had everything.\n\n\"The bloke has got the heart of a lion. Everything he does is for the team. He is the perfect team-mate. He's an incredible cricketer and an even better bloke.\"\n\nEngland's record Test run-scorer Alastair Cook on TMS: \"That is the most extraordinary Test innings ever played by an England batsman. To do that after the World Cup final... those are once-in-a-lifetime innings. And he's done two in six weeks.\"\n\nFormer England captain Michael Vaughan on TMS: \"Something extraordinary has just happened. That shouldn't happen. You shouldn't be able to do that.\n\n\"I have seen great Test match innings. But in an Ashes series, when your team is gone, the urn is practically in the Australia dressing room, to do that is something else.\"\n• None This is England's highest fourth-innings total to win a Test; the previous highest was 332-7 against Australia at Melbourne in 1928-29.\n• None It is the 10th highest successful chase in Test history.\n• None This is the third time a team has been bowled out for under 70 in their first innings and gone on to win the Test - the other two instances also occurred in the Ashes, but in 1882 (Australia 63 all out) and 1887 (England 45 all out).\n• None Ben Stokes and Jack Leach's stand of 76 is the third-highest 10th wicket partnership in the fourth innings to win a first-class match.\n• None This is only England's fourth Test victory by one wicket and first since against South Africa at Cape Town in 1923.\n• None Headingley is the first venue to see four fourth-innings totals over 300 to win a Test.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Boris Johnson: \"We do need that backstop removed\"\n\nGerman Chancellor Angela Merkel has suggested an alternative to the Irish border backstop - a key Brexit sticking point - could be found within 30 days.\n\nSpeaking at a news conference alongside Prime Minister Boris Johnson in Berlin, she stressed it would be up to the UK to offer a workable plan.\n\nThe PM said he was \"more than happy\" with that \"blistering timetable\".\n\nHe accepted the \"onus\" was on the UK, but said he believed there was \"ample scope\" for a new deal to be reached.\n\nIn his first overseas visit to a fellow leader, Mr Johnson is meeting Mrs Merkel after he told the EU the backstop - which aims to prevent a hard Irish border after Brexit - must be ditched if a no-deal exit was to be avoided.\n\nHe will meet French President Emmanuel Macron on Thursday, before attending the G7 summit on Saturday alongside other leaders including US President Donald Trump.\n\nThe EU has repeatedly said the withdrawal deal negotiated by former PM Theresa May, which includes the backstop, cannot be renegotiated.\n\nAnd - despite Mrs Merkel's comments - that message was echoed by Mr Macron on Wednesday evening.\n\n\"Renegotiation of the terms currently proposed by the British is not an option that exists, and that has always been made clear by [EU] President Tusk,\" he told reporters in Paris.\n\nAt the news conference, the German chancellor said a realistic alternative to the plan would require \"absolute clarity\" on the post-Brexit future relationship between the UK and the EU.\n\n\"The backstop has always been a fall-back option until this issue is solved,\" she said.\n\n\"It was said we will probably find a solution in two years. But we could also find one in the next 30 days, why not?\"\n\nMr Johnson replied: \"You rightly say the onus is on us to produce those solutions, those ideas [...] and that is what we want to do.\n\n\"You have set a very blistering timetable of 30 days - if I understood you correctly, I am more than happy with that,\" he added.\n\nHe added that alternatives to the backstop had not been \"actively proposed\" under his predecessor Theresa May - but he was pressed by Mrs Merkel to spell out what such alternatives might look like.\n\nThe prime minister has insisted he wants the UK to leave the EU with a renegotiated withdrawal deal, but the UK must leave on 31 October \"do or die\".\n\nEnter the word or phrase you are looking for\n\nIf implemented, the backstop would see Northern Ireland staying aligned to some rules of the EU single market, should the UK and the EU not agree a trade deal after Brexit.\n\nIt would also see the UK stay in a single customs territory with the EU, and align with current and future EU rules on competition and state aid.\n\nThese arrangements would apply until both the EU and UK agreed they were no longer necessary. Brexit supporters fear this could leave the UK tied to the EU indefinitely.\n\nShould we be optimistic about the scope for a Brexit breakthrough after Angela Merkel suggested a solution to remove the need for the backstop could be found - possibly even within just 30 days?\n\nBoris Johnson will certainly be pleased the German chancellor has left a door open.\n\nBut don't get carried away. There's a reason Europe is so adamant the backstop has to stay in the Brexit deal - it just doesn't believe there is a workable alternative available right now.\n\nBoris Johnson says it's his job to find a solution and accepted a deadline of 30 days to come up with one.\n\nThe pressure is firmly on the UK to find that solution - and it's going to be a huge challenge to put it mildly.\n\nMeanwhile, Jeremy Corbyn has cancelled a trip to Ghana later this week, urging opposition MPs to meet urgently to discuss ways to prevent a no-deal Brexit.\n\nSNP Westminster leader Ian Blackford has confirmed he would attend the meeting next Tuesday, but warned the Labour leader that \"all options must be on the table\".\n\nMr Corbyn has proposed that in order to prevent a no-deal exit, opposition MPs should help him defeat the government in a no-confidence motion and install him as a caretaker PM.\n\nIf he wins the vote, he plans to delay Brexit, call a snap election and campaign for another referendum.\n\nBut the Liberal Democrats, and some potential Tory allies opposed to a no-deal exit, have indicated they won't back a plan that leads to Mr Corbyn in No 10.", "Wormwood Scrubs, Hull, Lindholme and Nottingham were among the 10 prisons given extra funding\n\nLevels of violence and drug taking have fallen since last year at some of England's \"most challenging\" prisons, the Ministry of Justice (MoJ) has said.\n\nThe rate of assaults fell by 16%, while failed drug tests also dropped across the 10 prisons that were given £10m extra security funding in 2018.\n\nBut in three of the jails, Hull, Nottingham and Wormwood Scrubs, the rate of assaults increased.\n\nEx-minister Rory Stewart had vowed to resign if the prisons did not improve.\n\nHowever, he was promoted to secretary of state for international development in May and then resigned in July anyway over Boris Johnson's Brexit plans, before the impact of the project on drugs and violence levels was known.\n\nThe percentage of failed drug tests across the 10 prisons halved between August 2018 and March this year, the MoJ said, although its report pointed out that the number of prisoners sampled was small.\n\nAs part of the scheme - given the name the \"10 Prisons Project\" by the MoJ - governors were given extra funds to spend on measures including for new X-ray body scanners, sniffer dogs, extra staff and basic repairs.\n\nThe MoJ said the project, which ran for a year from June 2018, had now finished but added that it would form \"part of our continuing efforts to boost safety, security and decency in all prisons\".\n\nThe figures showed that the rate of assaults per 1,000 prisoners across the 10 jails fell from 42.9 in the three months to August last year to 36.1 in the quarter to June - a decrease of around 16%, compared with a drop of roughly 8% across all prisons in England and Wales.\n\nLucy Frazer - who replaced Mr Stewart as prisons minister - said she was \"encouraged\" by the new figures.\n\n\"We are already using what has worked to improve the rest of the estate, spending £100m on airport-style security to stop the scourge of mobile phones and drugs that fuel crime and disorder in jails,\" she added.\n\nBut critics of the scheme said the MoJ's project did not go far enough.\n\nPrisons minister Lucy Frazer said the project will influence future spending by the MoJ\n\nThe chief executive of the Howard League for Penal Reform, Frances Cook, said the measures \"will fail to deliver if prisoners are given nothing to do and released with nowhere to live\".\n\nShe added: \"Tightening security in a few troubled prisons is all well and good, but ministers will have to take a different approach if they want to tackle the problems in more than 100 jails across the country.\"\n\nThe charity Prison Reform Trust welcomed the reduction in violence but warned that the 10 prisons project and the fate of a prisons minister \"always risked being a distraction from the real issue\" of overcrowding.\n\nA spokesman added: \"Any glimmers of systemic improvement will be quickly snuffed out if we return to the failed 'prison works' policies that have created this calamity in the first place.\"\n\nThe government has also pledged to recruit thousands of extra prison officers and create 10,000 additional prison places in England and Wales.", "Thousand of Ryanair flights were cancelled or delayed due to strikes last summer\n\nRyanair has come bottom in an annual Which? survey rating the customer services of 100 popular UK brands.\n\nThe budget airline achieved a customer satisfaction score of only 45% for 2019. It is the sixth year in a row that Ryanair has come last.\n\nGiven a choice of 50 terms to describe the airline, many respondents picked \"greedy\", \"sneaky\" and \"arrogant\".\n\nIt comes as Ryanair pilots in the UK strike for a second day over pay and conditions.\n\nThe BBC has contacted the airline for comment.\n\nThe Which? survey asked around 4,000 members of the public to rate the customer services at up to three of 100 well-known brands.\n\nThis included how the companies made them feel, how helpful and knowledgeable their staff were, and how well they handled complaints.\n\nAfter Ryanair the worst performers included Scottish Power, BT, TalkTalk and Virgin Media.\n\nWords used to describe Scottish Power included \"arrogant\", while respondents said that BT's staff were \"aloof\" and that Virgin Media was \"greedy\".\n\nOther airlines did badly too, with British Airways coming 83rd on the list and EasyJet ranked 79th.\n\nMarks and Spencer, which came second in the survey, was described as having \"well-mannered\" staff\n\nMeanwhile, telephone and online bank First Direct came top, followed by kitchenware retailer Lakeland, supermarket chains Marks & Spencer and Waitrose, and book retailer Waterstones.\n\n\"It's those firms that have gone out of their way to prioritise customer service as a key part of their business that have topped the survey,\" said Harry Rose, editor of Which? magazine.\n\nHe told the BBC that retailers had done particularly well, while service providers such as energy and telecoms companies had struggled.\n\n\"There's a bit of complacency in some of these companies,\" Mr Rose said. \"Customers should hold them to higher standards, they shouldn't put up with it.\"\n\nRyanair's poor customer service rating comes as its UK pilots stage a 48-hour walkout this week over pay and conditions.\n\nPassengers had been braced for disruption, but the carrier said 97% of flights took off as normal on Thursday, the first strike action day.\n\nAnother 48-hour walkout is planned by the British Airline Pilots Association union in early September to coincide with the end of the summer holidays.\n\nStrikes at Ryanair caused thousands of flights to be cancelled or delayed last summer, angering passengers.\n\nThe airline has so far not compensated customers, saying the strikes amounted to \"extraordinary circumstances\".\n\nBut in December the Civil Aviation Authority launched legal action against the airline, saying this breached EU law.\n\nMr Rose said: \"Ryanair has never done well in these surveys, but they've been struggling particularly in the last 18 months with the staff strikes and flight cancellations, so the ill-feeling has only intensified.\"", "Samrita Hayer and Catherine Sezen are offering personalised answers to your questions\n\nFor anyone whose grades have fallen short this year, we have experts ready to answer your questions.\n\nCatherine Sezen, a senior curriculum expert at the Association of Colleges, and Samrita Hayer, education co-ordinator and careers adviser with the National Careers Service, are offering personalised advice on what to do if your grades are different to what you were hoping for.\n\nMy daughter just failed her maths GCSE for the second time despite me paying for a private tutor for a whole year, costing £1,000. She really struggles in exams and now her apprenticeship is in jeopardy. She's so unhappy and demoralised. This time she failed by 11 marks. Is it worth asking for a re-mark? Also what help is available for people who struggle in exam conditions?\n\nI am so sorry to hear that your daughter has not passed her GCSE resit. All young people need to continue studying English and maths post-16 if they haven't achieved a GCSE at 4 or above.\n\nThe best thing to do to speak to your daughter's college about a review of marking. They are best placed to advise on your daughter's individual circumstances. You may also ask to speak to student services at the college about support that might be available to your daughter, to help her prepare for assessments and cope during exams.\n\nIt might be helpful to start off by asking the school whether it's worth getting a re-mark as they will be aware of your daughter's progress in the subject.\n\nThis link shows how many grades were changed in re-marks last year.\n\nIn regard to the apprenticeship, it might be worth speaking to the training provider to ask if they offer any alternative maths courses to do alongside the training, for example, a functional skills level 2 course and if there's any further support she can get in maths.\n\nThe Exam Results Helpline on 0800 100 900 can also offer some further guidance on maths GCSE, functional skills and apprenticeship options in relation to the career path that your daughter would like to take.\n\nMy granddaughter got 12 grade 9s. Where does this sit her in the UK rankings?\n\nYour granddaughter has done really well. Congratulations to her! A total of 837 students achieved 7+ grade 9s. Your granddaughter is one of 10 students in England who achieved 12 grade 9 passes. Grade 9s make up 4.5% of all entries.\n\nBrilliant, well done to your granddaughter for getting these grades!\n\nYou can see a breakdown of results in England on Ofqual's website, including the number of grade 9s. It reveals that 10 students gained all grade 9s in their GCSEs in England this year.\n\nMy son was expecting 8 or 9 in biology, maths and computer science but ended up with 8 in maths and 6s in biology and computer science. Is there any way we can get a copy of the marked answer sheet and get them rechecked? The result is not too bad but still a bit disappointing.\n\nFirst of all, your son has done really well to get the grades he has achieved. I appreciate though that he might be a bit disappointed if he was expecting higher grades. I would suggest contacting his school and asking their advice on whether a review of marking would be a good idea. In the meantime, these grades are an excellent foundation for future success.\n\nFirst, congratulations on your son gaining these grades. Although they might be lower than he expected, they are still great results.\n\nIt might be worth checking the course your son would like to get on to. It may be the level-6 grades meet the entry requirements.\n\nI would also advise you speak to the school, so they can explain if and how you can get a copy of the marked answer sheet. Another option is looking into getting your son's biology and computer science paper re-marked. It's worth keeping in mind that whatever mark your son gets in a re-mark will be the final mark - and marks can go down as well as up.\n\nI got 3 in English and maths and now I can't go for my level-three course. I'm afraid about my parents' reaction and I don't know what to do. Any advice?\n\nYour parents want the best for you, so researching your options open will help when you're telling them.\n\nMost employers and training providers look for the grade 4 in English and maths.\n\nBut there may be other routes into your chosen career path.\n\nAsk the the learning provider offering the course if they:\n\nIf you would like further guidance, speak to our exam results helpline on 0800 100 900.\n\nI hope this is helpful and best of luck.\n\nI am sorry to hear you didn't get the grades you were expecting. The best thing to do is to take some careers advice from your school or your local college. There are opportunities to retake both English and maths alongside a college course. You may have to do a level-two course in your first year but you will then be able to progress to a level-three course next September.\n\nI really struggled with my mental health this year and it was touch and go whether I would manage to take my GCSEs at all. But I did and I am delighted with my grades - but unfortunately my school has very strict entry requirements for sixth form and so I am not being allowed back there for my A-levels. It almost feels as if they don't care about the last year. What should I do?\n\nI am so pleased to hear you have overcome such hurdles to achieve your GCSEs - well done. I would suggest you take some advice on next steps from your school and local colleges. There will be a range of options to meet your interests and ensure you feel well supported through the next stage of your education.\n\nI would first like to congratulate you on your results and it's great you're getting some advice on your next steps.\n\nThere are always options and different routes available for everyone. If you are intent on studying at your sixth form, then you may want to speak with them about your circumstances. You can also ask about their admissions appeals process, if you do not feel they are taking your mitigating circumstances into consideration. Another option is to check out other sixth forms.\n\nYou could also look at different training, such as apprenticeships and college courses, depending on your career goals.\n\nThe exam results helpline on 0800 100 900 is a great place to start.", "The High Court in London will allow a proposed strike over pay and conditions by UK-based Ryanair pilots on Thursday and Friday.\n\nEarlier, the airline won a bid to stop Ireland-based pilots from striking, but more of its pilots fly from the UK.\n\nRyanair said it would aim to minimise disruption for passengers and would be able to run its \"full schedule of flights\".\n\nHowever, it said it could not rule out some delays.\n\nRyanair's lawyers told the Irish court that the Forsa pilots' union, which represents around 180 Ryanair pilots, had not let talks reach a conclusion before announcing the strike.\n\nPilots can be drafted in from elsewhere in Europe to fill in during strike action.\n\nRyanair said it would inform passengers of any changes to their flights by email and text message. \"If you have not received any SMS or email from us, your flight is scheduled to operate,\" it said. Customers can also check its website, it said.\n\nIn early August, Ryanair pilots in the UK joined pilots in Ireland in voting to strike over pay and conditions.\n\nThe British Airline Pilots Association (Balpa) announced two 48-hour walkouts, one from 22-23 August and another from 2-4 September.\n\nBut Ryanair turned to the courts in London and Dublin in a bid to block the industrial action, prompting Balpa to accuse the airline of \"bully boy\" tactics.\n\n\"We are clear that we want to settle the dispute and bring about a change in Ryanair for the better,\" said Balpa general secretary, Brian Strutton, welcoming the judgement. \"Pilots in Ryanair are seeking the same kind of policies and agreements that exist in other airlines - our demands are not unreasonable.\"\n\nBalpa's decision to walk out came only days after the budget airline warned of job losses following a 21% fall in quarterly profits, because of higher costs for fuel and staff, and reduced ticket prices.\n\nThe union said 72% of its members at the company had taken part in the ballot, with 80% of those supporting strike action.\n\nHowever, Ryanair said that fewer than 50% of its UK pilots were members of Balpa, and of these, just 57% voted in favour of industrial action.\n\nIn a letter to Balpa, Ryanair's director of HR strategy and operations, Darrell Hughes, said senior captains were paid up to £180,000 per annum and, because of this, pilot turnover had fallen to zero \"in recent months\".\n\nHe said: \"At this difficult time for UK pilots facing base cuts and closures, Balpa should be working with Ryanair to save UK pilot jobs, not endanger them through ill-timed and ill-judged disruption of our customers' travel plans, just 10 weeks before the threat of a no-deal Brexit. We remain available for talks at your convenience.\"\n\nOn 31 July, Ryanair boss Michael O'Leary warned staff in a video message to prepare for job cuts, saying the airline has 900 too many pilots and cabin crew members.\n\nHe said the two weakest markets were Germany, where Ryanair faced fierce competition on price, and the UK, where there were Brexit uncertainties.\n\n\"It's been a challenging summer, we're facing into a very difficult winter,\" he said in the video, seen by the BBC.\n\nBut Captain Tilmann Gabriel, a former pilot who teaches aviation management at City, University of London, told BBC Radio 5 Live that pilots were in short supply, with 800,000 more needed over the next two decades.\n\n\"That means we need to produce... 110 pilots every day [for] the next 20 years and we are producing much less,\" he said. \"So of course the price goes up.\"\n\nIn a tweet, Ryanair welcomed the judgement from the Irish court.\n\nIt said all Ryanair flights from Irish airports would now take off as normal.\n\nThe airline had previously warned that the 180 pilots who were set to strike on Thursday 22 and Friday 23 August would put holidaymakers' travel plans at risk if the action went ahead.\n\nJustice McDonald told Dublin High Court that he would restrain the pilots' union, Forsa, \"from directly or indirectly, organising, directing or endorsing\" a strike by its members on Thursday and Friday.\n\nForsa's lawyers had told the court that Ryanair had been \"curt and dismissive\" of a 30-page proposal it submitted to the airline on pay and conditions.\n\nEarlier in August, Ryanair pilots in the UK joined pilots in Ireland in voting to strike over pay and conditions.\n\nAre you set to travel with Ryanair today or tomorrow? Get in touch by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also contact us in the following ways:", "Swearingen is the 12th inmate to be executed in the US so far this year\n\nTexas has executed a man convicted of the murder of a 19-year-old student, which he maintained he did not commit.\n\nLarry Swearingen, 48, was executed by lethal injection for the 1998 murder of Melissa Trotter.\n\nHe said authorities ignored evidence that would have exonerated him. His last words were: \"Lord forgive them. They don't know what they are doing.\"\n\nProsecutors have said they stand by the \"mountain of evidence\" used to convict him.\n\nPrior to his death on Wednesday, Swearingen had received five stays of execution in the past two decades.\n\nHe was found guilty in 2000 of the abduction, rape and murder of Ms Trotter, who disappeared in December 1998 and was found dead in a densely wooded area in the Sam Houston National Forest in Texas 25 days later.\n\nHis lawyers have long argued that scientific evidence - including DNA under the victim's fingernails that was not Swearingen's - should have exonerated him.\n\nBut prosecutors have maintained that the evidence proved he was guilty. They said the DNA could have come from contamination of evidence\n\n\"I've never been more confident of the guilt of Larry Swearingen than I am today,\" Kelly Blackburn, the assistant district attorney who has handled Swearingen's case since 2010, told The Washington Post ahead of his execution.\n\n\"An innocent man is not being executed tonight. The man who abducted, raped and strangled Melissa Trotter is being executed.\"\n\nSwearingen is the 12th inmate to be executed in the US so far this year, according to data from the Death Penalty Information Center.", "Flybe said it was \"delighted\" to have the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge on board\n\nThe Duke and Duchess of Cambridge have taken a budget airline flight from Norwich to Scotland.\n\nThe royal couple and their children took the Flybe jet from Norwich Airport to Aberdeen on Thursday morning.\n\nIt comes a week after the Duke and Duchess of Sussex were criticised in some circles for using private jets.\n\nBudget airline Flybe confirmed Prince William, Catherine and their children were on board Thursday's flight.\n\nTickets from Norwich to Aberdeen cost from £73.05 per person, according to Flybe's website.\n\nA Flybe spokeswoman said: \"We were delighted to welcome the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge and their family on board one of our flights again, this time when they flew from Norwich to Aberdeen on a Flybe flight operated by Eastern Airways.\"\n\nEarlier this week Sir Elton John waded into the debate about Prince Harry, Meghan and their son Archie taking his private jet to visit his home in Nice, in the south of France, saying: \"We ensured their flight was carbon neutral, by making the appropriate contribution to Carbon Footprint.\"\n\nThe royal couple had faced criticism after newspapers claimed they took four private jet journeys in 11 days.\n\nDefending the right of members of the Royal Family to take private planes, one person wrote on Twitter: \"They can't be expected to travel Flybe...\"\n\nPrince William and Catherine took Thursday morning's Flybe flight to visit the Queen and Prince Philip at Balmoral, the Daily Mail first reported.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Irradiated victims of a Russian weapons test were taken to civilian hospitals (archive pic)\n\nRussian medics who treated radiation victims after a military explosion in the Arctic had no protection and now fear they were irradiated themselves.\n\nTwo of the medics in Arkhangelsk spoke to BBC Russian about the victims' evacuation, on condition of anonymity.\n\nFive nuclear engineers died on 8 August when an \"isotope-fuel\" engine blew up at the Nyonoksa test range, officials said. Two military personnel also died.\n\nPresident Vladimir Putin said the test involved a new weapon system.\n\nSix people were injured in the accident, but officials gave few details about it.\n\nOn 14 August Russia's weather service Rosgidromet revealed that radiation levels had spiked 16 times above normal, in Severodvinsk, a city 47km (29 miles) east of Nyonoksa.\n\nAccording to the official data, the radiation that reached Severodvinsk was not heavy enough to cause radiation sickness.\n\nExperts in Russia and the West say the test was most likely linked to the new 9M730 Burevestnik nuclear-powered cruise missile, called \"Skyfall\" by Nato. Last year Mr Putin said the technology would give the missile \"unlimited\" range.\n\nThe Arkhangelsk medics, who spoke to the BBC's Pavel Aksenov, said at least 90 people came into contact with the casualties, but the military did not warn them of any nuclear contamination risk.\n\nThe medics were at the civilian Arkhangelsk regional hospital, which treated three of the injured, while three other casualties were taken to an Arkhangelsk hospital called Semashko, which is equipped for radiation emergencies.\n\nThree radiation victims were brought to the Arkhangelsk regional hospital\n\nThe medics said they were speaking out now because they feared for their own health and did not want any similar \"[safety] violations\" to recur.\n\n\"We don't want them to bring us next time not three, but ten people, God forbid, and hide the information from us again,\" said one.\n\nThe degree of secrecy surrounding the explosion has drawn comparisons with the 1986 Chernobyl disaster, when Soviet officials were slow to admit the truth.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. President Putin says a new cruise missile will have 'unlimited' range\n\nThe Arkhangelsk medics said it was clear that the three brought to their regional hospital were very sick. Doctors examined them in the emergency room, then sent them to an operating theatre.\n\nBut the emergency room continued to admit other patients for about an hour, the medics said, until the doctors realised that the three \"had received a very high radiation dose\". The hospital handles pregnancy complications and other difficult medical conditions.\n\n\"The radiation picture was developing by the hour. Blood tests were being done, and every hour you could see that this or that cell count was plunging. That signified a very high radiation dose,\" they said.\n\nThe hospital staff kept treating the victims despite knowing about the radiation dose. The staff had to improvise some self-protection - for example, they took face masks from the helicopter crews' emergency kit.\n\nThe next day the three victims were transferred to a hospital in Moscow which has radiation specialists. Their condition now is unknown.\n\nA military team later carried out decontamination work in the Arkhangelsk hospital.\n\nThe medics said the casualties' clothing was removed, along with stretchers and a \"highly radioactive bath\".\n\n\"Our cleaners should have been advised, they're just simple country folk, they were just picking up sacks and bundles and carrying them out,\" said one.\n\nThe other medic said hospital staff were now mentally stressed, knowing that radiation safety information had been withheld from them during the emergency.\n\nTwo weeks after the explosion the Russian health ministry said none of the medics at the Arkhangelsk hospitals had received a hazardous radiation dose. Its conclusion was based on medical examination of 91 staff.\n\nOne of Russia's radiation monitoring units, in Peleduy (Dec 2007 pic)\n\nOn Monday an international nuclear agency reported that the two Russian radiation monitoring stations nearest to Nyonoksa had gone offline soon after the explosion. The revelation fuelled suspicions that the radiation could have been heavier than officially reported.\n\nThe Comprehensive Nuclear Test-Ban Treaty Organization (CTBTO) said the technical failure at those sites was then followed by a failure at two more. It tweeted an animation showing the potential radiation plume from the explosion.\n\nRussia said the weapons test was none of the CTBTO's business, and added that handing over radiation data was voluntary. Two of the monitoring stations have since started working again.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Lassina Zerbo This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Footage from the depths shows the deteriorating Titanic\n\nThe first people to dive down to the Titanic in nearly 15 years say some of the wreck is deteriorating rapidly.\n\nOver the course of five submersible dives, an international team of deep-sea explorers surveyed the sunken ship, which lies 3,800m down in the Atlantic.\n\nWhile parts of the wreck were in surprisingly good condition, other features had been lost to the sea.\n\nThe worst decay was seen on the starboard side of the officers' quarters.\n\nTitanic historian Parks Stephenson said some of what he saw during the dive was \"shocking\".\n\n\"The captain's bathtub is a favourite image among Titanic enthusiasts - and that's now gone,\" he said.\n\n\"That whole deck house on that side is collapsing, taking with it the state rooms. And that deterioration is going to continue advancing.\"\n\nHe said the sloping lounge roof of the bow section would probably be the next part to be lost, obscuring views of the ship's interior.\n\n\"Titanic is returning to nature,\" he added.\n\nStrong ocean currents, salt corrosion and metal-eating bacteria are attacking the ship.\n\nThe sub dive revealed that some parts of the Titanic are vanishing\n\nThe RMS Titanic has been underwater for more than 100 years, lying about 600km (370 miles) off the coast of Newfoundland, Canada.\n\nThe passenger liner, which was the largest ship of its time, hit an iceberg on its maiden voyage from Southampton to New York in 1912. Of the 2,200 passengers and crew onboard, more than 1,500 died.\n\nThe Titanic expedition was carried out by the same team that recently made the deepest-ever plunge to the bottom of the Mariana Trench, which lies nearly 12km down the Pacific Ocean.\n\nThe dives took place in a 4.6m-long, 3.7m-high submersible - called the DSV Limiting Factor - which was built by the US-based company Triton Submarines.\n\nNavigating the sub around the wreck, which lies in two main pieces about 600m apart, was challenging.\n\nBad weather in the Atlantic and strong underwater currents made the dives difficult. Getting entangled with the wreck was also a significant risk for the team.\n\nThe dives took place in a Triton submersible built to survive the pressures of the deep\n\n1995 - James Cameron visits the wreck - footage is used in his film Titanic\n\n1998 - Section of the Titanic hull is raised\n\n2005 - Two crewed submersibles dive to the wreck\n\nThe dives have been filmed by Atlantic Productions for a forthcoming documentary.\n\nAs well as capturing footage, scientists on the expedition have also been studying the creatures living on the wreck.\n\nDespite the near-freezing conditions, pitch black waters and immense pressure, life is thriving there.\n\nThis though, said expedition scientist Clare Fitzsimmons, from Newcastle University, was a factor in the Titanic's decay.\n\n\"There are microbes on the shipwreck that are eating away the iron of the wreck itself, creating 'rusticle' structures, which is a much weaker form of the metal,\" she said.\n\nThese rusticles - stalactites of rust hanging off the wreck - are so fragile that they can crumble into a cloud of dust if disturbed.\n\nThe captain's bathtub - photographed here during a 1996 expedition - has now gone\n\nThe scientists are studying how different types of metal erode in the deep Atlantic waters, to assess how much longer the Titanic has left.\n\nCommenting on the expedition, Robert Blyth from the National Maritime Museum in Greenwich said it was important to go down and document the wreck in its current state.\n\n\"The wreck itself is the only witness we've now got of the Titanic disaster,\" he said.\n\n\"All of the survivors have now passed away, so I think it's important to use the wreck whilst the wreck still has something to say.\"\n• None Is this the last chance to see the Titanic?\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Many of the victims were targeted on Madrid's Metro\n\nA man has been arrested in Madrid on suspicion of taking upskirt videos of more than 550 women and posting much of the content online.\n\nThe 53-year-old Colombian man allegedly filmed the videos on a mobile phone hidden in a backpack.\n\nPolice say he then uploaded at least 283 videos to pornographic websites, racking up millions of views.\n\nMany of the 555 victims - some of which were underage - were targeted on the capital's Metro system.\n\nThe man is accused of upskirting women on a daily basis since last summer when he began uploading content online.\n\nHe also allegedly operated at supermarkets, sometimes even introducing himself to his targets in an effort to get clearer shots.\n\nPolice started monitoring the suspect and arrested him while filming a woman on the Metro.\n\nIn a video posted to Twitter, the National Police called the suspect \"one of the biggest predators of women's privacy\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Policía Nacional This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nUpon raiding his home, police uncovered a laptop and hard drives with hundreds of videos. His own website had 3,519 subscribers.\n\nThe suspect has been remanded in custody.\n\nIn Spain, upskirting is considered sexual abuse and offenders can face jail.\n\nUpskirting recently became a criminal offence in England and Wales after a campaign by writer Gina Martin.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Gina Martin campaigned for the law to be changed after a man took a picture up her skirt", "Lizzie said one man \"moved his hand, quite forcefully, up my skirt\"\n\nWomen working on shows at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe have reported facing sexual harassment on a daily basis while out promoting their performances, the BBC has been told.\n\nSome reported being groped, while others said lewd comments had left them feeling vulnerable.\n\nThe actors' union Equity said it was receiving reports of \"more and more\" incidents each year.\n\nPolice Scotland said it had not received any reports of harassment.\n\nIt said it had an increased police presence.\n\nIt is estimated that more than 30,000 male and female artists perform at the Fringe each year, across 3,500 shows.\n\nLizzie - whose surname we are not using - said that the sexual harassment she received made her alter her behaviour to try to avoid unwanted attention, while continuing to promote her show.\n\nShe told the Victoria Derbyshire programme that while handing out flyers, one man \"pretended to brush something off my thigh and then moved his hand, quite forcefully, up my skirt\".\n\nShe said on another occasion she was \"cornered\" by three men, who appeared to be twice her age, who said they would \"only buy a ticket or take a flyer in exchange for my phone number\".\n\nOn other occasions, men would make comments about her appearance or \"invade\" her personal space \"so their grope could go unnoticed\", she added.\n\nLizzie said she wished handing out flyers was not necessary, but that it was by far the most effective means of selling tickets for lesser-known productions.\n\nFi said she felt under pressure to \"laugh off\" harassment\n\nMost of the abuse is thought to take place on the Royal Mile - a busy street at the heart of the city.\n\nFi said she had felt under pressure to \"laugh off\" any harassment she endured, such as having her bottom pinched, because she was \"trying to get customers\".\n\nAnd one woman, who did not wish to be named, said that while handing out flyers: \"A man stopped me on the street and started staring at me. When I asked him if he wanted a flyer he said, 'no, I just want to stare at you'.\"\n\nAnother woman said many like her felt pressured into putting up with the unacceptable behaviour of show reviewers - who can make a great difference in getting more people to watch their performances.\n\nShe said: \"One reviewer would come up to me while I was flyering every day, being overly complimentary and holding a review over my head for the whole run of the Fringe.\n\n\"He made me feel really uncomfortable.\"\n\nPerformers and showgoers flock to Edinburgh throughout August\n\nPolice Scotland said it had set up two mobile police stations for the duration of the month and had increased high-visibility patrols.\n\nIt added that it had not received any complaints regarding sexual harassment.\n\nThe actors' union, Equity, said many female performers had become accustomed to abuse - but it encouraged them to report all incidents to police.\n\nIts president, Maureen Beattie, said a \"slight level of hysteria\" at the Fringe \"seems to release this kind of underbelly of bad behaviour\".\n\n\"It is completely and utterly unacceptable.\n\n\"We are a workforce, and you must respect us,\" she added.\n\nMaureen Beattie said Equity had seen \"more and more\" reports of harassment each year\n\n\"Somebody recently had their bum grabbed, and that's supposed to be all right?\" she questioned. \"Would you do that to anyone else who was out on the street?\"\n\nEdinburgh Festival's Fringe Society, which supports the running of the month-long event, said: \"Everyone who is part of the Fringe - be they a performer, member of the crew, producer, audience member, critic and so on - has the right to feel safe and supported.\"\n\nIt added that it \"takes matters of this nature very seriously\" and urged those who experienced inappropriate behaviour to contact police.\n\nFollow the BBC's Victoria Derbyshire programme on Facebook and Twitter - and see more of our stories here.", "Police were called to the scene on Wednesday night\n\nA man has been stabbed in one of London's busiest tourist hot spots.\n\nThe victim was found with knife injuries in Trafalgar Square at 21:11 BST on Wednesday.\n\nHe was taken to a major trauma centre but his injuries are not believed to be life-threatening, the Metropolitan Police said.\n\nThe force said the attack is not being treated as terror-related and the victim and attacker may be known to each other. There have been no arrests.\n\nLarge sections of the square were taped off, with five squad cars and two police vans at the scene alongside the London Ambulance Service.\n\nLarge sections of Trafalgar Square were cordoned off\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Jane Lax appeared as an audience member on Question Time in May\n\nA Tory activist has been suspended by the party after she joked about Nicola Sturgeon's miscarriage on Twitter.\n\nJane Lax asked \"Is that when she dropped a book?\" in response to another Twitter user's claim that the first minister's miscarriage was \"fictional\".\n\nMrs Lax, who was treasurer of the Moray Conservative Association, then posted three laughing emojis.\n\nA Scottish Conservative spokesman said the comments were \"completely unacceptable\".\n\nHe added: \"As a result, Jane Lax has been suspended by the party pending a disciplinary procedure and has resigned as treasurer of the Moray association.\n\n\"Mrs Lax recognises she made a mistake and is extremely apologetic.\"\n\nMrs Lax, who is said to have been a member of the Moray association for two years, tweeted under the user name \"Jane - SNP don't speak for me\". She has now made her account private.\n\nScreenshots of Ms Lax's tweets have been shared on social media\n\nMs Sturgeon revealed in 2016 that she had suffered a miscarriage five years earlier, while she was deputy first minister.\n\nThe first minister, who is married to SNP chief executive Peter Murrell, was in the early stages of her pregnancy and preparing to share the news when she lost her baby.\n\nMs Sturgeon spoke publicly about the miscarriage ahead of details being published - with her blessing - in a book by journalist Mandy Rhodes.\n\nShe said she hoped allowing the details to be made public would challenge assumptions about women who do not have children.\n\nSpeaking at an event at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe earlier this week, Ms Sturgeon described the \"horrible, misogynist, really filthy, disgusting\" abuse she receives online.\n\nShe also warned that social media was distorting political debate in Scotland and across the world.", "The model was burned at a bonfire party in south London on 3 November 2018\n\nA man who filmed a cardboard effigy of Grenfell Tower being burned on a bonfire has been cleared of posting \"grossly offensive\" material.\n\nProsecutors claimed footage recorded by Paul Bussetti at a London party was racist but the 47-year-old said it was a \"joke\" only shared between friends.\n\nHe was found not guilty after it was revealed a second video from the party had also been shared on WhatsApp.\n\nMagistrates said they could not be sure the film was that taken by Mr Bussetti.\n\nThe prosecution's handling of evidence in the case was described as \"appalling\" by Chief Magistrate Emma Arbuthnot.\n\nThe clip of the cardboard building, which had \"Grenfell Tower\" written on it, was recorded at a party attended by about 30 people in south London on 3 November, Westminster Magistrates' Court heard.\n\nIt was later uploaded to YouTube and sparked outrage, with a relative of one of the 72 people who died in the blaze on 14 June 2017 calling it \"revolting\".\n\nPaul Bussetti told the court he was not a racist\n\nMr Bussetti, of South Norwood, was accused of sending \"grossly offensive\" material via a public communications network.\n\nHe told magistrates the effigy had been created by his friend and the characters featured on the model were meant to represent \"the majority of people that were at the party\", not people who died in the disaster.\n\nOne black-clad figure, who was referred to as \"ninja\", was meant to represent his friend's son who did martial arts, while his own image had been on the other side of the box, Mr Bussetti said.\n\nThe father-of-two said he shared the footage with about 20 people on two WhatsApp groups but he had never intended it to go further.\n\nWhen prosecutor Philip Scott suggested he sent the footage because it was in keeping with other \"highly racist\" content he shared, Mr Bussetti replied that it was \"just banter\" and denied being racist.\n\nJust before Ms Arbuthnot left court to consider her verdict at the end of the two-day trial, defence barrister Mark Summers QC revealed he had just been made aware of evidence that a second video was recorded.\n\nHe argued it meant there was \"absolutely no way\" to know which piece of footage had made its way onto YouTube and gone viral.\n\nClearing Mr Bussetti, Ms Arbuthnot said she could not be sure the video used in the case was taken by him.\n\nShe also said while it was \"in colossal bad taste\", she could not be certain the figures on the tower were not Mr Bussetti and his friends.\n\nThe chief magistrate added she was \"appalled at the disclosure in this case\" with the last-minute evidence helping to avoid \"a potential miscarriage of justice\".\n\nA second charge of causing footage of a \"menacing character\" to be uploaded on YouTube against Mr Bussetti had earlier been dismissed.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Brazil's president, Jair Bolsonaro says non-governmental organisations may be setting fires in the Amazon to embarrass the Brazilian government after it cut their funding, despite offering no evidence to support the claim.\n\nA record number of fires were recorded in the Amazon this year, according to The National Institute for Space Research (Inpe).\n\nBut conservationists have blamed Mr Bolsonaro for the Amazon's plight, saying he has encouraged loggers and farmers to clear the land.\n\nMarcio Astrini from Greenpeace said that the increased deforestation and burning are a \"result of his [President Bolsonaro] anti-environmental policy.\"", "People with type 2 diabetes \"should not be encouraged\" to take omega-3 fish oil supplements, researchers from the University of East Anglia say.\n\nThere had been some concerns omega-3 could be harmful for people with the condition.\n\nBut while a BMJ review of more than 80 studies found no evidence of that, they also failed to find any benefit.\n\nDiabetes UK said it was better to get omega-3 from eating oily fish as part of a healthy diet.\n\nMost people with diabetes - 90% - have type 2, where the pancreas either fails to produce enough insulin or the body's cells fail to react to insulin.\n\nBeing overweight or obese, or having a close relative with the condition increases the risk.\n\nThe researchers found omega-3 from fish oils had little or no effect on the likelihood of diabetes diagnosis or on glucose metabolism, no matter for how long people were studied.\n\nDr Lee Hooper, who led the research, told the BBC there had been concerns omega-3 supplements might harm people with type 2, by making glucose control more difficult.\n\nBut those with the condition, or who are at risk of developing it, can also have high levels of triglycerides - a type of blood fat - which omega-3 has been shown to reduce.\n\nShe said: \"We found neither harm nor benefit.\n\n\"This is really expensive stuff. If somebody's at risk of diabetes, there are much better things to spend money on, like a physical activity - or oily fish.\"\n\nDouglas Twenefour, deputy head of care at Diabetes UK, said: \"Eating a healthy, varied diet is incredibly important, and we know that certain foods - including fruits, vegetables, wholegrains, yoghurt and cheese - can help to lower your risk of type 2 diabetes.\n\n\"While omega-3 fatty acids are crucial for our overall health, it's generally better for people with type 2 diabetes to get their intake by eating at least two portions of oily fish a week, than by taking supplements.\"\n\nBut Dr Carrie Ruxton, from the industry-funded Health and Food Supplements Information Service (HSIS), said: \"While I would prefer people to follow the government's advice and eat more fish, this isn't the reality and a daily omega-3 supplement - whether from fish oil or algae - can bridge the gap.\"", "Melania Geymonat, right, and her partner Chris Hannigan needed hospital treatment\n\nFour teenagers have denied harassing two women in a homophobically-aggravated attack on a bus.\n\nMelania Geymonat, 28, and partner Chris Hannigan were on a night bus in Camden, north London, on 30 May when they were allegedly targeted by the boys.\n\nTwo 17-year-olds, a 16-year-old and a 15-year-old allegedly demanded they kiss and perform sex acts when they discovered they were a couple, Highbury Corner Youth Court heard.\n\nThey will stand trial on 28 November.\n\nAll four are charged with using threatening, abusive, or insulting words or behaviour to cause harassment, alarm, or distress.\n\nIt was alleged the boys threw coins at the women, who were both taken to hospital for treatment to facial injuries after the incident.\n\nThe 16-year-old boy, from Wandsworth, admitted stealing a handbag but denied handling her stolen mobile phone.\n\nThe 15-year-old, from Kensington and Chelsea, also denied handling a stolen bank card.\n\nOne of the 17-year-olds, both from Kensington and Chelsea, also denies a charge of possession of cannabis.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The injured were transported to hospitals in the nearby town of Zakopane\n\nAt least four people died and more than 100 were injured in lightning strikes during a thunderstorm in Poland, Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki says.\n\nThe worst bolt fell on a group of hikers at the summit of Giewont, a popular peak in the Tatra range in the south of the country.\n\nA fifth person was killed in neighbouring Slovakia. At least one of the victims was said to be a child.\n\nThe storm is said to have descended suddenly after a sunny morning.\n\n\"Nobody expected such a sudden storm to break out and from our human point of view it was something which was impossible to predict,\" Mr Morawiecki said an emergency meeting in the region.\n\nThere were reports of casualties in different parts of the mountain range. At least four rescue helicopters were sent to the area.\n\nThe worst incident occurred on Thursday at the top of the 1,894m (6,214ft) Giewont mountain, where a metal cross is sited.\n\nA lightning bolt is thought to have struck the 15m structure at a time when a large number of hikers were at the summit, and the current then travelled along a metal railing.\n\n\"We heard that after (the) lightning struck, people fell. The current then continued along the chains securing the ascent, striking everyone along the way. It looked bad,\" Polish mountain rescue service chief Jan Krzysztof told the country's PAP news agency.\n\nA resident in the mountain resort town of Zakopane in the Tatra region posted a video showing the thunderstorm.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Maciej Kleniewski 🇪🇺🇵🇱 This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nLocal radio in the city of Krakow posted video of a rescue helicopter on its way to Giewont.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript 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 Radio Kraków This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy 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. What causes thunder and lightning?", "From difficulties in getting jobs to mounting online abuse, some Muslims in Myanmar are uneasy over what they say are signs of daily discrimination, which have grown since the Rohingya crisis erupted in 2012. Three Muslims share their stories with the BBC.\n\nVideo by Tessa Wong, Nick Beake and Closay Saw.", "Brian Taylor, pictured with wife Nancy Sykes-Taylor, became unwell days after returning from the Hotel Kalofer\n\nTwo British holidaymakers have died from Legionnaires' disease after returning home from the same hotel in Bulgaria, it has emerged.\n\nBrian Taylor, 75, from Huddersfield, died in July, a month after holidaying at the Hotel Kalofer.\n\nIt follows the death of John Cowan 43, from Lanarkshire, who had also been staying at the same hotel in June.\n\nTheir holiday firm Jet2 said two sets of independent tests had found no evidence of contamination at the hotel.\n\nBoth families are threatening civil legal action against the flight and holiday operator.\n\nJet2 said it had stopped all bookings to the hotel\n\nMr Taylor's stepson Martin Farrell said: \"We are absolutely devastated and heartbroken. No-one expects to go on holiday and catch this disease.\"\n\nMr Farrell said he felt like Jet2 had \"washed their hands of the situation\" and demanded answers from the holiday firm.\n\n\"It feels like they want to sweep it under the carpet,\" he said.\n\n\"We want Jet2 to come forward and tell us why it happened, how it happened and what steps have been put in place to prevent it from happening again.\"\n\nIrwin Mitchell, the legal firm representing the family, said it had been contacted by another man who was also diagnosed with Legionnaires' disease after holidaying at Hotel Kalofer in June.\n\nIt said that man had been placed in an induced coma in intensive care but had since been discharged from hospital.\n\nMartin Farrell described his stepfather as an \"absolutely top man\"\n\nJatinder Paul, from the firm, said: \"We are now investigating how Brian contracted his illness and looking into his stay at the Hotel Kalofer.\n\n\"It is extremely worrying that other guests who stayed at the same hotel have also contracted this potentially fatal infection.\"\n\nMr Taylor became unwell days after returning from the Hotel Kalofer in the Sunny Beach resort where he had been staying from 10 to 17 June.\n\nHis condition deteriorated and he was eventually taken to Royal Calderdale Hospital where he was diagnosed with Legionnaires' disease and died on 17 July.\n\nJet2 said it had transferred all customers and bookings due at Hotel Kalofer to other accommodation and had put a stop on sales for this year and 2020.\n\nA spokesperson said: \"We would like to offer our heartfelt condolences to their families at this very difficult time, and we have been in constant contact to offer all the assistance and support that we can.\n\nIt added: \"We will continue to assist the local authorities in their investigations as required.\"\n\nThe BBC has contacted Hotel Kalofer for a comment.\n• None Man dies of Legionnaires after holiday in Bulgaria\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Swift won the Icon Award at the recent Teen Choice Awards\n\nTaylor Swift has said she intends to record new versions of her hit songs after her back catalogue was bought by pop manager Scooter Braun.\n\nIn June, Swift revealed the masters of her early music had been sold to him by her former record label, alleging she was not told about it.\n\nThe singer accused Braun, who also manages Ariana Grande and Demi Lovato, of \"incessant, manipulative bullying\".\n\nShe said she \"absolutely\" plans to re-record music from her first six albums.\n\nIn a clip released from an interview on the CBS Sunday Morning show, she was asked whether she planned to re-record the old material so she could own the rights to new versions. \"Yeah, absolutely,\" she replied.\n\nIn another interview, with Good Morning America on Thursday, Swift confirmed she would be re-recording her first five albums in 2020, which is when her contract allows her to do so.\n\nSwift began her career with Big Machine as a teenager, releasing six albums with the Nashville label, including her Grammy-winning 1989, released five years ago. In June, Braun's Ithaca Holdings acquired Big Machine Records.\n\nSwift accused him of attempting to \"dismantle\" her \"musical legacy\".\n\nHe did not respond to her comments, but he was supported by Lovato and Bieber, who claimed Swift was just out \"to get sympathy\".\n\nLast year, she signed with Universal adding: \"I am now signed to a label that believes I should own anything I create.\"\n\nArtists including Squeeze, Def Leppard and ELO have previously re-recorded their hits so they can own the rights to the new versions, meaning they get control over how they are used, and get paid if they are sold or used for things like TV adverts.", "More waste could be sent to landfill in the UK after a no-deal Brexit, a major waste company has told the BBC.\n\nThere are worries a no-deal outcome will disrupt the export of millions of tonnes of waste to facilities in the EU, so it will have to go to landfill.\n\nIt would harm the environment and pile millions of pounds of extra costs onto councils, insiders say.\n\nThe Environment Agency said it expected firms to find suitable solutions.\n\n\"We are encouraging businesses who export waste to consider and continue to plan alternative options in case of disruption at borders,\" a spokesperson for the government agency said.\n\nInternal documents outlining local councils' preparation for a no-deal Brexit, seen by the BBC and backed up by waste industry sources, suggest there is a high level of concern among local authorities around the issue of waste, with a significant number of councils rating the possibility of disruption as medium or high risk in their Brexit contingency planning.\n\nMeanwhile, the UK waste industry's trade body has warned a disruptive no-deal Brexit could mean rubbish from the more densely-populated South East being sent to landfill in northern England.\n\nCurrently three million tonnes of UK domestic waste is exported to the EU annually for recycling or to be used as refuse-derived fuel.\n\nSouthampton City Council, in an internal document prepared ahead of the previous Brexit deadline, said that port delays \"could result in recycling banks and waste transfer stations becoming full and potentially closing\". In that event recyclables might have to be diverted to landfill or to refuse-derived fuel stations, the document said.\n\nThe main concern within industry is that the practice of sending black-binned household waste to Germany, the Netherlands or Scandinavia will either be physically prevented or delayed by port congestion following a no-deal Brexit.\n\nIt could also become uneconomical because of a combination of further falls in the value of the pound and the imposition of World Trade Organization tariffs following a no-deal outcome. It is currently not clear whether the trade is classed as importing a service - waste processing - or exporting a good - a type of fuel.\n\nSuez, one of the market leaders in the sector, believes this is likely to lead to the UK falling short of current waste management targets.\n\n\"In the various impacts we've looked at, as a result of a no-deal Brexit, we do know that there'll be some lowering of those environmental performance indicators that we are all trying to strive to achieve,\" Stuart Hayward-Higham, technical development director at Suez, told the BBC.\n\n\"One of the outcomes of a no-deal Brexit will mean that we will put more to landfill,\" he said.\n\nWhether it is due to congestion at ports or cost pressures on Suez's customers, Mr Hayward-Higham believes in the short to medium term it will be hard to find any alternatives.\n\nStuart Hayward-Higham from waste firm Suez says in the short term more waste is likely to go to landfill if a no-deal Brexit disrupts the industry\n\nThe situation is better than it was a year ago, however, as the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) has successfully negotiated the continuation of the trade in waste, with individual regulators in EU nations.\n\nIn the no-deal preparation documents, councils also referred to several shorter-term risks to waste collection, arising from localised congestion and fuel supply problems, and listed some possible approaches to lower their impact.\n\nSome councils are stockpiling bin bags and wheelie bins. In one case even new bin lorries were fast-tracked to beat the March Brexit deadline.\n\nBraintree Council, for example, in April listed among its high risks the knock-on effect of transport and fuel problems and that it might have to \"consider reducing allocations of [bin] sacks per household to eke out supplies\".\n\nSevenoaks Council suggests a park and ride could be used as a temporary site for waste. It said road congestion \"leading to late or no collections will impact on the community stockpiling waste in gardens or streets\".\n\nMilton Keynes council has asked waste sites whether they can accommodate increased amounts of waste.\n\nJacob Hayler, who runs industry body the Environmental Services Association, told the BBC that councils' concerns were mainly reasonable worst-case scenarios that would materialise only in a more general crisis around transport congestion and fuel issues.\n\nHe added that the government deserved credit for guaranteeing the ongoing legal framework, enabling waste exports to continue.\n\nHowever, Mr Hayler said waste was difficult to store \"so you can't have it all just piling up at the docks\".\n\nA more sustainable solution such as building more domestic \"energy from waste\" plants would take too long he said, leaving landfill as the only option.\n\nHe suggested that mothballed landfill sites, mainly in the north of England, could be required to take up the slack instead.\n\nThe most waste is created by big population centres in the South East, with very little landfill capacity available there. Therefore less densely parts of the country might be needed to accept overflow.\n\n\"It would have to start being trucked from the ports up to those landfill spaces further up north and stuck in a hole in the ground. And that's something that we would really like to avoid,\" Mr Hayler said.\n\nJacob Hayler representing the waste industry says northern landfill sites might be required to take waste from southern England\n\nThe government has said it will respect the new stringent EU \"Circular Economy Package\" limit of 10% of household waste going to landfill by 2035, even after Brexit. Currently around 20% is sent to landfill, having fallen from 80% in 2001, mainly as a result of the UK application of EU regulations on landfill and recycling.\n\nThe Environment Agency said that it had worked with industry to assess the availability of landfill sites that could accept waste that would have been exported. Even if disruption were to occur waste exporters would be expected to make contingency plans that meant they met the high environmental standards that are the conditions of their permits and licences, it said.\n\n\"Even in a no deal situation, we will continue to expect all waste operators to adhere to the conditions of their permits and will not hesitate to take appropriate action otherwise,\" an agency spokesperson said.", "Dr Angelo Grubisic was taking part in a planned event in Saudi Arabia when he died\n\nA university lecturer and space scientist who worked to design safer wingsuits has died in a base jumping accident, his family has confirmed.\n\nDr Angelo Grubisic, 38, was taking part in a planned jump in Saudi Arabia on Tuesday when he was killed.\n\nThe astronautical engineer had led a wingsuit design team at the University of Southampton and was crowned a British wingsuit champion in July.\n\nIn a statement, his family described him as \"phenomenally talented\".\n\nThey added: \"Angelo lost his life doing what he loved the most, wingsuit base jumping, and we want to ensure his achievements and ambitions are known to the world and to celebrate the mark he made on all of our lives.\n\n\"Angelo captivated the hearts and minds of every single person who was privileged to meet and work with him.\n\n\"'The candle that burns twice as bright burns half as long' has never rung more true to the family and friends Angelo had across the world.\"\n\nDr Grubisic had performed base jumps around the world\n\nThe University of Southampton said: \"We are extremely saddened and shocked by the death of Angelo and our thoughts are with his family at this terrible time.\n\n\"Angelo made many pioneering contributions to the University's research into astronautics and was incredibly popular with his students and colleagues.\"\n\nIn 2015 Dr Grubisic set up the Icarus project at the university which was attempting to design a wingsuit to break world records while improving safety.\n\nHe had previously worked on spacecraft propulsion for both NASA and the European Space Agency, and was a consultant engineer for the European Space Agency's BepiColombo mission to Mercury in 2018.\n\nEarlier this year Dr Grubisic gave evidence at an inquest into the death of Rob Haggarty, who died in 2018 when he lost control during a wingsuit jump in Italy.\n\nIn a statement, the Foreign Office said: \"Our consular staff are supporting the family of a British man following his death in Saudi Arabia, and are in contact with the local authorities.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The UK's largest cervical cancer charity has said it hopes a documentary about Jade Goody will serve as \"a reminder\" of the impact of the disease.\n\nThe finale of Channel 4's three-part Jade: The Reality Star Who Changed Britain aired on Wednesday.\n\nGoody's illness and death in 2009, aged 27, led to a 12% spike in women getting NHS smear tests at the time.\n\nBut Jo's Cervical Cancer Trust said screening rates are now lower than ever and advised viewers to get checked.\n\n\"The episode is a new story for a younger generation and for others it's a reminder about the impact cervical cancer can have,\" the charity's head of communications Kate Sanger said.\n\n\"It has been fantastic to see that the documentary is generating conversations about cervical screening, especially on social media. Cervical screening saves lives and at a time when attendance is falling it is great to see people sharing support, tips and talking about the importance of the test.\n\n\"However, we are asking those watching the programme to be sensitive to the fact that while for many it is a straightforward test, for others cervical screening can be difficult.\"\n\nResearch published by Jo's last year found almost one in 10 women were only offered times they couldn't make when they last tried to book an appointment, while 7% were told no appointments were available.\n\nWhile most women get their smear tests at GPs, many have opted in the past to get them at sexual health and community clinics, which offer a range of services, walk-in appointments, shorter waiting times, and don't require registration.\n\nYet the number of women in England receiving cervical screenings at sexual health and community clinics fell by 52% between 2013-14 and 2016-17, according to the trust.\n\nCouncils have rolled back sexual health services following cuts of £600 million to public health funding between 2015 and 2020 - adding to pressures on GPs.\n\nJade Goody and husband Jack Tweedy shortly before her death\n\nGoody shot to fame in Big Brother in 2002 and then found herself embroiled in a racism storm after her comments about Indian actress Shilpa Shetty in the celebrity edition of the reality show in 2007.\n\nShe was given her diagnosis live on the Indian version of Big Brother the following year.\n\nThe rise in women getting screened after seeing her story \"undoubtedly saved lives\" but was sadly \"short-lived\", according to Jo's Cervical Cancer Trust.\n\nSpeaking on Wednesday to the BBC's Victoria Derbyshire show, Jo's volunteer Hayley Prince spoke about how Goody's story had effectively saved her own life.\n\n\"Her death and journey promoted me to go and make an appointment and to actually go through with it and attend the appointment instead of putting it off any longer, and I had the same diagnosis as Jade,\" she said.\n\n\"So had she not gone through that journey herself and publicised everything, I wouldn't be here now, so I do owe my life to her in a way really.\"\n\nGoody's former partner Jeff Brazier, with whom she had two children, now aged 16 and 14, said the documentary was \"particularly well made\" but \"really unsettling\", and that he had not let the boys watch.\n\n\"From a technical parenting point of view, whilst they are coming to the end of their childhood and they are able to take on board more adult themes, I don't think they are quite ready to watch a large percentage of what has been shown,\" he told the Edinburgh Television Festival.\n\nThe final part of the documentary showed how Goody lived out her last days with her new husband, Jack Tweedy, and her children - but also with the cameras present.\n\nIn its review, iNews wrote that by the end it was \"tough to tell who was exploiting who in this fame game\" and that \"the final part of this unsettling but brilliant documentary raises moral questions over the last weeks of Jade's life\".\n\nIts critic Kasia Delgado asked: \"Is filming a dying woman, even if she doesn't tell you to stop and is making lots of money from it for her children, the right thing to do?\"\n\nThe Guardian gave the show four stars, describing it as \"tears, tabloids and a modern fairytale\".\n\nLucy Mangan wrote: \"Goody's transformation by the media from vilified hate figure on Big Brother to 'authentic' heroine brought her fame and wealth - and is a parable of our times.\" The Times described the series as \"a three-act tragedy\".\n\nFollow us on Facebook, on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.\n• None A new 10 Year Challenge: Can we re-ignite Jade Goody effect?\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "About a quarter of the estimated 220,000 EU citizens living in Scotland have so far applied to remain in the UK after Brexit.\n\nThe Home Office said it received 51,600 applications from Scotland under the EU Settlement Scheme by the end of July.\n\nThe scheme aims to help EU citizens and their families to live and work in the UK after freedom of movement ends.\n\nApplicants must prove their identity, show that they live in the UK and declare any criminal convictions.\n\nThe Scottish government has called the system \"demeaning and unacceptable\" and has urged the UK government to simplify it.\n\nThe scheme has been open to EU, EEA and Swiss citizens since March of this year, with applications currently having to be made by 31 December 2020 if the UK leaves without a deal, and 30 June 2021 if it leaves with a deal.\n\nAnyone granted settled status will be entitled to the same work, healthcare, housing and education rights after Britain leaves the EU as they do now.\n\nIrish citizens do not have to apply as their rights have already been guaranteed under an agreement between the UK and Irish governments.\n\nThere are thought to be about 223,000 EU citizens living in Scotland, including about 13,000 who work in the NHS, and more than three million across the UK as a whole - with a million people having been granted settled or pre-settled status so far.\n\nHome Office minister Brandon Lewis said EU citizens made a \"huge\" contribution to Scotland, and that his message to them was \"we want you to stay\".\n\nHe added: \"Through the EU Settlement Scheme, it is free and straightforward to make an application and I am pleased that more than 50,000 already have done so.\n\n\"We're looking to grant status under the scheme, not to refuse it, and EU citizens have until at least 31 December 2020 to apply.\n\nThe Scottish government launched a \"Stay in Scotland\" campaign earlier this year to encourage EU citizens to remain in the country after Brexit.\n\nIts migration minister, Ben Macpherson, said: \"It's unacceptable that EU citizens in our communities are having to engage in this demeaning process and have been forced to live with extreme levels of uncertainty about how Brexit will affect their lives, their careers and their families.\n\n\"The Scottish government has been consistently clear that in place of the EU Settlement Scheme, the UK government should instead adopt a declaratory system, which would remove the need for people to make applications to continue living here.\"\n\nCitizens Advice Scotland can provide advice to EU citizens and their families, via a freephone advice line,\n\nEarlier this week, the government announced that EU freedom of movement rules will end immediately if there is a no-deal Brexit on 31 October.\n\nIt had previously considered phasing out the rules if the UK leaves without an agreement, but those plans have now been dropped.\n\nHowever, the government insisted that the December 2020 deadline for settled status applications would remain, with a \"new, fairer immigration system\" introduced which would \"prioritise skills and what people can contribute to the UK, rather than where they come from\".\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson also pledged that the UK would not become \"hostile to immigration\".\n\nThe announcement was criticised by campaigners and opposition parties, who said it would cause further confusion for EU nationals and problems for businesses and other employers.\n\nAn end to freedom of movement would not affect those EU citizens coming for holidays and short trips, but would impact those who wish to work or study in the UK and who do not have settled status.\n\nUnder the withdrawal agreement negotiated with the EU by former Prime Minister Mrs May, freedom of movement would have stayed for a two-year transition period.\n\nHowever, MPs repeatedly voted down Mrs May's deal and unless an agreement can be reached the UK will leave without a deal on 31 October.", "The parents of a Pakistani social media star allegedly murdered by her brothers have lost their bid to free their sons.\n\nQandeel Baloch's parents told the court they forgave Waseem and Aslam Shaheen, who are on trial for the apparent honour killing.\n\nMs Baloch, 26, was strangled in July 2016, in a murder that shocked Pakistan and the wider world.\n\nHer brother Waseem initially confessed, saying she had brought shame on his family, but later changed his plea.\n\nAnother six men have been arrested in connection with the killing, while a seventh - believed to be another brother - has absconded.\n\nCases of women being killed for \"dishonouring\" their family are commonplace in Pakistan. Nearly 1,100 women were killed by relatives in so-called honour killings in 2015, according to the independent Human Rights Commission of Pakistan (HRCP). Many more cases go unreported.\n\nA loophole in the law used to allow perpetrators to avoid punishment because they could seek forgiveness from another family member. But in the wake of Ms Baloch's death - and the discussion it prompted - that loophole was closed.\n\nHowever, Ms Baloch's parents argued that because the change happened after her killing, they should still be able to pardon their sons.\n\nHer father, Muhammad Azeem, had originally said he wanted her killers \"to get death\", telling BBC Urdu that his son Waseem should be \"shot on sight\".\n\nBut on Thursday he told the court in Multan, Punjab, that he and his wife had now decided to pardon their sons - but not the other accused - \"in the name of Allah\", according to BBC Urdu.\n\nThe court rejected the plea, entered on Wednesday, saying the case against the two men would continue as planned.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nMs Baloch has been dubbed the Kim Kardashian of Pakistan. She had hundreds of thousands of followers on social media, and was reportedly one of the top 10 most searched Pakistani personalities in the year before she died.\n\nShe won praise for her fearlessness, for breaking strict social taboos and expressing herself the way she wanted to - even if that meant sharing risqué photographs, or twerking on camera.\n\nBut this fearlessness also won her enemies and put her in danger in a country that struggles with what it regards as immodest or \"badly behaved\" women.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Qandeel Baloch had a reputation for being Pakistan's first social media celebrity\n\nHer background alone was enough to shock socially conservative Pakistan. Ms Baloch was born Fouzia Azeem, and came from a poor family in a town about 400km (248 miles) south west of Lahore.\n\nAfter her rise to fame in 2014, it emerged she had been married as a teenager, and had a baby. But her husband, she said later, was a \"savage man\" who abused her, and she fled with her son.\n\nBut unable to support her son financially, she returned him to her husband, who has always denied he treated her badly. According to the Guardian, she never saw the little boy again.\n\nIt was after this that she was able to reinvent herself as Qandeel Baloch.\n\nBut as her star grew, her supporters warned that her behaviour could threaten her life. Ms Baloch, however, remained unapologetic, although she had asked the government for protection.\n\n\"I am facing threats,\" she told BBC Urdu. \"But I believe that death is preordained - when you are meant to die, you will die.\"", "England v Australia, third Specsavers Test (day one of five)\n\nJofra Archer took six wickets to help England bowl out Australia for 179 on a truncated first day of the third Ashes Test at Headingley.\n\nArcher's 6-45, five of which came in the final session, reversed the fortunes of the home side after they were in danger of wasting ideal bowling conditions.\n\nEither side of two lengthy delays for rain and bad light, Australia reached 136-2 thanks to a third-wicket stand of 111 between David Warner and Marnus Labuschagne.\n\nBut Archer, who made such an explosive debut in the second Test, had Warner caught behind for 61 to spark a collapse of three wickets for three runs.\n\nEven at 173-6, honours seemed to be even, only for Archer to return once again and run through the tail. The last four wickets fell for six runs.\n\nLabuschagne, in the Australia side as Steve Smith's replacement, battled to 74, but was lbw to a Ben Stokes full toss before Archer trapped Nathan Lyon leg before with what proved to be the final delivery of the day.\n\nEngland, looking to level the series at 1-1, will be hoping to establish a match-winning first-innings lead on Friday.\n\nAlthough Australia are on the back foot, they will know they are perhaps only one England batting collapse from going 2-0 up with two matches to play and thus retaining the Ashes.\n\nThis was a curious day, one when England's bowlers threatened to frustrate as much as the weather.\n\nOn a pitch which looks set to deteriorate enough to make batting last difficult, Joe Root opted to try to exploit the overhead conditions in a bid to get at an Australia batting line-up missing the concussed Smith.\n\nFor long periods England were at risk of failing, especially as Warner and Labuschagne scored freely after tea, when the bowling was loose, the fielding ragged and Root's captaincy too aggressive.\n\nEven the irrepressible Archer, given a hero's welcome in Leeds after his fiery debut at Lord's, was subdued early on, rarely touching 90mph.\n\nHowever, if his bow in Test cricket showed that he possesses the exciting raw pace to trouble the best batsmen, his late intervention here was a demonstration of full length, seam movement and control.\n\nThe crowd cheered him all day - when he began a spell or even touched the ball in the field. By the end, as he led England off, they were saluting England's new bowling hero.\n\nHeadingley was perfectly set up for seam bowling - damp, murky and with the floodlights on all day.\n\nEven with almost 37 overs lost to the weather, anything other than England making serious inroads into the Australia batting would have been a failure.\n\nThere were times when Stuart Broad was superb, tormenting Warner with seam movement, having Usman Khawaja caught down the leg side and later producing a wonderful delivery that nipped away to take Travis Head's off stump.\n\nArcher took the first wicket, nibbling the ball away from Marcus Harris - in the Australia side to replace Cameron Bancroft - to have him being caught behind.\n\nBut even Archer and Broad were both occasionally guilty of bowling too short and losing their line, yet not as culpable as Chris Woakes and Stokes, who were woefully wayward to allow Australia to score at more than six an over in the hour after tea.\n\nHowever, after Archer took Warner's edge and bowled Matthew Wade off his body, Woakes improved to have Tim Paine lbw.\n\nThen Archer took over. Both James Pattinson and Pat Cummins edged behind, and last man Nathan Lyon played across a full ball. The last five wickets fell in less than 10 overs.\n\nWarner, in his first Test series since serving a year-long ban for his part in the ball-tampering scandal, had managed only 18 runs in his four previous innings, falling to Broad on three occasions.\n\nAs time and again he played and missed at Broad, surviving on nothing but good fortune, that lean spell looked set to continue.\n\nAfter the second rain break, with the help of England's bowlers, the swagger of the old Warner returned with punchy cuts and drives, and bustle between the wickets.\n\nHe was supported by Labuschagne, who backed up his impressive half-century as Smith's concussion substitute at Lord's with solid defence, judicious leaves and front-foot scoring.\n\nWarner overturned being given caught behind off Broad, but added nothing more to his score when he edged Archer behind to become the first of three wickets in the space of 15 balls.\n\nThe impressive Labuschagne remained, seeing all fall around him until he inexplicably missed a high full toss from Stokes to be leg before.\n\n'If England get 300, they win' - reaction\n\nEngland bowler Jofra Archer on BBC Test Match Special: \"I didn't do too much differently from Lord's. It was a bit bowler-friendly today. I'll more than take 6-45 but I can be tidier in the future.\"\n\nFormer England captain Michael Vaughan: \"If England get 300, they should win the game. But don't think it's all done. Someone has to get in and get a big score. If England are bowling again tomorrow, game on. If they bat all day, they win the Test.\"\n\nAustralia opener David Warner: \"It's disappointing but they won the toss, bowled and had the conditions in their favour. They were patient and our top order got out to good balls. We'll look to dismiss them for under 200 if possible.\"\n\nEngland's leading Test run-scorer Alastair Cook: \"Joe Root will be relieved. When you win the toss and bowl in these conditions people expect you to bowl them out cheaply. Up until Warner was out it wasn't looking great. England have dragged themselves back into a dominant position.\"\n• None Merv Hughes is the only bowler to take a Test hat-trick spread over three overs (against West Indies at Perth, 1988). Archer can join him if he takes a wicket with his first ball in the second innings.\n• None Australia lost their last eight wickets for 43 runs; Bob Willis took 8-43 for England in the famous 1981 Headingley Ashes Test.", "Google's move followed a similar clamp down by Twitter and Facebook earlier this week\n\nGoogle has shut down 210 channels on YouTube it said were part of a \"coordinated” attempt to post material about the ongoing protests in Hong Kong.\n\nThe firm said attempts had been made to \"disguise the origin of these accounts and other activity commonly associated with coordinated influence operations”.\n\nThe search giant linked its move to similar action taken by Twitter and Facebook earlier this week.\n\nHowever, unlike those companies, Google stopped short of explicitly saying it believed the Chinese government had been behind the now-disabled accounts.\n\nNor would it share further details on the nature or motivation of the material it had taken down from its platform.\n\n\"Earlier this week,” a statement read, \"as part of our ongoing efforts to combat coordinated influence operations, we disabled 210 channels on YouTube when we discovered channels in this network behaved in a coordinated manner while uploading videos related to the ongoing protests in Hong Kong.\n\n\"This discovery was consistent with recent observations and actions related to China announced by Facebook and Twitter.”\n\nA Google spokesperson would not comment when asked by the BBC whether Google agreed with Twitter’s assessment that it was a state-backed misinformation campaign, designed to undermine the protest movement in Hong Kong.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. How Hong Kong got trapped in a cycle of violence\n\nThe company has not said whether it planned to prohibit advertising sales to state-controlled media organisations, such as the Chinese broadcaster, Xinhua.\n\nTwitter announced it would no longer allow ads from broadcasters who were financially and editorially controlled by governments, after facing severe criticism for allowing anti-Hong Kong ads to spread on the platform.\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", "Amari Smith claimed he was acting in self-defence when he stabbed a fellow teenager to death\n\nA teenager has been found guilty of killing a 17-year-old boy after a row over comments made on Facebook.\n\nAmari Smith, 18, stabbed Louis-Ryan Menezes once in the chest with a \"hunting-style knife\" in Northampton in May 2018, a court heard.\n\nSmith, of Penfold Close, Northampton, was cleared of murder by a jury at the town's crown court but found guilty of manslaughter.\n\nHe has been remanded into custody and will be sentenced at a later date.\n\nSmith, who was 16 at the time of the killing, claimed he acted in self-defence as he thought Louis was going to stab him.\n\nLouis was called a \"popular, caring son, brother, grandson, nephew and cousin\" by his family\n\nLouis was stabbed in a stairwell on Drayton Walk, Kingsthorpe on 25 May 2018 and was taken to hospital, where he died a short time later.\n\nDet Insp Stuart Hitchon said the killing \"demonstrates what can be the tragic consequences of carrying a knife\".\n\n\"This was a tragic case involving the loss of a very young life and the investigation has been a complex one, all the more painstaking because the main witnesses were just children at the time of the incident,\" he said.\n\nForensics officers at the scene of the stabbing on Drayton Walk\n\nLouis' family called him a \"popular, caring son, brother, grandson, nephew and cousin whose life was cruelly cut short\".\n\n\"Louis' death has left a huge gap in our lives and the pain of losing him is so great it will never go away,\" a family statement said.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Problems relating to overcrowding include two prisoners being placed in what should be single-occupancy cells\n\nThe chief inspector of prisons has said she is \"very concerned\" that the number of inmates in Scotland is starting to exceed capacity.\n\nThe prison population rose by 709 in the year to the end of March, from 7,413 to 8,122.\n\nWendy Sinclair-Gieben, HM Chief Inspector of Prisons for Scotland, said this 9% increase is equivalent to one additional large prison.\n\nShe warned the rise in inmates is putting extra pressure on the system.\n\nIn her report for 2018/19, Ms Sinclair-Gieben said planned investment in key infrastructure must not be delayed.\n\nShe also called for urgent action to replace HMPs Barlinnie, Greenock and Inverness, saying Victorian prisons are \"costly and no longer fit-for-purpose\".\n\nMs Sinclair-Gieben said: \"The additional number of prisoners and an increasingly complex population places a heavy burden on an already overstretched prison service in Scotland.\n\n\"I am very concerned that the number of prisoners is starting to exceed design capacity, resulting in not only additional pressures on staff, the prison regime and activities, but also on the essential programme and through-care activities designed to reduce recidivism.\"\n\nThe increasing prison population has led to officers complaining of extra pressure being put on them\n\nScotland's incarceration rate is one of the highest in Europe.\n\nThe number of prisoners on remand awaiting trial has also risen from 1,142 last year (15.4% of the prison population) to 1,350 (16.6%) by 31 March this year.\n\nThe report said problems relating to overcrowding include:\n\nThe \"sharp rise\" in prisoners has been linked to factors including longer sentences for the most serious of crimes, a rise in the number of people being convicted of sexual offences, and more serious and organised crime being successfully prosecuted.\n\nOther factors include the reduction of prisoners being released on home detention curfew and very few prisoners subject to an order for lifelong restriction achieving parole.\n\nThe report said these factors are likely to continue to place pressure on the size of the prison population for some time to come.\n\nThe Scottish Prison Service is obliged to pay for places at privately-run HMP Kilmarnock\n\nMs Sinclair-Gieben welcomed the Scottish government's plans to extend the presumption against short prison sentences from the current three months to 12.\n\nBut she said she remains concerned it \"may not be enough to bring the prison population back in line with design capacity\".\n\nThe report also found the Scottish Prison Service (SPS) is currently facing \"immense\" financial pressures, with the SPS being obliged to purchase places in the two privately-run prisons in Scotland, HMP Addiewell and HMP Kilmarnock.\n\nHer Majesty's Inspectorate of Prisons for Scotland carried out four full prison inspections, two return visit inspections, five court custody unit (CCU) inspections and two thematic reviews over the year.\n\nInspectors noted problems with overcrowding and difficulties with access for people with mobility issues in some CCUs.\n\nThey suggested some of the issues could be addressed through greater use of video-link court appearances.\n\nAn SPS spokeswoman welcomed the report and said the service \"can take pride in how our prisons are run\".\n\nShe added: \"SPS also welcomes HMCIPS's findings that staff and those in our care feel safe, and that they found the relationships and interactions between staff and prisoners to be positive and built on mutual respect.\n\n\"We continue to develop the regime for prisoners to maximise the range of purposeful activities available to them such as work, education and offender programmes to address their offending behaviour.\"", "A 25-year-old man has been arrested on suspicion of murdering Hull University student Libby Squire.\n\nHer body was recovered from the Humber Estuary six weeks after she disappeared on 1 February following a night out.\n\nHundreds of police officers and members of the public were involved in an extensive search after 21-year-old Ms Squire was reported missing.\n\nThe man was held on Wednesday and has been released under investigation as inquiries continue, police said.\n\nDet Sup Martin Smalley, of Humberside Police said: \"A file is being prepared for the Crown Prosecution Service as the investigation progresses.\"\n\nLibby Squire's mother Lisa had appealed for information about her missing daughter\n\nMs Squire was last seen at just after midnight near her home on Wellesley Avenue, Hull.\n\nLater that morning she was reported missing and search specialists, dog handlers, underwater officers and the public began a search.\n\nAt one stage, about 200 students gathered in the rain as a show of solidarity and support for the student and her parents.\n\nThe body of the philosophy student, from High Wycombe, was recovered from the Humber Estuary on 20 March.\n\nAppealing for information during the search, her mother Lisa said: \"Libby, my darling pie, we just want to know that you are safe.\"\n\nIn an emotional Facebook post following the discovery of her body, her mother said: \"I cannot thank you enough my darling Pie for making me a mummy.\"\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 decision to cast the president's former press secretary has been controversial\n\nThe host of Dancing with the Stars has voiced his opposition to the casting of Donald Trump's former press secretary, Sean Spicer, for the upcoming series.\n\nTom Bergeron said he had wanted the television show to be a welcome relief from politics for its viewers.\n\nIn a tweet, he said he thought the producers had agreed with him, but acknowledged they clearly had not.\n\nMr Spicer drew controversy while serving as Mr Trump's first press secretary, for some six months in 2017.\n\nHis reaction to the announcement was quite different to Mr Bergeron's. \"It's time to have some fun. Excited to join a great cast and show,\" he tweeted.\n\nIn his tweet, Mr Bergeron said he had hoped this show would \"be a joyful respite from our exhausting political climate and free of inevitably divisive bookings from ANY party affiliations.\"\n\nHe had left a meeting with his producers \"convinced we were in agreement\".\n\n\"Subsequently (and rather obviously), a decision was made to, as we often say in Hollywood, 'go in a different direction,'\" he added.\n\n\"We can agree to disagree, as we do now, but ultimately it's their call.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or 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 Bergeron This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy 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 Spicer served as press secretary for little over half a year in 2017.\n\nDuring that time he made some notable false and misleading statements, including when he stated that Mr Trump's inauguration was bigger than that of his predecessor Barack Obama, despite photos clearly showing otherwise.\n\n\"This was the largest audience to ever witness an inauguration, period.\" he said.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. They were the largest crowds. Period.\n\nMr Spicer has since said he regrets making the claim and made a cameo at the Emmys mocking the incident.\n\nHe has also written a book called The Briefing: Politics, the Press and the President in which he referred to Trump as \"unicorn riding a unicorn across a rainbow\".\n\nOther stars joining the next series of the US version of the BBC's Strictly Come Dancing include actor James Van Der Beek, cast member of Netflix's Queer Eye Karamo Brown and former NFL player Ray Lewis.", "Sophie Christiansen said current systems make her feel she constantly has to rely on someone to get around\n\nA gold medal winning Paralympian was left in tears after she became stuck on a train when there was no guard to help her off.\n\nWheelchair user Sophie Christiansen, who has cerebral palsy, tweeted a video of her ordeal on her London to Godalming journey.\n\nThe footage shows a passenger holding the train doors open for the dressage rider until an exit ramp is provided.\n\nSouth Western Railway (SWR) said it had apologised to Ms Christiansen.\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 31-year-old from Ascot said she was told SWR staff were aware she was travelling on the service but when she arrived at her stop there was no-one waiting with a ramp.\n\n\"It's always the general public helping me; I don't know what I'd do without them,\" she said.\n\n\"Without the help I probably would've ended up in Portsmouth at the end of the line because there is no real way for me to block the door to stop the train from moving.\"\n\nMs Christiansen said she \"went home and cried\" because of the repeated difficulties she faces over accessibility on trains.\n\nThe OBE dressage rider is an eight-time Paralympic gold medallist\n\nShe said she was stranded \"one in 10 times\" and called on the government to lobby rail companies to improve disabled access.\n\nDespite previously speaking to SWR's inclusion manager about introducing automated ramps to make travelling for disabled people smoother, Ms Christiansen claims manual ones are still in place.\n\n\"I literally don't know what it will take for the rail in this country to make the service more accessible,\" she said.\n\n\"There should be a different system to allow me to be independent\".\n\nThe 31-year-old dressage rider wants automated ramps to make travelling smoother\n\nAndy Masters, head of services at disabled rights charity Back Up, said stories like Sophie's were \"all too common\".\n\nHe said wheelchair users routinely needed to consider problems over access at stations and whether they would manage to find a guard to get them on and off trains.\n\n\"An easy journey is not a given, but being able to use public transport is essential to most people's daily lives.\n\n\"It allows us to go to work, socialise and get to where we need to be. Accessible stations allow disabled people to live the lives they want, just like everyone else.''\n\nSWR said it was investigating the incident \"as a priority\" and it was reviewing the process \"to make sure this doesn't happen again\".\n\nRail Delivery Group, which represents UK train operators, said it was working to bring \"thousands of new, more accessible carriages on track and speeding up the process for passengers booking assistance.\"\n• None Back Up is for Everyone Affected by Spinal Cord Injury The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Two million older people are risking side-effects from taking multiple medications, a charity has warned.\n\nAge UK says more than one in 10 over-65s in England take at least eight prescribed medications each week.\n\nWhile many are vital for those with complex conditions, the charity says one in five may be inappropriate.\n\nGPs said no-one should be taking unnecessary medicines but people should not stop taking their medication without first talking to a doctor.\n\nAge UK says older people should not worry about taking many medicines - if they are appropriately prescribed and correctly managed.\n\nBut the way the body processes medicines changes with age, so they may be more susceptible to side-effects, including:\n\nThe charity wants older people to be fully involved in decisions about what they are prescribed, and for doctors to regularly review what patients are taking.\n\nJane, 77, had been prescribed 17 different medicines, five of which have to be taken at least five times a day.\n\nShe has 10 long-term conditions, including epilepsy, high blood-pressure, an underactive thyroid, osteoarthritis and psoriasis.\n\nHer GP asked for the medications to be dispensed into blister packs, with all the appropriate tablets for each day put into their own separate pack.\n\nBut this didn't work for Jane and she stopped taking her medicines altogether.\n\nWhen a pharmacist went through what Jane was taking, they found seven of the 17 could be discontinued. They also stopped using the blister packs.\n\nJane's blood pressure is now under control, she is having better treatment for her other conditions, and she's happy and more confident about the medicines she is taking.\n\nAge UK charity director Caroline Abrahams said: \"Our strong advice to older people is never to stop taking any of your medications off your own bat but to talk to your GP if you have concerns and to ask for a review if you haven't had one for a year or more.\n\n\"Everyone's needs change over time and new treatments are always becoming available, so it is well worth your doctor looking at whether your medicines are the best they can be and, indeed, whether they are all still necessary.\n\n\"Most older people would agree that the fewer pills they have to pop, the better.\"\n\nProf Helen Stokes-Lampard, who chairs the Royal College of GPs, said family doctors only prescribed a medication after weighing up the risks and benefits for the patient.\n\n\"Of course, we don't want to see people taking unnecessary medications - this is not good for the health of our patients or for NHS resources - and it is normal practice for any long-term prescriptions to be kept under review and reduced or discontinued if no longer necessary,\" she said.\n\n\"With many older people living with multiple and complex health conditions, prescriptions for more than one medication will often be vital and no course of treatment should be stopped without the advice and support of a GP or other suitably qualified healthcare professional.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Apple has advised owners of its new credit card to keep it away from leather and denim.\n\nKeeping the card in a leather wallet or in the pocket of a pair of jeans could cause \"permanent discolouration\".\n\nThe Apple Card is a relatively plain matt white credit card made of titanium, which was designed to stand out against other credit cards.\n\nBut people have poked fun at the company after reading that the card could be so easily damaged.\n\nApple has published a guide advising customers how to \"safely store and carry\" their Apple Card.\n\nThe guide warns that storing the card with other credit cards can scratch and damage it.\n\n\"I can say from two months of having the card in my leather wallet, it no longer looks pretty,\" said one Apple employee on Twitter.\n\nApple staff were able to sign up for the service before the general public.\n\nIt is currently available to Apple customers in the US. A launch date for UK customers has not been announced.\n\nApple has previously been criticised for making products that are aesthetically pleasing but easily damaged in everyday use.\n\n\"When not in use, Apple Card should be returned to a uniformly lit white cube,\" joked Alex Stamos, Facebook's former chief security officer.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by kadhim (＾ｰ^)ノ This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. 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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We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy 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 Apple Card was created with the help of Goldman Sachs and MasterCard.\n\nIt was announced in March as part of Apple's push into services. The company also announced a new television streaming platform, gaming portal and enhanced news app.", "The UK has been in a transition period with the EU since last January, during which rules and trade have stayed the same. But all of this will come to an end on 1 January 2021.\n\nWith just a few weeks left for the UK and the EU to negotiate a trade agreement, both sides are now talking about the prospect of a no-deal outcome. If there's no trade agreement in place, they will have to adjust quickly to doing things very differently.\n\nSo how are both sides preparing?\n\nFor the first six months from 1 January, the British government will bring in only minimal checks on goods coming in to the UK, but the EU will have full border checks on goods coming into the EU from the UK straight away.\n\nThe UK government has warned that a reasonable worst-case scenario could see queues of 7,000 trucks clogging up the roads around Dover and the Channel Tunnel.\n\nThe UK government has two contingency plans for this: Operation Brock and Operation Fennel.\n\nOperation Brock is a traffic management plan, which it is hoped will prevent more than 10,000 lorries a day from clogging up roads in Kent.\n\nUnder the scheme, drivers of very large lorries will need to get a special permit - a Kent Access Permit - before they enter the county, and permits will only be issued if they have completed the correct paperwork for exporting goods.\n\nOther traffic will be kept flowing around them, in what is known as a contraflow system. Highways England is trialling the moveable road barrier, which makes the contraflow system possible, on the M20 over four nights from 11 December.\n\nIf there are more than 2,000 lorries queued up, the government has made plans for several temporary lorry parks - it bought a 27-acre site in Ashford in Kent. There is also a plan called Operation Fennel in which as many as 7,000 heavy goods vehicles (HGVs) could be diverted to the disused Manston airfield, near Ramsgate.\n\nThis is part of the government's plans for building facilities away from ports.\n\nIf further capacity is needed, a \"last resort\" would be to turn the 10-mile M26 motorway into a temporary lorry park.\n\nThe UK government has also set up the Border Operations Centre to co-ordinate the response to any further disruption.\n\nQueuing at ports is not the only problem for lorry drivers.\n\nIf no further steps are taken, UK lorry drivers would need to apply for documents called ECMT permits to be allowed to enter EU countries. The European Commission has warned that there are not enough of these permits available, which would mean not enough UK lorries being able to travel to the EU to pick up goods to bring back to the UK.\n\nThe European Commission said this could result in serious disruptions, \"potentially even threatening public order\".\n\nTo prevent this, it proposed allowing UK lorries and buses into the EU for six months without special permits, as long as EU drivers are also allowed into the UK.\n\nThe proposals would also allow regular bus services that pick up and drop off passengers on either side of the border between Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland to continue to do so.\n\nThe UK has not been clear yet on whether it plans to continue to allow EU operators to enter the country.\n\nA similar proposal is on the table for aviation. In the event of no deal, the UK would no longer be a member of the European Common Aviation Area, which allows British airlines to fly to destinations in the EU, and vice versa.\n\nThe European Commission is proposing a six month regulation to allow flights to continue until a new agreement is in place, but it would require the UK government to offer the same to operators from EU countries. The UK has not yet responded to the proposal.\n\nThe UK government has told pharmaceutical companies to stockpile and plan alternative supply routes in case of border problems. It has also arranged extra freight capacity for pharmaceutical companies should they need it.\n\nIn a memo, seen by the BBC in June, pharmaceutical companies warned the government that some stockpiles of medicines have been \"used up entirely\" by the coronavirus pandemic and said these could not be replenished in time for the UK's exit from the EU.\n\nThe head of the Association of the British Pharmaceutical Industry warned that not having any sort of deal would cause \"increased complexity, duplication and cost\" in the middle of a pandemic. The government insisted, however, that \"robust contingency plans are in place\".\n\nFor the coronavirus vaccine, the government says there are contingency plans for making sure the Pfizer Covid-19 vaccine made in Belgium can be shipped to the UK if border problems arise. These include alternative sea routes and the use of freight or even military aircraft.\n\nThe European Commission has also proposed extending the deadline to reach an agreement on fishing until the end of December 2021.\n\nThis would allow European fishing vessels to continue fishing in British waters and vice-versa for another year, or until an agreement is reached.\n\nBut a Downing Street spokesman said the UK \"would never accept arrangements and access to UK fishing waters which are incompatible with our status as an independent coastal state\".\n\nThe Ministry of Defence has said it will make four patrol boats available to monitor UK waters and added that it would have \"robust enforcement measures in place\".\n\nAs things stand, if nothing is agreed then non-UK boats will not be allowed to fish in UK waters from January.\n\nBut without a deal, the UK fishing industry would find its extensive exports to EU countries being hit by tariffs (import taxes) and regulatory hurdles.\n\nThe French government has said it would hand out compensation to trawlers if they were not able to fish in UK waters.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Two boats carrying 30 migrants were picked up by French authorities\n\nMore than 60 migrants have crossed the Channel in six boats.\n\nFive vessels were intercepted by Border Force off the coast of Kent, with a sixth landing on a beach in Sussex.\n\nThe Home Office said 53 migrants - including what it called six \"claimed minors\" - found in the Channel would be interviewed by immigration officers.\n\nA further 11 people, including four children, were detained by police and handed over to Border Force after arriving at Winchelsea Beach by boat.\n\nSussex Police said it was \"very concerned\" for another group, which it described as \"possibly a family including children\", who may have left the beach before authorities arrived.\n\nCh Insp Anita Turner said: \"We want to make sure that these people are safely ashore and that they are okay.\"\n\nMeanwhile, two dinghies carrying a total of 19 adults, 10 children and a baby were picked up by French authorities attempting to cross the Channel.\n\nMore than 900 people, including at least 80 children, have crossed the Channel in small boats this year.\n\nThe Home Office said it was monitoring the \"ongoing situation\" and \"working closely at all levels with French authorities,\" adding Home Secretary Priti Patel was due to \"raise this issue with her French counterpart in the coming days\".\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.", "Prue Leith will help to set new quality standards\n\nBake Off judge Prue Leith is the latest celebrity chef to be recruited in the quest to improve the food hospital patients eat.\n\nThe government is launching a review of hospital food, first announced in June, to set new quality standards for the 140 million meals served annually.\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson said better food would aid patients' recovery and \"fuel\" carers and family.\n\nLeith said millions was wasted on \"unpalatable\" hospital food.\n\nOther famous chefs have been down this road before. More than 25 years ago Albert Roux was asked to do much the same thing - he was followed by Loyd Grossman and more recently James Martin.\n\nYet in 2013 a report found that more than £50m had been wasted not on poor food - but on failed schemes to improve quality.\n\nThis latest review follows the deaths of six people, linked to a listeria outbreak connected to pre-packaged sandwiches and salads supplied to a number of NHS hospitals.\n\nPhilip Shelley, former head of the Hospital Caterers Association, will chair what he said would be a \"root and branch\" review.\n\nIt will look at increasing the amount of in-house catering, as well as how hospitals can use less frozen food and more local, fresh produce.\n\nMr Johnson said: \"Guaranteeing hospitals serve nutritional, tasty and fresh meals will not only aid patient recovery, but also fuel staff and visitors as they care for loved ones and the vulnerable.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nLeith, who will act as an adviser to the review, said: \"Millions of pounds are wasted in hospitals with food ending up in the bin, unpalatable food being the main complaint.\n\n\"I'm delighted that at long last Downing Street and the Department of Health have decided to do something about it.\n\n\"A hospital meal should be a small highlight, a little pleasure and comfort, and it should help, not hinder, the patient's recovery.\"\n\nRachel Power, chief executive of the Patients Association, said: \"We are pleased to see a full review of hospital food being undertaken and hope it leads to more nutritious and nourishing meals to help patients with their recovery.\n\n\"People should be able to look forward to their meals, particularly when dealing with the pressures and worries that a stay in hospital can bring, even with the best of care.\"\n\nJonathan Ashworth, the shadow health secretary, said: \"Years of austerity mean that some hospitals are only spending close to £3 per patient a day on meals for patients - it's an utter disgrace.\"", "Police were called at about 07:30 BST\n\nA mother has been arrested on suspicion of child neglect after her 10-year-old son was found dead in a caravan in Birmingham, police said.\n\nEmergency services were called to reports of a child unconscious at an address in Blossomville Way, Acocks Green, on Thursday morning.\n\nHe was taken to hospital where \"nothing could be done to save him\" and he was pronounced dead, police said.\n\nThe woman was later \"released on police bail as inquires continue\" police said.\n\nHer son's death is \"unexplained\" and a post-mortem examination is to take place.\n\nWest Midlands Police confirmed the arrested 44-year-old woman is the child's mother.\n\nDet Insp Joe Davenport said he understood the boy \"had some underlying health issues and was admitted to hospital recently\".\n\n\"We've launched an inquiry to understand what happened in the days leading up to his death and to determine if any factors have contributed to his death,\" he added.\n\nThe boy was found unconscious in Blossomville Way, Acocks Green\n\nA spokesman for West Midlands Ambulance Service said it was called to reports of a medical emergency at the address at 07:19 BST.\n\n\"On arrival we discovered one patient, a boy, who was in a critical condition,\" he said.\n\n\"He received specialist trauma care at the scene before being transported to Heartlands Hospital.\n\n\"Sadly, it later became apparent at hospital that nothing could be done to save him and he was confirmed deceased.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "A reality television star has appeared in court accused of conspiring to defraud investors in a £3m scam.\n\nThe Only Way Is Essex personality Lewis Bloor, 29, appeared alongside five other men at Westminster Magistrates' Court for allegedly dishonestly marketing coloured diamonds for investment purposes.\n\nThe court heard there were 50 victims of the alleged fraud with \"in excess\" of £3m lost.\n\nMr Bloor, of Buckhurst Hill, Essex, appeared in the ITV2 show for three years from 2013 as well as Celebrity Big Brother in 2016.\n\nHe was joined in the dock by Joseph Jordan, 26, of Waltham Cross, Hertfordshire, George Walters, 27, of Beckenham, Kent, Max Potter, 22, of Enfield, Middlesex, Nathan Wilson, 25, of Brentwood, Essex, and Simon Akbari, 25, of Loughton, Essex.\n\nThey are all facing a charge of conspiracy to defraud between 17 May 2013 and 19 June 2014.\n\nAnother co-defendant, Danny Chappell, 52, of Bexleyheath, Kent, is accused of entering an arrangement to facilitate the acquisition of criminal property, namely by seeking money for completing renovation works by or on behalf of another person when no such works had been undertaken.\n\nThe case has been adjourned to Southwark Crown Court on 19 September.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Simon Coveney said trade was a matter for the EU and the Irish government cannot come to a separate arrangement with the UK\n\nIreland will not be entering into bilateral negotiations with the UK regarding no-deal Brexit planning, Tánaiste (deputy Irish prime minister) Simon Coveney has said.\n\nMr Coveney said trade policy was a matter for the European Union.\n\nHe said the Irish government cannot come to a separate arrangement with the UK.\n\nThe Tánaiste also said it was realistic to expect a return of power-sharing before the 31 October Brexit deadline.\n\nMr Coveney met Northern Ireland Secretary Julian Smith on Tuesday about Brexit and the lack of government in Northern Ireland since January 2017.\n\nThe Tánaiste told Irish broadcaster RTÉ it was important that he developed a good personal relationship with Mr Smith that is based on trust.\n\nHe added that commentary about the events in Northern Ireland over the past two weeks had become \"divisive and difficult\".\n\nMr Coveney said it was not the case that the Irish government was refusing to talk to the UK, but said he would not be facilitating the UK in walking away from commitments in the withdrawal agreement.\n\n\"We are not in the business of facilitating the UK moving away from commitments that they've made to Ireland and the EU to protect the Good Friday Agreement, to protect an all-island economy, which is a commitment that they have made, and to replace that with some sort of makeshift deal in the weeks before a no-deal,\" he said.\n\n\"Instead what we have been doing for over a year now, is we have been planning for contingency in the context of a no-deal Brexit should that happen.\"\n\nSimon Coveney had a meeting with Northern Ireland Secretary Julian Smith (pictured) on Tuesday\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson met German Chancellor Angela Merkel in Berlin, and reiterated his call for the Irish border backstop plan to be scrapped.\n\nMr Johnson has said the arrangement to avoid a hard border after Brexit is \"anti-democratic\" and must be removed to secure a deal.\n\nBut the EU has rejected the possibility of any changes to the backstop.\n\nMr Coveney said the government will not abandon its approach for \"some kind of promise on the basis of trust\".\n\n\"We are not in the business of being steam-rolled at the end of this because a British prime minister has rolled out new red lines,\" he said.", "Nicola Marshall said Lucas was \"my life, my soul, my everything\"\n\nA boy has died after falling from the balcony of a Spanish apartment while on a holiday with his mum and a friend.\n\nLucas Briscoe, 12, from Lostock Gralam, Cheshire, was due to return home after a two-week break in the Costa Del Sol resort of Fuengirola when he fell on Tuesday afternoon.\n\nHis death is being treated as an accident.\n\n\"I can't believe he's gone. He was my world,\" said his mum Nicola Marshall in tribute to her only son.\n\n\"Please grab your child and cuddle them today and tell them how much you love them because they're precious and you never know when tomorrow will never come,\" she added.\n\nLucas, a talented singer and rugby player, went to St Nicholas High School in Hartford, Northwich, and had been due to audition for TV talent show The Voice this weekend.\n\nLucas's dad Gary Briscoe said his death will \"leave a big hole in a lot of lives\"\n\nLucas, his mum and his schoolfriend had been staying in a holiday apartment owned by Lucas's father, and Ms Marshall's ex-husband, Gary Briscoe.\n\n\"What should have been the final day of an amazing holiday ended up being the worst day of my life,\" said Ms Marshall, who was in the kitchen preparing lunch when Lucas fell at 13:30 local time.\n\nHis friend witnessed him fall and has been left \"devastated\", a family spokesperson said.\n\n\"We had the usual complaints over hoovering and cleaning…all the usual chaos before you go home,\" Ms Marshall said.\n\n\"I lost my world, my everything, when Lucas went over the balcony. A fall, a jump, a slip, a moment of silliness, boyish behaviour, annoyed at his mum for nagging him over hoovering. I will never know.\n\n\"What I do know one million per cent is that if Lucas had truly known the repercussions of climbing over, he wouldn't have wanted that. He wouldn't have wanted to leave this world. Not yet.\"\n\nMr Briscoe, who has flown out to Spain, said: \"I am devastated. No-one expects to say goodbye to a child and not in circumstances like this. We are devastated at losing our precious, vibrant and loving son.\n\n\"Lucas was a memorable character - funny, outgoing, sociable - he is going to leave a big hole in a lot of lives.\"\n\nA Foreign Office spokesman said it was offering support to the family and is in contact with the Spanish police.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The death of PC Andrew Harper has been marked in his home town by ribbons attached to shop fronts and in windows, doorways, and displays.\n\nPC Harper, who grew up and lived in Wallingford, Oxfordshire, died while attending a reported break-in last week.", "Allison Williams has been on sick leave since June\n\nThe head of a health board at the centre of failings in maternity care at two hospitals has resigned following calls for her to consider her future.\n\nCwm Taf health board said Allison Williams stepped down as chief executive on Tuesday.\n\nIn June it was revealed she was on sick leave.\n\nIt follows a damning independent review that described maternity services at Royal Glamorgan and Prince Charles hospitals as \"dysfunctional\".\n\nReacting to the news, a Tory AM said it would be \"inappropriate\" for Ms Williams to receive a pay-off.\n\nHealth Minister Vaughan Gething put Cwm Taf maternity services into special measures following the review in April and an independent panel was put in place to oversee changes at the hospitals in Llantrisant and Merthyr Tydfil.\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 review by experts from two royal colleges was prompted by 25 serious incidents, including eight stillbirths and four neonatal deaths, between January 2016 and last September.\n\nConcerns emerged in late 2018 that women and babies may have come to harm because of staff shortages and failures to report serious incidents.\n\nMothers who came forward said they were ignored or made to feel worthless.\n\nAt the time Ms Williams said some of their accounts were \"nothing short of heartbreaking\" and the health board accepted the review's findings.\n\nCouncillor Andrew Morgan said he wrote to the health board with concerns in January\n\nBut the leader of Rhondda Cynon Taf council, Councillor Andrew Morgan, said he had lost confidence in the health board months before the review and called for a change of management.\n\nHe said at the time: \"It's still unclear who knew what and when but I still don't think the full picture has been revealed by the health board and for that reason I don't have confidence in the health board.\"\n\nSpeaking on Thursday about Ms Williams' resignation, Mr Morgan said it was \"the right decision\".\n\n\"Having spoken with patients and grieving families involved, and in light of the serious and unacceptable failings... I believe that it is in everyone's best interest that the CEO [chief executive officer] is replaced,\" he said.\n\n\"The tragic consequences of the systematic failings of this health board can never be allowed to happen again.\"\n\nPrince Charles Hospital now has an expanded special care baby unit and six en-suite delivery rooms\n\nTory AM for South Wales Central Andrew RT Davies said her resignation was \"no surprise given the recent scandal\", adding: \"Given the circumstances it would be inappropriate for any pay-off to have been agreed whilst the various inquiries are ongoing.\"\n\nLabour AM for Pontypridd Mick Antoniw said the resignation was \"the appropriate course of action\".\n\nPlaid Cymru AM for Mid and West Wales Helen Mary Jones said she was \"glad to hear\" of the resignation and Ms Williams \"must be held accountable for her failures\".\n\nShe added: \"Many of the families affected will feel that Ms Williams should have been held accountable and I share that view.\"\n\nRhondda Labour MP Chris Bryant said: \"I think she clearly made mistakes, she didn't keep the board fully informed and that included representatives from the local authority.\n\n\"My main interest at the moment is to try and make sure the maternity service that every single would-be mum gets is absolutely top quality. We have got lots of challenges,\" he told BBC Radio Wales' Mai Davies.\n\nSince March, the more complex maternity cases - overseen by consultants - have all gone to Merthyr. Facilities here include a special-care baby unit.\n\nHealth board chairman Prof Marcus Longley thanked Ms Williams for her dedication to the organisation.\n\nHe added: \"She has played a key role in securing university status for the organisation [and] has a demonstrable track record of strong engagement of clinicians, staff, trade unions and partners; and delivery of significant change that has led to the transformation of services and the NHS estate in the area.\"\n\nCardiff and Vale deputy chief executive Sharon Hopkins took over as Ms Williams' interim replacement when she went on sick leave.", "Last updated on .From the section Football\n\nFormer Ghana, Nottingham Forest and Bristol Rovers striker Junior Agogo has died at the age of 40.\n\nAgogo, who began his career at Sheffield Wednesday, played 27 times for his country and scored 12 goals.\n\nHe finished his career at Hibernian in 2012 having also had spells in the United States, Cyprus and Egypt.\n\nAgogo suffered a stroke in 2015 and struggled with his speech afterwards, telling a BBC Four documentary in 2017 he felt anxious about his language.\n\nAgogo sealed his place in the hearts of Ghana fans with his performances at the 2008 Africa Cup of Nations where he scored three goals including a late winner against Nigeria in Accra.\n\n\"I think that was the goal that sealed his popularity in Ghana,\" Laryea Kingston, the former Hearts midfielder said. \"During the tournament we could feel his influence in the team grow and his popularity go up but that goal sealed everything.\"\n\nDespite playing alongside big names like Michael Essien and Asamoah Gyan, Agogo was the team's star man.\n\n\"A lot of fans didn't know but those of us in the team knew he was going to be good for us,\" Kingston added.\n\n\"He spent a lot of time in the gym and his strength reflected in the way he played. He simply wanted to score goals and make a mark for the team and I am glad he did.\n\n\"He had a word for everyone, enjoyed a good dance, could tease a lot and take it too. This has really hit a lot of us.\"\n\nHis former clubs were among those to pay tribute on social media.", "Zippy Duvall has been a farmer for 34 years\n\nThe UK must accept US food standards as part of any future trade deal with Washington, the head of America's farming lobby has said.\n\nZippy Duvall, head of the American Farm Bureau, said US farmers were keen to trade with their British \"friends\".\n\nBut he said fears over practices such as washing chicken in chlorine and using genetically modified (GM) crops were not \"science-based\".\n\nThe US has said the UK will be \"first in line\" for a trade deal after Brexit.\n\nBut some fear the UK will have to compromise on standards currently enshrined in EU law in order to secure a deal with Washington.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. How would a no-deal Brexit affect your chicken dinner?\n\nMr Duvall, himself a poultry farmer in Georgia, said he wanted to have \"a conversation\" about US food standards given the concerns in the UK.\n\nOne of the most controversial practices is washing chicken with chlorine to kill germs, which is banned in the EU. This is not because the wash itself is harmful but over fears that treating meat with chlorine at the end allows poorer hygiene elsewhere in the production process.\n\n\"You know, here in America we treat our water with chlorine,\" Mr Duvall told the BBC's Today programme.\n\n\"So there is no scientific basis that says that washing poultry with a chlorine wash just to be safe of whatever pathogens might be on that chicken as it was prepared for the market, should be taken away.\n\n\"If there was something wrong with it our federal inspection systems would not be allowing us to use that,\" he added.\n\nIn London this week, Donald Trump's national security advisor John Bolton suggested that the US could strike trade deals with the UK after Brexit on a \"sector-by -sector basis\" to speed up the process.\n\nBut asked whether he could envisage a trade deal with the UK that did not include agriculture, Mr Duvall said it would be seen as a betrayal by US farmers.\n\n\"To have a trade treaty and not discuss agriculture would be turning your back on rural America and that's where a big part of our population lives.\"\n\nJohn Bolton said the UK would be \"first in line\" for a trade deal after Brexit.\n\nHe also dismissed concerns that a deal would expose British farmers to harmful competition from much larger US farms with lower production costs.\n\nMr Duvall said the British public should have the right to buy cheaper US produce if they wanted to.\n\n\"A lot of our farmers don't understand why other countries implement tariffs on our products but then they don't want us to implement any tariffs on our end, so we need to level that playing field, tear down all those barriers and let our people be able to make the choice of what food they want to eat and where it's grown at.\"\n\nSeparately, Mr Duvall said that President Donald Trump's trade war with China had created the \"perfect storm\" for US farmers, who were already suffering after a series of natural disasters devastated crops in some areas.\n\nSince 2018, the US and China have slapped tariffs on billions of dollars' worth of each other's goods and Beijing has specifically targeted US agricultural products such as soya beans.\n\nIt has led to a sharp drop in US farm exports to China and forced the Trump administration to pay subsidies to support American farmers. .\n\nHowever, Mr Duvall told the BBC that despite this, US farmers still supported Mr Trump's approach to China and viewed the \"short term pain\" as worth it.\n\n\"Historically, even though agriculture and trade have been growing all around the world it hasn't kept up to the pace that it should have as the middle class have been rising up, especially in Asia, and we think that we ought to have the opportunity to have a bigger piece of that market,\" he said.\n\n\"[US farmers] all will tell you that... they still support the president in his efforts to come up with fair trade for the farmers here in America.\"", "Angela Rayner says Labour would change the system \"by the end of our first term in office\"\n\nLabour says it would scrap the system of university places being offered on the basis of predicted grades and bring in a system of applying after results.\n\nThe party says the allocation of places on predicted grades is \"deeply unfair\".\n\nBut universities and schools say any changes would be complex and could mean an overhaul of the school calendar.\n\nThe proposals come as students across England, Wales and Northern Ireland prepare to receive their A-level and BTec results this week.\n\nResearch by the Department for Business Innovation and Skills in 2011 found 51.7% of all predictions were accurate, with 41.7% being over-predicted and 6.6% under-predicted.\n\nBlack applicants had the lowest percentage accuracy with only 39.1% of grades accurately predicted, while white applicants had the highest grade prediction accuracy at 53%.\n\nShadow education secretary Angela Rayner said \"radical change\" was needed for university admissions and is promising a new system of post-qualification admissions \"by the end of our first term in office\".\n\nMs Rayner said predicted grades were wrong \"in the vast majority of cases\" and disadvantaged students \"lost out on opportunities on the basis of those inaccurate predictions\".\n\n\"No-one should be left out of our education system just because of their background,\" she said, \"yet with grants scrapped and fees tripled, the system is now deeply unfair.\n\n\"A Labour government will deliver the reform that is needed... we will put students at the heart of the system, making it fairer, more accurate, and a genuine vehicle for social justice.\"\n\nMs Rayner acknowledged the move may require changes to the school calendar but said a Labour government would consult and work with the sector to design and implement the new system.\n\n\"We may have to look at then calendar and we are willing to do that because what we believe is more important is that students get the opportunity to get the best university for them based upon their actual grades,\" she told BBC Radio 4's Today programme.\n\nUniversities and schools say the proposals are not straightforward.\n\nClare Marchant, chief executive of the admissions service, Ucas, acknowledged a post-qualifications admissions (PQA) service had \"a natural appeal\".\n\nBut she said a UK-wide consultation it had carried out in 2012 had showed that \"if introduced wholesale within the current timetables, it would be likely to significantly disadvantage under-represented and disabled students, unless secondary and/or university calendars changed\".\n\nBlack students have the lowest level of grade prediction accuracy, figures show\n\nMs Marchant said disadvantaged students were more likely to be over-predicted, \"which can encourage them to make aspirational choices, with universities making realistic offers and taking near-miss candidates when confirming places\".\n\nUnder the current system, the Ucas boss added, about 78% of applicants received their first choice of university or college, regardless of their background.\n\n\"Clearing provides a PQA service for those students who want to wait until they have their results before applying. And in 2018, more than 17,500 students were accepted directly through this route,\" she said.\n\nMs Marchant said developing a PQA service that worked for everyone would need the support of students, teachers, qualification awarding bodies, the Student Loans Company, and universities and colleges, as well as a solution to timescale challenges.\n\nAnd Geoff Barton, general secretary of the Association of School and College Leaders, said changing the current system would \"represent a significant and complex change\".\n\n\"It would be extremely difficult to manage the entire applications process in the few weeks between A-level results in mid-August and the beginning of university terms in September or October and it is likely that we would need to rethink the entire calendar.\n\n\"It might be simpler to return to a system in which AS-levels counted towards the first year of the full A-level, as this allowed universities to use actual results in considering applications.\"\n\nBut Jo Grady, general secretary of the University and College Union, said Labour's plan would \"help level the playing field for students, remove the problems associated with unconditional offers and end the chaotic clearing scramble\".\n\n\"The current system, based on inaccurately predicted results, is failing students and it is time we adopted the type of system used around the rest of the world, where university offers are based on actual achievements instead of guesswork,\" she said.\n\nUniversities UK, which represents higher education institutions, is currently carrying out a review of the admissions process and is due to report back next spring.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. She tells Today her constituents are \"horrified\" at the Tory Party's \"shift to the right\"\n\nFormer Conservative MP Sarah Wollaston has joined the Liberal Democrats, saying it was the best way for her to fight for the UK to remain in the EU.\n\nMs Wollaston was one of three Tory MPs to quit the party in February and join what would become Change UK, but she left that newly-formed party in June.\n\nShe follows ex-Change UK and Labour MP Chuka Umunna in joining the Lib Dems - which now has 14 MPs.\n\nThe Totnes MP quit the Conservatives in February over the party's \"disastrous handling of Brexit\".\n\nShe told BBC Radio 4's Today programme that she had now joined the Liberal Democrats because of their work in \"making the unequivocal case for us to remain at the heart of Europe and tackle no deal, which would be a disaster\".\n\nIt is a \"time of national crisis\" and \"people wanted to see a single unified force making the case against no-deal\", she said.\n\nBut Ms Wollaston backed Lib Dem leader Jo Swinson in rejecting Labour's proposal for a caretaker government. She said their plan to stop the UK leaving the EU without a deal was not \"realistic\".\n\nInstead, she called for a \"trusted figure who commands cross-party support\", who was not a party leader, to take temporary control instead.\n\nMr Umunna told BBC Newsnight that Ms Wollaston's decision to join the Lib Dems was \"massive\" and underlined that it was the \"biggest and strongest Remain party in this country\".\n\nWhen asked if the Lib Dems expected any more defections, he said there were \"lots of conversations going on and there are lots of people on the train but only they ultimately know when they will arrive at the destination\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Sarah Wollaston MP This article contains content provided by Twitter. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nIt is the latest boost for Lib Dem leader Ms Swinson - who was elected in July - following the party's success in the Brecon and Radnorshire by-election on 1 August.\n\nMs Wollaston, who was first elected in Totnes in 2010, left the Tories alongside Heidi Allen and Anna Soubry in February to join an independent group.\n\nWhen asked if her newest MP should now trigger a by-election, Ms Swinson said she looked forward to seeing Ms Wollaston re-elected at a general election - which she expected to happen \"in months, if not weeks\".\n\nHeidi Allen, Anna Soubry and Sarah Wollaston quit the Tories to join an independent group\n\nHowever, she was among six MPs to leave Change UK - which has since become the Independent Group for Change - in June following a disappointing performance in the EU elections.\n\nLeader of the Independent Group for Change Anna Soubry said she would not be following Ms Wollaston in joining the Lib Dems.\n\nShe said the Lib Dem leader Ms Swinson had \"many of the qualities needed in a prime minister\" but added that her own party \"offers something that adds to the centrist movement\".", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The ex-chancellor says removing the Irish border 'backstop' is a \"wrecking tactic\"\n\nFormer Chancellor Philip Hammond has accused the PM of trying to wreck the chance of a new Brexit deal, by making demands the EU could never accept.\n\nIn a Times article, Mr Hammond said a no-deal Brexit would be \"a betrayal\" of the 2016 referendum result.\n\nHe told the BBC he was \"confident\" that Parliament \"has the means\" to express its opposition to a no-deal exit.\n\nA No 10 source said the UK would leave on 31 October despite Mr Hammond's \"best efforts to the contrary\".\n\nThe source added that Mr Hammond, as chancellor, \"did everything he could\" to block preparations for leaving and had \"undermined negotiations\".\n\nThe former chancellor rejected this suggestion in a tweet, saying he wanted to deliver Brexit \"and voted to do so three times\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Philip Hammond This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson has said he wants to leave the EU with a deal, but the UK must leave \"do or die\" by the latest Brexit deadline of 31 October.\n\nHe wants the EU to ditch the Irish border backstop plan from the deal negotiated by former PM Theresa May, which was rejected three times by Parliament.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Last week Boris Johnson said the EU should show 'common sense' on Brexit\n\nBut the EU has continued to insist that deal, including the backstop arrangements, is the only agreement possible.\n\nMany of those who voted against the deal had concerns over the backstop, which if implemented, would see Northern Ireland staying aligned to some rules of the EU single market.\n\nIt would also see the UK stay in a single customs territory with the EU, and align with current and future EU rules on competition and state aid.\n\nThese arrangements would apply unless and until both the EU and UK agreed they were no longer necessary.\n\nSpeaking on BBC Radio 4's Today programme, Mr Hammond said a no-deal exit would be \"just as much a betrayal of the referendum result as not leaving at all\".\n\nHe said that Mr Johnson's demand for the backstop to be entirely removed from the deal meant a no-deal was inevitable on the current 31 October deadline.\n\nHe said that agreeing to changes now would \"fragment\" the EU, adding: \"they are not going to take that risk\".\n\n\"Pivoting to say the backstop has to go in its entirety - a huge chunk of the withdrawal agreement just scrapped - is effectively a wrecking tactic,\" he said.\n\nHe also told Today that he was \"very confident\" MPs would be able to pass legislation to express their opposition to a no-deal exit.\n\nHowever he said he did not favour the tactic of replacing the PM with a national unity government designed to prevent no deal, saying: \"I don't think that's the answer\".\n\nIn his Times article, Mr Hammond said \"the unelected people who pull the strings of this government know that this is a demand the EU cannot, and will not, accede to.\"\n\nBBC political correspondent Tom Barton said that remark was an apparent aim at the prime minister's closest adviser, Dominic Cummings - the former Vote Leave campaign director.\n\nIt was a \"travesty of the truth\", Mr Hammond wrote, to pretend that Leave voters backed a no-deal Brexit in the 2016 referendum.\n\nBut Leave-supporting former Tory leader Iain Duncan Smith, also speaking on the Today programme, said he was \"astounded\" by Mr Hammond's remarks.\n\n\"Talk about hubris. This man did nothing to prepare us for leaving with no deal,\" he said.\n\n\"The fact we are now doing that means we have a much better chance to get some kind of agreement from them because they now know we're going to leave with no deal and he's undermining that.\"\n\nMr Hammond's comments come as Downing Street said it expected a group of MPs to try to block a no-deal Brexit by attempting to pass legislation when Parliament returns next month.\n\nThe Daily Telegraph reports that Commons Speaker John Bercow told an audience at the Edinburgh Fringe festival that he \"strongly\" believes the House of Commons \"must have its way\".\n\nHe said he would \"fight with every breath in my body\" any attempt by the prime minister to suspend Parliament to force through a no-deal against MPs' wishes.\n\nAmber Rudd says the government shouldn't work against MPs by suspending Parliament\n\nOn Tuesday, Work and Pensions Secretary Amber Rudd urged Mr Johnson not to force through a suspension.\n\nShe told the BBC: \"I remain a great admirer of Parliament and of parliamentary sovereignty and I will continue to argue for the executive of the government that I'm part of to work with Parliament, not against them.\"\n\nMeanwhile, 20 other senior Tory MPs have written to the prime minister to say his demand to scrap the Irish backstop \"set the bar so high that there is no realistic probability of a deal being done\".\n\nThe MPs said they were \"alarmed by the 'Red Lines' you have drawn which, on the face of it appear to eliminate the chance of reaching agreement with the EU\".\n\nThe group also demands that Mr Johnson declares he is firmly committed to leaving the EU with a deal and is ready to compromise to get one - pointing out those were assurances he gave during the leadership campaign \"both publicly and privately\".\n\nSeven other former cabinet ministers have signed the letter, including David Lidington, David Gauke, Rory Stewart and Greg Clark, all of whom resigned before Mr Johnson took office.\n\nUse the list below or select a button", "Nóra Quoirin went missing from her room on 4 August 2019\n\nThe parents of Nora Quoirin have identified a body found in Malaysia as that of the missing teenager.\n\nNora, who had special needs, was on holiday with her family when she disappeared from her room at the Dusun resort on 4 August.\n\nPolice said the 15-year-old Londoner's parents have confirmed the body discovered by a search team on Tuesday was their daughter.\n\nA post-mortem examination will be carried out on Wednesday.\n\nAbout 350 people had been hunting for Nora, who was of Irish-French descent, in dense jungle near the resort.\n\nHer body was found just over a mile (2km) away from the Dusun, according to BBC correspondent Howard Johnson.\n\nMalaysia's deputy police chief Mazlan Mansor said Nora was found beside a stream in a \"quite hilly\" area of plantation, and was \"not in any clothing\".\n\nRescuers found Nora's body near to the Dusun resort\n\nAuthorities have been treating Nora's disappearance as a missing persons case, but her family have said they believe she may have been abducted.\n\nHer cause of death has not yet been confirmed.\n\nNora was born with holoprosencephaly, a disorder which affects brain development, and her family said she was \"not independent and does not go anywhere alone\".\n\nOn Monday, her parents Meabh and Sebastien, a French-Irish couple who have lived in London for 20 years, put up a 50,000 Malaysian ringgit (£10,000) reward for help to find her.\n\nWhile announcing the reward, they described their daughter as being \"so precious to us\", adding their \"hearts are breaking\".\n\nMore than £115,000 has been donated on two crowdfunding sites set up by relatives to cover costs incurred by the family during the 10-day search.\n\nOver £100,000 has been raised on a page set up by Nora's aunt, while a second created by her uncle which allows people to pay in euros has reached more than €18,000 (£16,700).\n\nInvestigators previously said they had not ruled out a \"criminal element\" in the teenager's disappearance.\n\nAbout 350 people had been searching dense jungle for Nora\n\nNora, her parents and her younger brother and sister arrived at the resort in a nature reserve near Seremban, about 39 miles south of Kuala Lumpur, on 3 August for a two-week stay.\n\nHer father raised the alarm at 08:00 local time the next day after she was discovered missing from her bedroom.\n\nSearch teams were assisted by local Orang Asli people, who have knowledge of the jungle terrain, while two shamans also joined the operation.\n\nThe National Crime Agency (NCA), the Met Police, Irish and French police have also been providing support to Malaysian authorities.\n\nIrish President Michael D Higgins has offered his \"deepest condolences\" to Nora's family and thanked Malaysian authorities for their search efforts.\n\n\"Our thoughts and prayers are now with Nora's family, at this most difficult time,\" he said.\n\nTaoiseach Leo Varadkar tweeted: \"Our thoughts and sincere condolences are with Nora Quoirin's parents, siblings and wider family at this unimaginably difficult time.\"\n\nIn a statement, France's Ministry of Europe and Foreign Affairs said French police remain \"at the disposal of the Malaysian authorities so that light can be shed on the circumstances of her death\".\n\nMissing persons charity the Lucie Blackman Trust said it was \"thinking of the family and continue to support them as they come to terms with this news\".\n\nSt Bede's School in south London, which Nora attended, has opened its doors to allow the community \"to join in prayer for Nora and her family... in this heartbreaking and horrific moment\".\n\n3 August: The Quoirins arrive at the Dusun forest eco-resort\n\n5 August: The Lucie Blackman Trust says Malaysian police are treating Nora's disappearance as a potential abduction, but officers deny any foul play is involved\n\n6 August: Nora's family say they believe she has been abducted\n\n11 August: Malaysian police set up a hotline dedicated to receiving information about teenager\n\n12 August: A reward of £10,000 - donated by an anonymous Belfast business - is made available for information leading to Nora's safe return\n\n13 August: A body is found in the search for Nora\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Those rescued were initially treated at a local community centre\n\nFifteen people from an Irish college rescued from the sea in County Donegal were caught in a rip tide while out swimming.\n\nThe incident happened at Machaire Rabhartaigh in west Donegal. The Irish Coastguard was called at about 16:30 local time on Tuesday.\n\nEleven people, 10 of them teenagers, along with the principal of Gael Linn college, were taken to hospital.\n\nThey were treated for hypothermia and shock.\n\nAll but one were discharged on Tuesday night. The teenagers are understood to have been aged 14 and 15.\n\n\"They were swimming on the beach itself, the conditions were fine, but unfortunately, with the tide turning they got caught in a rip tide which basically takes you out to sea,\" Dara O Malley Daly of Malin Head Coastguard said.\n\n\"They were swept out maybe 200 or 300 metres, but the rip can take you out maybe 300 to 400 metres.\n\n\"It can be very disconcerting, you can be swimming along and everything's fine, but when a rip current comes, it just takes you out to sea.\n\n\"You can't swim against it - it's like a river flowing from the shore out to sea and it really catches people unawares.\"\n\nAs well as the Coastguard vessel, the 118 rescue helicopter - which had been on an exercise in the area - two fishing boats and the Tory Island ferry all took part in the rescue.\n\nMr O Malley Daly said it was fortunate there had not been a major tragedy.\n\n\"Fifteen people were in difficulty, thankfully everybody was successfully rescued,\" he said.\n\nAll, but one, of those rescued were discharged from hospital\n\n\"There could have been major casualties, but thankfully people on the shore had their mobile phones and they dialled 999.\"\n\nIt is understood the beach did not have lifeguards on it.\n\nMr O Malley Daly said anyone caught in a rip tide should try and swim parallel to the shore and not against the tide.\n\n\"That will get you out of it and then line up with something on shore, like a house or a pole and swim back to shore,\" he said.\n\n\"The other thing would be to swim at lifeguarded beaches. They'll have safe places to swim and they'll be able to advise you on rip currents that will appear at certain times.\"\n\nHe added: \"If you see anything that doesn't look right, doesn't feel right, we would ask you to call 999 and ask to speak to the Coastguard. Don't delay it.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Irish Coast Guard This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy 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 post on the Gael Linn Facebook page read: \"The Irish coastguard, together with local people and college staff, assisted in the rescue.\n\n\"The good news is that everybody is fine and all have been discharged with the exception of the college principal who is making a good recovery.\n\n\"The parents of the students involved were contacted immediately.\"", "An armed man has been arrested in Sydney after at least one woman was stabbed.\n\nVideo captured in central Sydney shows the dramatic moment bystanders intervened to apprehend the suspect.", "An autopsy is \"ongoing\" into teenager Nora Quoirin's death and the site where her body was found is still being investigated, Malaysian police said.\n\nThe 15-year-old \"vulnerable\" Londoner was discovered beside a stream about 1.6 miles (2.5km) from the jungle resort of Dusun on Tuesday.\n\nShe was on holiday with her family when she disappeared from her room during the night of 4 August.\n\nPolice are hoping to give information about the cause of death on Thursday.\n\nSembilan state deputy police chief Che Zakaria Othman said: \"The post-mortem started at 11:45 local time (03:45 GMT) and it hasn't been completed, so we have not yet received the cause of death, how she passed away.\n\n\"The pathologists are still doing the autopsy.\"\n\nSearch personnel had to deal with difficult conditions in the jungle\n\nAccording to Reuters, the Paris prosecutor has opened a kidnapping investigation into Ms Quoirin's death.\n\nMeabh and Sebastien Quoirin, her Irish-French parents, earlier made a statement through the missing person's charity the Lucie Blackman Trust.\n\n\"The cruelty of her being taken away is unbearable. Our hearts are broken,\" it said.\n\n\"Nora is at the heart of our family. She is the truest, most precious girl and we love her infinitely.\"\n\nThe trust has appealed for people not to speculate about what happened to Nora.\n\n\"There will be a time for comment but that time is not now. Let the family grieve in peace,\" it said.\n\nNora was born with holoprosencephaly, a disorder which affects brain development, and her family said she was \"not independent and did not go anywhere alone\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Volunteer searchers in Malaysia describe how they found the body of Nora Quoirin\n\nDeputy police chief Mazlan Mansor told reporters at a press conference on Tuesday that the body \"was not in any clothing\" and that their probe was considering all possibilities, including the \"angle of criminal investigation\".\n\nDuring the 10-day search the teenager's parents thanked those looking for her, as fundraising pages set up by Nora's aunt and uncle collected more than £100,000 from well-wishers.\n\nA book of condolence was opened on Wednesday in Belfast, where Mrs Quoirin is from and the Lord Mayor of Belfast, John Finucane, was the first to sign it.\n\nHe said: \"It is heart-breaking. I don't think this is something that would be easily dealt with in any circumstance but the fact that they are so far away from home in Malaysia.\"\n\nThe head teacher at Nora's school in Wandsworth, south-west London, paid tribute to her as \"a delight to work with\" and said her fellow pupils and others who knew her would be supported at this time.\n\nMike Reeves said: \"The Garratt Park School community is deeply shocked and saddened by this awful news.\n\n\"Nora was a delight to work with, and focused very hard on making the best of her abilities.\"\n\nNora, her parents and her younger brother and sister arrived at the resort in a nature reserve near Seremban, about 39 miles south of Kuala Lumpur, on 3 August for a two-week stay.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Nora Quoirin went missing from her room on 4 August\n\nThe family of British teenager Nora Quoirin, whose body has been found in Malaysia, have said their \"hearts are broken\".\n\nNora, who had special needs, was found just over a mile away from the Dusun resort on Tuesday.\n\nThe 15-year-old Londoner had been on holiday with her family when she disappeared from her room on 4 August.\n\nIn a statement, her family thanked the 350 people who had been hunting for Nora in dense jungle near the resort.\n\nThey added: \"Nora has brought people together, especially from France, Ireland, Britain and Malaysia, united in their love and support for her and her family.\n\n\"She has truly touched the whole world.\n\n\"The cruelty of her being taken away is unbearable. Our hearts are broken.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Volunteer searchers in Malaysia describe how they found the body of Nora Quoirin\n\nHer cause of death has not yet been confirmed and Malaysian police said a post-mortem examination was under way.\n\nPolice said the teenager's parents confirmed the body discovered by a search team was their daughter.\n\nMalaysia's deputy police chief Mazlan Mansor said Nora, who was of Irish-French descent, was found beside a stream in a \"quite hilly\" area of plantation, and was \"not in any clothing\".\n\nAuthorities have been treating her disappearance as a missing persons case, but her family have said they believe she may have been abducted.\n\nNora was born with holoprosencephaly, a disorder which affects brain development, and her family said she was \"not independent and does not go anywhere alone\".\n\nOn Monday, her parents Meabh and Sebastien, a French-Irish couple who have lived in London for 20 years, put up a 50,000 Malaysian ringgit (£10,000) reward for help to find her.\n\nNora, her parents and her younger brother and sister arrived at the resort in a nature reserve near Seremban, about 39 miles south of Kuala Lumpur, on 3 August for a two-week stay.\n\n3 August: The Quoirins arrive at the Dusun forest eco-resort\n\n5 August: The Lucie Blackman Trust says Malaysian police are treating Nora's disappearance as a potential abduction, but officers deny any foul play is involved\n\n6 August: Nora's family say they believe she has been abducted\n\n11 August: Malaysian police set up a hotline dedicated to receiving information about teenager\n\n12 August: A reward of £10,000 - donated by an anonymous Belfast business - is made available for information leading to Nora's safe return\n\n13 August: A body is found in the search for Nora\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The Official Receiver is to announce this week that an investment arm of Turkey's armed forces pension fund is the preferred bidder for British Steel.\n\nAtaer Holding would then be given several weeks to try to buy British Steel - the owner of the Scunthorpe works - out of insolvency.\n\nBritish Steel was put into compulsory liquidation in May, when the Official Receiver was appointed.\n\nIt is the investment vehicle of the Turkish Armed Forces Assistance Fund (known as Oyak), the pension fund for the country's armed forces.\n\nSome 5,000 jobs were put at risk - and 20,000 in the supply chain - when talks broke down in May between the government and British Steel's owner, Greybull.\n\nBritish Steel has about 5,000 employees. There are 3,000 at Scunthorpe, with another 800 on Teesside and in north-eastern England.\n\nThe company was transferred to the Official Receiver because British Steel, its shareholders and the government were not able to, or would not, support the business.\n\nThe Financial Times reported that Oyak is chaired by Mehmet Tas, a former army general, and its annual general meeting in May was attended by Turkey's defence minister and the head of the country's armed forces.\n\nIt already has interests in cement, agriculture, mining and energy, as well as a joint venture with French carmaker Renault and revenues of $9.8bn (£8.1bn) last year.\n\nThe paper said Ataer, established by Oyak in 2005, plans to embark on a spate of global steel acquisitions and considers buying British Steel a \"bold\" first step that would be a signal of intent.\n\nUnite assistant general secretary Steve Turner said the union was meeting with the administrator on Thursday and that reports of a buyer were speculation.\n\n\"Unite understands from previous scheduled meetings that there are three serious bidders who are interested in buying British Steel as a going concern.\n\n\"With regards to the potential bid from the Turkish military pension fund. While we welcome it as a serious proposition, Unite will be watching this closely and speaking with our Turkish sister unions given Turkey's record of repression alongside reported opposition to independent trade union organisation in its Turkish steel plants.\"\n\nProf Barbara Shollock, head of engineering at King's College London, told Radio 5 live's Wake Up to Money that linking the Scunthorpe steelmaker with one in Turkey may make commercial sense.\n\n\"The British steel industry is highly regarded, the products that they make are high value and high quality... Perhaps joining in with a stronger European presence [the Turkish fund] might feel that they are consolidating their market and broadening their opportunities.\"\n\nShe said it was a \"challenging situation\".\n\n\"[Steel] is what we call a foundation industry and that means that it is one of the core producers of materials that feed into other manufacturing and key things like rail, automotive, construction even, so it is very important that we have strong foundations.\"\n\nState-owned Network Rail - which buys 100,000 tonnes of rails from British Steel each year - has said it wants to take over the British Steel division responsible for the welding, finishing and storing of rails for the UK's train network, although it has said it would prefer a bidder for the whole company to be found.", "Boris Johnson was a key figure in the 2016 Brexit referendum\n\nA man who tried to prosecute Boris Johnson over claims he lied during the 2016 EU referendum has lost his bid to take the case to the Supreme Court.\n\nMarcus Ball accused the prime minister of \"abusing public trust\" by claiming the NHS could get £350m extra a week after Brexit.\n\nThe High Court threw out his case in June - but Mr Ball applied for leave to appeal to the UK's highest court.\n\nThe proceedings were started at Westminster Magistrates' Court in May when Mr Ball applied for a summons accusing Mr Johnson of three allegations of misconduct in public office.\n\nMr Johnson's lawyers have always rejected claims he acted improperly or dishonestly in any way and challenged the case at the High Court.\n\nMr Ball could still continue his legal battle by applying directly to the Supreme Court, challenging the decision in the European Courts or making another attempt at a prosecution.\n\n\"This isn't over, we are not giving up,\" he said outside the High Court after the ruling. \"We are pursuing it, absolutely.\"\n\nHe later said in a statement: \"The offence of misconduct in public office has itself never come before the Supreme Court and is in great need of their attention and clarification.\"\n\nThe £350m figure was used by the pro-Brexit Vote Leave group during the referendum.\n\nIt also appeared on the side of a campaign bus, which urged the UK to \"fund our NHS instead\".\n\nThe claim was criticised by, among others, the UK's statistics watchdog.\n\nMarcus Ball has said he will continue to pursue the case\n\nMr Ball crowdfunded more than £390,000 for legal fees to fight the case, arguing: \"We do not send that amount of money to the EU each week.\n\n\"We have evidence that Mr Johnson knew that we don't.\"\n\nHe sought to prosecute the Tory MP and ex-Mayor of London on three counts of misconduct in public office.\n\nHowever, the High Court said last month it was not proved Mr Johnson had been acting in a public office.\n\nLady Justice Rafferty - one of the the High Court judges who threw the case out in June - made a brief announcement on the decision to block the case from the Supreme Court on Wednesday.\n\n\"This application for leave to appeal to the Supreme Court is rejected,\" she said.", "Emilia Clarke will star in Last Christmas, which is inspired by George Michael's music\n\nAn unreleased, six-minute song from the late George Michael will feature in a new movie loosely based on his music.\n\nLast Christmas, released later this year, is set to star Emilia Clarke, Henry Golding and Emma Thompson.\n\nIts director Paul Feig told BBC News: \"[George Michael] was putting together his new album when he passed.\n\n\"And one of our tracks is one of those songs, and it's just an absolutely amazing song that I'm so excited the world is going to get to hear now.\"\n\nGeorge Michael was found dead on Christmas Day in 2016 at his home in Goring, Oxfordshire.\n\nLast Christmas focuses on a young aspiring singer (played by Clarke), whose hero is George Michael. Feig explains the singer's music \"sort of travels with her as she goes through her life\" in the storyline.\n\nSpeaking about the new track, he continued: \"It's a very celebratory song, I would dare say. And we were able to play the entire song, which is almost six minutes long, in the film.\n\n\"Because when you get a song that has never been heard, you don't want to just use, like, 15 seconds of it. The song starts at the end of the film, and then goes into the credits.\"\n\nEmilia Clarke is best known for starring in fantasy series Game of Thrones\n\nLast Christmas is set to be released next July (just kidding, it's out in November) and stars Henry Golding and Michelle Yeoh, both of whom also appeared together in Crazy Rich Asians.\n\nThe first trailer for the film premiered on Wednesday morning.\n\nUntil now, the exact format of Last Christmas has been unclear, with fans wondering whether Michael's music would be just used as the soundtrack, or whether songs would actually be sung by the characters.\n\n\"It's not a musical, but George's music affects the story,\" Feig clarifies. \"There are a couple of sections where the actors are actually interacting with the music and other sections where George's music is driving, or underscoring the story. So it's a nice mix of being neither a jukebox movie nor straight up musical.\"\n\nIt is far from the first film to be based on the back catalogue of a particular band or artist. Mamma Mia and its sequel were huge box office smashes, while Bohemian Rhapsody took home four Oscars earlier this year.\n\nPaul Feig has also directed Bridesmaids and the all-female Ghostbusters reboot\n\nMovie trailers nowadays can be instantly dissected and dismissed by Twitter, the immediacy of which means a film can suffer an instant backlash long before it's even hit cinemas.\n\nThe Cats trailer was a victim of this recently, with fans complaining about the appearance of some of the characters. And Feig's own Ghostbusters reboot became YouTube's most disliked movie trailer after a concerted campaign by fans of the original to vote it down.\n\nDoes the critical world of social media make directors like Feig more nervous about trailer premieres now?\n\n\"I mean, you get nervous for everything that comes out, you get nervous when the poster comes out, when the trailer comes out, when the movie comes out. But that's why we have taken our time to get this out, because we wanted to get it right.\n\n\"But I'm at the point now, where, where I'm just excited to get it out there because we spent so long kind of wringing our hands and going, 'is this right? Try this, try that'.\n\nCrazy Rich Asians star Henry Golding also stars in Last Christmas\n\n\"So now we throw it to the internet and see what they say. Everybody kind of likes to take their shots at people in showbiz, but I would like to say that our intentions are completely pure. We're never like, 'alright, let's see what these suckers will go for'. It's like, 'Oh, we love this. We can't wait to share this with you', we're really proud of it.'\"\n\nThe trailer received a broadly positive response on social media after its premiere on Wednesday morning:\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Ashley Spencer This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy 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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If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Hundreds of villagers have been evacuated as firefighters battle the flames in Evia, the country's second biggest island.\n\nThe blaze which covered large areas of the island has generated clouds of smoke that have reached Athens, 70 miles (112km) away.", "The body recovered from the wreckage of a crashed plane is that of Cardiff City player Emiliano Sala, Dorset Police have said.\n\nSala, 28, was travelling to Cardiff in a plane piloted by David Ibbotson, which went missing over the English Channel on 21 January.\n\nThe Argentine's body was recovered late on Wednesday after the wreckage was found on Sunday morning.\n\nIn a statement, the force said: \"The body brought to Portland Port today, Thursday 7 February 2019, has been formally identified by HM Coroner for Dorset as that of professional footballer Emiliano Sala.\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\n\"The families of Mr Sala and the pilot David Ibbotson have been updated with this news and will continue to be supported by specially-trained family liaison officers.\"\n\nThe body was spotted in the wreckage of the plane on Monday and the authorities were able to recover it two days later, despite \"challenging conditions\".\n\nThe Air Accidents Investigations Branch (AAIB) said the operation had been carried out in \"as dignified a way as possible\" and the men's families were kept updated throughout.\n\nEmiliano Sala (left) was on board a plane being flown by pilot David Ibbotson\n\nThe Geo Ocean III, which was involved in finding the wreckage, took the body back to the nearest port of Portland in Dorset, where the body was formally identified.\n\nThe Piper Malibu N264DB was en route from France to Cardiff, after the Argentine striker made a quick trip back to his former club Nantes two days after his £15m transfer to Cardiff was announced.\n\nIn a post on Instagram, Sala's sister Romina paid tribute, saying: \"Your soul in my soul, it will shine forever thus illuminating the time of my existence. I love you, tito.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Sol Bamba This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nCardiff City issued a statement shortly after identification was confirmed saying: \"We offer our most heartfelt sympathies and condolences to the family of Emiliano. He and David will forever remain in our thoughts.\"\n\nSome of the club's players reacted via Twitter. Full back Joe Bennett wrote \"RIP Emiliano\", while centre-half Sol Bamba posted a black-and-white image of the team-mate he never got to play alongside.\n\nStars from the wider footballing world also paid tribute.\n\nChelsea defender Antonio Rudiger wrote: \"Heartbreaking to hear the news about Emiliano Sala. Rest in peace! Thoughts go out to the family and friends of Emiliano and the pilot.\"\n\nAnd Arsenal's Mesut Ozil tweeted: \"No words to describe how sad this is. Thoughts and prayers go out to his family and also to the family of the pilot.\"\n\nMr Ibbotson, 59, from Crowle, North Lincolnshire, was at the controls when the flight lost contact with air traffic controllers on 21 January.\n\nAn official search was called off on 24 January after Guernsey's harbour master said the chances of survival were \"extremely remote\".\n\nBut an online appeal started by Sala's agent raised £324,000 (371,000 euros) for a private search led by marine scientist and oceanographer David Mearns.\n\nWorking jointly with the AAIB, his ship and the Geo Ocean III, began combing a four square mile area of the English Channel, 24 nautical miles north of Guernsey, to make best use of the available sensors.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nMr Mearns said the plane was identified by sonar, 67m (220ft) below the surface, before a submersible with cameras was sent underwater to confirm this.\n\nFollowing the confirmation, he also tweeted his tribute.\n\n\"I was glad to provide some small comfort to Romina, Mercedes and the whole Sala family during the past two weeks but my heart goes out to the family and friends of David Ibbotson whose loss is the same,\" Mr Mearns said.\n\nCardiff fans left a sea of flowers outside the Cardiff City Stadium in tribute to Emiliano Sala\n\nDuring the recovery operation, the AAIB used a remotely operated underwater vehicle (ROV) to aid the search, with no divers involved.\n\nThe body was moved first, and separately from the wreckage, to maximise the chances of it being successfully brought to the surface.\n\nIt said efforts to recover the crashed plane as a whole proved unsuccessful, before being abandoned due to poor weather.\n\n\"The weather forecast is poor for the foreseeable future and so the difficult decision was taken to bring the overall operation to a close,\" the AAIB said in a statement.\n\nThe AAIB released this photograph of the wreckage of the Piper Malibu\n\nHowever, the AAIB said video footage captured by the ROV would provide \"valuable evidence\" for its safety investigation.\n\nMr Mearns told BBC Radio Wales the AAIB could not have continued searching in the current conditions and admitted finding Mr Ibbotson's would be difficult.\n\nHe added: \"I've been involved in operations when people were lost and the bodies were found days and weeks after, not far from where they were lost.\n\n\"But this is a pretty dynamic place. It's got fairly strong currents, it's not that deep water, you've got a lot of fishing activity, a lot of scallop dredgers moving in and out of the location.\n\n\"You cannot expect that the body is going to be in that location for an extended period of time.\"\n\nMeanwhile, it has emerged that Sala's former club, French Ligue 1 side Nantes, has demanded Cardiff City pay his £15m transfer fee.\n\nSala was Cardiff's record signing but never played for the club.\n\nThe fee was due to be paid over three years but Cardiff have withheld the first scheduled payment until they are satisfied with the documentation.", "Details of A-level grade boundaries for all papers set by two exam boards have been leaked on social media a day before the results are published.\n\nThe documents reveal that A-level maths candidates needed little more than half marks to get a grade A in papers set by both Pearson/Edexcel and OCR.\n\nExam boards send marking schemes to schools in confidence ahead of the results to help them prepare students.\n\nThey said confidentiality was usually respected.\n\nA-level students are due to get their results on Thursday.\n\nThe leaked Edexcel documents, first reported in the Daily Telegraph, show A-level maths candidates needed 55% to get the A grade, while candidates with the OCR board needed 54%.\n\nEdexcel's biology students needed 56% (167 marks out of 300) for an A, while OCR's candidates needed 59% (158 out of 270).\n\nIn physics, candidates needed 59% (176 out of 300) for a grade A with Edexcel, while with OCR, this was 76% (204 out of 270).\n\nIn English literature, candidates with the OCR board needed 89% for an A grade - significantly higher than those with Edexcel, who needed 69% (208 marks out of 300) to get A.\n\nThis summer is the first time that grades for new-specification A-level maths are being awarded to the vast majority of students.\n\nThe exam was reported by students to be very challenging, but the exam board had said before the leak emerged that it was clear the paper was of an appropriate standard.\n\nExam boards set grade boundaries once all the results are in.\n\nThey take into account the predicted achievement levels of the cohort taking the exam and the difficulty of the paper, in an attempt to keep standards the same from year to year.\n\nResponding to the leak, a spokesman for Pearson said: \"Our systems are working as they should and the information was shared today via a password-protected, secure website.\n\n\"Boards do ask schools not to share this widely to avoid unnecessary stress for students awaiting their results.\n\n\"Schools are trusted to treat the info confidentially on behalf of their students - and the vast majority do.\"\n\nA spokesman for Cambridge Assessment, which owns the OCR board, said: \"We provide schools and colleges with results information, including grade boundaries, the day before results day on a special site which is accessible to exams officers.\n\n\"Grade boundaries are then released by schools to their students on results day and we publish them on our website.\n\n\"We do it this way to minimise the chance of students feeling anxious if they see grade boundaries without their results — which can lead some to jump to the wrong conclusion.\"\n\nGeneral secretary of the Association of School and College Leaders Geoff Barton said: \"We are extremely disappointed if grade boundaries have been leaked ahead of results day.\"\n\nBut he said was a pointless exercise because the purpose of grade boundaries was to account for differences in the difficulty of papers so that students were not disadvantaged from one year to the next.\n\n\"We would urge students against losing sleep over grade boundaries and to wait for their results tomorrow.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Last updated on .From the section Football\n\nLiverpool won the Super Cup for the fourth time in their history by beating Chelsea 5-4 on penalties after a 2-2 draw in Istanbul.\n\nGoalkeeper Adrian kept out Tammy Abraham's spot kick to secure victory for the Champions League winners.\n\nChelsea had taken the lead in the first half through Olivier Giroud's clinical strike but Sadio Mane scored twice to give Liverpool the lead.\n\nJorginho's spot-kick took the game to penalties, where Liverpool triumphed.\n\nThe win comes just two months after Jurgen Klopp won his first trophy as Liverpool boss when he led the Reds to a 2-0 win over Tottenham in the Champions League final.\n\nGames between these two sides in Europe have historically been tight affairs, with just one of their 10 previous meetings having been won by a margin of more than one goal.\n\nIt was the same again on Wednesday night as the two teams tussled for 120 minutes in a game that did not finish until almost 1am in Istanbul.\n\nIn the end, it came down to who could keep their cool in the sweltering heat and after nine excellent penalties, Abraham placed his shot too close to Adrian to hand Liverpool their first silverware of the season.\n• None Football Daily podcast: Liverpool win silverware on penalties in Istanbul ... again\n\nTwo weeks ago Adrian was without a club, having been released by West Ham at the end of last season.\n\nBut, following Simon Mignolet's departure to Club Brugge, Klopp snapped up the 32-year-old shot-stopper to provide experienced cover for Alisson.\n\nAdrian had barely had time to get to know his new team-mates when he was called upon earlier than expected as Liverpool's first-choice goalkeeper injured his calf in the 4-1 win against Norwich in the Premier League's season-opener last Friday.\n\nWith Alisson facing a spell on the sidelines, Adrian made his full debut against Chelsea. It was his first competitive start since January, but he showed little signs of nerves or rustiness, catching the eye in the first half when he sprung off his line to deny Mateo Kovacic from close range.\n\nThere was little he could do about Chelsea's opener, which was a clinical finish by Giroud, although he did give away the penalty deep in extra time when he took the legs of Abraham.\n\nBut that gave him the platform to produce his penalty shootout heroics, which will give him and the Liverpool fans confidence he can be an able deputy during Alisson's absence.\n\nTwo defeats, but promising signs from Chelsea\n\nChelsea lost 4-0 at Manchester United on Sunday and while this was another defeat for the Blues and their new manager Frank Lampard, there were plenty of positives to be taken from Wednesday night's performance.\n\nLampard fielded a young side at Old Trafford but turned to the older heads in his squad for this game. The added bit of experience and quality showed, particularly in a dominant first-half display.\n\nN'Golo Kante was by far the best player on the pitch in the opening 45 minutes as he pulled the strings in midfield, while Giroud showed the clinical finishing that was absent for the Blues at the weekend.\n\nChristian Pulisic also caught the eye on his first competitive start for Chelsea.\n\nThe 20-year-old American provided a creative spark, while his movement and vision had more than a hint of Eden Hazard about them.\n\nOne moment that caught the eye saw him run onto a through ball in the first half, cut inside before tucking a neat finish inside the near post. However, the goal was ruled out for offside following a VAR check.\n\nIf Lampard is able to get the balance of youth and experience right in his first XI, Chelsea could be an exciting team to watch this season.\n\nHistory was made in the game as France's Stephanie Frappart became the first woman to referee a major European men's game.\n\nThe 35-year-old has officiated matches in the third division of men's football in France and refereed the Women's World Cup final in France this summer.\n\nFrappart, who led a team largely made up of female officials which included assistant referees Manuela Nicolosi of France and Michelle O'Neill from the Republic of Ireland, was praised on social media for her performance.\n\nShe let the game flow, while VAR was not called upon in the game to overturn any of her decisions.\n\nChelsea come close again - the stats\n• None Only Barcelona and AC Milan (5) have won the Super Cup more times than Liverpool (4).\n• None Chelsea have now lost three consecutive Super Cup appearances (2012, 2013 and 2019) - only Barcelona and Sevilla (four each) have been runners-up on more occasions.\n• None This was the 11th match between Liverpool and Chelsea in European competition, making it the most-played European fixture between two sides from the same nation.\n• None With the scores level at 1-1 after 90 minutes, this was the fifth time in the past seven seasons the Super Cup has gone to extra time or penalties.\n• None Liverpool became the first Premier League club to be involved in two penalty shootouts in the same month since Middlesbrough in February 2007.\n• None Olivier Giroud has scored 12 goals in 16 appearances in European competition for Chelsea, compared with just seven goals in 49 domestic games for the Blues.\n• None Liverpool's Sadio Mane became the first African player to score in the Super Cup since Frederic Kanoute for Sevilla vs Barcelona in 2006.\n\n'I've nothing but pride' - what they said\n\nLiverpool manager Jurgen Klopp speaking to BT Sport: \"It was a very difficult game for both teams. It was all about winning it and we did that in the end.\n\n\"Nobody in the stadium wanted extra time, it was a killer. I'm not sure about the penalty but who cares now.\n\n\"We started well then dropped off... we could talk about football but it's too late now. We had to fight and the boys did tonight.\"\n\nChelsea manager Frank Lampard speaking to BT Sport: \"I've got nothing but pride in the team and the performance, and confidence in what that means.\n\n\"It was a tough game against a good Liverpool team that had extra time to recover after the weekend. But sometimes football comes down to little moments of luck.\"\n\nLiverpool travel to Southampton in the Premier League on Saturday (15:00 BST), while Chelsea host Leicester the following day (16:00 BST)\n• None Penalty saved! Tammy Abraham (Chelsea) fails to capitalise on this great opportunity, right footed shot saved in the centre of the goal.\n• None Goal! Liverpool 2(5), Chelsea 2(4). Mohamed Salah (Liverpool) converts the penalty with a left footed shot to the bottom left corner.\n• None Goal! Liverpool 2(4), Chelsea 2(4). Emerson (Chelsea) converts the penalty with a left footed shot to the centre of the goal.\n• None Goal! Liverpool 2(4), Chelsea 2(3). Trent Alexander-Arnold (Liverpool) converts the penalty with a right footed shot to the bottom left corner.\n• None Goal! Liverpool 2(3), Chelsea 2(3). Mason Mount (Chelsea) converts the penalty with a right footed shot to the top left corner.\n• None Goal! Liverpool 2(3), Chelsea 2(2). Divock Origi (Liverpool) converts the penalty with a right footed shot to the bottom left corner.\n• None Goal! Liverpool 2(2), Chelsea 2(2). Ross Barkley (Chelsea) converts the penalty with a right footed shot to the bottom right corner.\n• None Goal! Liverpool 2(2), Chelsea 2(1). Fabinho (Liverpool) converts the penalty with a right footed shot to the bottom right corner.\n• None Goal! Liverpool 2(1), Chelsea 2(1). Jorginho (Chelsea) converts the penalty with a right footed shot to the bottom left corner.\n• None Goal! Liverpool 2(1), Chelsea 2. Roberto Firmino (Liverpool) converts the penalty with a right footed shot to the bottom left corner.\n• None Delay over. They are ready to continue.\n• None Delay in match because of an injury Fabinho (Liverpool).\n• None Offside, Chelsea. Mason Mount tries a through ball, but Tammy Abraham is caught offside.\n• None Attempt saved. Mason Mount (Chelsea) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the bottom right corner. Assisted by Pedro. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page", "More than half of qualifications awarded for 16-18 year olds in England are for vocational courses, like BTECs and City&Guilds. Today thousands of students receive their BTEC results.\n\nThe government says it wants to reform the sector and is rolling out T-level courses in autumn 2020. The new two-year courses will follow on from GCSEs and be equivalent to three A-levels.\n\nRead more: Who are the students who didn't just do A-levels?", "The Work and Pensions Secretary Amber Rudd has told the BBC that unemployment \"could go up\" if the UK leaves the European Union without a deal.\n\nShe also said the prime minister and cabinet should remember parliament could not be ignored in a push towards what she said was a \"far inferior\" no-deal Brexit.\n\nThe cabinet minister said she was delighted with Tuesday's record employment figures, which showed wages rising faster than prices for nearly a year and a half.\n\nBut after her apparent U-turn on no deal ahead of rejoining the cabinet under Boris Johnson, Ms Rudd cautioned against both ignoring the Commons and setting an election date to avoid a parliamentary say on no deal.\n\nReminded that she had previously said shutting down parliament would be a ridiculous thing to do, Ms Rudd said she remained \"a great admirer of parliament and of parliamentary sovereignty\".\n\n\"I will continue to argue for the executive of the government that I'm part of to work with parliament, not against them,\" she said.\n\nAsked if she could back a situation where an election was held on purpose so that parliament did not have its say on no deal, she said there had been a lot of speculation.\n\n\"I will play my part in cabinet and privately with the prime minister and with ministers in arguing strongly for respecting parliamentary sovereignty.\n\n\"And you know, I'm a member of parliament. The prime minister and all cabinet members are members of parliament. We need to remember where our authority comes from.\"\n\nMs Rudd was speaking to the BBC in her first full interview after rejoining the cabinet, on a visit to female engineers working on the Thames Tideway infrastructure project.\n\nShe said she was \"jealous\" of \"every single pound\" of the £2bn of new money earmarked towards no-deal Brexit preparations and wanted to see more money going towards universal credit and ending the benefits freeze.\n\nLast month, the Office for Budget Responsibility released a no-deal scenario that showed £9bn extra in welfare spending and a 400,000 reduction in employment.\n\nMs Rudd said she did not accept the specific numbers, and said the government was focused on putting in place measures to mitigate any job losses.\n\n\"Government is certainly aware that if we do have a no-deal exit, there will be adverse consequences. [Unemployment] could go up, yes. And I would much prefer to see us get a deal\".\n\nAsked why her cabinet colleagues were gung ho for an outcome that could hit workers' jobs, she replied: \"I don't think people are gung ho - certainly not the people I sit with in cabinet. We know that no deal is a far inferior prospect than a deal\".", "Drugs firm Aspen is to pay £8m to the NHS after an investigation into the supply of a life-saving drug to thousands of patients.\n\nThe Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) said the firm offered to make the payment following an investigation.\n\nThe CMA said it suspects competition law was broken after Aspen paid two rivals to stay out of the market.\n\nThis left Aspen as the only UK supplier of fludrocortisone and able to set prices without competition, it added.\n\nAspen may also have to pay an additional £2.1m fine if the CMA formally decides the company broke the law.\n\nAndrea Coscelli, the CMA's chief executive, said it was \"unacceptable for the NHS - and the taxpayers who fund it - to have to pay millions of pounds more than they should for this life-saving drug\".\n\nThe prescription-only fludrocortisone is mainly used to treat Addison's Disease, a rare deficiency of the adrenal glands.\n\nThis is the first time a CMA investigation will secure a payment such as this for the NHS.\n\nIn addition, Aspen will ensure that there are at least two fludrocortisone suppliers in the UK.\n\nShares in the firm dropped nearly 7% after the announcement.\n\nAspen said in a statement to investors that commitments it made, including the £8m payment to the NHS, did not \"constitute an admission of any wrongdoing by Aspen\" under EU law.\n\nHowever, it said it had admitted liability \"for entering into an agreement to acquire a potential competitor in fludrocortisone with the consequence that the conclusion of this agreement resulted in anti-competitive behaviour\".\n\nIt added that the CMA would impose a penalty \"which shall not exceed £2,101,954\".", "FirstGroup is to take over the running of the West Coast mainline train route, connecting London Euston to Glasgow Central, from December.\n\nAlong with Italian firm Trenitalia, FirstGroup said the route would pave the way for an era of high-speed rail.\n\nFirst Trenitalia replaces Virgin Trains, which was barred from bidding to keep the route.\n\nTransport Secretary Grant Shapps said the bid was part of a shift to a new model for rail.\n\nMr Shapps said the partnership was supported by Keith Williams, who has been commissioned to look at changes to the rail franchising system and who has told the BBC that government involvement should be limited to overall policy and budget decisions.\n\nThe transport secretary told BBC Radio 4's Today programme that it was a \"new type of contract, the idea here is that the risk is shared so that when it comes to the changes that Keith Williams has proposed this is fully compliant with it.\n\n\"We need them [the rail companies] paid for running the blooming trains on time and not for doing a bunch of other things. And that's what this new contract on the West Coast is about.\"\n\nThe new partnership will operate in two phases. The first will run from 8 December to March 2026, when First Trenitalia will operate the existing InterCity West Coast services. The second phase will run from March 2026 to March 2031, when it will operate the HS2 high-speed rail service.\n\nMr Shapps will tell MPs about the timescale and terms of reference of review of HS2 by Douglas Oakervee - a former chairman of the high-speed network - in \"due course\",\n\nIt said its 56 Pendolino trains would be completely refurbished, with more reliable free Wi-Fi and better catering. By 2022, it says, it will offer more than 260 extra services each week, increasing seat miles by more than 10% compared with 2017-18. This will cost £117m, the Department for Transport said.\n\nThe trains that run up and down the West Coast Main Line are called Pendolinos, with underlying technology supplied by what was Fiat Ferroviaria. Fitting, then, that an Italian company should finally start running the line - Trenitalia is the joint venture partner of First Group in the new West Coast franchise.\n\nSome rail commentators greeted this morning's announcement with surprise: not that First Group and the Italians had won it, but that a decision had been made at all.\n\nThe government's franchising policy has been in disarray, with legal challenges, an abandoned competition, and in the background, a wide-ranging review of how the railways are run.\n\nThe findings of that review, by former British Airways chief executive Keith Williams, are about to be published, so why award an important franchise just when the railways might be on the brink of another reorganisation?\n\nThe Department for Transport says the West Coast deal is, in fact, a vision of things to come and has Mr Williams' blessing.\n\nIt is apparently flexible enough to cope with whatever he recommends and the indications are that his main finding - that Network Rail should take a big role in the strategic direction of the railway - won't much impinge on this franchise.\n\nAnother potential trap awaits, however. Stagecoach, one of the First Group's rivals, was in the running for the West Coast deal until it was blocked from bidding, because it refused to take on pensions risk. It has won the right to a judicial review of that decision.\n\nFirstGroup, based in Aberdeen, is being awarded the contract at a time when it has been overhauling its business, seeking a buyer for its Greyhound buses in the US. It is also looking at spinning off its UK bus division, First Bus.\n\nIts First Rail business also operates the South Western Railway and TransPennine Express.\n\nIts chief executive, Matthew Gregory, had indicated the group's train franchises could be reviewed, depending on the terms offered by the government.\n\nHowever, Mr Gregory's concerns about the profitability of train franchises appear to have been addressed by the Department for Transport.\n\nThe West Coast Main Line runs up and down the UK\n\nMr Gregory said: \"The differences between this contract and more traditional rail franchises were reflected in the terms set out by the [Department for Transport], which has resulted in a more appropriate balance of risks and rewards for us as operators.\n\n\"The West Coast Partnership's first phase allows us to earn returns on the significant investments in services and facilities for passengers, but protected by a much improved revenue risk-sharing mechanism.\n\n\"This will transition to a management contract in the second phase, ensuring we can really focus on using the respective skills and experience within our joint venture to deliver the desired benefits of the HS2 project for passengers and the country.\"\n\nThe RMT's general secretary, Mick Cash, described it as a \"another political fix by a government whose privatised franchise model is collapsing around their ears\" and warned it was \"doomed to failure and sure to result in yet more rail chaos\".\n\nQuestions about the rail franchising system were raised last week, when the government cancelled the competition to operate rail services between London, Kent and parts of East Sussex - currently run by Southeastern.\n\nThe awarding of the West Coast Mainline route prompted Labour to renewed its call to nationalise the railways.\n\nShadow transport secretary Andy McDonald said: \"Awarding a complex contract for both the West Coast Partnership and HS2 services to FirstGroup, a company with questions over its finances, is a gross error of judgement.\"\n\nBut Paul Plummer, chief executive of industry body the Rail Delivery Group, said: \"Virgin-Stagecoach have brought significant benefits to passengers on the West Coast route including nearly tripling the number of trains between London and Manchester. We have no doubt that First Trenitalia will build on that record with plans for new trains and more services.\"\n\nBut Mr Shapps told the BBC: \"Privatisation has allowed the railway to expand massively - twice as many people, twice as many journeys and record number of people travelling on our railways, so I don't think nationalisation is the answer at all. Why would you put politicians in control?\"\n\nThe Department for Transport said the new contract award was a \"significant move away from the previous flawed franchising system\" and would use a forecast revenue mechanism (FRM) - which offers protection against shortfalls in estimated revenues - to avoid a repeat of the issues that affected the previous East Coast Main Line franchise.\n\nLast year, services on the East Coast Main Line were brought back under government control.\n\nFirstGroup said that if such a system had been in use on its South Western Railway and TransPennine Express, these contracts would have remained profitable.\n\nA spokesperson for Virgin Trains - which has operated train services for 22 years - said it would work with First Trenitalia to \"ensure a seamless handover for customers, who should still book and travel as normal\".\n\nThe Department for Transport said that by December 2022, there would be 263 extra train services every week, with Motherwell set to become a major calling point for most West Coast Partnership services. Direct services from London to destinations including Llandudno and Gobowen will now be introduced, while Walsall will get its first direct InterCity services.\n\nSubject to approval from the Office of Rail and Road, First Trenitalia will operate two trains an hour between Liverpool and London - a route that Virgin Trains had said it also hopes to run by launching a new hourly train service between the two cities from May 2021.", "Boris Johnson has accused MPs \"who think they can block Brexit\" of a \"terrible collaboration\" with the EU.\n\nThe prime minister said the EU had become less willing to compromise on a new deal with the UK because of the opposition to leaving in Parliament.\n\nHe said this increased the likelihood of the UK being \"forced to leave with a no-deal\" in October.\n\nBut some MPs said his claim they were collaborating with the EU was a \"wicked lie\" and a \"big deflection exercise\".\n\nThe EU has said the agreement struck by Theresa May is the only deal possible.\n\nSpeaking during a Facebook event hosted at Downing Street, Mr Johnson said he wanted to leave with a deal but \"we need our European friends to compromise\".\n\n\"There's a terrible kind of collaboration as it were, going on between people who think they can block Brexit in Parliament and our European friends,\" he added.\n\n\"The more they think there's a chance that Brexit can be blocked in Parliament, the more adamant they are in sticking to their position.\"\n\nHis comments come after former Chancellor Philip Hammond said the PM's negotiating stance increased the chance of a no-deal before the latest Brexit deadline of 31 October.\n\nMr Hammond told BBC Radio 4's Today programme a no-deal exit would be \"just as much a betrayal of the referendum result as not leaving at all\".\n\nA No 10 source accused Mr Hammond of undermining the UK's negotiating stance, and said he \"did everything he could\" to block preparations for leaving whilst he was in office.\n\nThe former chancellor rejected this suggestion in a tweet, saying he wanted to deliver Brexit \"and voted to do so three times\".\n\nLabour MP Mary Creagh said Mr Johnson's accusation that MPs were collaborating with the European Union was a \"wicked lie\".\n\n\"MPs trying to stop his catastrophic no-deal Brexit are true patriots,\" she tweeted.\n\nLiberal Democrat MP Chuka Umunna said Mr Johnson's claim was a \"big deflection exercise to divert attention from the damage his Brexit policy is already doing\".\n\nHe said: \"This is fatuous nonsense from a prime minister flailing about trying to find people to blame for the almighty mess he and his Vote Leave government has created.\"\n\nBoris Johnson didn't name Philip Hammond when he said there was \"collaboration\" between MPs trying to block Brexit and the EU - a stark and controversial word to use.\n\nThe prime minister says EU leaders need to believe Parliament cannot thwart a no-deal Brexit, and only then will they bend.\n\nNo 10 knows Mr Hammond is not the only senior Tory resolved to try to stop a no-deal departure if that is what Boris Johnson plumps for. Other ex-cabinet ministers intend to join the ranks of Tory backbenchers and opposition MPs determined to act.\n\nBut with only 22 parliamentary sitting days until the UK is set to leave and with no obvious single mechanism for MPs to stop a no deal at the end of October, it might be very hard for a cross-party alliance to park tribal loyalty, mobilise and block No 10 before the Brexit clock expires.\n\nMr Johnson has said he wants to leave the EU with a deal, but the UK must leave \"do or die\" by the end of October.\n\nHe wants the EU to ditch the Irish border backstop plan from the deal negotiated by Mrs May, which was rejected three times by Parliament.\n\nBut the EU has continued to insist the policy - intended to guarantee there will not be a hard Irish border after Brexit - must remain and cannot be changed.\n\nMany of those who voted against the deal had concerns over the backstop, which if implemented, would see Northern Ireland staying aligned to some rules of the EU single market.\n\nIt would also see the UK stay in a single customs territory with the EU, and align with current and future EU rules on competition and state aid.\n\nThese arrangements would apply unless and until both the EU and UK agreed they were no longer necessary.\n\nMr Hammond said the prime minister's demand for the backstop to be entirely removed from the deal meant a no-deal was inevitable on the current deadline.\n\nHe said that agreeing to changes now would \"fragment\" the EU, adding: \"they are not going to take that risk\".\n\n\"Pivoting to say the backstop has to go in its entirety - a huge chunk of the withdrawal agreement just scrapped - is effectively a wrecking tactic,\" he told Today.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The ex-chancellor says removing the Irish border 'backstop' is a \"wrecking tactic\"\n\nOn Thursday Downing Street said it expects a group of MPs to try to block a no-deal Brexit by attempting to pass legislation when Parliament returns next month.\n\nA No 10 source said they expected the challenge to come in the second week of September, when MPs are are due to debate a report on Northern Ireland.\n\nThe source assumes the EU will wait until after that date before engaging in further negotiations.\n\nUse the list below or select a button", "Britain is experiencing a cauliflower shortage after extreme weather killed off much of this year's crops.\n\nHeavy rainfall in June destroyed crops in Lincolnshire, and alternative European supplies wilted in last month's heatwave.\n\nCauliflower prices have soared and some farmers have suffered financial losses after the destruction of their crops.\n\nThe shortages were described as \"very concerning\" by a spokesman for the Brassica Growers Association.\n\nOther brassica - including cabbage, broccoli and Brussels sprouts - are also in short supply.\n\n\"Crops can withstand a reasonable amount of variation in weather but the conditions in June were too much and as a result crops have suffered, and this is leading to a shortage of supply,\" the British Growers Association (BGA) said.\n\nMost of the UK's cauliflowers are grown in Lincolnshire, which experienced record amounts of rainfall and flooding in June that destroyed this year's crop.\n\nIt has forced some suppliers to buy their cauliflowers from other countries - and the scarcity of them has caused prices to rise.\n\nSome have advised customers - including restaurants and hotels - to take cauliflowers off their menus until stocks recover.\n\nKate Nicholls, chief executive of the trade body UK Hospitality, said: \"If restaurants are unable to get their hands on cauliflower, that is obviously going to cause a nuisance.\n\n\"Thankfully, most should be fairly adept at substituting cauliflower for other items on their menus, so, hopefully, customers should not be unduly disappointed.\"\n\nSteve Short, the managing director of Accent Fresh, a Norfolk-based fresh produce supplier, said: \"We rely quite heavily on Lincolnshire for our brassica, and we get some from Cambridgeshire, Kent, Evesham [in Worcestershire], and Cornwall.\n\n\"We have had to import them from Holland during the shortages. The growers have lost a lot of crop, so the market is very short and the price has gone up.\n\n\"We've been paying between £1.50 and £2.00 per head of cauliflower, it would normally be about 50 or 60 pence each.\"\n\nOnce regarded as a bland, boiled side dish, the cauliflower has risen in popularity as a substitute for everything from pizza crusts to gnocchi.\n\nBroccoli's paler cousin has become a firm fixture on upmarket restaurant menus - think Yotam Ottolenghi's cumin-roasted cauliflower with tahini, zhoug and barberries or Heston Bluementhal's roasted cauliflower with smoked brown butter, red wine and truffle.\n\nIt is also beloved by celebrity chefs like Deliciously Ella, whose plant-based recipes include everything from creamy cauliflower and lentil dahl, to a cauliflower crust pizza and a mushroom, cauliflower and squash risotto.\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\nCauliflower is also a popular alternative for those looking to reduce their meat intake: a hashtag devoted to cauliflower \"steaks\" has more than 11,000 posts on Instagram.\n\nGet some creative cauliflower inspiration from the BBC's recipes, here.\n\nMr Short said the firm, which supplies about 300 hotels, restaurants, schools, universities and catering establishments across East Anglia, has advised customers to use other well-supplied vegetables, such as carrots and Swede, during the shortages.\n\nThe poor quality of some of the limited amount of British brassica has seen the firm give out credits to some of its customers, Mr Short said.\n\nMartin Tate, commercial director of brassica growers Lincolnshire Field Products, estimated the farm has suffered about £1m in lost revenues after heavy rainfall decimated his cauliflower and broccoli crops.\n\nHe said: \"We effectively had three months of rain in the space of three days, so anything that was planted up until that point in time [including the cauliflowers and broccoli] was either washed out of the ground, or sat for several weeks in flooded fields.\"\n\nBrussels sprouts and red and white cabbage were also planted before the rains, but it is the cauliflowers and broccoli that have been worst hit in July and August.\n\nHe said the Brussels sprouts and the cabbages will be affected for the autumn and the winter, but it is too early to estimate the scale of the losses.\n\nThe farm's cauliflowers are now \"suffering to a fairly huge degree\", with just 20% of the crop able to be harvested, and with a percentage of what is being harvested not being of suitable quality to cover our orders.\n\n\"We have lost up to 80% of our production for the last two to three weeks and the next three weeks, so a large chunk of our season we're suffering not only crop losses but financial losses as well. Incomes are down and it's going to take a lot of recovering.\"\n\nLincolnshire Field Products supplies most of the UK's major retailers, and food companies that supply to pubs and restaurants.\n\nMr Tate expects the broccoli and cauliflower shortages to recover between the end of the month and the beginning of September.\n\nWaitrose, Asda, and Morrisons have a range of cauliflower heads currently available for sale on their websites.\n\nBoth Tesco and Sainsbury's currently only have organic cauliflower heads for sale on their websites.\n\nThey are priced at £2 each - £1 more expensive than their standard cauliflowers.\n\nThe British Retail Consortium said: \"This is yet another example of how retailers are having to manage the effects of climate change, which has created a greater variability in the weather and resulted a slightly poorer harvest in the UK.\"", "The opera singer Plácido Domingo has been accused of sexually harassing several women over a number of decades.\n\nEight singers and a dancer claim they were sexually harassed by the Spanish tenor from the late 1980s, according to the Associated Press news agency.\n\nOnly one of the women, mezzo-soprano Patricia Wulf, agreed to be named.\n\nDomingo has denied the accusations, and the Los Angeles Opera - which he directs - has pledged to investigate with the help of \"outside counsel\".\n\n\"Still, it is painful to hear that I may have upset anyone or made them feel uncomfortable no matter how long ago and despite my best intentions,\" continued Mr Domingo.\n\n\"People who know me or who have worked with me know that I am not someone who would intentionally harm, offend, or embarrass anyone.\"\n\nSix other women also claim the tenor made them feel uncomfortable by making \"sexual overtures\" towards them, AP reported.\n\nPlácido Domingo has been married to soprano Marta Ornelas since 1962\n\nMs Wulf said he didn't physically touch her but would come up close to her every time she walked off stage and ask if she \"had to go home tonight\".\n\nAnother woman said Domingo put his hand down her skirt on one occasion. Three others said he forcefully kissed them.\n\nThe incidents are said to have taken place in different venues including a dressing room, a hotel room, during a meeting and at opera companies where Domingo held managerial positions.\n\n\"A business lunch is not strange,\" one of the singers told AP.\n\n\"Somebody trying to hold your hand during a business lunch is strange or putting their hand on your knee is a little strange. He was always touching you in some way, and always kissing you.\"\n\nOpera stars Plácido Domingo, Jose Carreras (centre) and Luciano Pavarotti teamed up to become \"The Three Tenors\"\n\nDomingo was due to appear at the Philadelphia Orchestra's opening night concert on 18 September but the organisation said, in the light of the allegations, it had withdrawn its invitation.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by PhilOrch This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy 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 Francisco Opera announced it had also cancelled a concert on 6 October at which Domingo was scheduled to perform.\n\nHowever, the president of the Salzburg Festival in Austria said he would perform there as planned on 31 August.\n\nDomingo is currently the general director of the Los Angeles Opera. He has also been artistic director and later general director at the Washington National Opera.\n\nDomingo added in his statement: \"I recognise that the rules and standards by which we are and should be measured against today are very different than they were in the past.\n\n\"I am blessed and privileged to have had a more than 50-year career in opera and will hold myself to the highest standards.\"\n\nDomingo, 78, remains one of opera's biggest stars, commanding sell-out audiences around the world.\n\nHe has been married to his second wife, the soprano Marta Ornelas, since 1962.\n\nHe performs regularly in London, most recently in January in the Royal Opera House's production of La Traviata.\n\nHe is due to return to Covent Garden in June 2020 in a revival of Verdi's Don Carlo.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Chicken boxes featuring warnings about the dangers of carrying a knife have been sent to takeaways in England and Wales as part of a government campaign.\n\nMore than 321,000 boxes will replace standard packaging at outlets including Chicken Cottage, Dixy Chicken and Morley's, the Home Office said.\n\nReal life stories of young people who chose positive activities over carrying a weapon are printed inside the boxes.\n\nShadow home secretary Diane Abbott said the plan was \"crude\" and \"offensive\".\n\nHowever, Home Secretary Priti Patel defended the campaign, accusing Ms Abbott of \"playing politics with knife crime\".\n\nPrinted inside the special boxes, part of the Home Office's #knifefree campaign, are first-hand accounts of young people who have opted to pursue pastimes such as boxing or music instead of carrying a knife.\n\nBoth independent and branch-owned chicken shops will carry the new boxes, and many will also house digital screens highlighting the campaign.\n\nPolicing Minister Kit Malthouse says they \"will bring home to thousands of young people the tragic consequences of carrying a knife and challenge the idea that it makes you safer\".\n\nBut the government has been accused of racial stereotyping. David Lammy, Labour MP for Tottenham, wrote on Twitter: \"Is this some kind of joke?! Why have you chosen chicken shops? What's next, #KnifeFree watermelons?\"\n\nDal Babu, a former chief superintendent with the Metropolitan Police, said: \"This initiative seeks to target chicken shops because the assumption is that's where young black people go.\n\n\"There's a racial element to it - it stereotypes people, it's patronising and I can understand why people see it as racist.\"\n\nMs Abbott tweeted: \"Instead of investing in a public health approach to violent crime, the Home Office have opted for yet another crude, offensive and probably expensive campaign.\n\n\"They would do better to invest in our communities not demonise them.\"\n\nCourtney Barrett, who runs his own knife amnesty in east London told BBC News the scheme was a \"step in the right direction\" but stressed that it should not just involve chicken shops.\n\n\"The public need to be made aware not all knife crime is carried out by young people, black people and gangs,\" the founder of Binning Knives Saves Lives said.\n\nRecent figures showed most perpetrators of knife crime were over the age of 18.\n\nMeanwhile, Patsy McKie, who founded Mothers Against Violence in Manchester after her son was shot dead, said sharing stories in this way was not enough to discourage young people from carrying knives.\n\n\"Just putting it on a box isn't going to stop it,\" she said. \"Someone who is carrying a knife to feel safe isn't going to put it down.\"\n\nMs McKie added: \"You often have to go through an experience to change your views.\"\n\nPeter Grigg, director of external affairs at the Children's Society, is urging more government investment \"in education for young people about knife crime\" as well as in \"early intervention and prevention\".\n\nOn Twitter Jeffrey Boakye described it as a \"mess\" and said there was a \"national crisis in the perception of black kids in urban areas\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Jeffrey Boakye This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy 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 Sharmaine Lovegrove described it as \"irresponsible\" and \"wildly out of touch\".\n\nAccording to the Home Office, the #knifefree campaign aims to change the attitudes and behaviours of young people aged between 10 and 21.\n\nIt follows a series of government pledges to tackle serious violence, including the recruitment of 20,000 new police officers and enhanced stop and search powers for all 43 police forces in England and Wales.\n\nSimilar chicken boxes were distributed in 15 branches of south London based Morley's in March, and the company's managing director Shan Selvendran said it was \"proud\" to support the campaign.\n\n\"We want to start conversations amongst all of our customers,\" he said.", "The US is delaying imposing tariffs on some imports from China until 15 December because of \"health, safety, national security and other factors\".\n\nThe products include mobile phones, laptops, video game consoles, some toys, computer monitors, and certain footwear and clothing.\n\nThe surprise news from the United States Trade Representative office sparked a rally in share prices.\n\nOther items facing a 10% tariff will go ahead as planned on 1 September.\n\nUS President Donald Trump, speaking to reporters, said that the delay was in part to avoid hitting US shoppers this Christmas.\n\nThe USTR's announcement was released minutes after China's Ministry of Commerce said Vice Premier Liu He had conducted a phone call with US trade officials.\n\nTechnology investors welcomed news of the exemptions, pushing an index of chip stocks up 2.8%. Retailers and industrial shares also rose, with General Electric up 4.4%.\n\nOn Wall Street, the three main share indexes were up more than 2% at one stage. The Dow Jones and S&P 500 finished 1.4% ahead, while the tech-dominated Nasdaq finished up 1.9% - led by a 4% rise in Apple.\n\nIn the UK, stocks exposed to global trade also rose, with miner Glencore closing up 2.3%.\n\nMr Trump said on 1 August he would impose a 10% tariff on $300bn of Chinese goods, blaming China for not following through on promises to buy more American agricultural products.\n\nHe also personally criticised Chinese President Xi Jinping for failing to do more to stem sales of the synthetic opioid fentanyl amid an opioid overdosing crisis in the US.\n\nBut in a tweet on Tuesday, Mr Trump hinted that he was expecting something in return, suggesting that China's failure to \"buy big\" from US farmers could be about to change.\n\nThe USTR's announcement comes amid growing concerns about a global economic slowdown. Goldman Sachs said on Sunday that fears of the US-China trade war leading to a recession were increasing.\n\nSome analysts said Tuesday's delay does not mean the trade war is over. Elena Duggar, associate managing director at credit rating agency Moody's, said: \"This seeming de-escalation in ongoing tensions may be a temporary reprieve... Relations between the world's two largest economies will remain contentious, punctuated with occasional steps towards compromise.\"\n\nEarlier on Tuesday, China's chief trade negotiators, Vice Premier Liu He and Commerce Minister Zhong Shan, spoke to their US counterparts, Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin and Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer.\n\nThe Xinhua news agency said that the Chinese officials issued \"a solemn protest\" against the punitive duties set to come into effect on 1 September. Mr Lighthizer and Mr Liu have scheduled another telephone call in two weeks.\n\nThe two sides were due to hold another round of meetings in Washington in September, but the deterioration in relations in the past two weeks cast doubt on whether the talks would take place.\n\nAdditional details and lists of the specific product types affected by the announcement are due to be published by USTR later.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. It is not yet known whose body was recovered from the plane wreckage\n\nA body has been recovered from the wreckage of the plane which crashed with Cardiff City footballer Emiliano Sala and pilot David Ibbotson on board.\n\nThe Air Accidents Investigation Branch said specialist contractors joined the operation in \"challenging conditions\".\n\nIt was carried out in \"as dignified a way as possible\" and the men's families were kept updated throughout, it said.\n\nThe wreckage of the plane, which vanished two weeks ago over the English Channel, was found off Guernsey.\n\nThe Geo Ocean III, the boat carrying the body, arrived at Portland Port in Dorset on Thursday morning as it is the nearest part of the British mainland to where the plane was located.\n\nDorset Police said: \"The arrival of the body into Dorset has been reported to the coroner for Dorset.\n\n\"The coroner will investigate the circumstances of this death supported by Dorset Police. A post-mortem examination will be held in due course.\"\n\nNo formal identification has taken place, but the force said both families had been updated.\n\nEmiliano Sala (left) was on board a plane being flown by pilot David Ibbotson\n\nThe Piper Malibu N264DB was en route from France to Cardiff, after the 28-year-old Argentine striker made a quick trip back to his former club Nantes two days after his £15m transfer to Cardiff was announced.\n\nMr Ibbotson, 59, from Crowle, North Lincolnshire, was at the controls when the flight lost contact with air traffic controllers on 21 January.\n\nAn official search was called off on 24 January after Guernsey's harbour master said the chances of survival were \"extremely remote\".\n\nBut an online appeal started by Sala's agent raised £324,000 (371,000 euros) for a private search led by marine scientist and oceanographer David Mearns.\n\nWorking jointly with the AAIB, his ship and the Geo Ocean III, began combing a four square mile area of the English Channel, 24 nautical miles north of Guernsey, to make best use of the available sensors.\n\nMr Mearns said the plane was identified by sonar, before a submersible with cameras was sent underwater to confirm this.\n\nA minute's silence was held for Sala and Mr Ibbotson ahead of Cardiff's home game against Bournemouth\n\nCardiff fans left a sea of flowers outside the Cardiff City Stadium in tribute to Emiliano Sala\n\nThe AAIB used a remotely operated underwater vehicle (ROV) to aid the search, with no divers involved.\n\nThe body was moved first, and separately from the wreckage, to maximise the chances of it being successfully brought to the surface.\n\nIt said efforts to recover the crashed plane as a whole proved unsuccessful, before being abandoned due to poor weather.\n\n\"The weather forecast is poor for the foreseeable future and so the difficult decision was taken to bring the overall operation to a close,\" the AAIB said in a statement.\n\nHowever, the AAIB said video footage captured by the ROV would provide \"valuable evidence\" for its safety investigation.\n\nMeanwhile, it has emerged that Sala's former club, French Ligue 1 side Nantes, has demanded Cardiff City pay his £15m transfer fee.\n\nSala, 28, was Cardiff's record signing but never played for the club.\n\nThe fee was due to be paid over three years but Cardiff have withheld the first scheduled payment until they are satisfied with the documentation.\n\nSupporters in Nantes have also been paying tribute to Sala", "Biostar 2 is used by thousands of companies around the world\n\nMore than a million fingerprints and other sensitive data have been exposed online by a biometric security firm, researchers say.\n\nResearchers working with cyber-security firm VPNMentor say they accessed data from a security tool called Biostar 2.\n\nIt is used by thousands of companies worldwide, including the UK's Metropolitan Police, to control access to specific parts of secure facilities.\n\nSuprema, the firm that offers Biostar 2, said it was addressing the issue.\n\n\"If there has been any definite threat on our products and/or services, we will take immediate actions and make appropriate announcements to protect our customers' valuable businesses and assets,\" a company spokesman told the Guardian.\n\nAccording to VPNMentor, the exposed data, discovered on 5 August, was made private on 13 August.\n\nIt is not clear how long it was accessible.\n\nAs well as fingerprint records, the researchers say they found photographs of people, facial recognition data, names, addresses, passwords, employment history and records of when they had accessed secure areas.\n\nSince news of the data exposure broke, some have questioned the extent to which real fingerprint data was made available.\n\nHowever, the cyber-security researchers say they stand by their research.\n\nSuprema said in a statement to the BBC it was aware of reports of the breach and was taking them \"very seriously\".\n\n\"[Suprema] is investigating the allegations in the press reports and will liaise with any appropriate third parties and/or individuals as necessary.\n\n\"At this stage, it cannot make any further comment but will, if appropriate, issue a further press statement in due course, including corrections of any erroneous assertions in the reports to date.\"\n\nAmong the UK organisations directly affected by the breach was Tile Mountain, a homeware retailer.\n\nBiostar 2 was only used at the company's head office in Stoke on Trent, IT director Colin Hampson said.\n\nHe said that since 26 February 2018 Tile Mountain had not been an \"active client\" of Suprema's and had instead stored biometric data on its own secure internal servers.\n\n\"Despite Tile Mountain not being an active client of Suprema it is concerning that no contact was made to inform us that data may have been compromised - this could potentially have prevented Tile Mountain from carrying out its obligations under GDPR [General Data Protection Regulation],\" he added.\n\n\"It's crazy, just crazy,\" Noam Rotem, one of the researchers who found the data, told the BBC.\n\nHe pointed out that biometric information such as fingerprints could never be made private again once lost.\n\nHe said he and his colleagues had had difficulty when trying to report the exposed data to Suprema.\n\n\"We started calling all of the offices one by one and had to deal with people just hanging up the phone,\" he said.\n\nIn total, 23 gigabytes of data containing nearly 30 million records were found exposed online.\n\n\"This could be used in a wide range of criminal activities that would be disastrous for both the businesses and organisations affected, as well as their employees or clients,\" said VPNMentor in a blog about the discovery.\n\nAmong the leaked data were facial recognition records and photographs of people\n\nThe data leak was \"horrendous\", according to Simon Birchall, managing director for Timeware, a British firm that installs Suprema fingerprint readers.\n\nMr Birchall said Timeware had developed its own software for the devices and did not provide Biostar 2 to clients.\n\n\"It looks like someone has taken the standard Biostar 2 product and installed it on an open network,\" he told the BBC. \"It's just silly what they've done.\"\n\nMr Rotem told the BBC that a number of British companies had been affected.\n\nHowever, he was not able to confirm their names because he and his team did not download all the data they found in order to limit the privacy implications of the breach.\n\nA spokesman for the Metropolitan Police told the BBC that the force was now checking whether it was one of the affected organisations.\n\nAmong other firms whose data was discovered were:\n\nThe UK Information Commissioner's Office said it was aware of reports about Biostar 2 and would be making enquiries.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nA well-known bureaucrat-turned-politician from Indian-administered Kashmir has been arrested in Delhi and sent back to the region, reports say.\n\nShah Faesal was detained at Delhi airport on Wednesday as he tried to board a flight.\n\nHe joins the hundreds of Kashmiri leaders who have been detained across the region.\n\nMost of the arrests were made ahead of India's decision to revoke Kashmir's special status last week.\n\nIndian authorities say the crackdown is necessary to prevent disorder in the disputed region.\n\nPakistan has reacted angrily to India's decision to revoke Article 370 - the constitutional provision guaranteeing Kashmir's special status - on 5 August.\n\nIts Prime Minister, Imran Khan, said global powers would be responsible for any war over Kashmir, for failing to implement UN resolutions.\n\nMr Khan, speaking in Pakistani-administered Kashmir on Wednesday, accused India of planning military action in the region, calling it a \"horrendous plan\".\n\nIn a stern warning to India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Mr Khan said: \"Your bricks will be reciprocated with stones.\"\n\nThe PTI news agency quoted Indian officials as saying that Mr Faesal had been arrested on Wednesday at the international airport in Delhi as he was trying to board a flight to Turkey.\n\nThere is no clarity on where he has been taken in Indian-administered Kashmir but some local media have said he has been placed under house arrest. The BBC has not been able to independently verify this.\n\nSpeaking to the BBC's Hardtalk programme on Tuesday, Mr Faesal said he was apprehensive about being detained.\n\n\"I'm ashamed of myself that I'm free at a time when the entire leadership of Kashmir is in jail,\" he said.\n\nMr Faesal said that by revoking special status for the state of Jammu and Kashmir, Mr Modi had \"murdered the constitution in broad daylight\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Shah Faesal This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nHowever, the Indian government says it has acted in accordance with the constitution and all protocols have been followed.\n\nMr Faesal made headlines when he topped India's notoriously difficult civil services examination in 2009, becoming the first Kashmiri to do so.\n\nHe resigned from his government post in January to launch his own political party - the Jammu and Kashmir People's Movement.\n\nHundreds of people have already been detained in the region after the Indian government scrapped provisions that gave Kashmir more autonomy.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The Indian government has said this protest last weekend never took place\n\nThe region has been in lockdown for more than a week now, with mobile, landline and internet networks cut off and curfew-like restrictions that ban people from assembling in crowds. However, officials said on Wednesday that these restrictions had now been eased in the Hindu-majority Jammu region.\n\nDespite the lockdown there have been protests against the revocation of Article 370, including one on Friday in Srinagar in the Muslim-majority valley. It involved thousands of people coming out after midday prayers to demonstrate against the move.\n\nIndia's government says the removal of special status will allow Kashmiris to benefit from greater economic opportunities and development. It has also defended its move by saying that Article 370 fuelled terrorism and separatism in Indian-administered Kashmir, which has been the site of an insurgency for three decades.", "Kameel Ahmady's wife (right) said she has not been informed of charges against him\n\nA British-Iranian dual national has been arrested in western Iran, according to his family.\n\nThe wife of Kameel Ahmady, a social anthropologist, said he was taken into custody on Sunday from their home without a reason being given.\n\nMr Ahmady has researched female genital mutilation and child marriage in Iran, among other subjects.\n\nAnother British dual national, Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe, has been in Iranian custody since 2016 over spying claims.\n\nEarlier this year, the UK foreign office advised all dual nationals against all travel to Iran because of the risk of arbitrary detention.\n\nThe new alleged arrest comes as high tensions, caused by oil tankers seizures, continue between the two countries.\n\nProfessional websites in Mr Ahmady's name identify him as \"British-Iranian originally from Kurdistan\". His LinkedIn profile says he studied at a number of UK universities, including the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE).\n\nA spokesman for the Kurdistan Human Rights Network, who reported his arrest, said Mr Ahmady has lived in Iran for many years.\n\nOfficials in both countries are yet to confirm he has been taken into custody.\n\nMr Ahmady has published a number of books and documentaries\n\nIn an interview with BBC Persian, his wife Shafaq Rahmani alleged security agents came to the couple's house and \"took away documents, including his ID card\".\n\nShe said a local judicial official later confirmed a one-month temporary detention order had been issued against Mr Ahmady.\n\n\"They have not provided any information about the reason for the arrest or the charges against Kameel,\" Ms Rahmani wrote on Instagram.\n\nIran does not recognise dual nationality and there are no exact figures on the number of detainees who are also foreign nationals.", "The Philadelphia cheese advert showed children being left on a restaurant conveyor belt\n\nTelevision advertisements from US food giant Mondelez and German carmaker Volkswagen are the first to be banned under new UK gender stereotyping rules.\n\nA ban on ads featuring \"harmful gender stereotypes\" or those which are likely to cause \"serious or widespread offence\" came into force in June.\n\nThe first banned ad, for Philadelphia cheese, showed two fathers leaving a baby on a restaurant conveyor belt.\n\nThe other, VW ad, showed men being adventurous as a woman sat by a pram.\n\nSome 128 people complained to the Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) about the Mondelez advert for its Philadelphia cheese which featured two dads leaving a baby on a restaurant buffet conveyor belt as they were distracted by the food.\n\nComplainants said the advertisement perpetuated a harmful stereotype by suggesting that men were incapable of caring for children and were so incompetent they would place youngsters at risk.\n\nThe VW ad showed a woman sitting with a pram as the eGolf car drives by\n\nMeanwhile, three people complained about an ad for the Volkswagen eGolf car.\n\nIt showed a sleeping woman and a man in a tent on a sheer cliff face, two male astronauts floating in a space ship and a male para-athlete doing the long jump, before cutting to the final scene showing a woman sitting on a bench next to a pram.\n\nComplainants said that the ad perpetuated harmful gender stereotypes by showing men engaged in adventurous activities in contrast to a woman in a care-giving role.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by BBC Radio 4 Today This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nJess Tye, investigations manager at the Advertising Standards Authority, told the BBC that gender stereotypes in advertising could cause \"real-world harms\".\n\n\"Ads that specifically contrast male and female stereotypes need to be handled with care,\" she said.\n\n\"It's about thinking about what the cumulative effect of those gender stereotypes might be.\"\n\nMondelez UK argued that the ad showed a positive image of men with a responsible and active role in childcare in modern society. It said it chose to feature a pair of fathers to avoid a stereotype of new mothers being responsible for children.\n\nMondelez UK said the ad showed a positive image of men\n\nThe ASA said the ad had a light-hearted and comical intent, but portrayed the men as \"somewhat hapless and inattentive, which resulted in them being unable to care for the children effectively\".\n\nIt said the ad \"relied on the stereotype that men were unable to care for children as well as women, and implied that the fathers had failed to look after the children properly because of their gender\".\n\nVolkswagen UK said that its ad made no suggestion that childcare was solely associated with women, and the fact that the woman in its advertisement was calm and reading could be seen as going against the stereotypical depiction of harassed or anxious parents in advertising.\n\nThe ASA said the ad presented gender stereotypes \"in a way that was likely to cause harm and therefore breached the code.\"\n\nIt said by juxtaposing images of men \"in extraordinary environments and carrying out adventurous activities\" with women who appeared \"passive or engaged in a stereotypical care-giving role\", the ad had suggested that stereotypical male and female roles were exclusively associated with one gender.\n\nThe ASA introduced its ban two months ago because it found some portrayals could play a part in \"limiting people's potential\".\n\nThe new rules cover both broadcast and non-broadcast adverts, including online and social media.", "Gary Neville says students will be able to combine work and study at University Academy 92\n\nA university set up by some of Manchester United's \"Class of 92\" plans to schedule classes so that students can work alongside their courses.\n\nLectures at University Academy 92 - which opens in September - will be given in flexible four-hour slots, ex-United captain Gary Neville said.\n\nHe said the timetable would be an alternative to \"erratic\" schedules at other universities.\n\nSport, media and business degrees will be validated by Lancaster University.\n\nThe Stretford-based university, in a former Kellogg's site not far from Old Trafford, is the brainchild of Neville, his brother Phil, Nicky Butt, Paul Scholes and Ryan Giggs.\n\nThey hope it will be a \"game-changer\" for the career prospects of young people, especially those from non-academic backgrounds.\n\nGary Neville said a flexible four hours of studying on four days a week would enable students to work at the same time in their preferred careers.\n\n\"You go to school in a very structured way and when you are just about to embark on the most important part of your life you end up with this erratic programme, where you might do one hour one day or two hours another day and nothing the next day,\" he said.\n\nThe footballers said they wanted to foster the ethos of The Cliff - United's training ground in the 1990s - at the university.\n\nEach student will also have their own personal development coach.\n\nThe Class of 92 all came through United's youth system and broke into the first team together.\n\nThey hope the personal development coaches will replicate the impact mentors including ex-United players Nobby Stiles and Brian Kidd, as well as youth coach Eric Harrison and Sir Alex Ferguson, had on their careers.\n\n\"That's what we're trying to do at the university - giving the students someone they can go to in confidence,\" said Butt.\n\nScholes added: \"We hope we can set them on the right path - we'll be around the place to give our experiences.\"\n\nThe first intake in September will number about 300 but ultimately the group hope there will be 6,000 students.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Police say the men are linked to an international organised crime syndicate\n\nSix people including four British men have been arrested in Australia and New Zealand in one of the region's largest-ever drug seizures.\n\nAustralian police said the bust was connected to a UK-based organised crime syndicate which supplied highly pure methamphetamine and MDMA powder.\n\nDrugs with an estimated value of A$90m (£50m; $61m) were seized in the state of Queensland.\n\nThe drugs could have made up to 12 million ecstasy capsules, police added.\n\nQueensland Police said it was the third-largest MDMA bust in Australia's history and the drugs were the \"highest purity\" ever seized in the state.\n\nPolice arrested two British men, aged 40 and 51, an Australian man, 26, and an Australian woman, 51.\n\nAnother two British men, aged 49 and 60, were arrested in Auckland, New Zealand last week after police there seized 200kg of methamphetamine.\n\nRaids were also carried out in the Australian state of New South Wales.\n\n\"Organised crime syndicates are making significant profit at the expense of our Australian community,\" Queensland Police said in a statement.\n\n\"Police believe the powder was destined for production into pill and capsule form to be sold across Australia.\"\n\nMDMA is the active drug found in ecstasy tablets.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Drugs in the Post: An investigation", "Parts of Australia have experienced freezing conditions that have been debilitating for Australia's human residents. However, these kangaroos in New South Wales seem to be enjoying the rare snowfall.", "No one was injured in the accident. The local police department shared the footage as a warning to not text and drive.", "An MP is taking the Labour Party to court over its decision to reinstate his suspension for his remarks about the party's handling of anti-Semitism.\n\nChris Williamson had claimed the party was \"too apologetic\" on anti-Semitism.\n\nHis original suspension was lifted in June following a formal warning, but it was reimposed two days later after a backlash from Jewish groups.\n\nMr Williamson said he hoped to overturn the \"unconstitutional\" decision to \"re-suspend me from the party I love\".\n\nMr Williamson, who has lodged legal papers with the High Court, tweeted that he had \"dedicated my life to the Labour Party since I was 19-years-old, and I'm 63 next month\".\n\nA Labour spokeswoman said the Derby North MP's case had been referred to the National Constitutional Committee - the party's highest disciplinary body.\n\nHe was suspended in February after being filmed saying Labour \"had given too much ground\" and was being demonised over anti-Semitism complaints.\n\nHe later said he \"deeply\" regretted the remarks.\n\nIn July, a panel of Labour's National Executive Committee ruled that Mr Williamson should be allowed back into the party.\n\nHowever, a large outcry from Labour peers and MPs saw the suspension reinstated.\n\nA campaign group has been attempting to crowdfund £75,000 to support Mr Williamson's legal bid.", "Global stock markets fell around the world as concerns about the US-China trade war and the global economy prompted investors to dump shares.\n\nThe three main US stock markets closed 3% lower overnight, European stocks fell across the board, while Asian stock markets opened lower.\n\nWeak data from Germany and China on Wednesday helped fuel a rush for safe assets like bonds and gold.\n\nBond market moves pointed to possible recessions in major economies.\n\nThe US central bank also came under renewed pressure from US President Donald Trump for not doing enough to support the world's largest economy.\n\nThere are concerns that renewed attacks by Mr Trump on the Federal Reserve could erode investor confidence on its ability to make independent decisions.\n\nAnalyst Oliver Pursche, from financial services company Bruderman, said the global picture was precarious.\n\n\"What's happening in Hong Kong, what's happening with Brexit and the trade war, it's all a mess,\" the chief market strategist said. \"Every central bank around the world is trying to prop up economies and every politician around the world is trying to destroy economies.\"\n\nNews that Germany's GDP contracted in the second quarter, and that China's industrial growth in July hit a 17-year low, had already spooked markets in Europe. The FTSE 100 closed more than 1% lower, while in Germany and France the markets finished more than 2% lower.\n\nJapan's benchmark Nikkei 225 dropped some 2% in early trading on Thursday, while Hong Kong's Hang Seng index opened 1.4% lower. Both later regained some ground. Disruptions related to pro-democracy protests have also weighed on the stock market in Hong Kong.\n\nAnother worry was that bond markets are flashing recession warnings.\n\nThe yield on two-year and 10-year Treasury bonds inverted for the first time since June 2007.\n\nThis means investor appetite for safety is such that they are willing to get lower returns for holding bonds for a longer period. Usually investors demand higher returns for holding bonds for longer due to the risks involved with parking your money away for a long time.\n\nHistorically, such bond movements have been a reliable indicator of possible recessions, and preceded the last global downturn more than 10 years ago.\n\nThe UK bond yield curve also inverted for the first time since 2008, while the yield gap between 10-year and 2-year German government bonds was at its tightest since the financial crisis.\n\nMeanwhile, the CBOE volatility index - the so-called fear index - jumped higher, and spot gold prices rose.\n\nOn Wednesday, Mr Trump again attempted to deflect the market turmoil onto the US Federal Reserve and its interest rate policy, calling Fed chief Jerome Powell \"clueless\".\n\nIn raising interest rates four times last year \"the Federal Reserve acted far too quickly, and now is very, very late\" in cutting borrowing costs, the president tweeted. \"Too bad, so much to gain on the upside!\"\n\nRecent presidents have avoided commenting on Fed policy, in a sign of respect for the bank's independence.\n\nThe recession signal from the bond market will only heap pressure on the Federal Reserve to give the president what he wants - more rate cuts.\n\nWall Street certainly thinks it's inevitable, pricing in a cut in September.\n\nLast month, America's central bank reduced its benchmark interest rate for the first time since 2008. That failed to impress Donald Trump who berated Fed Chair Jay Powell for not cutting rates quickly enough.\n\nAnd as the havoc on the financial markets was unfolding, President Trump was back on twitter defending his administration's tariff war with China and attacking the Fed, calling the chairman clueless.\n\nBut if Mr Trump gets what he wants, it may come at a steep price.\n\nThe Fed's recent rate cut didn't buoy the markets like it used to. So it's not clear that more rate cuts will blunt the damage from his ongoing trade war with China which is creating uncertainty and raising costs for businesses and consumers.\n\nEarlier on Wednesday, White House trade adviser Peter Navarro told Fox Business Network the central bank should cut rates by half a percentage point \"as soon as possible\", an action he claimed would lead to stock markets soaring.\n\nDespite the US delaying the 1 September imposition of tariffs on some Chinese imports into the US, it has done little to ease concerns.\n\n\"The challenge is that Trump's trade policy has proven so erratic that you cannot relieve the sense of uncertainty,\" said Tim Duy, an economics professor at the University of Oregon.\n\nAs of September last year, the US central bank had a relatively rosy outlook for the economy, expecting that the stimulus from the Trump administration's massive $1.5tn tax cut package and spending in 2018 would sustain growth and justify steadily higher interest rates.\n\nMr Trump wants to make the economy a central part of his case for his 2020 re-election campaign.\n\nIn an interview scheduled to air on Fox Business Network on Friday, former Fed chief Janet Yellen said she felt the US economy remained \"strong enough\" to avoid a downturn, but \"the odds have clearly risen and they are higher than I'm frankly comfortable with\".", "Criminal gangs are targeting children in care, some as young as 12, in towns and cities many miles from home - the phenomenon known as county lines.\n\nPolice say they are struggling to deal with the scale of the problem.\n\nWatch in full: County lines and the children they exploit", "Celtic have crashed out of the Champions League after conceding four times to CFR Cluj of Romania in a frantic game in Glasgow.\n\nNeil Lennon's side were 2-1 behind on aggregate at half-time thanks to Cirpian Deac's header, but seemed to have turned the tie around with goals from James Forrest and Odsonne Edouard.\n\nBillel Omrani's penalty gave Cluj the lead on away goals with 16 minutes left, and although Ryan Christie forced the hosts in front, Omrani and George Tucudean struck to seal Celtic's fate.\n\nIt means the Scottish champions now drop into the Europa League play-off round, where they will play Moldovans Sheriff Tiraspol or Swedish side AIK, with the latter having won 2-1 away last week.\n\nCeltic reached the last 32 of that competition last season, having been knocked out at the same stage of the Champions League by AEK Athens.\n\nAn abject night began with a selection by Lennon that had a few among the home support a tad perplexed. Callum McGregor, one of his most dynamic midfielders, was picked at left-back.\n\nLennon said that he wanted as many \"technicians\" in his team as possible. What he needed was more resistance, more nous, more defensive discipline. Lennon wanted McGregor and Olivier Ntcham on the field and the only way to do it was to pick the Scot in defence, he said. Of course the other theory is that his trust in his first-choice left-back, Boli Bolingoli, is not exactly complete.\n\nRegardless of the reason, McGregor played at the back and Celtic struggled their way through a testy opening half.\n\nCluj arrived with intent, physicality and pace up front. They pressed Celtic hard and fast and looked dangerous on the counter-attack. When the heat came on them later on, they delivered big-time. A raucous stadium did not make them bat an eyelid. They grew amid the chaos. They exploited Celtic and all the acres of space they afforded them.\n\nThe goal that brought collective palpitations to Celtic Park came just before the half-hour.\n\nFrom an innocuous position, a throw-in on the left touchline, Cluj engineered the opener with an awful lot of help from their hosts. Omrani went up the wing, away from Scott Brown, and swung in a cross that should have been dealt with comfortably. Instead, McGregor let Deac get across him and the Romanian outjumped him and saw his header go in off Scott Bain's left-hand post.\n\nAs it stood, Celtic were out of the Champions League, a fate that brought a mixture of anxiety and anger to the stadium. Celtic looked unsettled. Their supporters sounded furious, not (yet) at their team as such but at Cluj's Venezuelan striker Mario Rondon who, having already picked up a yellow card, then thundered into Kristoffer Ajer without sanction.\n\nA fascinating game only became ever more compelling. Celtic came back out for the restart with a lot more urgency, Ajer's header getting cleared off the line one minute, Jozo Simunovic's header saved the next. The game was madcap. A wide open, toe-to-toe slugfest.\n\nThe equaliser was greeted like a long lost son, McGregor blasting down the left before squaring to Edouard, who dummied deftly and let it run to Forrest. The winger was cool and clinical. Celtic Park erupted.\n\nThey upped it from there, Hatem Elhamed's cross squeezing between the hapless Paulo Vinicius and Andonie Burca to Edouard, who put Celtic in front. Just over an hour had gone and Celtic drove on to get another. Christie lashed one wide as the home team appeared to be setting sail for the Champions League play-off round.\n\nThe violent turbulence of the night started to kick in. From a corner, the ball carried to the back post and Scott Brown handled. Penalty. The silence that descended on the place was something else. Omrani stood up and lashed it past Bain to make it 2-2. Once again, Celtic were going out.\n\nBut, no. Two minutes later it switched again when Edouard burst through on the left side of the box and slipped it across to Christie, arriving ahead of all others. Christie tapped it home. On this crazy night, Celtic were through again. And then they were out again.\n\nCluj were like a prizefighter, behind on points but still possessing the firepower for a knockout. Under the cosh for so long, they broke out and Constantin Paun, under little pressure, fired a shot on Bain's goal. The goalkeeper flung himself away to his right and parried it, but when the ball broke free there wasn't a Celtic man in sight. All of them were posted missing. The one player who was where he needed to be was Omrani, who lashed his shot high past Bain to make it 3-3. Cluj were going through. Celtic tried to save themselves, but couldn't.\n\nThey had six added minutes but it only got worse. As they tried to get a winner they conceded a loser, George Tucudean making it 4-3 with the game's last kick.\n\nA nightmarish night for Celtic. Truly awful. It wasn't supposed to be like this. A shot at the Europa League group stage is all that's waiting for them now.\n\nOmrani scored two and made one. Apart from that, he was a threat with his physicality and his pace. Celtic's defence struggled with him periodically and when the ball broke loose in the game's pivotal moment none of them were anywhere near him. He was the only man on the pitch alive to what was going on.\n\nMore than anybody, Omrani was the one who did the damage.\n• None Goal! Celtic 3, CFR Cluj 4. George Tucudean (CFR Cluj) right footed shot from the centre of the box to the centre of the goal. Assisted by Constantin Adrian Paun Alexandru.\n• None Giedrius Arlauskis (CFR Cluj) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.\n• None Goal! Celtic 3, CFR Cluj 3. Abdel Billel Omrani (CFR Cluj) left footed shot from the centre of the box to the centre of the goal.\n• None Goal! Celtic 3, CFR Cluj 2. Ryan Christie (Celtic) left footed shot from the centre of the box to the high centre of the goal. Assisted by Odsonne Edouard.\n• None Goal! Celtic 2, CFR Cluj 2. Abdel Billel Omrani (CFR Cluj) converts the penalty with a left footed shot to the centre of the goal.\n• None Ciprian Deac (CFR Cluj) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.\n• None Goal! Celtic 2, CFR Cluj 1. Odsonne Edouard (Celtic) right footed shot from the centre of the box to the centre of the goal.\n• None Goal! Celtic 1, CFR Cluj 1. James Forrest (Celtic) right footed shot from the centre of the box to the centre of the goal. Assisted by Callum McGregor.\n• None Hatem Elhamed (Celtic) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.\n• None Mario Rondón (CFR Cluj) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page", "Rail users in the UK will be hit by a further rise in ticket prices which will come into effect next year.\n\nThe increase will be based on the Retail Prices Index (RPI) inflation measure for July of 2.8%.\n\nThe figure is likely to lead to an increase of more than £100 in the annual cost of getting to work for many commuters.\n\nPassenger groups urged a change in the way ticket prices are calculated, as RPI is no longer a national statistic.\n\nThe cost of most train fares are set by train companies themselves, but about 40% of fares in England, Scotland and Wales are regulated so that they are only allowed to rise by an amount pegged to the RPI rate of inflation in July the previous year.\n\nThe government's preferred measure of inflation, the Consumer Prices Index (CPI), increased to 2.1%.\n\nThe Campaign for Better Transport (CBT) has repeatedly said that CPI, the most widely watched and used measure of inflation, should be used instead of RPI.\n\nLast month this was 2% and it is typically lower than the RPI rate of inflation.\n\nCBT chief executive Darren Shirley said the expected ticket price rises were \"exorbitant\".\n\n\"The government should commit now to January's fares rise being linked to CPI,\" he added.\n\nThe difference between the two is stark. For every £100 paid on a season ticket, using RPI over CPI has increased prices by about £6 since RPI was abandoned by the National Audit Office as a national statistic in 2013.\n\n\"The only benefactors of using the retail price index (RPI) to calculate the cost of rail fares are the train companies,\" said Kevin Brown, savings specialist at Scottish Friendly, an investment firm.\n\n\"Passengers are therefore having to fork out more money to travel despite regularly having to deal with over-crowded and unpredictable services. The general outlook for consumers is already difficult and this will feel like another kick in the teeth for many hard-working families who are facing the prospect of a second recession in 10 years.\n\nA monthly season ticket from Widnes to Liverpool, currently costing £129.80 will cost £133.43, an increase of £3.63.\n\nA monthly pass from Reading to London will go from £442.00 to £454.38, up £12.38.\n\nA season ticket from Bath Spa to Bristol Temple Meads today costs £162.10 a month. From January it will be £166.64, up £4.54.\n\nRail Minister Chris Heaton-Harris said: \"It's tempting to suggest fares should never rise. However, the truth is that if we stop investing in our railway, then we will never see it improved.\"\n\nThe TUC, a federation of unions, renewed its call for the railway to be renationalised, arguing it would lead to lower ticket prices.\n\n\"We're already paying the highest ticket prices in Europe to travel on overcrowded and understaffed trains.\n\n\"The number one priority should be running a world-class railway service, not subsidising private train companies,\" said TUC general secretary Frances O'Grady.\n\nRachael, a commuter in Watford, Hertfordshire, told the BBC: \"I've seen the rail fares increasing again this year, and for me it's just becoming impossible to justify, and I'm worried I'll be priced out of working in London within a few years if this keeps happening.\n\n\"The cost of my train ticket, and the dreadful service is causing me such grief, and I'm only travelling from Watford junction to Euston. It costs me £3,680 on an annual ticket.\n\n\"Something needs to change. Please.\"\n\nThe bitter irony for rail passengers is that the quality of service in Britain is all too often undeserving of the price.\n\nAfter a cataclysmic year on parts of the network last year, punctuality was generally on the up this year before the hot, and then wet and windy, weather caused significant disruption this summer.\n\nThe promise (via an ongoing Government-commissioned rail review) is that our train companies of the future will only make money if they run trains on time.\n\nIn principle that sounds good for passengers but we still don't know how it will work in practice and when such a system will actually arrive at a station near you.\n\nThe wider financial dilemma for Government is that our rail network is in large parts ageing and in need of a refit.\n\nInfrastructure upgrade work costing the taxpayer billions is ongoing or planned.\n\nGovernment sources point out that a relatively small proportion of public transport journeys are made by train (roughly 17%).\n\nTherefore, they argue, a rise in ticket prices, however painful for passengers, is a necessary evil to meet the rising costs linked to running the railways.\n\nAt the start of this year, train fares went up by an average of 3.1% in England and Wales and 2.8% in Scotland.\n\nThe rise in England and Wales - the highest since January 2013 - meant the price of some annual season tickets rose by more than £100.\n\nIn Scotland, peak-time season tickets and anytime day tickets became 3.2% more expensive, while the capped increase of off-peak fares was 2.2%.\n\nRail passengers have had to endure more delays on the network this year.\n\nLast week was particularly bad, with thousands of people affected by a signal failure, which led to the suspension of all services out of London Euston, on Thursday.\n\nAnd then trains were also affected in Friday's power cut, with many stranded across the network", "Last updated on .From the section European Football\n\nWhen Stephanie Frappart takes charge of the Uefa Super Cup between Chelsea and Liverpool on Wednesday, it will not be the biggest game she has refereed this summer.\n\nThe French official will make history by becoming the first female to officiate in a major men's European match on Wednesday.\n\nBut having also taken charge of the Women's World Cup final in July and Ligue 1 matches in France since April, she says she will not be feeling any extra pressure.\n\n\"We train a lot of all the time, so we are not afraid because we are always ready for all the games,\" the 35-year-old said.\n• None Liverpool and Chelsea to meet in final - why you should care\n• None \"Lampard has one hell of a job on\"\n\nFrappart admits her \"life has changed\" since she was appointed earlier this month as part of an all-female on-field referee team for the match between last season's Champions League and Europa League winners.\n\nShe will line up alongside assistant referees Manuela Nicolosi of Italy and Michelle O'Neill from the Republic of Ireland, who also joined her at the World Cup.\n\nTurkish male referee Cuneyt Cakir will be the fourth official in his home city of Istanbul.\n\n\"I'm now popular all over the world,\" Frappart added. \"But I was also appointed in Ligue 1, so I know the feelings and emotions and how to manage them and how to train for [the occasion].\n\n\"This is not my first appointment.\"\n\nChelsea boss Frank Lampard said of Frappart's appointment: \"I'm very pleased to be part of this moment in history, which is very much due.\"\n\nBut female officials are becoming more common in men's football with Bibiana Steinhaus also taking charge of matches in Germany's Bundesliga.\n\nSian Massey-Ellis is a regular assistant referee in the Premier League; however, there are no female referees in the Premier League or the Football League (EFL).\n\nRebecca Welch, 35, is the top female referee in the country, taking charge of matches in the National League - the division below the EFL - as well as working a 30-hour week in the NHS - and like many female officials also takes charge of women's matches.\n\nThere are about 1,500 female referees in England, with the Football Association hoping to double that number by 2021.\n\nIreland's O'Neill says: \"It's pretty nice to inspire young girls, to open up the pathways for kids coming up. That's pretty special.\n\n\"But this is not our first time on the big stage. I am one of the first Irish officials in a World Cup final, man or woman, so I already know how to react to all the emotions and keep focus on the task on hand, which is the two teams on Wednesday.\"\n\nUefa's chief refereeing officer Roberto Rosetti added: \"I hope she will inspire thousands and thousands of young female referees around the world.\n\n\"The reason they were chosen is, they are good.\"\n\nFrappart was greeted by banners welcoming her to the stadium when she took charge of her first game in France.\n\nHowever, the reaction to Massey-Ellis first joining the Premier League in the 2010-11 season was less charitable.\n\nBut Cakir, who has refereed Champions League and World Cup matches, says female officials are appointed on merit.\n\n\"When we go to field of play, we are all called referees,\" the Turkish official said. \"When we go onto field there is no gender.\n\n\"Two weeks ago in Zagreb, we did the same preparation, the same fitness tests, the same laws of the game, the same training sessions, there is no difference.\n\n\"My honest feeling is they are really brave, they have courage, they don't hesitate to give unpopular decisions. You will see on Wednesday, believe me.\"", "Rainbow numbers have been used on buses to support Pride in Norwich since 2017\n\nA bus driver has been suspended after he allegedly refused to drive a bus supporting Pride events.\n\nHe reportedly told passengers in Norwich: \"This bus promotes homosexuality and I refuse to drive it.\"\n\nRainbow numbers were used on the bus in a nod to the Pride flag.\n\nGo East Anglia, which runs Konectbus, said the driver had been suspended and an investigation was under way.\n\nPassenger Becca Sears shared on Twitter that the bus to Thickthorn, near Norwich, was delayed while another driver was found.\n\nThe story was shared on Twitter\n\nMs Sears said she complained to staff at Norwich Park and Ride when it happened.\n\nThere was outrage on social media after one passenger shared the story on Friday.\n\nAli B replied on Twitter saying : \"Truly shocking!\"\n\nOther users suggested the driver should not be suspended but should be given more training.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Ashley Sale This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nGo East Anglia said on Twitter that it \"prides itself on values that support diversity and inclusion and has been a champion of Norwich Pride since 2017\".\n\nIt added: \"We particularly want all customers of whatever background or sexual orientation to feel comfortable on our services.\n\n\"As a company we do not condone any behaviour from our drivers that does not support this view. The driver involved in this incident has been suspended and a full investigation is under way.\"\n\nJulie Bremner, trustee of Norwich Pride said: \"Our reaction is this type of prejudiced view is exactly why we started Norwich Pride in 2009, to ensure homophobia is visibly challenged and the city is safe and inclusive for all.\n\n\"We are pleased to see the bus company take action following this complaint.\n\n\"When the buses started showing a rainbow number in 2017, people in our LGBT+ community were delighted as this was another visible symbol to say Norwich welcomes all and is a city of diversity.\"\n\nNorwich Park and Ride buses used coloured numbers to support the city's Pride events in July.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript 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 Norwich Park & Ride This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy 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 Late Late Show has been a fixture on US television for years\n\nEntertainment giants CBS and Viacom are to merge in the latest media mega-deal as broadcasters adapt to changing consumer demands.\n\nThe new company will have $28bn in revenue and comprise brands like MTV, Comedy Central and Paramount Pictures.\n\nThe deal would reunite the two firms, which were previously under the same corporate umbrella until a 2006 split.\n\nThe move comes amid an increasingly competitive landscape dominated by Netflix, Disney-Fox and other rivals.\n\nThe merged firm, to be called ViacomCBS, would be controlled by National Amusements, the holding company owned by billionaire Sumner Redstone and his daughter, Shari.\n\nThere have been at least three attempts to re-combine the companies, but all failed due to clashes between executives and investors over who got the top jobs as well as the valuations of the business.\n\nThere was also the dramatic fall of CBS's boss Les Moonves, ousted after allegations of sexual misconduct.\n\nViacom chief executive Bob Bakish will be the president and chief executive of the combined company. Joe Ianniello, interim chief executive of CBS, will be named chairman and chief of CBS.\n\nThe companies said they expected about $500m cost savings from the tie-up, which brings together a movie studio, string of cable channels, and some of US TV's most-watched shows, including 60 Minutes and The Big Bang Theory.\n\nIn addition to their US operations, the merged group will have a global reach, including in Britain, Argentina and Australia.\n\n\"I am really excited to see these two great companies come together so that they can realise the incredible power of their combined assets,\" said Shari Redstone, who will chair the new company, ViacomCBS.\n\nThe daughter of Sumner Redstone said: \"My father once said 'content is king,' and never has that been more true than today. We will establish a world-class, multiplatform media organisation that is well-positioned for growth in a rapidly transforming industry.\"\n\nMr Redstone broke up CBS and Viacom 14 years ago. He believed it would unlock the value of Viacom, which was broadcasting some of TV's most popular shows at a time when CBS was becoming less popular.\n\nShari Redstone had been a big backer of re-combining the companies in the face of tough competition. The mergers of Disney with Fox, and AT&T and Time Warner, coupled with expanding streaming services, left CBS and Viacom in a weaker position.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nA mother who lost her baby while giving birth said she was let down after staff at the hospital \"just didn't listen\".\n\nArthur Wyn Jones died at Glangwili Hospital in Carmarthen in March 2017.\n\nHis mother Kara Jones, 27, said she had been pleading for an early delivery because she knew something was wrong.\n\nA report by Hywel Dda health board said \"numerous missed opportunities to acknowledge the complexity of the pregnancy\" were likely to have contributed to his death.\n\nThe young couple have now received financial compensation and hope to move on.\n\nLiving in Tre'r Ddol, Ceredigion, Ms Jones received her care during pregnancy at Bronglais Hospital in Abersytwyth.\n\nBut because of her diabetes, she and her partner Sam Penfold, 29, had to make regular visits to Glangwili Hospital, which has a specialist care unit.\n\nIt was there they began to ask questions about her care.\n\n\"We didn't have a clue. No clue what was going to happen. Every day, we were going back, they were saying 'we're not sure about this, we're not sure',\" she said.\n\nIn the internal report by Hywel Dda University Health Board, seen by Newyddion9, a catalogue of failings are listed that likely contributed to Arthur's death.\n\nKara Jones and Sam Penfold are now parents to Ralffi and Dyfi\n\nAmong these are numerous failures to act on abnormal scan findings, and a failure to expedite delivery.\n\nMs Jones said: \"I remember having a dream when I was under the general [anaesthetic]. Sam and Arthur were sitting round a table. Arthur was saying 'stay with dad'. Then Sam was saying 'stay with me'. And then I had to choose what I wanted to do, if I wanted to die and go with him or stay with Sam.\n\n\"I remember Arthur saying 'you'll see me again anyway, I know you'll see me again so stay with Dad for now'.\n\n\"So that's what I did and I woke, and I asked Sam 'is he ok' - and Sam said 'no he's gone'.\n\n\"It's just the hardest thing - waking up. You're pregnant for nine months, and then you're not pregnant. And that's it - it's gone.\"\n\nThe couple had specific concerns regarding the behaviour of the consultant who was on call during that weekend, and following a formal complaint to the General Medical Council (GMC), Alan Treharne received a formal warning.\n\n\"This guy was the only consultant on call. And he came in, all the nurses were saying something was wrong. I really wanted him to help my little baby,\" Ms Jones said.\n\n\"It's obvious his intentions were to be a good person or he wouldn't have wanted to be a doctor, so why couldn't he help my baby?\"\n\nMs Jones and Mr Penfold have had two children, Ralffi and Dyfi, since Arthur's death\n\nA GMC investigation came to the conclusion that Mr Treharne's management of Ms Jones fell seriously below the standard expected of a reasonably competent consultant in obstetrics. No restrictions were placed on his practice.\n\nNewyddion9 has contacted the solicitors representing Mr Treharne who did not provide any further comment.\n\nMandy Rayani, director of nursing, quality and patient experience at Hywel Dda health board, said she offered the board's \"sincere condolences and apologies for the distress experienced\" by Ms Jones and her family.\n\n\"A thorough investigation was undertaken by the health board as well as the GMC. This resulted in a number of recommendations to change procedures and clinical pathways,\" she said.\n\n\"Additional learning and training for the whole multidisciplinary team has taken place across the health board area. We wish to provide assurance that all of these recommendations have been implemented.\"\n\nThe couple tell their children about Arthur\n\nSince then Kara has given birth to two children. Ralffi is 21 months, and Dyfi was born in April.\n\n\"It makes you realise how lucky you are to have babies when you lose one. But the two little ones, they're amazing,\" she said.\n\nBut Ms Jones and Mr Penfold are still unable to fully handle life.\n\nSuffering from post-traumatic stress disorder, Ms Jones suffers constant nightmares and Mr Penfold accepts that his personality has completely changed.\n\n\"I'm not the same person. I did well at university, I was head boy, and played for Wales schoolboys' football team,\" he said.\n\n\"But now, I'm not comfortable around many people. I'm not sociable. I can't imagine going to work.\n\n\"It's not healthy at all.\"\n\nLooking to the future, the couple are in the process of setting up a trust in Arthur's name.\n\nThe aim is to give children sporting opportunities, and the long term dream is to open a facility in Portugal.\n\nWith Ralffi and Dyfi keeping them busy, they're moving forwards, but the family will always carry Arthur Wyn in their hearts.\n\n\"We tell Ralffi that he's now a big and a little brother. And I don't want to hide that from him, because if we hadn't lost Arthur, we may not have had Ralffi and Dyfi.\n\n\"Things have worked out how they are, and maybe that's how it was meant to be.\"\n\nIf you or someone you know is struggling with issues raised by this story, find support through the BBC Action Line.\n\nIf you have been affected by stillbirth or neonatal death, the following organisations might be able to help:", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Who is ASAP Rocky and why is he on Trump's radar?\n\nUS rapper ASAP Rocky, real name Rakim Mayers, has been found guilty of assault during a Stockholm fight and given a two-year suspended sentence.\n\nThe 30-year-old has also been ordered to pay damages to the victim.\n\nASAP Rocky spent nearly a month in custody after the assault, which happened at the end of June, before being released ahead of the verdict.\n\nHe's posted on Instagram saying he's \"disappointed\" with the verdict and thanking fans for their support.\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 asaprocky 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\nTwo members of ASAP Rocky's entourage, Bladimir Corniel and David Rispers, were found guilty of the same charge.\n\n\"The assault has not been of such a serious nature that a prison sentence must be chosen,\" the court said in a statement.\n\n\"The defendants are therefore sentenced to conditional sentences.\"\n\nA suspended sentence means that as long as ASAP Rocky and the two other men found guilty commit no further crimes during a two-year probation period, they will avoid prison.\n\nASAP Rocky thanked the court after being released from prison earlier this month\n\nASAP Rocky and his co-defendants claimed they had been acting in self-defence against two men who had been following their group.\n\nBut the court said the three were \"not in a situation where they were entitled to self-defence\" and wrote in its verdict that they \"assaulted the victim by hitting and kicking him as he lay on the ground.\n\n\"The artist has also thrown the victim to the ground and stepped on his arm.\"\n\nThe court said the victim of the assault, a 19-year-old refugee, was awarded damages for what the court described as the violation of his integrity and for pain and suffering.\n\nThe judgement ruled that there was not enough evidence to say that bottles had been used during the assault - a key part of the evidence presented during the three-day trial which took place at the beginning of August.\n\n\"The court has recognised that Rocky and his party were followed and harassed, that no bottle was used, that Rocky didn't act in a joined attack with the others and that Rocky didn't inflict any wounds on the victim and that is a win,\" ASAP Rocky's lawyer Slobodan Jovicic told the BBC.\n\n\"But the court has also concluded that Rocky didn't act in self-defence. It's a conclusion that Rocky and I don't agree with.\"\n\nASAP Rocky performed at a festival in California after being released from prison in Sweden\n\nASAP Rocky's case attracted international attention when US President Donald Trump intervened, claiming ASAP Rocky was being treated unfairly.\n\nUS gossip website TMZ had previously claimed that walking into Kronoberg prison - where ASAP Rocky was being held - was like \"walking into a toilet\". The prison's governor rejected those claims when speaking to Radio 1 Newsbeat.\n\nMr Trump said he'd spoken to Sweden's Prime Minister after having a conversation with Kanye West.\n\nBut the president later reacted angrily when he was unable to secure ASAP Rocky's release.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or 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\nUnlike during the trial there were no queues to get into the court ahead of the verdict, with fewer international media reporting on the case and only a handful of fans turning up to hear the decision.\n\nEven ASAP Rocky's lawyer wasn't present - he's working on another case in Uppsala, a Swedish city about an hour's drive from here. But this is a case that's still grabbing headlines in Sweden, where ASAP Rocky's dominated the news in recent weeks and has become a household name after one of the most high-profile Swedish trials in years.\n\nWhile the rapper's team didn't get the not guilty verdict they were hoping for, they will be relieved the star doesn't have to return to Sweden to spend any more time behind bars. That sentiment was echoed by just a handful of fans who gathered outside the court.\n\nASAP Rocky was forced to cancel numerous festival appearances while in custody in Sweden in July.\n\nJ Hus filled in for his headline slot at Wireless in London, while Ski Mask The Slump God filled in at Longitude in Dublin.\n\nAfter being released earlier this month he performed at the 92.3 Real Street Festival in California, calling his time in Swedish prison \"scary\" and \"humbling\" before telling the crowd: \"I need y'all to keep praying for me.\"\n\nHe's scheduled to headline Blockfest in Finland on Friday.\n\nListen to Newsbeat live at 12:45 and 17:45 weekdays - or listen back here.", "Ningali Lawford-Wolf had been performing in Edinburgh in The Secret River\n\nThe Australian actress Ningali Lawford-Wolf has died after falling ill while on tour with a production at the Edinburgh International Festival.\n\nThe 52-year-old, who had been performing in the show, The Secret River, died on Sunday.\n\nShe was a regular at the festival but was best known for acclaimed performances in films including Rabbit-Proof Fence.\n\nSydney Theatre Company said they were \"absolutely devastated\" by the news.\n\nTwo shows in Edinburgh were cancelled last week after Ms Lawford-Wolf fell ill before one of her cast mates stepped into her role as narrator for the remaining four performances.\n\nIn a statement Sydney Theatre Company paid tribute to the actress.\n\nIt read: \"Ningali was an incredibly talented performer as well as a wonderfully caring and thoughtful person. We've lost one of Australian theatre's greatest treasures.\"\n\nNingali was a Wangkatjungka woman born under a tree at Christmas Creek Station in the far north Kimberley region of Western Australia.\n\nShe trained as a dancer at the Aboriginal Islander Dance Theatre, then continued to perform professionally with Bangarra Dance Theatre in Sydney to build a stage and screen career.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Natalie Crichlow had three children who are trying to raise funds to bring her body home\n\nA British woman has died in Barbados after being doused in a flammable liquid and set alight while in bed.\n\nNatalie Crichlow's \"shocked and devastated\" family are raising funds to repatriate her body.\n\nMs Crichlow, 44, of Colindale in London, was in Barbados to look after her disabled brother when she was attacked.\n\nThe mother of three had survived cancer twice and had two strokes in the past decade, according to her niece.\n\nAshley Best said her aunt suffered 75% burns to her body in the attack in Christchurch on 28 July. She died in hospital on 6 August.\n\nMs Best said: \"The intruder broke in the house, then strangled her and then set her alight. She went into hospital and died of her injuries.\n\n\"I do not understand why it happened and we are all in a state of shock.\"\n\nMs Crichlow died of her injuries after being choked and set on fire while in bed\n\nMs Crichlow, who was born in Luton, has three children aged 10, 20 and 26 who are \"devastated\" and want to get her back home to Britain for burial.\n\nThey have set up a crowd-funding page in an attempt to raise £8,000 to bring her body home.\n\nHer niece said the family are concerned the Royal Barbados Police Force is not treating the death as a murder investigation.\n\nA spokesman for the local police told the Press Association no arrests had been made.\n\nMs Best said of her aunt: \"For someone who had battled through so much to just be taken in this way and lose their life is just beyond understanding.\n\n\"She said she wanted to live life to the fullest because her life had nearly been taken from her.\"\n\nFamily friend Mitra Wikes said Ms Crichlow was \"a true survivor and warrior who endured so much in life but always kept going and had a true passion for living life to the max no matter what she had gone through\".\n\nA Foreign Office spokesman said: \"Our staff are supporting the family of a British woman following her death in Barbados, and are in contact with the Barbados police force.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Italian astronaut Luca Parmitano has become the first DJ in orbit, after playing a set from the International Space Station to a cruise ship of clubbers in the Mediterranean Sea.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Graeme Stenhouse said the Apprentice Boys had no prior knowledge of the uniform worn by Clyde Valley Flute Band\n\nThe Apprentice Boys of Derry have said they recognise the potential upset caused to nationalists by a Parachute Regiment emblem worn by a visiting flute band during a parade in the city.\n\nThey said they had no prior knowledge of the uniform worn by Clyde Valley Flute Band during Saturday's march.\n\nThe Larne group wore a Parachute Regiment insignia on their shirts as they paraded, bearing the letter 'F'.\n\nPolice escorted them during the parade, and later stopped the band's bus.\n\nThe Apprentice Boys governor said on Tuesday night that the Apprentice Boys were unaware of the incident until after the parade.\n\n\"We had no prior knowledge of the band's uniform, or this incident, until the conclusion of the main parade on Bond Street,\" he said.\n\n\"We recognise this may have caused upset to many in the nationalist community.\"\n\nSDLP leader Colum Eastwood described the Apprentice Boys statement as a \"positive step that will contribute to healing in the city\".\n\n\"It is welcome and demonstrates the kind of leadership that Derry and the north needs right now,\" he added.\n\nMr Stenhouse added that the main focus of the parade is to commemorate the 1689 Siege of Derry.\n\nHe said it should in no way be used as a means to \"heighten tensions in a shared city\".\n\nThe governor again rejected claims that an agreement about symbols supporting the Parachute Regiment had been put in place before the march.\n\n\"This agreement never took place,\" he said.\n\n\"We would never place our marshals under such difficult circumstances.\"\n\nMembers of Clyde Valley Flute Band from Larne wore the symbol with the letter 'F' on their shirts\n\nMr Stenhouse said the police were \"heavy handed\" in how they dealt with the band and that he would discuss the matter further with local police commanders.\n\n\"A lot of hard work has been contributed to ensuring peaceful parades over many years,\" he said.\n\n\"We wish to continue with this constructive dialogue to ensure that good will and understanding prevails.\n\n\"We also wish to ensure our city continues to lead in promoting reconciliation and is a model of respect to all communities.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Arlene Foster said the policing of an Apprentice Boys parade in Londonderry was not balanced.\n\nEarlier on Tuesday, Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) leader Arlene Foster said that a lot of loyalists are concerned by the police approach.\n\n\"It is important that everybody in the community in Northern Ireland has support for the police service. That's a fundamental of our society,\" she said.\n\n\"Therefore it concerns us greatly if there's a perception building that there isn't that confidence in policing. It's something that we are very concerned about.\"\n\nThe DUP and UUP met PSNI officials separately to discuss Saturday's policing operation.\n\nUUP leader Robin Swann, who led his party's delegation, said \"intervention could've been handled in a completely different way\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\n\"The deployment of the TSG (Tactical Support Group), in my opinion, was uncalled for, unnecessary, and obviously too early because they should have given the elected representatives and stewards from the Apprentice Boys of Derry an opportunity to see what resolution could have come about before the TSG was deployed,\" he added.\n\nDeputy Chief Constable Stephen Martin said he \"listened carefully to all the strong concerns that have been raised\" and that there will be a full debrief of the force's actions.\n\nThirteen people were shot dead when members of the Army's Parachute Regiment opened fire on civil rights demonstrators on Bloody Sunday in Derry in 1972.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nAn ex-paratrooper, known as Soldier F, is facing prosecution for two murders.\n\nRelatives of the victims of Bloody Sunday said the band's display caused great hurt.\n\n\"People are very angry about what happened,\" said John Kelly, whose brother, Michael, was killed on Bloody Sunday.\n\n\"The way we look at it, and I'm talking about the families, and the people of Derry, we found it very, very provocative.\"\n\nMembers of the Apprentice Boys, one of the Protestant Loyal Orders, made their way around the city's historic walls accompanied by bands\n\nPolice said an agreement had been put in place before the march, and officers flanked the band during the parade.\n\nBut DUP MP Gregory Campbell shared Mr Stenhouse's opinion that there was no such agreement.\n\nSinn Féin MP Elisha McCallion said the insignia display by the band had caused \"deep anger in the city\".\n\n\"Ahead of Saturday's parade, assurances were given that there would be no Parachute Regiment or Soldier F imagery involved but this agreement was broken,\" she said.\n\n\"Subsequent Apprentice Boys denials of such an agreement do not stand up to scrutiny, and are in direct contravention of the accounts from the PSNI and the Bogside Residents Group.\"\n\nResponding to criticism of how police handled the incident, Assistant Chief Constable Alan Todd it was \"proportionate, responsible and constructive\".\n\nThe Parades Commission said it had received a number of complaints regarding the Apprentice Boys parade.\n\nGovernor of the Apprentice Boys, Graeme Stenhouse, laid a wreath at the cenotaph in Derry on Saturday\n\nClyde Valley Flute Band said that the symbol on their shirts was an expression of \"a legitimately held view which they are entitled to hold\".\n\n\"The officers of the band wish to correct any false impression which may be held regarding the band's uniform being deliberately provocative and specifically designed for the parade in Londonderry,\" the band said in a statement.\n\nMr Stenhouse earlier said he would be willing to meet the Bloody Sunday families and other community representatives.\n\n\"I'm more than willing to meet them if that's something that they wish to do,\" he said.\n\n\"What the Apprentice Boys have achieved over the last 20 years is taking things forward by talking to different communities.\n\n\"That's why we do have very successful parades now in the Maiden City. We'll discuss with other community representatives and if there's some hard, straight talking to be done, then that's something that we'll have to do.\"\n\nIt was the third consecutive night police have been attacked in the city.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nA US-UK trade deal will not get through Congress if Brexit undermines the Good Friday Agreement, the Speaker of the US House of Representatives has said.\n\nDemocrat Nancy Pelosi, whose party controls the House, said the UK's exit from the EU could not be allowed to endanger the Irish peace deal.\n\nHer comments came after the US national security adviser said the UK would be \"first in line\" for a trade deal.\n\nThe reimposition of frontier controls between Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland if the UK leaves the EU without mutual agreement on 31 October - a so-called \"hard Brexit\" - is seen as a threat to the 1998 Good Friday Agreement, which ended decades of bloodshed in Northern Ireland.\n\n\"Whatever form it takes, Brexit cannot be allowed to imperil the Good Friday Agreement, including the seamless border between the Irish Republic and Northern Ireland,\" Ms Pelosi said in a statement on Wednesday.\n\nMr Bolton said on Tuesday that the Trump administration supported a no-deal Brexit, and added Washington would propose an accelerated series of trade deals in the event of one.\n\nHe said these could be done on a \"sector-by-sector\" basis, with an agreement on manufacturing made first. A trade deal for financial services and agriculture would not be the first to be agreed, he added.\n\nAsked whether his proposed plan would follow World Trade Organization (WTO) rules, Mr Bolton said \"our trade negotiators seem to think it is\".\n\nHe said there would be enthusiastic bipartisan support in Congress for speedy ratification at each stage.\n\nMr Johnson said there were \"all sorts\" of opportunities for UK business in the US, particularly service companies, but the negotiations will be a \"tough old haggle\".\n\nHowever, critics warn that the UK will have to give in to some US demands in return for any trade agreement.\n\nThe EU currently bans chlorine-washed chicken products on welfare grounds\n\nFormer UK Foreign Secretary Jack Straw, who served under a Labour government, described Mr Bolton as \"dangerously bellicose\".\n\nHe suggested the UK would have to agree to some US demands, for example allowing imports of US chlorine-washed chicken.\n\n\"This is a highly transactional administration… you don't get something for nothing,\" he told BBC Radio 4's Today programme.\n\nLewis Lukens, a former deputy chief of mission at the US embassy in London and former acting US ambassador, said Mr Bolton was aligned to President Trump's \"America first agenda\" and would be making \"strong demands\" on the UK to back the US position on issues like China, Iran and Chinese tech giant Huawei.\n\nMr Johnson is expected to have his first face-to-face meeting as prime minister with Mr Trump later this month at the G7 summit in France.", "The mother of a 12-year-old girl who drowned has claimed institutional racism within the police means the family may never know how she died.\n\nShukri Abdi drowned in the River Irwell in Bury, in Greater Manchester, on 27 June.\n\nThe family claim officers failed to carry out a full investigation and treated them differently because of their ethnic background.\n\nThe Independent Office for Police Conduct (IOPC) is investigating.\n\nGreater Manchester Police (GMP) previously said the death was a \"tragic incident\" and it did not believe there were any suspicious circumstances.\n\nIt has now told the BBC it is \"still investigating on behalf of the coroner\".\n\nShukri's mother, Zam Zam Ture, told the BBC's Victoria Derbyshire programme that when she reported her daughter missing on the day of her death, police initially failed to act.\n\nApproximately 10 hours later, she said, she was informed that her daughter had been found dead, but described police as \"not sympathetic\".\n\nShe said they spoke to her \"harshly\" and were \"trying to convince [her] that her daughter had been swimming\", which the family say was unlikely as Shukri could not swim, had been wearing full Islamic dress and it would have been \"out of character\" for her to attempt to do so.\n\nZam Zam Ture says police spoke to her \"harshly\" when informing her of her daughter's death\n\nThe family's lawyer Attiq Malik said \"within hours\" of Shukri's death, GMP had published a press release saying there were no suspicious circumstances.\n\nHe said this had left insufficient time to check all evidence trails and discount other possibilities.\n\n\"The family's firm position is they have only been treated in that way because of their race, and had it been a different racial background more sensitivity would have been given, more investigation would have been done,\" he said.\n\nInstitutional racism, he claimed, meant officers had acted in such a way without \"even realising it\".\n\nTheir claims are now being investigated by the police watchdog, the IOPC.\n\nThe IOPC said: \"We treat complaints of this nature with the utmost seriousness, and I know GMP share the view that the IOPC has a responsibility to examine the actions of the force after Shukri was reported missing - not least for public confidence.\"\n\nMs Ture said her daughter had been unhappy at school prior to her death.\n\nShe said she had personally reported instances of bullying to Broad Oak Sports College in Bury \"many times\".\n\nThe school produced a report for the family, but Mr Malik said it \"essentially just said that they were not aware of any bullying\".\n\nHe said the school failed to interview Shukri's mother for the report, despite promises, which he suggested showed they did not \"fully investigate\".\n\nIn a statement, head teacher Paul Greenhalgh said the school was \"deeply saddened to receive news of Shukri's tragic death\".\n\n\"We are currently working with Shukri's family in respect of any concerns which have been raised about the school [and] will be reviewing all policies and procedures at the school,\" he added.\n\n\"In particular, we will focus on the school's anti-bullying policy and procedures and other policies relating to the welfare of children.\"\n\nFollow the BBC's Victoria Derbyshire programme on Facebook and Twitter - and see more of our stories here.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The government has been urged by the daughter of a man who took his life to stop the controversial tax policy which she says played a part in his death.\n\nShe has called for the policy, known as the \"loan charge\", to be suspended.\n\nMore than 200 MPs have also called for a suspension and independent review of the policy, which seeks to recover large sums from freelancers paid via a loan from an offshore trust.\n\nHMRC said anyone concerned about a tax bill should contact them for help.\n\n\"Our sympathies are with the family and friends of the individual.\n\n\"Our message to anyone concerned about a tax bill is to please come and talk to us and we will help,\" Her Majesty's Revenue and Customs (HMRC) told the BBC.\n\nHMRC estimates around 50,000 people were in the schemes, which it has described since 2010 as \"disguised remuneration\".\n\nThis is where the agency employing them diverts most of their pay to an offshore trust, then the trust gives them a loan which they typically don't have to pay back - and on which tax is only payable at around 1-2%.\n\nHMRC estimates around 50,000 people used the schemes\n\nTens of thousands of freelancers and contractors now face a deadline of the end of August, to obtain HMRC's agreement to a \"voluntary\" payment for what it says is tax due going back to 1999.\n\nIf they fail to do so, they have been told they will have to add up all the loans they have had in the last 20 years and pay a \"loan charge\" at tax rates of up to 45% by the end of January - a sum that often far exceeds their annual incomes.\n\nMPs of all parties have warned that could bankrupt some and force others to sell their homes.\n\nHMRC insists that insolvency is a last resort when reclaiming money and that they don't want to make people homeless.\n\nIn total, 151 MPs have joined an All-Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) on the loan charge which highlights their concerns about the effects of HMRC pressure on constituents' mental health and family lives.\n\nThe man who took his life, a consultant engineer in his late sixties, told his family he had been getting just two to three hours sleep per night.\n\n\"He wrote about it and said his brain turned to mush,\" his daughter, Gayle, told the BBC Today programme.\n\n\"I think the loan charge consumed him. That was all he could think about.\"\n\nGayle, who asked the BBC not to publish her family name, added: \"He said he'd spent hours and hours and hours thinking how he could get through it and resolve it. And he just couldn't come up with anything. I just don't think he could see any light at the end of the tunnel at all.\n\n\"As it got to probably the last 12 months of his life he would mention it more often and he became a bit more distant and he wouldn't commit to doing things with the family or many things because he would say; 'Not until this tax thing has been sorted out; I can't even think about that. We need to wait.'\"\n\nAs he was affected by mental illness, Gayle's father became convinced he was a criminal and would go to prison. In November last year, he wrote a 13-page letter to his family explaining that he couldn't resolve his tax affairs and blaming himself.\n\nAsked how she could be sure the loan charge played a role in his death, Gayle, a 35-year-old mother of four, said he had been preoccupied for months with trying to resolve the loan charge and made it clear in his letter to the family.\n\nIn the letter, which the BBC has seen, Gayle's father says it is all his own fault and in the next sentence refers to his involvement in the settlement scheme for the loan charge ahead of legislation due this year.\n\nGayle said she had decided to speak out because of growing concern that further suicides might take place.\n\nThen chancellor George Osborne introduced the loan charge in his 2016 Budget\n\nTreasury minister Jesse Norman has said that schemes are highly contrived and has so far resisted calls to suspend the loan charge.\n\nThe courts repeatedly rejected HMRC's case that the loans were taxable. However, in 2017 a Supreme Court decision ruled on another point: that when the pay was diverted, it was a taxable event. That meant the schemes were no longer effective for tax purposes.\n\nThe Treasury has said it is too late to go after the promoters of the schemes, many of whom made large profits, or the accountants who recommended them.\n\nAt the 2016 Budget, then chancellor George Osborne brought in the loan charge to recoup tax going back 20 years from individuals who had benefited from the schemes.\n\nLast year, thousands of freelancers and agency workers received letters from HMRC telling them they'd been involved in tax avoidance schemes it viewed as \"disguised remuneration\", encouraging them to get in touch and settle their affairs voluntarily.\n\nFor many freelancers and agency workers it was the first time they had been told their pay arrangements might be problematic.\n\nThey were required to add up all their loans from trusts going back to 1999, declare them and make an offer to HMRC to settle the underpaid tax.\n\nIf they failed to do so, then in April this year the loan charge would kick in and tax would be payable by the end of January 2020, at the individual's highest tax rate which can be up to 45%.\n\nThe typical sum owing, according to the Loan Charge Action Group - is about £120,000 each. HMRC dispute this figure, claiming the average figure is nearer to £13,000 each.\n\nMany who used the scheme had been assured it was legal\n\nMany of the contractors were IT professionals. Others, far from being wealthy \"tax dodgers\", were agency nurses, NHS workers, even social workers.\n\nMany of them were assured by their accountants when they entered new pay arrangements in the late 1990s or early 2000s that they were perfectly legal.\n\nThousands got paid net of tax and fees via payment services companies that they were directed to by the agencies that employed them. Typically, about 18% of their pay would be deducted.\n\nThe MPs say the attraction of the schemes wasn't lower tax as much as a wish to avoid the hassle and paperwork of running their own limited company.\n\nOthers had no choice because their employers, including many public sector employers, insisted on trust-loan arrangements as a condition of employment.\n\nHMRC said: \"We know that facing a large tax bill can be stressful, and our teams will make sure that anyone who needs extra help receives support from a named contact who is trained to support people who are anxious or stressed.\"\n\nIn the summer of 2018 the Loan Charge Action Group (LCAG) wrote to HMRC asking for a dedicated helpline, warning there would be suicides. When HMRC didn't respond they set up their own helpline - which is staffed by trained counsellors and takes distressed calls every day.\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson has called for an independent review\n\nDuring the Conservative leadership contest, at hustings in Carlisle on 29 June, Boris Johnson said the policy needed an independent review.\n\n\"The real culprits in this matter if I may say so are not so much the individuals themselves who have decided to use the loan charge as a way of minimising their tax exposure. It's the people who advised them that that was a sensible thing to do.\"\n\n\"It seems superficially unjust to me that they should then be retrospectively pursued for what they were told was an entirely legal option. It needs a proper independent review.\"\n\nHowever, since Boris Johnson entered 10 Downing Street, there has been no change as the August deadline draws near.\n\nGayle told the Today programme: \"People are losing hope. This is real life and those in a position to halt this are silent. They've gone very quiet.\n\n\"The Prime Minister would be the obvious first person who is in a position to instruct the Treasury. There is a lot of hope that people would come in and make some changes, make an announcement. But there is silence. Nothing - just nothing.\"\n\nAsked why this should be on the top of the Prime Minister's priority list, she answered:\n\n\"Because he can save lives. By halting it he can save lives. I can't bring my dad back, no-one can and I would hate to think how he would be coping right now if he was still waiting, still dealing with this. I can't even imagine.\"\n\nIf you'd like help with any of the issues raised in the interview with Gayle, you can find it via the BBC Action Line here.\n\nFor support and more information on emotional distress,click here.", "Richard Braine is the chairman of the party's West London branch\n\nRichard Braine has been elected as the leader of the UK Independence Party.\n\nIn a ballot of members, Mr Braine received 53% of the vote - more than double that of his closest rival.\n\nMr Braine was the favoured candidate of his predecessor, Gerard Batten, who resigned after UKIP's poor performance in the European elections in May.\n\nThe chairman of the party's West London branch, he beat Freddy Vachha, who won 20% of the vote, Ben Walker, on 14% and ex-deputy leader Mike Hookem, on 13%.\n\nSpeaking after his victory, Mr Braine said he wanted to establish UKIP as the \"far-moderate voice of common sense\" in Britain.\n\n\"We have got a great future and we are coming back. I am very excited and looking forward to leadership of this party, bringing the members together and delivering better results,\" he said.\n\nMr Batten, who stood down after little more than a year in charge, congratulated his successor on his \"decisive win\".\n\nIn a tweet, he called on Mr Braine to reform the party, increase membership and raise funds.\n\nMr Batten announced his support for Mr Braine after being banned from standing again by UKIP's national executive committee.\n\nThere have been now been eight different UKIP leaders since the referendum in 2016.\n\nNigel Farage, the party's most famous figure, stepped down after the Brexit vote, only to resume his post when his successor Diane James quit after less than a month at the helm.\n\nPaul Nuttall then assumed the role, but quit when UKIP performed badly in the 2017 general election. Steve Crowther was then acting leader until Henry Bolton was elected in September that year.\n\nMr Batten took over after a row in which Mr Bolton's girlfriend, Jo Marney, was expelled from the party following allegations she had sent racist messages about Meghan Markle, Prince Harry's then-fiancée.\n\nOn the day of Mr Batten's election as leader in April 2018, he said he would resign in 12-months' time so a full contest could take place.\n\nPiers Wauchope then acted as the party's interim leader until Mr Braine's election.", "The shipyard, beside Newark Castle, is expected to be in administration by the end of next week\n\nThe Scottish government says it is considering nationalising the beleaguered Ferguson shipyard.\n\nFinance Secretary Derek Mackay said taking the Port Glasgow site, which is due to enter administration, into public ownership was an option.\n\nThe site currently employs about 350 staff and has been in a long-running dispute with the Scottish government over a contract to build two ferries.\n\nThe £97m deal for CalMac is behind schedule and considerably over budget.\n\nFerguson's has said it expects to lose nearly £40m on the ferry deal, which is being procured through the public-sector agency CMAL.\n\nOn Friday, Ferguson Marine Engineering directors served notice of their intent to go into administration by the end of next week.\n\nChief executive Gerry Marshall said the decision had been made \"with great regret and disappointment\", but that directors considered there not to be \"any other options in the current circumstances.\"\n\nTwo CalMac ferries have been at the centre of a long-running dispute\n\nMr Mackay said nationalising the shipyard was being considered as a way to protect jobs and the future of the site.\n\nHe said: \"Public ownership is an option. It is one of the options that we've been looking at.\n\n\"We wanted to try and find a commercial proposition that would work. We're disappointed that we've not been able to do that with the company owners.\n\n\"But we've made a commitment around the jobs, around the vessels and a future for the yard and that's what we're working on intensively right now.\"\n\nMr Mackay said the government had \"a range of possibilities and options open to us\" and added: \"The objectives I'm setting out for Ferguson's specifically is to complete those vessels currently under construction - because we need them, to secure employment at the yard and to give the yard a future.\"\n\nGary Smith, the Scotland organiser for the GMB Union, said taking the yards into public ownership was the right thing to do.\n\nHe said: \"The only realistic option, the only way to secure the future of the yard, and most importantly for us - our members' jobs, is for the Scottish government to step in and nationalise the yard. I think that's what will happen and I think it's the right thing to do and those yards have got a very big future.\"\n\nGary Smith of the GMB said the yard had a big future despite its troubles\n\nIt comes weeks after the yard's parent company, Clyde Blowers Capital - which is controlled by industrial tycoon Jim McColl - tabled a proposal for the Scottish government to take a share of ownership. However, the government rejected that plan.\n\nScottish Conservative transport spokesman Jamie Greene has called for a full parliamentary inquiry into the troubles at the shipyard.\n\nHe said the blame lay solely at the feet of the SNP government, which he accused of \"recklessly\" mismanaging the ferry contract.\n\n\"It is impossible to chart a way forward for the yard until we get to the bottom of both why things have gone so financially awry and what can now be done differently to secure a longer-term future for Scotland's shipbuilding industry,\" he said.", "Thousands of people took to the streets in Srinagar after Friday prayers, in the largest demonstration since a lockdown was imposed in Indian-administered Kashmir.\n\nThe BBC witnessed the police opening fire and using tear gas to disperse the crowd. Despite that, the Indian government has said the protest never took place.", "Police say the suspect appears to have acted alone\n\nA man has been arrested in Norway after a shooting inside a mosque left one person injured on Saturday.\n\nPolice say a gunman opened fire on the Al-Noor Islamic Centre, on the outskirts of the capital Oslo.\n\nLater a woman was found dead at the house of the suspect, police said.\n\nThe suspect \"is around 20 years old, a Norwegian citizen from the area,\" said assistant chief of police Rune Skjold, adding that the man was now suspected of murdering a relative.\n\n\"We consider this a suspicious death... The dead person is related to the man arrested earlier today,\" he said.\n\nPolice say the man acted alone when he attacked the mosque.\n\nThe mosque's director told local media that the victim was a 75-year-old member of the congregation.\n\n\"One of our members has been shot by a white man with a helmet and uniform,\" Irfan Mushtaq told local newspaper Budstikka.\n\nHe later told local channel TV2 that the attacker had \"carried two shotgun-like weapons and a pistol. He broke through a glass door and fired shots.\"\n\nThe gunman, who wore body armour, was overpowered by people at the mosque before police arrived at the scene, Mr Mushtaq added.\n\nPolice sources told public broadcaster NRK that several weapons were found inside the mosque, located in the town of Baerum, following the shooting.\n\nThe mosque had previously implemented extra security measures after a gunman killed 51 people at two mosques in Christchurch, New Zealand, earlier this year, according to Reuters news agency.", "Several people watched the waves crashing over the rocks in Porthcawl\n\nWindy weather has led to road disruptions, fallen trees and power disruption in parts of Wales.\n\nHundreds of homes were left without power in Rhondda Cynon Taf, Merthyr Tydfil, Bridgend, Caerphilly, Monmouthshire and Carmarthenshire.\n\nMountain Ash, in Rhondda Cynon Taf, was worst hit, with 829 homes losing power on Saturday afternoon.\n\nA yellow weather warning for the whole of Wales is in place until midnight on Saturday.\n\nThe National Eisteddfod faced more disruption after organisers of the Welsh cultural festival closed part of the week-long event early due to the conditions.\n\nA large sign was ripped away by the wind and left in a precarious position at Cardiff's Principality Stadium. It was made safe by South Wales Fire and Rescue Service.\n\nMuseum of Cardiff tweeted that it would not be opening on Saturday \"because of a leak in the building\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Two people help push a car which became stuck at the Eisteddfod following the bad weather\n\nBoth North Wales Police and South Wales Police warned drivers to take extra care because of surface water on the roads.\n\nDwr Cymru Welsh Water said it was experiencing a high volume of calls because of the high winds and heavy rain and its crews were extremely busy.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by South Wales Police Roads Policing Unit This article contains content provided by Twitter. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nIn Bangor, a caravan overturned on the A55 closing two lanes\n\nA fallen tree led to the closure of the A40 in Powys between the Aberbran junction to St Cattwg's Church.\n\nThe M48 Severn Bridge eastbound carriageway was closed to all vehicles and the westbound carriageway is still closed to large vehicles.\n\nTwo lanes were also closed on the A55 junction 9, near Bangor, after a caravan overturned.\n\nIn Pembrokeshire, the A477 Cleddau Bridge has been closed to high-sided vehicles in both directions between Pembroke Dock and Barnlake Point.\n\nDyfed-Powys Police also tweeted that a fallen tree was blocking the A477 eastbound between Bangeston turn and Stepaside turn near Pembroke Dock.\n\nYoung people had to vacate the campsite early on Friday due to concerns about weather conditions\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nOn Friday the Eisteddfod closed a young people's campsite and the Maes B entertainment venue at Llanrwst, Conwy.\n\nA meeting is due to take place with organisers and partners on Saturday.\n\nTrystan Lewis, chairman of the organising committee for this year's Eisteddfod, said the decision was taken to close Maes B and the campsite rather than face the prospect of having to move people overnight if conditions worsened.\n\n\"We had to take that decision early on,\" he told BBC Wales Today.\n\n\"We couldn't evacuate people at 11 o'clock at night so we had to make that decision... in order that parents could pick up the young people and for us to sort out transportation.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\n\"We will have to see if that can go ahead, depending on the forecast,\" said Mr Lewis.\n\nMaes B tweeted that information about refunds will be published next week.\n\nThe car park south of the Eisteddfod maes has been turned into a mud bath", "Prince Andrew, left, has previously been criticised for his association with Jeffrey Epstein\n\nPrince Andrew was accused of groping a woman at Jeffrey Epstein's US home, according to newly released court papers.\n\nThe accusation is contained in documents from a 2015 defamation case, released by a judge on Friday.\n\nBuckingham Palace said on Saturday this related to US proceedings \"to which the Duke Of York is not a party\".\n\n\"Any suggestion of impropriety with underage minors is categorically untrue.\"\n\nThe court papers were released on Friday, a day before wealthy US financier Epstein was found dead in his prison cell while awaiting trial on sex trafficking charges.\n\nContained in the defamation case papers is an allegation by a woman called Johanna Sjoberg that Prince Andrew touched her breast while they sat on a couch in Epstein's Manhattan apartment in 2001.\n\nShe recalled in the documents: \"I just remember someone suggesting a photo, and they told us to go get on the couch. And so Andrew and Virginia sat on the couch, and they put the puppet, the puppet on her lap.\n\n\"And so then I sat on Andrew's lap, and I believe on my own volition, and they took the puppet's hands and put it on Virginia's breast, and so Andrew put his on mine.\"\n\nThe papers relate to a defamation case brought by Virginia Giuffre, an alleged victim of Epstein, against socialite Ghislaine Maxwell.\n\nMs Maxwell was alleged to have procured underage girls for her then-boyfriend Epstein and his wealthy friends, but she has always denied the allegations.\n\nMs Giuffre subsequently sued Ms Maxwell for defamation after the media heiress claimed she was a liar.\n\nMs Giuffre had also claimed she was forced into a sexual encounter with the Duke of York.\n\nBut in 2015, Buckingham Palace denied this allegation, saying then that \"any suggestion of impropriety with underage minors\" by the duke was \"categorically untrue\".", "The suspect was arrested in a busy street\n\nA police officer was seriously hurt when he was run over with his own vehicle by a suspected car thief.\n\nWest Midlands Police said the man, suspected of stealing a Range Rover Sport, punched the officer to the ground as he tried to arrest him at 16:45 BST on Saturday in Birmingham.\n\nThe traffic officer was then run over, suffering serious head and pelvic injuries.\n\nA 29-year-old man has been arrested on suspicion of attempted murder.\n\nThe officer was in Moorcroft Road, Moseley, tracing the Range Rover which had been stolen minutes earlier from a woman, police said.\n\n\"As he [the officer] moved in to arrest the man he was violently assaulted and punched to the ground - and then run over by the suspect as he jumped behind the wheel of the PC's police patrol vehicle,\" a force statement said.\n\n\"It's understood the man drove the marked police car for around a mile into Ladypool Road, Sparkbrook, where he abandoned the vehicle and tried to steal another car.\"\n\nThe traffic officer was attacked in Moorcroft Road, Moseley, as he tried to arrest a suspect\n\nThe suspect was later cornered by armed police and Tasered before being arrested,\n\nAssistant Chief Constable Sarah Boycott said: \"This is a shocking attack in which a member of our police family has been seriously hurt while trying to detain a crime suspect.\"\n\nEyewitness Sohail Razaque said he was driving up to the junction of Ladypool Road when a police car came past him on sirens and crashed with another vehicle.\n\nMr Razaque, a manager at Birmingham-based BMV Solicitors, said he then saw a man trying to get into a car.\n\n\"He half got in it, then got back out again and then he tried to get through some metal shutters that looked like it was a shop at the roadside.\n\n\"By then the police were already following him trying to get him to stop, shouting at him to get down.\"\n\nThe man was then Tasered and pinned down, Mr Razaque said.\n\nThe attack came just days after PC Stuart Outten was stabbed in the head as he tried to stop a van suspected of having no insurance in Leyton, east London.\n\nThe Met Police officer Tasered his assailant despite receiving multiple stab wounds to his head and body.\n\nMuhammad Rodwan, 56, of Luton, is charged with attempted murder and possessing an offensive weapon.\n\nHe is due to appear at the Old Bailey on 6 September.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Brighton seafront was hit by high winds and rain overnight\n\nA nine-year-old is in police protection after being found under Brighton Pier during storms in the early hours.\n\nTwo adults who were with the child were arrested on suspicion of neglect and remain in custody.\n\nVolunteers from Brighton Beach Patrol said they found them at 02:00 BST, adding: \"The child is now safe, which is a great outcome for us all.\"\n\nSussex Police said officers were investigating suspected child neglect and urged the public not to speculate.\n\nPolice can temporarily take a child into their care if it is believed they are \"likely to suffer significant harm\".\n\nThe Sussex coast was hit by stormy conditions overnight, with the Met Office issuing a yellow weather warning due to gale force winds.\n\nFollow BBC South East on Facebook, on Twitter, and on Instagram\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Sir Ian McKellen joined the crowds parading through the city streets\n\nSir Ian McKellen has led the first ever Pride Parade in Perth.\n\nThe Lord of the Rings star joined hundreds of people creating a wave of colour through the streets of the city.\n\nSir Ian, a veteran equal rights activist and LGBT+ campaigner, gave a speech before the main Pride festival kicked off.\n\nIt is being staged at Horsecross Plaza, which has been transformed into the Pride Village with music and dance performances.\n\nSir Ian told the crowds: \"It's a big day. A big day for the people involved and the people who've organised it and a big day for the people who are visiting.\n\n\"It's wonderful. I've been to Prides all over the world but I've never had such a beautiful walk as we've just had along the Tay.\"\n\nThe actor welcomed the number of supporters who lined the streets, saying there were parents and their children \"all waving at us as we walked along, all on our side\".\n\nOrganisers said the main event would see drag performance queen Voss take to the stage \"with big hair and big dreams\".\n\nThere will also be a Guinness world record attempt for the world's largest Gaylidh (Ceilidh).\n\nThis year is the second instalment of Perthshire Pride, having hosted its inaugural event in 2018.\n\nThe celebrations mark the 50th Anniversary of the Stonewall Riots - the event that sparked the LGBT+ rights movement worldwide.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nMourning is under way in Tanzania for the 64 people who died when a fuel tanker exploded on Saturday.\n\nPictures posted online show flaming wreckage scattered over a wide area and charred bodies lying on the ground.\n\nPeople were trying to recover fuel from the vehicle, which had overturned on a major road, when it exploded.\n\nThe incident occurred in Morogoro region, about 200 km (124 miles) west of the port city of Dar es Salaam, the country's commercial capital.\n\nThe city of Morogoro is on a major route for transporting cargo and fuel from the port.\n\nSome of the 70 people who were injured with serious burns were airlifted to Tanzania's biggest hospital, Muhimbili, in Dar es Salaam, while others were taken there in a convoy of ambulances.\n\nMost of those who were killed were burned beyond recognition.\n\nThe burials are due to start later on Sunday, labour minister Jenister Mhagama said.\n\n\"The situation is really bad. Many people died here, even those who were not stealing fuel because this is a busy place,\" said eyewitness Daniel Ngogo, quoted by Reuters news agency.\n\nLocal Police Chief Willbrod Mtafungwa said many of those killed were motorbike taxi drivers.\n\nPresident John Magufuli has declared the three days of mourning and pleaded for people to stop risking their lives by stealing petrol.\n\n\"There are vehicles that carry dangerous fuel oil, as in this case in Morogoro, there are others that carry toxic chemicals or explosives, let's stop this practice, please,\" AFP news agency quotes him as saying.\n\nCrowds gathered near the scene of the disaster\n\nCorrespondents say disasters like this have happened all too frequently in parts of Africa where some people are willing to take huge risks to remove fuel from tankers and pipelines.\n\nLast month at least 45 people were killed when a crashed fuel tanker exploded in Nigeria's northern Benue state.\n\nNearly 80 people died in May in a similar incident near the airport of Niger's capital Niamey.\n\nOccasionally such disasters have led to a much higher death toll. In 2010 292 people were killed in the Democratic Republic of Congo, and five years later 203 died in South Sudan.", "Thousands of demonstrators demanded free elections in a rally in Moscow\n\nTens of thousands have attended Moscow's largest opposition rally since 2011, independent monitors say.\n\nUp to 60,000 people reportedly gathered in the rain to demand fair elections.\n\nThe protest was officially authorised but dozens of people were arrested as they moved to other parts of the city, many outside President Vladimir Putin's offices in the city centre.\n\nUnauthorised rallies on the last two Saturdays saw hundreds detained. This is the fifth demonstration in a month.\n\nMany Muscovites are unhappy that opposition candidates have been banned from running in municipal elections in September, but anger has increased after apparent incidences of police brutality in previous weeks.\n\nProtests in solidarity with Moscow in several other Russian cities on Saturday also saw dozens of people detained.\n\nThis protest and one on 20 July were authorised by the city authorities.\n\nThe latest arrests took place after groups of demonstrators left the official rally outside the city centre. Protest leaders had encouraged people to join an unauthorised \"stroll\" afterwards.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Protesters were urged to join an unauthorised \"stroll\" after the rally\n\nAn organisation that tracks participants in demonstrations, The White Counter, counted 49,900 people at the authorised march in Moscow.\n\nBut it later said more people had arrived through side streets, boosting numbers above 50,000.\n\nSome protesters carried placards with slogans such as \"Give us the right to vote!\" and \"You've lied to us enough\".\n\nOthers held up pictures of activists arrested at earlier demonstrations.\n\nRussian opposition figure Lyubov Sobol was detained near her office in Moscow\n\nOpposition politician, Lyubov Sobol, an ally of Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny, was detained by police ahead of the protest.\n\nAround 600 people were arrested after an unauthorised protest last weekend, amid reports of police violence. More than 1,000 were detained the week before.", "Women going through the menopause are facing a national shortage of hormone replacement therapy (HRT).\n\nMany of the most commonly prescribed forms of HRT, which helps deal with the symptoms of the menopause, are out of stock in some pharmacies.\n\nThe Department for Health and Social Care said it was aware of \"ongoing supply issues\" due to \"manufacturing delays\".\n\nA spokesperson said alternative HRT products were available.\n\nAffected patients should discuss alternatives with their doctor, they said, adding that the government was working closely with suppliers to \"maintain the overall flow of medicines to patients\".\n\nSeveral women have told to the BBC how they have been affected, with one saying she feels \"absolutely devastated\" and another suffering \"considerable discomfort and distress\".\n\nChair of the Royal College of GPs Professor Helen Stokes-Lampard said the reasons for the delays were unclear.\n\n\"We know that there are the generic phrases like 'supply issues' and 'manufacturing problems,'\" she said.\n\n\"But because it's commercially sensitive... nobody will be honest with the public and the NHS. So it's frustrating.\"\n\nSpeaking to BBC Radio 4's PM programme, she said: \"It's really complicated and as a GP myself it's an intensely frustrating problem.\n\n\"Occasionally over the years we've had shortages of drugs and we have to deal with that. But the last six months in particular have been spectacularly difficult for HRT.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Menopause: what are the symptoms and why does it happen?\n\nShe urged women on HRT to start thinking about their getting their repeat prescriptions earlier than usual.\n\nShe said if patients found their pharmacies were out of stock of their prescription, they should ask the pharmacist what similar treatments were available and feed that back to their GP surgery.\n\nOne woman, Rachel, said her HRT went out of stock at the end of last year and she has struggled to find something as effective.\n\n\"In the meantime I have been tearful, angry, overwhelmed at work, tired and have struggled with some physical symptoms. I simply haven't been me.\n\n\"I know none of it is life-threatening, but the impact on life, work and family is greater than I'd ever expected.\"\n\nAnother woman, Judie, said she has had unwanted side effects after being forced to try alternative HRT, while Joan said: \"[I am] absolutely devastated.\n\n\"I cannot function without my medication. I lose concentration, confidence. I am sleep deprived and constantly anxious.\"\n\nMeanwhile, Ava, a trans woman who is taking HRT, said: \"As I'm sure you can imagine, the realisation that my ability to continue on the course I've committed myself to for the last three years is dependent on such a fragile supply chain is not a happy one and leaves me feeling rather anxious whenever my supply gets low.\"\n\nProf Stokes-Lampard said it was not clear how long the shortages would continue. Some products were experiencing a \"temporary blip\", she said, but for others it would be into early next year before the supply problems were fixed.\n\nHRT is the most common treatment for menopausal symptoms such as hot flushes and night sweats, and involves taking oestrogen to replace the decline in the body's own levels, the NHS website says.\n\nIt is available as tablets, skin patches, a gel to rub into the skin or implants.\n\nAround a million women in the UK use treatment for menopausal symptoms, according to the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence.", "It was a quiet Friday morning last July when pandemonium broke out at a school in north-east Malaysia. Siti Nurannisaa, a 17-year-old student, was at the centre of the chaos.\n\nThis is her account of what happened.\n\nI was at my desk feeling sleepy when I felt a hard, sharp tap on my shoulder.\n\nI turned round to see who it was and the room went dark.\n\nFear overtook me. I felt a sharp, splitting pain in my back and my head started spinning. I fell to the floor.\n\nBefore I knew it, I was looking into the 'otherworld'. Scenes of blood, gore and violence.\n\nThe scariest thing I saw was a face of pure evil.\n\nIt was haunting me, I couldn't escape. I opened my mouth and tried to scream but no sound came out.\n\nSiti's outburst triggered a powerful chain reaction that ripped through the school. Within minutes students in other classrooms started screaming, their frantic cries ricocheting through the halls.\n\nOne girl fainted after claiming to have seen the same \"dark figure\".\n\nClassroom doors slammed shut at the Ketereh national secondary school (SMK Ketereh) in Kelantan as panicked teachers and students barricaded themselves in. Islamic spiritual healers were called to perform mass prayer sessions.\n\nBy the end of the day, 39 people were deemed to have been affected by an outbreak of \"mass hysteria\".\n\nMass hysteria, or mass psychogenic illness, as it's also known, is the rapid spread of physical symptoms such as hyperventilation and twitching among a substantial group of people - with no plausible organic cause.\n\n\"It is a collective stress response prompting an overstimulation of the nervous system,\" says American medical sociologist and author Robert Bartholomew. \"Think of it as a software problem.\"\n\nThe mechanisms behind mass hysteria are often poorly understood and it is not listed in the DSM - the manual of mental disorders. But psychiatrists like Dr Simon Wessely from King's College Hospital in London view it as a \"collective behaviour\".\n\n\"The symptoms experienced are real - fainting, palpitations, headaches, nausea, shaking and even fits,\" he says. \"It is often attributed to a medical condition but for which no conventional biomedical explanation can be found.\"\n\nTransmission, he adds, \"is largely due to psychological and social factors\".\n\nOutbreaks have been recorded around the world, with cases dating back as early as the Middle Ages. Incidents in Malaysia were particularly prevalent among factory workers during the 1960s. Today it largely affects children in schools and dormitories.\n\nOne of many mosques in the town of Ketereh\n\nRobert Bartholomew spent decades researching the phenomenon in Malaysia. He calls the South East Asian country \"the mass hysteria capital of the world\".\n\n\"It is a deeply religious and spiritual country where many people, especially those from rural and conservative states, believe in the powers of traditional folklore and the supernatural.\"\n\nBut the issue of hysteria remains a sensitive one. In Malaysia, cases have involved adolescent girls from the Malay Muslim ethnic majority more than any other group.\n\n\"There's no denying that mass hysteria is an overwhelmingly female phenomenon,\" says Mr Bartholomew. \"It's the one constant in the [academic] literature.\"\n\nSurrounded by lush green rice fields, the sleepy Malay village of Padang Lembek sits on the outskirts of Kelantan's capital Kota Bharu.\n\nIt's a small, tight-knit community where everyone knows each other, the sort of place that would make many Malaysians reminisce about how their country used to be. There are family-run restaurants, beauty salons, a mosque and good neighbourhood schools.\n\nSiti's family at their home in Padang Lembek\n\nSiti and her family live in a modest, single-storey terrace house, easily distinguishable by its weathered red roof and green exterior. An old, sturdy motorbike she shares with her best friend Rusydiah Roslan, who lives nearby, is parked outside.\n\n\"We rode it to school on the morning I was possessed by 'spirits',\" Siti says.\n\nLike any other teenager, stress affects Siti. She says she felt it most during her final school year in 2018, when all-important examinations loomed.\n\n\"I was preparing for weeks, trying to memorise my notes but something was wrong,\" she says. \"It felt like nothing was going into my head.\"\n\nThe incident at school during the July study period left Siti unable to sleep or eat properly. It took her a month of rest before she returned to her - almost-regular - self.\n\nAn outbreak of mass hysteria usually begins with what experts call an \"index case\", the first person to become affected.\n\nIn this story, that is Siti.\n\n\"It doesn't happen overnight,\" says Robert Bartholomew. \"It starts with one child and then quickly spreads to others because of an exposure to a pressure-cooker environment of stress.\"\n\nAnd all it takes is a major spike in anxiety in a group situation, like seeing a fellow classmate faint or have a fit - to trigger a reaction in another person.\n\nSiti compares her experiences with spirits as having her \"eyes covered\"\n\nRusydiah Roslan will never forget seeing her best friend in that state. \"Siti was screaming uncontrollably,\" she says. \"No one knew what to do. We were afraid to even touch her.\"\n\nThe girls have always been close but the events of the past year have strengthened their bond. \"It helps us to talk about what happened,\" Rusydiah says. \"It helps us to move on.\"\n\nFrom the outside, SMK Ketereh looks like any other Malaysian high school. Giant trees shade its premises and its walls have fresh coats of grey and bright yellow paint.\n\nMakcik (aunty) Zan runs a popular stall across the street selling local rice dishes. She was preparing food a year ago, on that humid July morning, when she heard screams.\n\n\"The cries were deafening,\" the elderly vendor says as she serves up dishes of grilled mackerel, yellow curry and steaming glutinous rice.\n\nThe SMK Ketereh, Siti Nurannisaa's school, sits along a busy road in the Kelantan countryside\n\nShe saw at least nine girls being carried out of their classrooms, kicking and screaming. She recognised some of them as regulars at her stall. \"It was a heartbreaking sight,\" she says.\n\nShe later saw a witch doctor enter a small prayer room with his assistants. \"They were in there for hours,\" she recalls. \"I pity the children for what they must have seen that day.\"\n\nSecurity at SMK Ketereh has been heightened since the July 2018 incident. \"In order to prevent outbreaks from spiralling again, we restructured our safety programme and had a change in staff,\" a senior staff member told the BBC on condition of anonymity as he was not authorised to speak to the media.\n\nDaily prayer and psychology sessions have also been introduced, he said. \"Safety comes first but we also know the importance of aftercare for our students.\"\n\nIt is unclear what such sessions involve or if they have been designed by mental health professionals. He would not provide further details.\n\nExperts like Robert Bartholomew strongly advocate that Malaysian students be educated about the phenomenon, given its prevalence in the country.\n\n\"They should be taught why mass hysteria happens and how it spreads,\" he says. \"It's also important they learn how to cope with stress and anxiety.\"\n\nMalaysian education ministry officials have not responded to a request for comment.\n\nSMK Ketereh is one of 68 secondary schools in Kelantan. But it is far from the only one to have witnessed an outbreak.\n\nIn early 2016, mass hysteria took hold across many schools in the state. \"Officials could not handle the multiple outbreaks and shut all the schools,\" said Firdaus Hassan, a local reporter.\n\nHe and TV cameraman Chia Chee Lin remember a febrile atmosphere that April. \"It was mass hysteria season and cases were happening non-stop, spreading from one school to another,\" says Chia.\n\nOne case in the nearby town of Pengkalan Chepa attracted significant media attention. Students and teachers were described in reports as becoming \"possessed\" after seeing a \"dark, shadowy figure\" lurking around the compound. About 100 people were affected.\n\nGraduate Siti Ain (pictured right) with her mother, who sells drinks and snacks outside the school\n\nSiti Ain, who studied at SMK Pengkalan Chepa 2, says she will remember it as being \"the most haunted school in all of Malaysia\".\n\n\"The scare lasted hours but it took months for life to return to normal,\" the now 18-year-old says.\n\nShe shows us a secluded spot next to a basketball court. \"This is where it first started,\" she says, pointing to a row of tree stumps. \"My schoolmates said they saw an elderly woman standing amongst the trees.\n\n\"I couldn't see what they saw but their reactions were real.\"\n\nA row of stumps, where large Angsana trees used to stand\n\nMalaysia's fascination with ghosts dates back centuries and is deep-rooted in shamanic tradition and South East Asian folk mythology.\n\nChildren grow up hearing stories about dead infants called toyol - invoked by shamans using black magic - and other terrifying vampiric ghosts like the pontianak and penanggalan, vengeful powerful female spirits that feed on the living.\n\nTrees and burial sites are common settings for these eerie tales. These locations stoke fears that feed into superstitious beliefs.\n\nIt's hard to determine what really happened that day at Pengkalan Chapa 2 but officials wasted no time in tackling what they believed to be the source of the problem.\n\n\"We watched from our classrooms as workers came with electric saws to cut down the trees,\" Siti Ain says. \"The old trees were beautiful and it was sad to see them go but I understood why.\"\n\nLike many students here, she sees what happened that day not as an outbreak of mass hysteria but as a supernatural event.\n\nIn 2016 a \"mass hysteria outbreak\" was reported at this sprawling multi-storey school\n\nBut this isn't a phenomenon confined to Islamic schools in deeply religious areas.\n\nDr Azly Rahman, a US-based, Malaysian anthropologist described an episode of mass hysteria in 1976 at an elite boarding school he attended in neighbouring Kuantan city.\n\n\"All hell broke loose\" during a campus singing competition when a female student claimed to have spotted \"a smiling Buddhist monk\" on top of a nearby dormitory. \"She let out a bloodcurdling scream,\" he recalls.\n\nAs more of Malaysia's forests are lost in the name of development, some believe that spirits have lost their final resting places\n\nWitch doctors were brought in to perform exorcisms on 30 affected girls.\n\n\"Their role was to mediate between the living and the dead. But it's important for society today to look to logical explanations behind such outbreaks,\" Dr Rahman says.\n\nSiti Nurannisaa and her family were given the scientific and medical language of mass hysteria to understand the events of a year ago.\n\n\"It would hurt any parent to see their child suffer like ours has,\" says doting father and former military man Azam Yaacob. He insists that \"nothing was wrong\" with Siti psychologically.\n\nIn the wake of the incident they turned to Zaki Ya, a spiritual healer with 20 years of experience.\n\n\"Science can't fully explain the supernatural,\" says Zaki Ya\n\nAt his centre in Ketereh, he greets us with a warm smile. \"Apa khabar, how are you?\"\n\nHe abides by the teachings of the Koran, Islam's holy book, and also believes in the power of Jinn - spirits in Middle Eastern and Islamic cosmology that \"appear in a variety of shapes and forms\".\n\n\"We share our world with these unseen beings,\" Zaki Ya says. \"They are good or bad and can be defeated by faith.\"\n\nIslamic scriptures adorn the centre's bright green walls. Bottles of holy water are stacked up high near its entrance.\n\nIn a corner by a window, a collection of mysterious objects are gathered on a table - rusty knives, combs, orbs and even a dried seahorse.\n\n\"These are cursed items,\" Zaki Ya warns. \"Please do not touch anything.\"\n\nZaki Ya met Siti Nurannisaa and her family after the 2018 outbreak at SMK Ketereh. \"I've been guiding Siti and she has been getting better with my help,\" he says proudly.\n\nHe shows me a video of another girl he \"treated\". She is seen thrashing about wildly on the floor and screaming before being restrained by two men.\n\nMinutes later, Zaki Ya enters the room and approaches the visibly distressed girl. He holds her head and chants Islamic verses, and she appears to calm down.\n\n\"Women are softer and physically weaker,\" he tells us. \"That makes them more susceptible to spiritual possession.\"\n\nHe professes to understand that mental health plays a role in many of the cases he sees, but is emphatic about the power of Jinn.\n\n\"Science is important but it can't fully explain the supernatural,\" he says. \"Non-believers won't understand these attacks unless it happens to them.\"\n\nAn \"anti-hysteria kit\" costs more than $2000\n\nA more controversial approach comes from a team of Islamic academics in Pahang, the largest state in peninsular Malaysia.\n\nPriced at a hefty 8,750 Malaysian ringgit (£1,700; $2,100), the \"anti-hysteria kit\" they offer consists of items including formic acid, ammonia inhalants, pepper spray and bamboo \"pincers\".\n\nWooden pincers are meant to induce pain in a possessed person and drive out demons and spirits\n\n\"According to the Koran, evil spirits are unable to tolerate such items,\" says Dr Mahyuddin Ismail, who developed the kit with the aim of \"combining science and the supernatural\".\n\n\"Our kits have been used by two schools and solved more than 100 cases,\" he says. There's no scientific evidence to back up these claims.\n\nDr Mahyuddin Ismail poses with his \"anti-hysteria kit\" outside his office at the Universiti Malaysia Pahang\n\nThe kit drew widespread criticism upon its release in 2016. Former minister Khairy Jamaluddin called it \"the mark of a backward society\".\n\n\"It's nonsensical, absurd superstition. We want Malaysians to be scientific and innovative, not remain entrenched in supernatural beliefs.\"\n\nBut clinical psychologists, like Irma Ismail from Universiti Putra Malaysia, do not discount such beliefs when it comes to mass hysteria cases.\n\n\"Malaysian culture has its own take on the phenomenon,\" she says. \"A more realistic approach is integrating spiritual beliefs with adequate mental health treatment.\"\n\nIf Malaysia is the \"mass hysteria capital of the world\", Kelantan on the north-east coast is ground zero.\n\n\"It is no coincidence that Kelantan, the most religiously conservative of all Malaysian states, is also the one most prone to outbreaks,\" Robert Bartholomew says.\n\nKnown as the Muslim-majority nation's Islamic heartland, Kelantan is one of two states ruled by the conservative opposition Malaysian Islamic Party (PAS).\n\nUnlike the rest of the country, Kelantan's week follows the Islamic calendar - with the working week beginning on Sundays and ending on Thursdays to free up Fridays for prayers.\n\n\"This is a different side of Malaysia,\" says Ruhaidah Ramli, a sprightly 82-year-old vendor at a local market. \"Life here is simple. It isn't busy or stressful like it is in [the capital] Kuala Lumpur.\"\n\nA woman walks past a mural at the central Siti Khadijah market in Kota Bharu\n\nAre religion and supernatural beliefs related? Academic Afiq Noor argues that the stricter implementation of Islamic law in school in states such as Kelantan is linked to the surge in outbreaks.\n\n\"Malay Muslim girls attend school under rigid religious discipline,\" he says. \"They observe stricter dress codes and can't listen to music which isn't Islamic.\"\n\nThe theory is that such a constricted environment could be creating more anxiety.\n\nSimilar outbreaks have also been reported in Catholic convents and monasteries across Mexico, Italy and France, in schools in Kosovo and even among cheerleaders in a rural North Carolina town.\n\nEach case is unique - the cultural context is different and hence the form varies. But it ultimately remains the same phenomenon and researchers argue that the impact of strict, conservative cultures on those affected by mass hysteria is clear.\n\nTo clinical psychologists like Steven Diamond, the \"painful, frightening and embarrassing symptoms\" often associated with mass hysteria could be \"indicative of a frustrated need for attention\".\n\n\"Might their remarkable symptoms be saying something about how they are really feeling inside but are unable or unwilling to allow themselves to consciously acknowledge, feel or verbalise?\" he wrote in a 2002 article for Psychology Today.\n\n2019 has been a quiet year for Siti Nurannisaa.\n\n\"I have been doing okay. It's been calm for me,\" she says. \"I haven't seen bad things for months now.\"\n\nShe's lost touch with much of her cohort after graduating from SMK Ketereh already but this doesn't bother her - she tells me she's always kept a small circle of friends.\n\nShe is now taking a break from study before going on to university.\n\nOn the day we meet, she shows me a shiny black microphone.\n\n\"Karaoke has always been a favourite pastime of mine,\" she says. Pop songs by Katy Perry and homegrown Malaysian diva Siti Nurhaliza are her favourites.\n\nSinging proved to be a great stress-reliever for the young girl during her ordeal. It helped her gain some confidence back after the very traumatic incident.\n\n\"Stress makes my body weak but I have been learning how to manage it,\" she says. \"My goal is to be normal and happy.\"\n\nSiti and her father Azam Yacob, at their home\n\nOn that note, I ask her what she wants to be in future.\n\n\"A policewoman,\" she says. \"They are brave and aren't afraid of anything.\"", "The power outage across England and Wales that left nearly one million people without electricity was an \"incredibly rare event\", in the words of the National Grid.\n\nOperations director Duncan Burt said that it was caused by the \"near simultaneous\" loss of two large power stations, with power cuts caused by measures to protect the electricity supply.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The National Grid's operations director explains why nearly one million people lost power on Friday\n\nNational Grid has said it will \"learn the lessons\" after nearly one million people across England and Wales lost power on Friday.\n\nBut director of operations Duncan Burt told the BBC that its systems \"worked well\" after the \"incredibly rare event\" of two power stations disconnecting.\n\nHe said he did not believe that a cyber-attack or unpredictable wind power generation was to blame.\n\nThe government has announced an investigation into what happened.\n\nBusiness Secretary Andrea Leadsom said she is asking the Energy and Emergencies Executive Committee to carry out the investigation, which will look at whether National Grid's procedures are \"fit for purpose\".\n\nRegulator Ofgem has demanded an \"urgent detailed report\" into what went wrong.\n\nIt said it could take enforcement action, including a fine, after train passengers were stranded, traffic lights failed to work and thousands of homes lost power during the blackout.\n\nNational Grid power was restored by 17:40 BST on Friday but some train services continued to be disrupted on Saturday.\n\nThe power cut happened at about 17:00 BST on Friday, National Grid said, with blackouts across the midlands, the south east, south west, north west and north east of England, and Wales.\n\nNational Grid said its systems were not to blame.\n\nIndustry experts said a gas-fired power station at Little Barford, Bedfordshire, failed at 16:58 followed, two minutes later, by the Hornsea offshore wind farm disconnecting from the grid.\n\nSpeaking on BBC Radio 4's Today programme, Mr Burt acknowledged the \"immense disruption\" the blackout had caused.\n\nHe said the near-simultaneous loss of two generators was more than the grid was routinely prepared for, prompting automatic safety systems to shut off power to some places.\n\n\"We think that worked well; we think the safety protection systems across the industry, on generators and on the network, worked well to secure and keep the grid safe, to make sure that we preserved power to the vast proportion of the country,\" he said.\n\nBut he said the industry needed to examine whether these safety systems were set up correctly to have \"minimal impact\" on people's daily lives.\n\nRWE, owner of the Little Barford power station, said it shut down temporarily on Friday as a routine response to a technical issue, and called for National Grid and Ofgem to investigate the \"wider system issues\".\n\nAnd Orsted, the owner of the Hornsea offshore wind farm, said automatic systems on Hornsea One \"significantly reduced\" power around the same time others failed.\n\nA spokesperson added: \"We are investigating the cause, working closely with National Grid System Operator, which balances the UK's electricity system.\"\n\nPolice were called to help travellers during the huge disruption on the railways on Friday, with delayed passengers stranded for hours.\n\nDisruption continued into Saturday for some routes.\n\nGovia Thameslink Railway (GTR), which operates Thameslink, Southern, Great Northern and Gatwick Express, says it is investigating why the power cut had such a severe effect on its trains.\n\nThameslink trains were particularly badly impacted as GTR had to deploy technicians to manually restart trains north of London.\n\nAll services in and out of King's Cross station were suspended during Friday's rush hour\n\nShadow business and energy secretary Rebecca Long Bailey said the impact of the power cut was \"unacceptable\" at a time when National Grid reported £1.8bn in profits and increased dividends to shareholders.\n\nYesterday's power outage caused chaos for thousands of rail passengers left stranded as the electric trains they were on ground to a halt when the power supply went dead.\n\nBut although the National Grid restored power inside a couple of hours, many passengers remained stuck on hot, stuffy trains because the drivers couldn't get them started again and had to wait for technicians to come out.\n\nThe trains worst affected are the relatively new Class 700 and Class 717 commuter trains built in Germany by Siemens to specifications laid down by the Department for Transport.\n\nThey were introduced onto the British network for Thameslink and Great Northern services from 2014.\n\nWhen the power died, the trains would have switched to back up batteries to keep essential systems going.\n\nPassengers on a train near Kentish Town station got off and began walking along the tracks\n\nBut getting the trains restarted once the power came back was not straightforward. Drivers found that in some cases the on-board computers had shut systems down more fully, so a technician was needed.\n\nThe Class 700 fleet is normally fast and efficient, but GTR has already launched an investigation with Network Rail and Siemens to examine what went wrong this time.\n\nAnd it's likely that the manufacturers will be asked to examine how they respond to serious power failures in future.\n\nBattery performance is also likely to come under scrutiny - a back-up diesel generator cannot be fitted to these trains because they spend much of their lives in long tunnels.\n\nKing's Cross was one of the worst-hit stations, with all trains suspended for several hours.\n\nPassenger Dayna McAlpine told BBC Radio 5 Live her train took nearly 13 hours to reach London King's Cross from Edinburgh - a journey which would normally take less than five hours.\n\n\"By hour seven things were starting to get pretty tense,\" she said. \"People were threatening to self-evacuate off the train... Food ran out about five hours ago.\"\n\nOthers on social media reported having travelled for 12 hours, while some rail passengers were stuck on trains until the early hours of the morning.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Joshua Carr This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy 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 the worst point of the power cut, about 500,000 people were affected in Western Power Distribution's area - including 44,500 customers in Wales - while 110,000 Northern Powergrid customers also lost power.\n\nIn London and south-east England, 300,000 people were affected, UK Power Networks said, and another 26,000 customers were without power in north-west England.\n\nNorthern Powergrid said the problems had affected Newcastle airport and city's metro system.\n\nBBC Radio 5 Live listener Ed, in Woodford Green, north-east London, said he felt \"totally cut off\" as mobile phone networks were also down.\n\n\"You heard all the alarms going off all around. Everything else was pretty eerie and quiet,\" he said. \"There was no way we could know anything - it could be any reason that the power had gone down.\"\n\nA staff member guides train passengers by torchlight at Clapham Junction station in London\n\nAt Ipswich Hospital, a back-up generator which was supposed to supply power to outpatient areas did not work after the power cut, causing problems for 15 minutes before power was restored.", "Ten Turkish sailors who were kidnapped last month off the coast of West Africa have been released, according to reports in Turkish state media.\n\nThe 10 men were bound for Ivory Coast aboard a container ship when the vessel was intercepted by pirates off the coast of Nigeria on 16 July.\n\nThe pirates chose the 10 to take off the ship, leaving eight others aboard.\n\nTurkish state media channel TRT said the released sailors were in good health but gave no more details.\n\nIt was not clear who had kidnapped the men or if a ransom had been paid.\n\nTheir container ship, the Paksoy-1, had been sailing from Cameroon to Ivory Coast when the pirates boarded the ship in the Gulf of Guinea. Numan Paksoy, from the ship's management company Kadıoğlu Maritime, said \"about 12 pirates with heavy guns attacked the boat\".\n\nHe told the BBC that the crew members hid in a safe room - the citadel - when the pirates boarded the ship but they emerged after the assailants \"threatened to burn the ship and kill all of them\".\n\nThe attackers then picked 10 sailors and let the other eight go, he said.\n\nThe ship later docked in the port of Tema, in Ghana.\n\nAccording to the International Maritime Bureau, the Gulf of Guinea is the most dangerous sea in the world for piracy, with 73% of all sea kidnappings and 92% of hostage-takings occurring in the Gulf off the coasts of Nigeria, Guinea, Togo, Benin, and Cameroon.\n\nSeparately, four Turkish nationals who were also kidnapped in Nigeria's Kwara State on 19 July were rescued on 26 July, Turkey's state media channel TRT news reported.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. BBC Africa Experts: Piracy in the Gulf of Guinea", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Roman's friend died in the attack: 'I wish the killer had known the real El Paso'\n\nThe suspect accused of killing 22 people at a Walmart in El Paso, Texas, has confessed that he was targeting \"Mexicans\", say US media.\n\nAn arrest report obtained by some news outlets sheds light on his arrest and his interviews while in police custody.\n\nOfficials believe the alleged gunman, Patrick Crusius, is the author of an online post decrying Hispanic migrants.\n\nThe shooting came just hours before another mass shooting in Dayton, Ohio.\n\nThe two incidents have prompted a national debate about gun laws, with Republicans indicating they may be open to tightening background checks on buyers.\n\nFederal officials say they are considering hate crime charges against Mr Crusius, who could face the death penalty if found guilty of the mass murder.\n\nThe Washington Post and Associated Press, which received the arrest report filed by El Paso Detective Adrian Garcia, reported that he document was written last Sunday, one day after the attack on the Walmart shoppers.\n\nThe document describes the suspect getting out of his car with his hands up and saying \"I'm the shooter\" when he was stopped by an officer near the crime scene.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. 'My heart hurts on every level'\n\nAccording to Det Garcia, Mr Crusius waived his right to a lawyer, and told them that he had travelled from the suburbs of Dallas with an assault rifle and multiple magazines containing ammunition.\n\n\"The defendant stated once inside the store he opened fire using his AK-47 shooting multiple innocent victims,\" Det Garcia wrote.\n\nHe surrendered without incident, and has been speaking co-operatively with police since the attack, according to investigators in El Paso.\n\nEl Paso sits on the US-Mexican border, and has a large majority Latino population.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Donald Trump spoke to reporters before visiting El Paso and Dayton\n\nOn Friday, President Donald Trump, who travelled to El Paso earlier this week, pledged to take a \"serious\" look at passing new gun control measures to strengthen the background check system.\n\nThe suspect in El Paso was able to legally purchase the assault rifle used in the attack, and carry it into the Walmart due to the state's \"open carry\" gun laws.\n\nOn Thursday, lawyers for Mr Crusius told US media that his mother had called police weeks before the attack to say she was concerned about him owning a weapon.\n\nThere has also been increased scrutiny - and criticism - of the president's language - he has repeatedly referred to an immigrant \"invasion\".\n\nThe online manifesto being investigated by police used similar words.\n\nOn Friday, the first funeral was held in El Paso, but others have already taken place across the border in Juarez, Mexico.\n\nAccording to Mexican officials, eight of the victims held Mexican citizenship.\n\nRelatives of longtime El Paso resident Angelina Silva Englisbee, 86, described her in the LA Times as \"sassy\" and \"a very strong-willed lady\".\n\nOn Thursday, motorcycle police escorted a black hearse carrying the body of Elsa Mendoza de La Mora, 57, for the seven-mile (11km) journey across the border into Juarez.\n\nThe mother of two had been a teacher and principal of a school in Juarez. Her family say they had been waiting for her in the Walmart car park when she was killed.", "Chris Chadwick-Parnell had his money stolen in Bangor High Street\n\nA man found guilty of stealing from a blind busker was slammed for carrying out \"a despicable act on a vulnerable person\" by a magistrate.\n\nThe 51-year-old, of Love Lane, Bangor, had denied theft but was found guilty by Caernarfon magistrates.\n\nAlan Fothergill, 43, of Plas Mabon, Bangor, admitted theft. Both men will be sentenced at later dates.\n\nWilliams had claimed he had been trying to help the busker on 26 June.\n\nBut magistrate Peter Talbot praised a \"public-spirited passer-by\" who filmed what was happening because they were concerned.\n\nChris Chadwick-Parnell said he didn't \"feel safe working outside\" after the theft\n\nIn a victim impact statement, Mr Chadwick-Parnell described how music helped him and the financial impact of not being able to busk.\n\n\"I don't feel safe to work outside any more,\" he said.\n\nWilliams pleaded guilty to a public order offence, having sworn at a police officer when arrested and having arrived late to court.\n\nHe was told to pay £110 in a fine and costs for these offences.\n\nMagistrates sent the case to crown court, saying their sentencing powers for the theft were \"insufficient\".", "Ipswich Hospital was hit by a power cut that affected the whole site\n\nPower was lost across Ipswich Hospital amid a national power failure after the back-up generator failed to work.\n\nThe site was hit by a 30-minute power cut and staff are looking into why the back-up generators did not kick in.\n\nPeople at the hospital said \"sirens went off\" as power was lost.\n\nA spokeswoman for Ipswich Hospital said it was \"too early\" to say whether there was a fault but assured staff \"helped keep patients safe\" during the power outage.\n\nManagers will be investigating the cause of the power problems at the hospital, she said.\n\nPower failures have been reported across large areas of the UK, affecting homes and transport networks.\n\nOne woman who was at the hospital said there was no panic\n\nVikki Irwin, a journalist with BBC Radio Suffolk, said her mother was at Ipswich Hospital at about 17:00 BST on a hydraulic lift being moved up to a scanner when the power cut happened.\n\n\"My mum was being lifted up and was near the top when all these sirens went off in the hospital and the lift stopped,\" she said.\n\n\"They said the power had gone out across the site. Lots of parts of the hospital were completely dark. We had to get my mum down manually.\"\n\nMs Irwin said the incident lasted at least 20 minutes.\n\nAnother woman at the hospital said she was with her friend in the cardiac unit when \"the power just went off\".\n\n\"It was only about two minutes. Everything came back really quickly,\" she said.\n\n\"People seemed calm. There was no panic.\"\n\nA hospital employee told the BBC the power cut did not last long on the ward she was working on.\n\n\"It was just a few seconds, definitely no more than 10,\" she said.\n\n\"There was never any danger.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Last updated on .From the section Welsh Rugby\n\nCoverage : Live on BBC Radio Wales, BBC Radio Cymru, BBC 5 Live Extra & BBC Sport website and BBC Sport app, plus live text commentary\n\nWales are now unofficially ranked the number one side in the world after Australia defeated New Zealand in the Rugby Championship.\n\nThe All Blacks have provisionally slipped off the top spot for the first time in 10 years following their 47-26 defeat in Perth.\n\nWales will officially be ranked top on Monday if they avoid defeat against England on Sunday at Twickenham.\n\nThe Wallabies also await Wales in the pool stage in Japan.\n\nWarren Gatland's side are currently boast a 14-match winning sequence, including a rare win against Australia in November, 2019.\n\nThis includes a third Grand Slam since the New Zealander took charge of Wales ahead of the 2008 Six Nations.\n\nThe last of those triumphs came as Wales won the 2019 with victory over Ireland in Cardiff in March.\n\nWales officially being ranked number one in the world would be the first time since the system was introduced in 2003.\n\nSouth Africa were the last side to be ranked above the All Blacks as number one in the world, in November 2009, with New Zealand since winning the 2011 and 2015 World Cups.\n\nIt could be an afternoon of records at Twickenham with captain Alun Wyn Jones setting a Welsh record 135th Test appearance when he captains the team in Sunday's World Cup warm-up against England.\n\nThe 33-year-old will make his 126th appearance for Wales, having also won nine British and Irish Lions caps.\n\nHe beats the mark set by prop Gethin Jenkins, who made 129 appearances for Wales and played in five Lions Tests.\n\n\"It's not really a focus for me but it's validation for the support network I've had throughout my career,\" said Jones.\n\n\"Not just in the professional realms, but my family, my wife and my children too. That makes me proud, but a of people have contributed to my career from intermediate level, domestic level and international level.\n\n\"There are a lot more people for me to thank. That is more special for me than the number itself.\"", "Mr Bolsonaro says eating less will also help the planet\n\nBrazilian President Jair Bolsonaro has suggested people should \"poop every other day\" as a way to save the planet.\n\nHis comment came in answer to a journalist who asked him how to combine agricultural development and protecting the environment.\n\nMr Bolsonaro recently came under fire after official data showed an increase in deforestation in the Amazon.\n\nHe then sacked the head of the agency that reported the increase, accusing it of lying about the problem's scale.\n\nMr Bolsonaro's comment came after the journalist quoted reports saying deforestation and agriculture were responsible for a quarter of the planet's greenhouse effect.\n\n\"It's enough to eat a little less. You talk about environmental pollution. It's enough to poop every other day. That will be better for the whole world,\" he said.\n\nScientists say the Amazon has suffered losses at an accelerated rate since Mr Bolsonaro took office in January, with policies that favour development over conservation.\n\nBrazil's space agency data showed an 88% increase in deforestation in June compared with the same month a year ago.\n\nAs the largest rainforest in the world, the Amazon is a vital carbon store that slows down the pace of global warming.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. How is the rainforest helping limit global warming?\n\nOfficial figures suggest that the biggest reason for felling trees there is to create new pastures for cattle.\n\nOver the past decade, previous governments managed to reduce deforestation by means of concerted action by federal agencies and a system of fines.\n\nBut Mr Bolsonaro and his ministers have criticised the penalties and overseen a dramatic fall in confiscations of timber and convictions for environmental crimes.", "People walked in complete darkness at Clapham Junction station in London during a power cut\n\nNearly a million people have been affected by a major power cut across large areas of England and Wales, affecting homes and transport networks.\n\nNational Grid said it was caused by issues with two power generators but the problem was now resolved.\n\nBlackouts were reported across the Midlands, the South East, South West and North East of England, and Wales.\n\nHundreds of people were stranded at King's Cross station as trains were delayed and cancelled.\n\nTraffic lights in some areas also stopped working.\n\nThe Department for Transport, said: \"Today's power outage has had knock on impacts on travel.\n\n\"We're working hard with Network Rail and others to ensure systems are up and running as quickly as possible, so that everyone can complete their journeys safely.\"\n\nA staff member guides train passengers with torch light at Clapham Junction station in London\n\nPassengers on a train near Kentish Town station got off and began walking along the tracks\n\nAt the height of the Friday rush hour, all trains out of King's Cross were suspended and remained so for most of the evening.\n\nPassenger Zoe Hebblethwaite said the situation outside the station was \"absolute mayhem\" and that passengers \"couldn't find an assistant to speak to\".\n\nThe BBC's Emma Petrie said there was an announcement asking passengers to leave the station.\n\nAll services in and out of King's Cross station were suspended\n\nInformation was not showing on Waterloo departure boards\n\nLondon North Eastern Railway staff, pictured here at Peterborough station, was disrupted, with delayed passengers handed bottled water\n\nBy 21:00 BST, more than 1,000 passengers appeared to be stranded at King's Cross, with London North Eastern Railway and National Rail advising customers against all travel for the rest of the day.\n\nLater on, some LNER trains were running southbound into King's Cross, and services to Stevenage and Peterborough from London also resumed, but not further up the East Coast Main Line.\n\nOne passenger told BBC Radio 5 Live her train took nearly 13 hours to reach London King's Cross from Edinburgh - a journey which would normally take less than five hours.\n\n\"By hour seven things were starting to get pretty tense,\" Dayna McAlpine said. \"We were being held in the middle of nowhere. Food ran out about five hours ago... We quite simply had to sit.\"\n\nBoards at Waterloo station showed no trains departing on any platforms.\n\nHarriet Jackson, 26, said there was an \"apocalyptic\" scene on Northcote Road, in Battersea, when traffic lights cut out and cars were not stopping.\n\n\"Given it's a Friday afternoon, it's the last thing you want to encounter,\" she said.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Ais Green This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nPassengers at Newcastle Airport said the power cut out for about 15 minutes, but Heathrow, Gatwick and Luton airports said they had not been affected.\n\nScott McKenzie, 31, from Cardiff, said \"various alarms were going off\" at Newcastle Airport.\n\n\"We were literally plunged into darkness and people were using their phones as torches to see and get around,\" he added.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 2 by Richy Lavender This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nAbout 500,000 people were affected in Western Power Distribution's area - including 44,500 customers in Wales - with power restored to them all shortly after 18:00 BST, the company said.\n\nNorthern Powergrid said 110,000 of its customers lost power between 17:10 BST and 18:00 BST, while Electricity North West said at least 26,000 people were without power in the North West.\n\nUK Power Networks spokesman said 300,000 people were affected in London and the South East.\n\nPassengers disembarked a train near Kentish Town station got off and began walking along the tracks\n\nNetwork Rail said all trains had been stopped after a \"power surge on the National Grid\" but its signalling system had come back online.\n\nIn a statement, National Grid said: \"Even though these events are outside of our control, we have plans in place to respond and the system operated as planned by disconnecting an isolated portion of electricity demand.\"\n\nThe action allowed the system to \"protect itself and limit the fall in frequency\", which allowed for \"power to be quickly restored\", it added.\n\nThe energy watchdog Ofgem said it had asked for \"an urgent detailed report from National Grid so we can understand what went wrong and decide what further steps need to be taken\".\n\nThe enormous impact of this power failure is likely to lead to questions about the strength and robustness of the system.\n\nThe BBC understands that two power supply plants - one a traditional gas and steam-fired power station in Cambridgeshire, the other a huge wind-turbine farm in the North Sea - failed at about 16:00 BST.\n\nNational Grid described it as an \"unexpected, and unusual event\".\n\nThe sudden drop in available power caused protective measures to kick in that immediately cut electricity supply to a section of the National Grid network.\n\nBy 18:30 BST the problems were fixed and the system was described as operating normally by the National Grid.\n\nBut the knock-on effect is likely to be felt for several hours to come.\n\nPassengers have been warned to expect delays.\n\nTrains from Hull were suspended and the operator told customers to wait until Saturday to travel.\n\nThameslink said most of its trains were at a standstill between London and Bedford, and later added it was not running any trains north of London for the rest of the evening.\n\nBritish Transport Police said it had sent officers to \"several\" train stations to provide assistance to travellers.\n\nIt was important that passengers listened to travel advice from National Rail Enquiries and Network Rail, it said, adding: \"For your own safety, do not leave train services not at stations.\"\n\nMerseyrail cancelled several trains from West Kirby to Liverpool and told customers to use the Water Street entrance for James Street station.\n\nA spokeswoman for Transport for London said some traffic lights in the capital were \"not working\" but the scale of the problem was not yet known.\n\nIpswich Hospital said it had been affected by the power cut in that area, because its back-up generator had failed to work, but all issues had been resolved.", "Two CalMac ferries have been at the centre of a long-running dispute\n\nThe firm behind the Ferguson shipyard in Port Glasgow has begun the process of going into administration.\n\nFerguson Marine Engineering directors have served notice of their intent to go into administration and to do so by the end of next week.\n\nThe business has been involved in a long-running dispute with the Scottish government over the construction of two ferries for CalMac.\n\nMinisters said they were committed to securing the future of the yard.\n\nThey want to see the vessels under construction completed, and the jobs of the yard's 350 staff safeguarded.\n\nFerguson Marine's chief executive Gerry Marshall said in a statement: \"It is with great regret and disappointment that the directors of Ferguson Marine Engineering Limited have served notice to appoint an administrator to the company.\n\n\"This decision has not been taken lightly, but the directors do not consider there to be any other options in the current circumstances.\n\n\"However, the directors will continue to support the shareholder and the Scottish government to realise a positive outcome for the business and its employees.\"\n\nThe Glen Sannox has been awaiting completion at the yard since its launch\n\nThe ferry order which appears to have triggered the shipbuilder's difficulties is being procured through a public-sector agency CMAL.\n\nThe yard's parent company, Clyde Blowers Capital (CBC), is controlled by industrial tycoon Jim McColl.\n\nCBC tabled a proposal last month for the Scottish government to take a share of ownership. The government rejected that plan.\n\nIn a statement, CBC added: \"We understand that this decision has not been taken lightly and is fundamentally due to CMAL and the Scottish government's inability to find a resolution to the additional costs encountered during the build of the two prototype LNG dual-fuelled ferries.\n\n\"As shareholder we have provided a number of viable proposals to avoid the process of administration and save the jobs of 350 employees, however CMAL and the Scottish government have consistently refused to participate in productive discussions, leaving the directors of Ferguson Marine Engineering Limited with no other options given the circumstances they are faced with.\"\n\nLike a ship at its launch, gathering momentum as it descends the slipway, there's not much that can stop Ferguson Marine Engineering Ltd from plunging into the uncertain waters of government ownership.\n\nHappily, it is unlike yards on the narrower upper Clyde in that launches do not carry the risk of getting a severe dunt on the opposite bank. But there's a lot about these waters that is uncharted.\n\nRead more from BBC Scotland's business and economy editor Douglas Fraser.\n\nThe £97m ferries contract is behind schedule and considerably over budget, and the company's finances are precarious.\n\nThere have been suggestions the government could use a clause in the £45m of loan agreements between it and Ferguson Marine Engineering Limited (FMEL), through which it could take over the yard for only £1.\n\nThe two ships being built for CalMac, the Scottish government-owned ferry company, have caused particular difficulties because of their innovative hybrid power systems, using diesel and liquefied natural gas.\n\nFollowing the news of possible administration for the business, First Minister Nicola Sturgeon said the government was determined to protect jobs and secure the future of the yard.\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 Scottish government spokeswoman added: \"Our priority remains to ensure the completion of the vessels under construction, secure jobs for the workforce and protect the future of shipbuilding at the site.\n\n\"We have been working to secure a future for the shipyard for two years, and it is disappointing that we have not been able to reach a commercial solution with CBC that would have prevented administrators becoming involved.\n\n\"We appreciate that this will be a concerning time for the workforce, their families and the local community, and we would like to reassure them that we are committed to maintaining the jobs on the site and building a secure future for the yard and its workforce.\n\n\"We have been working closely with trades unions representatives throughout this process, and we will continue to do so in the coming days and weeks.\"", "Last updated on .From the section Arsenal\n\nMesut Ozil and Sead Kolasinac are not in Arsenal's squad for Sunday's Premier League game at Newcastle because of \"further security incidents\".\n\nThe pair were involved in a carjacking attempt by an armed gang in north-west London a fortnight ago.\n\nArsenal say they are liaising with police and \"providing the players and their families with ongoing support\".\n\n\"The welfare of our players and their families is always a top priority,\" the club added.\n\n\"We have taken this decision following discussion with the players and their representatives.\n\n\"We look forward to welcoming the players back to the squad as soon as possible.\"\n\nOzil and Kolasinac were left out of a friendly against Lyon following the attempted carjacking, but both featured in the final pre-season game against Barcelona on Sunday.\n\nThe latest incidents are being investigated by police.\n\nAfter the failed carjacking attempt, Kolasinac posted a picture of himself and Ozil on social media and added: \"Think we're fine.\"\n\nIn a statement, the Metropolitan Police said it was \"in contact with Arsenal and will investigate any offences reported appropriately\".", "Five people were killed and three injured following a rocket explosion on an Arctic naval test range in Russia on Thursday, state nuclear company Rosatom confirmed.\n\nRosatom said the accident occurred during tests on a liquid propellant rocket engine.\n\nThe three injured staff members suffered serious burns in the accident.\n\nAuthorities had previously said that two people died and six were injured in the blast at the site in Nyonoksa.\n\nThe company told Russian media that its engineering and technical team had been working on the \"isotope power source\" for the propulsion system.\n\nThe Nyonoksa site carries out tests for virtually every missile system used by the Russian navy, including sea-launched intercontinental ballistic missiles, cruise missiles and anti-aircraft missiles.\n\nAuthorities in Severodvinsk, 47km (29 miles) east of Nyonoksa said that radiation levels shortly after the blast were higher than normal for about 40 minutes but returned to normal.\n\nLocals have rushed to buy medical iodine, with pharmacies' stocks of iodine reported to be running out in the cities of Arkhangelsk and Severodvinsk.\n\nThe rush for iodine was reported earlier by a news website for the Arkhangelsk region, 29.ru.\n\nIt also said medics who evacuated the injured at Nyonoksa wore chemical and nuclear protection suits.\n\nThere was a rush on iodine stocks during the 1986 Chernobyl nuclear disaster in Ukraine, which sent a huge plume of radiation across Europe.\n\nOn Thursday the Severodvinsk administration reported a 40-minute spike in radiation, which reached 2 microsieverts per hour, then fell back to the normal 0.11 microsieverts. Both levels are too small to cause radiation sickness.\n\nThe administration has now deleted its statement online about the spike. The BBC asked officials there why, and they said \"because this incident comes under the authority of the defence ministry\".\n\nThe defence ministry insisted that \"there have been no harmful chemicals released into the atmosphere, the radiation levels are normal\".\n\nIt is the second accident involving Russia's military this week.\n\nOn Monday, one person was killed and eight others were injured in a blaze at an ammunition dump in Siberia.\n\nFlying munitions damaged a school and a kindergarten in the area. More than 9,500 people were evacuated.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.", "Network Rail said water levels were about a foot above the rails\n\nTravellers have been hit by widespread disruption as rail operators across the country battled hazards caused by wet and windy conditions.\n\nPassengers on five trains were trapped for a time after heavy rain caused the temporary closure of the West Coast mainline between England and Scotland.\n\nNetwork Rail said water levels had risen a foot above the track between Penrith North Lakes and Lockerbie.\n\nThey warned services were likely to be affected until the end of the day.\n\nNetwork Rail said the line had reopened in both directions after water levels dropped, however, 5mph speed limits would be in place for a time.\n\nIt comes amid fresh Met Office warnings of rain and thunderstorms across the UK.\n\nNetwork Rail said services were likely to be affected until the end of the day\n\nElsewhere in south east England, trees have caused damage to various train lines resulting in speed restrictions being put in place.\n\nThere was disruption between Ashford International and Hastings; Guildford and Reading; Newbury and Westbury and between Ipswich and Lowestoft on Saturday morning.\n\nMore than 1,200 households have been left without power in Wales after windy weather caused disruption.\n\nThe worst affected area was around Ebbw Vale in Blaenau Gwent where almost 700 customers lost power and Glynneath in Neath Port Talbot where more than 300 homes were cut-off.\n\nThe Scottish Environment Protection Agency has also issued 14 flood alerts across Tayside, the east, west, central and southern Scotland.\n\nIn Dumfries and Galloway, a landslide resulted in the closure of the A7 south of Langholm. Drivers were being urged to avoid the area.\n\nHeavy rain also caused flooding for road users on the A74 in Dumfriesshire.\n\nThe issue resulted in long delays for a time at Eaglesfield after two lanes were closed southbound on the route as a result of flooding.\n\nFlooding resulted in the closure of two lanes on the A74 in Dumfriesshire\n\nIn Dumfries and Galloway, residents in Castle Douglas were forced to use sandbags to keep flood water out of their homes.\n\nUp to three inches of rain fell in some parts of the region during 12 hours of downpours.\n\nIn Renfrewshire, engineers worked to repair overhead wires that had left 200 passengers stranded on three trains on Friday.\n\nThe loss of power had impacted on services through Bishopton.\n\nEngineers worked through the night to repair wiring in the tunnel between Langbank and Bishopton\n\nNetwork Rail said services were gradually being reintroduced to the line on Saturday after engineers worked through the night to reopen the tunnel between Langbank and Bishopton.\n\nOn Saturday railings came loose and a tree fell onto a black cab in Russell Square, central London.\n\nA tree fell onto a black cab in Russell Square, London on Saturday afternoon\n\nMet Office meteorologist Greg Dewhurst said heavy rain and thunderstorms across northern England and Scotland would continue for the rest of the day, with further heavy rain forecast until about mid morning on Sunday.\n\nThe yellow weather warning across almost all of Scotland and northern England will come to an end at midnight, but a yellow rain warning will be in force until 10:00 on Sunday in the Glasgow area.\n\nOn Friday, organisers of cycling's Women's Tour of Scotland, taking place for the first time, were forced to abandon the first stage of the event - from Dundee to Dunfermline - due to \"extreme weather conditions\".\n\nStage two of the event - from Glasgow to Perth - went ahead as planned on Saturday.", "The Environment Agency said it did not know what caused the water to turn bright blue\n\nA tributary of a river in Somerset has been turned bright blue by a mystery substance.\n\nThe Environment Agency said it was carrying out tests on the tributary of the River Frome after the water turned a luminous colour.\n\nIt said it was treating it as a suspected \"pollution incident\" but there were no reports of dead wildlife.\n\nTest results are expected on Monday and the agency said it would continue to monitor the stream over the weekend.\n\nA spokesman asked for anyone with information to contact them.\n\nThe result of tests carried out on the water are expected on Monday\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "PC Stuart Outten was attacked in Leyton, east London, in the early hours of Thursday\n\nA police officer who was attacked with a machete has left hospital.\n\nPC Stuart Outten, 28, was stabbed in the head as he tried to stop a van suspected of having no insurance in Leyton, east London, in the early hours of Thursday.\n\nThe Met Police officer Tasered his assailant despite receiving multiple stab wounds to his head and body.\n\nMuhammad Rodwan, 56, of Luton, is charged with attempted murder and possessing an offensive weapon.\n\nHe is due to appear at the Old Bailey on 6 September.\n\nPC Outten suffered a wound to the side of his head which required stitches and needed an operation to a hand injury caused while trying to fend off the attack.\n\nThanking police and the public for their support in the wake of the attack, his family said PC Outten had joined the Met straight from school and \"loves being a police officer and protecting the public\".\n\nIn a statement released before he was discharged from hospital, they said: \"We are incredibly proud of the bravery Stuart showed during the incident.\n\n\"His injuries could have been fatal and we are thankful that he is stable and recovering in hospital with his loved ones around him.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "An airport has apologised after rainfall led to water pouring from the roof of the building.\n\nPassengers said they \"couldn't believe\" what was happening as they filmed rain falling inside London Luton Airport.\n\nA spokesman for the airport said: \"Following a period of unprecedented rainfall, we have experienced water damage in a number of locations.\n\n\"We apologise for any disruption to services while we seek to resolve the issue.\"", "Ferries at Dover have been delayed by up to five hours\n\nPassengers were stuck on cross-Channel ferries off the Dover coast as the port operated a \"one ship in, one ship out\" policy due to high winds.\n\nCrossings between Dover and Calais were delayed by up to six hours, with tugs deployed to guide ships into port, P&O Ferries said.\n\nA man was also severely hurt when a tree fell on him in London.\n\nAnd train passengers across the UK faced disruption caused by the winds and flooding.\n\nP&O has said it will accommodate passengers on the \"first available sailing once you reach check-in\" and the wait time was a maximum of six hours.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nOne ferry passenger, Justin Hodge, 41, who was trying to get back to Sittingbourne in Kent with his partner and three children, said he had been waiting at Calais for six hours with \"no ferry in port\".\n\nThe family had been due to catch the boat from the French port at 15:15 BST to Dover.\n\n\"The time now is 21:00 and still sitting in the docks nearly six hours later and no sign of boarding,\" he said.\n\nHe added they had \"not moved\" since passing border control.\n\n\"We're sat in a queue with hundreds of cars,\" he said.\n\n\"I'm one of the lucky ones, I'm towing a caravan so I've got milk, water and somewhere to sleep but there are others who are not so lucky.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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\nStephen Deadman, from Nottingham, earlier reported waiting for three and a half hours alongside five other ferries after stopping four miles off the coast at Dover.\n\n\"The wind was very bad and the captains of the ferry and tug boats did a great job in difficult conditions,\" he said.\n\nIn Scotland, passengers on five trains were trapped for a time after heavy rain caused the temporary closure of the West Coast mainline.\n\nNetwork Rail said water levels had risen a foot above the track between Penrith North Lakes and Lockerbie.\n\nNetwork Rail said water levels were about a foot above the rails\n\nServices were also suspended between Lewes and Haywards Heath due to a fallen tree blocking the line, Southern said.\n\nSpeed restrictions were also imposed, particularly in coastal areas, where wind speeds were forecast to hit 60mph.\n\nNetwork Rail urged passengers to check for updates before they travel.\n\nA fallen tree at Cooksbridge stopped trains running between Lewes and Haywards Heath\n\nEarlier, trains to London from Kent were suspended for about two hours while a tree was removed from the line in Newington.\n\nAnd high winds toppled trees in London and Norwich, severely injuring one man and blocking a number of roads.\n\nThe man, thought to be in his 50s, suffered potentially life-threatening injuries when a tree fell in Greyhound Lane, Streatham Vale, at about 13:00, a Met Police spokesperson said.\n\nFire crews were at the scene in Russell Square\n\nA road through Norwich was blocked by a fallen tree\n\nA spokesperson for Scottish and Southern Electricity Networks (SSEN) said about 1,000 customers had been without electricity across its network.\n\n\"These are mainly small, localised faults and we are working to restore customers throughout the course of this evening.\n\n\"We'd like to apologise for the interruption to their supply and thank them for their patience as we work to restore them as quickly and as safely as possible,\" the spokesperson added.\n\nThe adverse weather conditions have also led to scores of events being cancelled.\n\nAt the Boomtown Fair in Winchester, dozens of tents were wrecked overnight after strong winds tore through the festival's campsites.\n\nWhile in Ascot, damage to the stage for a concert at the racecourse due to be held later featuring Jessie J and Tinie Tempah led to it being cancelled.\n\nOrganisers of Bristol's hot-air balloon festival were also forced to temporarily close the site.\n\nIn a statement on the event's Facebook page, organisers said they hoped to reopen the event for the final day on Sunday.\n\nEvents at the Blackpool Air Show on Saturday were also cancelled due to strong winds and heavy rain, but plans for Sunday are expected to go ahead from 13:30.\n\nA yellow weather warning is in place covering southern and central England as far north as Blackpool, Huddersfield and Grimsby, the Met Office said.\n\nChief meteorologist Neil Armstrong said summer storms were more likely to cause disruption because \"more people are likely to be outdoors, especially by the coast\".\n\n\"Additionally, with trees in full leaf they are more vulnerable to being brought down by strong winds,\" he added.\n\nFollow BBC South East on Facebook, on Twitter, and on Instagram\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. Nora Quoirin's mother Meabh told emergency services their work meant \"the world to us\"\n\nThe parents of missing teenager Nora Quoirin have thanked search teams scouring the Malaysian jungle for her.\n\nMeabh and Sebastien Quoirin said \"terima kasih\" - \"thank you\" in Malay - to those searching for Nora, last seen at the Dusan holiday resort on Sunday.\n\nA team of 250 is looking for the 15-year-old, who has special needs.\n\nMs Quoirin thanked search teams for their work \"especially at a special festival time\", referring to the Islamic festival of Hari Raya Haji.\n\n\"We want to say thank you to each and every one of you,\" she said.\n\n\"We know you're searching night and day for Nora.\"\n\nShe added: \"To be with us here, it means the world to us. We are so grateful for everything that you are doing for us, everyone who is helping here and not from here.\n\n\"We are extremely impressed by the effort, your expertise, your dedication and we hope you find Nora.\"\n\nNora Quoirin, who has special needs, vanished from a holiday resort on Sunday\n\nThe Quoirins, an Irish-French family who have lived in London for 20 years, arrived in the Dusun forest eco-resort in southern Negeri Sembilan state a week ago.\n\nNora, who has an Irish passport, was last seen on Sunday.\n\nNora's father raised the alarm the following morning when the teenager was missing from her bedroom with the window open.\n\nThe teenager's family said she was born with holoprosencephaly, a disorder which affects brain development, and that she \"struggles with co-ordination\".\n\nHer family have said Nora is \"not independent and does not go anywhere alone\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Police played the sound of Nora's mother's voice through a loudspeaker in the jungle\n\nOver the past few days a recording of Nora's mother saying \"Nora darling, Nora I love you, mum is here\" has been played out on loudspeakers into the jungle.\n\nHer aunt Éadaoin Agnew said Nora had spent a lot of time in hospital \"all her life\", and needed operations after she was born, to help her breathing.\n\n\"Nora's very shy and can be quite anxious,\" Ms Agnew said, adding: \"She was just extremely excited to spend time with her family in Malaysia.\"\n\nMeabh Quoirin talked emotionally to the teams looking for her daughter and her husband Sebastian rubbed her arm as she spoke.\n\nThis is the seventh day of searching and there is not a shred of evidence of Nora in the area.\n\nThe family want to explore the idea that she has been abducted. Police are refusing to rule it out but at the moment it's being treated as a missing person inquiry.\n\nIt's a difficult area to search - there's lots of mud, there are vines that trip you up and there are rivers and creeks.\n\nThey are using six teams, made up of 250 people, who are searching 6sq km of this nature reserve.\n\nSpecial prayers were held for the teenager at the nearby Kariah Pantai Mosque on Thursday.\n\nPolice chief Datuk Mohamad Mat Yusop said it was believed Nora had climbed out of the window.\n\nHe told Malaysian publication The Star they needed to find her urgently.\n\nNora's photograph is also being handed out at roadblocks in the area and Irish Police have sent a Garda liaison officer to Kuala Lumpar to assist the family and liaise with the authorities.\n\nMissing persons charity the Lucie Blackman Trust, which is supporting the family, has provided a hotline and email address for information.\n\nPeople can remain anonymous and can call +448000988485 or email ops@lbtrust.org.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The coin will look similar to a previous design - but with a different departure date.\n\nChancellor Sajid Javid is drawing up plans for millions of commemorative 50p coin to be issued when the UK leaves the European Union later this year.\n\nMr Javid has asked officials to see whether it would be possible to produce the coins in time for the UK's scheduled departure date of 31 October, according to the Daily Telegraph.\n\nHis predecessor Philip Hammond planned a collectors' version of the coin.\n\nHowever Mr Javid hopes to mint a similar 50p piece for mass circulation.\n\nGovernment officials said the move was a statement of intent that the Treasury is dedicated to leaving the EU.\n\nIn October last year Mr Hammond announced plans for around 10,000 coins to be sold to collectors for £10 each.\n\nHowever, beyond a few test versions, none of the coins were minted after the UK delayed its departure from the EU.\n\nThe government said the trial coins did not come at a cost to the taxpayer.\n\nThe new coins will carry the same design, bearing the words \"peace, prosperity and friendship with all nations\" but will be updated with the new departure date.\n\nA 50p coin was struck when the UK joined the European Economic Community in 1973 and when the UK held the presidency of the EU in 1998.", "Two men have been injured in a clash between rival gangs in a cul-de-sac as children played nearby, police said.\n\nThe confrontation, in the Saltley area of Birmingham on Friday evening, followed a car chase.\n\nWest Midlands Police said a BMW crashed into a wall and the occupants of a VW Golf, with their faces covered, emerged armed with a machete and a shotgun.\n\nTwo victims, both 23, were taken to hospital with non life-threatening injuries.\n\nOne suffered cuts to his legs while the other had a graze from a shotgun pellet.\n\nA force spokeswoman said: \"It was fortunate innocent people, including children, were not injured.\n\n\"The attackers made off in a VW Golf and efforts are under way to trace the vehicle and the men involved.\"\n\nOne of the injured men was arrested on suspicion of possessing a firearm.\n\nWest Midlands Police said the attack, at 18:30 BST, was a \"targeted attack between rival groups.\"\n\nA BMW crashed into a wall after it was involved in a chase with a VW Golf\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Last updated on .From the section Premier League\n\nLiverpool scored four first-half goals as they started the new Premier League season with a blistering performance to demolish newly-promoted Norwich City at Anfield.\n\nNorwich captain Grant Hanley scored the opening goal of the top-flight season when he sliced Divock Origi's cross into his own net before Mohamed Salah opened his account after a pass by Roberto Firmino.\n\nGerman midfielder Marco Stipermann forced a fine save by Reds keeper Alisson before an unmarked Virgil van Dijk headed the third from Salah's corner, Origi nodding the fourth after a stunning pass by Trent Alexander-Arnold.\n\nTeemu Pukki's composed finish reduced the deficit after Liverpool lost Alisson to injury, the Brazil keeper replaced by new signing Adrian after slipping while taking a first-half goal-kick.\n• None ‘A disjointed pre-season and a lack of signings – but Liverpool make ideal start’\n\nThere was a carnival atmosphere at Anfield for Liverpool's first home game since beating Tottenham in the Champions League final on 1 June and Jurgen Klopp's side responded with a superb display.\n\nThey might have won by a more handsome margin as Tim Krul palmed Origi's attempt onto the bar after making a brilliant save to keep out Firmino's ferocious volley. Krul also did well to keep out Alexander-Arnold's late free-kick.\n\nNo Reds hangover from last season's failed title charge\n\nAny fears Liverpool might be suffering a hangover after missing out to Manchester City by one point in the race for last season's title were quickly dispelled as the Reds started their quest to win a first top-flight title in 30 years in style.\n\nSupporters were looking for evidence Klopp's team can go one step better than last season and, while bigger tests lie ahead, a thumping win against a team fresh out of the Championship is a decent start.\n\nAfter a quiet summer in the transfer market, it was the same familiar faces on show including nine players who started the win over Spurs in Madrid in June.\n\nOrigi, who came off the bench to score in the Champions League final win, helped his side take the lead with a cross which ended in the back of the net after Hanley's misfortune.\n\nSalah doubled the lead with a trademark low angled finish after Firmino's assist before Salah turned provider with the corner for Van Dijk to make it 3-0.\n\nLiverpool were coasting and even after losing Alisson to injury they increased their advantage after Alexander-Arnold's sublime pass allowed Origi to head the fourth goal.\n\nOn a night of positives for the home side, Joe Gomez came through his first league game of 2019 after recovering from a fractured leg.\n• None How will the promoted sides fare?\n\nAlisson gives Klopp cause for concern\n\nKlopp said he was worried about the injury suffered by Alisson, who was a key figure in Liverpool's eye-catching 2018-19 season.\n\nAfter slipping in front of the Kop, the Brazilian received treatment on the pitch before a stretcher was brought on.\n\nAlisson eventually managed to get back to his feet and leave the field with help from a physio, but any prolonged absence would be a blow for Liverpool.\n\n\"With Alisson it is not good, but we will find a solution and move on,\" Klopp told BBC Sport's Match of the Day.\n\n\"He felt his calf. He looked behind him because he thought something hit him.\"\n\nThe German added that the Brazilian would not feature in Wednesday's Uefa Super Cup match against Chelsea.\n\nFormer West Ham keeper Adrian, brought in to replace the departed Simon Mignolet earlier in the week, made one fine save from Moritz Leitner before being beaten by Pukki.\n\nThis was Norwich's first Premier League game since losing 3-0 at Liverpool's neighbours Everton in May 2016, having already been relegated. They fared no better on their return to Merseyside.\n\nIn truth, next week's home game with Newcastle will provide a better gauge of how the Canaries will fare this season.\n\nDespite the scoreline, Norwich caused Liverpool's defence problems and Pukki's lovely finish after Emiliano Buendia's pass at least provoked some gallows humour from Norwich's travelling fans.\n\n\"One-nil in the second half,\" was the defiant song that rang out.\n\nNorwich have been busy in the transfer market and although none of their new recruits started at Anfield, expect that to change when they return to Carrow Road next week.\n\n'I'm totally in love with this team' - reaction\n\nLiverpool boss Jurgen Klopp told Match of the Day: \"For 60 minutes we looked very sharp, then we have to control the game a bit more. Norwich have all my respect - they stayed cheeky, they enjoyed their football.\n\n\"At the start of the second half we could have scored a fifth or sixth goal, then Norwich scored. After that we were never in danger but had to work hard to keep the score what it was.\n\n\"The players had a break (over the summer). For the body it was long enough, nobody asked for longer, so they didn't lose a lot of their physical standards. We have to be a bit smart for the next two games, we have to make a few decisions and try to win both of those games, which will be difficult.\"\n\nNorwich boss Daniel Farke speaking to Match of the Day: \"We're disappointed. We were greedy, we wanted to be the first team in two-and-a-half years to win here.\n\n\"But I'm totally in love with this team. The mentality to win the second half in front of an excited home crowd, we showed great character.\n\n\"No-one wanted to hear it at half-time, but I told them we had the same possession and had created more chances. Liverpool had scored four though.\n\n\"It was tough to take but I felt we were not too far away from a good result.\"\n• None Liverpool have scored 15 goals in their four opening day Premier League matches under manager Jürgen Klopp (W3 D1 L0), netting four times in their first match of the league season in consecutive seasons for the first time in their entire history.\n• None Norwich have won their first match of the league season in just one of the past 17 seasons (W1 D8 L8).\n• None Liverpool are unbeaten in their past 13 Premier League games against Norwich (W11 D2 L0), scoring 43 goals across those games, including at least four goals in five of their last seven meetings.\n• None Salah has scored in Liverpool's first Premier League match in each of the last three seasons (2017-18, 2018-19 and 2019-20).\n• None The first goal of the Premier League season was an own-goal for only the second time - the other occasion was in 2015-16, when Kyle Walker's own-goal was the only goal in Manchester United's 1-0 win over Spurs.\n• None Pukki has scored with his first shot on target in each of the last eight league seasons (across Schalke 04, Celtic, Brondby IF and Norwich careers); a record stretching back to the start of 2012-13.\n• None Liverpool scored three goals in the opening half-hour of a Premier League game for the first time since February 2014, when they were 4-0 up after 20 minutes against Arsenal.\n• None Liverpool defender Alexander-Arnold became the first player to register an assist in five consecutive Premier League appearances since Arsenal's Mesut Ozil in 2015, and is one of only eight players in Premier League history to do so.\n• None Norwich's Onel Hernandez became the first Cuban player in the Premier League, with Cuba the 114th different nationality represented in Premier League history.\n\nLiverpool are off to Istanbul to face Chelsea in the Uefa Super Cup on Wednesday (20:00 BST) while Norwich have a full week to prepare for the visit of Newcastle United to Carrow Road on 17 August (15:00).\n• None Attempt blocked. Onel Hernández (Norwich City) left footed shot from the left side of the box is blocked.\n• None Attempt saved. Ben Godfrey (Norwich City) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the bottom left corner. Assisted by Jamal Lewis.\n• None Offside, Norwich City. Todd Cantwell tries a through ball, but Onel Hernández is caught offside.\n• None Delay over. They are ready to continue.\n• None Attempt saved. Trent Alexander-Arnold (Liverpool) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the top right corner.\n• None Attempt saved. Emiliano Buendía (Norwich 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", "There is \"a lot of uncertainty\" about the UK's capacity to patrol fishing waters after a no-deal Brexit, a government memo mistakenly emailed to the BBC has revealed.\n\nThe memo, from the Department for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, says there are just 12 ships \"to monitor a space three times the size of the surface area of the UK\".\n\nMeanwhile Michael Gove has said there will be a government support fund to help British businesses in the event of a no-deal Brexit.\n\nThe UK is due to leave the EU on 31 October. A \"divorce\" deal - which sets out how the UK leaves - has not been agreed and Prime Minister Boris Johnson has pledged to leave whether one is reached or not.\n\nIn the event of leaving without a deal, the UK would become an independent coastal state and leave the Common Fisheries Policy, which states the EU's shared rules about how much fish countries can catch and where.\n\nBut ministers said they are confident security will be enforced after Brexit.\n\nDefra's internal email mentioned a number of media stories, including one being worked on by a freelance journalist for the Independent.\n\nAccording to the memo, the story planned to look at the preparation being made to deter EU fishermen from UK waters in the case of a no-deal Brexit, and also whether the UK will enforce the exclusion of foreign vessels.\n\nThe note reads: \"While our public position on this wider issue is already clear and widely communicated, in that post-Brexit we will be an independent coastal state with control of our waters, both policy and MoD have indicated we are not on an overly strong footing to get ahead of the potential claims that could arise from this story.\n\n\"At this stage, there is a lot of uncertainty about the sufficiency of enforcement in a no-deal because we have 12 vessels that need to monitor a space three times the size of the surface area of the UK.\"\n\nAdmiral Lord West, a Labour peer and former First Sea Lord, said the email appeared to show the UK has \"insufficient assets to patrol and look after our exclusive economic zone for fisheries, and also our territorial seas\".\n\n\"This will be thrown into stark relief if we should cease to have an agreement with the EU on fisheries.\"\n\nHe added: \"This is something a number of us have been saying for some time now, but it has always been denied by Defra and the government.\"\n\nHowever, Barrie Deas, the CEO of the National Federation of Fisherman's Organisations (NFFO), said any EU vessel would be \"foolish\" to fish in UK waters - even without a deal in place.\n\nHe told BBC Radio 4's Today programme: \"Under international law, the UK would automatically become an independent coastal state with the rights and responsibilities of that status and there is an obligation under the UN Law of the Sea for countries that share stocks to co-operate.\n\n\"So I think there will be a fisheries agreement post-Brexit between the UK and the EU, but on a different basis from the Common Fisheries Policy.\"\n\nA government spokesperson confirmed an internal email concerned with the \"veracity and details of media enquiries\" had been \"inadvertently sent outside of Defra\".\n\nThey said: \"Britain is leaving the EU on 31 October with or without a deal.\n\n\"We are confident that we will have the ships and the expertise we need to properly enforce security in UK waters.\"\n\nMr Gove, the cabinet minister in charge of preparations for a possible no-deal Brexit, spoke openly for the first time about a government support fund for British businesses during a visit to Northern Ireland on Friday.\n\nThe support package, known as Operation Kingfisher, will help companies deal with any \"bumps in the road\" that might occur as a result of a no-deal Brexit.\n\nCabinet minister Michael Gove spoke about plans to help businesses on a visit to Northern Ireland\n\nBBC political correspondent Jessica Parker said the plans predate Boris Johnson's premiership but few details have so far been revealed - including how much money will be made available and where the cash would come from.\n\nAccording to the Times, the government has compiled a list of companies it believes could be most exposed financially if the UK leaves the EU without a deal and may need of help. It is said to include a number of firms in the construction and manufacturing sectors.", "Benjamin Field (right) has been convicted of the murder of Peter Farquhar\n\nA churchwarden has been found guilty of murdering an author after tricking him into changing his will.\n\nBenjamin Field, 28, manipulated 69-year-old Peter Farquhar for financial gain and tried to make his death look like an accident or suicide.\n\nField was also accused of plotting to kill Mr Farquhar's neighbour Ann Moore-Martin, 83, in the village of Maids Moreton but was found not guilty.\n\nHe was remanded in custody and will be sentenced at a date to be fixed.\n\nAt Oxford Crown Court, Field was also acquitted of the attempted murder of Miss Moore-Martin.\n\nMr Farquhar died in the Buckinghamshire village in October 2015, while Miss Moore-Martin, who lived three doors away, died in May 2017 from natural causes.\n\nField, a Baptist minister's son, admitted duping both Mr Farquhar and Miss Moore-Martin into fake relationships with him as part of a plot to get them to change their wills, but denied any involvement in their deaths.\n\nThe court heard Field had undergone a \"betrothal\" ceremony with Mr Farquhar and was in a sexual relationship with Miss Moore-Martin.\n\nProsecutor Oliver Saxby QC told the trial Field carried out a sustained \"gaslighting\" plot aimed at making Mr Farquhar question his sanity.\n\nMr Farquhar's drinks were topped up with bioethanol and poteen, a high strength Irish alcohol, and his food was laced with drugs, Mr Saxby said.\n\nMr Farquhar, who taught part-time at the University of Buckingham and had three novels published, suffered night terrors and hallucinations which he recorded in a handwritten journal.\n\nHis third novel A Wide Wide Sea, published in 2015, was dedicated to Field, who delivered the eulogy at his funeral.\n\nField said he drugged Mr Farquhar \"purely out of meanness\"\n\nField's co-accused Martyn Smith, 32, of Penhalvean, Redruth, Cornwall, was cleared of murdering Mr Farquhar, plotting to kill Miss Moore-Martin, fraud and burglary.\n\nSpeaking afterwards, he said: \"I am relieved that this ordeal is finally over...The lessons I take from this case are first and foremost to always be your own person and secondly to always choose your friends very carefully.\"\n\nDuring the trial Field admitted drugging Mr Farquhar with benzodiazepines and hallucinogenic legal highs to \"torment\" him.\n\nHe told the jury he did it \"for no other reason other than it was cruel, to upset and torment Peter - purely out of meanness\".\n\nBut prosecutors said Field had a \"profound fascination in controlling and manipulating and humiliating and killing\".\n\nAfter Mr Farquhar changed his will three times in two years to benefit Field, he \"had to die\", Mr Saxby said.\n\nThe court heard Field \"suffocated him\" when he was too weak to resist, and left a half-empty bottle of whisky in Mr Farquhar's room to create the misconception he had drunk himself to death.\n\nIn a statement read by police, Mr Farquhar's brother Ian said: \"[Field's] actions have been unbelievably callous, and he has told lie after lie after lie in order to achieve his goals, deceiving everyone he met.\"\n\nSenior investigating officer Mark Glover described Field as \"cruel, calculating, manipulative, deceitful\", adding: \"I don't think evil is too strong a word for him.\"\n\nChris Derrick, from the Crown Prosecution Service, said: \"He is clearly a very calculating and ruthless man who spent a great deal of time planning what he was going to do.\"\n\nAfter the verdicts, journalist Michael Crick, who was taught by Mr Farquhar at Manchester Grammar School, tweeted: \"It's so dreadful to think my dear friend and teacher Peter Farquhar was murdered in such an awful way by a man he loved and trusted so much.\"\n\nAnother former pupil of the school, David Scheinmann, directed 2013 film Believe and has said a headmaster character, played by Toby Stevens, was in part based on Mr Farquhar.\n\nMr Farquhar would often fall over after being drugged by Field\n\nMiss Moore-Martin's niece Ann-Marie Blake paid tribute to her aunt, who she described as \"a kind, gentle, beautiful soul, who touched so many lives, leaving behind a legacy of wonderful memories\".\n\nJudge Mr Justice Sweeney said it had been a \"challenging case\" for the jury, which took 77 hours to reach its verdict.\n\nHe remanded Field, of Wellingborough Road, Olney, in custody until sentencing at a date to be fixed and ordered a psychiatric report.\n\nField previously admitted four charges of fraud and two of burglary.\n\nHis brother Tom Field, 24, of the same address, was cleared of a single charge of fraud.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The man said he did not expect people to panic despite being heavily armed\n\nA man who sparked panic by walking into a Walmart with a rifle and body armour told police he was testing his right to bear arms in public.\n\nDmitriy Andreychenko entered the shop heavily armed, days after a mass shooting at another of Walmart's stores.\n\n\"I wanted to know if that Walmart honoured the second amendment,\" the 20-year-old told police after his arrest.\n\nProsecutors have charged him with making a terrorist threat.\n\nIf found guilty, the charge could result in a four-year prison sentence and a fine of $10,000 (£8,300), Greene County prosecutor Dan Patterson said in a statement.\n\nOn 8 August, Mr Andreychenko entered the store \"armed with an AR style rifle slung across his chest\", police said, wearing a ballistic vest and recording himself. Both the rifle and a handgun he carried were loaded.\n\nHe told police he did not expect the reaction his walk generated.\n\n\"This is Missouri, I understand if we were somewhere else like New York or California, people would freak out,\" he said, according to police filings.\n\nDays before, 20 people had been killed in a Walmart in El Paso by a gunman carrying an automatic rifle.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Roman's friend died in the attack: 'I wish the killer had known the real El Paso'\n\nThe police statement also revealed that his wife, Angelice, had told him \"it was not a smart idea\".\n\n\"She told him that people were going to take this seriously due to recent events... she told him he was just an immature boy,\" it said.\n\nHis sister Anastasia also told police he had asked her to record video of what he called his \"social experiment\".\n\n\"She told him that it was a bad idea and that she did not want to do that,\" it said.\n\nMr Andreychenko told police he only intended to buy some grocery bags and check if anyone tried to stop him.\n\nThe store manager \"believed Andreychenko came to the store to shoot people\", the police statement said, and triggered the fire alarm to evacuate customers.\n\nMr Andreychenko was held at gunpoint by an off-duty fire fighter, who was legally carrying his own weapon, until police arrested him.\n\nProsecutor Dan Patterson said that while residents of Springfield, Missouri, were allowed to carry weapons, \"that right does not allow an individual to act in a reckless and criminal manner endangering other citizens.\"\n\nThe terrorist threat charge covers an act which \"recklessly disregards the risk of causing the evacuation\" of a building, or \"knowingly causes a false belief or fear... that a condition exists involving danger to life.\"\n\nMr Andreychenko is being held on a $10,000 bond, and will not be allowed to possess a firearm if he does make bail.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Geoffrey Berman: \"If you believe you are a victim of this man... we want to hear from you.\"\n\n\"I'm not a sexual predator, I'm an 'offender,'\" Jeffrey Epstein told the New York Post in 2011. \"It's the difference between a murderer and a person who steals a bagel.\"\n\nEpstein died in a New York prison cell on 10 August as he awaited, without the chance of bail, his trial on sex trafficking charges.\n\nIt came more than a decade after his conviction for soliciting prostitution from a minor, for which he was registered as a sex offender.\n\nThis time, he was accused of running a \"vast network\" of underage girls for sex. He pleaded not guilty.\n\nThe 66-year-old in the past socialised with Prince Andrew and former presidents Donald Trump and Bill Clinton.\n\nBut who was Jeffrey Epstein?\n\nBorn and raised in New York, Epstein taught maths and physics in the city at the private Dalton School in the mid 1970s. He had studied physics and maths himself at university, although he never graduated.\n\nA father of one of his students is said to have been so impressed that he put Epstein in touch with a senior partner at the Wall Street investment bank Bear Stearns.\n\nHe was a partner there within four years. By 1982, he had created his own firm - J Epstein and Co.\n\nThe company managed assets of clients worth more than $1bn (£800m) and was an instant success. Epstein soon began spending his fortune - including on a mansion in Florida, a ranch in New Mexico, and reputedly the largest private home in New York - and socialising with celebrities, artists and politicians.\n\n\"I've known Jeff for 15 years. Terrific guy,\" Donald Trump told New York magazine for a profile on Epstein in 2002. \"He's a lot of fun to be with. It is even said that he likes beautiful women as much as I do, and many of them are on the younger side.\n\n\"No doubt about it - Jeffrey enjoys his social life.\"\n\nJeffrey Epstein, left, with Donald Trump at the former president's Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida in 1997\n\nIn 2002, Epstein flew former President Bill Clinton and the actors Kevin Spacey and Chris Tucker to Africa on a customised private jet. He made an unsuccessful bid to buy New York magazine with then film producer Harvey Weinstein in 2003 - the same year he made a $30m donation to Harvard University.\n\nBut he also strove to keep his life private, reportedly shunning society events and dinners in restaurants.\n\nHe dated women like Miss Sweden winner Eva Andersson Dubin and Ghislaine Maxwell, daughter of publisher Robert Maxwell, although he never married.\n\nRosa Monckton, the former CEO of Tiffany & Co, told Vanity Fair for a 2003 article that Epstein was \"very enigmatic\" and \"a classic iceberg\".\n\n\"You think you know him and then you peel off another ring of the onion skin and there's something else extraordinary underneath,\" she said. \"What you see is not what you get.\"\n\nIn 2005, the parents of a 14-year-old girl told police in Florida that Epstein had molested their daughter at his Palm Beach home. A police search of the property found photos of girls throughout the house.\n\nThe Miami Herald reports that his abuse of underage girls dated back years.\n\n\"This was not a 'he said, she said' situation,\" Palm Beach Police Chief Michael Reiter told the newspaper. \"This was 50-something 'shes' and one 'he' - and the 'shes' all basically told the same story.\"\n\n\"He has never been secretive about the girls,\" columnist Michael Wolff told New York magazine for a 2007 profile piece, as the case against Epstein moved through the courts.\n\n\"At one point, when his troubles began, he was talking to me and said, 'What can I say, I like young girls.' I said, 'Maybe you should say, 'I like young women.'\"\n\nHowever, prosecutors forged a deal with the hedge fund manager in 2008.\n\nHe avoided federal charges - which could have seen him face life in prison - and instead received an 18-month prison sentence, during which he was able to go on \"work release\" to his office for 12 hours a day, six days a week. He was released on probation after 13 months.\n\nPrince Andrew, left, has been criticised for his association with Jeffrey Epstein\n\nThe Miami Herald says that the federal prosecutor Alexander Acosta - who was Secretary of Labour in the Trump administration - struck a plea agreement hiding the extent of his crimes and ending an FBI investigation into whether there were more victims or more powerful people who took part. The paper described it as the \"deal of the century\".\n\nMr Acosta resigned in July 2019 over the scandal, though he defended his actions as guaranteeing at last some jail time for Epstein.\n\nSince 2008 Epstein had been listed as a level three on the New York sex offenders register. It is a lifelong designation meaning he was at a high risk of reoffending.\n\nBut Epstein maintained his properties and his assets after his conviction.\n\nIn December 2010, Prince Andrew, the third child of the Queen, was pictured in New York's Central Park with Epstein, drawing controversy.\n\nIn a BBC interview in November 2019, the prince, who had known Epstein since 1999, said he had gone to New York to break off their friendship. He said he regretted staying at the financier's house while he was there, and that he had \"let the side down\" by doing so.\n\nAn Epstein accuser, Virginia Roberts - now Virginia Giuffre - would later allege that she was made to have sex with Prince Andrew in the early 2000s when she was 17.\n\nPrince Andrew categorically denied having sex with her and said he has no recollection of a photo of the pair being taken together in London.\n\nEpstein was arrested in New York on 6 July 2019 after flying back from Paris on his private jet.\n\nProsecutors were reportedly seeking the forfeiture of his New York mansion, where some of his alleged crimes occurred.\n\nEpstein always denied any wrongdoing, and pleaded not guilty to the charges against him.\n\nAfter being denied bail by the court, he was being held in New York's Metropolitan Correctional Center. He was taken to hospital briefly in July for what was widely reported to be injuries to his neck - which neither prison officials or his lawyers would officially comment on.\n\nAt his last court appearance on 31 July, it became clear that he would spend a year in prison, with a trial no earlier than summer 2020. Prosecutors said they wanted no delay, and bringing the trial quickly was in the public interest.\n\nNow, Epstein will never face the trial at all.\n\nAfter Epstein's death, his former girlfriend, Ghislaine Maxwell, came into the spotlight.\n\nShe was arrested in July 2020 at her secluded mansion in the US state of New Hampshire on suspicion of having assisted Epstein's abuse of minors by helping to recruit and groom victims known to be underage.\n\nIn December 2021, a jury in New York City found her guilty on five out of six counts, including the most serious charge - that of sex trafficking of a minor.\n\nThis carries a possible 40-year sentence, which means the 60-year-old could spend the rest of her life behind bars.\n\nThe Oxford-educated Ms Maxwell is said to have introduced Epstein to many of her wealthy and powerful friends, including Bill Clinton and the Duke of York.\n\nFriends said that although Ms Maxwell and Epstein's romantic relationship lasted only a few years, she continued to work with him long afterward.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: The secret lives of Maxwell and Epstein\n\nIn court documents, former employees at the Epstein mansion in Palm Beach describe her as the house manager, who oversaw the staff, handled finances and served as social co-ordinator.\n\nIn a Vanity Fair profile published in 2003, Epstein said Ms Maxwell was not a paid employee, but rather his \"best friend\".\n\nDuring the trial, prosecutors alleged Ms Maxwell preyed on and groomed young girls for Epstein to abuse. Her defence claimed she is being used as a scapegoat for Epstein's crimes following his death.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nBusinesses and residents in Whaley Bridge will be able to access emergency government funding to help their recovery.\n\nBusinesses in the Derbyshire town, which was evacuated amid fears a flood-damaged dam could collapse, can claim up to a total of £100,000 to cover uninsurable costs.\n\nIt comes as part of £5.25m in relief for flood-affected communities.\n\nParts of Lincolnshire and North Yorkshire will also receive support.\n\nThe Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government said it had activated the Bellwin scheme to reimburse local authorities for the immediate costs spent responding to the floods.\n\nIt is also providing £150,000 to High Peak Borough Council \"to support their initiatives to help the recovery of the local economy\" in Derbyshire.\n\nLocal authorities covering Wainfleet in Lincolnshire and Richmondshire will be able to claim back all of the money they have spent responding to recent flooding.\n\nThe Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs is also providing up to £2m to help farmers in those areas.\n\nThe river breached its banks near Wainfleet All Saints after persistent heavy rainfall in June\n\nThe Department for Transport also said it was investing £3m to rebuild two bridges in North Yorkshire, with North Yorkshire County Council receiving \"one-off, exceptional funding\" to rebuild bridges in Cogden Beck and Grinton.\n\nLocal Government Secretary Robert Jenrick said he was grateful for the work done by local authorities in responding to the floods, and praised residents \"for the resilience they have shown during this worrying time\".\n\nThis collapsed bridge near Grinton was part of the 2014 Tour de France's Grand Depart\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nAn ambulance crew from the Republic of Ireland has helped with staff shortages at the Northern Ireland Ambulance Service (NIAS) for a second night.\n\nThe crew was based at Altnagelvin Hospital in Londonderry on Saturday.\n\nOn Friday night, a separate crew from the Republic was based at Newry ambulance station.\n\nAn NIAS spokesman said it was 10 crews short on Saturday night, but many staff members who were off had come in.\n\nHe said they were working partial shifts through the busiest period.\n\nIn addition, eight private and voluntary ambulances were dealing with non life-threatening cases.\n\nThe NIAS had appealed for staff to come to work over the weekend over difficulties filling rotas.\n\nInternal correspondence, seen by the BBC, said NIAS advised health trusts of possible delays in response times for \"less urgent\" cases.\n\nIt asked for assistance from the Republic of Ireland, among other extra measures.\n\nThere is an understanding between the ambulance services on both sides of the border that they will help each other out in special circumstances.\n\nNIAS chief executive Michael Bloomfield said they were down 14 crews out of 52 on Friday night.\n\n\"That's substantial, that's over a quarter,\" he said.\n\n\"I've been advised that last night there were no significant issues of concern to report, but people will have waited longer and I apologise for that.\"\n\nHe warned of the potential for further delays over the weekend.\n\nSources have claimed NIAS is at \"crisis point\", with the Southern Health Trust area particularly affected.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Marie-Louise Connolly This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy 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 Bloomfield said the NIAS faced a similar situation on Saturday night, but was working to address it by continuing to identify people who were willing to come in.\n\nConor McCarthy, from the health union Unison, said ambulance crews were dealing with very difficult circumstances.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript 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 NIAS This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy 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\"What's compounding the problem is the fact that there are over 300 vacancies in the ambulance service in the region, ranging from paramedic staff to control room staff,\" he said.\n\n\"What happened here over the weekend is nothing new. It's happened in the past and it'll happen again.\"\n\nThe internal ambulance service memo stated that the service has been \"unable to completely fill our staffing rosters for various reasons\".\n\nIt said this would impact on ambulance provision, particularly during night shifts on Friday, Saturday and Sunday.\n\nNIAS management has advised the Helicopter Emergency Medical Service (HEMS) that it \"may need to utilise their resources under strict conditions\" and has called in operational managers to provide extra support.\n\nAn NIAS spokesman said the air ambulance is not a separate entity from NIAS.\n\n\"The HEMS Service is provided in partnership with the Charity Air Ambulance who provide the helicopter and pilot through their Charitable Fundraising and NIAS provides the operational staff (Paramedics and Doctors).\n\n\"The HEMS Service (air ambulance) is part of our response capability.\"\n\nThe memo also says NIAS has \"sought assistance\" from the Republic of Ireland's National Ambulance Service (NAS) in the Southern Trust and Western Trust areas.\n\nThe BBC understands that this is a highly unusual move.\n\nIt also said NIAS will provide food and refreshments for ambulance crews and control staff throughout the weekend.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Dramatic rescues after typhoon Lekima causes floods in China\n\nAt least 28 people have been killed and more than a million forced from their homes as Typhoon Lekima hit China, according to state media.\n\nOfficials said the deaths were caused by a landslide triggered by the storm. Ten others have been reported missing.\n\nLekima made landfall in the early hours of Saturday in Wenling, between Taiwan and China's financial capital Shanghai.\n\nThe storm was initially designated a \"super typhoon\", but weakened slightly before landfall.\n\nThe fatal landslide happened in Wenzhou, near where the storm made landfall, state media said. It occurred after a barrier lake - or natural dam - formed, pooling water from the heavy rains before collapsing.\n\nLekima is now slowly winding its way north through the Zhejiang province, and is expected to hit Shanghai, which has a population of more than 20 million.\n\nEmergency crews have battled to save stranded motorists from floods and searched for survivors in the rubble of damaged buildings. Fallen trees and power cuts are widespread.\n\nRescue workers have been searching for survivors in the rubble of damaged buildings\n\nAuthorities have cancelled more than 1,000 flights and cancelled train services in preparation for the storm. Shanghai Disneyland was also shut for the day.\n\nThe storm is expected to weaken further by the time it reaches the city, but will still bring a high risk of dangerous flooding.\n\nThe typhoon has brought heavy rain to Shanghai\n\n\"Now the disaster zones are mainly in the rural-urban integration zones,\" said Fu Songliang, head of a rescue team for Ningbo City's fire service.\n\n\"These are low-lying areas. When the flooding from mountainous areas converges and comes down, these areas are quite seriously affected,\" he told Reuters news agency.\n\nShanghai evacuated some 250,000 residents, with another 800,000 in Zhejiang province also being taken from their homes.\n\nAn estimated 2.7 million homes in the region lost power as power lines toppled in the high winds, Chinese state media said.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nIt is the ninth typhoon of the year, Xinhua news said - but the strongest storm seen in years. It was initially given China's highest level of weather warning but was later downgraded to an \"orange\" level.\n\nChinese weather forecasters said the storm, which had winds of 187km/h (116mph) when it made landfall, was moving north at 15km/h.\n\nIt earlier passed Taiwan, skirting its northern tip and causing a handful of injuries and some property damage.\n\nComing just a day after a magnitude six earthquake, experts warned that the combination of earth movement and heavy rain increased the risk of landslides.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nLekima is one of two typhoons in the western Pacific at the moment.\n\nFurther east, Typhoon Krosa is spreading heavy rain across the Northern Mariana Islands and Guam. It is moving north-west and could strike Japan some time next week, forecasters said.", "Last updated on .From the section Tennis\n\nAndy Murray will make a return to singles action at the Cincinnati Masters next week - seven months after fearing he might have to retire.\n\nBritain's former world number one has been playing doubles since June as he regains fitness after hip surgery.\n\nMurray, 32, broke down in tears at the Australian Open in January, believing the resurfacing operation he had later that month could end his career.\n\nNow the Scot is pain-free and feels the time is right to return to singles.\n\nMurray has been given a wildcard and plays France's Richard Gasquet in the first round.\n\nIf Murray beats 33-year-old Gasquet, who is ranked 66th in the world after missing the first four months of the season with a groin injury, he will play Austrian world number four Dominic Thiem in the second round.\n\nMurray's last singles match was a five-set loss to Spain's Roberto Bautista Agut in the first round in Melbourne.\n\nBefore the match the three-time Grand Slam champion said he planned to retire after this year's Wimbledon and feared the Australian Open could be the final tournament of his career.\n\nBut he returned to the doubles court in June after a career-saving operation with renowned hip surgeon Sarah Muirhead-Allwood, whose previous patients have included the Queen Mother.\n\nMurray said the resurfacing of his hip, where the femur head is smoothed down and covered with a metal cap, was \"life-changing\" and took away the pain which dogged him for a number of years.\n\nHe has played five doubles tournaments since his return to competitive action, winning Queen's alongside Spain's Feliciano Lopez in a dream comeback.\n\nSpeaking after his quarter-final match at the Rogers Cup in Montreal on Friday, world number two Rafael Nadal said Murray's return was \"good news for the sport\".\n\n\"Especially great news for him. That means that he's healthy,\" he added.\n\nJoining Murray in a star-studded draw at the Masters 1,000 event in Cincinnati are Novak Djokovic, Roger Federer and Rafael Nadal.\n\nSerbia's world number one Djokovic and Swiss great Federer return to action for the first time since their historic Wimbledon final, while Nadal will be back in action for the second week running after starting his North American hard-court campaign at this week's Rogers Cup.\n\nAt Wimbledon, Murray began to get fed up with answering questions about when he would return to the singles court - insisting he did not know himself when his new metal hip would be ready to cope with the added workload.\n\nPatience has been Murray's mantra since his competitive return in the doubles, refusing to commit to a singles event - and therefore not putting himself under the pressure of a timeframe - until he felt completely comfortable.\n\nHitting the weights in the gym to build up his strength was the focus post-Wimbledon before he headed over to the North American hard courts with a dual purpose: improve match sharpness by playing doubles in Washington and Montreal, and upping the workload on the singles court in public practice sessions.\n\nThose solo outings, he says with a smile, did not leave him \"completely embarrassed\" as they might have done earlier in his comeback bid.\n\nSo, after further practices in Cincinnati with fellow Britons Kyle Edmund and Dan Evans this week, he is confident a return now will not be a mistake as he looks to prolong a glittering career which he felt might have already been over.\n\nThe next question is: will he play singles at the US Open? Murray has consistently said he would not want his first tournament back to be over five sets in New York. Playing over three in Cincinnati appears to leave the door ajar for a potential follow-up appearance at Flushing Meadows.\n• None Alerts: Get tennis news sent to your phone", "The TUC said construction jobs were among the middle-income roles which were squeezed\n\nPay rates have effectively fallen for the UK's lower and middle income earners since 2010, research suggests.\n\nWorkers in jobs paying between £9.56 and £12.73 an hour have seen their \"real\" wage drop 1% since 2010 after inflation is accounted for, analysis by the Trades Union Congress (TUC) found.\n\nHowever, the lowest-paid workers have seen average real pay rates increase 5%, thanks to minimum wage rises.\n\nMinisters say all workers saw income tax cuts and real pay was now rising.\n\nReal wage rates adjust the hourly rate for the effect of inflation, the average increase in the cost of goods and services, which erode the spending power of your money.\n\nThe TUC says lower and middle income earners may have seen their spending money squeezed\n\nThe pay rate analysis identifies middle income earners, those earning near the median wage rate of £12.73 per hour, as having their earning power eroded since 2010.\n\nThis 1% reduction in pay rates compares to a rise of 7% for this group of 7.7 million workers between 2002 and 2010, the TUC analysis argues.\n\nFor workers earning between the median wage rate of £12.73 and £25.45 per hour, pay rates have on average fallen 3% in the period.\n\nThe TUC analysis shows the 1.1 million highest income earners, banking above £25.45 per hour worked, saw average pay rates rise 4% since 2010.\n\nKate Bell from the TUC says median wages still are not where they were before the financial crisis \"so a little bit of pay pick-up in the last couple of months... doesn't mean we're out of the woods yet\".\n\nMs Bell added: \"People in middle earning jobs have seen their pay fall. Jobs like those in construction, the local government in administrative jobs for example you've likely seen your pay go down over this period. That has an impact on your ability to live and ability to pay your bills\".\n\nThe most recent Office for National Statistics data on employment and earnings for the year to 31 May showed a record 32.75 million people in work and average wage growth for the year at 3.8%, the highest since the financial crisis in 2008.\n\nONS data showed wage growth has been outpacing the inflation rate since March 2018, meaning the spending power of salaries is not being eroded by price rises in shops.\n\nThe head of the Recruitment and Employment Confederation, Neil Carberry, said businesses have faced increased costs since 2010 such as the apprenticeship levy and pension auto-enrolment.\n\nMr Carberry said boosting the UK's lagging workplace productivity was key to improving wages and salaries for employees.\n\nShadow chancellor John McDonnell said: \"It's staggering that millions of people have faced cuts to their real pay since 2010 while the highest earners have had their pay skyrocket.\"\n\nHe said a Labour government would introduce a real living wage of at least £10 an hour and give trade unions more power to end the \"scandal\" of low pay.\n\nA Treasury spokesman said: \"Real wages are now rising on a sustainable basis for the first time in a decade.\n\n\"We have given the lowest paid a pay rise of almost 5% by increasing the National Living Wage, cut income tax for 32 million people and taken 1.74 million people out of income tax.\n\n\"We are also helping with the cost of living by freezing fuel duty and doubling free child care for working parents of three and four year olds.\"\n\nConservative deputy chairman Paul Scully added: \"The facts are that under the Conservatives, the unemployment rate - and the proportion of low paid workers - have both fallen to a record low, and our National Living Wage is delivering pay rises for millions of people across the country\".", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Water is being pumped away from the reservoir and sandbags are still being dropped\n\nTwenty-two households have refused to leave a Derbyshire town despite being warned a damaged dam is at risk of bursting, police have said.\n\nThe 31 Whaley Bridge residents have been urged to leave by police, who say they are putting their own lives, and the emergency services', at risk.\n\nAround 1,500 people have been evacuated after part of a dam ruptured on Thursday.\n\nTeams are working round the clock to pump water from Toddbrook Reservoir.\n\nForecasters had warned that 30-40mm (1.2-1.6in) of rain could fall in two hours on Sunday night, and the Met Office issued a yellow weather warning for much of northern England and the Midlands.\n\nBut Whaley Bridge saw just a light shower before midnight, and has so far avoided the thundery downpours which passed through the area.\n\nPolice said the \"risk of adverse weather\" was to blame for the most recent evacuations, but that the dam was still unstable.\n\nDerbyshire Police deputy chief constable Rachel Swann urged \"in the strongest terms\" people still in the evacuation zone to leave.\n\nShe said: \"We've not evacuated this for no reason. We've evacuated this because there is a real prospect that the dam could fail, and if it fails it is catastrophic.\n\n\"People would die if they were in that evacuation zone. So those people who remain in that zone are putting their lives at risk.\n\n\"They are also putting the lives of the responders, primarily the police, at risk because we have to keep going in and speaking to them and asking them to leave.\"\n\nDeputy chief constable Rachel Swann says the dam bursting would be \"catastrophic\"\n\nShe also told a meeting for residents on Sunday that in the \"worst case scenario\" they would be out of their homes for a week.\n\nThe Canal and River Trust said water in the reservoir needed to get down to 8m below the normal level. It stood at 3.8m below normal and was being lowered 2m every 24 hours.\n\nDerbyshire chief fire officer Terry McDermott told the meeting that specialist engineers had monitored the dam wall 24 hours a day with lasers and there had been \"no significant deflection\" in the wall.\n\nHe added that six rescue boats had been deployed in the region in case the dam bursts.\n\nOn Saturday, people were allowed briefly into their homes to collect pets and essentials, but were warned they would be doing so at their own risk.\n\nOne resident per household was escorted by police back into their homes for 15 minutes.\n\nTwenty-four large pumps are now lowering the water level by 10 cm an hour\n\nSome 1,500 people in Whaley Bridge had sought shelter elsewhere after part of the reservoir's spillway broke away on Thursday.\n\nFather Jamie Mcleod, who lives in the town, said he had hardly slept for three days, taking supplies to the emergency workers.\n\nHe was there at the start of the crisis when he went to check the dam after days of heavy rain.\n\n\"When I was over there it started to crack,\" he said. \"When it got worse I went over to the council and raised the alarm and said, 'We have to evacuate the village'.\n\n\"We then went back to the reservoir and, of course, the police then came and procedures were put in place.\n\n\"At the time I really thought the village was going to go.\n\n\"Then it really struck me there is a school at the bottom of the dam and last week that playground was full.\"\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\nTwenty-four pumps are working and more than a third of the reservoir's water has been removed since Thursday.\n\nThe army and police officers have also visited residents in nearby Marple, issuing flooding advice.\n\nEmergency responders are planning and preparing for a \"potential incident\" but were not yet evacuating that area.\n\nAn RAF Chinook helicopter has placed 525 one-tonne bags to strengthen the dam wall and regulate water flow.\n\nPolice, the Environment Agency, and the Canal and River Trust have all said there is a \"real risk\" the 188-year-old dam could collapse and flood the town.\n\nThe trust has defended the maintenance and safety of the structure, which was built in 1831.\n\nEmergency services and volunteers have been working around the clock\n\nBBC Local Radio news special on the emergency in Whaley Bridge and surrounding areas near the River Goyt on BBC Radio Manchester, Sheffield and Derby from 18:00 through the night. Reporters in key areas and regular updates from emergency services.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Laughing gas canisters littered the beach, and balloons which can kill marine life when swallowed\n\nBrighton beach was littered with laughing gas canisters and balloons by Pride revellers, say volunteers cleaning up after the event.\n\nUp to 1,000 people have been clearing large amounts of bottles, cans, glass and disposable barbecues.\n\nBut they said they had never seen so many nitrous oxide canisters in one place.\n\nBy 10:00 BST more than 150 bags of rubbish had already been collected, organisers Ocean's 8 said.\n\nMore than 150 bags of rubbish were collected in two hours, but there is still a lot to do\n\nEnvironmental activist and blogger Clare Osborn, of Clare Talks Rubbish, is one of Ocean's 8 and said: \"We sound like the fun police, but people really need to find more sustainable ways to have fun.\n\n\"Every one of these canisters comes with a balloon, and they are so incredibly dangerous and deadly to wildlife, which can mistake the bits of balloon for food.\"\n\nThe gas - nitrous oxide - is the second most commonly used recreational drug in England and Wales after cannabis.\n\nBut the Royal College of Nursing said many people remained ignorant of the risks, which can include breathing difficulties, dangerously-increased heart rate, burns, and death.\n\nThree time slots have been created throughout the day for people to go to the beach and help collect the rubbish.\n\nCore volunteers then sort it into what can be recycled with TerraCycle, and the remaining waste which is being collected by Brighton and Hove City Council's Cityclean service.\n\nAround a quarter of a million people flock to Brighton for the Pride weekend\n\nA team of core volunteers are on site all day, helping to sort the collected waste\n\nAmy Gibson, another member of Ocean's 8 who organises regular Pier 2 Pier silent disco beach clean, said she has never seen so much rubbish on the beach.\n\n\"You couldn't even see the beach in places.\n\n\"Normally we find around 20 bags' worth of rubbish after a weekend or an event, but we've collected 10 times that amount in the first two hours of today's clean.\n\n\"It's Pride so we expected the glitter, the feather boas and the parts of people's costumes, but I can't believe how many noz canisters there are.\"\n\nLegislation introduced in 2016 made it illegal to sell the gas for psychoactive purposes.\n\nBut enforcing the legislation has proved difficult because nitrous oxide is used in food products like whipped cream, and medicine.\n\nBrighton Pride does not officially hold any events on the beach, but it said it recognised the impact tourism had, so it had sponsored the clean-up effort.\n\nAbout a quarter of a million people visit Brighton for the city's annual Pride weekend.\n\nKylie Minogue headlined the music event, supported by surprise guest Emeli Sande, and more than 100 floats took part in the parade.\n\nThe event comes during the 50th anniversary year of a riot which started in a gay bar in New York, sparked by police brutality.\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.", "There is still time to block a no-deal Brexit, despite claims to the contrary, senior Tory rebel Dominic Grieve says.\n\nAccording to the Sunday Telegraph, top No 10 advisor Dominic Cummings has told MPs even losing a no-confidence vote could not stop Boris Johnson taking the UK out of the EU on 31 October.\n\nHe reportedly said the PM could call an election for after the deadline, with Brexit taking place in the meantime.\n\nBut Mr Grieve told the BBC Mr Cummings was a \"master of misinformation\".\n\nHe said that if Mr Johnson lost a no-confidence vote, MPs would have 14 days to form an alternative government.\n\n\"[Mr Cummings] has a point, but he may also be missing the point,\" Mr Grieve - a former attorney general who has repeatedly called for a further referendum - told Radio 4's Broadcasting House programme.\n\nDominic Grieve, a former attorney general, has previously called for a further referendum\n\n\"There are a number of things which the House of Commons can do, including bringing down the government [via a vote of no confidence] and setting up a new government in its place.\"\n\nThis arrangement - known as a government of national unity - would involve a cabinet made up of MPs from multiple parties.\n\nHowever, Catherine Haddon, from the Institute for Government think tank, said that while Mr Grieve's suggestion was possible, it would rely on Mr Johnson resigning as PM after losing a no-confidence vote - something he is not legally bound to do.\n\n\"The problem there is it requires the sitting prime minister to resign, and because it is untested territory we don't know how that might work,\" she said.\n\n\"If you go back over history, certainly when governments have lost confidence that's been the presumption - but the other presumption has been that if they wanted to go to the people they could.\n\n\"He could say: 'No, I'm staying as prime minister and we're having a general election.'\"\n\nJames Cleverly MP, chairman of the Conservative Party, told Sky's Sophy Ridge on Sunday programme that the government was \"not going to initiate a general election\" before 31 October.\n\nAnd Ms Haddon said that, even if Mr Johnson lost a vote of no confidence and did call a general election, he was \"perfectly able, constitutionally\" to schedule it for after the Brexit deadline.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThere could be other ways for MPs to prevent no deal, Ms Haddon added, but she described them as \"untested\".\n\n\"We still don't know if there is something they could try involving an emergency debate,\" she said, \"because the Speaker has previously implied that he thinks there's more scope there in terms of what Parliament can do, but again this is completely untested and falls on the Speaker reinterpreting previous parliamentary practice in a new way.\"\n\nLike Mr Grieve, Labour's shadow health secretary, Jonathan Ashworth, said he still believed the government's no-deal Brexit plans could be stopped, though he did not specify how.\n\n\"There will be opportunities for us when Parliament returns [from summer recess] in September to stop no-deal,\" he told Sky.\n\nHe added Labour would work \"across the parties, because we know there are plenty of Tory MPs who want to block no deal\".\n\nMeanwhile, preparations for leaving the EU without a withdrawal deal are being ramped up, with Mr Johnson saying the UK must leave by the 31 October deadline.\n\nThe PM has said his preference is to renegotiate the withdrawal agreement, remove the backstop and leave with a deal - but EU leaders have repeatedly stated the agreement is not open for renegotiation.", "Carwyn Jones fears a \"chaotic independence\" for the countries of the UK\n\nBrexit \"done badly\" could lead to \"the UK's own destruction\", Wales' former first minister Carwyn Jones has warned.\n\nHe said Boris Johnson's \"do or die\" approach to Brexit had left him concerned about the break up of the UK \"more so than before\".\n\n\"The last thing anyone would want to see is a chaotic independence for the countries of the UK,\" he said.\n\nOn Sunday the Brexit secretary called for the EU to renegotiate or face the UK's departure without a deal.\n\nStephen Barclay said a no-deal exit was \"coming down the tracks\" if the EU's chief negotiator was not given a mandate to revise the UK's withdrawal agreement.\n\nMr Jones said: \"I think it would start in Northern Ireland, then Scotland, then what you've got left is untenable. What is it then - England and Wales?\n\n\"This would all be done in a way that's not managed but fairly chaotic and that's of nobody's interest, whether you support independence or not.\"\n\nMr Jones, who has said independence is not the answer for Wales, has previously warned that the \"shambles\" in Westminster is driving curiosity in Welsh independence.\n\nHis successor as First Minister, Mark Drakeford told AMs in July his support for the union was \"unambiguous\" and he did not think Welsh voters would support independence.\n\nPlaid Cymru have called for a vote on independence to be held if the UK leaves the EU without a further referendum.", "The pilots were arrested before boarding a scheduled flight to Newark\n\nTwo United Airlines pilots have been arrested at Glasgow Airport for allegedly failing a breath test before boarding a flight to Newark, New Jersey.\n\nThe men, aged 45 and 61, have not been charged but remain in custody and are expected to appear before Paisley Sheriff Court on Tuesday.\n\nPolice Scotland confirmed officers were called to the airport at 07:35 BST.\n\nThe men were arrested before boarding flight UA162.\n\nIt was expected to take off for Newark at about 09:00 but was cancelled.\n\nUnited Airlines said in a statement the safety of its customers and crew was \"always our top priority\".\n\nIt said: \"We hold all of our employees to the highest standards and have a strict, no tolerance policy for alcohol.\n\n\"These pilots were immediately removed from service and we are fully cooperating with local authorities.\n\n\"At this time, we are working to get our customers back on their journey as soon as possible.\"\n\nA Police Scotland spokeswoman confirmed two men, aged 61 and 45, have been arrested and remain in police custody pending a scheduled court appearance on Tuesday 6 August for alleged offences under the Railways and Transport Safety Act 2003.\n\nThe legislation covers carrying out pilot duties while under the influence of alcohol or drugs.\n\nThe limit for alcohol detected in the breath for pilots is less than half the limit for drivers in Scotland.\n\nIn 2017, two United Airline pilots were jailed for breaching drink-fly limits at Glasgow Airport.\n\nFirst Officer Paul Grebenc, 35, was sentenced to 10 months in prison.\n\nHis colleague Carlos Roberto Licona, 45, was jailed for 15 months.\n\nBoth had been arrested while preparing to take off from Glasgow on 27 August 2016.", "Brexit secretary Stephen Barclay has called for the EU to find common ground with the UK\n\nEU leaders must give their chief negotiator the mandate to revise the UK's withdrawal agreement, otherwise a no-deal Brexit is \"coming down the tracks\", the Brexit secretary has said.\n\nWriting in the Mail on Sunday, Stephen Barclay said \"political realities\" had changed after May's European elections.\n\nNew MEPs were elected in 61% of seats, he said, marking a \"fundamental shift\".\n\nHe called on EU leaders to allow Michel Barnier to negotiate in a way that finds \"common ground\" with the UK.\n\nBrussels has consistently insisted that the withdrawal agreement - one of two main elements of Theresa May's Brexit deal, which was resoundingly rejected by MPs - cannot be renegotiated.\n\nMr Barclay said Mr Barnier had told him in their discussion last week that he is bound by the instructions given to him by the European Commission and leaders of member states.\n\nBut the change in the EU Parliament means there is a need for the EU to alter its approach, Mr Barclay said.\n\n\"Mr Barnier needs to urge EU leaders to consider this if they too want an agreement, to enable him to negotiate in a way that finds common ground with the UK. Otherwise, no deal is coming down the tracks,\" he said.\n\nBy contrast, Boris Johnson's appointment as prime minister strengthened the UK's mandate to leave on 31 October, he said.\n\nMichel Barnier has said demands to eliminate the backstop are \"unacceptable\"\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson has ramped up his rhetoric over his desire to take the UK out of the EU by 31 October, as part of his \"do or die\" commitment.\n\nHe has clashed with EU leaders over his demands to remove the Irish backstop - which prevents a hard border if the UK and EU fail to agree a long-term trade deal - from the withdrawal agreement.\n\nIrish Taoiseach Leo Varadkar told Mr Johnson this week \"the backstop was necessary as a consequence of decisions taken in the UK\".\n\nBut Mr Barclay said the backstop could mean people in Northern Ireland having EU rules \"foisted on them\" indefinitely to preserve the open border.\n\nHe rejected the UK staying in the customs union and the single market as a solution, saying the border issue should be resolved in future talks on the long-term trading agreement with the EU.\n\n\"There is simply no chance of any deal being passed that includes the anti-democratic backstop. This is the reality that the EU has to face,\" he said.\n\nSpeaking last month, Mr Barnier said demands to eliminate the backstop were \"unacceptable\" and Mr Johnson's approach to Brexit was \"rather combative\".", "A £5.6m funding boost for Scotland's \"vital\" marine economy will help firms create jobs, according to Rural Minister Mairi Gougeon.\n\nSea fisheries and processing businesses will share £4.2m in the latest round of cash from the EU's European and Maritime Fisheries Fund.\n\nThe Scottish government confirmed it will contribute the remaining £1.4m.\n\nAmong the beneficiaries are Seafood Scotland, which will receive £1.3m to help maximise key export markets.\n\nMeanwhile, JK Thomson in Musselburgh will get £1.35m to help pay for the construction of a new processing factory.\n\nWith the UK's exit from the EU looming, Ms Gougeon called on Prime Minister Johnson's government to commit the necessary cash to allow the funding scheme to continue after Brexit.\n\nShe said: \"The marine economy plays a vital role in supporting coastal communities and is critical to our ambitions to double the value of our food and drink industry.\n\n\"From grants which will help open up existing and new export markets to the funding of new and improved factory facilities, this £5.6m investment will support the marine economy supply chain, boosting growth and creating local jobs.\"\n\nMs Gougeon also had a message for Westminster.\n\nShe added: \"With this round fully committing all allocated funding to the Scottish processing sector, I call on the UK government to meet its pledge, to provide the required additional funding to allow future rounds to proceed so that businesses can continue to grow and deliver sustainable economic growth for the seafood sector.\n\n\"This funding should be transferred to the Scottish Government for disbursement in Scotland, in line with the devolved settlement.\"", "Scientists are to deliver a stark condemnation of the damage being done to the land surface of the planet.\n\nHuman activities have led to the degrading of soils, expanded deserts, felled forests, driven out wildlife, and drained peatlands, they will say.\n\nIn the process, land has been turned from an asset that combats climate change into a major source of carbon.\n\nThe scientists will say this land abuse must be stopped to avoid catastrophic climate heating.\n\nHow can the land protect us from climate change?\n\nUncultivated land covered with vegetation protects us from overheating because the plants absorb the warming gas CO2 from the air and fix it in the soil.\n\nBut the scientists meeting in Geneva, Switzerland, will say the way we farm and grow timber often actually increases emissions of carbon dioxide.\n\nBetween a quarter and a third of all greenhouse gas emissions are now estimated to come from land use.\n\nThe scientists will warn of a battle for land between multiple competing demands: biofuels, plant material for plastics and fibres, timber, wildlife, paper and pulp - and food for a growing population.\n\nTheir report will say we need to make hard choices about how we use the world’s soil.\n\nAnd it will offer another warning that our hunger for red meat is putting huge stress on the land to produce animal feed, as well as contributing to half of the world’s emissions of methane - another greenhouse gas.\n\nThe document’s being finalised this week among scientists and government officials on the UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).\n\nIt will become the most authoritative report yet on the way we use and abuse the land. Scientists hope it will give the issue of land use greater prominence in negotiations on climate change.\n\nAt its heart will be the paradox that the land can be a source of CO2 emissions, or a sink for CO2 emissions.\n\nThe question is how we use it.\n\nTake the fenlands in the east of England – a huge expanse of lowland peat.\n\nIn its natural state, it’s saturated with water. But over centuries, 99% of it has been drained for farming. Food crops don’t grow in peat bogs.\n\nThe remaining un-drained 1% is Wicken Fen, a plot owned by the charity the National Trust, where the soft black soil is still 4m deep.\n\nThe surrounding drained farmland is noticeably lower, because as it’s been drained the peat has shrunk to just 50cm thick.\n\nBetween 1-2% of the soil on the drained farmland is still being lost every year.\n\nThe fens in eastern England constitute a huge expanse of lowland peat\n\nThat’s because when peat is exposed to the air, it oxidises and produces CO2.\n\nBut here’s the problem: the peaty fields are also some of the most productive cropland in the UK – they’re known as Black Gold.\n\nFarmers want to grow food on them – not soak them to save carbon.\n\nOne young farmer, Charles Shropshire, told me he was concerned about carbon loss from his fields.\n\nHe’s already finding that existing climate change is disrupting growing patterns.\n\nFarmer Charles Shropshire is adopting regenerative farming techniques on his farm near Soham\n\nSo now he’s adopting so-called “regenerative farming” techniques - such as shallow ploughing, keeping the land covered in vegetation in the winter, and using drip-feed watering.\n\nHe’s willing to experiment with National Trust ideas such as re-wetting the soil over the winter, or growing sphagnum moss for use in beauty treatments or hanging baskets.\n\nBut many other farmers don’t want to change the way they run their business.\n\nAnd all round the world you’ll find similar stories as farmers strive to increase production of the food people want, which can negatively affect land in the long term.\n\nPart of the problem is that consumption of meat and vegetable oils has doubled since the 1960s.\n\nCan we solve the problem?\n\nScientists say the problem is huge. They admit it will be hard to solve, especially as conservation-style farming would involve teaching half a billion farmers to work differently.\n\nFarmers in some parts of the world will be hit harder by climate change\n\nThere’s still some debate. One option is to concentrate intensive farming into the smallest possible area of land, in order to leave as much natural land as possible to soak up CO2.\n\nAnother option is to farm in a less intensive, more climate-friendly way – but that means taking up more natural land to compensate.\n\nEither way, the report will warn that the poorest farmers will be hardest hit by global warming, and they’ll be least able to afford new technologies to change the way they farm.\n\nKelly Levin, from the US green think tank WRI, told BBC News the report should heap pressure on politicians to cut fossil fuel emissions.\n\nShe said: “If we consider the climate problem hard now, just think about how much harder it will be without the land serving as a large sink for carbon dioxide emissions.”\n\nProf John Boardman, from the Oxford Environmental Change Institute, told us climate change was already causing soil erosion in southern England through more intense rain.\n\nBut he warned: “We should recognise that in most parts of the world, a little more or less rain or heat is an irrelevance compared to human pressures.\n\n“(In some areas) if we change the land use from winter wheat to maize, we triple the risk of erosion.”\n\nProf Jane Rickson from Cranfield University, UK, told us: “Increased temperatures and heavier rainfall will aggravate soil erosion, compaction, loss of organic matter, loss of biodiversity, and landslides… many of which are irreversible.\n\n“I hope the final IPCC report will be robust enough to motivate politicians and land managers to implement policies and practices that will reverse, mitigate and adapt to the climate crisis”.", "The street where the 89-year-old woman was found dead\n\nAn 89-year-old woman has died after being assaulted in her north London home.\n\nPolice launched a murder investigation after the woman was found dead in Tottenham on Sunday morning.\n\nDetectives are considering burglary as a possible motive, although they said they retained an open mind.\n\nOfficers believe one or more suspects gained entry to the woman's house in Waltheof Gardens between Saturday evening and Sunday morning.\n\nPolice were called by the London Ambulance Service at around 10:45 BST on Sunday.\n\nThe woman was pronounced dead at the scene and her next of kin have been informed.\n\nDet Ch Insp Garry Moncrieff said: \"The woman had clearly been assaulted and, as such, a murder investigation has been launched.\n\n\"I want to hear from anyone who saw anything suspicious in and around Waltheof Gardens and the surrounding area on Saturday night or Sunday morning.\"", "Ambulance staff dealt with the casualty at the scene\n\nA six-year-old boy was thrown five floors from the 10th floor of the Tate Modern art gallery in central London, police said.\n\nHe landed on a fifth floor roof and was taken to hospital by air ambulance after he fell at about 14:45 BST on Sunday.\n\nThe boy's condition is described as critical.\n\nA 17-year-old boy has been arrested on suspicion of attempted murder, the Met Police said.\n\nThey said the six-year-old was thrown from a viewing platform.\n\nThe emergency services arrived in force at Tate Modern after the boy's fall\n\n\"We treated a person at the scene and took them to hospital as a priority,\" a London Ambulance Service (LAS) spokesman said.\n\nThe London Air Ambulance was called to the scene and later flew the boy to hospital\n\nA police spokesman said there was \"nothing to suggest [the suspect] is known to the victim\".\n\nThe teenager had remained on the platform after the boy fell, police said.\n\nVisitors were initially locked inside the gallery at Bankside on the South Bank.\n\nAdmin worker Nancy Barnfield, 47, of Rochdale, was at the 10th floor viewing gallery with a friend and their children when her friend heard a \"loud bang\".\n\nMs Barnfield said she turned around and saw a woman screaming: \"Where's my son, where's my son?\"\n\nMembers of the public quickly gathered around a man who was nearby, she said.\n\nMs Barnfield said: \"We did not notice the mum before, we noticed her after because she was hysterical by then.\"\n\nShe said the person who was restrained by members of the public before the police arrived \"just stood there and was quite calm\".\n\nEyewitness Stuart Haggas said he saw emergency crews moving along the roof between the gallery's Turbine Hall and its recent extension.\n\n\"They were carrying a stretcher with someone on it,\" he said, \"plus a second stretcher was waiting by the door.\"\n\nBBC correspondent Jonny Dymond, who was also there, said visitors were \"funnelled towards the main Turbine Hall and the exits were all closed\".\n\n\"There were quite a lot of families with children, and security guards told us we couldn't leave,\" he said.\n\n\"There were at least two fire engines, 10 police cars and an incident control unit. Parts of the exterior of the building were taped off.\"\n\nThe Tate Modern opened in the disused power station on the River Thames in 2000.\n\nIt was the UK's most popular tourist attraction in 2018 with 5.9m visitors, according to the Association of Leading Visitor Attractions.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Cian Daly, 20, from Leigh-on-Sea, was among those who died\n\nTwo men have been arrested by officers investigating suspected drugs-related deaths of six people in Essex.\n\nThree men and three women from Southend, Leigh-on-Sea, Canvey Island and Westcliff-on-Sea have died in the period between 28 July and 30 July.\n\nTests are being carried out to identify the substance or substances involved in the deaths.\n\nA 26-year-old from London and a 29-year-old from Grays were arrested in Barking on Friday and later bailed.\n\nThey were arrested on suspicion of possession with intent to supply Class A drugs.\n\nThe force has urged anyone with information about the sale of Class A drugs in the county to contact them.\n\nTwo of the deaths happened on Canvey Island\n\nPublic Health England has urged drug users to be extra careful and to not use alone and to test a small amount first.\n\n\"They need to look out for each other and be alert to any signs of an overdose, such as lack of consciousness, shallow or no breathing, 'snoring', and blueing of the lips and fingertips,\" it said.\n\n\"They should immediately call for an ambulance and use any available naloxone if someone overdoses on opioids. We strongly advise all dependent drug users to get support from local drug services.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Frenchman Franky Zapata has become the first person to cross the English Channel on a jet-powered flyboard.\n\nPowered by a kerosene-filled backpack, the inventor made the 22-mile (35.4-km) journey in 22 minutes.", "Protesters have lit a fire outside a police station during the ninth weekend of demonstrations against a controversial extradition bill in Hong Kong.\n\nMeanwhile, supporters of Hong Kong's police force also gathered on Saturday, for an open air rally in Victoria Park.", "All publicly-funded sports and leisure centres in Scotland have banned the sale of energy drinks to children under the age of 16.\n\nThe move on high-caffeine drinks is the result of work by umbrella body Community Leisure UK and the Scottish government.\n\nIn total, 1,300 sites have introduced the restriction.\n\nPublic Health Minister Joe FitzPatrick welcomed the \"leadership\" they had shown in announcing the ban.\n\nThe drinks, which can also have high levels of sugar, have been linked to health problems in children.\n\nThe World Health Organisation has published research suggesting an association with headaches, sleep problems, irritability and tiredness.\n\nKirsty Cumming of Community Leisure UK said: \"After working closely with both our members and colleagues at Scottish government, Community Leisure UK is delighted that all members in Scotland have chosen to ban the sale of energy drinks to young people under 16.\n\n\"This is an important step in protecting the health of young people across Scotland and we are proud to support the Scottish government's promise made in the Diet and Healthy Weight Delivery Plan.\"\n\nHospital shops and catering facilities have already introduced a similar restriction.\n\nMr FitzPatrick said: \"I welcome the leadership shown by all publicly funded leisure centres in restricting the sale of energy drinks to young people.\n\n\"This builds on our recent ban of energy drinks to under 16s in all hospital retail units and NHS-run catering sites.\n\n\"The Scottish government recognises that consumption of energy drinks is a significant concern to parents, healthcare professionals and young people.\"\n\nHe added: \"We have committed to a consultation on restricting the sale of energy drinks to under-16s later this year.\"", "Yet another Ashes century from Australia's Steve Smith, his second of the match, left England facing a huge battle to save the first Test at Edgbaston.\n\nIn his first Test since returning from a ban for his part in the ball-tampering scandal, the former captain added 142 to his first-innings 144.\n\nWith Matthew Wade moving into Smith's slipstream for 110 of his own, Australia took their overnight 124-3 to 487-7 and declared to set England 398 to win.\n\nChasing such a total is out of the question, but the hosts' survival hopes were boosted by openers Rory Burns and Jason Roy coming through seven overs to close on 13-0.\n\nEngland will have to bat out the final day if they are to avoid losing an Edgbaston Test for the first time in 11 years.\n\nThey must do so on a surface that will offer plenty of assistance to off-spinner Nathan Lyon, who opened the bowling and immediately proved a much greater threat than England's Moeen Ali.\n\nAs Moeen was unable to tie up an end and the part-time spinners were expensive, pace bowlers Stuart Broad and Ben Stokes pounded away on a surface giving them little.\n\nThey again did so without their leading Test wicket-taker James Anderson because of a calf injury, while Chris Woakes bowled only seven overs.\n• None TMS podcast: Smith stars again as England battle to save Test\n• None 'Smith bats like an evil spell cast upon his opponents'\n\nSmith silences Edgbaston with display for the ages\n\nWhile it is fair to highlight the fact Smith has not faced one ball from Anderson in the match, given the context of his return and the circumstances in which he arrived at the crease in both innings, he has returned one of the all-time great Test batting displays.\n\nIn the first innings he came out at 17-2, the second 27-2, only to grind England into the dirt with his concentration, judgement, maddening fidgeting and ability to seemingly place the ball wherever he pleases.\n\nNot only that, but his continuing occupation of the crease - this was his sixth ton in seven Ashes Tests - left an Edgbaston previously keen to taunt him silent. Both England's players and their supporters are sick of the sight of him and there are still four matches remaining in this series.\n\nHe resumed on 46 and extended his stand with Travis Head to 130 before adding 126 with Wade. The trademark nudges to the leg side continued, but were joined by handsome drives through the covers.\n\nOne miscued drive, on 51, was the closest England got to removing him before a missed throw from the deep would have seen him short of his ground on 133.\n\nAt one point, wicketkeeper Jonny Bairstow resorted to trying to stump him by rolling the ball at the stumps when stood back to Broad.\n\nIt was a complete shock when Smith finally played a wild drive at Woakes and was caught behind. As he departed, there were some boos, but almost all of Edgbaston stood to acclaim the brilliance it had witnessed.\n\nHead moved from 21 to 51 without alarm, but when he played a loose slash at Stokes, Australia's lead stood at 115 and England had hope.\n\nIt was snatched away by Wade, a wicketkeeper playing his first Test in almost two years as a specialist batsman after some stellar form in domestic cricket.\n\nThe left-hander drove through the covers, clipped off his toes and swept to up the urgency of the Australia scoring.\n\nHe overturned being given lbw off Broad on 69 - another error by umpire Joel Wilson - and completed his third Test century, his first for more than six years, with a reverse sweep off Joe Root's off-spin.\n\nWade and captain Tim Paine, who made 34, fell in the space of nine deliveries, but by that time Australia were past 400.\n\nJames Pattinson's plunder of 47 not out from 48 balls, including four sixes, was the final torment of England's dispiriting day in the field.\n\nEven if it was poor judgement by England to pick Anderson barely a month after he tore his right calf, it is still true that they have been disadvantaged by his absence, a problem compounded by Woakes' lack of overs on Sunday.\n\nGiven the lifeless conditions for Broad and Stokes, England desperately needed Moeen - Test cricket's leading wicket-taker in the past year - to provide a threat.\n\nNot only was he unable to do so, but he leaked runs at almost 4.5 an over and sent down only one maiden in 29. It meant Root had to use himself and leg-spinner Joe Denly, who were just as expensive.\n\nBar a circular field for Smith at the beginning of the day, England were bereft of ideas - Wade in particular benefited from a pressure-free start as the fielders retreated.\n\nAs flat as England were by the end of the Australia innings, it is to the credit of Burns and Roy that they came through some nervy moments against Lyon.\n\nThe negotiation of those 42 deliveries gradually brought Edgbaston to life and, by the end, the Hollies Stand was louder than it had been at any other point of the day.\n\n'It's extremely special' - what they said\n\nSteve Smith on BBC Test Match Special: \"It's extremely special. I've never scored a hundred in both innings in any form of cricket in my life. To do it my first game back, in an Ashes Test, knowing how important the first Test is, I'm pleased.\n\n\"We're in a great position now. Hopefully we can make use of that tomorrow. There's quite a bit of spin out there. You'd think a day-five wicket will wear even more.\"\n\nEngland batting coach Graeme Thorpe on TMS: \"You have to give him (Smith) a great deal of credit. He's a world-class player. \"He's got the hunger back. He hasn't lost any of his skill and desire to score runs. He's been a thorn to us in this game.\"\n\n\"The pitch is taking turn. Nathan Lyon will be important - Australia will want him to bowl well. He's under pressure as well - he's probably got 200 deliveries through the day.\n\n\"We've got to play positively - you've still got to have positive intent. You have to show plenty of character and plenty of skill too.\"\n\nFormer England captain Michael Vaughan on TMS: \"Australia have a chance of winning this Test because of one batsman who got his team into a position of huge strength.\n\n\"The pitch is going to be fine. There will be the odd bit of movement and pressure does strange things to players, but England should have enough, in terms of quality and strength, to see out 90 overs, if they play Nathan Lyon well.\"\n• None Steve Smith is now level with Steve Waugh on 10 Ashes centuries. Only Don Bradman (19) and Jack Hobbs (12) have more\n• None Smith's past six Ashes innings read 239, 76, 102*, 83, 144 and 142. He is only the second player after Mike Hussey to score six consecutive Ashes fifties\n• None Smith moved up to 18th in the all-time Ashes run-scorers list after 24 Tests. No other player in this series is in the top 50\n• None Since making his first Ashes century at The Oval in 2013, Smith averages 78.12 in 17 Tests against England", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The esports club looking for female members\n\nAn esports club is opening its doors to women-only games nights in the hope of attracting a wider pool of talent.\n\nCardiff Saints hopes monthly \"ladies nights\" become a regular fixture in the Welsh competitive gaming calendar.\n\nWomen and girls make up 42% of gamers in the UK, according to industry body UKIE.\n\nKelly McMahon, of Belong Cardiff gaming arena, hopes clubs such as Cardiff Saints can help increase the number of competitive female players in future.\n\nEsport is competitive video gaming, where competitors can earn millions taking other gamers on, often in teams.\n\nKelly McMahon says many female gamers do not feel \"good enough\" to play competitively\n\n\"A lot of the ladies that come down feel like they're not good enough for games, so we try to make it a really chilled experience,\" Ms McMahon said.\n\n\"We grab pizza, do mini-tournaments. It's literally a hang-out spot.\"\n\nShe said there was still quite a lot of negative reaction when people hear the term \"esports\".\n\n\"Once you go to the big events you can see how big this is and how many people have an interest in it,\" Ms McMahon added.\n\nJessica is one of a growing number of women who now regularly attend team nights, something she said she would have little access to otherwise.\n\nGamer Jessica said outside of \"ladies night\", every single person she plays with is male\n\n\"Other than ladies night and the girls I've been playing with tonight, every single person I play a game with is a boy,\" she explained.\n\n\"Games need to be looked at as more than just something teenagers do to waste their time.\"\n\nFor some, like Nate Mark from Llanberis, Gwynedd, those hours spent playing games have been lucrative.\n\nKnown as Ataraxia, he is one of a new generation of professional e sports players who are making a living out of computer games.\n\nNow a member of a team competing on Smite, a massive online multiplayer game, he's moved to the USA in order to pursue his dream of becoming world champion.\n\n\"I did psychology at the University of Liverpool. That's when I started playing Smite,\" he said.\n\nThe Smite World Championship had a prize pool of £2.1m and the players on the top teams will usually earn up to £37,000 - not including any prize money.\n\nLast weekend, a 15-year-old boy won half of $2.25 million (£1.8m) after coming second with his teammate in the Fortnite World Cup finals.\n\nWelsh politicians have raised the possibility of holding a major esport event in Wales\n\nWith the global esports industry estimated to grow to £1bn by 2022, Wales is the latest country looking to cash in.\n\n\"People don't really get to see the whole picture so they think 'it's just computer games',\" added Ms McMahon.\n\n\"As a global or as a national thing, we're not where we could be.\"\n\nThe idea has been discussed in the Welsh Assembly, with Conservative AM David Melding raising the possibility of Wales attracting a major event in the future.\n\nHe said the level of spectator interest was \"astonishing\".\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Last updated on .From the section Cricket\n\nMen's Ashes: First Specsavers Test, Edgbaston (day three of five)\n\nEngland are once again searching for a way to remove Australia's Steve Smith after a see-saw third day left the first Ashes Test deliciously poised.\n\nSmith, who crafted a superb 144 in the first innings, moved serenely to 46 not out to take the tourists to 124-3, a lead of 34 when bad light ended play early at Edgbaston.\n\nAt 27-2, Australia were in danger of being blown out of the contest on Saturday evening, only for Smith - in his first Test since returning from a year-long ban - to add 48 with Usman Khawaja and an unbroken 49 with Travis Head.\n\nFormer captain Smith silenced a riotous crowd, one that was baying for Australian misery when David Warner was dismissed and, earlier, during a ninth-wicket stand of 65 between Chris Woakes and Stuart Broad.\n\nWoakes made 37 not out and Broad 29 to rescue England from a collapse of four wickets for 18 runs, which included 3-4 in 11 balls.\n\nThey helped the hosts to 374 all out and a first-innings advantage of 90, which seemed about the minimum required to negate the challenge of batting last on a surface offering increasing amounts of turn.\n\nHowever, the pitch is also losing pace, removing the encouragement on offer for the pace bowlers.\n\nIn their quest to dislodge Smith and run through Australia on Sunday, England again look set to be without their all-time leading wicket-taker James Anderson, who batted but did not bowl on Saturday because of a calf injury.\n• None Agnew: Smith is not immortal - he is just batting rather close to it\n• None England already on Plan X to Smith - Vaughan\n\nSaturday at Edgbaston is renowned for its boisterous, beer-fuelled crowd, many of whom make the effort of fancy dress.\n\nWhile the Pope, builders, some crayons and the England 1966 World Cup winners partied in the Hollies Stand, singing long after the light intervened, the game was manoeuvred into a tantalising position.\n\nEngland began with the opportunity to bat Australia out of the game, only for the collapse, then the Woakes-Broad partnership to see fortunes fluctuate throughout the morning and afternoon.\n\nThe key to the whole contest, though, appears to be Smith, who arrived when his team were wobbling but simply picked up from where he left off in the first innings.\n\nIf England can find a way to prise him out early on Sunday, they will be in prime position to limit the chase to something manageable. If he bats into the afternoon, he could put the game beyond the hosts.\n\nFourteen years on from the memorable Ashes contest that England won by two runs, Edgbaston could yet serve up another classic.\n\nEven without Anderson, England made early inroads into the Australia batting, removing Warner and fellow ball-tampering conspirator Cameron Bancroft to fuel the fervour of the Edgbaston crowd.\n\nWhen Warner got stuck between playing and leaving Broad to be caught behind on review, he was given a deafening and prolonged send-off, with Bancroft shovelling off-spinner Moeen Ali to short leg soon after.\n\nHowever, that signalled the arrival of Smith and a change in the complexion of the evening.\n\nAfter being dropped by Jos Buttler at gully off the expensive Moeen on 11, Khawaja played some sweet drives, while Smith slipped into his trademark fidgeting, shuffling and working the ball off the pads.\n\nIt took a vicious delivery from Stokes to remove Khawaja, one that jagged back off the pitch and found the inside edge on the way through to Jonny Bairstow.\n\nHead, though, was a solid ally to the former captain, and the only other hint of further alarm came when a Rory Burns shy at the stumps missed when Head was short of his ground.\n\nThe greatest discomfort Smith felt was being hit on the helmet by Stokes and, in truth, the bad light and rain that followed gave England a welcome opportunity to regroup.\n\nEngland were in danger of wasting the position earned on Friday as Australia got the rewards their second-day bowling deserved.\n\nFrom 267-4, Stokes looked fluent in moving from 38 to 50, only for his loose waft at Pat Cummins to begin the slide.\n\nOff-spinner Nathan Lyon finally took the edge of Burns, who added eight to his overnight 125, and in the same over, the horribly short-of-form Moeen shouldered arms and lost his off stump. When Bairstow slashed at Peter Siddle, England were only 16 ahead.\n\nThey were steadied by the experience and calm authority of Woakes and Broad, who defended stoutly and accumulated without risk, steadily raising the level of noise in a Hollies Stand that rejoiced when Warner fielded on the boundary and Smith was asked to bowl.\n\nCuriously, Australia left gaps for singles and were reluctant to test Broad with the short ball. When they did, he helped Cummins into the hands of fine leg.\n\nAnderson bravely offered hobbling support to Woakes for another six overs and nine runs, before the number 11 miscued Lyon to mid-on.\n\n'Smith is a freak of nature' - what they said\n\nFormer England captain Michael Vaughan on BBC Test Match Special: \"I can't say which team is on top at the moment - it all hinges on that first half-hour tomorrow morning.\n\n\"Steve Smith is a freak of nature. If England can remove him, they will go on to win the match. If he bats for another hour, England could be chasing 180-plus. And that's where I get nervous.\"\n\nEngland's Chris Woakes on TMS: \"If you could sort out a dodgy breakfast for him that would be great.\n\n\"We'll go back to the drawing board and figure out what works best on this wicket. We might have to look to attack at one end and hold at the other.\"\n\nAustralia's James Pattinson on TMS: \"It's about getting stuck in again and trying to bat all day tomorrow. Whatever lead we can get, it's going to be a tricky chase.\n\n\"Steve Smith is a superstar and superstars peel off runs. He's been waiting for this moment for a long time.\"", "Last updated on .From the section Fulham\n\nFulham will take the \"strongest action possible\" after full-back Cyrus Christie alleged that his sister was hit and racially abused by fans during Saturday's 1-0 defeat at Barnsley.\n\nChristie said on Twitter after the game: \"To the Fulham fan that decided to hit my sister at the game today and his wife who justified his action with racist remarks I hope you're proud of yourself and feel like a big man.\n\n\"You'll get what's coming to you. Regardless how you felt about the result your actions are shameful.\"\n\nThe Whites, relegated to the Championship last season, said in a statement: \"Fulham Football Club is investigating an incident which took place in the away end at the Barnsley v Fulham fixture this afternoon.\n\n\"Should the perpetrators be identified, the club will be taking the strongest possible action.\"\n\nIn a statement, South Yorkshire Police said they were yet to receive a report of the incident.\n\n\"We are aware of claims circulating on social media,\" the statement said. \"We are looking into the circumstances of the alleged incident and are in the process of contacting Fulham Football Club to progress the matter.\"\n\nRepublic of Ireland international Christie, 26, joined Fulham from Middlesbrough in January 2018 and has made 33 appearances for the club.\n\nIn November 2017 and April 2018 he shared racist abuse he had received on social media.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The BBC's Steve Rosenberg travels to the forest to see how Russians are tackling the wildfires\n\nThe village of Podymakhino is blessed with a stunning location.\n\nThe great Siberian river, the Lena, flows past here. And, stretching into the distance, is lush green forest - the taiga. It's a picture postcard kind of place.\n\nSuddenly the tranquil scene is interrupted by the sound of a helicopter. When it flies into view, I can see a giant bucket suspended on a cable. It's a hint of the drama unfolding over the hills - the battle against fire.\n\nForest fires in Siberia are common. But this summer unusually hot weather, dry thunderstorms and strong winds have combined to spark an emergency - in Siberia wildfires have engulfed an area the size of Belgium.\n\nReaching the blazes can be difficult. Most of the fires are in remote areas. In recent days, army planes and helicopters from the Russian emergency service have been dropping water on the flames. But often it's up to local communities to do what they can to contain the threat.\n\nIn Podymakhino I meet Gennady Esin. He runs a small farm and timber business, but by necessity he's a firefighter, too, now. Gennady and his team agree to take me into the taiga to show me the situation there. We set off on a military-style off-road truck, bumping along a dirt track. Soon we're deep in the forest, surrounded by silver birch, cedar and pine trees.\n\nHundreds of firefighters, volunteers and emergencies ministry personnel are tackling the fires on the ground\n\nI spot smoke rising from the earth. The forest is smouldering. Small flames are licking at bushes and shrubs. The fire is greatest to one side of the track.\n\n\"We've used a bulldozer is create a fireline, a gap, in order to stop the fire spreading,\" Gennady explains. \"In this gap, we've removed vegetation, like dry moss, leaves and twigs, anything combustible. We have to keep monitoring the situation to make sure that sparks don't cross the fireline.\"\n\nThis natural barrier has slowed the spread of the fire. But it hasn't stopped it completely. I can see burning, too, on the other side of the fireline.\n\nGennady's team has limited resources. A forester called Sergei walks round with a simple pump, extinguishing flames whenever he spots them. But catching all danger points in time is almost impossible. Fire can appear unexpectedly. In the forest one smouldering bush I was looking at suddenly burst into flames.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\n\"Wouldn't it be more effective,\" I ask Gennady, \"to spray the forest from the air with tons of water?\"\n\nHe shakes his head and points to a dead tree trunk lying on its side. Smoke is rising from one end.\n\n\"If the embers are burning inside dead wood like this,\" he tells me, \"then dropping water from a plane or helicopter won't affect that.\"\n\nI can see that one part of the forest has been badly affected by fire - reduced to a charred wasteland strewn with burnt trunks and branches.\n\nSome forest protection personnel have been parachuted to the most remote areas\n\nDue to the forest fires, a state of emergency is in place across Irkutsk region and in other parts of Siberia. Clouds of smoke have been spreading to towns and cities. In Ust-Kut, where I've been staying - one hour's drive from Podymakhino - a rare rainy day has provided temporary relief from the smog. But the smell of burning is returning.\n\n\"There was so much smoke here. At one point we couldn't see the sun through it,\" Ust-Kut pensioner Nadezhda Mikhailovna tells me. \"I'm still sneezing because of all that smoke. We've only had one rainy day in weeks.\"\n\nHow much longer will the forests burn?\n\n\"That depends on Nature,\" Gennady tells me. \"If it stays dry, then the fires will continue. In Siberia forests can burn until rain in October, or the first snow.\"", "At least 20 people have been killed and many more injured in a mass shooting in the Texas city of El Paso.\n\nGovernor Greg Abbott described it as \"one of the most deadly days in the history of Texas\".\n\nThe massacre happened at a Walmart store near the Cielo Vista Mall, a few miles from the US-Mexican border.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The family of a man who died after a crash on Saturday are \"devastated\"\n\nThe family of a man who died following a crash outside Belfast City Cemetery on Saturday have said they are \"devastated\".\n\nSeamus Conlon, 70, was one of three men struck by a stolen Vauxhall Vectra on the Whiterock Road, in the west of the city, shortly after 12:00 BST.\n\nThe crash happened shortly after a funeral in the cemetery. The two other men have been discharged from hospital.\n\nPolice have charged a 32-year-old man with death by dangerous driving.\n\nHe is also charged with causing grievous bodily harm; driving whilst unfit due to drink or drugs and aggravated vehicle taking causing injury or death.\n\nMr Conlon, pictured with his pony and trap, loved horses, his family said\n\nMr Conlon's brother, Herky, paid tribute to the dead man and said he was well-known in west Belfast.\n\nSpeaking to BBC News NI, he described his brother as a \"horsey\" man - known for bringing out the horse and trap and taking the children up the road in it, in the summer holidays.\n\nThe family of Seamus Conlon lay flowers on the Whiterock Road where the 70-year-old grandfather was fatally injured\n\n\"He would have picked up the kids from school. He is one of the quietest, best men you could ever meet.\n\n\"His children, grandchildren and great grandchildren are in a terrible way.\"\n\nThe incident happened shortly after midday on Saturday\n\nMr Conlon said he had been called to the scene by his own son and arrived just in time to see his brother being put in an ambulance.\n\nHe said the crash happened on the anniversary of their mother's death.", "Six days after the Christchurch mosque attack, New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern announced a ban on \"military-style\" semi-automatic rifles, prompting questions in the US.\n\nFollowing a series of mass shootings in the US in recent years, there has been little in the way of sweeping gun-control reforms.\n\nOn the federal level, at least, the interest and attention in new legislation has led to almost no action in decades, despite numerous polls showing widespread public support for measures like strengthened background checks and banning certain types of high-capacity gun magazines and military-style assault rifles.\n\nThe Trump administration has issued a regulatory ban on bump-stock modifications that allow semi-automatic weapons to fire like machine guns, and there have been some tweaks to the background check database for gun-store purchases.\n\nLast March, Donald Trump entertained the notion of more ambitious, \"comprehensive\" legislation, telling senators pro-gun lobbyists had little power over him. But there's been no such talk from the president since.\n\nSorry, we're having trouble displaying this content. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nPart of the reason New Zealand is ability to move quickly, of course, is that it's a parliamentary democracy, ensuring that the government is controlled entirely by one party or a politically compatible coalition. That's not the only explanation for why the US has charted a different course, however.\n\nHere are five big obstacles that stand in the way of the kind of the US taking the kind of quick, major changes to firearm policy being advanced in New Zealand.\n\nA woman shows off a model gun and holster at an NRA fashion show\n\nThe National Rifle Association is one of the most influential interest groups in US politics - not just because of the money it spends on lobbying politicians, but also because of the engagement of its five million members.\n\nIt opposes most proposals to strengthen firearm regulations and is behind efforts at both the federal and state levels to roll back many existing restrictions on gun ownership.\n\nIn 2016 the NRA spent $4m on lobbying and direct contributions to politicians as well as more than $50m on political advocacy, including an estimated $30m to help elect Donald Trump president.\n\nIts overall annual budget is roughly $250m, allocated to educational programmes, gun facilities, membership events, sponsorships, legal advocacy and related efforts.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. A guide to the weapons available in the US and the rate at which they fire\n\nMore than just the numbers, however, the NRA has developed a reputation in Washington as a political force that can make or break even the strongest politicians.\n\nIt grades politicians on their votes and directs its resources and those of its membership - both financial and organisational - to supporting its fiercest advocates and defeating staunch opponents.\n\nAs one former Republican congressman told the New York Times in 2013: \"That was the one group where I said, 'As long as I'm in office, I'm not bucking the NRA.'\" Last March the president said he wasn't \"afraid\" of the NRA - but that was a rhetorical flourish that has not resurfaced.\n\nCould it change? Gun-control groups, backed by wealthy benefactors like former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg, have become more organised in recent years, attempting to match the NRA's political might. They actually outspent the NRA in the 2018 mid-terms, during which some prominent pro-gun-control Democrats won close elections. The NRA's revenues dropped $56m in 2017, driven largely by a decline in membership dues. It still brought in $378.1m that year, however, ensuring that it will be the biggest single player in the firearm debate.\n\nFor the first time in eight years, Democrats have control of the House of Representatives - and their success in the 2018 mid-term congressional elections was fuelled largely by victories in suburban swing districts. In Atlanta, for instance, a gun-control activist won one of the closest races of the election, unseating an incumbent Republican.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. What's Donald Trump said about guns and gun control?\n\nDespite these advances for the party, the House electoral playing field is still tilted toward Republicans, who tend to be for gun rights. Due to the way the lines of House congressional districts are drawn, many by Republican-controlled state legislatures, there are more seats that tilt to the right than the left. While 2018 was a Democratic wave election, political gravity may eventually reassert itself, giving control of the chamber back to conservatives.\n\nDemographics also play a part in the pro-gun sentiment in the House, as there are more rural districts with higher levels of gun ownership than there are urban ones. Racking up big pro-gun-control majorities in urban areas does little to change the political realities in the House.\n\nHouse members sit on the floor \"to demand action on common sense gun legislation\"\n\nFor the moment, however, the initiative is with Democrats, and 2019 marked a significant step forward for gun-control proponents in Congress. One of their first actions was to pass a bill in the House requiring comprehensive background checks of private gun sales, including those that take place at gun shows. Previously the requirement to run the name of gun purchasers in a federal database was limited only to registered gun dealers.\n\nPrior to 2019, attempts to pass new federal laws regulating firearms had been over before they ever really begin, stymied by House Republicans. In June 2016 a group of Democratic politicians staged a sit-in on the floor of the House to protest over the Republican House leadership's decision not to hold a vote on two gun-control bills.\n\nCould it change? The House of Representatives was once one of the biggest obstacles to federal gun-control legislation. It no longer is - for now. With every House seat up for election every two years, and an American electorate that has proven fickle, the door could slam shut again with little advanced notice.\n\nNow that gun-control bills have hopes in the House of Representatives, the Senate - where the rural-urban divide plays itself out on the state level - becomes the biggest obstacle to legislative success. States dominated by big-city voters, such as New York, Massachusetts or California, are outnumbered by rural and Southern states with pro-gun sentiments.\n\nThe rules of the Senate can also thwart efforts to enact more stringent firearm regulation, thanks to the \"filibuster\" - a procedural hurdle that means most major pieces of legislation need the backing of 60 out of 100 senators to pass, rather than a simple 51-vote majority.\n\nIn 2013, following the Newtown, Connecticut, school shooting, it appeared that efforts to strengthen gun-purchase background checks had significant bipartisan support in the Senate. After a concerted lobbying effort by the NRA, however, the bill received only 56 votes in favour, four short of the mark necessary to break the filibuster.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nNo gun-control measure has come close to passage since then. At least for the moment, there appears little chance the Senate will take up the House-passed universal background check bill, despite indications that a majority of senators would vote in favour of it.\n\nCould it change? Mr Trump has been a vocal proponent of doing away with the Senate filibuster, as he views it as an obstacle to enacting his legislative agenda. Several Democratic presidential hopefuls have made similar calls. A majority of senators are on the record against changing the rules, however.\n\nProtesters in front of the Supreme Court in 2008\n\nWith Congress deadlocked on new gun legislation, left-leaning US states have taken a greater role in implementing gun-control measures.\n\nAfter the 2012 school shooting in Newtown, Connecticut, 21 states passed new gun laws, including imposing assault weapons bans in Connecticut, Maryland and New York.\n\nSome of the laws have run up against another barrier, however - the US judicial system. In recent years the Supreme Court has twice ruled that the right to own personal weapons such as handguns is enshrined in the constitution.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. How countries around the world introduced restrictions following mass shootings\n\nThe Second Amendment says that \"a well regulated militia, being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms, shall not be infringed\".\n\nGun-control activists point to the introductory clause as evidence that the amendment was meant primarily to create a \"well regulated\" militia. In 2008, however, a sharply divided court held that the Second Amendment provides a broad right to firearm ownership that prohibits stringent registration requirement for personal weapons.\n\nSince then, lower courts have considered challenges to state-imposed assault weapon bans, registration requirements and open-carry prohibitions.\n\nCould it change? Trump-appointed Justices Neil Gorsuch and Brett Kavanaugh have a record of viewing Second Amendment rights broadly. The president is filling out the ranks of the lower courts with pro-gun-rights judges. If anything, the judiciary is moving to the right on this issue. In the autumn, the Supreme Court will consider a challenge to a New York City law restricting how handgun owners can transport their firearms. Gun-control advocates fear the high court is poised to strike another blow against state and local regulations.\n\nPerhaps the single biggest obstacle to new gun-control laws at the national level is that opponents tend to hold fiercely to their beliefs, while support for new regulation tends to ebb and flow around each new instance of violence.\n\nThe NRA's strategy, and that of pro-gun politicians, is to wait out the storm - to delay legislative efforts until attention turns elsewhere and the outcry fades.\n\nPro-gun politicians offer their thoughts and prayers, observe moments of silence and order flags flown half-staff. Then, in the quiet, legislative efforts are deferred and ultimately derailed.\n\nThe mass student-led protests following the Parkland school shooting focused white-hot attention on the issue for a time, but the marches have died down and the changes to gun laws, at least on the federal level, have been minimal.\n\nShortly after the Las Vegas shooting in October 2017, White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders told reporters \"there's a time and place for a political debate, but now is the time to unite as a country\".\n\nMr Trump said \"we will be talking about gun laws as time goes by\".\n\nAs time goes by. As that song from the film Casablanca says, it's still the same old story.\n\nCould it change? According to one poll during the 2016 presidential campaign, guns were an important issue for both Democrats and Republicans. That could be a reflection of that year's mass shooting in an Orlando nightclub or the first indication of a new trend.", "Heloise Letissier: \"Since I started, it's been non-negotiable: I'm going to be brutally honest.\"\n\nThere aren't many pop shows like the one Christine + The Queens is putting on at festivals around Europe this summer.\n\nSparse and theatrical, it sees the French singer tangle and tussle with her dance troupe, as she brings to life songs of non-conformity and sexual awakening.\n\nAmidst the spartan lighting and plumes of smoke, the muscular, gender-fluid performers occasionally resemble a Caravaggio painting - which, it transpires, is the whole point.\n\n\"I wanted to work the show like a painting,\" says Chris. \"The fireworks create smoke, so it's almost like painting by explosion.\"\n\n\"When I first suggested it, my tech guys wanted to kill me, but maybe it's the fireworks that will kill me in the end,\" she adds, laughing. \"That would be a fantastic gig: She died! She combusted into spontaneous fire!\"\n\nShe's joking, of course, but Chris's shows generate enough heat to power a small village. At one point, a dancer even starts smoking - not with a cigarette pressed to their lips, but with literal smoke billowing from beneath their clothes.\n\nThere are moments of intense sadness, too. On What's Her Face, a song about how Letissier still carries the loneliness of the school playground everywhere she goes, she removes her shirt and turns her back to the audience, isolated and vulnerable amongst a crowd of adoring fans.\n\nBut the star emerges liberated and unapologetic, comfortable in her skin, shrugging off expectations.\n\n\"This is a safe space, free of all judgement,\" she announced as she headlined Glastonbury's Other Stage in June. \"Because if there's no judgment, then anything can happen\".\n\nBBC News caught up with the singer, whose real name is Heloise Letissier, before the show to discuss her \"brutally honest\" lyrics, and why she \"stopped apologising\" for making music on her own terms.\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 Music 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\nIt's eight hours until you headline this stage. How will you fill the time?\n\nIt's a good question, because the odd part of being a performer is that you spend the whole day waiting for night to happen.\n\nI wish I was someone cool who could just enjoy the other gigs and wander around and have a good time; but I'll just be in my dressing room, sitting, listening to music and concentrating on the show.\n\nAfter the show, actually, I've given everything so I'm just, like, having a herbal tea. I have to be honest with you, the performance is so important that before and after doesn't really matter.\n\nYou go to some dark places. Are you drained by the end?\n\nYes, but it's also cathartic. When I was younger, I was always trying to hide the fact that I was very sensitive or fragile, and it was exhausting to hide it. But now that I'm embracing it, it really feels empowering.\n\nThis YouTube post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on YouTube The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. YouTube content may contain adverts. Skip youtube video 2 by BBC Music 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\nA song like Don't Matter tackles subjects like anorexia and self-loathing that are atypical for pop music. What led you down that path?\n\nSince I started to write my first song, it's been non-negotiable: I'm going to be brutally honest.\n\nChristine and the Queens was born out of a crazy desire to finally accept everything and own everything about myself including the dark thoughts, including sadness, including the impossibility of fitting in. And I wouldn't shy away from that… which creates a weird balance.\n\nAnd honestly, you know, Christine and the Queens was also borne out of something that happened between me and drag queens [she was nursed out of depression by a troupe of drag artists after a catastrophic break-up in her early 20s]. Christine is a drag character - it's really generous and fun and entertaining, but it's borne out of wounds.\n\nDrag queens always have stories of their sadness - but they turn it into something that can be shared, and I think that's something that can be really powerful.\n\nYou've been called a spokesperson for the LGBT community. Is that a label you're comfortable with?\n\nI think it's healthier not to see yourself as a spokesperson for anything. As an artist, I do believe in visibility, in speaking out. I believe in that very much. But it's good not to think of yourself as a role model, because it can become so solemn; and a bit pretentious also.\n\nI think so. It's the end of that brutal honesty we were talking about.\n\nThe singer, who identifies as pansexual, deliberately blurs masculine and feminine traits\n\nGlastonbury made great strides towards gender equality this year, but you're the only female headliner on the two main stages. What can be done to get women further up the bill?\n\nI recently did Primavera and that festival was 50/50. It was really an important moment when the line-up came out and we realised. It seems like the more we move forward, the easier it becomes to look back and see how we were lacking equality before.\n\nIt's not natural yet. It's not reflex yet. We have to talk about it, think of it, be careful of it; and I think we're getting towards the right direction. The pop landscape now is filled with different representations of femininity, which I appreciate. You have Solange, you have Billie Eilish, you have Beyoncé. Many different ways to be a woman in the industry, and I think that's really cool.\n\nYou've named three female headliners right there.\n\nYes, and Billie Eilish is playing just before you today.\n\nShe represents something more rough around the edges, less polite. It's a form of femininity I actually do like.\n\nThe next step, would be to get more women in technical jobs - like female sound engineers, female producers.\n\nChris's self-titled second album was partly inspired by Janet Jackson's soul-searching Velvet Rope\n\nYou've actually self-produced both your albums. Is that simply because the music is so personal?\n\nIt's just natural. When I write a song, I always start with the production - building a beat, an aesthetic. I don't have a demo with some piano chords and a melody, it's a fully-shaped song already. So then I just have to finish the production as it is.\n\nActually, at one point, because I was made to feel self-conscious about it, I was like, \"OK, I'm going to try producing with other people,\" but it wasn't working. I kept losing the essence of the track because it was already produced with a clear vision. At some point I decided to stop apologising for that. I like producing. I like to think about sounds and textures.\n\nTalk me through the making of 5 Dollars. How did you achieve such a unique sound?\n\nI had an obsession with Bruce Springsteen when I was writing the second album. I was like, \"Oh, he knows how to write such tender, catchy melodies\" and when I wrote 5 Dollars, I was searching for that type of melody that could be uplifting and sad at the same time.\n\nAnd then for the production, I was actually thinking a lot about Arthur Russell - whose music is really sparse and fragile, but also really fierce. So it was like Bruce Springsteen and Arthur Russell. No biggie.\n\nThis YouTube post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on YouTube The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. YouTube content may contain adverts. Skip youtube video 3 by BBC Radio 1 This article contains content provided by Google YouTube. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Google’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. YouTube content may contain adverts.\n\nYou've been sampling Janet Jackson's Nasty during your show. Was that Minneapolis sound a big influence, too?\n\nI actually watched her Glastonbury set on BBC iPlayer while I was drinking my coffee this morning! But you're right, on my second record, Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis's production on Control and The Velvet Rope - were very inspiring for me.\n\nI don't think a lot of people realise how trailblazing The Velvet Rope was - Janet was talking about gender fluidity and LGBT rights, long before it became an accepted part of pop music.\n\nThat album is a masterpiece. Like you say, it's about gender fluidity but also depression, empowerment. You get to meet a whole woman in every facet she has, and it's not an easy listen because it doesn't give an easy answer.\n\nAt one point she's empowered and at another she's getting abused by a partner - but it's the same woman, trying to make a path in life.\n\nIt's a hugely feminist album and the production is amazing, so I was really inspired by that. I wanted to make an album that could be complex, also. I didn't want to give any easy answers about who I was, because I don't have any.\n\nAnd that's the key, isn't it? No-one is the same person from one day to the next.\n\nNo. Exactly. And I mean, I like cheesy pop. I like pop that's just [sings] \"Be the best person you can be!\" But I want to use the pop vessel to tell stories that could be deeply relatable. Sometimes those stories aren't clear or easy - but life's like that.\n\nChristine and the Queens is playing festivals throughout Europe this summer, and currently appears with Charli XCX on the single Gone.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Last updated on .From the section Rugby League\n\nThe Rugby Football League and Super League have said they are \"appalled\" by clashes between Catalans Dragons and Warrington Wolves fans at the end of their match in Perpignan on Saturday.\n\nA joint statement said there will be an investigation into the trouble.\n\n\"The scenes are alien to Super League and have no place in our game,\" the statement continued.\n\n\"We will be taking firm action to make it clear this behaviour is totally unacceptable.\"\n\nBoth clubs involved also released statements to condemn the incidents that occurred.\n\nCatalans Dragons chairman Bernard Guasch said: \"We are shocked at what happened.\n\n\"The Gilbert Brutus Stadium has always been a festive place and we are saddened with the scenes we saw tonight.\n\n\"We have never witnessed such incidents in 13 years in Super League. We are now waiting for the CCTV footages before making any decision.\"\n\nMeanwhile, Warrington said they were \"deeply disappointed with the incidents\" at the end of Saturday's game.\n\nA statement added: \"The club is working in conjunction with Catalans Dragons and Super League to gather further information, and determine the appropriate action required.\n\n\"The club does not condone this behaviour and strongly believes that scenes like this have no place in our sport.\n\n\"We sincerely believe that this behaviour does not reflect the vast majority of our loyal and supportive fan base following the team in France this weekend.\"\n\nThree players - Catalans duo Sam Tomkins and Michael McIlorum, plus Warrington's Jake Mamo - were sent off as tempers flared on the field between the two sets of players at the end of the match.", "A \"white van man\" is using his artistic talent to transform his dirty vehicle into a work of art.\n\nRick Minns covers the side of his van in specially prepared mud and uses it as a giant canvas for his drawings.\n\nA delivery driver in Norfolk, he is known as Ruddy Muddy and has become a celebrity in the county.\n\n\"It's almost like meditating for me,\" said Mr Minns. \"I think the classic artists... would probably enjoy this idea.\"\n\nHe has raised more than £1,000 for children's charities by auctioning his work.\n\nRuddy Muddy: White Van Gogh Man can be seen on Monday at 1930 on BBC One and then on the iPlayer.", "The Royal Hospital for Sick Children was scheduled to open in July\n\nThe new £150m hospital for children in Edinburgh may have to be \"ripped down\" amid safety concerns, a senior trade union official has warned.\n\nTom Waterson said drainage at the building is a more pressing matter than the ventilation issues which saw the postponement of its official opening.\n\nHe also claimed NHS Lothian had paid millions of pounds in a settlement to help resolve some of the problems.\n\nThe health board said reviews into the delay are already under way.\n\nAs well as focusing on ventilation they will also look at drainage and water systems as a priority.\n\nThe development comes after BBC Scotland revealed NHS Lothian is paying millions of pounds to a private consortium for a hospital it cannot use.\n\nThe new hospital has faced a number of delays\n\nMr Waterson said: \"I've been speaking to senior staff within NHS Lothian over the last two or three weeks and more and more have been coming to speak to me.\n\n\"They are telling us that they have concerns primarily over drainage at the site. People are unable to confirm whether the drainage that has been put in, is in fact fit for purpose.\n\n\"We need to find out what's happening before everyone moves in. We can't wait to find out later on and just keep our fingers crossed.\"\n\nMr Waterson said the problems date back 18 to 36 months when senior staff were \"alerted to shortcomings in the drainage\".\n\nBut despite that the contractors continued to press ahead with construction.\n\nHe added: \"There is a school of thought that they might have to rip it down.\n\n\"How do you fix drainage in a building when it's \"x\" number of feet beneath the building? I'm not an engineer, but it's not going to be easy.\n\nThe father-of-two said he is also speaking as a parent.\n\nThe minister said she is \"accountable\" for what happens in the health service\n\nHe added: \"My daughter had to use the Sick Kids last year and the service was excellent.\n\n\"My concern is that we can't use the new building until we know that it's 100% safe.\n\n\"The Scottish government had three people on the project board from day one. They would have been fully aware of this issue 36 months ago.\"\n\nThe new Royal Hospital for Children and Young People, which will have over 200 beds, was supposed to open in July, but health secretary Jeane Freeman overruled NHS Lothian after last-minute inspections found safety concerns over its ventilation system.\n\nThe project has been marred by disputes between the local NHS board and IHSL Lothian, the consortium responsible for building the hospital.\n\nAlthough the investigation is expected to be finished this year, no date has been offered by the Government or NHS Lothian for when the hospital will open.\n\nMr Waterson, who is the chair of Unison's Scottish health committee, represents 12,500 members in NHS Lothian, including staff who were expected to switch from the existing facility in Edinburgh.\n\nThe new hospital will provide care for children and young people\n\nA Scottish government spokeswoman told The Herald: \"The health secretary has made clear that her greatest responsibility is the safety of patients, and for this reason decided to delay the move of patients, staff and services to the new hospital.\n\n\"Patients and carers have been contacted directly to confirm appointment arrangements and a dedicated helpline remains in place.\n\n\"She recognises that many staff share her frustration following the announcement of the delay.\"\n\nThe spokeswoman confirmed Ms Freeman will meet again with NHS Lothian staff representatives in the coming weeks.\n\nProf Alex McMahon, nurse director at NHS Lothian, said: \"There are a number of independent reviews and investigations underway to verify and provide assurance that all aspects of the Royal Hospital for Children and Young People, the Department of Clinical Neurosciences, and Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services meet the appropriate standards before it becomes operational.\n\n\"The decision to delay the move followed the identification of a problem with ventilation in critical care. Given the pause in occupation, the commissioned reviews will focus on ventilation and will also look at drainage and water systems as a priority.\n\n\"An Oversight Board, made up of Scottish government, NHS Lothian, National Services Scotland and Scottish Futures Trust, has been established in order to provide co-ordinated advice on the readiness of the hospital to open and on the migration of services to the new facility.\n\n\"The reviews and subsequent reports will be provided to the cabinet secretary for health and NHS Lothian.\"", "From the BBC's Lauren Turner in El Paso:\n\n“Yesterday I was in shock. Today, my heart is hurting.”\n\nGilda Baeza Ortega is looking out at the Walmart in disbelief from across the car park.\n\n“There are 19 bodies still in there,” she says, barely comprehending the fact. “I feel like I’m connected to those people, and their families.”\n\nShe had been on the way to the store yesterday morning then decided to go for breakfast with her parents instead.\n\nBut it’s not just that that makes her feel so close to what’s happened.\n\n“It’s the fact he was targeting us. I’m a Mexican American and very proud of that. To me that is the biggest wound,” she says.\n\nPeople have been coming here all day to lay flowers, a cross, even a Rubik’s cube, in tribute.\n\nSome people are also asking police when they can retrieve their cars from Walmart’s car park, where vehicles with Mexican number plates sit alongside those with American plates. One officer told me it could be eight hours from now.\n\nIt’s a popular place for people to come shopping from Mexico and it means many now can’t make the return journey, their passports being locked in their vehicles.\n\nWilla Melendez says with El Paso being so close to the Mexican border, “it doesn’t feel like we’re two countries - we go back and forth”.\n\nShe adds “we’re a city of diversity - so this hurts”.\n\nEveryone talks of what a friendly place it is, how everyone knows each other. A taxi driver talks of the “six degrees of separation” here. She's dreading the list of names coming out, worried she knows one of the victims.\n\nEveryone talks of how safe El Paso is too.\n\nThey can’t quite believe that this has been visited on them - on what should have been just another ordinary Saturday morning at the supermarket.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Franky Zapata has become the first person to cross the English Channel on a flyboard.\n\nFrench inventor Franky Zapata has made the first-ever successful Channel crossing on a jet-powered flyboard.\n\nMr Zapata, 40, took off from Sangatte, near Calais, at 06:17 GMT on Sunday and landed in St Margaret's Bay in Dover.\n\nThe invention, powered by a kerosene-filled backpack, made the 22-mile (35.4-km) journey in 22 minutes.\n\nMr Zapata, a former jet-ski champion, had failed in his first attempt to cross the Channel on 25 July after complications with refuelling.\n\n\"We made a machine three years ago... and now we've crossed the Channel, it's crazy,\" he told reporters, before breaking into tears.\n\n\"Whether this is a historic event or not, I'm not the one to decide that, time will tell,\" he added.\n\nThe French inventor successfully negotiated a refuelling stop and made the crossing to Dover\n\nMr Zapata told crowds in Dover that he had reached speeds of up to 170km/h (106mph) during the flight.\n\nHis greatest challenge had been to refuel by switching to another backpack during the crossing.\n\nIn his previous attempt, the Frenchman fell into the sea before reaching a boat that was carrying a second backpack.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Inventor Franky Zapata gets the Bastille Day parade off to a flying start\n\nA larger boat and platform was used for this latest crossing, with an escort by three helicopters.\n\nMr Zapata received widespread attention during the annual Bastille Day parade in Paris last month, when he took part in a military display on his futuristic flyboard.\n\nFrance's military has also sought to develop the technology for itself, and recently gave his company, Z-AIR, a €1.3m ($1.4m; £1.28m) grant.\n\nIn an interview with France Inter radio, French Defence Minister Florence Parly said the flyboard could serve several purposes, \"for example as a flying logistical platform or, indeed, as an assault platform\".", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. \"Vicky\" says she is proof of the crime\n\nA woman conceived by rape wants her father brought to justice in a so-called \"victimless prosecution\", in one of the first cases of its kind, the BBC has learned.\n\n\"Vicky\" says her mother was under the age of consent when a family friend she claims was in his 30s raped her.\n\nShe says her birth is proof of the crime and wants DNA testing to convict her dad of unlawful sexual intercourse.\n\nWest Midlands Police says the law does not recognise her as a victim.\n\nVicky - not her real name - from Birmingham, was adopted in the 1970s at seven months old.\n\nAged 18, she began searching for her birth mother and discovered from a social worker and her social services records that her conception was a result of rape.\n\n\"My birth mum had been 13 - a schoolgirl - and my birth dad was a family friend who was in his 30s,\" Vicky explains to the BBC's Victoria Derbyshire programme.\n\n\"The records said she'd gone to babysit at his house, and he raped her. It says in seven different places in the files that it was rape.\n\n\"It states his name and address, that social services, police, health workers knew - but nothing was done about it.\n\n\"It made me feel angry, devastated for my birth mum. For me.\"\n\nVicky managed to reunite with her birth mother, describing the moment as \"very surreal\".\n\nThen, years later, as historical sex abuse cases began to be covered by news outlets in the wake of the Jimmy Savile scandal, she decided to act. She had always thought it was wrong that her birth father had not been prosecuted.\n\n\"It was then that I thought, 'I've got DNA evidence, because I am DNA evidence. I'm a walking crime scene. And it's all written in the files. Surely people are going to take me seriously'.\n\n\"I wanted him to be held accountable. I wanted justice for my mum, I wanted justice for me. The ramifications of what he chose to do have shaped my entire life.\"\n\nHer birth mother, not wanting to relive the ordeal and having been let down by police originally, decided she did not wish to report the rape again herself - but supported her daughter pursuing it.\n\nVicky wanted police to consider a so-called \"victimless prosecution\" for unlawful sexual intercourse with a minor, commonly referred to as statutory rape. She says they could use DNA evidence and birth certificates to prove the ages.\n\nVictimless prosecutions, officially termed evidence-based, can be used in domestic abuse or rape cases, when the victim has withdrawn or declines to give a statement but it is in the public interest to pursue a prosecution, CPS guidance says.\n\nBut police, social services, solicitors and MPs have told her she is \"not the victim\" and so no case can be brought, she says.\n\nA victim is defined by the government as a person who has suffered emotional, physical or mental harm as the direct result of a crime.\n\n\"Because of that crime, I am alive. My whole life's been dictated by it, but no-one will see me as a victim.\n\n\"I am living, breathing proof of a child rapist and nobody is interested. How is that okay?\" she says.\n\nLabour MP Jess Phillips says it is in the public interest for the alleged perpetrator to face trial\n\nLabour MP for Birmingham Yardley, Jess Phillips, says children conceived through rape should \"absolutely\" be considered victims.\n\n\"The sort of emotional effect that would have on a person, their relationships going forward, on their lives, on how they feel about themselves, it undoubtedly will have affected them.\n\n\"I thought we had won this argument, the idea you don't have to be a direct victim of abuse - we would never suggest in a domestic violence situation that a child who had never suffered any violence themselves was not a victim of the crime happening around them - to me it's exactly the same test that is met.\"\n\nVicky tracked down her presumed father, wearing a secret camera to record their conversation.\n\nShe says he did not deny or confirm having sex with her mother.\n\n\"This could be one of the few historical cases where there's actually irrefutable DNA evidence.\n\n\"I want the police to demand a DNA test. I want the police and social services to apologise for their failures, and to learn. And I want the definition of victim to be reviewed.\"\n\nMs Phillips said the case was definitely in the public interest, as the alleged perpetrator was still alive.\n\n\"People who are alleged to have abused over the years, that doesn't just magically go away - these people are a risk to society. Not only do victims deserve justice - regardless of how long ago your abuse was - the authorities should have a prime interest in keeping people safe.\"\n\nVicky said: \"This has nearly beaten me down. Being adopted comes with so many difficulties, and the trauma of this has affected every part of my life.\n\n\"But I will persevere because I know this is so wrong. And I want justice.\"\n\nChief Superintendent Pete Henrick, head of West Midlands Police's public protection unit, said the force did not underestimate the psychological affects Vicky had \"no doubt suffered\".\n\nHe said the force had no record of a rape allegation in 1975 and, as such, no record of an investigation, and the alleged victim did not wish to co-operate when Vicky approached them in 2014.\n\nA statement said: \"In light of this, she asked whether she could be identified as a victim herself and if the case could be progressed on those grounds. The law does not recognise her as a victim in these circumstances. We liaised with the CPS and were advised they would not support a prosecution.\n\n\"Our handling of the case was scrutinised by both our Professional Standards Department and the Independent Police Complaints Commission at the time, and both agreed the police action and conclusion were appropriate.\"\n\nBirmingham City Council said: \"Since April 2018, children's social care services in Birmingham have been provided by Birmingham Children's Trust. Since then we have had no contact with \"Vicky\".\n\n\"We would, of course, be very happy to meet with her if she would find that valuable. It is certainly the case that the way allegations and incidents of harm to children are handled now is very different than was the case in 1975. We would be happy to discuss this with her when we meet.\"\n\nUpdate 5 August 2019: This report has been amended following updated information supplied by West Midlands Police.\n\nFollow the BBC's Victoria Derbyshire programme on Facebook and Twitter - and see more of our stories here.", "The Kurdish authorities are pleading with Western governments for support in dealing with foreign Islamic State fighters, their wives and children.\n\nAfter fighting the Islamic State group for five years, the Kurds are now having to manage prisons and camps full of radical IS supporters.\n\nAmongst them are thousands of women who fled their birth countries to become IS brides, and around 8,000 children.\n\nConditions in the camps are harsh and the atmosphere is tense. Stacey Dooley has been to northern Syria to visit some of them.\n\nAvailable to UK users only.\n\nWatch Panorama: Stacey Meets the IS Brides on Monday 5 August at 8:30pm on BBC One and on the iPlayer afterwards.\n\nThis video has been updated for editorial reasons.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Donald Trump spoke to reporters before boarding Air Force One\n\nA shooting at a supermarket in the US state of Texas that left 20 dead is being investigated as domestic terrorism, officials say.\n\nA 21-year-old white man was arrested at the scene of the attack in the city of El Paso, near the US-Mexico border.\n\nHe is believed to have posted an online document calling the attack a response to \"the Hispanic invasion of Texas\".\n\nPolice on Sunday said he had been charged with capital murder, meaning he could face the death penalty.\n\nUS President Donald Trump has said \"perhaps more has to be done\" to prevent mass shootings following the El Paso attack and another in Ohio 13 hours later in which nine people, including the gunman's sister, were killed.\n\n\"Hate has no place in our country, and we are going to take care of it,\" he told reporters on Sunday. \"This has been going on for years, for years and years in our country and we have to get it stopped.\"\n\nThe president went on to link both attacks to a \"mental illness problem\".\n\n\"If you look at both of these cases, this is mental illness. These are people who are very, very seriously mentally ill,\" he said.\n\nBut critics argue that the roots of the two massacres lie in the president's language about immigrants and Mexicans in particular, and his opposition to gun control.\n\nThe El Paso gunman opened fire on a crowded Walmart on Saturday with an assault-style rifle and surrendered after being confronted by police officers outside the store. Twenty-six people were injured in the shooting.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Police were filmed responding to the shootings\n\n\"We're treating this as a domestic terrorist case,\" John Bash, the US Attorney for the Western District of Texas, told a news conference on Sunday.\n\nHe said the attack appeared \"to be designed to intimidate a civilian population, to say the least\".\n\nThe suspect has been named by US media as Patrick Crusius, a resident of Allen, in the Dallas area, about 650 miles (1,046km) east of El Paso. It is not yet clear how long before the attack he had gone to the city.\n\nHe is believed to be the author of a text posted on 8chan, an online message board frequently used by the far right, which describes a \"cultural and ethnic replacement brought on by an invasion\" in alluding to Hispanic people in the US.\n\nThe four-page document, reportedly posted some 20 minutes before police received the first emergency call from the Walmart, also expresses support for the gunman who killed 51 people in Christchurch, New Zealand, in March.\n\nHe has been co-operating with investigators, according to police, and has reportedly told them he acted alone.\n\nThe shooting, believed to be the eighth deadliest in modern US history, took place in a city where most of the population of 680,000 is of Hispanic descent.\n\nThe victims have not yet been named but Mexico's President Andrés Manuel López Obrador said six Mexican nationals were among the dead and seven others were injured.\n\nSecurity camera images said to be of the attacker show an armed man in a dark T-shirt wearing eye glasses and what appear to be ear protectors.\n\nFootage of the gunman was filmed by security cameras\n\nReports of an active shooter were received at 10:39 local time (16:39 GMT), and law enforcement officers were on the scene within six minutes, police said.\n\nThe Walmart, near the Cielo Vista Mall, was full of shoppers buying back-to-school supplies at the time of the shooting, and witnesses described scenes of chaos as customers fled for their lives.\n\n\"People were panicking and running, saying that there was a shooter,\" Kianna Long told Reuters news agency. \"They were running close to the floor, people were dropping on the floor.\"\n\nMs Long said she and her husband ran through a stock room before taking cover with other customers.\n\n\"Yesterday I was in shock. Today, my heart is hurting.\"\n\nGilda Baeza Ortega is looking at the Walmart building in disbelief from across a car park. She had been on the way to the store, but then decided to go for breakfast with her parents instead.\n\nBut it is not just that that makes her feel so close to what has happened.\n\n\"It's the fact he was targeting us. I'm a Mexican-American and very proud of that. To me that is the biggest wound.\"\n\nPeople have been coming here all day to lay flowers, a cross, even a Rubik's cube, in tribute.\n\nSome are also asking police when they can retrieve their cars from Walmart's car park. It is a popular place for people to come shopping from Mexico, and many now cannot make the return journey as their passports are locked in their vehicles.\n\nEveryone talks of what a friendly place El Paso is, how everyone knows each other. A taxi driver mentions the \"six degrees of separation\" here. She is dreading the list of names coming out, worried she knows one of the victims.\n\nDemocratic presidential candidate Beto O'Rourke, an El Paso native, told CNN that Mr Trump's anti-immigrant rhetoric had stoked divisions: \"He's an open avowed racist and is encouraging more racism in this country.\"\n\nAlso on CNN, New Jersey Senator Cory Booker, another Democratic presidential hopeful, said: \"Donald Trump is responsible for this. He is responsible because he is stoking fears and hatred and bigotry.\"\n\nBut acting White House chief of staff Mick Mulvaney rejected the Democrats' allegations and attributed the attacks to \"sick\" individuals, saying on ABC: \"There's no benefit here in trying to make this a political issue, this is a social issue and we need to address it as that.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. After the Las Vegas attack in October 2017 the BBC looked at how US mass shootings are getting worse\n\nMr Trump, who has made curbing illegal immigration one of the key points of his presidency, has previously made derogatory comments about Mexican migrants and has called large groups of migrants trying to reach the US an \"invasion\".\n\nIn recent weeks, Mr Trump has been accused of racism after his attacks on members of Congress who are members of racial or ethnic minorities.\n\nMexican Foreign Minister Marcelo Ebrard said his government planned to seek legal measures to protect Mexicans and Mexican-Americans in the US.\n\nSpeaking at a news conference on Sunday, Mr Ebrard said the attorney general was considering litigation claiming that terrorism was committed against Mexicans in the shooting. Such an action could lead to the extradition of the gunman, he said.\n\n\"For Mexico, this individual is a terrorist,\" he told reporters.\n\nThe El Paso shooting fits a growing and disturbing trend of far-right violence internationally.\n\nLike the attack in Christchurch, the suspected attacker fits a particular profile - an individual who may have acted alone but who inhabited an international online subculture of extremism, one in which others incite and encourage violent acts.\n\nA document which authorities have linked to the attacker was posted online and was characteristic in its claims about population replacement (in New Zealand it was Muslims, in El Paso, Hispanics).\n\nAnd again, as in Christchurch, just before he acted the individual allegedly posted his intentions on the online forum 8chan. The pressure may grow now to act against such platforms and also for the authorities to take this growing threat more seriously, especially in the US.\n\nDid you witness what happened? If it is safe to do so please email haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also contact us in the following ways:", "The Coellira ran onto rocks at Vee Skerries\n\nA coastguard rescue helicopter has airlifted 15 crew members from a fishing vessel off Shetland.\n\nThe 30m vessel, Coelleira, made a distress call after running onto rocks at Vee Skerries near Papa Stour, at about 01:30.\n\nThe RNLI Aith lifeboat was called out, along with Sumburgh and Lerwick Coastguard Rescue Teams.\n\nNone of the crew appear to be injured and they are being cared for by the Fishermen's Mission.\n\nA Marine and Coastguard Agency (MCA) emergency towing vessel has been sent to the scene.\n\nThe MCA has said no pollution problems have been reported.\n\nThe RNLI Aith lifeboat stood by the stricken vessel overnight\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Nora's disappearance is described as \"completely out of character\"\n\nA 15-year-old girl from London has gone missing while on holiday in Malaysia, a friend of her family has said.\n\nNora Quoirin, who has learning difficulties, arrived there with her family on Saturday for a two week \"trip of a lifetime\".\n\nThey were staying in the town of Seremban, on the edge of rainforest near Kuala Lumpur.\n\nWhen her parents awoke on Sunday morning they found her missing and the window of her hotel room open.\n\nCatherine Morrison, a friend of the family, estimated that by noon UK time she had already been missing for 12 hours.\n\nNora went missing the day after she and her family arrived in Malaysia\n\nA spokesman for the Irish Department of Foreign Affairs said: \"We are aware of the case and providing consular assistance.\"\n\nMalaysian Police are said to be using sniffer dogs in the search for Nora.\n\nAlthough her family have been resident in the UK for at least two decades, she is thought to have been travelling on an Irish passport.\n\nMs Morrison described the disappearance, which was discovered at about 06:30 local time, as \"completely out of character\" and said her parents were \"frantic\".\n\nShe said: \"They had just arrived - it was going to be a trip of a lifetime.\n\n\"They checked into their hotel, the Dusun - it looked beautiful with little cottages and an infinity pool.\n\n\"They went to bed, but this morning Nora was not in her room and the window was open.\"\n\nNora has learning difficulties and going missing was completely out of character, Ms Morrison added.\n\n\"Police are looking for her with sniffer dogs. The hotel have been really helpful,\" she said.", "John Flint is giving up the role he held for 18 months \"by mutual agreement with the board\"\n\nThe chief executive of HSBC has stepped down after the bank said it needed a change in leadership to address a \"challenging global environment\".\n\nJohn Flint is giving up the role he has held for a year-and-a-half \"by mutual agreement with the board\".\n\nHe will immediately cease his day-to-day responsibilities at HSBC, but will help with the transition as Noel Quinn takes over as interim chief executive.\n\nChairman Mark Tucker thanked Mr Flint for his \"commitment\" and \"dedication\".\n\nHowever, he said: \"In the increasingly complex and challenging global environment in which the bank operates, the board believes a change is needed to meet the challenges that we face and to capture the very significant opportunities before us.\"\n\nHSBC made the surprise announcement as it reported a 15.8% rise in pre-tax profit to $12.4bn (£10.2bn) for the six months to 30 June.\n\nMr Flint, who has worked at HSBC for 30 years, said: \"I have agreed with the board that today's good interim results indicate that this is the right time for change, both for me and the bank.\"\n\nThe 51-year-old ran the bank's retail and wealth management business before taking over as chief executive last year. At that time, Mr Flint was seen as a safe choice for the top job.\n\nHSBC portrays itself as a conservative bank. Unlike some rivals, it has never pursued the wilder excesses of investment banking, and has a proud record of appointing its chief executive and chairman from within. It is part of the establishment in Asia and the West, and makes its money from the giant trade flows between.\n\nWith a 30-year track record at the bank, John Flint appeared the safest of hands when appointed 18 months ago. The bank's shares have fallen during his tenure, but the increasing trade tensions between America and China explain most of the fall. Mr Flint will be a \"good leaver\" - meaning he keeps his entitlement to most of his share options - and which rules out any idea his departure is linked to misconduct.\n\nMr Flint was regarded as the favourite of his predecessor as chief executive, Stuart Gulliver - so it is possible that Mark Tucker, HSBC's chairman, has simply decided he wants his own man in the job.\n\nBut the Huawei connection, although not confirmed by HSBC, cannot be discounted. In seeking to keep in the good books of the US authorities - which had a monitor embedded at the bank - HSBC provided the information that allowed America to apply for the extradition of Meng Wanzhou, Huawei's chief financial officer. That cannot have pleased Beijing, and HSBC is reliant on China's goodwill as much as America's. Mr Flint may have been the necessary sacrifice.\n\nCommenting on the current environment, HSBC said \"the outlook has changed\".\n\nIt said that US interest rates were now expected to fall rather than rise and \"geopolitical issues could impact a significant number of our major markets\".\n\nIt added: \"In the near term, the nature and impact of the UK's departure from the European Union remain highly uncertain.\"\n\nMr Flint has a 12-month notice period, but it is not clear when his departure date will be, because he has \"agreed to remain available to HSBC\".\n\nHSBC has also granted Mr Flint \"good leaver\" status, which means he will be entitled to any stock options that vest after he exits the bank, provided he does not work at a competitor for two years.\n\nThe bank said it has begun a search to find a new chief executive and \"will be considering internal and external candidates\".", "Last updated on .From the section Sport\n\nMohammed 'MoAuba' Harkous won the 2019 Fifa eWorld Cup after beating Saudi Arabia's reigning champion Mosaad 'Msdossary' Aldossary 3-2 in the final.\n\nThe German outperformed 31 other players at the event at London's O2 Arena to take home the title and top prize of $250,000 (£205,600).\n\n\"It's crazy, I can't believe it,\" said MoAuba. \"I had such a hard bracket but I beat them all.\"\n\nHeading into the competition MoAuba was not one of the favourites but he beat the three highest-ranked PS4 players on his way to the final before taking down Msdossary, who until that point was undefeated, to become Germany's first ever Fifa eWorld Cup champion.\n\nIn possibly the game of the tournament he overcame Argentina's Nicolas 'nicolas99fc' Villalba in a penalty shootout in the semi-final.\n\nThe grand final kicked off on the Xbox One, the home platform of Msdossary, ending in a 1-1 draw. MoAuba then won 2-1 on PS4 to clinch the title.\n\nCrystal Palace's Wilfried Zaha was on hand to present the trophy to MoAuba, with other football stars such as former Manchester United and Tottenham forward Dimitar Berbatov also attending the event.\n• None The best Fifa players to compete for eWorld Cup at O2 Arena\n\nThe 32 players were split into four groups across the two platforms, with 16 Xbox One players and the 16 PS4 players.\n\nThe top four players from each group advanced to the last 16, where it became a knockout.\n\nDuring these matches Xbox players only played other Xbox players and PS4 players only played other PS4 players.\n\nThe last remaining Xbox player and PS4 player played two games in the final across both platforms.", "Deaf and hard of hearing customers can now instantly access a British Sign Language interpreter via a video link in some Belfast City Council buildings.\n\nEoghan Fee and his wife Kristina, who are both deaf, took a trip to Belfast Zoo with their two sons to use the new facility.\n\nThe SignVideo scheme will run for 12 months as a pilot project.", "Riga, 1942: Vaira aged five - she soon became a refugee\n\nThe little girl who fled from war-torn Latvia spent more than 50 years in exile - but soon after returning she became president.\n\nNot only that, Vaira Vike-Freiberga became the first female head of a former Soviet bloc state.\n\n\"My parents never let me forget that I am Latvian,\" she told the BBC.\n\nThe Baltic state was invaded by Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union during World War Two.\n\nThe Germans swept into Latvia in July 1941 and took many Soviet prisoners\n\nShe has vivid memories of that chaotic time, especially 1944, when Russian troops - the communist Red Army - marched back into Latvia.\n\n\"I was impressed by the ones with the red flags and the fists. So at one point, as one of them marched by, I raised my fist in the air and shouted 'hurrah!',\" she says.\n\n\"At that point I saw my mother lean against the lamppost, absolutely stricken, with tears streaming down her cheeks, saying 'Please, child, don't do that. This is a very sad day for Latvia'.\"\n\nThe family's odyssey westward took Vaira, aged seven, first to devastated Germany. Then they moved to French-ruled Morocco, then to Canada.\n\nShe did not return to Latvia until 1998, aged 60, and became president within eight months.\n\nVaira (circled) with classmates at a refugee camp school in Lübeck, north Germany, 1949\n\nVaira remembers her father listening to the BBC World Service in 1944, desperately trying to fathom where the war was heading.\n\nLater that year her parents made the agonising decision to leave Latvia.\n\n\"We took the ship on New Year's night of 1945. It was a transport ship with troops and with armaments and of course if it gets torpedoed it's going to blow it up. But they have taken a certain number of civilians with them, who also want to flee from communism at any price. Latvians gathered on the deck and sang the Latvian anthem.\"\n\nThe family reached the refugee camps being set up across Germany. The conditions were very harsh and her baby sister fell ill with pneumonia and died, just 10 months old.\n\nWithin a year Vaira's mother gave birth again, to a baby boy. But for Vaira the event was overshadowed by another cruel life lesson.\n\n\"A young girl of 18 was lying in the same room with my mother. She had given birth to a little girl and didn't want her. She didn't want to name her child and she didn't want to have anything to do with it, because the child was the result of a group rape from Russian soldiers,\" she says.\n\n\"Each time the nurses brought that poor child to the mother, she would turn her face to the wall and cry and refuse to talk to her. The nurses gave a name to the girl - Mara, which was my sister's name.\n\n\"And I thought that was really too much, because here was a Mara who was born, who was surviving and who was absolutely not wanted in this world. And our Mara, whom we had wanted so much, was taken from us. I realised that life was really very strange and certainly very unfair.\"\n\nAt the age of 11, Vaira had to move again, to Casablanca in French Morocco.\n\n\"We were thrown out, as it were, from a truck in the middle of the night in what turned out to be a small, temporary village. It was a world in miniature,\" she says.\n\n\"There were French people there, there were all sorts of foreigners, Spaniards from the time of the Civil War, Italians and old Russian émigrés from the European quarter in Shanghai.\"\n\nOne of her father's Arab co-workers said she was ready to be married off, though she was just a child.\n\n\"Dad would come home and he's saying, 'He's giving me 15,000 francs dowry. And he offered me first two donkeys and cattle and then later he kept upping the price and I said, but she's just a child and she has to go to school.' He said, 'That's all right, we're willing to let her finish school'.\"\n\nHer parents laughed at that, but Vaira was alarmed.\n\nSoon however the family moved to Canada.\n\nVaira got a job at a bank, aged 16, and went to night school. She eventually made it to the University of Toronto. And while there, she met the man she would marry, Imants Freibergs, another Latvian exile.\n\nShe studied psychology and was eventually awarded a PhD, in 1965. But she says her choice of subject was simply \"the fickle finger of fate\".\n\nVaira at the University of Toronto in 1957\n\n\"The registrar had a list of subjects and I looked at it upside down and I saw something, a long word starting with P and ending in Y, and I put my finger on it and said, 'Sir, this is the one I want to take'.\"\n\nShe learned quickly though that women were tolerated, rather than welcomed.\n\n\"Our dear professor at one point in a seminar said, 'Yes, well, we actually have three married women here in this PhD programme, it's such a waste, because they're going to get married and they're going to have children, and they're actually taking up a place that a boy could have taken who will become a real scientist.'\n\n\"And all of us girls in that seminar, we remembered that for the rest of our lives.\"\n\nShe says they resolved to show that sexist professor \"that we women can succeed even better than his favourite boys\".\n\nVaira spent 33 years at the University of Montreal. She became fluent in five languages and wrote 10 books.\n\nIn 1998, aged 60, she was elected professor emeritus and decided to retire.\n\nBut one evening her phone rang. It was the prime minister of Latvia. And Vaira got the offer to head a new Latvian Institute.\n\nShe was told they wanted \"somebody actually from the diaspora who is multilingual, understands Western mentality, but also with good understanding of Latvian culture\".\n\nBut almost immediately she found herself caught up in Latvia's presidential race.\n\nShe gave up her Canadian passport to run for election and, just eight months after returning, she became Latvia's first female president.\n\nVaira at her second-term inauguration as president in 2003, with husband Imants Freibergs\n\nAt one point her approval ratings soared to 85%.\n\n\"I was somebody who was not interested in making money or anything like that, but simply in doing a job.\n\n\"And there was great enthusiasm amongst certain newspapers to find things to criticise, for instance, that I was a great spendthrift, having lived a life of luxury in the West. Complete fabrications,\" she says.\n\n\"I discovered that if you couldn't trust the media, you have to go directly and speak to the people.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The BBC's Joe Lynam has a look at how the EU membership has been for one of its smallest members\n\nShe was instrumental in Latvia joining both Nato and the European Union in 2004.\n\n\"Being a woman was an advantage. I remember at the Istanbul Nato summit, President [George W] Bush took me by the elbow, because I had high heels and it was a gravel path, and we walked slowly along.\n\n\"I did all I could to tell him how important it was to enlarge Nato and to make sure that Latvia was included and how much progress we had made and how full of goodwill we were.\n\n\"We were walking slowly and enjoying ourselves and I was doing my best to pour as much Latvian propaganda into his ear as I could. I didn't think it hurt at all,\" she says.\n\nVaira's second term ended in 2007, a few months before her 70th birthday. She co-founded the Club de Madrid - an organisation of former leaders, with a mandate to promote democratic leadership and governance.\n\nShe also has a particular focus on women's empowerment. Still haunted by that professor in Canada, she knows the battle is far from won.\n\nVaira Vike-Freiberga talks to Lyse Doucet in the first episode of the new series of Her Story Made History. You can listen to it now on BBC Sounds.", "Prime Minister Boris Johnson has announced a one-off cash boost of £1.8bn for NHS hospitals in England.\n\nOf this, almost £1bn will be available immediately to go towards new equipment and upgrades to 20 hospitals.\n\nWriting in the Sunday Times, Mr Johnson said he was \"determined to deliver\" the promises of the Brexit referendum campaign and increase NHS spending.\n\nBut Labour said it fell \"significantly short\" of the amount needed by the NHS and would not reverse years of cuts.\n\nThe money is coming from the Treasury and is not a re-allocation of funds from the Department of Health.\n\nIt is on top of an extra £20bn a year by 2023 announced by former prime minister Theresa May last year.\n\nAround £850m - spread over five years - will go towards funding the 20 hospital upgrades that Mr Johnson promised in his first speech as PM outside Downing Street.\n\nThe remaining money is expected to help clear a backlog of existing upgrade work and infrastructure projects.\n\nHe will formally announce the funding on Monday, when he is expected to identify the hospitals which will get money to upgrade wards and repair buildings.\n\nBut the health think tank the Nuffield Trust said the latest funding, which is less than 1% of NHS England's annual budget, would \"only be a fraction of what it would cost to really upgrade 20 hospitals\".\n\nNigel Edwards, the Nuffield Trust's chief executive, added that it it was a \"down payment on the staggering £6bn needed to clear the backlog\" of NHS maintenance.\n\nHowever, he said it was encouraging to see money put towards capital funding - used for equipment and repairs - \"which will help stop hospitals deteriorating even further\".\n\nIn October, NHS Digital figures showed that NHS trusts had a backlog of around £6bn of repairs or replacements that needed carrying out.\n\nThe NHS in England can hardly do anything other than welcome new money from the Treasury to invest in hospital buildings and launch new construction projects.\n\nBut the £1bn this year to clear the backlog should be set against a total of £6bn which hospital leaders and think tanks believe is the total of work outstanding, including repairs and refurbishment of dilapidated facilities.\n\nOn top of that is £850m for 20 hospitals to carry out major upgrades, but spread over five years.\n\nThe latest announcement covers capital spending as opposed to day-to-day running costs.\n\nAfter raids on these capital budgets to prop up NHS frontline services in recent years, health service staff will feel there is some way to go to make up the lost ground - and only a small step forward has been taken.\n\nSorry, your browser is unable to display this content. Please upgrade to a more recent browser.\n\nIf you can't see the NHS Tracker, click or tap here.\n\nWriting in the Sunday Times, Mr Johnson praised the \"astonishing achievements\" of the NHS, but highlighted the staffing pressures, along with the delays and cancellations facing patients.\n\n\"Which is why I am so determined to deliver now on the promises of that 2016 referendum campaign: not just to honour the will of the people, but to increase the cash available for this amazing national institution,\" he said.\n\nIn the run-up to the Brexit referendum, a campaign bus used by Vote Leave claimed the UK sent £350m a week to the European Union and suggested the money could instead be spent on the NHS.\n\nHowever, analysis by the BBC found that claim to be misleading.\n\nIn his column on Sunday, Mr Johnson wrote: \"It is thanks to this country's strong economic performance that we are now able to announce £1.8bn more for the NHS to buy vital new kit and confirm new upgrades for 20 hospitals across the country.\"\n\nHe said the government was also starting work on plans to \"tackle the injustice\" of social care - a problem \"that has been shirked for decades\".\n\nThe PM added that Health Secretary Matt Hancock and Chancellor Sajid Javid had already met the head of NHS England, Simon Stevens, as they wanted to ensure the cash \"gets through to the right places\".\n\nWriting in the Sun on Sunday, Mr Hancock said the money would boost hospitals across the country - from Cornwall to Newcastle - by providing new intensive care wards, children's units and mental health facilities.\n\nSaying that the upgrades \"are just the start\", he added that the government wanted to take a more \"strategic\" approach to capital spending, and move away from \"piecemeal and uncoordinated\" decisions.\n\nThere are also expected to be extra funding settlements for Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland, as part of the Barnett formula - which is used to decide how much devolved governments will receive when funding is increased in areas such as health and education in England.\n\nAround £115bn was spent on the NHS England budget last year.\n\nResponding to the funding announcement, shadow health secretary Jonathan Ashworth said the £1.8bn pledged fell \"significantly short of what's needed to provide quality, safe care to patients after years of Tory cuts\".\n\nHe added: \"Tory ministers have repeatedly cut capital investment budgets in recent years. These smash-and-grab raids have meant over £4bn slashed and seen the NHS repair bill spiral to £6bn, putting patient safety seriously at risk.\"\n\nHe told Sky's Sophy Ridge On Sunday programme the investment promised by Mr Johnson might not actually take place, claiming only £100m of £2.5bn of health spending announcements over the past two years had been delivered.\n\nLiberal Democrat health spokeswoman Baroness Jolly said Mr Johnson's pledge would \"not be worth the paper it's written on\" if and when a no-deal Brexit took place.\n\nCancer Research UK said the investment would go \"some way to address the immense strain\" the NHS is under but said the staffing shortage should take priority.\n\nPolicy director Emma Greenwood added: \"Upgrades to hospitals are welcome but the NHS is experiencing a staffing crisis. And it's impossible to diagnose more cancers at an early stage without the right staff.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. 'We are scared to stay here' - Tourists react to terror threat alert\n\nThousands of people, including tourists and Hindu pilgrims, are leaving Indian-administered Kashmir after local officials issued a security alert.\n\nIndian authorities warned of a \"terror threat\" against Hindu pilgrims heading to the Amarnath shrine.\n\nMilitants backed by Pakistan were planning an attack on the annual pilgrimage, officials have said.\n\nIndia accuses Pakistan of backing militant groups based in Kashmir, something denied by Pakistan.\n\nThe 45-day pilgrimage began on 1 July and about 300,000 pilgrims have visited the cave shrine, located high in the Himalayan mountains, according to AP news agency.\n\nKashmir's government has advised them to leave the area \"immediately\", causing panic as visitors scramble to organise transport.\n\nAround 20,000 Hindu pilgrims and Indian tourists, as well as more than 200,000 labourers, were in the process of leaving the region, a local government official told Reuters news agency.\n\n\"In the interest of safety and security of the tourists and Amarnath Yatris [pilgrims], it is advised that they may curtail their stay in the [Kashmir] valley immediately,\" Kashmir's home secretary, Shaleen Kabra, said in a statement.\n\nTourists leave from Amarnath base camp after the pilgrimage was suspended\n\nSecurity measures, including the deployment of 10,000 extra troops, were implemented by the Indian government ahead of the Hindu pilgrimage.\n\nIndia has long accused Pakistan of funding armed militants in Kashmir, a disputed territory claimed by both countries.\n\nMilitants have targeted Hindu pilgrims in the region before, most recently in 2017, when seven people were killed in an attack.\n\nOn Saturday, Britain and Germany warned their citizens against travelling to Kashmir.\n\nBoth India and Pakistan claim all of Muslim-majority territory of Kashmir, but control only parts of it.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Two wars, a 60-year dispute – a history of the Kashmir conflict\n\nThe countries have been at war four times since the partition following the end of British rule in 1947, and Kashmir, located mostly in the Himalayan mountains, has been a key factor in the conflicts.\n\nTensions resurfaced in February when Pakistan-based militants killed 40 Indian troops in a suicide attack in Pulwama, provoking military clashes between the countries.", "Alfred Smith spent much of his life in farming\n\nScotland's oldest man, Alfred Smith, has died at the age of 111.\n\nMr Smith, known as Alf, celebrated his last birthday on 29 March, the same day as Britain's other oldest man, Robert Weighton.\n\nThe former lorry driver and farmer, from St Madoes, Perthshire, died on Saturday night.\n\nCouncillor Eric Drysdale paid tribute to Mr Smith, who credited porridge and having an enjoyable job for his long life.\n\nThe SNP Perth and Kinross councillor tweeted: \"Sad to hear this morning that Scotland's oldest man, Perth and Kinross based Alf Smith of St Madoes has passed away aged 111 years and 128 days.\n\n\"When he was 100 he bought a new washing machine and decided on a 10 year extended warranty! Optimism seems to be the key to a long life.\"\n\nHis minister, The Reverend Marc Bircham of St Madoes and Kinfauns Parish Church, said: \"Alf was a wonderful character who brought great joy to all who had the privilege of knowing him.\n\n\"A great supporter of the local church, he served as an Elder for many years.\n\n\"It has been a great privilege to be both his friend and his minister. Family, neighbours and his many friends will miss him greatly.\"\n\nMr Smith was born in Invergowrie in 1908, the fifth of six sons to John and Jessie Smith.\n\nHe was educated at Invergowrie Primary School and Harris Academy, Dundee.\n\nIn 1927 he emigrated to Canada, along with four of his brothers, but returned after five years and went on to drive lorries for his brother, George.\n\nDuring the Second World War, he was in the Home Guard, and married wife Isobel when he was 29.\n\nThe couple went on to farm at Kinfauns where they raised two children, Irene and Allan. Mrs Smith died more than 14 years ago, aged 97.\n\nHis son Allan, who worked with his father on the farm for 40 years, died in 2016.\n\nMr Smith retired at the age of 70 but continued to go to the farm until well into his 80s.\n\nOnce asked for his secret to a long and happy life, Mr Smith said: \"Porridge is helpful and having a job you enjoy.\n\n\"I like to think I've lived a decent life. I do ask myself - why me? Why have I lived so long when others haven't?\"\n\nMr Smith was very active in the Church of Scotland, having joined after leaving the Free Church in 1945, and was presented with a lifetime of service award from the Kirk moderator in 2017.", "The National Crime Agency said 60 weapons were found concealed in the car\n\nA man from Dublin has been charged with illegally importing firearms after 60 weapons were found in a car arriving in Dover from Calais.\n\nThe National Crime Agency (NCA) said the guns were found concealed in a Volkswagen Passat by the Border Force and NCA on Friday.\n\nIt is believed to be the largest seizure of lethal-purpose weapons at a UK port.\n\nRobert Keogh, 37, is due to appear at Margate Magistrates' Court on Monday.\n\nThe NCA's Andrea Wilson said the removal of a \"huge haul\" of lethal firearms would make \"a significant impact\" on the organised crime group which tried to import them.\n\nShe said: \"There's little doubt that these weapons would have gone on the criminal market and into the hands of seriously dangerous individuals.\"\n\nAmong the weapons discovered in the car was a Sig Sauer P226 blank-firing handgun with a barrel converted to fire live ammunition.\n\nAnother 59 firearms were found hidden deep inside the car's bumper and both rear quarter panels.", "The incident happened shortly after midday on Saturday\n\nAn elderly man has died following a crash outside Belfast City Cemetery on Saturday.\n\nSeamus Conlon, 70, was one of three men struck by a stolen Vauxhall Vectra on the Whiterock Road, in the west of the city, shortly after 12:00 BST.\n\nPSNI Ch Insp Gary Reid said the two other men are in hospital, where their conditions are described as serious.\n\nA 32-year-old man has been arrested on suspicion of a number of driving offences and remains in custody.\n\nThe incident took place just after a funeral in the cemetery.\n\nFr Patrick McCafferty said the incident was \"unbelievable\"\n\nFr Patrick McCafferty was leaving the cemetery when the collision took place.\n\n\"People were standing around in shock, people are stunned,\" he said.\n\n\"They're bewildered something like this could happen, just literally after the funeral had been completed. It's unbelievable.\"\n\nPolice have asked people to avoid the area\n\nSinn Féin Councillor Micheal Donnelly described the scene as one of \"sheer devastation\".\n\n\"My thoughts are with those caught up in today's incident\", he said.\n\nThe Whiterock Road has reopened to traffic.", "Ambulance staff dealt with the casualty at the scene\n\nA teenager was still being questioned after a six-year-old boy was thrown five floors from the 10th floor of the Tate Modern art gallery in London.\n\nThe boy, who landed on the fifth floor roof, is in a stable but critical condition following the fall on Sunday.\n\nA witness said they heard a \"loud bang\", before seeing a woman scream: \"Where's my son, where's my son?\"\n\nA 17-year-old boy arrested on suspicion of attempted murder remains in police custody.\n\nThe Met Police said the six-year-old was thrown from a viewing platform.\n\nThe emergency services arrived in force at Tate Modern after the boy's fall\n\n\"We treated a person at the scene and took them to hospital as a priority,\" a London Ambulance Service (LAS) spokesman said.\n\nThe boy was taken to hospital by air ambulance after he fell at about 14:45 BST.\n\nA police spokesman said there was \"nothing to suggest [the suspect] is known to the victim\".\n\nThe teenager had remained on the platform after the boy fell, police said.\n\nVisitors were initially locked inside the gallery at Bankside on the South Bank.\n\nAdmin worker Nancy Barnfield, 47, of Rochdale, was at the 10th floor viewing gallery with a friend and their children when her friend heard a \"loud bang\".\n\nMs Barnfield said she turned around and saw a woman screaming: \"Where's my son, where's my son?\"\n\nMembers of the public quickly gathered around a man who was nearby, she said.\n\nMs Barnfield said: \"We did not notice the mum before, we noticed her after because she was hysterical by then.\"\n\nShe said the person who was restrained by members of the public before the police arrived \"just stood there and was quite calm\".\n\nOlga Malchevska, who was also on the 10th floor, said she heard a scream and then headed to the exit with her child.\n\n\"Some people started panicking. We got to the packed lift. People there were saying that one boy threw another one from the balcony. We were all shocked.\"\n\nA London Air Ambulance helicopter takes off from outside the Tate Modern\n\nStuart Haggas said he saw emergency crews moving along the roof between the gallery's Turbine Hall and its recent extension.\n\n\"They were carrying a stretcher with someone on it, plus a second stretcher was waiting by the door,\" he said.\n\nBBC correspondent Jonny Dymond, who was also there, said visitors were \"funnelled towards the main Turbine Hall and the exits were all closed\".\n\n\"There were quite a lot of families with children, and security guards told us we couldn't leave,\" he said.\n\n\"There were at least two fire engines, 10 police cars and an incident control unit. Parts of the exterior of the building were taped off.\"\n\nThe Tate Modern opened in the disused power station on the River Thames in 2000.\n\nIt was the UK's most popular tourist attraction in 2018 with 5.9 million visitors, according to the Association of Leading Visitor Attractions.\n\nWere you in the area when this happened? Share your story 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:", "An Iranian-born Canadian resident has escaped from Iran after being imprisoned there for 11 years and returned to Canada.\n\nSaeed Malekpour was sentenced to life in prison over a programme he created for uploading photos to the web that Iranian authorities said was used on Persian-language pornographic websites.\n\nHis sister posted a video online showing his return to Canada on Friday.\n\nHe fled while on short-term release from prison.\n\nMr Malekpour's imprisonment was one of several prominent cases involving Iranians with dual nationality or foreign permanent residency.\n\nIn comments shared by the Iranian judiciary's official news agency Mizan Online, spokesman Gholamhossein Esmaili said Mr Malekpour was on a \"three-day prison leave\" and \"barred from leaving the country\".\n\n\"Apparently he has used illegal ways to leave the country,\" Mr Esmaili added.\n\nPayam Akhavan, an international law professor who has been involved in the case, told Canadian media: \"He was temporarily released from prison in Iran following pressure from United Nations human rights bodies, and he was to report to the prison authorities again.\n\n\"But instead he left the country and came to Canada through a third country.\"\n\nMr Malekpour's sister posted a video of him arriving in Canada on social media.\n\n\"The nightmare is finally over. He is back home and reunited with his sister. Thank you Canada for your leadership,\" she wrote.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Maryam Malekpour This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy 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 did not provide details of the circumstances surrounding his return.\n\nThe web programmer was arrested in October 2008 while visiting his father, who was in poor health, in Iran.\n\nHe argued that the programme he created was open source and that it was used by other websites without his knowledge.\n\nHe was initially sentenced to death for \"spreading corruption on earth\". This was later commuted to life imprisonment, reportedly after he \"repented\".\n\nDuring his imprisonment, Mr Malekpour was physically and psychologically tortured and spent more than a year in solitary confinement, according to Amnesty International.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. 'Do something!' Mourners at the vigil in Dayton demand action from Ohio's Republican governor.\n\nIt's become a familiar refrain after every mass shooting in the US. Will this time be different? Will outrage over the violence compel political action, as it has done in the UK after Dunblane, Australia after Port Arthur and, most recently, New Zealand after Christchurch?\n\nAmong gun control activists, there is a certain amount of resignation whenever a new incident splashes across the headlines. If public sentiment did not force action after the 2012 Newtown shooting, when 26 people - including 20 young children - were killed in a Connecticut school, then nothing will ever change.\n\nIf the double tragedy of El Paso and Dayton ends up being different, however, here are a few possible explanations.\n\nRecent mass shootings in the US have been attributed to a variety of causes - disaffected youth (Parkland and Santa Fe), mental illness (Annapolis), workplace conflict (Virginia Beach) and family discord (Sutherland Springs).\n\nThe deadliest such incident in modern US history, the 2017 shooting at a music concert in Las Vegas that claimed 58 lives, still has no attributed motive.\n\nIn this case, however, all evidence indicates that the El Paso shooting was a calculated political act drawn from the white nationalist rhetoric that has become increasingly prominent in modern US politics. In that way, it's more akin to last October's Pittsburgh synagogue shooting, which prompted discussions about rising anti-Semitism in the US, or the 2017 violence in Charlottesville, which served as a jarring display of the strength of the modern white supremacist movement.\n\nWhite supremacists took part in the Unite the Right march in Charlottesville in August 2017\n\nAlthough the suspected gunman, Patrick Crusius, has yet to be conclusively tied to the racist manifesto posted on the internet shortly before the attacks, the facts point in one direction. He did not launch this attack in his home town. He drove at least eight hours, from north Texas to within miles of the US-Mexico border, and opened fire in a shopping area frequented by Hispanics. Law enforcement says they are treating the case as an episode of \"domestic terrorism\".\n\nThat puts this incident square in the middle of the ongoing debate about immigration, border security and national identity. Americans in the past have wondered how young men could be drawn to political violence against innocents in other parts of the world. Now they're seeing firsthand that it can happen in their home country, as well.\n\nThe nature of the attack could prompt a rethinking of the domestic threat presented by militant white nationalists and ways to stop it, including new gun control measures. Democrats have been quick to offer condemnations, but there are voices on the right as well that have taken up the warnings.\n\nSenator Ted Cruz of Texas, who ran for president against Mr Trump in 2016, denounced the gunman's \"anti-Hispanic bigotry\" and called the violence a \"heinous act of terrorism and white supremacy\".\n\nTexas Land Commissioner George P Bush, son of 2016 Republican presidential candidate Jeb Bush, issued a statement saying that \"white terrorists\" are a \"real and present threat\".\n\nIf a consensus grows that there is a threat, the question then becomes how to address it.\n\nIt hasn't taken long for those on the left to point to Donald Trump and other Republican officeholders for employing the kind of rhetoric that might have inspired a white nationalist to murder.\n\nThe president has repeatedly labelled undocumented migrants \"an invasion\", and said European immigration is changing the \"fabric of Europe\" and not \"in a positive way\".\n\nAt a Florida rally in May, a member of the crowd shouted \"shoot them!\" when the president wondered how they could stop undocumented migration. Mr Trump responded to the comment with a joke.\n\nJust over a month ago, Texas Senator John Cornyn tweeted that last year Texas was gaining \"almost nine Hispanic residents for every additional white resident\".\n\nPresident Trump at a rally in North Carolina in July\n\nCriticism of the Republican response - or lack of response - to mass shootings isn't unusual, of course. The difference this time is that the criticism is being amplified by the Democratic presidential primary contest. Although the first ballots won't be cast for half a year, the campaigning and debating has already begun in earnest.\n\nMore than 20 candidates have an incentive to set themselves apart from the pack with aggressive calls for new gun-control measures and condemnation of what they view as incendiary racist rhetoric.\n\nBeto O'Rourke, an El Paso native, has already laid blame for the attack at the president's feet. South Bend Mayor Pete Buttigieg blamed an ideology of white nationalist terrorism that \"is being condoned at the highest levels of our government\".\n\nAlmost every candidate has come out with some new call for gun control as a response.\n\nNew Jersey Senator Cory Booker, who has proposed a national gun-licensing programme, said \"we have power to stop this\" - but the solutions are being blocked by \"spineless politicians and folks who are doing the bidding of the corporate gun lobby\".\n\nIn last week's Democratic debates in Detroit, the issue was only briefly touched upon. Public attention, however, sharpened by the shootings as well as the direct line the candidates are drawing to the president, ensures that at least in the near term there will be prominent voices calling for action.\n\nIn the days after the 2012 Newtown school shooting, Congress attempted to enact universal background checks on all gun purchases, including private transactions. Despite bipartisan support in the US Senate, a minority blocked the proposal through parliamentary procedure. The legislation was never even considered by the Republican-controlled House of Representatives.\n\nThe dynamic, in at least one chamber of Congress, is different today.\n\nWhen Democrats took over the House in January of this year, it didn't take long for them to approve similar legislation to the Newtown bill - marking the first time in a quarter century that the lower chamber of Congress has passed sweeping new firearm regulations.\n\nAfter the dual shootings in El Paso and Dayton, the pressure is now on the Republican-controlled Senate to take up the measure - something Majority Leader Mitch McConnell has so far declined to do.\n\nHe might be able to withstand the pressure. And even if it comes to a vote, the parliamentary obstacles allowing just 41 Republicans to block passage remain. But several of the senators who backed the bipartisan bill in 2013 are still in office. And with actual legislation from the House on the table, the Senate is the final obstacle keeping a bill from reaching the president's desk, not the first.\n\nBack in 2012, the National Rifle Association was near the height of its power and influence in US politics. Through decades of campaigning, the group - which represents millions of gun owners as well as gun manufacturers - had turned gun rights for many Americans into a red-white-and-blue bedecked symbol of God and country.\n\nMany Democrats viewed firearm regulation as ballot-box poison, blaming the issue for, among other defeats, Al Gore's narrow presidential loss in 2000. A candidate with a negative rating from the NRA practically ensured a well-funded opponent and grass-roots opposition in many parts of the US.\n\nEven after the Newtown massacre, the trend in firearm legislation in many parts of the country was toward greater freedoms - such as the right to carry concealed weapons - not less. And in 2016 its early and active support for Mr Trump's presidential campaign, considered a gamble at the time, was rewarded with his surprise victory.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. A soldier and a baseball coach recall how they tried to save children from the El Paso shooting\n\nRecently, however, the NRA has fallen on hard times. The organisation's revenue dropped by $56m in 2017, due to lower membership dues and contributions.\n\nIt's been beset by an internal power struggle that has spilled into the civil courts and targeted by criminal corruption probes in New York and Washington, DC.\n\nEven the NRA's sheen of electoral invulnerability has begun to dull. In the 2018 mid-term elections it was outspent by gun-control groups aided by contributions from former New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg. Several prominent gun-control advocates, such as Lucy McBath in Georgia, won in battleground districts.\n\nThis is not the same NRA that was able to aggressively push back against background-check legislation even in the aftermath of the Newtown shooting. It still has plenty of political muscle, of course, but cracks in the foundation are visible.\n\nIf all of the above are reasons why the situation may be different this time around, there are still plenty of reasons why it might be just the same.\n\nThe Senate roadblocks to national legislation outlined earlier are very real and very significant. What's more, the Senate is currently in recess until September, and if the past is any indication, the intensity of calls for gun control diminish as the tragedies recede from memory.\n\nThe president's support - or even his signature on legislation that is passed - is also not guaranteed.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. What's Donald Trump said about guns and gun control?\n\nAfter the 2018 Parkland shooting, Mr Trump expressed some interest in backing gun-control legislation, going so far as to say he was in favour of comprehensive background check despite NRA opposition.\n\nAfter meeting with NRA leadership the president quickly walked back those comments, however, and later told the group's annual convention that Second Amendment gun rights were \"under siege\" but he would always defend them as president.\n\nAlthough Mr Trump tweeted a condemnation of the El Paso shooting as a \"hateful act\", he will be pressed to go further in condemning white nationalist violence. The fact that Democrats are accusing him of contributing to the rhetorical environment that encourages such bloodshed might make the president disinclined to take more concrete action.\n\nHe could view doing so as tacitly admitting responsibility or fault - something Mr Trump has proven he is loath to do.\n\nIf that's the case, this could end up a reprise of the president's response to the 2017 Charlottesville clashes between white supremacists and counter-demonstrators, in which his early condemnations of the Nazi sympathisers was followed by a contentious press conference where he laid blame on \"both sides\".\n\nThe more Democratic candidates like Mr O'Rourke lob accusations at the president, the more probable it is that he will dig in, fire back and further fan the flames. Such an environment is hardly conducive to bipartisan solutions in Congress.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Michael Porter: \"Someone knows what happened that night, whether it was accidental or intentional.\"\n\nThe family of a Dumfries woman found dead in Crete 10 years ago have launched a new appeal for information on the island.\n\nThe Greek authorities have re-opened the inquiry into the death of Jean Hanlon, 53, following a TV documentary.\n\nA post-mortem examination concluded she drowned but information later suggested injuries consistent with a struggle.\n\nHer son, Michael Porter, said he was \"extremely confident\" someone had more details about her death.\n\nAt the time she died the mother-of-three had been living in Crete for several years, working in bars and tavernas.\n\nHer body was recovered from the sea off the Mediterranean island on 13 March, 2009, four days after she disappeared.\n\nJean Hanlon had been living in Crete for several years at the time of her death\n\nMr Porter said a new witness had come forward since the recent screening of a Channel 5 documentary entitled \"Murdered in Paradise: The Killing of Jean Hanlon\".\n\nHe said he was convinced more information could be uncovered.\n\n\"I'm extremely confident that someone out there knows something,\" he said.\n\n\"Someone knows what happened that night.\n\n\"Whether it was accidental or intentional someone put our mum's body in the water and they know what happened.\"\n\nMichael Porter - pictured with his mother - said a new witness had come forward in the case\n\nMs Hanlon's grand-daughter, Rebecca Porter, said visiting the island had been an emotional experience.\n\n\"It has been up and down,\" she said.\n\n\"One minute I am absolutely fine, finding comfort in gran being here - the next thing absolutely upset and the grieving just hits you.\n\n\"It comes in waves but as soon as I landed just finding comfort - I see why gran loved this island so much.\"\n\nAnyone who knows anything about Ms Hanlon has been urged to come forward with \"even the most insignificant detail\" about the case.\n\nJean Hanlon had been living in Crete for several years at the time of her death\n\nMr Porter said they believed that on the night of her death their mother was with a man who has still not been traced.\n\nHe explained: \"We know she was apparently with someone here in the port of Heraklion because she spoke to a friend, messaging help and later on trying to phone her friend, and her friend didn't answer - so we knew there are a lot of suspicions because this man has still not been found or come forward to this day,\n\n\"We are asking the public and anybody here in Crete, do you remember this woman, were you with her, did you see who she was with that night? No matter how small and insignificant you think that may be, please come forward.\"", "Inpe said it had detected more than 72,000 fires so far this year\n\nSwathes of the Amazon rainforest in Brazil are on fire.\n\nThe sky in São Paulo turned black due to smoke drifting from the fires 2,700 km (1,700 miles) away. Politicians and environmental activists are taking a stand against Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro, blaming the fires on his policies.\n\nBut it's a complex story, and online discussion of it has been riddled with misinformation, misleading photos and errors. We asked you to send us your questions on the Amazon fires, so we could fill in the gaps and clear up some common myths.\n\nWe chose a sample of the many questions we received and where we didn't know the answer, we enrolled the experts.\n\n1) Why are there fires? Is it Bolsonaro's men doing it to clear rainforest for mining/farming etc? - Alex\n\nBrazilian journalist Silio Boccanera argues that some fires at this time of year - the dry season in Brazil - are to be expected. But many of the fires burning through the Amazon are believed to have been started deliberately.\n\nPresident Bolsonaro has not condemned deforestation and supports clearing the Amazon for agriculture and mining.\n\n\"So it's a combination of natural phenomena with locals feeling comfortable enough to do it because the government has not made any effort to prevent it,\" Mr Boccanera says.\n\nHe thinks that smaller groups of people are more responsible for starting the fires than big corporations selling beef and soy, which could run the risk of being boycotted.\n\nAlthough the big corporations are not innocent, they are better informed, he says.\n\nBut smaller groups - who benefit from destroying areas of the forest for farming - have gone ahead because they have not been stopped by authorities, Mr Boccanera explains.\n\nAlthough deliberate fire-starting has always been a problem, it has never been seen to this extent. Mr Boccanera says perpetrators now know that if they are caught, they won't be punished.\n\n2) The number of fires seems like a bad metric, because the size of fires varies. Is there year-on-year data on the total area affected? - Peter\n\nThis is a fair point. On 20 August, Brazil's satellite agency said there had been an 84% increase in the number of fires compared with the same period in 2018. It's the highest number since 2010, but significantly less than in 2005 during the same period, when the number of fires was at its highest.\n\nThis year, the satellite agency detected more than 74,000 fires in Brazil between January and 20 August. Most of those were in the Amazon, and the New York Times reports most of those fires were on land already cleared for agricultural use.\n\nBut does this mean more land is being burned than ever before? After all, we could be looking at tens of thousands of tiny fires.\n\nThe truth is we don't know yet, but the evidence points towards more land being consumed by fire.\n\nWe don't have the full picture at the moment, partly because many fires are still burning. We asked Copernicus, the European Union's earth observation programme, and they said the best way to assess how destructive these fires are is to look at how much carbon dioxide is being released.\n\nSo far this year, the equivalent of 228 megatonnes has been released, according to the Copernicus Atmosphere Monitoring Service. This is the highest level since 2010.\n\nAt some point in the future, there should be more detailed satellite information about how much land had been burned, but that information isn't available yet.\n\n3) What's being done to stop the fires? - Paul\n\nPresident Bolsonaro is coming under growing political pressure to end the burning of the Amazon - France's President Emmanuel Macron even threatened to scrap a huge trade deal between the European Union and South America as a result.\n\nBut warnings by themselves don't put out fires, and a few days after the satellite data was revealed, Brazil's government stepped up its response.\n\nMr Bolsonaro has called in the armed forces, who have more resources to tackle the fires, including the use of helicopters and aeroplanes to drop water.\n\nHowever, journalist Silio Boccanera believes the attitude at the top of government needs to change. Before, people believed deforestation needed to be prevented. But now \"people are burning without fear\", he says.\n\n4) The coverage on this subject has only come to light recently because of the #PrayforAmazonas and #PrayforAmazonia hashtag. Why have you not reported it? - Jake\n\nBut the extent of the fires has only recently become clear. It was not even being reported very widely in Brazil.\n\nThe first real sign vast burning was taking place came when a daytime blackout, caused by smoke from the Amazon, hit Sao Paulo on Monday, 19 August.\n\nWe first published an article a day later, just a few hours after our colleagues at BBC Brasil, and we've kept updating it ever since.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe #PrayforAmazonas hashtag was first used in the early hours of Wednesday, UK time. This, and others such as #prayforrondonia have become trending topics around the world.\n\n5) Is this a natural, healthy way the forest self-clears for new growth? - Lucy\n\nAs Lucy suggests, there is a case to be made that some fire-adapted forests benefit from fires - they can help clear the forest and allow trees space to grow stronger.\n\nBut this is not the situation right now in the Amazon, says Yadvinder Malhi, Professor of Ecosystem Science at the University of Oxford. \"These are fires that we are concerned about,\" he says. The humid forests of the Amazon have no adaptation to fire and suffer immense damage. Almost all fires in humid forests are started by people.\n\nHe believes the driving force behind the fire is human rather than natural.\n\nWhile statistics show that 2016 also saw a significant number of fires in the Amazon, this was considered a \"drought year\"- when there is naturally less rain so the forest is drier and therefore more fire-prone.\n\nBut 2019 has not been a drought year. Professor Malhi says there is such a large number of fires because people have lit them.\n\n6) How quickly does the Amazon rainforest regenerate after a fire? - Emily\n\n\"The forest takes around 20-40 years if it's allowed to regenerate,\" says Prof Malhi.\n\nBut any fires that are currently burning will leave the surviving trees more vulnerable to drought and repeated fires.\n\nProf Malhi is worried that if the Amazon is hit by fires every few years large parts of it will shift to a degraded shrubby state.\n\n\"Once you've had multiple fires there's the chance of permanent damage,\" he says.\n\n7) If this current trend were to continue at its present rate, how long would the Amazon rainforest area survive? - Christopher\n\n\"We are at an early stage where we can still do lots to save the forest,\" says Prof Malhi. About 80% of the Amazon is still intact.\n\nBut he says that climate change and deforestation are a dangerous combination. A reduction in rainfall would create dry conditions for fires to spread.\n\nIf 30-40% of the Amazon was cleared, then there would be a danger of changing the forest's entire climate, he says.\n\nIn the years before 2005, Brazil had an extremely high rate of deforestation.\n\n\"If Brazil were to return to that, it would take around 50-60 years to deforest 40% of the Amazon,\" Prof Malhi says. \"But in eastern and southern Amazonia it would take only 20-30 years to reach that threshold.\"\n\n8) What percentage of oxygen does the Amazon supply? - Tom\n\nOur colleagues from BBC Reality Check spent a whole day getting to the bottom of this.\n\nMany claim on social media that the Amazon produces about 20% of the world's oxygen. It's widely quoted - by campaign groups and well-known figures, including Emmanuel Macron and footballer Cristiano Ronaldo.\n\nBut academics say this is a very common misconception, and that the figure is less than 10%.\n\nOxygen is released by plants during the process of photosynthesis, where carbon dioxide and water are converted into energy in the form of carbohydrates using sunlight.\n\nA large proportion of the world's oxygen is produced by plankton, explains Professor Malhi. He says of the oxygen produced by land-based plants, about 16% comes from the Amazon.\n\nBut this isn't the whole story. In the long run, the Amazon absorbs about the same amount of oxygen as it produces, effectively making the total produced net zero.\n\nProfessor Jon Lloyd from Imperial College London says although the Amazon produces a lot of oxygen during the day through photosynthesis, it absorbs about half of it back through the process of respiration to grow. Further oxygen is used up by the forest's soil, animals and microbes.\n\nThe fires are also emitting carbon monoxide - a gas released when wood is burned and does not have much access to oxygen.\n\n9) Will the smoke from these fires have an effect on global weather in future months? - David\n\nProf Malhi says the immediate effect of the fires will be on the climate of South America. Reduced rain fall is likely, leading to a more intensive dry season.\n\n\"The carbon emission could contribute to global warming,\" he adds, but the longer term global impact is \"more difficult to pin down\".\n\nIn the long-term, scientists have told the BBC the fires could make the Paris climate target more difficult to achieve. The global treaty aims to limit average temperature rise to well below two degrees Celsius to avoid dangerous climate change.\n\n10) How are these fires affecting the indigenous people? - Samantha\n\nIn just one week in mid-August, 68 fires were registered in indigenous territories and conservation areas, the majority in the Amazon, according to Jonathan Mozower from Survival International, which campaigns for indigenous rights.\n\n\"It's hard to overstate the importance of these forests for indigenous peoples,\" he says. \"They depend on them for food, medicines, clothing and a sense of identity and belonging.\n\nBut the incentives to steal these resources are high and \"sadly it's not a question of one or two rogue actors\", Mr Mazower says. He says this could be the \"worst moment for the indigenous people of the Amazon\" since the military dictatorship, which ended in the 1980s.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Members of Brazil's indigenous Mura tribe vow to defend their land\n\nThis article initially stated there was a record number of fires in Brazil this year. After more satellite data was made accessible, it has been updated to reflect the fact the fires are instead the worst since 2010.\n• None Amazon fires: How bad have they got?", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Boris Johnson: \"In the last few days there's been a sort of dawning realisation in Brussels and other European capitals\"\n\nBoris Johnson has said the chances of a Brexit deal are \"touch and go\" - having previously said the odds of a no-deal Brexit were \"a million to one\".\n\nIn a BBC interview at the G7 summit in France, he said it \"all depends on our EU friends and partners\".\n\nWhen pressed on the chances, he said: \"I think it's going to be touch and go. But the important thing is to get ready to come out without a deal.\"\n\nDonald Tusk told the PM the EU is open to alternatives to the backstop.\n\nBBC Europe editor Katya Adler said the European Council president and Mr Johnson held talks on Sunday, which were in a \"genuinely positive atmosphere\".\n\nBut she said Mr Tusk repeated the EU's position that any alternatives to the Irish backstop would have to be \"realistic\" and \"immediately operational\".\n\nAn EU official added the meeting had \"mainly restated known positions\" and Brussels had been hoping for \"new elements to unblock the situation\".\n\nMr Johnson and Mr Tusk discussed the possibility of meeting again in New York\n\nThe two men clashed on Saturday over who would be \"Mr No Deal\" - the person to blame in the case of a no-deal Brexit.\n\nMr Johnson has previously said the UK must leave on 31 October \"deal or no deal\", but that the chances of a no-deal Brexit happening are a \"million to one\".\n\nAsked if people would still be able to get their medicine if there was a no-deal Brexit, the prime minister told the BBC: \"That is certainly a guarantee that we can make.\"\n\nBut he added: \"I do not want at this stage to say there won't be unforeseen difficulties.\"\n\nSpeaking at the G7 summit on Sunday, he reiterated his desire to scrap the backstop from the current withdrawal agreement, saying it could keep the UK \"locked in\" EU rules, if a trade deal is not agreed after Brexit.\n\nHe said: \"I think in the last few days there has been a dawning realisation in Brussels and other European capitals what the shape of the problem is for the UK.\"\n\nMr Johnson said he was an \"optimist\" and thought the EU would understand there is an \"opportunity to do a deal\".\n\nThe PM also said if there is no deal, the UK would keep a \"very substantial\" part of the £39bn Theresa May had agreed to pay the EU in her withdrawal agreement.\n\nThe G7 summit - a get-together of most of the leaders of the world's largest economies - comes with just over two months until the UK is scheduled to leave the EU at the end of October.\n\nMr Johnson and other world leaders have gathered for the G7 summit in Biarritz, France\n\nMrs May struck a withdrawal agreement with the EU - the so-called \"divorce deal\" - but British MPs rejected the deal three times.\n\nMr Johnson wants to remove the Irish backstop from the deal but the EU has consistently ruled this out, saying it will not renegotiate the agreement.\n\nIf implemented, the backstop - a last resort should the UK and the EU not agree a trade deal after Brexit - would see Northern Ireland staying aligned to some rules of the EU single market.\n\nIt would also see the UK stay in a single customs territory with the EU, and align with current and future EU rules on competition and state aid.\n\nThis week German Chancellor Angela Merkel suggested there could be an alternative to the backstop but the onus was on the UK to find it.\n\nBut the next day French President Emmanuel Macron said the backstop was \"indispensable\" to preserving political stability and the single market.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. President Trump said Boris Johnson was the \"right man\" to deliver Brexit\n\nAlso on Sunday, the PM met President Donald Trump to discuss a trade deal between the UK and the US.\n\nMr Johnson said the US's aim to strike a deal within a year was \"going to be tight\", adding: \"These [Americans] are tough guys.\"\n\nMeanwhile, former chancellor Philip Hammond has written to the PM about the leaked Operation Yellowhammer documents on preparations for a no-deal Brexit.\n\nHe said it was now apparent the document was dated August 2019, and therefore could not have been leaked by a minister from Mrs May's government.", "Michelle Pearson was seriously injured in the fire in Walkden, Salford, in December 2017\n\nThe mother of four children who were killed in an arson attack on their home has died.\n\nMichelle Pearson's mother Sandra said on Facebook that after 20 months of fighting her daughter had \"gained her wings\" and \"joined her babies\"\n\nThe four siblings, Demi, Brandon, Lacie and Lia were killed in the blaze in Walkden, Salford, on 11 December 2017.\n\nIn April 2018, Ms Pearson came out of the coma she had been in since the fire and was told of her children's deaths.\n\nGreater Manchester Police said the news of Ms Pearson's death was \"incredibly tragic\".\n\nDet Supt Lewis Hughes said as the senior investigating officer he knew how \"devastating the death of her four children was for Michelle\".\n\nHe added: \"I would like to extend my sincere condolences to Michelle's loved ones at this terrible time. We will ensure that they receive any support they need from the investigation team as they come to terms with their loss.\"\n\nMs Pearson's children Brandon, Lacie, Demi and Lia were all killed in the blaze\n\nZak Bolland, 23, and David Worrall, 26, were both given four life sentences for the children's murder in May 2018.", "Lindsay Birbeck was last seen on CCTV walking on Burnley Road in Huncoat\n\nThe disappearance of a mother-of-two is being treated as murder after a body was found in a Lancashire cemetery close to where she was last seen.\n\nLindsay Birbeck, 47, was recorded on CCTV in the village of Huncoat, near Accrington, on 12 August.\n\nFormal identification is yet to take place but detectives said they believe a body found in Accrington Cemetery is Ms Birbeck.\n\nA post-mortem examination will be carried out.\n\nForensic officers have been examining the scene since the discovery of a body at about 20:00 BST on Saturday.\n\nMs Birbeck's \"out of character\" disappearance has prompted a wave of searches, including of The Coppice behind Burnley Road as well as Huncoat Quarry.\n\nPolice are trying to piece together her last movements since she was seen on CCTV on Burnley Road at about 16:00 on 12 August.\n\nA woman's body was found in Accrington Cemetery on Saturday\n\nDet Ch Insp Jill Johnston said: \"The picture of Lindsay on CCTV Burnley Road is the last sighting we have of her and I need to find out where she has gone after that point and what has happened to her.\"\n\nShe appealed for anyone with CCTV, drone or dashcam footage in the area, particularly around Peel Park Avenue or the cemetery, to come forward.\n\nShe added that detectives did not know how long the body had been in the cemetery or how it had got there. She appealed for anyone who saw anything suspicious to contact police.\n\nMs Birbeck, a teaching assistant, is described as white, slim, 5ft 11in tall, with shoulder-length dark hair.\n\nShe was wearing a purple bubble jacket and black leggings and trainers.\n\nHer Huawei mobile phone is also missing, police said.\n\nHundreds of volunteers joined searches in the area\n\nMs Birbeck's family has been informed and are being supported by family liaison officers.\n\nHundreds of volunteers have helped emergency services search for Ms Birbeck since she went missing two weeks ago.\n\nAccrington Stanley football club used screens at their League One match on Tuesday to highlight her disappearance.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Ariana Grande has returned to Manchester for the first time since the benefit concert for the victims of the 2017 terror attack.\n\nTwenty-two people died in a bombing at the US singer's Manchester Arena gig on 22 May 2017.\n\nMany of the fans who were at the attack turned up for Grande's Manchester Pride concert on Sunday evening.\n\nRead more: Ariana Grande 'overwhelmed' on return to Manchester at Pride", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. CCTV shows the man pulling the heads down using a rope before walking away with them\n\nModel heads of Guy Fawkes, Oliver Cromwell and Sir Thomas More have been stolen from the front of a London tourist attraction.\n\nThey were taken from the entrance of the London Bridge Experience on Saturday morning.\n\nA man was captured on CCTV using a rope to tug the figures down before walking away with Fawkes's head under his arm.\n\nThe attraction is offering £400 for help to find the models, saying: \"We just want our heads back.\"\n\nThe three heads were installed on spikes above the entrance to the London Bridge Experience\n\nThe custom-made heads were part of a recently-installed entrance at the attraction, which tells the \"dark history of London Bridge\".\n\nThe real heads of Fawkes, Sir Thomas and Cromwell were all thought to have previously been put on display on the bridge.\n\nIn the CCTV footage, the man can be seen kicking Fawkes's head off a spike and walking away with it in his hands and the other two in a bag.\n\nThe thief used a rope to tug the figures down\n\nJames Kislingbury, director of the London Bridge Experience, said the thief had caused significant damage to the entrance.\n\n\"We just want our heads back,\" he said.\n\nThe Met Police said it believed the theft took place between 22:00 BST on Friday and 08:00 BST on Saturday.\n\nNo arrests have been made.\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 G7 leaders and some of their spouses posed for a \"family photo\" after a day of talks\n\nPresident Trump has promised a \"very big trade deal\" with the UK, saying its departure from the EU will be like losing \"an anchor round the ankle\".\n\nMr Trump was speaking after a breakfast meeting with Mr Johnson at the G7 summit in Biarritz in France.\n\nBut Mr Johnson said the US must open up its markets if a post-Brexit trade deal is to be agreed.\n\n\"I don't think we sell a single joint of British lamb in the United States, we don't sell any beef,\" the PM said.\n\nMr Johnson's breakfast meeting came before a day of discussions with other world leaders at the summit.\n\nThe PM also met European Council President Donald Tusk, a day after the two men clashed over who would be held responsible for a no-deal Brexit.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. President Trump said Boris Johnson was the \"right man\" to deliver Brexit\n\nSpeaking to reporters after the working breakfast, Mr Trump said a deal with the UK would happen \"quickly\".\n\n\"We're going to do a very big trade deal, bigger than we've ever had with the UK,\" he said.\n\n\"And now at some point they won't have the obstacle, they won't have the anchor around their ankle, because that's what they have.\"\n\nMr Johnson told Mr Trump: \"Talking of the anchor, Donald, what we want is for our ships to take freight, say, from New York to Boston, which for the moment they're not able to do.\"\n\nIn a later interview with the BBC, Mr Johnson said agreeing any trade deals with the US within a year \"would be tight\".\n\n\"My own experience of the way Americans work, the size and complexity of the deal we want to do probably means we won't be able to do within a year.\n\nWhen asked if it could take five years, he replied: \"No, we'll do it faster than that.\n\n\"We need to do it fast, but to get the whole thing done from soup to nuts within a year is going to be a big ask.\"\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson met with leaders at the annual G7 summit on Sunday\n\nBefore his talks with the US President, Mr Johnson spoke about \"massive opportunities for the UK to prise open the American market\".\n\nAs a member of the European Union, the UK cannot make its own trade deals with other countries - and the EU does not have a free trade deal with the US.\n\nThe UK has already agreed 13 \"continuity\" deals with 38 countries that will apply post-Brexit.\n\nOffering an example of an American trade restriction, Mr Johnson said: \"Melton Mowbray pork pies, which are sold in Thailand and in Iceland, are currently unable to enter the US market because of, I don't know, some sort of food and drug administration restriction.\"\n\nHe continued: \"UK bell peppers cannot get into the US market at all.\n\n\"Wine shipments are heavily restricted. If you want to export wine made in England to the US you have to go through a US distributor.\n\n\"There is a tax on British micro-breweries in the US that doesn't apply to US micro-breweries in the UK.\"\n\nThe government added that tariffs on some UK goods in the US can reach up to 28% for fashion, 15% for machinery and 35% for food and drink.\n\nDonald and Melania Trump arrived in France for the G7 summit on Saturday\n\nDavid Henig, the UK director of the European Centre For International Political Economy, said the US \"would be loathe\" to get rid of the barriers intended to protect US producers.\n\nHe added: \"The US is quite protectionist - the US have never done a trade deal the likes of which Mr Johnson is describing.\n\n\"The question is whether the US is prepared to give the UK something and what we would have to give them in return.\n\n\"It is less clear what Trump wants in terms of trade altogether.\"\n\nAt the G7 summit Mr Johnson was asked if he had made it clear the NHS was not on the table.\n\nHe replied: \"Not only have I made clear of that, the president has made that very, very clear. There is complete unanimity on that point.\"\n\nTrade deals involve two or more countries agreeing a set of terms by which they buy and sell goods and services from each other.\n\nDeals are designed to increase trade by eliminating or reducing trade barriers. These barriers might include import or export taxes (tariffs), quotas, or differing regulations on things such as safety or labelling.\n\nLast month, President Trump said talks about a \"very substantial\" trade deal with the UK were already under way.\n\nHe said a bilateral post-Brexit deal could lead to a \"three to four, five times\" increase in current trade - but provided no details about how that would be achieved.\n\nHowever, the Speaker of the US House of Representatives, Nancy Pelosi, said a UK-US trade deal would not get through Congress if Brexit undermined the Good Friday Agreement.\n\nMs Pelosi said the UK's exit from the EU could not be allowed to endanger the 1998 Irish peace deal, which the US helped facilitate.", "Sailors Shannon Lenz and Tom Whitehead have recalled their encounter with a huge sea of floating pumice in the Pacific Ocean in early August.\n\nThey said the volcanic rocks stretched \"to the horizon on all sides\".\n\nThe \"pumice raft\", likely to have formed from an underwater eruption, spans over 150 sq km (93 sq miles) and is currently drifting westward through the Pacific Ocean, scientists say.", "Dame Helen Mirren said it was \"heartbreaking\" that the decision could affect poorer pensioners\n\nDame Helen Mirren and Sir Lenny Henry have signed an open letter calling on the next prime minister to reinstate free TV licences for all over-75s.\n\nAngela Rippon, Len Goodman and Gogglebox's June Bernicoff have also put their names to the letter.\n\nThe stars said they were \"deeply worried about the poorest older people who are set to lose out\".\n\nTheir message came as MPs prepared to question BBC executives about the subject at the House of Commons.\n\nDirector general Tony Hall and chairman Sir David Clementi are among those who are appearing in front of the culture select committee.\n\nLast month, the BBC decided it would only provide free TV licences to over-75s who receive the pension credit benefit.\n\nThe corporation said it could not afford to waive licence fees for all over-75s after the government passed responsibility for the provision to the broadcaster.\n\nThe open letter, also signed by Christopher Biggins, Lionel Blair, Ricky Tomlinson, Ben Fogle, Ed Balls, Miriam Margolyes and Lesley Joseph, will be taken to Conservative Party headquarters later by the Age UK charity along with more than 30,000 letters from members of the public.\n\nThe celebrities' letter said: \"We collectively urge the next prime minister, whoever that may be, to save free TV licences for the over-75s.\n\n\"We're extremely disappointed that free TV licences are being taken away from the vast majority of over-75s and are deeply worried about the poorest older people who are set to lose out because they don't claim pension credit - a benefit which is massively under-claimed by this age group.\"\n\nTelevision provides \"a great source of companionship\" for those who live alone, have lost a loved one or have health and mobility issues, they said. \"It helps them connect to the outside world and brings news and entertainment to lonely and dark days.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The BBC's director general Lord Hall explains the decision to cut free TV licences for most pensioners\n\nResponsibility for paying for free TV licences for the over-75s should \"never have been handed over to the BBC in the first place\", the letter added.\n\n\"It is the government's place to fund free TV licences and we call on the government to think again and do what's right for the oldest in our society. TV is their lifeline - their friend. Please don't take it away from them.\"\n\nDame Helen told Age UK it was \"heartbreaking\" that so many people could lose \"an important contact with the outside world\".\n\nA government statement said it was \"very disappointed\" with the BBC's decision.\n\n\"We've been clear that we want and expect the BBC to continue this concession,\" it said. \"People across the country value television as a way to stay connected, and we want the BBC to look at further ways to support older people.\n\n\"Taxpayers want to see the BBC using its substantial licence fee income in an appropriate way to ensure it delivers for UK audiences, which includes showing restraint on salaries for senior staff.\"\n\nBoris Johnson, the frontrunner to be the next prime minister, has reportedly said the BBC \"should be coughing up for the TV licence for the over-75s\", suggesting it could \"sack Lineker\" to pay for them. Match of the Day host Gary Lineker is the corporation's best-paid presenter, on £1.75m a year.\n\nThe corporation has said keeping free licences for all over-75s would cost £745m, a fifth of the BBC's annual budget, by 2021/22.\n\nMr Johnson's rival for the premiership, Jeremy Hunt, has reportedly said the provision should be protected.\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.", "To Ian Botham in 1981 and Andrew Flintoff in 2005, add Ben Stokes 2019.\n\nBut, whereas it is exploits against the oldest enemies for which Botham and Flintoff will always be remembered, this was Stokes' encore to his first career-defining performance in the World Cup final.\n\nSome people only get one chance to play the innings of a lifetime. Stokes has done it twice in six weeks.\n\nThe multiple journeys to the glorious afternoon at a sun-baked Headingley are many and varied.\n\nFor England, the gap between two of the most incredible victories in their history might only have been a month and a half, but it was also pale blue kit to white, London to Leeds and Sweet Caroline to the wall of noise from the Western Terrace.\n\nSpeaking of the Terrace, the England supporters themselves have been taken on their own, shorter trip.\n\nFrom the despair of 48 hours earlier, when the home batting was nothing but the tatters of 67 all out and an England batsman would have been wise to sprint the Otley Run, rather than join in a fancy dress pub crawl.\n\nEngland fans don't stay angry for long, though, and by Saturday they were back behind their team. Even when the scarcely possible target of 359 was still 300 away, they were cheering each Joe Denly edge through the slips as if it were a David Gower cover drive.\n\nBy Sunday, and with all seats taken by the time play began, the Leeds crowd was willing every defensive stroke to be solid, erupting for every pinched single and collectively beckoning the ball into the stands every time Stokes opened his shoulders.\n\nNever has the belief in a sporting dream so improbable been rewarded with such an astonishing victory.\n\nFor Stokes, there is the journey from the piece of tarmac outside a Bristol nightclub to now, from the moment that could have cost him his England career to the moments for which he will forever be etched into the nation's sporting consciousness.\n\nJust over a year ago, Stokes was returning to England team after being cleared of affray. When he walked out to bat at Trent Bridge, having taken the place of Sam Curran, there were boos from some sections of the crowd.\n\nSpeaking after his Headingley heroics, Stokes did not want to talk about the 12-month change in his emotions - \"a year is a long time ago\", he said - but there must surely be some extra mustard on his performances against Australia, given that the same incident cost him his place on the tour down under in 2017-18.\n• None 'If I had a sister I'd want her to marry Stokes' - how social media reacted to Headingley heroics\n• None 'The greatest game I have ever seen' - Agnew\n\nEven before this game, there was a century at Lord's in the second Test. When England were staring down the barrel in Leeds, bowled out for spit and with Jofra Archer out of the attack with cramp, Stokes took it upon himself to bowl 24.2 overs virtually unchanged, uphill, from the Football Stand End.\n\n\"My wife found me in my boxers, eating pasta,\" said Stokes of the evening that separated the two halves of his epic spell.\n\nBack in the middle on Saturday night, Stokes dug his trench to make sure he was still there on Sunday. Only two runs from 50 deliveries.\n\nA \"knock-off Nando's and two bars of Yorkie Raisin and Biscuit\" were the fuel for one of the greatest innings ever played by an England Test batsman.\n\nAs Stokes set his stall out on Sunday morning, the stoicism continued. Three runs off 73 balls, 51 from 152 and a blow to the head to boot.\n\nWhen the time came, the switch was flicked. Nathan Lyon audaciously reverse-swept into the Western Terrace, Pat Cummins ramped over the shoulder as if he were a club trundler. Josh Hazlewood, a metronome in human form and with nine previous wickets in the match, belted for 19 runs in one over.\n\nAll of this with the help of Jack Leach, who looks less like a cricketer and more like Alan from accounting.\n\nYes, Leach does have a Test 92 to his name, but when he prepared to face up to Australia's fearsome pace bowlers by cleaning the steam from his glasses, it is little surprise that Stokes couldn't bring himself to watch the deliveries that followed.\n\nAnd if this truly was one of the greatest matches played, then it also gave a nod to England's other classics. A compilation, if you will.\n\nStokes being dropped by diving third man Marcus Harris was a carbon copy of Simon Jones at Edgbaston in 2005.\n\nLeach's aberration to almost be run out was an impression of Monty Panesar leaping for his ground as he tried to save the Test against New Zealand in Auckland in 2013.\n\nSeeing Leach face up to Cummins brought back memories of James Anderson trying to repel Sri Lanka on this ground in 2014, falling two balls short, then crying in the post-match presentation.\n\nAnd there was an injustice, Stokes not given lbw to Lyon with only two to win. But whereas we felt sympathy for New Zealand and their World Cup misery, this was Australia and it was OK for them to be on the wrong end of a raw one.\n\nAfter his knock in the World Cup final, Stokes' team-mates spoke of a look in his eyes and an unwillingness to speak, such was his focus.\n\nAt Headingley, he did not raise his bat when he reached 50 or 100, so insignificant were the milestones to the job in hand.\n\nOnly when he cut Cummins through the covers for the winning runs was the emotion released in a back-arched, both-fists-in-the-air guttural roar.\n\nHe sank to his haunches, then slowly dragged himself off the field, carried by the wave of delight from all around, pausing on the boundary edge to take it all in before returning to the dressing room for the kind of welcome he last received in mid-July.\n\nThe hope is that this is not a one-hit wonder, but part of a seminal Ashes album, one which delivers more great tracks at Old Trafford and The Oval.\n\nSteve Smith and James Anderson will return, but the inescapable feeling is that the summer belongs to Stokes.\n\nIn 1981, after Botham at Headingley, Australia did not win another match. Ditto for 2005 after Flintoff and Edgbaston.\n\nEven if Stokes fails to fire again in this series, it may be that the impact of what he has done here has reversed the momentum for good.\n\nBut surely there is more to come. England all-rounders love the Ashes.\n• None Stokes century one of the great innings - Paine\n• None TMS podcast: Stunning Stokes serves up another Ashes classic at Headingley\n\nIf you are viewing this page on the BBC News app please click here to vote.", "An inherently positive approach can help cope with stressful situations\n\nOptimists are more likely to live longer than those who have a more negative approach to life, a US study has found.\n\nPositive people were more likely to live to the age of 85 or more.\n\nThe theory is that optimists may find it easier to control emotions and so be protected from the effects of stress.\n\nAnd researchers said pessimists could benefit from doing things like imagining a future where everything turns out well.\n\nThe study used two existing groups of people recruited for different studies - 70,000 women in the Nurses' Health Study and 1,500 men in the Veterans' Health Study.\n\nTheir levels of optimism were assessed, as well as their overall health. They were also asked about exercise and diets, as well as how much they smoked and drank alcohol\n\nOn average, the most optimistic men and women had an 11-15% longer lifespan, and were significantly more likely to live to 85 compared with the least optimistic group.\n\nWhile a lot is known about the risk factors for disease and early death, far less is understood about what the researchers call \"positive psychosocial factors\" that could enable healthy ageing.\n\nProf Lewina Lee, associate professor of psychiatry at Boston University School of Medicine, who worked on the study, said: \"Our findings speak to the possibility that raising levels of optimism may promote longevity and healthy ageing.\n\nMonty Python might have had a point...\n\n\"Evidence from randomised control trials suggest that interventions, such as imagining a future in which everything has turned out well, or more intensive cognitive-behavioural therapy, can increase levels of optimism.\"\n\nHowever, exactly why optimistic people appear to live longer is still up for debate, she said.\n\n\"Healthier behaviours and lower levels of depression only partially explained our findings.\n\n\"Initial evidence from other studies suggests that more optimistic people tend to have goals and the confidence to reach them, are more effective in problem-solving, and they may be better at regulating their emotions during stressful situations,\" she added.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. See how people react when a BBC calculator tells them how long they're going to live\n\nProf Bruce Hood is chair of developmental psychology in society at the University of Bristol, and runs a course called \"the science of happiness\".\n\nHe said the study supported existing evidence of the benefits of positive thinking.\n\nHe added: \"I think that one causal mechanism could be that optimists cope better with stress, and this could be by avoiding rumination about negative life events.\n\n\"Stress impacts on the immune system and so there is a possibility that this means that optimists cope better with infections.\n\n\"A number of studies have also linked stress with shorter telomeres, a chromosome component that's been associated with cellular ageing and risk for heart disease, diabetes and cancer.\"", "Mr Zarif (left) shared images of his fleeting visit on social media\n\nIran's foreign minister made a brief and unannounced visit to the G7 summit in France on Sunday.\n\nMohammad Javad Zarif attended side-line talks in the seaside town of Biarritz where world leaders, including US President Donald Trump, have gathered.\n\nReports suggest the US delegation was surprised by his visit, which comes at a time of high tension with Iran.\n\nMr Zarif said on Twitter that he held \"constructive\" talks with his French counterpart and the French president.\n\n\"Road ahead is difficult. But worth trying,\" he posted on Sunday evening, adding he gave a joint briefing to German and British officials.\n\nMr Zarif also met President Emmanuel Macron in Paris on Friday on the eve of the summit.\n\nRelations between Iran and the US have deteriorated since Washington withdrew from a 2015 deal to limit Iran's nuclear activities last year.\n\nFive other nations - including France - remain committed to the deal, but Iran has started to ratchet up its nuclear activity in response to the US reinstating and tightening economic sanctions against them.\n\nThe Iranian-branded plane was an unexpected sight in Biarritz on Sunday\n\nMr Macron has taken an active role in trying to diffuse tensions and save the accord - but Iran's relations with the West have strained further in recent months over a series of confrontations and oil tanker seizures in and around the Gulf.\n\nMr Zarif was himself singled out for US sanctions last month, with US officials accusing him of implementing \"the reckless agenda\" of Iran's leader.\n\nReports about the circumstances of his visit on Sunday are conflicting. French officials told reporters the foreign minister was invited in agreement with the US delegation, but White House officials have suggested they were taken by surprise.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThey were also conflicting comments by Mr Macron and Mr Trump during the weekend as to whether G7 leaders had agreed a joint approach to easing tensions with Tehran.\n\n\"We'll do our own outreach, but, you know, I can't stop people from talking. If they want to talk, they can talk,\" he said.\n\nLeaders from the G7 - Britain, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan and the United States - have been attending the group's 45th summit all weekend.\n\nA range of topics, including the nuclear deal and Brexit, have been on the talks agenda.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The G7 leaders and some of their spouses pose for a \"family photo\" after a day of talks", "Shale company Cuadrilla has been fracking at the Preston New Road site\n\nAn earthquake with a magnitude of 2.9 has been recorded near the UK's only active shale gas site in Lancashire.\n\nThe tremor near Blackpool was recorded at about 08:30 BST and is stronger than those that forced Cuadrilla to suspend test fracking in 2011.\n\nCuadrilla said it was investigating the tremor and said no fracking was being carried out at the time.\n\nThe Oil and Gas Authority (OGA) said fracking would be suspended while it assessed recent seismic activity.\n\nThe latest quake is the third recorded in less than a week.\n\nIt follows another earthquake, with a magnitude of 2.1, measured at the Little Plumpton site on Saturday, which followed another tremor measured at 1.6 on Wednesday.\n\nAt present, government guidelines state that if fracking induces quakes above 0.5 magnitude then all drilling must cease for 18 hours.\n\nHowever, the OGA said the current suspension would potentially remain in place longer, allowing it to consider carefully whether Cuadrilla's fracking plans \"continued to be appropriate to manage the risk\" of increased seismic activity in the area.\n\nDrilling was previously suspended at the Preston New Road site in 2011 after earthquakes of 1.4 and 2.3 magnitude were recorded.\n\nCuadrilla's chief executive, Francis Egan, said he \"sincerely hoped\" fracking would not be halted this time and said the company now measured \"surface ground motion vibration\" which allowed it to put any seismic activity \"into context\".\n\nDrilling had only resumed last October after campaigners failed to get an injunction preventing it.\n\nSamantha Wheeler, who lives five miles away in Lytham St Anne's, said her \"wardrobe shook and her bed moved\" when she felt the earthquake on Monday.\n\nShe said: \"It's getting really worrying.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Samantha Wheeler This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nHeather Goodwin, who also lives in Lytham St Anne's, said: \"The walls of my house shook, there was a really deep, guttural roar. For a moment, I really thought my house was going to fall down.\n\n\"It only lasted a few seconds but I felt the need to go all round the house and check for damage.\n\n\"We've been afraid of this happening. How long before there's real damage done and people injured?\"\n\nProfessor Peter Styles, a specialist in applied and environmental geophysics at Keele University who has advised the government on fracking, said the latest quake was caused by the movement of a geological fault.\n\nHe said: \"I think we're going to have to halt fracking, certainly for the time being as we did in 2011. We haven't collected a huge amount of data - remember there have only been a few fracks.\n\n\"We need data from the UK to make a reasoned argument. This is in the context of how we supply our energy to the UK so we're going to have to make decisions whether we want to have our own native energy or we want to import gas.\"\n\nDr Ben Edwards, reader in seismology at the University of Liverpool, said a tremor of 2.9 would not cause structural damage but the increase in magnitude of each recorded seismic activity recently was \"a concern\".\n\nRegulators would want to be assured the magnitude would not increase further, he added.\n\nCuadrilla said it appreciated the tremor had \"caused concern for local people\" and said \"it is worth noting that this event lasted for around a second and the average ground motion recorded was 5mm per second\".\n\n\"This is about a third of that permitted for construction projects,\" it added.\n\nIt said the shale gas well was intact and it was working with regulators.\n\nHowever, environmental campaign group Friends of the Earth has called for a complete fracking ban after three of the latest tremors.\n\nSpokesman Jamie Peters said it was \"getting out of hand\".\n\n\"It's clearly not under control and at this point there is only one thing that can fix this situation: a ban, right now.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Film producer Harvey Weinstein has pleaded not guilty to two additional charges of predatory sexual assault.\n\nMr Weinstein, who briefly appeared in a New York court, has already pleaded not guilty to raping a woman in 2013 and a forcible sex act on another in 2006.\n\nProsecutors filed the new indictment on Monday to allow jurors to hear testimony from a third accuser, actress Annabella Sciorra.\n\nMr Weinstein, 67, has denied sexual misconduct claims by over 70 women.\n\nMs Sciorra, who is known for her role in the HBO series The Sopranos, says Mr Weinstein raped her inside her Manhattan apartment in 1993.\n\nShe is not listed as a plaintiff in the new case because the alleged assault took place too long ago to be prosecuted under state law.\n\nHowever, prosecutors hope to use her testimony to bolster their case that Weinstein is a sexual predator.\n\nThe defence said in court documents that the legal move to introduce Ms Sciorra as a witness was a \"desperate\" bid to prop up a \"weak\" case.\n\nGloria Allred, a lawyer who represents sex abuse accusers in high-profile cases, said in a statement on Monday that she was representing Ms Sciorra.\n\nThe actress went public with her allegation in the New Yorker magazine in October 2017.\n\nMr Weinstein's trial was pushed back on Monday four months to January.\n\nThe Hollywood producer could face a life sentence if convicted.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. More than 80 firefighters were involved in tackling the blaze\n\nPolice have arrested a 14-year-old boy in connection with a fire at a Dunfermline high school.\n\nMore than 80 firefighters worked through the night at Woodmill High School after the alarm was raised at about 17:05 BST on Sunday.\n\nNo-one was hurt but pupils have been told to stay at home as Fife Council prepares a plan for the school's 1,400 children.\n\nThe teenager is due to appear at Dunfermline Sheriff Court on Tuesday.\n\nPolice thanked members of the public who came forward with information in relation to the incident.\n\nFay Sinclair, convener of Fife Council's education and children's services committee, said planning for the 1,400 displaced pupils had begun.\n\nShe said: \"The council's teams have been meeting to see what we can put in place for the young people in the short, medium and longer term.\n\n\"The head teacher met with the staff this morning to start looking at things like e-learning and how we can get some support to the children at home this week. The school will be closed for the remainder of the week.\"\n\nFire crews continue to deal with pockets of fire\n\nShe said the council had not yet been able to access the building.\n\n\"It is too early to say when, or if, pupils might get back into the building and what we are looking at is contingency plans and where else we might be able to accommodate the pupils.\n\n\"In particular, the area of the building where the fire broke out was the DAS, the department for additional support needs, so these are some of our most vulnerable pupils who will need a lot of support and specific equipment. That's some of the most urgent work that is going on to source that equipment so that we can get these pupils back to some sense of normality as soon as possible.\"\n\nThe fire developed in an annexe and spread to the main building\n\nMs Sinclair added that the growth of the town meant that most of the schools in Dunfermline had reached capacity.\n\nShe said: \"All of the our high schools are very full so there is not an obvious immediate solution or a neighbouring school that could accommodate that many, so there are a number of other options being explored. The planning is under way. It will be communicated to parents and pupils as early as possible.\"\n\nThe school's head teacher Sandy McIntosh tweeted that staff were \"devastated\" by what had 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 Woodmill High School This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy 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 Scottish Fire and Rescue Service asked people to avoid the area to allow access by the emergency services.\n\nCrews remained on the scene on Monday morning as the damage to the building was revealed in the daylight.\n\nRoddie Keith, Fife area manager for the Scottish Fire and Rescue Service (SFRS), said: \"We are working very closely with our colleagues in Police Scotland and our investigation is at a very early stage.\n\n\"We are still going to be on the site for some time. At the height of the fire last night we had more than 80 firefighters here. We still have approximately 50 firefighters and 10 appliances here.\"\n\nHe said that the size of the school caused significant issues.\n\nHe added: \"It was technically difficult for our crews to deal with. It is a large school, over many levels. It has a number of different buildings which were constructed during different periods.\n\n\"Our key focus was trying to contain the fire as far as possible within the annex building and preventing fire spread to the remainder of the school which we were largely successful in doing.\"\n\nDeputy First Minister John Swinney tweeted his support: \"Terribly sorry with the news @WoodmillHigh. @scotgov has been in contact with @FifeCouncil and will discuss next steps. Good wishes to all in the school community at this tough time.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Susan Powell with the UK forecast for late Monday and the rest of the week\n\nIt has been the hottest late August Bank Holiday Monday ever, as temperatures soared across the UK.\n\nTemperatures had reached 33.2C (91.8F) at Heathrow by 14:16 BST, the Met Office said, beating the previous record of 28.2C set two years ago.\n\nTrawsgoed near Aberystwyth saw the top temperature of 24.3C in Wales, while Scotland's highest was 24C at Fyvie Castle in Aberdeenshire.\n\nIn Northern Ireland, thermometers peaked at 21.2C in Killowen.\n\nOn Sunday, the record for the hottest late August Bank Holiday weekend was broken, with a high of 33.3C.\n\nA girl splashes in the sea at Blyth in Northumberland\n\nTemperatures in London made the 2019 Notting Hill Carnival the hottest one ever\n\nPeople in deckchairs enjoy the warm weather on Bournemouth Pier in Dorset\n\nLast month, the UK's highest ever temperature was officially recorded in Cambridge at 38.7C.\n\nIt beat the previous UK record of 38.5C, set in Kent in 2003.\n\nSwimmers cool down in a lake in Beckenham Place Park in south-east London\n\nMen in full armour compete in a jousting contest in Hever Castle, Kent\n\nMeanwhile, in Frinton-on-Sea, Essex, beachgoers hoping to enjoy the sunshine were left struggling to breathe after what some witnesses were told might have been a fuel spill.\n\nPolice, paramedics and the fire service attended the beach at Fourth Avenue after receiving calls at about 14:00 BST on Sunday.\n\nThe cause is unknown and is being investigated.\n\nTourists enjoy the sunshine on boats on the River Avon in Stratford-upon-Avon\n\nPaddle boarders take to the sea at Blyth, Northumberland\n\nMiriam Lansdell told the PA news agency: \"My daughter started coughing. She said 'I don't feel good. It hurts to breathe in'.\"\n\nThe government's advisory Committee on Climate Change has warned the UK is not prepared for the increase in heatwaves that is expected with global warming.\n\nEarlier this summer, it called for more action to make sure homes and other buildings such as hospitals and care facilities could be comfortable and safe in higher temperatures.\n\nMeanwhile, the London Ambulance Service advised people attending Notting Hill Carnival on Monday to drink plenty of water, use sun cream and remain in the shade where possible.", "The countdown to the new series of Strictly Come Dancing has begun, with the stars donning their sequins and taking to the stage in London for the launch. This year's competition kicks off on BBC One on 7 September.\n\nThe celebrities for this year's Strictly Come Dancing were introduced by co-hosts Tess Daly and Claudia Winkleman at a red carpet launch on Monday evening.\n\nThis year's 15 celebrity contestants offered a glimpse of their dance floor moves on the stage at BBC Television Centre in west London.\n\nOlympic rower James Cracknell has previously promised to bring some \"dad dancing\" to the show.\n\nIt wasn't long before he broke out those dad moves alongside broadcaster Anneka Rice, CBBC presenter Karim Zeroual and Emma Thynn, Viscountess Weymouth.\n\nEastEnders actress Emma Barton, who plays Honey Mitchell, was one of the first names to be announced for the 17th series of Strictly.\n\nFormer England goalkeeper David James and Made In Chelsea's Jamie Laing took to the stage hand in hand.\n\nFormer Coronation Street actress Catherine Tyldesley revealed: \"I'm really excited but I'm petrified.\"\n\nTable tennis paralympic champion Will Bayley shimmied for the crowd with former Arsenal and England footballer Alex Scott, who is the bookies' favourite to win the show.\n\nComedian Chris Ramsey was clearly delighted to be there, despite previously revealing he has never been a natural on the dance floor.\n\nRadio 1 DJ Dev Griffin kept his signature moves under wraps.\n\nTeenage YouTube star Saffron Barker and BBC sports news presenter Mike Bushell looked like a couple of naturals. Bushell is the favourite to go out first, but said: \"That's great because I can't really go down, I can only go up.\"\n\nThe judges - Craig Revel Horwood, Motsi Mabuse, Shirley Ballas and Bruno Tonioli - were keen to show they've still got a few moves of their own. Roll on September!", "The model said she wanted the incident to be a \"wake-up call to the industry\"\n\nAn Australian magazine has apologised after publishing a story about a model with another black woman's image.\n\nSouth Sudanese-Australian model Adut Akech says she has been deeply affected by the error in WHO Magazine and says Australia \"has a lot of work to do\".\n\nIn the magazine interview, she discussed people's attitudes to colour and her career in fashion.\n\nWHO Magazine issued an apology, saying it had been given the wrong picture by the agency that set up the interview.\n\nMs Akech appeared in the magazine ahead of Melbourne Fashion Week. However the magazine printed an image of Flavia Lazarus, another model appearing at the show, instead.\n\nIn the interview, Ms Akech spoke about using her voice to start a conversation about how people viewed refugees. She fled South Sudan for Kenya where she resided in a refugee camp before seeking asylum in Australia in 2008.\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 adutakech 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\nWriting on Instagram after the error was made, the model said: \"This is a big deal because of what I spoke about in my interview. By this happening, I felt it defeated the purpose of what I stand for and spoke about.\"\n\nShe added that she wanted the incident to be a \"wake-up call to people within the industry\".\n\nWHO Magazine said it had spoken with Ms Akech directly to apologise and \"to explain how the error occurred\".\n\nMelbourne Fashion Week published an apology on its Instagram page: \"We are extremely disappointed that a photo of one of our campaign models, Flavia Lazarus, was mistakenly printed instead of a photo of Adut.\n\n\"Both Adut and Flavia have expressed their disappointment and we support them. This error is unacceptable, and both Who Magazine and our public relations agency, OPR, have apologised.\"\n\nOPR said in a statement quoted by ABC: \"The error was administrative and unintentional and we sincerely apologise for this mistake and any upset it has caused to the models involved, and our client the City of Melbourne.\"", "Torrential rain and floods have killed 62 people in Sudan, according to the official state news agency.\n\nThe country has been battered by heavy rains since early July, affecting almost 200,000 people across 15 states. White Nile state in the south of the country has been hit hardest.\n\nThe UN said that more than 37,000 homes have been destroyed or damaged while more flashfloods are expected.\n\nThe rainy season continues until the end of October.\n\nThis house in Wad Ramli, 75km (45 miles) north of the capital Khartoum, was destroyed by flooding several days ago\n\nResidents of Wad Ramli returned by boat to try to salvage their possessions\n\nThey moved what they could to dry ground\n\nGeli was another town which suffered serious damage in the floods\n\nA camp for people displaced from their homes has been established near Wad Ramli", "Bolton Wanderers are on the brink of liquidation after the latest deal to buy the club collapsed.\n\nThe League One side has until 17:00 BST on Tuesday to complete the sale or offer reasons for an extension, or face expulsion from the EFL.\n\nBut administrators say the 145-year-old club is not in a position to carry on trading and \"the process of closing down\" could start on Wednesday.\n\nThat would lead to its liquidation and the loss of over 150 jobs.\n\nPaul Appleton, joint administrator for Bolton Wanderers, said the deal collapsed on Saturday and, despite working around the clock since, they are still some way from reaching a solution.\n\nHe said in a statement: \"Unless there is a change of position from any of the parties involved, the process of closing down the club and ultimately placing Bolton Wanderers into liquidation will begin this week.\"\n\nThe EFL said that if Bolton, one of the founder members of the Football League in 1888, cannot complete the sale or provide credible plans to continue, they will be served with a 14-day notice for their expulsion from the league.\n\nBut that may prove irrelevant if Wanderers, who finished seventh in the Premier League and competed in Europe a little over a decade ago, cease to exist.\n\nThe club has been in administration since May, saw manager Phil Parkinson quit in midweek and conceded five goals for a third consecutive game in front of a record low crowd at the University of Bolton Stadium on Saturday.\n\nEFL executive chair Debbie Jevans said on Sunday: \"What is really disappointing is that on Saturday morning, our understanding was that all the parties involved had signed off and the deal was going to be completed yesterday morning.\n\n\"Then something happened, a signature wasn't provided and therefore it was postponed again. This is incredibly frustrating. It has been going on for months.\"\n\nDescribing the collapse, Appleton added: \"At this stage, there seems little point in apportioning blame because that makes no difference to the staff, players, management, supporters and the community who have once more seen their club taken back to the brink.\n\n\"On Sunday evening, there was some tentative dialogue but we are still some way from reaching a solution. Therefore, I am appealing to those parties whose position seems intractable to do everything to reach a compromise.\n\n\"In just over 24 hours, the club will have its membership of the EFL revoked. Over and above that, the club is currently not in a position to carry on trading and, as such, the process of closing down the company will commence on Wednesday.\n\n\"This will ultimately lead to its liquidation, the expulsion of the club from the EFL and the inevitable loss of over 150 jobs. More than that, it will devastate a community for whom the football club is a beacon of hope and expectation.\"\n\nThis has set panic alarms ringing across the University of Bolton Stadium - with a real fear that the club may not have a future.\n\nThere are four options that face Bolton in the next 24 hours: three positive, one severely negative.\n\nThe first being that somehow the parties involved revert to the agreed deal that was in place on Friday.\n\nThe second would see a compromise between Ken Anderson and the Eddie Davies Trust - creditors who are owed around £7m.\n\nThe third option, with so little time remaining, is that another buyer comes to the table with cash.\n\nThe fourth is the most concerning. Administration cannot be afforded for much longer, and therefore a process of winding-up the club and liquidation could begin as soon as Wednesday morning.", "Toshwa Dennis made it to hospital in time to see the birth of Savannah\n\nA firefighter \"on the hose\" at a blaze was released from duty after his wife went into labour early.\n\nToshwa Dennis, 38, was at a scrapheap fire in Highgate, Birmingham, on Saturday when the call came.\n\nHearing the news made Mr Dennis \"kind of freeze up\", but he managed to make it to hospital in time to witness the birth of Savannah.\n\nHis daughter, who weighed 6lbs 10oz (3kg), and her mum Stacy, 38, are \"doing well\", he said.\n\nThe blaze was \"pretty developed\" when he \"put the hose down\" late in the afternoon as a colleague was calling him over.\n\n\"I ran over to him. I was thinking he was calling me for something to do with the job and he said we got a phone call from control - she's gone into labour and she's on the way to hospital.\n\n\"I didn't know what to do... when you're on the job, your mind is just focused. After I got my wits back, it was like I got back into mode... [I would] get myself to hospital.\"\n\nStacy had been due to give birth next month\n\nThe firefighter said he went back to Highgate fire station before driving himself to hospital.\n\nSavannah, who was due on 4 September, was born at 19:40 BST.\n\nMr Dennis, from Sutton Coldfield, said he was \"very grateful\" and appreciated the service's efforts.\n\nHe said it was only a week ago that a colleague suggested he should give fire control's number to his wife.\n\n\"If he hadn't said that, I wouldn't have made it.\"\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. Prime Minister Boris Johnson: Brexit \"is a matter for parliamentarians to get right ourselves\"\n\n\"The job of everybody in Parliament\" is to deliver Brexit, the PM has said at the end of the G7 summit in France.\n\nBoris Johnson also said he was \"marginally more optimistic\" about striking a new Brexit deal with the EU.\n\nBut he refused to be drawn on whether he would suspend Parliament to stop it preventing a no-deal exit.\n\nMr Johnson's comments come as MPs from other parties prepare to meet to discuss ways to avoid the UK leaving the EU without a deal on 31 October.\n\nLabour leader Jeremy Corbyn hopes to win a vote of no confidence in the government and then delay Brexit to stop a no-deal exit.\n\nAsked about the possibility of MPs thwarting plans to leave the EU at the end of October, Mr Johnson said: \"I think it's the job of everybody in Parliament to get this thing done.\n\n\"I think it's what the people want, I also think, by the way, it's what our friends and partners on the other side of the Channel want - they want it over.\"\n\nOn Sunday, Mr Johnson had told the BBC the chances of securing a new Brexit deal were \"touch and go\" - but on Monday he said: \"I am marginally more optimistic.\"\n\nHe continued: \"But, remember that all statistical estimates that I give about the chances of a deal - whether they are expressed in odds of millions to one, or getting closer, or hotter or colder, or whatever - they all depend exclusively on the willingness of our friends and partners to compromise on that crucial point and to get rid of the backstop and the current withdrawal agreement.\"\n\nLabour leader Mr Corbyn wants to call a vote of no confidence in the government to prevent a no-deal Brexit.\n\nIf he were to win a vote, Mr Corbyn plans to become a caretaker prime minister, delay Brexit, call a snap election and campaign for another referendum.\n\nHowever, in Biarritz on Monday, Mr Johnson reiterated his determination to stop Mr Corbyn becoming prime minister.\n\n\"One of my many missions in life is to protect the people of this country from the appalling consequences of a Labour government,\" Mr Johnson said.\n\nHe added that Mr Corbyn, if in power, \"would also renege, reject, revoke the mandate of the people\".\n\n\"I cannot think of anything worse for democracy or for trust in politics and I very much hope that does not happen,\" he said.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Boris Johnson: \"In the last few days there's been a sort of dawning realisation in Brussels and other European capitals\"\n\nBeginning his final speech at the G7 summit - a get-together of most of the leaders of the world's largest economies - Mr Johnson said that in \"every conversation\" he had had with his fellow leaders, he had been \"struck by their enthusiasm to expand and strengthen their relations with our country\".\n\nHe added the subjects discussed included \"the biggest global challenges confronting us all today\".\n\nReferencing both the fires in the Amazon rainforest and a global decline in biodiversity, Mr Johnson said nations could not just \"sit back as animals and plants are wiped off the face of the planet\".\n\nThe summit comes just two months before the UK is scheduled to leave the EU.\n\nMr Johnson previously said if the UK left without a deal, the UK would keep a \"very substantial\" part of the £39bn former prime minister Theresa May had agreed to pay the EU in her withdrawal agreement - the deal which British MPs rejected three times.\n\nBut, responding, European Commission spokeswoman Mina Andreeva said the UK must honour commitments made during its EU membership, and said this was \"especially true in a no-deal scenario\".\n\nShe said that \"settling accounts is essential to starting off a new relationship on the right foot\".\n\nGuy Verhofstadt, the European Parliament's Brexit co-ordinator, said: \"If the UK doesn't pay what is due, the EU will not negotiate a trade deal.\"\n\nThe SNP, Liberal Democrats, Change UK, Plaid Cymru and the Green Party have all accepted an invitation to meet Mr Corbyn to discuss his proposals to avert a no-deal Brexit on Tuesday.\n\nBut Lib Dem leader Jo Swinson said Mr Corbyn's plans risks jeopardising a potential vote of no confidence in the government.\n\nShe said the discussions should examine how to seize control of Commons business, oust Mr Johnson and install an emergency \"government of national unity\".\n\nThe Labour leader's insistence on being interim leader meant there was a danger not enough MPs would support the vote, Ms Swinson said.", "British Airways passengers say they are still struggling to get through to the airline after it wrongly told them their flights were cancelled.\n\nSome said they had tried for \"hours\" to reach customer services, while others said they kept getting cut off.\n\nBA pilots are due to strike on 9, 10 and 27 September - but on Saturday, customers with tickets booked for other days were told flights were cancelled.\n\nIt admitted the error and said it will refund those who booked alternatives.\n\nIt also said it was dealing with a backlog of 40,000 customer calls.\n\nBut two days after the mishap, passengers continue to vent their anger on Twitter.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Deborah Taffler This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nSarah from London told the BBC she would be flying to Turin with her partner and small children next week for a friend's wedding.\n\nBut after BA wrongly said her return flight to London Gatwick on 8 September was cancelled, she was forced to buy another flight with Ryanair.\n\n\"It is much less convenient and will cost us more. But BA will only refund the cost of its own flights, not the difference we've paid,\" she said.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Ben Pywell, from London, says he's tried calling BA more than 200 times\n\nIt means she will miss her friend's wedding breakfast and have to change car hire companies, pushing up her costs. In total she stands to lose £500.\n\nBA said it was \"working tirelessly\" to help fix people's problems but faced a huge volume of customer calls.\n\nSome customers received two conflicting emails on Saturday. The first told them their flights had been cancelled and that they should rebook or seek refunds. The second said their original flights would go ahead as planned.\n\nBut in the second email, passengers were not given a link to automatically rebook onto their original flight, meaning they had to contact BA directly.\n\nSome customers say they have spent \"days\" trying to get in touch with BA's customer services without success.\n\nOne woman, Josie Simpson, told the BBC she called the airline 67 times to try to rebook a family holiday to Florida.\n\nThe company's Twitter feed has also been inundated with messages from frustrated people.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 2 by Roger Shove This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 3 by Rufus This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy 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 BA spokeswoman said customers who were told their flights were cancelled in error and had booked alternative flights or incurred other expenses would be entitled to refunds if they submitted receipts.\n\nBut on Sunday, some people said they were told that wasn't the case.\n\nKaelee Matthews, from Cardiff, said BA had told her it wouldn't give her a refund for her flights to Orlando - which the airline had initially said were cancelled - because they were still operating.\n\nShe has booked new flights with Virgin for her and her partner - costing an extra £440 in total.\n\n\"We are disgusted with BA,\" she said. \"We don't know what to do now. Virgin can't refund us, but we understand that. Travel insurers say we're not covered either.\"", "Israeli forces in the occupied Golan Heights are on high alert\n\nIsrael has struck Iranian military sites in Syria to prevent what it said was a pending drone strike by Iran.\n\nIsrael's military rarely acknowledges operations in Syria, but it claimed on Saturday its strikes had prevented an attack on Israel \"using killer drones\".\n\nIsrael is believed to have carried out hundreds of strikes in Syria since civil war broke out there in 2011, to try to prevent Iran gaining a foothold.\n\nAn Israeli military spokesman said the strikes on Saturday targeted the Quds Force of the Iran's Islamic Revolution Guard Corps (IRGC) in Aqraba, south-east of the capital, Damascus.\n\nA Syrian military source quoted by the official Sana news agency said that Syrian anti-aircraft defences \"detected enemy targets from Golan heading towards the area around Damascus\".\n\n\"Iran has no immunity anywhere,\" said Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu\n\n\"The aggression was immediately confronted and so far the majority of the enemy Israeli missiles have been destroyed before reaching their targets,\" the source said.\n\nIn a tweet, Mr Netanyahu said: \"I reiterate: Iran has no immunity anywhere. Our forces operate in every sector against the Iranian aggression. 'If someone rises up to kill you, kill him first.'\"\n\nThe head of the Iranian-backed Lebanese militant group Hezbollah, Hassan Nasrallah, said two Lebanese nationals had been killed in the Israeli strike, which he said targeted Hezbollah positions.\n\nSeparately, reports said two Israeli surveillance drones had come down in the Lebanese capital, Beirut.\n\nOne alleged Israeli drone crashed into a Beirut building that houses a Hezbollah media office\n\nHezbollah officials said an unmanned drone fell on the roof of a media centre belonging to the group, and was followed by a second unmanned drone that exploded in mid-air and crashed nearby.\n\nHassan Nasrallah denounced the attack, saying that it was the first since the two sides fought a brief war 13 years ago.\n\nThe group would prevent any future attacks, he said, adding: \"The time when Israeli aircraft come and bombard parts of Lebanon is over.\"\n\nHezbollah released an image it said showed one of the Israeli drones\n\nResidents told the Associated Press they heard a large explosion that shook the area, after hearing the sound of an aircraft. Israel's military declined to comment on the reports.\n\n\"This new aggression... forms a threat to regional stability and an attempt to push the situation towards more tension,\" he said in a statement.\n\nIsrael reportedly also carried out an airstrike last month on a weapons depot in Iraq. The New York Times, citing unnamed US officials, said that Israel was behind the 19 July strike on an arms depot that the officials said was being used by Iran to move weapons to Syria.\n\nThe Israeli military refused to comment on the strike.", "The plans are still at an early stage with no date for operations to start\n\nPassengers could soon be flying on planes fuelled by waste gases from steelworks.\n\nThe plan involves using the gases from Tata's Port Talbot plant, which developers believe could be used for thousands of flights a year.\n\nTata, along with Neath Port Talbot council and American bioengineering firm LanzaTech are working on the plan.\n\nVirgin Atlantic worked with LanzaTech last year to fly from Orlando to London powered by recycled carbon jet fuel.\n\nWaste gases are an unavoidable part of the industrial production of steel and it is thought it could generate 30 million gallons of biofuel for the aviation industry every year.\n\n\"We certainly have an ambitious agenda with this strategy and heavy industry has to be a part of that,\" said Neath Port Talbot council's deputy leader Anthony Taylor.\n\n\"We accept Tata is one of the main carbon emitters across the whole of Wales. We don't want to endanger the economic side of things, but we have to tackle the environmental issues from this as well.\n\n\"But also economically taking something that has previously been regarded as waste in the industrial process and actually harness it and give Tata Steel the opportunity to make some money from the waste it produces.\"\n\nLanzaTech's gas fermentation process uses carbon-rich industrial gases from the manufacturing of steel, and turns them into ethanol. It can then be transformed into chemical products and fuel.\n\nCarl Wolf, vice-president of the firm's European arm, said it was like a traditional fermentation process where waste carbon pollution and microbes are used instead of sugar and yeast.\n\nHe added: \"It's a bit like retrofitting a brewery onto a steel mill. We can use a variety of waste carbon, from industrial off-gases to gasified solid wastes like agricultural residues and unsorted, unrecyclable household waste.\n\n\"We have also developed a technology that converts alcohols, such as ethanol, into jet fuel. This is increasingly important as the aviation sector needs to meet its self-imposed carbon reduction targets.\"\n\nMr Wolf said the product performs \"as well or better than its fossil-based counterparts\".\n\nA Tata Steel spokesman said: \"Developing any technology to transform CO2 from our steelmaking processes into valuable resources for other industries is of huge importance.\n\n\"LanzaTech has the technology to transform waste CO2 from the steelmaking process into ethanol and is now seeking permission to develop a plant at our site in Port Talbot to convert that into jet fuel.\"", "Jo Swinson said the success of a no-confidence vote \"must be the priority\"\n\nJeremy Corbyn risks jeopardising a vote of no confidence in the government by insisting he becomes caretaker PM, Lib Dem leader Jo Swinson has said.\n\nIf he wins a no-confidence vote, the Labour leader plans to form an emergency government and then delay Brexit to avoid a no-deal scenario.\n\nBut in a new letter, Ms Swinson said Mr Corbyn's insistence on being interim leader meant there was a danger not enough MPs would support the vote.\n\nLabour did not respond to the letter.\n\nInstead, the party referred to comments made by its shadow international trade secretary, Barry Gardiner, who on Sunday described Ms Swinson as \"extremely petulant\" for dismissing Mr Corbyn's initial proposal to lead a temporary government.\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson has repeatedly insisted that the UK will leave the EU on 31 October, with or without a deal.\n\nOn Sunday, he told the BBC the chances of securing a new Brexit deal were \"touch and go\", having previously said the odds of no deal were \"a million to one\".\n\nAhead of cross-party talks on how to avoid no deal - due to take place on Tuesday - Ms Swinson said the discussions should examine how to seize control of Commons business, oust Mr Johnson and install an emergency \"government of national unity\".\n\nIn her letter to Mr Corbyn, Ms Swinson added: \"Insisting you lead that emergency government will therefore jeopardise the chances of a no confidence vote gaining enough support to pass in the first place.\n\n\"As you have said that you would do anything to avoid no deal, I hope you are open to a discussion about how conceding this point may open the door to a no-confidence vote succeeding. Its success must be the priority.\"\n\nJeremy Corbyn's plans to avert a no-deal Brexit have been met with resistance by some key potential allies\n\nEarlier this month, Mr Corbyn outlined his plans to avert a no-deal Brexit - which involve him becoming a caretaker prime minister - but was met with resistance from some key potential allies.\n\nMs Swinson and Conservatives opposed to no deal were among those who rejected the idea of Mr Corbyn being interim leader, but Scottish First Minister Nicola Sturgeon criticised the Lib Dem leader's stance, adding that \"nothing should be ruled out\".\n\nMr Corbyn said he would call a no-confidence vote at the \"earliest opportunity when we can be confident of success\". That cannot happen before 3 September, when MPs return from summer recess.\n\nIn order for such a vote to succeed, Labour would require support from across the House of Commons, including the Lib Dems, the SNP and Conservative rebels.\n\nMs Swinson has suggested Tory MP Ken Clarke and former deputy Labour leader Harriet Harman as possible caretaker leaders, and both have expressed willingness to do the role, she said.\n\nIn her letter, Ms Swinson also called on Mr Corbyn to \"clarify\" his position on whether he was opposed to Brexit altogether.\n\nThe SNP, Liberal Democrats, Change UK, Plaid Cymru and the Green Party have all accepted the invitation to meet Mr Corbyn to discuss proposals for an alternative government to be formed when Parliament returns in September.\n\nSpeaking ahead of the meeting, Labour's Barry Gardiner told Sophy Ridge on Sky News on Sunday Labour was offering a \"failsafe procedure to stop no deal\" by holding a vote of no confidence followed by a temporary government to set up a general election.\n\nFormer Prime Minister Gordon Brown told BBC Radio 4's Today programme: \"I think it is more likely Parliament will force Boris Johnson to delay a no deal and the question is whether in these circumstances he will think it is the right thing to call an election.\n\n\"My view is that an election at this point will not solve the problem we have - and the problem we have is making sure that we do not inflict harm on ourselves, by leaving the EU with no deal.\"", "The man's body was found at a wind farm off the coast of Zeebrugge in Belgium\n\nAn Iraqi migrant has died while trying to swim to England, Belgian authorities have said.\n\nThe man, believed to be in his 40s, was found dead at a wind farm off the coast of Belgium near Zeebrugge.\n\nWest Flanders' governor Carl Decaluwé said the man was found wearing an improvised buoyancy aid made of plastic water bottles and wearing one flipper.\n\nHe said the man, who police identified using fingerprints, is believed to have been refused asylum in Germany.\n\n\"We think he was going to try to swim to the UK,\" he said. \"I think he was starting in France.\"\n\nCarl Decaluwé, the governor of West Flanders, said it was \"very sad\"\n\nHe said the man, who was found on Friday, was \"covered in fish nets with plastic bottles, I think to make it more easy to swim for him\".\n\n\"He had big swim flippers to have more speed, but he only had one, maybe the other was in the water, I don't know.\"\n\n\"It makes me very sad. If you see in the 21st Century that people try to swim from France to the UK, that's crazy.\"\n\nIt is unclear if the body is that of a man seen by a sailor 12 nautical miles off the coast of Dunkirk, France, on 18 August, Mr Decaluwé said.\n\nThe sailor told French authorities that he had attempted and failed to lift the man on to his boat at about 15:00 BST.\n\nMr Decaluwé said: \"It is the first time we have found in our waters a dead migrant.\n\n\"I am convinced a lot of people died already, but they never find the bodies.\"\n\nHe said that the British, Belgian and French coastguard were working closely together, but added: \"You never can close the net. The coast is so long.\"\n\nWest Flanders police said that a case had been opened with the Bruges prosecutor.\n\nThe Home Office said: \"This is a tragic incident and our thoughts are with the individual involved and their family and friends.\n\n\"Anyone seeking to swim across the Channel or to cross this dangerous stretch of water in a small boat is taking a huge risk.\"\n\nA woman went missing overboard from a boat carrying 19 migrants earlier this month\n\nMore than 970 people, including at least 80 children, have crossed the Channel in small boats this year, with more than 200 in August - the highest number of any month since the home secretary declared a \"major incident\" in December.\n\nOn 10 August, a search was called off for a woman who was believed to have fallen from a small boat crossing the Channel.\n\nThe Home Office said 19 others on the boat, who were from Iran and Iraq, had been rescued and passed 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.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Sailors Tom Whitehead and Shannon Lenz said the floating rocks left \"no water visible\"\n\nA vast \"raft\" of volcanic rocks stretching over 150 sq km (58 sq miles) is drifting through the Pacific Ocean, scientists say.\n\nThe sea of pumice - the size of 20,000 football fields - was first reported by Australian sailors earlier this month.\n\nExperts say the mass probably came from an underwater volcano near Tonga which erupted around 7 August according to satellite images.\n\nSailors have been warned to stay clear of the potential hazard.\n\nPumice is a lightweight, bubble-rich rock that can float in water. It is produced when lava goes through rapid cooling and loss of gases.\n\nSailor Michael Hoult was one of the first to report the volcanic rock raft\n\nLarge \"rafts\" of the volcanic rock are more likely to form when a volcano is located in more shallow waters, say experts.\n\nAn Australian couple sailing their catamaran to Fiji were the first to report the \"pumice raft\", after inadvertently entering the rubble at night.\n\n\"The waves were knocked back to almost calm and the boat was slowed to one knot,\" Michael Hoult and Larissa Brill wrote online on 16 August.\n\nThe Australian couple collected samples of the pumice\n\n\"The rubble slick went as far as we could see in the moonlight and with our spotlight.\"\n\nThey were temporarily stuck after rocks jammed their rudder, but then were able to navigate out of the field.\n\nThey have since sent samples of the pumice stone - which range \"from marble to basketball size\" - to researchers at the Queensland University of Technology (QUT) in Australia.\n\nAssociate Prof Scott Bryan, a geologist studying the samples at QUT, said such pumice masses could be seen about once every five years in the region.\n\n\"It is a phenomenon reported over time, usually as islands in the middle of the ocean that people encounter but then can't find again,\" he told the BBC.\n\n\"It can be as if the whole surface [of the ocean] has turned to land\".\n\nAssociate Prof Bryan said satellite images showed the field had since divided into two main surface masses, with many trailing \"ribbons\" of rock.\n\n\"At the moment there are more than a trillion pieces of pumice all floating together, but over time it will break up and disperse across the area,\" he said. The pumice is currently drifting westwards towards Fiji, and is likely to pass New Caledonia and Vanuatu. It has also been forecast to reach Australia.\n\n\"It possibly could reach Australia in a year's time, but we don't know if it could even last,\" said Dr Martin Jutzeler from the University of Tasmania.\n\nExperts say the pumice is likely to become home to marine life as it drifts across the Pacific on ocean currents.\n\n\"A lot of life... can attach themselves to the pumice and be transported thousands of km away. So it's a way to renew ecosystems somewhere, but it also can introduce invasive species,\" Dr Jutzeler said.\n\nIf it reaches Australia, that could be a boon for the damaged Great Barrier Reef, some experts say.\n\n\"This is a potential mechanism for restocking the Great Barrier Reef,\" Associate Prof Bryan said.\n\n\"Based on past pumice raft events we have studied over the last 20 years, it's going to bring new healthy corals and other reef-dwellers.\"\n\nCoral regeneration has collapsed in the world's largest reef system following unprecedented bleaching events in 2016 and 2017.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Warmer water has led to mass coral bleaching on the Great Barrier Reef", "The BBC's director general has claimed the Conservative government went \"nuclear\" by telling the corporation to take responsibility for free TV licences for over-75s.\n\nThe BBC announced last month that most over-75s would lose free licences.\n\nThe BBC took on the policy \"really unwillingly\" but had \"no choice\", Tony Hall told MPs on the House of Commons culture select committee.\n\nThe decision was made in negotiations with the government in 2015.\n\nLord Hall said the first he knew about the decision was when then-Culture Secretary John Whittingdale called him to say he had \"lost the argument\" and that the BBC would have to take over free TV licences for over-75s.\n\n\"At which point I said, 'Well, that's nuclear.' And I then laid out the consequences of that decision.\"\n\nLord Hall said future negotiations over the licence fee should take place \"in plain sight\"\n\nHe said he told the government at the time that the policy would need to be cut in some way, and that the government didn't seek a guarantee that it would be protected.\n\nAfter a consultation, the BBC has now decided to revoke free TV licences for all over-75s, except those claiming the pension credit benefit. That has proved controversial, with more than 600,000 people signing a petition calling for the government to restore funding.\n\nIn a sometimes tetchy hearing, Conservative MP Julian Knight accused Lord Hall of \"whingeing\", suggesting he had misjudged his negotiations with politicians at the time.\n\nThe corporation won certain other agreements from the government - including an extended charter period, an increase in the licence fee, no longer paying for broadband roll-out, and plugging a loophole that meant people could watch the iPlayer without a TV licence.\n\nCommittee chairman Damian Collins, also a Conservative MP, suggested those deals were worth \"about £700m\", adding: \"It seems you're net gainers from this process.\"\n\nDame Helen Mirren and Sir Lenny Henry signed an open letter calling for the move to be reversed\n\nThe corporation has said keeping free licences for all over-75s would cost £745m, a fifth of the BBC's annual budget, by 2021/22.\n\nEarlier on Wednesday, Dame Helen Mirren and Sir Lenny Henry were among a host of celebrities to sign an open letter calling on the next prime minister to go back to the pre-2015 set-up.\n\nThe Conservative Party included a pledge to continue free TV licences for over-75s in its manifesto for the 2017 general election - after power for the concession had passed to the BBC in law.\n\nLord Hall told MPs he wrote to the government after the election to ask \"quite why the manifesto didn't reflect the powers that they had given to us, and I don't have a satisfactory answer\".\n\nHe added: \"It seemed, at best, odd to us that you had a manifesto commitment that was completely at odds with what the law had just determined was the case.\"\n\nLicence fee negotiations should not happen at such speed behind closed doors in the future, Lord Hall said.\n\n\"I feel very, very strongly that this mustn't happen again,\" he said. \"It happened in 2010 over a period of a few days, behind closed doors, and it happened again in 2015.\n\n\"I think when it comes to 2021, next time it's negotiated, it needs to be in plain sight with parliamentary involvement in a way that allows proper debate to take place.\"\n\nA government statement said it was \"very disappointed\" with the BBC's decision to change licence fee arrangements.\n\n\"We've been clear that we want and expect the BBC to continue this concession,\" it said. \"People across the country value television as a way to stay connected, and we want the BBC to look at further ways to support older people.\n\n\"Taxpayers want to see the BBC using its substantial licence fee income in an appropriate way to ensure it delivers for UK audiences, which includes showing restraint on salaries for senior staff.\"\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. More than 80 firefighters were involved in tackling the blaze\n\nMore than 80 firefighters have worked through the night to tackle a \"complex\" blaze at a secondary school in Fife.\n\nThe fire at Woodmill High School in Dunfermline has been fought by 15 fire appliances since the alarm was raised at about 17:05 BST on Sunday.\n\nThere are no reports of injuries but Fife Council said the school would be closed and pupils should stay at home.\n\nThe school's head teacher Sandy McIntosh tweeted that staff were \"devastated\" by what had 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 Woodmill High School This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy 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 Scottish Fire and Rescue Service has asked people to avoid the area to allow access by the emergency services.\n\nDeputy assistant chief officer Stuart Stevens, the incident commander, said: \"We have worked through the night in challenging conditions to contain this fire and prevent further spread within the building.\n\n\"Through effective planning, we have now surrounded the fire and we are working to extinguish the flames.\n\n\"However, this remains a large and complex incident and we will remain in attendance for some time.\"\n\nThe extent of the damage could be seen on Monday morning\n\nLocal people survey the damage the morning after the fire\n\nHe added: \"Our advice remains that members of the public should avoid the area to allow access for emergency service vehicles.\n\n\"I would like to thank our partners, the community and our firefighters for their professionalism and dedication as we work to bring this incident to a safe conclusion.\"\n\nCrews remained on the scene on Monday morning as the damage to the building was revealed in the daylight.\n\nDeputy First Minister John Swinney tweeted his support: \"Terribly sorry with the news @WoodmillHigh. @scotgov has been in contact with @FifeCouncil and will discuss next steps. Good wishes to all in the school community at this tough time.\"\n\nFay Sinclair, convener of Fife Council's education and children's services committee said the fire had spread from the additional support needs department to the main building.\n\nShe told the BBC's Good Morning Scotland programme: \"The council's emergency teams will be meeting this morning to look at what are the options here. We're talking about 1,400 pupils displaced from the school, at least for the short term.\"\n\nMs Sinclair said it would be difficult to transfer pupils to other nearby schools as many were already at full capacity.\n\n\"Dunfermline has been a rapidly growing town over recent years. All of the schools are very full, so there's not an immediate place to move these pupils to.\n\n\"The teams will be meeting today, the head teacher will be meeting all the staff today to look at how we can get these pupils accommodated as quickly as possible.\"", "It has been the hottest late August bank holiday weekend ever - with temperatures reaching 33.3C (91.94F) in west London.\n\nThe Met Office confirmed the new record temperature, which was set at Heathrow.\n\nIt beats the previous record of 31.5C (88.7F), set in 2001 and again at Heathrow.\n\nAnd BBC Weather said UK temperatures could reach similar levels on Monday - with highs of up to 33C in south-east England.\n\nOn Saturday a new record for Wales was set in Gogerddan, where 28.8C was recorded.\n\nIn Scotland, which does not have a late August bank holiday, temperatures were slightly cooler - but still reached 27C in Auchincruive, Ayrshire.\n\nRevellers at the Notting Hill Carnival enjoyed the weather\n\nA woman cools off by jumping into the sea at Whitby, Yorkshire\n\nBeachgoers made the most of the sizzling temperatures in Yorkshire\n\nBBC Weather said that, on Monday, the south east of England could experience temperatures of between 32C and 33C, which would be a national record for the late August bank holiday Monday.\n\nAnd the London Ambulance Service advised people attending Notting Hill Carnival on Monday to drink plenty of water, use sun cream and remain in the shade where possible.\n\nTemperatures across the UK could get even hotter before the late August bank holiday weekend finishes\n\nThe warm weather meant people had to find ways to stay cool\n\nLast month, the UK's highest ever temperature was officially recorded in Cambridge when 38.7C was measured.\n\nIt beat the previous UK record of 38.5C, set in Kent in 2003.\n\nThe government's advisory Committee on Climate Change has warned the UK is not prepared for the increase in heatwaves that is expected with global warming.\n\nEarlier this summer, it called for more action to make sure homes and other buildings such as hospitals and care facilities could be comfortable and safe in higher temperatures.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "A ban on fossil fuel vehicles in city centres by 2030 should be one of the Scottish government's key policies, according to 19 organisations.\n\nThe Climate Emergency Response Group has set out a 12-point-plan of measures it wants the government to consider.\n\nIt includes calls for four new Green City Region Deals and a £100m fund for modernising agriculture.\n\nMinisters have said the climate emergency will be at the heart of next month's programme for government.\n\nThe group behind the environmental action plan is made up of 19 organisations including WWF Scotland, the Energy Saving Trust, Scottish Land and Estates and the University of Edinburgh.\n\nIts report also says public guidance should be produced on sustainable, climate friendly and healthy diets.\n\nAnd it calls for a public-interest company to be created by the Scottish government to invest in and support carbon capture and storage infrastructure.\n\nUsing a similar model to Network Rail, it would allow the government to take a longer term view than a privately financed model.\n\nThe report's authors insist all 12 suggestions could be implemented within the next year.\n\nClaire Mack, chief executive of Scottish Renewables said: \"We are already witnessing the effects of climate change, and now is the moment when we must accelerate our response if we are to avoid the worst effects and secure the many social and economic benefits of moving to a climate neutral economy.\n\n\"This is the time for us all to support strong changes to policy and programmes in response to the climate emergency, and this report sets out our initial recommendations for the Scottish government's leadership role.\n\n\"The adoption of these policies by the Scottish government would demonstrate world-leading commitment, slashing our emissions and showing where the rest of the world can follow us.\"\n\nNicola Sturgeon declared a climate emergency at the SNP conference earlier this year\n\nSarah-Jane Laing, executive director of Scottish Land & Estates said tree planting, the restoration of peatlands and soils, and productive, efficient and sustainable agriculture, all offer long-term economic opportunities for Scotland's rural areas.\n\nAnd Lynette Purves, chairwoman of 2050 Climate Group, added: \"Young people all across the world are calling upon those in power to act urgently to tackle the climate crisis, and, by their inspiring actions, they have brought the matter into the spotlight on a global scale\".\n\nThe Climate Emergency Response Group was formed over the summer in response to a report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) which warned we have 12 years left to set the course for tackling climate change.\n\nIt followed a commitment by the world's nations to aim for a maximum average temperature rise of 1.5C.\n\nA spokeswoman for the Scottish government said it was committed to ending Scotland's contribution to climate change within a generation.\n\n\"As part of our response to the global climate emergency, we are putting climate change at the heart of our programme for government and will be announcing details of this shortly,\" she added.\n\n\"We continue to look across our whole range of responsibilities to make sure we continue with the policies that are working and identify areas where we can go further, faster. We will meanwhile update our climate change plan within six months of the Climate Change Bill receiving Royal Assent, ensuring our longer-term actions match our ambitions.\n\n\"We are also clear, however, that the scale of the transition to becoming a net-zero society means we cannot take a knee-jerk, piecemeal approach - nor can government do this alone. We all - governments, businesses, communities and individuals - need to work together to end Scotland's contribution to climate change and seize the opportunities that this creates.\"\n\nScotland's First Minister, Nicola Sturgeon, declared a climate emergency at the SNP conference in Edinburgh in April and pledge to \"live up to our responsibility\" in tackling the issue.\n\nThe environment secretary, Roseanna Cunningham, then told parliament that climate change will be \"at the core\" of its next programme for government which is expected to be announced on 3 September.\n\nAcross the summer, ministers have been involved in \"climate conversations\" to assess people's views on the action that needs to be taken.", "Johan \"N0tail\" Sundstein held the Dota 2 contest's trophy aloft after his team's victory in Shanghai\n\nA European team has become the first to win one of the highest-profile and most lucrative video games competitions for two years in a row.\n\nOG triumphed at Dota 2 tournament The International, defeating runner-up Team Liquid 3-1 in the final on Sunday.\n\nIt made team captain Johan \"N0tail\" Sundstein, 25, the top prize-winning e-sports player of all time, according to statistics site Esports Earnings.\n\nIt has calculated the Dane has earned about $6.9m to date.\n\nThe sum excludes money he has made from sponsorships and online Dota 2 tutorials.\n\nFurthermore, his four OG colleagues fill out the other five rankings in the Esports Earnings' list.\n\nOG overwhelmed its opponent in the final games of the match\n\nIt was the first time the annual competition had been held in China in its nine year history.\n\nIt was organised by Dota 2's developer Valve, but much of the prize pool was crowdfunded by fans buying a \"battle pass\", which unlocked a new game mode and other items in the title.\n\nThis year's winnings pot totalled a record $34.3m, trumping the $30m shared out among the victors of the Fortnite World Cup in July.\n\nTeam Liquid walked away with a $4.5m share of the prize.\n\nDota 2 - an acronym for Defense of the Ancients 2 - is a fantasy-themed multiplayer battle-arena game that pits two teams against each other. The goal is to take down the opponent's towers and destroy a structure known as the \"Ancient\" on the other side of the map.\n\nPlayers have more than 100 characters to choose from, each with their own abilities that can be augmented within the game, which adds complexity to the challenge.\n\nOG and Team Liquid - which is also Europe-based - had both won the competition once before.\n\nAlong with 14 other teams, they battled for glory over the six-day-long contest held at Shanghai's Mercedes Benz Arena.\n\nThis was the second year in a row that OG had won the competitions\n\nIt had seating capacity for about 18,000 spectators. And many more watched online via the event's official Twitch and SteamTV streams, where commentary was provided in English, Mandarin and Russian. Footage has also been published to YouTube.\n\nThis was the first time that a Chinese team had not qualified for the grand final since 2013. Home-team PSG.LGD had been knocked out by Team Liquid in a prior round after a closely-fought 2-1 match.\n\nTeam Liquid looked like it might repeat the trick in the competition's final stage when it beat OG in the first game of the best-of-five match.\n\nBut a change of tactics saw OG dominate the next two games before going on clinch the title.\n\nThousands of spectators bought tickets to watch the game on giant screens\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Johan Sundstein This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nN0tail had disclosed that his pet dog had died prior to the competition, leaving him feeling at a low. And after the victory, he tweeted his thanks to those who had helped him overcome the loss.\n\nValve has said that next year's International will be held in Sweden's capital Stockholm.\n\nIt will be the first time the fixture has been hosted in Europe since 2011's original contest, which was held at the Gamescom conference in Germany.\n\nCompetitors will have a wider choice of heroes to choose from next time round, including a dragon ridden by a biscuit-baking woman and a purple-eyed spirit with huge eyebrows, who were both teased last week.", "A pop-up shop in west London is helping people fill their social media pages with colourful selfies.\n\nThe Selfie Factory charges would-be influencers £10 an hour to take photos against a variety of backgrounds.\n\nThe BBC's Chris Fox visited the store and asked founder Will Bower whether Instagram was about to be flooded with thousands of similar selfies.", "Graham Norton, Gary Lineker and Steve Wright lead the BBC pay list, with Claudia Winkleman the highest-earning woman\n\nCutting the pay of stars and senior managers would only save a fraction of the cost of free TV licences for older people, the BBC has said.\n\nThe broadcaster has defended its decision to end universal free licences for over-75s because of the £745m cost.\n\nIn a letter to the Daily Telegraph, BBC director of policy Clare Sumner said the BBC could only save £25m if it kept all salaries at or below £150,000.\n\nUp to 3.7 million pensioners stand to lose the free licence from next year.\n\nMs Pearson accused the broadcaster of having a \"culture of ludicrously inflated salaries\" and being \"dangerously out of touch\" with the public.\n\nShe called for cuts to the salaries of senior staff earning over £150,000, as well as cutting the pay of stars and presenters.\n\nAccording to the BBC annual review last year, among the highest-paid stars were Match of the Day presenter Gary Lineker (£1,750,000-£1,759,999), chat show host Graham Norton (£600,000-£609,000) and Radio 2 presenter Steve Wright (£550,000-£559,999).\n\nThe top-earning female star was Claudia Winkleman, whose salary is estimated at £370,000-£379,999.\n\nThe total pay for on-air talent was £148m in 2017/2018.\n\nConcern over the loss of free licences prompted Animal Park presenter Ben Fogle to donate a year's salary for his work fronting the show, saying that \"we owe it\" to over-75s.\n• None £745mEstimated cost to the BBC of current scheme by 2021/22\n• None £250mEstimated cost of new scheme depending on take-up\n\nBut in her letter to the Daily Telegraph, Clare Sumner said: \"Even if we stopped employing every presenter earning more than £150,000, that would save less than £20m.\n\n\"If no senior manager were paid over £150,000 that would save only £5m.\"\n\nShe said spending on senior managers' salaries has been cut by £38m since 2010 and 94% of the BBC's budget was spent directly on programmes and services.\n\nThe highest-paid senior manager is director general Tony Hall, with an annual salary of £450,000. In total, 94 executives earn more than £150,000, nine of whom are paid more than £250,000.\n\nProviding free TV licences to over-75s who claim pension credit will cost the BBC about £250m by 2021-22, depending on take-up.\n\nBut continuing the universal scheme would cost £745m, a fifth of the BBC's budget and equivalent to the cost of BBC Two, BBC Four, the BBC News Channel, the BBC Scotland channel, Radio 5 Live and a number of local radio stations.\n\n\"If we had continued with the current scheme, its rising cost would have meant closures of services that we know older audiences, in particular, love, use and value every day,\" Ms Sumner said.\n\nFree licences were first introduced by the Labour government in 2000.\n\nIn 2015, the Conservative government announced the BBC would take over the cost of providing free licences for over-75s by 2020 as part of the fee settlement.\n\nAn Age UK online petition for calling for the government to take back responsibility for funding free TV licences has now passed 500,000 signatures.\n\nCharity director Caroline Abrahams said the petition \"demonstrates the strength of public feeling about the unfairness of the government scrapping free TV licences for over-75s\".\n\nMs Abrahams added that the numbers were particularly remarkable given that half of the age group impacted are not online.", "The fires in the Amazon rainforest have serious implications - not just for people who call the basin home; or for the millions of species of plants and animals that live there.\n\nThe Amazon rainforest is one of the world's greatest, natural assets when it comes to tackling the problem of climate change.", "Emmanuel Macron said the comments about his wife Brigitte were \"extraordinarily rude\"\n\nFrench President Emmanuel Macron has lashed out at Brazil's Jair Bolsonaro for endorsing \"rude\" remarks about his wife.\n\nA supporter of the Brazilian president mocked Mr Macron's wife, Brigitte, 66, in a Facebook post.\n\nThe post contained a photo contrasting the French first lady's appearance with that of Mr Bolsonaro's wife, Michelle Bolsonaro, 37.\n\n\"Now you understand why Macron is persecuting Bolsonaro?\" it reads.\n\nIn response to the comment, Mr Bolsonaro wrote (in Portuguese): \"Do not humiliate (him)... man, ha ha.\"\n\nAsked about Mr Bolsonaro's remarks, Mr Macron said it was \"extraordinarily rude\" and \"sad\".\n\nJair Bolsonaro with his wife Michelle in a presidential convoy\n\n\"He said very disrespectful things about my wife. I have great respect for the Brazilian people and can only hope they soon have a president who is up to the job,\" Mr Macron said at a news conference at the G7 summit in Biarritz on Monday.\n\nThe exchange highlights the acrimony between Mr Macron and Mr Bolsonaro in a diplomatic spat sparked by the Amazon fires.\n\nMr Macron is spearheading efforts to get world leaders to do something about the fires ravaging parts of the Amazon rainforest.\n\nMr Macron has described the wildfires as an \"international crisis\", which critics have blamed on Mr Bolsonaro's anti-environmental rhetoric and lack of action on deforestation.\n\nBut Mr Bolsonaro, whose country is not in the G7, accused Mr Macron of having a \"colonialist mentality\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe right-wing Brazilian president has a long track record of making abusive comments about women, black people and minorities.\n\nOne of his most infamous remarks came during a heated debate in parliament with left-wing congresswoman Maria do Rosario in September 2014.\n\n\"I wouldn't rape you because you don't deserve it,\" Mr Bolsonaro told Ms Rosario.\n\nMr Bolsonaro also caused uproar while talking about his own daughter during a public event in April 2017. \"I have five children. I had four boys, and in the fifth, I weakened and a girl came,\" he said at the time.", "The spin doctor responsible for the famous \"Labour isn't working\" poster during Margaret Thatcher's general election campaign has died aged 77.\n\nLord Bell was surrounded by his family when he died following a \"prolonged illness\", said close friend and business partner Piers Pottinger.\n\nThe poster was regarded as having made a key contribution to Mrs Thatcher's general election triumph in 1979.\n\nHe was awarded a knighthood by Mrs Thatcher and a peerage by Tony Blair.\n\nThe poster that helped Margaret Thatcher win her first election campaign\n\nThe poster, showing a snaking queue of unemployed people, is said to have changed political advertising in the UK.\n\nLord Bell co-founded the public relations firm Bell Pottinger, which went into administration in 2017.\n\nMr Pottinger described Lord Bell as a \"pioneer in political communication\".\n\n\"He was a devoted family man and passionate supporter of the Conservative Party, most famously helping Margaret Thatcher win three general elections,\" he added.\n\n\"He was an inspiration to everyone who worked with him. Most importantly to me, he was always a true and loyal friend. Nobody can replace him.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Sir Keir said Tuesday's meeting was about finding \"a unified approach\"\n\nJeremy Corbyn has met other opposition party leaders to discuss ways of averting a no-deal Brexit.\n\nThe Labour leader had outlined a plan to become caretaker PM after defeating the government in a no-confidence vote.\n\nBut in his invitation letter, he pledged to discuss \"all tactics available\" to stop the UK leaving the EU on 31 October without a deal.\n\nTory Party chairman James Cleverly said Mr Corbyn was offering \"chaos, delay and uncertainty\".\n\nThe SNP, Liberal Democrats, Change UK, Plaid Cymru and Green Party all accepted the invitation to meet Mr Corbyn and discuss his proposals.\n\nThe Labour leader also invited five Conservative MPs opposed to a no-deal exit, but none said they would be attending.\n\nOne of them, former Attorney General Dominic Grieve, said he was not able to make it, but was willing to meet Mr Corbyn at another time.\n\nBrexit Party leader Nigel Farage criticised those attending, saying they were \"very out of touch with public opinion\" and leaving the EU without an agreement was now \"the only acceptable deal\".\n\nMr Corbyn has said if he wins a no-confidence vote, he will delay Brexit, call a snap election and campaign for another referendum.\n\nThe Liberal Democrats, and some potential Tory allies opposed to a no-deal exit, have indicated they won't back a plan that leads to him in No 10.\n\nAhead of the meeting, Lib Dem leader Jo Swinson told BBC Breakfast a plan involving Mr Corbyn as interim leader was less likely to succeed.\n\nShadow Brexit secretary Sir Keir Starmer said Tuesday's meeting would be \"a pretty frank discussion\" about the options available.\n\n\"Today is about, can we get a unified approach that we agree? There'll have to be give and take, but we must have a plan that everybody can coalesce around and that we implement as soon as we can next week,\" he told BBC Radio 4's Today programme.\n\nAs well as Mr Corbyn's no-confidence plan, MPs will also discuss taking legislative measures to block a potential no-deal, Sir Keir said.\n\n\"I think they're direct, I think they're effective. I want something with a legal edge.\"\n\nMPs previously passed a law in April to force former PM Theresa May to request an extension of the UK's EU membership beyond the original Brexit deadline of 29 March.\n\nRepeating that approach would require them to first take control of the parliamentary timetable to make time for the law to be debated.\n\nSpeaking on Tuesday, SNP Westminster leader Ian Blackford said one way to do that would be to amend a motion debated as part of an emergency debate in the Commons.\n\nEmergency debate motions - topical matters added to business at short notice - are normally considered unamendable, meaning Speaker John Bercow may have to give a ruling that one is.\n\nIf successful, Mr Blackford told the BBC, this strategy would allow MPs to pass a law compelling the prime minister to seek a Brexit delay at a summit of EU leaders in mid-October.\n\nAhead of the meeting, Change UK leader Anna Soubry said passing legislation was the \"immediate solution\" for avoiding a no-deal exit.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Jo Swinson said she favoured passing legislation to stop a no-deal exit\n\nOn Monday, PM Boris Johnson said he was \"marginally more optimistic\" about striking a new Brexit deal with the EU.\n\nAsked at the end of the G7 summit in France about the possibility of MPs thwarting plans to leave the EU at the end of October, Mr Johnson said: \"I think it's the job of everybody in Parliament to get this thing done.\n\n\"I think it's what the people want, I also think, by the way, it's what our friends and partners on the other side of the Channel want - they want it over.\"\n\nMr Johnson says he wants to leave with an agreement, but the UK must leave the EU by the latest deadline of 31 October \"do or die\".\n\nAlthough Boris Johnson only has the most emaciated of majorities, the opposition seems to be divided on tactics and outcome.\n\nMr Corbyn wants to be a caretaker prime minister, he wants to call a general election and campaign for another referendum. But Jo Swinson wants to know, does he really want to stop Brexit? Or whether, in a referendum, he would have a Labour version of leave on the ballot paper?\n\nMore crucially, she says the only way for Mr Corbyn to become caretaker leader is to win a vote of no confidence against Mr Johnson. And if Tory rebels won't support Mr Corbyn, she wants to know if he would stand aside for a veteran parliamentarian such as Ken Clarke or Harriet Harman.\n\nAlready her attitude has been described as petulant by a senior Labour frontbencher so that doesn't necessarily augur well for today's talks.\n\nThe most likely outcome is that MPs will try to seize the parliamentary agenda and legislate against a no deal, but that in itself isn't a watertight solution.\n\nThere are two weapons in Mr Johnson's armoury. He has ruled out suspending Parliament in September, but hasn't ruled it out entirely ahead of the 31 October deadline. If he does that, that stops them trying to block no deal at the last minute.\n\nOn the other hand, if MPs tell him 'you're going to have to legislate to extend Brexit,' he can say 'I refuse to do it' and call an election.\n\nWriting in the Independent, Mr Corbyn pledged to discuss all options with other party leaders to \"stop this no-deal disaster in its tracks\".\n\nHe said: \"[No-deal Brexit] won't return sovereignty, it will put us at the mercy of Trump and the big US corporations dying to get their teeth into our NHS, sound the death knell for our steel industry and strip back our food standards and animal welfare protections.\"\n\nGreen Party MP Caroline Lucas, who attended Tuesday's meeting, tweeted: \"Boris Johnson's intentions are clear: suspending Parliament, a crash out Brexit and blaming MPs for the chaos\".\n\n\"We will not be bullied. We will not surrender parliamentary sovereignty to the right wing cabal in No 10. MPs must unite to stop this abuse of executive power.\"\n\nFormer Tory MP Nick Boles - who rejected Mr Corbyn's invitation to talks - tweeted that he would not \"countenance\" a no-deal exit, or \"any undemocratic steps to frustrate the will of Parliament\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Prime Minister Boris Johnson: Brexit \"is a matter for parliamentarians to get right ourselves\"\n\nMeanwhile, MPs from different parties are later expected to sign a declaration pledging to set up an alternative assembly if the PM prorogues - or suspends - Parliament.\n\nMr Johnson says he has no plans to do this, but has not ruled out such a move to make sure the UK leaves the EU by the end of October.\n\nResponding to Mr Corbyn's newspaper article, Mr Cleverly said: \"The alternative to delivering Brexit is Jeremy Corbyn in Downing Street, a man who would wreck the economy, break up our Union, is soft on crime and won't stand up for Britain.\"\n\nHe insisted only Mr Johnson and the Conservatives could provide the leadership needed to deliver Brexit by 31 October, \"whatever the circumstances\".", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. \"So healing\": Fans react to Ariana Grande's return to Manchester\n\nAriana Grande told fans she was \"overwhelmed\" and \"so nervous\" as she was welcomed back to Manchester for the first time since the 2017 terror attack and subsequent benefit concert.\n\nThe crowd chanted her name during her set at Manchester Pride on Sunday.\n\nArmed police patrolled outside the event, which came two years after a suicide bomber killed 22 people after her concert at Manchester Arena.\n\n\"Manchester holds a very special place in my heart,\" the superstar said.\n\nShe told the crowd: \"I'm so happy to be with you, so thank you for having me. Sorry, I'm so nervous. I had so much more to say but I'm really very overwhelmed. So thank you.\"\n\nThe US singer began her 35-minute, nine-song set with No Tears Left To Cry, the first song she released after the bombing, and the night was at times emotional for both the singer and her fans.\n\nMason Thomas, 20, from Manchester, was at Manchester Arena the night of the attack, and said the Pride show contained \"so many tears, so much happiness\".\n\nHe said: \"I think she was crying at the start during No Tears Left To Cry, which obviously is heartbreaking. But she's so strong. She was there for us. She was there for the LGBT community. She was there for Manchester.\n\n\"I don't know that there was one person who didn't have tears in their eyes. It means so much to the city and it means so much to the world to show what she did tonight and show that hate doesn't win.\"\n\nMolly Baigent (right, with friend Alex Richards) went to Pride as part of her therapy after the arena attack\n\nMolly Baigent, 20, from West Yorkshire, was also at the arena, and made sure she was in the front row for Pride. She said she screamed louder than usual because, \"I wanted to make her feel loved\".\n\nFor Molly, going to the show was part of her therapy. \"Going back is a hard thing,\" she said.\n\n\"One of the things I wanted to do was go to this concert and see how I got on and try and manage my anxiety-related symptoms, which I did, so I'm really proud.\"\n\nAnother concertgoer, Sadie Scorah, 28, from Bolton, said it was \"beautiful and really emotional\" to see Grande back in Manchester - although she would have liked her to have played a full set.\n\n\"To see her perform at her best, and to see the way the crowd reacted... she is like a daughter of our city and it was absolutely beautiful to see her back here,\" she said.\n\n\"We would have loved to see her for longer, but it was really magical to see her back here.\"\n\nGrande played a shortened version of the set from her current world tour. But unlike at other recent shows, she did play her 2014 single One Last Time, which took on extra meaning as an anthem after the arena attack.\n\nThe star has previously said she experienced post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) after the bombing, and Sunday's gig was not back at the arena. It was at a new outdoor venue next to a disused train depot in the city centre.\n\nThe choice of her as a headliner for Manchester Pride Live, the music strand of the city's annual LGBTQ+ celebration, had been criticised by some.\n\nShe and her dancers waved rainbow flags during Thank U, Next, and she said \"the gays have always had my heart\"\n\nA Pride reveller in front of a mural of Ariana Grande's face in Manchester\n\nShe told the crowd how she would regularly go to gay bars to sing when she was learning her trade in New York in her teens.\n\n\"Thank you so much for accepting and celebrating me the way I've always celebrated you guys,\" she said.\n\nThere was also criticism after some ticket-holders said they were locked out because they didn't know they had to be in the venue by 19:00 BST.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. 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To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThere was no mention of further plans for Manchester, which Grande hinted at earlier this year.\n\n\"We are still working on something a little more special for you guys,\" she wrote on Twitter in February. \"It takes a while to put these things together but hopefully I can tell you when I see you at Pride.\"\n\nIn June 2017, Manchester City Council put forward plans to make her an honorary citizen, although a council spokesman said there was no time in her schedule for any ceremony to bestow the honour during this visit.\n\nShe has already played three dates at London's O2 Arena as part of her current tour, and will also perform in Birmingham, Glasgow and Sheffield before returning for two more shows at the O2 in October.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "The funding decision led to protests from pensioners\n\nThe BBC should \"cough up\" and pay for TV licences for all over-75s, the prime minister has said.\n\nIt comes after the BBC announced in June that it would restrict the benefit to those in low-income households.\n\nSpeaking to reporters at the G7 summit, Boris Johnson said the BBC's funding settlement had been conditional on it continuing to fund the free licences - something the corporation disputes.\n\nLabour accused the PM of blaming the broadcaster for government policy.\n\nThe BBC previously said it would limit free licences to low-income households to prevent it having to close services such as BBC Two and Radio 5 Live.\n\nContinuing to fund the free licences would have cost £745m - a fifth of its budget - by 2021-22, the corporation said.\n\nThe decision, meaning around 3.7 million people aged over 75 will have to pay £154.50 for a colour TV licence from next June, sparked protests outside BBC studios.\n\nMr Johnson told reporters at the summit in Biarritz, southern France: \"The BBC received a settlement that was conditional upon their paying for TV licences for the over-75s.\n\nPeople aged over 75 were granted free TV licences when Labour was in power, in 2000. Maintaining it was a Conservative manifesto pledge in 2017.\n\nHowever, the charter agreement hammered out with Conservative ministers in 2015 saw the BBC assume responsibility for funding the commitment from 2020.\n\nA BBC spokeswoman said: \"It was the government which decided to stop funding free TV licences for the over-75s, and Parliament gave responsibility to the BBC to make a decision on the future of the scheme.\n\n\"There was no guarantee that the BBC would continue to fund free licences for the over-75s.\"\n\nIn June, the culture secretary at the time the settlement was reached, John Whittingdale, said \"it was understood that this would be a possible outcome\".\n\nIn the same month, the BBC insisted that cutting stars' salaries would not save enough money to pay for over-75s' licences.\n\n\"Even if we stopped employing every presenter earning more than £150,000, that would save less than £20m,\" said director of policy Clare Sumner.\n\n\"If no senior manager were paid over £150,000 that would save only £5m.\"\n\nLimiting the scheme to households where one person receives pension credit is expected to cost the BBC around £250 million by 2021-22.\n\nHowever, a No 10 source said BBC income had been boosted by requiring iPlayer users to have a licence and linking licence fee increases to inflation.\n\n\"At the time, the director general said it was a 'strong deal for the BBC' and provided 'financial stability',\" the source said, adding: \"The BBC must honour this agreement.\"\n\nLabour deputy leader Tom Watson called on the government to stop \"passing the buck\".\n\n\"This prime minister's disregard for older people is appalling,\" he said.\n\n\"Because of this government's refusal to fund the concession, millions of older people will have their free TV licences scrapped next year.\"\n\nAnd Labour MP Ben Bradshaw - a former BBC journalist - said: \"The BBC is an independent broadcaster. It's not a branch of the Department of Work and Pensions.\n\n\"This was always going to happen - the BBC was stupid to accept this as part of the licence fee [settlement] but it certainly wasn't a condition of it.\n\n\"And if the government wants over-75s to continue to receive free licences it needs to fund it.\"\n\nSome 634,334 people have signed a petition organised by charity Age UK, which is calling on the government to take back responsibility for funding the free licences and honour the 2017 manifesto commitment.\n\nAge UK director Caroline Abrahams said: \"The BBC and the government clearly are in different places on this and it is old people who are in the middle - which we are very uncomfortable about.\n\n\"The government created this situation by passing responsibility for the licence fee to the BBC at the last settlement without giving them all the money to pay for it.\n\n\"Whether the BBC is quite as skint as it is telling everybody I can't possibly say, I'm not a media commentator.\n\n\"It would be sensible for the two parties to come together and draw a line and try to stop this escalating row.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The BBC's director general Lord Hall explains the decision to cut free TV licences for most pensioners", "Men's Ashes: Third Specsavers Test, Headingley (day four of five)\n\nBen Stokes' astonishing 135 not out repeated his World Cup heroics and gave England one of their greatest victories to keep the Ashes series against Australia alive.\n\nJust as he dragged England through the super over against New Zealand, Stokes played one of the most incredible Test innings by an Englishman to level the series at 1-1.\n\nIn the chase of an England record 359 at a delirious Headingley, the home side still needed 73 when Stokes was joined by last man Jack Leach.\n\nLike he did in his innings six weeks ago to the day at Lord's, Stokes launched a stunning solo assault.\n\nHe planted off-spinner Nathan Lyon for three sixes and followed that up by hitting Josh Hazlewood for four, six and six in three consecutive balls, during which point he passed 100.\n\nWith 17 needed to win, Stokes was dropped by a diving Marcus Harris. From the next over, with only two needed, Leach should have been run out, only for Lyon to fumble the ball and, from the very next delivery, Stokes could have been lbw, but Australia were out of reviews.\n\nIn the next over, Leach scrambled a single off Pat Cummins and, with one to win, Stokes hammered through the covers and sank to his knees in exhausted celebration.\n\nIt means the series is level with two matches to play, with the fourth Test at Old Trafford beginning on 4 September.\n• None 'The greatest game I have ever seen' - Agnew\n• None 'If I had a sister I'd want her to marry Stokes' - how social media reacted to Headingley heroics\n\nThe World Cup final was one of the most incredible games of cricket ever played, and for the scale of its drama, tension and heart-stopping finish to be matched in the same summer is barely believable.\n\nAt the centre of both was Stokes, who added to his growing legend by single-handedly maintaining England's hopes of regaining the urn.\n\nNot only that, but he added yet another classic memory to a ground steeped in Ashes history by matching the exploits of Sir Ian Botham in 1981.\n\nAn expectant Headingley was full before play began and, even though at one stage England lost five wickets for 41 runs, as long as there was Stokes, there was hope.\n\nThe noise gradually cranked up with every run added in the last-wicket partnership, the Western Terrace growing in celebration with each ball that Stokes dispatched into the crowd.\n\nAs the winning runs were scored, the noise released matched the magnitude of the achievement.\n\nWhen Stokes summoned the energy to drag himself from the field, he paused and soaked up the adulation, once again as England's magnificent match-winner.\n• None Stokes century one of the great innings - Paine\n• None TMS podcast: Stunning Stokes serves up another Ashes classic at Headingley\n\nFrom 156-3 overnight, England lost Joe Root with only two added to his overnight 75, only for Jonny Bairstow to arrive and take the fight to Australia.\n\nAs of Saturday evening, Stokes was almost shotless - he scored only three off his first 73 balls and was dropped by David Warner at slip off Lyon on 34 - but was swept along with Bairstow in a fifth-wicket stand of 86.\n\nHowever, Bairstow was caught at second slip just after lunch, Jos Buttler was run out in a mix-up with Stokes, Jofra Archer heaved into the hands of deep mid-wicket and Stuart Broad was trapped lbw. The game looked gone.\n\nThat was to discount Stokes, who switched from careful defence to clean striking, his strokeplay made all the more brilliant by the knowledge that one mistake would have ended the match.\n\nAt the other end Leach stoutly survived the one or two deliveries he was trusted to defend at the end of each over - his contribution to the partnership of 76 was one not out from 17 balls.\n\nStokes, though, was in one-day mode - his last 84 runs came from 67 balls. He lofted Lyon down the ground and then into the crowd with an outrageous reverse-sweep.\n\nHe heaved the pace bowlers into the leg side, but also picked gaps in the deep-set field and ran hard.\n\nThere was the drama of Harris' dropped catch at third man - almost identical to Simon Jones at Edgbaston in 2005 - Lyon's fumble when Leach was well short of his ground and the leg-before decision that should have accounted for Stokes when there was only two to win.\n\nBut Stokes was not to be denied and one of the most memorable moments in English cricket history was served up in the baking sunshine.\n\nWhen they were dismantled for 67 on Friday, England looked to have wasted a golden opportunity to level the series.\n\nInstead, they became only the third team in Test history to be bowled out for less than 70 in their first innings and go on to win, as well as setting up a grandstand battle in the final two matches.\n\nAustralia's premier batsman Steve Smith and England's all-time leading wicket-taker James Anderson are set to return for the fourth Test, the latter on his home ground.\n\nIf that match, or the finale at The Oval, can follow the fluctuations of the first three Tests - remember, Smith's brilliance won Australia the first and England were denied in the Lord's dark in the second - then the 2019 Ashes will be spoken of in the same breath as the 2005 series.\n\nEngland cannot afford to lose either of the final two Tests, otherwise Australia will retain the urn.\n\nEngland certainly have issues to address, but when Stokes plays like he did at Headingley, anything seems possible.\n• None Australia's Smith hopes to play in fourth Test after concussion\n• None Relive the drama and watch the highlights\n\n'A freak', 'incredible', 'extraordinary' - what they said\n\nPlayer of the match Ben Stokes on BBC Test Match Special: \"It hasn't quite sunk in. I know we've won the game but I'm pretty tired. A great day.\n\n\"We came in to the day with a chance but it's never over until it's over. At nine down with 70 left it was obvious what was to be done. I only got nervous when we were down below 10 needed but I had my pitching wedge at a perfect length.\n\n\"I couldn't look when Jack Leach was batting. I was just waiting for the reaction of the crowd! It's amazing.\"\n\nEngland captain Joe Root on TMS: \"Ben Stokes is a freak; he's incredible. To win a game on your own from there is just amazing.\n\n\"That will not sink in for a while. We've still got two Tests to play after this! It's crazy.\"\n\nEngland's Stuart Broad on Sky Sports: \"It was one of those 'I was there' moments. It was absolutely spectacular. I don't think anyone in this ground will see a better innings. It had everything.\n\n\"The bloke has got the heart of a lion. Everything he does is for the team. He is the perfect team-mate. He's an incredible cricketer and an even better bloke.\"\n\nEngland's record Test run-scorer Alastair Cook on TMS: \"That is the most extraordinary Test innings ever played by an England batsman. To do that after the World Cup final... those are once-in-a-lifetime innings. And he's done two in six weeks.\"\n\nFormer England captain Michael Vaughan on TMS: \"Something extraordinary has just happened. That shouldn't happen. You shouldn't be able to do that.\n\n\"I have seen great Test match innings. But in an Ashes series, when your team is gone, the urn is practically in the Australia dressing room, to do that is something else.\"\n• None This is England's highest fourth-innings total to win a Test; the previous highest was 332-7 against Australia at Melbourne in 1928-29.\n• None It is the 10th highest successful chase in Test history.\n• None This is the third time a team has been bowled out for under 70 in their first innings and gone on to win the Test - the other two instances also occurred in the Ashes, but in 1882 (Australia 63 all out) and 1887 (England 45 all out).\n• None Ben Stokes and Jack Leach's stand of 76 is the third-highest 10th wicket partnership in the fourth innings to win a first-class match.\n• None This is only England's fourth Test victory by one wicket and first since against South Africa at Cape Town in 1923.\n• None Headingley is the first venue to see four fourth-innings totals over 300 to win a Test.", "Senior Tory MP Sir Oliver Letwin has said he does not support Jeremy Corbyn becoming a caretaker prime minister in a bid to avoid a no-deal Brexit.\n\nBut he backed discussions across the Commons to prevent the UK crashing out of the EU without a deal.\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson has pledged that the UK will leave the EU by 31 October \"do or die\".\n\nMr Corbyn said the UK needs a government that is \"prepared to negotiate\" with the EU.\n\nHis current plan is to win a no-confidence vote in the government, become interim prime minister and \"do everything we can\" to stop a no-deal Brexit.\n\nOnce in the role of caretaker prime minister, Mr Corbyn say he intends to delay Brexit, call a snap election, and campaign for another referendum.\n\nSir Oliver, who was among senior Tories who received a letter from Mr Corbyn about the plan, was asked about Mr Corbyn's proposal on BBC Radio 4's Today programme.\n\n\"That appears to be his agenda. I have to say it is not one I personally share,\" he said.\n\n\"I don't think it's at all likely that a majority would be formed for that and I personally wouldn't want to vote for it. I wouldn't be able to support that, no.\"\n\nSir Oliver, a former cabinet minister, has led several attempts in Parliament to break the Brexit impasse and prevent a no-deal Brexit.\n\nBut he said he was \"not very inclined\" to help bring down the government in a no-confidence vote and would \"rule it out\" if it led to Jeremy Corbyn becoming prime minister.\n\nHis comments came amid an ongoing row among MPs who oppose no deal, with Liberal Democrat leader Jo Swinson initially dismissing Mr Corbyn's plan as a \"nonsense\".\n\nMr Corbyn said he assumed everyone who wanted to avoid a no-deal Brexit - including the Liberal Democrats - would vote for the motion of no confidence that Labour intends to launch against the government.\n\n\"What we need is a government that is prepared to negotiate with the European Union so we don't have a crash-out on the 31st,\" he added.\n\nAnna Soubry, leader of the Independent Group, said she would \"not support nor facilitate any government led by Jeremy Corbyn\".\n\nBut the head of the SNP, Nicola Sturgeon, was among those applying pressure to Ms Swinson to change her stance.\n\nThe Liberal Democrat leader suggested Tory grandee Ken Clarke or former Labour deputy leader Harriet Harman could head a temporary government instead of Mr Corbyn.\n\nMr Clarke responded on Friday to say he was willing to lead a government of national unity to avoid a no-deal Brexit.\n\nAsked if Mr Clarke or Ms Harman could lead the country through a political crisis, Mr Corbyn said: \"What we need is a respect for the electoral process that brought about the results from the last general election.\"\n\nSir Oliver suggested the majority of MPs did not want a no-deal Brexit, although he said he was \"not terribly optimistic\" they would reach an agreement.\n\nThe former minister, who has agreed to meet with Mr Corbyn to discuss plans to avoid a no deal, said opponents of the government's Brexit position needed to \"talk a lot\" and \"talk frankly\".\n\nMeanwhile, fellow senior Tory MP Dominic Grieve said there was a \"a considerable head of steam growing to try to make sure that no deal doesn't occur\".\n\nHe also refused to back the Labour leader to be a caretaker prime minister, telling BBC Radio Scotland's Good Morning Scotland programme it was \"absolutely vital\" any interim PM commanded \"high levels of trust\".\n\n\"I simply don't think that Jeremy Corbyn, as leader of the Labour Party - and particularly with his very strong views, which he's entitled to - is the right person,\" he said.\n\nAlthough he said he himself would be willing to be a caretaker prime minister, he said, \"there are others who are rather more suitable for doing it than I am\".\n\nMr Grieve, a former attorney general, said there was a \"growing number\" of Tory MPs who were \"horrified\" by the direction of Mr Johnson's government.\n\n\"His views, and the way he's expressing them, are so removed from what I would describe as proper and traditional conservatism as to cause real disquiet,\" he said.\n\n\"We have a deeply divided country and we are not going to resolve this problem by this type of tub-thumping populism. \"\n\nHe accused the prime minister of \"behaving like a demagogue\". He said Mr Johnson's language had led to members of the public sending death threats to him for his role in trying to prevent a no-deal Brexit.\n\nMr Johnson earlier this week accused MPs \"who think they can block Brexit\" of a \"terrible collaboration\" with the EU.\n\n\"If leading politicians use language - collaborator is an obvious one - or call people a traitor, you immediately start to receive really vile emails and communications,\" Mr Grieve said.\n\nTory MP and Brexiteer Sir John Redwood told Today he was not worried about opposition to the government's Brexit stance.\n\n\"I would be surprised if this parliament developed a majority to thwart the British people because the overwhelming majority of MPs were elected on a clear promise to see us out of the European Union with a deal if there's a good deal on offer and without the deal if there wasn't a good deal on offer,\" he said.", "Ellie, pictured with partner Dan Taylor and nurse Bobbie Bedford, said her pregnancy was \"a shock\"\n\nA woman with kidney disease who was told she could never have children has given birth to a \"miracle\" baby girl.\n\nEllie Pierce-Oliver, 28, from Stourbridge, West Midlands, had dialysis for three hours a day, six days a week, in the final five months of her pregnancy.\n\nFewer than 7% of women on dialysis conceive, said Dudley Group NHS Trust.\n\nIt is the first birth at the trust for a female renal patient in more than 20 years, a spokesperson added.\n\nMs Pierce-Oliver's daughter Nicci was delivered by caesarean at Russells Hall Hospital, Dudley.\n\nThe new mother, who suffers from an autoimmune condition called Sjögren's syndrome and has undergone two kidney transplants, said she had been \"in shock\" when she found out she was expecting.\n\n\"I don't think it sunk in until halfway through the pregnancy,\" she said.\n\nPartner Dan Taylor said the couple were \"over the moon\" with their \"miracle baby\", born on 2 August, weighing 4lb 12oz.\n\n\"We were worried at first but with all the help... we got our little princess safe and well,\" Mr Taylor added.\n\nBaby Nicci was delivered by caesarean at Russells Hall Hospital, Dudley\n\nMs Pierce-Oliver's usual dialysis sessions were doubled during her pregnancy following advice from specialists at Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Birmingham.\n\nStaff in the renal unit at Russells Hall held a baby shower party to celebrate the new arrival.\n\n\"It has meant five months of sleepless nights for us because we were all so desperate for everything to go well,\" said Bobbie Bedford, haemodialysis lead nurse.\n\nThe charity Kidney Care UK passed its congratulations to the family and highlighted the rarity of their circumstances.\n\n\"The level of the care and treatment the NHS will have given to enable Nicci's birth will be life changing for the family,\" said Fiona Loud, the charity's policy director.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nPolice arrested 13 people as far-right groups rallying in the north-western US city of Portland, Oregon, skirmished with left-wing counter-protesters.\n\nA huge police operation kept the right-wing rally separated from supporters of the antifa, or anti-fascist movement.\n\nSmall clashes that did take place occurred as the rival factions moved away after the rally.\n\nRally organisers were calling for antifa to be declared a domestic terror organisation.\n\nPortland, one of the most liberal cities in the US, is regarded as an antifa stronghold.\n\nPolice said they seized weapons including metal poles and shields from both sets of protesters.\n\nAt least six people suffered minor injuries and one person was taken to hospital.\n\nPortland Police Chief Danielle Outlaw said those arrested faced charges including disorderly conduct, interfering with police, resisting arrest and unlawful use of a weapon.\n\nAt the height of the demonstrations there were about 1,200 people on the streets of the city centre, she told a news conference.\n\nThe rally had mainly been promoted by Joe Biggs, a member of the far-right Proud Boys group and former employee of Alex Jones's Infowars.\n\nProud Boys - which The Southern Poverty Law Center, a major US civil rights organisation, has classified as a hate group - have been involved in previous far-right rallies, and violent street clashes, in Portland.\n\nProud Boys says incidents of violence allegedly involving members of the loosely organised antifa movement, an international coalition of militant activists and protesters opposed to the far right - justifies a ban.\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\nMembers of the local Rose City Antifa group mounted the counter-demonstration in the city.\n\nA statement on its website accused far-right groups of planning \"to bring their branded political violence to our streets\" and encouraged people \"to defend Portland against far-right attack\".\n\nAs well as Proud Boys, a number of other far-right groups said they would be there - including the American Guard, which the Anti-Defamation League has called \"hardcore white supremacist\", and the militia group Three Percenters.\n\nIt follows two years of increasingly violent rallies in Portland, many of which were organised by Joey Gibson, the leader of far-right group Patriot Prayer, who is currently facing criminal charges connected to a right-wing riot outside a bar in May.\n\nBut organisers said this particular rally was a response to an incident said to have taken place at the last far-right rally held in the city, in June.\n\nPresident Donald Trump had said the Portland situation was being closely watched by his administration, and indicated that naming antifa \"an organisation of terror\" was being considered.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript 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\nMr Trump has previously mentioned white supremacists, as well as antifa as being a major issue.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. \"I'm concerned about any group of hate,\" says President Trump", "Phong wrote a letter to thank England for saving him when he was found seriously ill in a suitcase\n\nA teenage victim of people smuggling found squashed in a suitcase has written a thank you letter to English people.\n\nPhong, originally from Vietnam, was in a life-threatening condition when he was found stowed in the back of a car in Dover last year.\n\nThe 16-year-old spent six days in hospital. His smuggler Andrei Iancu, from Romania, was jailed for 18 months.\n\nIn his thank you letter Phong said he never believed he would be loved.\n\nHe said he woke up in hospital scared and in pain but \"kind people\" smiled at him and gave him biscuits, oranges and water.\n\nPhong, now 17, has since been fostered by a family in Ashford, Kent, through the county's social services. He is now learning English and Maths.\n\nHis letter read: \"Dear England, I'm writing a letter to tell you what a difference you have made to my life. You have saved my life. You have given me a family and a home.\"\n\nPhong was discovered during checks at the Port of Dover\n\nHe wrote: \"Now I have a mum, brother, sister, grandad. At first I couldn't speak English very well. We practiced every day.\n\n\"Thank you for finding me, making me better in hospital. Thank you for giving me a family.\n\n\"I never believed I would be loved. There is now a big rainbow in my life instead of darkness.\"\n\nPhong's foster carer Christine Burge said: \"Phong is an incredible young man who has grown so much since he arrived. He makes me very proud every day.\n\n\"He really is the most caring and determined boy I have ever met.\"\n\nFollow BBC South East on Facebook, on Twitter, and on Instagram. Send your story ideas to southeasttoday@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Celtic Football Club have signed an e-sports team to compete in the Call of Duty World League (CWL) Championship.\n\nIt makes them the first UK football club to seriously invest outside of football title Fifa.\n\n\"This is a great opportunity in an e-sports area where we see almost no engagement from professional football clubs,\" Celtic's business manager said.\n\nThe competition, which got more than seven million Twitch views last year, has a prize of more than £1.6 million.\n\nIt starts at the UCLA Bruins basketball arena in LA on Wednesday and will take place over four days.\n\nThe team competing in the CWL Championship has five members: Sean \"Seany\" O'Connor, Shea \"QwiKeR\" Sweeney, Ben \"Bance\" Bance, Byron \"Nastie\" Plumridge and Sam \"Chain\" Dineley.\n\nBoth Seany and QwiKeR are from Glasgow and have been Celtic supporters their whole life - and are definitely excited to represent the green and white on the world stage.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\n\"The fact that Seany and QwiKeR are Celtic fans through and through makes it even more exciting to us as we continue to see the crossover between the traditional and digital worlds,\" business manager Miguel Pacheco said.\n\nWe've seen famous British sports clubs get involved in e-sports before but not really like this.\n\nFootball clubs sponsoring Fifa players is one thing but, other than Paris Saint Germain, they haven't really branched out much past that.\n\nThis experiment, if successful, is surely another step along the road of mainstream sports clubs starting to compete with more established e-sports franchises.\n\nIt's a perfect fit for Celtic in terms of trying to broaden its e-sports presence.\n\nBritish players have a good track record in competitive Call of Duty (CoD) - unlike other e-sports such as CS:GO or League of Legends where most of the professionals are from other countries.\n\nThe British squad that Celtic have signed up may be outsiders to win the World Championships but they have performed well against the world's best in the past and are a good mix of talent and experience.\n\nThe CoD World Championships are always difficult to predict so you never know, they could spring a surprise.\n\nHaving a team of competitive British players wearing the famous green and white hoops on a world e-sports stage will only be a good thing in terms of raising Celtic's profile in the e-sports world.\n\nWith Call of Duty is changing its model for competitive gaming next year as well, this could be an experiment that other mainstream sports clubs with e-sports ambitions are keeping a close eye on.\n\nJaden Ashman from London made headlines recently after winning nearly a million pounds when he came second alongside his teammate in the Fortnite World Cup finals.\n\nThe 15-year old split £1.8 million with his Dutch partner.\n\nThe eventual winner of that competition, Kyle Giersdorf, was \"swatted\" earlier this week - where someone makes a hoax report so the special weapons and tactics (Swat) police raid a target's house while they're streaming.\n\nListen to Newsbeat live at 12:45 and 17:45 weekdays - or listen back here.", "Rescuers fear it could take days - or even weeks - to reach the cavers\n\nRescue workers are fighting to save two cavers in Poland after a narrow tunnel flooded with water, blocking their exit on Saturday.\n\nMore than two dozen rescuers are attempting to reach the pair inside the Wielka Sniezna cave, the longest and deepest in the Tatra mountains.\n\nContact is yet to be established with the cavers and concern is growing.\n\nPreparations are being made to use explosives to blow open a route into the cave.\n\n\"The only way to get to them is through a series of very complicated pyrotechnic actions,\" Jan Krzysztof, head of the Tatra Volunteer Search and Rescue group, told TVN.\n\n\"We have the necessary materials, but this will take a long time,\" he added.\n\n\"We have to be ready for work that could last days if not weeks.\"\n\nThe two became trapped inside the cave on Saturday and the alarm was raised by others on the excursion.\n• None How the Thai boys were rescued", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Phone footage captures tensions outside the stadium and armed police on the pitch\n\nThree people have been killed and about 10 injured in rioting between fans of rival football clubs in the Honduran capital, Tegucigalpa.\n\nThe violence broke out ahead of a planned game between the Motagua and Olimpia clubs on Saturday evening.\n\nIt began when crowds threw stones at the Motagua team bus, injuring three players with shards of broken glass.\n\nFighting continued both inside and outside National Stadium after officials cancelled the game.\n\n\"Three people died and seven were shot and stabbed. One of them is a boy. Three of the injured adults are in critical condition,\" local hospital spokeswoman Laura Schoenherr told Reuters new agency.\n\nMore than 10,000 people were already in the stadium when the trouble erupted. Many were caught in a stampede as police used tear gas to tackle the rioters.\n\nThe Motagua club tweeted pictures of the damage inside the bus after the attack, and of the wounded players being treated in hospital. Those pictured were named as Emilio Izaguirre, Roberto Moreira and Jonathan Rougier.\n\nThe club blamed members of the Ultra-Faithful Olimpia fan club, saying: \"This has to be severely sanctioned by the authorities.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Fútbol Club Motagua This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Coach Justin Langer admitted Steve Smith's injury at Lord's reminded him of the tragic death of Australia batsman Phillip Hughes.\n\nSmith was struck on the neck by England fast bowler Jofra Archer and retired hurt, before returning to make 92.\n\nHughes died aged 25 in November 2014, two days after being hit by a ball when batting in a domestic match.\n\n\"There's obviously some rough memories of a blow like that, there's no fun in it,\" Langer said.\n\nIt was a torrid afternoon for Australia's premier batsman Smith, who made two centuries in the first Test victory at Edgbaston.\n\nThe 30-year-old, batting without an arm guard, was first struck on the forearm by debutant Archer, who bowled consistently in excess of 90mph and sent down one delivery timed at 96mph.\n\nFormer Australia skipper Smith, who was stripped of the captaincy and served a 12-month ban for his role in a ball-tampering scandal during the Test series in South Africa last year, was on 80 when a short ball rose and struck him on the side of the neck. After lengthy discussions with the Australia medical team Smith was persuaded to leave the field.\n\n\"He went through the concussion protocols and seemed to be coming up OK,\" Langer explained. \"He passed all that and he came back in the changing room and had a bit of a smile on his face, he was more worried about his arm, thankfully that's OK, he's had an X-ray on that at the hospital this afternoon.\n\n\"I'm sure he'll be very sore tomorrow, his arm and his neck but he was in good spirits.\n\n\"He passed all the testing and that's why he came back out.\"\n\nSmith did not take the field when England began their second innings but Langer expects his star batsman to play a role in Sunday's final day, when the hosts will resume 104 runs ahead with six wickets intact.\n\n\"As is the protocol he'll have another test in the morning so there is no residual concussion and I suspect he will play the game out there,\" Langer added.\n\n\"These are like my sons so you are never going to put them in harm's way, but he was determined.\n\n\"He said 'I can't get on the honours board unless I'm out batting.' All he was worried about was that he wasn't going to be able to play his forward defence because his top hand grip was hurting.\n\n\"I asked him over and over, privately two or three times and in front of the group, the medical team cleared him and he said he was ready to go.\"\n\nSmith was also not wearing the attachment to the helmet that protects the neck now favoured by most players. Langer said: \"I didn't realise they weren't mandatory until today, but I think Steve wrote in his book that he doesn't feel comfortable, he has all these little idiosyncrasies everyone talks about, he doesn't like shoelaces he can see, he just doesn't feel right. I am sure it will get talked about again, I know they came in after the tragedy of Hughesy.\n\n\"He might re-think it but at the moment the players have a choice. I wouldn't be surprised if they become mandatory in the future.\"", "Boris Johnson will tell EU leaders there needs to be a new Brexit deal when he makes his first trip abroad as PM later this week.\n\nThe UK will leave the EU on 31 October with or without a deal, he will insist.\n\nMeanwhile, the Sunday Times has printed leaked government documents warning of food, medicine and fuel shortages in a no-deal scenario.\n\nA No 10 source told the BBC a former minister leaked the dossier to try to influence discussions with EU leaders.\n\nThe documents say the cross-government paper on preparations for a no-deal Brexit, codenamed Operation Yellowhammer, reveals the UK could face months of disruption at its ports.\n\nIt also states plans to avoid a hard border between Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland are unlikely to prove sustainable.\n\nThe dossier, reported by the Sunday Times, says leaving the EU without a deal could lead to:\n\nThe Downing Street source told the BBC the leaked document \"is from when ministers were blocking what needed to be done to get ready to leave and the funds were not available\".\n\nMichael Gove, who is responsible for overseeing the devolution consequences of Brexit, said in a tweet that Operation Yellowhammer was \"a worst case scenario\".\n\n\"V significant steps have been taken in the last 3 weeks to accelerate Brexit planning,\" he added.\n\nEnergy Minister Kwasi Kwarteng told Sky News' Sophy Ridge on Sunday: \"I think there's a lot of scaremongering around and a lot of people are playing into project fear.\"\n\nBut a former head of the British civil service, Lord Bob Kerslake, who described the document as \"credible\", said the dossier \"lays bare the scale of the risks we are facing with no-deal Brexit in almost every area\".\n\n\"These risks are completely insane for this country to be taking and we have to explore every avenue to avoid them,\" he told BBC Radio 4's Broadcasting House.\n\nIrish deputy prime minister Simon Coveney said, in a tweet, that Ireland had \"always been clear\" a hard border in Ireland \"must be avoided\".\n\nThe Irish backstop - the provision in Theresa May's withdrawal agreement that could see Northern Ireland continue to follow some of the same trade rules as the Republic of Ireland and the rest of the EU, thus preventing a hard border - was an \"insurance policy\" designed to protect the peace process, he said.\n\nLiberal Democrat MP Tom Brake said the leaked documents showed the effects of a no-deal Brexit should be taken more seriously.\n\n\"The government have simply, I think, pretended that this wasn't an issue,\" he said\n\nThe government was in \"a real pickle\", since the \"the US has said that if that border is jeopardised, we're not going to get a trade deal with them\", he said.\n\nSpeaker of the US House of Representatives Nancy Pelosi said, on Wednesday, a US-UK trade deal would not get through Congress if Brexit undermined the Good Friday Agreement.\n\nThe leak comes as the prime minister prepares to travel to Berlin to meet German Chancellor Angela Merkel on Wednesday, before going to Paris to meet French President Emmanuel Macron on Thursday.\n\nMr Johnson is expected to say Parliament cannot and will not change the outcome of the 2016 referendum and insist there must be a new deal to replace Mrs May's withdrawal agreement - defeated three times by MPs - if the UK is to leave the EU with a deal.\n\nHowever, it is thought their discussions will chiefly focus on issues such as foreign policy, security, trade and the environment, ahead of the G7 summit next weekend.\n\nBoris Johnson had been reluctant to fly to meet European leaders until it seemed a breakthrough was likely.\n\nWhen Mr Johnson meets the EU's most powerful leaders - Angela Merkel and Emmanuel Macron - he will repeat his message that the UK is leaving, no matter what, at the end of October.\n\nHe will tell them face-to-face for the first time that the only way the UK will sign up to a deal is if the EU thinks again, and replaces the agreement brokered by Mrs May.\n\nBut there seems to be little chance of any serious progress in the coming days.\n\nNo 10 does not seem particularly optimistic and says it expects both sides will say their piece, then move on to other issues.\n\nAnti-Brexit campaigner Gina Miller said the Government had \"unequivocally\" accepted it could not shut down Parliament to clear the way for a no-deal Brexit.\n\nShe told Sky's Sophy Ridge On Sunday: \"What they have said is, unequivocally, they accept that to close down Parliament, to bypass them in terms of Brexit - stopping a no-deal Brexit, in particular - is illegal.\"\n\nBut Ms Miller said she would continue to seek further reassurances that MPs would be able to pass legislation to stop a no-deal Brexit.\n\nMeanwhile, a cross-party group of more than 100 MPs has urged the prime minister to recall Parliament and let it sit permanently until the UK leaves the EU.\n\nIn a letter, MPs say the country is \"on the brink of an economic crisis\".\n\nIt continues: \"Parliament must be recalled now in August and sit permanently until 31 October, so that the voices of the people can be heard, and that there can be proper scrutiny of your government.\"\n\nLabour leader Jeremy Corbyn has reiterated his call for MPs to work together to stop a no-deal Brexit.\n\nSpeaking to the Observer, Mr Corbyn said his plan to be installed as an interim prime minister was the \"simplest and most democratic way to stop no deal\".\n\nThe Labour leader has said, as a caretaker PM, he would delay Brexit, call a snap election, and campaign for another referendum.\n\nBut Lib Dem leader Jo Swinson said Mr Corbyn was \"divisive\" and instead suggested Conservative MP Ken Clarke or former Labour leader Harriet Harman could head a temporary government.\n\nElsewhere, in a letter seen by the Mail on Sunday, Mr Johnson warned rebel Tory MPs their opposition to a no-deal Brexit was damaging the prospect of getting a new deal.\n\nHe said it was \"plain as a pikestaff\" that the EU will \"not compromise as long as they believe there is the faintest possibility that Parliament can block Brexit on 31 October\".", "Reports of a rotting chicken and a dog with missing fur are two examples of the 999 emergency call system being misused.\n\nThey've been highlighted by Thames Valley Police as the force launches a campaign to encourage people to use online reporting or the non-emergency 101 phone number.\n\nThey say that 80% of the calls to 999 are not emergencies.", "These fox cubs were caught on camera bouncing around on a family's trampoline.\n\nMartin Greenhalgh, 51, from Cardiff, had a security alert on his CCTV after the motion-sensor cameras picked up movement in his back garden.\n\nHe said he was stunned when he saw the four cubs jumping playfully.\n\n\"I looked at the camera and it was just amazing to see them there in the middle of the night,” he said.", "PC Andrew Harper was killed near Sulhamstead in Berkshire\n\nTen suspects arrested on suspicion of murdering a policeman remain in custody - as officers search a caravan site near the scene of his death.\n\nPC Andrew Harper, 28, who got married four weeks ago, was responding to a burglary report on Thursday when he was dragged along a road by a vehicle.\n\nHe was killed on the A4 Bath Road in the Berkshire village of Sulhamstead.\n\nTen people aged between 13 and 30 were arrested.\n\nPolice have been at the Four Houses Corner Caravan Site, about three miles from the death scene, since Friday.\n\nRun by West Berkshire Council, it is described as a traveller site on the authority's website.\n\nFurther searches are also taking place on the road where PC Harper died.\n\nAround 10 forensics officers in white overalls could be seen combing the area as police widened the cordon around the scene.\n\nPolice officers have been at a caravan site near to the scene where PC Harper was killed\n\nThames Valley Police Chief Constable John Campbell said the death of PC Harper had left the entire force \"shocked and saddened\".\n\nMr Campbell said the officer was a \"highly regarded, popular member of the team\" and his death was a \"significant loss\" to the force and also to his colleagues and friends.\n\nThe 10 boys and men remain in custody at various police stations.\n\nThe Independent Office for Police Conduct said it was not investigating.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The officer was killed at the crossroads of Ufton Lane and Lambdens Hill\n\nPC Harper was killed at the crossroads of Ufton Lane and Lambdens Hill and Thames Valley Police said it was still trying to establish the exact chain of events.\n\nThe force said PC Harper, who became a regular officer in 2011 after joining as a special constable a year earlier, had attended the reported break-in with a fellow officer.\n\nThe officer on duty with PC Harper was not physically injured but it being given emotional support, Thames Valley Police added.\n\nForensics officers in white overalls combed the road on Saturday\n\nMr Campbell said: \"What we do know is Andrew had been dragged along by a vehicle.\"\n\nHe said the suspects were detained within about an hour and officers are working \"hard and diligently to find out what happened\".\n\nA post-mortem examination is taking place to establish the cause of death.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. \"We are shocked and saddened by the death of our colleague\"\n\nMr Campbell said PC Harper was a \"highly regarded, popular member of the team\", adding: \"Everybody I've spoken to about Andrew talked about the incredible personality he was, what a fantastic police officer, and what a great friend and man he was, and he'll be sorely missed by everybody.\n\n\"My thanks go to all those staff and officers who attended this incident, as well as our colleagues at the fire service and also the ambulance service for their professionalism and support at what you can imagine was obviously a distressing scene.\"\n\nHe said the force's flags are flying at half mast as a sign of respect \"in honour and memory of Andrew\".\n\nPC Harper got married to fiancee Lissie just four weeks ago\n\nThe Deputy Police and Crime Commissioner for Thames Valley, Matthew Barber, said he had received messages from members of the public PC Harper had helped.\n\nA domestic violence victim said the officer had given her the confidence to come forward about her abusive partner, Mr Barber said.\n\n\"He was clearly a man who, in his short time, touched many lives\", he added.\n\nRelatives of PC Harper paid tributes on social media to the \"loveliest person that you will ever meet\".\n\nMaureen Shrimpton wrote: \"Just a really horrible day. Our grandson Andrew was killed last night while doing his police work.\n\n\"So proud of him. Our love goes to his lovely wife, mum and dad, brother and all of his family and friends.\"\n\nColleagues and members of the public have left floral tributes at the scene\n\nThe attack on PC Harper is the third time in recent weeks an officer has been seriously hurt in the line of duty.\n\nMetropolitan Police officer Stuart Outten was stabbed in the head on 8 August.\n\nDays later a 42-year-old West Midlands Police officer suffered serious head and pelvic injuries when he was run over with his own vehicle.\n\nPolice Federation chairman John Apter said 10 officers had died in the line of duty in the past decade - a figure he called \"truly shocking\".\n\nWhile policing was \"dangerous and unpredictable\", it was difficult to ignore the loss of 22,000 officers as a result of budget cuts, he said.\n\nThis had left those in the job more vulnerable than they were 10 years ago, he said.\n\n\"Society has become a much more violent place and, for some, life is cheap,\" he said.\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson called PC Harper's death a \"mindless and brutal\" crime, adding he was \"shocked and appalled\" by the attack.\n\nLabour leader Jeremy Corbyn said: \"I'm totally shocked at Andrew Harper's death and my immediate thoughts are condolences to his family and to his colleagues.\"\n\nHome Secretary Priti Patel said: \"PC Harper died in the line of duty protecting the public and his incredible bravery and extraordinary sacrifice will not be forgotten.\"\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\nGibraltar has rejected a request by the US to again seize an Iranian tanker that it has been holding since July on suspicion of transporting oil to Syria.\n\nThe US made the last-minute request on Friday, a day after Gibraltar lifted its detention order against Grace 1.\n\nGibraltar said it could not comply with Washington's request to issue a new detention order because US sanctions against Iran did not apply in the EU.\n\nThe tanker is due to leave Gibraltar later on Sunday, Iran's UK envoy says.\n\nTehran said it was ready to dispatch its navy to escort the ship, which has had its named changed from Grace 1 to Adrian Darya 1.\n\nThe ship with its crew of 29 - from India, Russia, Latvia and the Philippines - was seized with the help of British marines on 4 July, after the government of Gibraltar - a British territory - suggested it was heading for Syria in breach of EU sanctions.\n\nThe move sparked a diplomatic crisis between the UK and Iran, which has escalated over recent weeks and saw Iran seize a British-flagged and Swedish-owned oil tanker, Stena Impero, in the Gulf.\n\nThe Gibraltar authorities freed the vessel on Thursday after receiving assurances from Iran that it would not discharge its cargo in Syria.\n\nThe US justice department then filed a request to detain the ship on the grounds that it had links to Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, which it has designated a terrorist group.\n\nGibraltar, in a statement on Sunday, said it could not comply with the request because the Revolutionary Guard is not viewed as a terrorist organisation by the EU, which the British territory is currently part of.\n\nIt also said that American sanctions preventing oil exports from Iran cannot be enforced by the EU, reflecting what it said were \"the very different positions and legal regimes in the US and the EU\".\n\nThere has been no response yet from Washington.\n\nIran's ambassador to Britain, Hamid Baeidinejad, tweeted on Sunday that two specialist engineering teams were on their way to Gibraltar and said: \"The ship is expected to depart tonight.\"\n\nThe Stena Impero, which was seized by the Revolutionary Guard on 19 July, remains in Iranian hands.\n\nThe UK has since announced it would join a US-led taskforce to protect merchant ships travelling through the key shipping route in the Strait of Hormuz.\n\nThe British-flagged Stena Impero was seized by Iran on 22 July\n\nTensions between Iran and the West can be traced to the resurgence of another crisis - that over Iran's nuclear programme.\n\nLast year, Washington withdrew from a 2015 deal to limit Iran's nuclear activities amid suspicion that Tehran was still trying to develop nuclear weapons, something Iran has always denied.\n\nSince then, US-Iran tensions have grown after Washington imposed - and latterly tightened - its sanctions against the country.\n\nThe UK and other European countries have said they remain committed to the deal.", "Owen Jones was leaving a pub in north London when a group of men assaulted him\n\nPolice in London have appealed for witnesses after Labour activist Owen Jones was attacked by a group of men.\n\nThe Metropolitan Police said officers were looking into whether the \"senseless attack\" was a hate crime.\n\nThe Guardian columnist had been celebrating his birthday with friends at the Lexington pub in north London when the men made a \"direct beeline\" for him in the early hours of Saturday.\n\nMr Jones has said he believes his attackers were far right activists.\n\nHe told the BBC he had left the pub with his friends at about 02:00 BST when a group of men came out of the venue and began kicking and punching him.\n\nPolice appealed for information to help identify four male suspects who hurt Mr Jones - as well as assaulting his friends when they tried to intervene.\n\nMr Jones said the attack was the latest in a series of assaults since he was verbally abused by protesters on College Green in Westminster earlier this year.\n\nDet Sgt Scott Barefoot said: \"This was a completely senseless attack on a man simply enjoying a night out with friends.\"\n\n\"We are looking into the circumstances of this incident, including if it was a hate crime,\" he said.\n\nAlthough Mr Jones only sustained minor injuries to his back, arm and head, Det Sgt Barefoot said: \"The effects of becoming a victim of such an attack can continue when any injuries have healed.\"\n\nHe urged any witnesses to come forward, anonymously or otherwise. No arrests have been made.\n\nLabour leader Jeremy Corbyn led condemnation of the attack on Saturday, saying an attack on a journalist was \"an attack on free speech and our fundamental values\".", "Archaeologists were astonished by the \"fabulous artefacts\" found at the site\n\nThe earliest evidence of fish tapeworm in Britain has been discovered preserved in human faeces, according to experts at Cambridge University.\n\nThe finds were unearthed at a site dubbed \"Britain's Pompeii\", a burnt-out 3,000-year-old village at Must Farm in Cambridgeshire.\n\nFish tapeworm can grow up to 10m (32ft) long and live coiled in the intestines.\n\nThe university said the research offered the first clear understanding of prehistoric Fen people's diseases.\n\nCambridge University's Dr Marissa Ledger said it also appeared they shared food with their dogs, because both were infected by similar parasitic worms from eating the raw fish, amphibians and molluscs.\n\nArchaeologists uncovered at least five roundhouses at the Must Farm quarry site, with many ancillary finds\n\nExperts from the Cambridge Archaeological Unit at the university said they believed the \"exceptionally well-preserved\" village was just a few months old when it burnt down.\n\nCircular wooden houses built on stilts, pots with food still inside, jewellery and evidence of fine fabric-making were just some of the finds unearthed during the 10-month long dig in 2016.\n\nIn addition waterlogged \"coprolites\" - pieces of human faeces - were discovered preserved in the surrounding mud, according to a study published in the journal Parasitology.\n\nHistoric England - which helped fund the dig - said the site, at Whittlesey near Peterborough, showed a \"frozen moment in time\"\n\nTeams from Cambridge and Bristol universities used microscopy techniques to detect ancient parasite eggs within the faeces and determined whether it was from a human or dog.\n\nEvidence for Echinostoma and giant kidney worms was also discovered, during months of analysis since the dig was completed.\n\nThe researchers said little was known about the intestinal diseases of Bronze Age Britain.\n\nA previous study of a farming village in Somerset found evidence of parasites spread through the contamination of food by human faeces.\n\nThis was less evident at Must Farm, possibly because waste was disposed of into the water around the marshy settlement.\n\nDr Ledger said the research \"enables us for the first time to clearly understand the infectious diseases experienced by prehistoric people living in the Fens\".\n\nAnalysis of human and dog faeces revealed the villagers were infected with microscopic eggs of fish tapeworm (left), giant kidney worm (centre) and Echinostoma worm (right)\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "After more than 50 years, Didcot power station's cooling towers have been demolished.\n\nThe power station's gigantic, concrete towers created clouds of dust as they were blown up in the heart of Midsomer Murders country.\n\nBut seconds after they fell power was cut from up to 49,000 homes when a electricity pole was damaged.", "Michael Campbell-Brown now works for the outsourcing company Serco\n\nA convicted businessman who donated £2.4m to the Liberal Democrats has said it was the \"stupidest\" thing he has ever done in his life.\n\nMichael Brown made the payment - a record sum for the party - in 2005.\n\nBut a year later, he was jailed for perjury and then fled the UK for the Caribbean while facing other criminal charges.\n\nHe told BBC News he now regrets the donation because it led to an \"onslaught of recognition\".\n\n\"I feel bad because giving the money brought me to the forefront... and caused an enormous amount of pain on my family,\" he said.\n\n\"I broke the law and deserve the pain that I got - my family never deserved that.\"\n\nIn a wide-ranging interview - his first for 12 years - Michael Brown, now known as Michael Campbell-Brown, revealed he is using his experience of being a prisoner to help other inmates adapt.\n\nThe 53-year-old is employed by outsourcing giant Serco, which runs six prisons in England and Scotland, to improve procedures in the first days after offenders are locked up, when they are most vulnerable and at risk of suicide.\n\nHe trains prisoners to be \"mentors\" so they can advise and guide new arrivals.\n\n\"When a prisoner comes off that bus, he's nervous beyond belief and he does not know what is going to happen in the next four or five hours of his life - or the next four or five days,\" he said.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Convicted conman Michael Brown is being held in a cell in the Dominican Republic while the country works out the next step in his complex case\n\nDuring his first spell behind bars, which lasted 12 months, the Glasgow-born financier said he witnessed prisoners harming themselves and was \"absolutely petrified\".\n\nFollowing his release, he faced the prospect of being sent back to jail after he was charged with further offences, relating to the theft of an investment of almost £8m from Martin Edwards, the former Manchester United chairman.\n\n\"I'd brought shame on my family, I'd brought stress on my family and I thought, there's two ways I can deal with this - one is to take the final step, the other one is to circle the wagons and get out of Dodge,\" he said.\n\nIn 2008, while on bail awaiting trial, he took a cab to Gatwick airport and, using a false passport, he flew to the Dominican Republic under the name \"Darren Nally\".\n\nThe Dominican Republic does not have an extradition treaty with Britain.\n\nHe remained in the country for four years, during which time he was found guilty in his absence of theft, providing false information and perverting the course of justice.\n\nThe court heard he had secretly spent cash from investors on the Lib Dem donation and to fund an \"extravagant\" lifestyle.\n\nHis actions amounted to a \"breach of trust\", the trial judge declared.\n\nAfter Campbell-Brown was tracked down, he returned to the UK, where he served half of a seven-and-a-half year prison sentence.\n\nHe now admits that he was motivated by a misguided desire to impress people, thinking they would respect him if he was a \"larger-than-life character\" - and by a craving to be rich.\n\n\"My greed got the better of me,\" he said, adding that he's \"horrendously sorry\" for what he did to Mr Edwards.\n\nAfter he was let out in 2016, Campbell-Brown began blogging and giving talks about penal issues, and worked at the publicly-run Leicester Prison and in jails run by G4S.\n\nThe work stopped for a while last year, after it was reported that the Spanish authorities were investigating him over allegations of money laundering.\n\nHe has denied that he's facing any \"active\" inquiries, and there has been no confirmation that any such investigations are taking place.\n\nCampbell-Brown has since been given clearance to work for Serco and was recently asked to address a conference attended by prison officers, which was organised by the well-respected Butler Trust.\n\nHe now deeply regrets the controversial donation that thrust him into the spotlight.\n\nHe was an admirer of the Liberal Democrats' then-leader, Charles Kennedy, and wanted to \"level\" the political playing field with the Conservatives and Labour in the 2005 general election campaign.\n\nBut he said the £2.4 million payment, made via his firm, Fifth Avenue Partners Ltd, should have been rejected by the party.\n\n\"They should have said to me: 'But Michael, you don't live in the United Kingdom, you're not registered on the voters' roll, your company was only born six months ago; really sorry Michael, thanks for coming, but no thanks,'\" he said.\n\n\"That's what they should have done, but of course, you know, the pound signs tend to obscure absolutely everything else.\"\n\nAlthough the Lib Dems faced calls to return the donation, they kept it after the Electoral Commission concluded they hadn't broken any rules and had accepted the payment in good faith.\n\nBut Campbell-Brown no longer supports the party because of the way he believes Mr Kennedy was forced out as leader in 2006, amid concerns that his drink problem was affecting his job.\n\nHe died in 2015, at the age of 55.\n\n\"They drove him out... because he was an alcoholic,\" he said.\n\n\"That person then dies an early death. I'm sorry, you're responsible for that,\" he added.\n\nThe Lib Dems are disgusted by that accusation - a source said they would not \"dignify\" it with a response.\n\nAs Campbell-Brown, a self-confessed \"Walter Mitty\" character, tries to rebuild his reputation, as someone committed to improving the lot of prisoners, he may find it harder than he thinks to shake off his old political connections and criminal past.\n\nHear more on this story on BBC Radio 4 Broadcasting House this Sunday, and Sunday 25 August.", "More than £100,000 has been donated to a crowdfunding page set up to support the family of a police officer who was killed in Berkshire.\n\nPC Andrew Harper, 28, died on Thursday in Sulhamstead when he was dragged along the road by a vehicle.\n\nA fundraising page set up by the Thames Valley Police Federation passed the £100,000 mark on Sunday.\n\nTen males aged between 13 and 30 have been held on suspicion of murder and remain in custody.\n\nThames Valley Police said on Saturday it had been granted an extra 36 hours to question the suspects.\n\nPC Harper was killed after responding to a burglary at the A4 Bath Road from Lambdens Hill and Ufton Lane.\n\nSince his death, people have been laying tributes in the grass near to where he died.\n\nA box at the scene has PC Harper's shoulder number and a photo of his wife Lissie, who he married last month.\n\nReading and Cardiff City's players stood for a minute's silence in remembrance of PC Andrew Harper\n\nThe fundraising page says: \"We confront danger on a daily basis. We know there is a risk when we put on the uniform but we do so as we are proud to protect the public.\n\n\"Sadly on very rare and horrendous occasions a colleague makes the ultimate sacrifice. We will ensure that heroism is never forgotten.\"\n\nOne tribute from his family read: \"We will never recover our darling Andrew.\n\n\"You will never feel the pain of growing old or a broken heart.\n\n\"I feel your presence warming me in my darkest hours and minutes and know there's enough to share with all those who love and need you right now.\n\nFloral tributes have been left at the scene near the A4 Bath Road\n\n\"Sleep tight sweetheart, see you one day.\"\n\nForensic officers have spent most of the weekend searching the grass and surrounding area.\n\nOn Saturday Thames Valley Police's Det Supt Ailsa Kent told a press conference PC Harper's cause of death has been recorded as multiple injuries.\n\n\"[That] is consistent with our current belief that Andrew was caught between a vehicle and the road and then dragged for a distance,\" she said.\n\nDet Supt Kent said it remained unclear how PC Harper \"came to be out of his vehicle and then caught under the suspect vehicle\".\n\nShe said the 10 boys and men had been arrested at council-run caravan and mobile home site, Four Houses Corner, about three miles from where PC Harper died.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. \"We are shocked and saddened by the death of our colleague\"\n\nRelatives of PC Harper have also paid tribute on social media to the \"loveliest person that you will ever meet\".\n\nHis grandmother Maureen Shrimpton wrote: \"Just a really horrible day. Our grandson Andrew was killed last night while doing his police work.\n\n\"So proud of him. Our love goes to his lovely wife, mum and dad, brother and all of his family and friends.\"\n\nPC Harper got married to his fiancée Lissie just four weeks ago\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nAbout 9,000 people have been evacuated as wildfires rip through Gran Canaria in the Canary Islands.\n\nThe fires, which started on Saturday, are advancing on two fronts in a mountainous area of the island.\n\nIn a press conference on Monday, authorities called the incident \"an unprecedented environmental tragedy\".\n\nEfforts to tackle the fires are being hampered by high temperatures, strong winds and low humidity, officials said.\n\nAbout 14 planes and helicopters, as well as about 700 firefighters on the ground including 200 from the military, have been deployed.\n\nThe blaze has so far spared residential areas and tourist hotspots, but has spread into the island's Tamadaba natural park, home to some of the island's oldest pine forests.\n\n\"The fire is not contained nor stabilised or controlled,\" Canary Islands regional president Angel Victor Torres told a news conference on Sunday.\n\nPlanes and helicopters have been deployed to tackle the blazes\n\nThe fires are threatening old areas of pine forest\n\nIn some areas, the flames were so high that water-dropping planes were unable to operate.\n\nThe fires started near the town of Tejeda. Overnight, the affected area increased from 3400 to 6000 hectares and flames as high as 50 metres (164 ft) were reported.\n\nRequests for assistance had been made to the Spanish central government, Mr Torres added.\n\nHundreds of people were evacuated due to separate wildfires on the holiday island last week.\n\nAre you in the area? Have you been evacuated? 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:", "A search operation has been launched after a six-year-old boy fell into a river in Kent.\n\nKent Fire and Rescue Service said the child fell into the River Stour close to Richborough Road and the A256 in Sandwich at about 13:30 BST.\n\nA Coastguard helicopter, an inshore lifeboat, firefighters and police are hunting for the child.\n\nLocal people offering assistance were given briefings on how to help search for the boy safely.\n\nEmergency services warned them not to place themselves at risk, especially as the light fades.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Men's Ashes: Second Specsavers Test, Lord's (day four of five)\n\nThe second Ashes Test is poised for a thrilling conclusion after a memorable fourth day in which the fast bowlers of England and Australia illuminated Lord's.\n\nIn a ferocious spell in which he touched 96mph, England debutant Jofra Archer struck Steve Smith on the neck and forced the world's best batsman to retire hurt on 80.\n\nSmith returned 40 minutes later but, clearly shaken, shouldered arms to be lbw to Chris Woakes for 92 as Australia were bowled out for 250 - eight behind.\n\nPat Cummins used his own pace to remove Jason Roy and Joe Root in successive balls and, although Rory Burns and Joe Denly steadied England, both fell to Peter Siddle.\n\nAt the end of it all, England scraped to 96-4 - a lead of 104 - leaving all four results possible in a Test where the entire first day and most of the third were lost to rain.\n\nTo be out of danger, England will probably need to bat beyond lunch on Sunday.\n\nBut it may also be that their best chance of winning is to run through an Australia side chasing a low target, potentially without Smith, who, as well as being hit on the neck, required an X-ray on his left arm.\n\nThe finale will be played out on a pitch that is showing increasing signs of uneven bounce and in front of a sell-out crowd with the weather set fair.\n\nAfter England were heavily beaten in the first Test, Sunday could see them back in the series, or the Ashes as good as gone.\n• None Smith falls for 92 after retiring hurt from Archer blow\n\nLord's has witnessed some incredible cricket this summer: the astonishing World Cup final, Ireland bowling England out for 85, and Jack Leach making 92 as a nightwatchman.\n\nThis ranks alongside them all and served as a perfect example of how exhilarating Test cricket can be when ferocious bowlers produce pace that rattles even the best batsmen.\n\nThe battle between Archer and Smith was sporting theatre, with the sickening blow suffered by the former captain leaving a previously baying crowd in worried silence.\n\nThe next act was Smith's surprising return, with Cummins then bringing his own fire and celebrating as if the Test was on the way to being won.\n\nAs England battled to stay afloat, the drama grew through two David Warner dropped catches and two lbw appeals from off-spinner Nathan Lyon that should have been given but were not reviewed.\n\nIn gathering gloom that necessitated the use of the floodlights, Ben Stokes and Jos Buttler doggedly took the lead past 100 and left the match hanging in the balance.\n• None Quiz: Can you name England's Ashes debutants since 2000?\n\nUntil lunch, it seemed inevitable that the prolific Smith would nudge, shuffle and occasionally drive his way to his third century in as many innings and put Australia into the lead.\n\nThat was all changed by Archer, who not only provided the pace that England have so badly needed in their previous battles with Smith, but also proved that the anticipation surrounding his entrance into Test cricket was worth the hype.\n\nArcher had been worked over by Cummins when batting on the second day and dished out his revenge here. First he had skipper Tim Paine caught at short leg before striking a blow to Smith's forearm which required the X-ray but did not cause a fracture.\n\nIn the next four balls he faced from Archer, the uncomfortable Smith played three uncontrolled hooks and almost fended to short leg. From the fifth, the horrible impact to the neck forced him from the field.\n\nWhen Smith was cleared by medical staff to make his return, Archer was out of his attack, but the batsman was clearly not himself. From the second ball he faced, he swiped Woakes into the leg side and, after a classical back-foot drive, edged another four.\n\nFinal proof that Smith was rattled came when his usual impeccable judgement failed, leaving him to play no shot to a straight ball from Woakes that would have hit middle stump.\n\nEven if this day will mainly be remembered for the Archer-Smith battle, it was still one that Australia had the better of, first by moving from 80-4 to virtual first-innings parity, then by taking four wickets in the evening session.\n\nPaine and Cummins made useful contributions of 23 and 20 respectively before Cummins hurtled in after tea.\n\nRoy offered a leading edge which Cummins slid to take and, from the next ball, Root edged to Paine.\n\nBurns and Denly added 55, the former gritty and latter occasionally loose. Denly was dropped on seven by Warner at first slip off Siddle, while Burns should have been given leg before to Lyon on 24.\n\nWhereas Burns added only five more before got a lifter from Siddle that he edged behind, Denly took his score to 26 by the time he tamely patted back to the same bowler.\n\nAt 71-4, England were in real danger, but were seen through by Stokes and Buttler. Still, Stokes was dropped at slip on six by Warner and escaped being lbw, both off Lyon.\n\nWhat will happen on the final day?\n\nEngland's Chris Woakes on BBC Test Match Special: \"We have got 98 overs tomorrow so more time than you think.\n\n\"It's hard to put a number on it but we have got to bat sensibly. We have two guys at the crease who can accelerate quickly so the morning session will be crucial.\"\n\nFormer England captain Alec Stewart on TMS: \"Absolutely even stevens at the moment. England need to be batting at lunch - can they get a 250 lead before bowled out?\n\n\"For that to happen Stokes and Buttler need to play like we haven't seen them bat so far in this series. Stokes was as bad as I have seen him play today but the good thing is both frontline batsmen are still there.\"\n\nEx-England captain Michael Vaughan on TMS: \"England can get another 100. But they could lose four wickets inside the first 30 minutes and it could be Australia are chasing 150.\"", "Last updated on .From the section Football\n\nThree people have died in clashes between rival fans in Honduras, with former Celtic player Emilio Izaguirre among 10 people injured.\n\nViolence broke out inside and outside the stadium before the derby between Olimpia and Motagua in Tegucigalpa.\n\nIzaguirre, 33, was one of three players injured when stones were thrown at the Motagua team bus outside the stadium.\n\nHe later shared an image of himself sporting a dressing and said glass had damaged his eye.\n\nIn a post on Instagram, Izaguirre said it is \"painful\" to think of those who died in the clashes.\n\nHe played down his own injuries, saying some glass went into his eye but added it is \"nothing serious\" and \"the danger is over\".\n\nThe fixture was postponed as a result of violence, which saw police use tear gas to tackle rioters.\n\n\"Three people died and seven were shot and stabbed. One of them is a boy. Three of the injured adults are in critical condition,\" local hospital spokeswoman Laura Schoenherr told Reuters new agency.\n\nMotagua blamed members of the Ultra-Faithful Olimpia fan club, saying: \"This has to be severely sanctioned by the authorities.\"\n\nIzaguirre started his career with Motagua in 2003 before joining Celtic in 2010. He spent seven years with the Glasgow club before moving to Al-Fayha in Saudi Arabia, only to return to Celtic in 2018 for a further season.\n\nIn all, Izaguirre won seven Scottish Premier League titles with Celtic and returned to Motagua for a second spell this season.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Speaking to the BBC's Quentin Sommerville in October 2018, Jack Letts said he had been an \"enemy of Britain\"\n\nThe parents of a UK-Canadian man who joined the Islamic State group have said former Home Secretary Sajid Javid is a \"coward\" for revoking his British citizenship.\n\nJack Letts - dubbed Jihadi Jack - was 18 when he left his Oxfordshire school in 2014 to join IS fighters in Syria.\n\nSally Lane said her son had not been contacted ahead of the move, which his father likened to a \"kick in the gut\".\n\nThe Home Office said it would not comment on individual cases.\n\nThe Canadian government said it was \"disappointed\" the UK had \"off-loaded\" its responsibilities.\n\nMr Letts, who is a dual UK-Canadian national, was jailed after being captured by Kurdish YPG forces while trying to flee to Turkey in May 2017.\n\nHis parents, John Letts, 58, and Sally Lane, 57, were convicted in June this year of funding terrorism after sending their son £223.\n\nThey both told Channel 4 News they were \"shocked\" their son's citizenship had been revoked.\n\n\"It's kind of like you're [being] kicked in the gut,\" Mr Letts said.\n\nHe said it was a \"really disappointing\" move by the British government that was \"just shirking responsibility and passing the buck off to the Canadians\".\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 decision is thought to be one of the last made by Theresa May's government - when now-chancellor Sajid Javid was home secretary.\n\n\"I think it's maybe Sajid that's a bit of a coward and in denial and naive, and obviously it's his last act [as home secretary] and he can move on and not have to even justify it,\" Mr Letts's father said.\n\nHe added he would \"love to have a debate\" with Mr Javid about the decision.\n\nMrs Lane said it was a \"real shock\" the government did it without \"any form of redress or discussion\" with her son.\n\n\"He's being held incommunicado and has no access to a lawyer,\" she said.\n\nJohn Letts and Sally Lane were given suspended prison sentences in June\n\nCanada have also expressed disappointment in the government's decision.\n\nA statement on behalf of Canada's public safety minister Ralph Goodale's office said: \"Terrorism knows no borders, so countries need to work together to keep each other safe.\n\n\"Canada is disappointed that the United Kingdom has taken this unilateral action to off-load their responsibilities.\"\n\nCanada added that it was aware some Canadian citizens were being detained in Syria, but there was \"no legal obligation to facilitate their return\".\n\n\"We will not expose our consular officials to undue risk in this dangerous part of the world.\"\n\nFormer defence minister Tobias Ellwood said removing the radicalised fighter's citizenship \"shunts the responsibility elsewhere\" when many fighters were \"radicalised here in the UK\".\n\nHe added that Britain \"should be leading calls\" on how \"foreign fighters face justice and who is ultimately responsible for bringing them to justice\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript 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 Tobias Ellwood MP This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nWhile the Home Office would not comment on the issue, a spokesman said: \"Decisions on depriving a dual national of citizenship are based on substantial advice from officials, lawyers and the intelligence agencies and all available information.\n\n\"This power is one way we can counter the terrorist threat posed by some of the most dangerous individuals and keep our country safe.\"\n\nMr Letts, who converted to Islam when he was 16, dropped out of studying for his A-levels at a school in Oxford in 2014 before moving to Syria to join the so-called Islamic State.\n\nThe jihadist terror group became known worldwide for its brutal mass killings and beheadings.\n\nIn an interview with the BBC's Quentin Sommerville, Mr Letts said: \"I know I was definitely an enemy of Britain.\"\n\nAfter being pressed on why he left the UK to join the jihadist group, he said: \"I thought I was leaving something behind and going to something better.\"\n\nJack Letts was dubbed \"Jihadi Jack\" after he travelled to Syria in 2014\n\nHe told ITV News earlier this year that he wanted to return to the UK as he felt British - but understood it was unlikely he would be able to.\n\n\"I'm not going to say I'm innocent. I'm not innocent. I deserve what comes to me. But I just want it to be... appropriate... not just haphazard, freestyle punishment in Syria,\" he said, at the time. .\n\nFollowing an Old Bailey trial, his parents were sentenced to 15 months' imprisonment, suspended for 12 months, for funding terrorism.\n\nUnder international law, a person can only be stripped of their citizenship by a government if it does not leave them stateless.\n\nMr Javid stripped Shamima Begum of her UK citizenship earlier this year.\n\nShe was one of three girls from east London who left the UK in February 2015 and travelled to Syria, where she married an Islamic State group fighter.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Speaking to the BBC in February 2019, Shamima Begum told the BBC she never sought to be an IS \"poster girl\"\n\nMr Javid said Ms Begum could claim Bangladeshi citizenship because of her family background.\n\nBut Bangladesh has said she is not a citizen and would not be allowed into the country.", "The waiter died at the scene despite attempts to save him\n\nA waiter near Paris has been shot dead by a customer who was reportedly angry because his sandwich was not prepared quickly enough.\n\nPolice say a murder investigation has been launched after the incident on Friday evening in the eastern suburb of Noisy-le-Grand.\n\nThe suspect fled the scene and has not been caught.\n\nAmbulance crews tried to save the 28-year-old waiter, who had been shot in the shoulder, but he died at the scene.\n\nHis colleagues told police that the customer had lost his temper at the pizza and sandwich shop because of the length of time it had taken to prepare his meal.\n\nThe killing has stunned local residents and shopkeepers.\n\n\"It is sad,\" one 29-year-old woman told French media. \"It's a quiet restaurant, without any problems. It just opened a few months ago.\"\n\nSome residents, however, said there had been an upsurge of crime in the area with an increase of drug-dealing and drunkenness on the streets.", "Richard Williams, the Oscar-winning animator who worked on the hit film Who Framed Roger Rabbit, has died aged 86.\n\nWilliams, who was born in Toronto but moved to the UK in the 1950s, won two Oscars and a Bafta for his work as animation director on the 1988 film, which starred Bob Hoskins.\n\nThe triple Oscar and triple Bafta winner also worked on two of the Pink Panther films and Casino Royale.\n\nWilliams died at his home in Bristol on Friday, his family announced.\n\nWho Framed Roger Rabbit, a live-action animated comedy set in Hollywood in 1947 in a world where humans and cartoon characters co-exist, was a critical and commercial success.\n\nWilliams, who was hired to supervise animation sequences, helped create the film versions of Roger Rabbit and his wife, Jessica, first depicted in the book, Who Censored Roger Rabbit.\n\nWilliams won two Oscars for the film, in the special academy award category and for special effects.\n\nHis daughter, Natasha Sutton Williams, said her father - who had six children - had been suffering from cancer, in what she said had been quite a swift illness.\n\nShe said: \"He really was an inspiration to everyone that met him. Whether they were animators, or from the top to the bottom of society.\n\n\"An incredibly generous, warm-spirited person who really wanted to learn about the world.\"\n\nRichard Williams won two Oscars and a Bafta for his work as animation director on Who Framed Roger Rabbit?\n\nWilliams, who was also a voice actor and writer, credited Snow White - which he saw at the age of five - as having a \"tremendous impression\" on him.\n\n\"I always wanted, when I was a kid, to get to Disney. I was a clever little fellow so I took my drawings and I eventually got in,\" he told the BBC in 2008.\n\n\"They did a story on me, and I was in there for two days, which you can imagine what it was like for a kid.\"\n\nAfter that, he said he was advised to learn how to draw properly and admitted he \"lost all interest in animation\" until he was 23 - throwing himself into art.\n\nWilliams said he was drawn back to the craft because his \"paintings were trying to move\".\n\nHis first film, The Little Island, was released in 1958 and won a Bafta, while his animated adaptation of Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol in 1971 led to him winning his first Oscar.\n\nDuring his lengthy career, Williams also wrote a how-to book called The Animator's Survival Kit and was animating and writing until he died.", "Antonio Basco was expecting a near-empty church for the funeral of his wife who died in the El Paso mass shooting in Texas, US, in August.\n\nMr Basco said he did not have family so he invited the community - but was shocked to find people queuing to get in.\n\nThe size of the crowd was so huge that the funeral company had to move the service to a larger facility.\n\nAs he walked in, Mr Basco said: \"This is incredible.\"\n\nAbout 700 people queued to pay their respects to Margie Reckard, 63, one of 22 people killed when a gunman opened fire at a Walmart store.\n\nThe line went around the church and along another road.\n\nMany people came from across the US.\n\nHala Hijazi travelled from San Francisco to attend the service. She said that she read Tony Basco's story and knew she had to attend.\n\n\"It pierced into my heart and soul and made me book a flight to El Paso. We need to show when America is in pain, we are all in pain,\" she said.\n\nAccording to the New York Times, about 900 floral arrangements sent from as far afield as Asia were sent to the service.\n\nSome were sent from Dayton, Ohio, where another mass shooting killed nine people just hours after the attack in El Paso.\n\nIt was standing-room only inside the El Paso venue.\n\nDean Reckard, Margie Reckard's son from another marriage, said his mother \"loved everyone regardless of colour, religion or politics\".\n\nHe added: \"Everywhere I look, I just see all these flowers. I don't think I've ever seen this many flowers.\"\n\nHer grandson Tyler said: \"People were telling me they came from different faiths, different cities. It's just incredible how much love and support every single one of you has shown.\"\n\nMr Basco and Ms Reckard met at a bar in Nebraska 22 years ago and eventually settled in El Paso. They enjoyed travelling around the US by train.\n\nHe said their life was \"like a fairytale\".\n\n\"She was a lady and she was the love of my life.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Roman's friend died in the attack: 'I wish the killer had known the real El Paso'\n\nAfter hearing Mr Basco's story, the funeral home director told the BBC they had decided to cover the full cost of the funeral.\n\nHarrison B Johnson said: \"We have had a tremendous outpouring of support after we shared the post. It is our privilege to honour and serve the community to try and make that burden lighter after a tragedy that has devastated our community.\n\n\"We just wanted to do our part to help in some small way.\"", "Steve King is known for his incendiary comments\n\nDemocrats are calling for a Republican congressman to resign after he defended abortion bans by saying that humankind might not exist but for rape or incest.\n\nWithout rape or incest \"would there be any population of the world left?\" nine-term lawmaker Steve King asked the Des Moines Register newspaper.\n\nMr King was defending anti-abortion legislation that does not make exceptions for rape or incest.\n\nDemocrats Kirsten Gillibrand and Bernie Sanders soon demanded he step down.\n\n\"You are a disgrace. Resign,\" Ms Gillibrand wrote on Twitter. Her remarks were quickly echoed by other 2020 Democratic hopefuls Cory Booker, Beto O'Rourke and Julián Castro.\n\n\"I am 100% pro-life but Steve King's bizarre comments and behaviour diminish our message,\" he wrote on Twitter.\n\nOn Wednesday, Mr King told the Des Moines Register that the Republican leadership had stopped bills he sponsored banning abortions from advancing through the US House of Representatives.\n\n\"What if we went back through all the family trees and just pulled out anyone who was a product of rape or incest? Would there be any population of the world left if we did that?\" Mr King said on Wednesday.\n\n\"Considering all the wars and all the rapes and pillages that happened throughout all these different nations, I know that I can't say that I was not a part of a product of that.\"\n\nSteve King is no stranger to controversy. His remarks about race and immigration, as well as his ties to white nationalists across the globe, have essentially made him a persona non grata in the House of Representatives, including among his own Republican colleagues.\n\nOutrage is frequently the baseline response when the nine-term Iowa congressman steps in front of a microphone.\n\nEven when he's defending a view many anti-abortion activists hold - that rape and incest exceptions to abortion bans are immoral because they result in what they believe is the loss of innocent human life - he manages to do so in a way that grabs headlines and generates offence.\n\nThe days of marauding armies that rape and pillage are, mercifully, long gone in most of the world. And while it may be true that the descendants of those vile acts are alive today, it's a stretch to apply the atrocities of the past to a modern public policy debate.\n\nAt the very least, it appears deliberately inflammatory. In other words, it's business as usual for Steve King.\n\nMr King has earned a reputation for his incendiary comments. The Iowa congressman was already stripped of his committee assignments by his Republican colleagues in Congress last month, after the New York Times published an interview in which the congressman questioned how the phrases \"white nationalism\" and \"white supremacy\" had become offensive.\n\nAfter he was disciplined, Mr King compared himself to Jesus Christ.\n\nThe Republican has made a number of remarks widely seen as racist and xenophobic, once tweeting his support for the Dutch anti-Islam politician Geert Wilders.\n\n\"Wilders understands that culture and demographics are our destiny,\" Mr King wrote on Twitter.\n\n\"We can't restore our civilisation with somebody else's babies,\" he added.\n\nMr King later defended his comments, saying on CNN that he \"meant exactly what he said\".\n\nThe lawmaker kicked off his bid for a tenth term in Congress in February and will face re-election in 2020.", "Speaking at a press conference following the death of PC Andrew Harper, Thames Valley Police Chief Constable John Campbell said it was a \"terrible day\" for the force.\n\nPC Andrew Harper, who got married four weeks ago, died at about 23:30 BST on Thursday in Berkshire, when he was \"dragged along by a vehicle\" while attending a reported burglary.\n\nRead more: Killed PC was 'dragged by vehicle'", "Ben Branson, founder of Seedlip: 'What do you drink when you're not drinking?'\n\nThe days of lime and soda are over. \"Sugary, carbonated or fruit-based juice drinks just won't do\" for those seeking a booze-free alternative.\n\nAt least, that is the view of Seedlip, which claims to be making the world's first distilled non-alcoholic spirits.\n\n\"We exist to solve this dilemma. What do you drink when you're not drinking?\" says Ben Branson, founder of the Chilterns-based business.\n\nIt is a conundrum that traditional drinks firms are also trying to crack.\n\nDiageo, the world's largest spirits maker, has just bought most of Seedlip. And industry experts say it is not alone in trying to find ways to tap into the non-alcohol sector.\n\nRival Pernod Ricard, for instance, has done a deal to distribute non-alcoholic spirit Ceder and last month launched Celtic Soul, a non-alcohol blend of dark spirits.\n\nTwo years ago, Campari launched Crodino in the UK, its non-alcoholic aperitif named after a small town in north-west Italy.\n\nThe firm says Crodino is the most-consumed drink of its kind in Italy since first being produced 55 years ago.\n\nNico von Stackelberg, analyst at Liberum, says: \"There's a significant rise in alcohol-free drinking across the western world, including the US. In terms of economics, it absolutely makes sense to be involved.\n\n\"Younger people do not want to be seen as drunk on social media. Heavy episodic drinking is not deemed to be cool. Importantly, the industry does not want excessive consumption and spends millions to avoid such behaviour,\" he adds.\n\nResearch shows that the young are drinking less. A report in the medical journal BMC Public Health and carried out by University College London showed that the proportion of 16 to 24-year-olds who do not drink alcohol has increased from 18% in 2005 to 29% in 2015.\n\nIt points out that it is difficult to pinpoint a single factor that has caused the decline in alcohol consumption.\n\nBut it is not a just a UK phenomenon. The research showed a fall in drinking in North America and elsewhere in Europe, although in Canada, rates of binge-drinking increased from 1996 to 2013. In the UK, while rates are falling, young people remain the most likely group to be binge-drinking\n\nDr Linda Ng Fat, lead author of the study, told the BBC that the findings suggested cultural change was leading to a reduction in drinking, and that health reasons could also be a factor.\n\nMore and more alcohol-free beers are coming on to the market\n\nAlex Smith, consumer industry analyst at Shore Capital, says the push into the non-alcohol sector is consumer-led. \"Younger people are consuming less alcohol, so alcohol companies have to hedge their bets\".\n\nThe beer market has been offering non-alcoholic versions for some time. In the 1980s, Kaliber from Guinness was one of the best-known, but more and more are being launched, such as Heineken 0.0% and Budweiser Prohibition Brew.\n\nThe number of products on offer is growing. According to Nielsen research there were 40 non-alcoholic brands on the market two years ago. That has risen to 65 brands this year.\n\nSeedlip's founder, Mr Branson, has said his own inspiration to create a non-alcoholic sprit came after he was given a \"sickly sweet pink mocktail\". After experimentation on his family's farm, he launched his venture in 2015.\n\nHe began using a small copper still and herbs from his garden to create a distilled non-alcoholic spirit - not a gin, as that would require juniper.\n\nThere are three blends: one based on peas, another on bark and citrus, and another on orange, lemongrass and ginger.\n• None £117mThe total value of sales in the last year\n• None 41mThe volume in litres of the last year's output\n\nDiageo has put Seedlip in its so-called Reserve portfolio - its luxury division - and the recommended retail price for 70cl is £27.99. That's about £7 more than the same amount of Bombay Sapphire gin.\n\nOne pub chain offers Seedlip Grove - one of its three variants - for £4.95, which is £1 more than other non-alcohol cocktails on its menu, while a glass of coke is £3.05. An alcoholic cocktail - a mojito - is £8.50.\n\nGemma Cooper, Nielsen client business partner, says shoppers are prepared to \"pay more for great-tasting alcohol-free alternatives\".\n\nThere is no duty or tax on such products, so profits should be higher too.\n\nSeedlip is the first non-alcoholic investment by Distill, an investment vehicle supported by Diageo which backs start-ups and has put more than £60m into 15 different new products.\n\nDiageo has also created its own non-alcohol products in-house, such as a Gordon's low-alcohol gin and tonic, launched in 2018, and Malta Guinness, a non-alcoholic unfermented beer popular in Nigeria.\n\nIt does not provide a breakdown of sales and profits from non-alcohol products, nor has it disclosed how much it paid for its majority stake in Seedlip, which lost £4m in the year to May 2018, according to accounts at Companies House.\n\nBut Diageo's John Kennedy has described it as a \"game-changing brand in the one of the most exciting categories in our industry\".\n\nThe drinks company has also said that is \"tracking what is happening\" - though not yet expanding - in another industry that might take sales away from alcohol: the decriminalisation of cannabis.", "Owen Jones was leaving a pub in north London when a group of men assaulted him\n\nPolice are investigating after Labour activist Owen Jones was \"kicked in the head\" by a group of men outside a pub.\n\nThe Guardian columnist said he had been celebrating his birthday with friends when the men made a \"direct beeline\" for him in the early hours of Saturday.\n\nLabour leader Jeremy Corbyn said an attack on a journalist was \"an attack on free speech and our fundamental values\".\n\nThe Met said it was working to establish the \"full circumstances\".\n\nMr Jones told the BBC he had spent Friday night with his partner and some friends at the Lexington pub on Pentonville Road, Islington.\n\nThe six of them left the pub at about 02:00 BST on Saturday. As they were saying goodbye to each other, a group of \"three or four\" men made a \"direct beeline\" for Mr Jones.\n\nMr Jones claimed it was a \"premeditated\" move by \"far right\" activists.\n\n\"[They] marched over, kicked me in the back, threw me on the floor... and then kicked me in the head,\" he said.\n\nMr Jones said his friends were also punched in the head as they tried to stop the \"frenzied\" attack on him - and that there was \"no question\" the men were \"specifically\" targeting him.\n\nIn response to the incident, Mr Corbyn tweeted: \"Owen believes it was politically motivated, and we know the far right is on the march in our country.\n\n\"An attack on a journalist is an attack on free speech and our fundamental values.\"\n\nA spokesman for the Metropolitan Police confirmed it had spoken to witnesses and would review CCTV footage.\n\nNo arrests have been made and the investigation continues.\n\nThe Lexington's general manager, Chris Smith, said he had looked back at the venue's CCTV and thought it was \"possible\" the suspects were caught on footage.\n\nHe said his staff were \"all upset\" that Mr Jones had been targeted and would \"do everything\" to aid the police investigation.\n\nMr Jones said the attack was the latest in a series of assaults since he was verbally abused by protesters on College Green in Westminster earlier this year.\n\n\"The far right is an increasingly scary, violent and threatening menace in this country and other countries as well,\" he said.\n\nMr Jones said he would not let far right groups \"scare or intimidate\" him.\n\nBut he added: \"I'm obviously very concerned and worried - not simply about my own personal safety, but of others, and the fact that the far right feels increasingly emboldened and far right-types are feeling increasingly prepared to resort to thuggery and violence.\"\n\nShadow attorney general Shami Chakrabarti said: \"This is a very febrile moment in Britain - and I'm sure that everyone, regardless of their politics, will want to send their solidarity to Owen Jones.\"\n\n\"The police will no doubt be concerned to investigate any political and homophobic motives behind what may be a very serious hate crime,\" she added.\n\nShadow home secretary Diane Abbott was one of hundreds of people to respond to Mr Jones's tweet about the incident, saying: \"The times we live in are increasingly dark and dangerous\".", "PC Andrew Harper was killed in Berkshire on Thursday\n\nDetectives investigating the death of a police officer have said he died of \"multiple injuries\", as they were given more time to question 10 suspects.\n\nPC Andrew Harper, 28, was responding to a burglary report on Thursday in Sulhamstead, Berkshire, when he was dragged along the road by a vehicle.\n\nTen males aged between 13 and 30 have been arrested on suspicion of murder.\n\nThames Valley Police said on Saturday it had been granted an extra 36 hours to question the suspects.\n\nPC Harper, who got married four weeks ago, was killed on the A4 Bath Road.\n\nDet Supt Ailsa Kent told a press conference: \"A post-mortem was carried out on Andrew's body and the cause of death has been recorded as multiple injuries.\n\n\"[That] is consistent with our current belief that Andrew was caught between a vehicle and the road and then dragged for a distance.\"\n\nPolice officers have been at a caravan site near to the scene where PC Harper was killed\n\nDet Supt Kent said it remained unclear how PC Harper \"came to be out of his vehicle and then caught under the suspect vehicle\".\n\nShe said the 10 boys and men had been arrested at council-run caravan and mobile home site, Four Houses Corner, about three miles from where PC Harper died.\n\nOfficers are carrying out house-to-house inquiries, reviewing CCTV footage, interviewing witnesses and conducting forensic examinations, Det Supt Kent added.\n\nForensics officers could be seen combing the area as police widened the cordon around the scene earlier.\n\nChief Constable John Campbell said the death of PC Harper had left the entire force \"shocked and saddened\".\n\nMr Campbell said the officer was a \"highly regarded, popular member of the team\" and his death was a \"significant loss\" to the force and also to his colleagues and friends.\n\nTributes to PC Harper have been laid at the scene\n\nA group of officers could be seen gathered around floral tributes reading messages to their fallen colleague.\n\nOne tribute, accompanied by an image of PC Harper smiling with a friend, said: \"Harps, I am truly gutted. A great cop, a great man, a great friend.\n\n\"There will always be a part of my heart missing now. RIP mate, love you. Chef, Sarah and Harry.\"\n\nAnother read: \"Such a shocking, mindless, horrific act of brutality. This has been impossible for us to get our heads around.\n\n\"Pc Harper was a beautiful young soul. A brave man protecting us all and just doing his job.\"\n\nPC Harper, who became a regular officer in 2011 after joining as a special constable a year earlier, had attended the reported break-in at about 23:30 BST with a fellow officer.\n\nThe officer on duty with PC Harper was not physically injured but is being given emotional support, Thames Valley Police said.\n\nOne message described PC Harper as \"Thames Valley's finest\"\n\nDeputy Police and Crime Commissioner, Matthew Barber, said he had received messages from members of the public whom PC Harper had helped.\n\nA domestic violence victim told him the officer had given her the confidence to come forward about her abusive partner.\n\n\"He was clearly a man who, in his short time, touched many lives,\" Mr Barber added.\n\nPC Harper's colleagues have been laying floral tributes at the scene, with one message describing the officer as \"Thames Valley's finest\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. \"We are shocked and saddened by the death of our colleague\"\n\nRelatives of PC Harper have also paid tribute on social media to the \"loveliest person that you will ever meet\".\n\nHis grandmother Maureen Shrimpton wrote: \"Just a really horrible day. Our grandson Andrew was killed last night while doing his police work.\n\n\"So proud of him. Our love goes to his lovely wife, mum and dad, brother and all of his family and friends.\"\n\nPC Harper got married to his fiancée Lissie just four weeks ago\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Boris Johnson has pledged to lead the UK out of the EU by 31 October with or without a deal\n\nBoris Johnson's approach to Brexit is \"reckless\", Sinn Féin has said, after a leaked dossier warned of a hard border and food shortages if there is no deal.\n\nThe party's deputy leader Michelle O'Neill accused the prime minister of treating the Northern Ireland peace process as \"a commodity\" in EU talks.\n\nMs O'Neill was responding to the leak which was reported in the Sunday Times.\n\nBut Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) leader Arlene Foster said she believes the leaked dossier is \"outdated\".\n\n\"It comes from a time before Boris Johnson was prime minister, that's the first thing to say,\" Mrs Foster told BBC News NI.\n\n\"Secondly, it's been leaked with the idea really to undermine the prime minister before he goes out to Europe and meets European leaders this week.\"\n\nArlene Foster's party is in a confidence and supply arrangement with the Conservative government\n\nThe dossier obtained by the Sunday newspaper is a cross-government study on preparations for a no-deal Brexit, codenamed Operation Yellowhammer.\n\nThe dossier warns that the UK will face possible food, fuel and medicine shortages if it leaves the EU without a deal.\n\nIt also suggests that plans to avoid a hard border on the island of Ireland are unlikely to prove sustainable, and there could be months of disruption at UK ports.\n\nCabinet Minister Michael Gove, who is responsible for no-deal Brexit planning, tweeted on Sunday that Operation Yellowhammer is a \"worst case scenario\".\n\nHe added that the government has taken \"significant additional steps\" over the past three weeks to ensure UK is prepared to leave on 31 October.\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 prime minister has said the UK will leave the EU on that date \"do or die\", accepting that a no-deal Brexit will happen if an agreement cannot be reached by then.\n\nLater this week Mr Johnson is due to meet with EU leaders and is expected to reiterate that the UK will leave with or without a deal.\n\nIn a statement, Ms O'Neill said the contents of the leaked documents were \"of no surprise\".\n\nShe added that any prospect of a hard border following a no-deal Brexit would have \"devastating effects for the island of Ireland\".\n\n\"The consequences of a no-deal Brexit will result in a hard border which threatens our hard won peace and undermines the political and economic progress of the past 21 years, enjoyed across the whole island,\" she said.\n\nMs O'Neill said the government was \"dealing with the north of Ireland and the peace process as though it's a commodity and it is a reckless, dangerous approach to take and one which must be opposed\".\n\nMichelle O'Neill made the comments in response to leaked government documents\n\nTánaiste (Irish deputy prime minister) Simon Coveney said, in a tweet, that Ireland had \"always been clear\" a hard border in Ireland \"must be avoided\".\n\nHe added that the backstop - agreed in Theresa May's withdrawal agreement with the hope of maintaining a seamless border on the island of Ireland - was an \"insurance policy\" designed to protect the peace process.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript 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 Simon Coveney This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nMeanwhile, SDLP leader Colum Eastwood said the leaked documents showed Boris Johnson \"doesn't care\" about the \"complexities and fragilities of relationships in Ireland\".\n\n\"This British government, far from sending a clear message to Brussels, is sending a clear message to people and business in Northern Ireland. They are willing to sacrifice our economic, political and social wellbeing to please rabid nativists in their own ranks,\" he said.\n\nMr Eastwood added that he believed the government had no mandate for a no-deal Brexit and should reverse its position, or call a general election.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Speaking to the BBC's Quentin Sommerville in October 2018, Jack Letts said he had been an \"enemy of Britain\"\n\nA Muslim convert who joined the Islamic State group as a teenager has had his British citizenship revoked.\n\nJack Letts - nicknamed Jihadi Jack in the press - was 18 when he left school in Oxfordshire in 2014 to join IS fighters in Raqqa, Syria.\n\nMr Letts, who is a dual UK-Canadian national, was jailed after being captured by Kurdish YPG forces while trying to flee to Turkey in May 2017.\n\nThe Canadian government said the UK had \"off-loaded\" its responsibilities.\n\nThe Home Office said it would not comment on individual cases.\n\nMr Letts's parents said they were \"shocked\" by the decision, which they said was made without their son being contacted.\n\n\"It's kind of like you're [being] kicked in the gut,\" John Letts told Channel 4 News.\n\nA statement on behalf of Canada's public safety minister Ralph Goodale's office said: \"Terrorism knows no borders, so countries need to work together to keep each other safe.\n\n\"Canada is disappointed that the United Kingdom has taken this unilateral action to off-load their responsibilities.\"\n\nCanada added that it was aware some Canadian citizens were being detained in Syria, but there was \"no legal obligation to facilitate their return\".\n\n\"We will not expose our consular officials to undue risk in this dangerous part of the world.\"\n\nFormer defence minister Tobias Ellwood said removing the radicalised fighter's citizenship \"shunts the responsibility elsewhere\" when many fighters were \"radicalised here in the UK\".\n\nHe added that Britain \"should be leading calls\" on how \"foreign fighters face justice and who is ultimately responsible for bringing them to justice\".\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\nWhile the Home Office would not comment on the issue, a spokesman said: \"Decisions on depriving a dual national of citizenship are based on substantial advice from officials, lawyers and the intelligence agencies and all available information.\n\n\"This power is one way we can counter the terrorist threat posed by some of the most dangerous individuals and keep our country safe.\"\n\nMr Letts, who converted to Islam when he was 16, dropped out of studying for his A-levels at a school in Oxford in 2014 before moving to Syria to join the so-called Islamic State.\n\nThe jihadist terror group became known worldwide for its brutal mass killings and beheadings.\n\nIn an interview with the BBC's Quentin Sommerville, Mr Letts said: \"I know I was definitely an enemy of Britain.\"\n\nAfter being pressed on why he left the UK to join the jihadist group, he said: \"I thought I was leaving something behind and going to something better.\"\n\nJack Letts was dubbed \"Jihadi Jack\" after he travelled to Syria in 2014\n\nHe told ITV News earlier this year that he wanted to return to the UK as he felt British - but understood it was unlikely he would be able to.\n\n\"I'm not going to say I'm innocent. I'm not innocent. I deserve what comes to me. But I just want it to be... appropriate... not just haphazard, freestyle punishment in Syria,\" he said, at the time. .\n\nMr Letts's parents, John, 58, and Sally Lane, 57, were convicted in June this year of funding terrorism after sending their son £223.\n\nThe couple were sentenced to 15 months' imprisonment, suspended for 12 months, following an Old Bailey trial.\n\nUnder international law, a person can only be stripped of their citizenship by a government if it does not leave them stateless.\n\nThe decision to revoke Jack Letts of his citizenship is thought to be one of the last decisions made by Theresa May's government.\n\nIt comes after then-Home Secretary Sajid Javid stripped Shamima Begum of her UK citizenship earlier this year.\n\nShe was one of three girls from east London who left the UK in February 2015 and travelled to Syria, where she married an Islamic State group fighter.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Speaking to the BBC in February 2019, Shamima Begum told the BBC she never sought to be an IS \"poster girl\"\n\nMr Javid said Ms Begum could claim Bangladeshi citizenship because of her family background.\n\nBut Bangladesh has said she is not a citizen and would not be allowed into the country.", "Men's Ashes: Second Specsavers Test, Lord's (day five of five)\n\nEngland had to settle for a draw in the second Ashes Test, but not before Australia were given a huge fright by a Ben Stokes century and another electric Jofra Archer spell on a gripping final day at Lord's.\n\nHaving to bat 48 overs to save the game, Australia were 132-3 in the 36th over, only to lose three wickets for 17 runs in the next five.\n\nWith the light fading and the tension rising, Archer tore in and spinner Jack Leach had the ball spitting from the rough, but Travis Head and Pat Cummins saw the tourists to 154-6.\n\nStokes' unbeaten 115 allowed England to declare on 258-5, setting Australia an unlikely 267 to win.\n\nThe visitors were without premier batsman Steve Smith, who was withdrawn from the match with a concussion sustained when he was hit by Archer on Saturday.\n\nOnce again England debutant Archer bowled with frightening pace, removing David Warner and Usman Khawaja in his first three overs.\n\nThen, with the second ball he bowled to Marnus Labuschagne - the concussion substitute who replaced Smith - Archer dealt another vicious blow to the grille of the batsman's helmet with a delivery clocked at 91.6mph.\n\nLabuschagne bravely battled to 59, but when he was contentiously caught by Joe Root off Leach, it began an Australia slide that also included an outrageous, acrobatic grab by Joe Denly to remove Tim Paine.\n\nHowever, the light became so poor that Archer was prevented from bowling the final two overs from the Pavilion End and Australia kept their 1-0 lead intact.\n\nThey will retain the Ashes if they win the third Test at Headingley, which begins on Thursday.\n• None How Jofra Archer has lifted England and rattled Australia\n• None 'As big an impact as Warne' - how 'superstar' Archer brought the Ashes to life\n• None Concussed Smith 'hopeful' of playing in third Test\n\nIf their heavy defeat in the first Test at Edgbaston left England with all the problems - Smith's two centuries, James Anderson injured, Moeen Ali dropped - then it is the home side who will go to Headingley with the momentum.\n\nIndeed, if it had not been for the rain that wiped out 10 overs at the beginning of the fifth day as well as five previous sessions, the series would probably be level.\n\nOn Sunday, five weeks after the World Cup final, England's heroes on that day - Stokes and Archer - once again delighted a partisan Lord's crowd that was almost treated to a finale as a dramatic as that win over New Zealand.\n\nIt is Archer who has changed the complexion of this series, not only by inflicting the injury on Smith that leaves him a doubt for Headingley, but by possessing the sheer pace that will surely continue to trouble the Australians.\n\nEngland have made other gains, too. Jonny Bairstow and Jos Buttler have found some form with the bat and Leach looks a reliable spin option for captain Root.\n\nThe top order is however still a concern and the team as a whole are inconsistent. One poor England performance or an inspired Australia display in one of the final three Tests will see the Ashes heading back down under.\n\nIf there was still any doubt after his World Cup exploits, this debut - perhaps the most exciting by an England player since Kevin Pietersen on the same ground against the same opponents 14 years ago - proved Archer can be a potent weapon for years to come.\n\nHe backed up Saturday's venomous spell to Smith with a new-ball burst on Sunday, reducing Australia to 19-2 then flooring Labuschagne with a terrifying bouncer.\n\nBut Labuschagne, in his sixth Test, instantly got up and, after some treatment, carefully weathered the storm with well-judged leaves and handsome drives.\n\nAfter Cameron Bancroft was lbw to Leach in the first over after tea, Travis Head joined Labuschagne for a fourth-wicket stand of 85 during which Head was crucially dropped by Jason Roy at second slip off Stokes with 20 overs remaining.\n\nWith Head reprieved, Australia seemed safe when the sweeping Labuschagne was adjudged to have been held by a diving Root, via a deflection off short leg, just before the ball hit the turf. It was actually the beginning of more drama.\n\nMatthew Wade popped Leach to short leg and yet another ferocious Archer spell was rewarded when square leg Denly magnificently leapt high to his left to hold a hooking Paine in one hand.\n\nEngland sensed victory and crowded the bat, but missed one more half-chance when silly point Rory Burns could not cling on to Cummins' defensive push, and the forced withdrawal of Archer sucked the life from the conclusion.\n\nAt 96-4, leading by 104, it was England who were most vulnerable at the beginning of the day.\n\nThat they were put into a position from which they could win was down to the patience then power of Stokes, who scored his first Test century in more than two years and his first since the incident outside a Bristol nightclub that denied him a place on the last Ashes tour.\n\nStokes, who had two lives when on six the previous evening, absorbed Australia's early-morning pressure alongside Buttler, pushing their fifth-wicket stand to 90.\n\nLosing Buttler soon after lunch, Stokes was joined by Bairstow and switched from straight-batted defence to flamboyant strokeplay.\n\nAs England rattled along at almost six an over, Stokes swept off-spinner Nathan Lyon for successive sixes, while Bairstow hit two sixes of his own.\n\nWith the crowd carried along by the momentum, Stokes turned Lyon for a single to reach three figures and celebrated with a double punch of the air. When a Peter Siddle over was taken for 16, England declared.\n\n'We're in for a crackerjack series' - reaction\n\nPlayer of the match Ben Stokes: \"It is nice to get a hundred. It is almost a little more sour when you can't get the win.\n\n\"It was an amazing game to be part of. We nearly got there. We fought incredibly hard to get the win. Fair play to Australia for holding out.\n\n\"That's why it [Test cricket] is the best form to play. You go through ups and downs emotionally. It is pinnacle of any cricketer's ambitions.\"\n\nEngland captain Joe Root: \"We had to get to a score that we felt we were in control. We managed to do that. Ben played exceptionally well and then we threw everything we could at them. Fair play to Australia.\"\n\nAustralia captain Tim Paine: \"We were probably a fair way off our best in this Test match. Part of becoming a good team is finding a way to come through the last half-hour like today.\n\n\"We go to Leeds next week - we've had a look at it. It's something we can get better at. It's not all doom and gloom.\"\n\nFormer England captain Michael Vaughan on BBC Test Match Special: \"Australia look like they have got more problems with the batting unit.\n\n\"Joe will be happy with the way his team have produced some real quality. If they play to the last two days' standard they will have too much for Australia at Headingley. We're in for a crackerjack series.\"\n\nBBC cricket correspondent Jonathan Agnew: \"It is a winning draw as far as England are concerned. Australia were fighting for their lives. A very interesting series ahead.\"", "Didcot A's 375ft (114.3m) high towers were brought down using explosive charges at 07:00 BST.\n\nMinutes later, people in the area said they had suffered a power cut and an online tracker showed more than 2700 postcodes were affected.\n\nThe coal-fired station was turned off in 2013 after 43 years in service.", "The Islamic State group has claimed responsibility for the attack\n\nBurials are taking place in the Afghan capital, Kabul after a bomb exploded at a wedding hall killing 63 people and wounding more than 180.\n\nThe Islamic State (IS) group said it was behind the attack.\n\nThe blast happened on Saturday during a wedding ceremony at around 22:40 local time (18.10 GMT).\n\nPresident Ashraf Ghani has condemned the attack, describing it as \"barbaric\". He blamed the Taliban for \"providing a platform to terrorists.\"\n\nThe Taliban has denied involvement and condemned the attack.\n\nAn IS statement said that one of its fighters blew himself up at a \"large gathering\" while others \"detonated a parked explosives-laden vehicle\" when emergency services arrived.\n\nThe Afghan interior ministry confirmed the death toll hours later. Pictures on social media showed bodies strewn across the wedding hall amid overturned chairs and tables.\n\nAfghan weddings often include hundreds of guests who gather in large halls where the men are usually segregated from the women and children.\n\nThe groom who gave his name as Mirwais told local TV: \"My family, my bride are in shock, they cannot even speak. My bride keeps fainting.\n\n\"I lost my brother, I lost my friends, I lost my relatives. I will never see happiness in my life again.\"\n\n\"I can't go to the funerals, I feel very weak ... I know that this won't be the last suffering for Afghans, the suffering will continue,\" he said.\n\nBurials are taking place in Kabul following the attack\n\nThe bride's father told local media that 14 members of his family were killed in the attack.\n\nWedding guest Mohammad Farhag said he had been in the women's section when he heard a huge explosion in the men's area.\n\n\"Everyone ran outside shouting and crying,\" he told AFP news agency.\n\n\"For about 20 minutes the hall was full of smoke. Almost everyone in the men's section is either dead or wounded.\"\n\nMore than 180 people were injured in the bombing\n\nA waiter at the hall, Sayed Agha Shah, said \"everybody was running\" after the blast.\n\n\"Several of our waiters were killed or wounded,\" he added.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The floor of the wedding hall was covered in blood after the explosion\n\nWriting on Twitter, president Ashraf Ghani said he had called a security meeting to \"review and prevent such security lapses.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Ashraf Ghani This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy 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 explosion took place in the west of the city, mostly populated by Shia Muslims.\n\nSunni Muslim militants, including the Taliban and the Islamic State group, have repeatedly targeted Shia Hazara minorities in Afghanistan and Pakistan.\n\nA Taliban spokesman said the group \"strongly condemned\" the attack.\n\n\"There is no justification for such deliberate and brutal killings and targeting of women and children,\" Zabiullah Mujaheed said in a text message to the media.\n\nThe latest blast comes just 10 days after a huge bomb outside a Kabul police station killed at least 14 people and injured nearly 150.\n\nThe Taliban said they carried out that attack.\n\nOn Friday a brother of Taliban leader Hibatullah Akhundzada was killed by a bomb planted in a mosque near the Pakistani city of Quetta.\n\nNo group has so far claimed that attack.\n\nA source in Afghan intelligence told the BBC that Hibatullah Akhundzada had been due to attend prayers at the mosque and was probably the intended target.\n\nTensions in the country have been high even though the Taliban and the US, which has thousands of troops stationed in Afghanistan, are reportedly getting closer to announcing a peace deal.\n\nWorried relatives gathered outside a hospital in Kabul on Saturday\n\nTaliban and US representatives have been holding peace talks in Qatar's capital, Doha, and both sides have reported progress.\n\nOn Friday, US President Donald Trump tweeted that both sides were \"looking to make a deal - if possible\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript 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\nThe deal would include a phased US troop pullout in exchange for Taliban guarantees that Afghanistan will not be used by extremist groups to attack US targets.\n\nThe Taliban would also begin negotiations with an Afghan delegation on a framework for peace including an eventual ceasefire. The militants have been refusing to negotiate with the Afghan government until a timetable for the US withdrawal is agreed upon.\n\nThe Taliban now control more territory than at any point since they were forced from power in 2001.", "Peter Duncan died in hospital shortly after being attacked\n\nA 17-year-old boy has been charged with murdering a lawyer who was stabbed to death with a screwdriver.\n\nPeter Duncan, 52, was attacked on Wednesday after what police said was a chance \"coming together\" with a group of youths in Newcastle city centre.\n\nThe boy, who cannot be named for legal reasons, has been charged with murder, possession of an offensive weapon and theft.\n\nHe is due to appear at North Tyneside Magistrates' Court on Monday.\n\nNorthumbria Police said it believed Mr Duncan, from Newcastle, had been attacked after a \"chance encounter\" outside a branch of Greggs in Old Eldon Square.\n\nHe was described by his family as a \"devoted father and husband\".\n\n\"Peter was a kind and caring man who was always first to help others,\" they said in a statement.\n\n\"His death will leave such a huge hole in our lives and he'll be deeply missed by us all.\"\n\nA cordon was put in place in Eldon Square\n\nAccording to his profile on LinkedIn, Mr Duncan trained as an electrical engineer before graduating from Northumbria University with a law degree in 2003.\n\nHe was working as legal counsel in the Newcastle office of Royal IHC Limited, and previously as a solicitor and legal advisor with other companies in Darlington and Newcastle.\n\nCh Supt Ged Noble said: \"This continues to be an extremely difficult time for the family and loved ones of Peter.\"\n\nPolice originally arrested a total of eight teenage boys in connection with his death.\n\nThree boys, aged 14, 15 and 17, have been released under investigation.\n\nTwo 15-year-olds and two aged 17 have been released with no further action.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Australia still lead the Ashes series 1-0, but I don't know - something's shifted.\n\nStephan Shemilt's match report is over here and there'll be bags of podcasts, features and analysis to get your eyes and ears around later.\n\nWe'll be back on Thursday for the third Test. Don't miss it.\n\nAlso I'm leaving you with this. Because why not?\n\nThis content is currently not available", "The plaque commemorates Okjokull, which once sat atop Ok volcano - \"jokull\" is Icelandic for glacier\n\nMourners have gathered in Iceland to commemorate the loss of Okjokull, which has died at the age of about 700.\n\nThe glacier was officially declared dead in 2014 when it was no longer thick enough to move.\n\nWhat once was glacier has been reduced to a small patch of ice atop a volcano.\n\nPrime Minister Katrin Jakobsdottir, Environment Minister Gudmundur Ingi Gudbrandsson and former Irish President Mary Robinson attended the ceremony.\n\nAfter opening remarks by Ms Jakobsdottir, mourners walked up the volcano northeast of the capital Reykjavik to lay a plaque which carries a letter to the future.\n\n\"Ok is the first Icelandic glacier to lose its status as glacier,\" it reads.\n\n\"In the next 200 years all our main glaciers are expected to follow the same path. This monument is to acknowledge that we know what is happening and what needs to be done.\n\n\"Only you know if we did it.\"\n\nThe dedication, written by Icelandic author Andri Snaer Magnason, ends with the date of the ceremony and the concentration of carbon dioxide in the air globally - 415 parts per million (ppm).\n\n\"You think in a different time scale when you're writing in copper rather than in paper,\" Mr Magnason told the BBC. \"You start to think that someone actually is coming there in 300 years reading it.\n\n\"This is a big symbolic moment,\" he said. \"Climate change doesn't have a beginning or end and I think the philosophy behind this plaque is to place this warning sign to remind ourselves that historical events are happening, and we should not normalise them. We should put our feet down and say, okay, this is gone, this is significant.\"\n\nOddur Sigurdsson is the glaciologist at the Icelandic Meteorological Office who pronounced Okjokull's death in 2014.\n\nHe has been taking photographs of the country's glaciers for the past 50 years, and noticed in 2003 that snow was melting before it could accumulate on Okjokull.\n\n\"Eventually I thought it was so low that I wanted to go up there and check myself. I did that in 2014,\" he said. \"The glacier was not moving - it was not thick enough to stay alive. We call that dead ice.\"\n\nThe glaciologist explains that when enough ice builds up, the pressure forces the whole mass to move.\n\n\"That's where the limit is between a glacier and not a glacier,\" he says. \"It needs to be 40 to 50 metres thick to reach that pressure limit.\"\n\nOkjokull sat atop the volcano Ok northeast of the Icelandic capital Reykjavik\n\nAn Icelandic broadcaster accompanied Mr Sigurdsson to the glacier in 2014 to report the death of Okjokull. But the glaciologist says it \"did not stir up very much attention\".\n\n\"I was a little surprised because this glacier was visible from densely inhabited areas and a good part of the Icelandic ring road,\" he said. \"It was also known to most kids because of its peculiar name and place on maps.\"\n\nEnter anthropologists Cymene Howe and Dominic Boyer. The two professors from Rice University in Texas made a documentary about the loss of the glacier called Not Ok in 2018, and came up with the idea of a memorial during filming.\n\n\"Here was this really important story about this glacier that tells us something about the catastrophic changes we're seeing all around glacial basins everywhere on the planet and yet the story wasn't very well known,\" Dr Howe told the BBC. \"So part of the reason we wanted to make the movie was to get some more visibility for the phenomenon. And the plaque kind of followed in those footsteps.\"\n\nDominic Boyer, Cymene Howe and their student Magnus Sigurdsson climbed into the mountains earlier in the week to drill holes for the plaque\n\n\"People felt this was a real loss, and that it deserved some kind of memorial,\" Dr Boyer said. \"Plaques recognise things that humans have done, accomplishments, great events. The passing of a glacier is also a human accomplishment - if a very dubious one - in that it is anthropogenic climate change that drove this glacier to melt.\n\n\"It's not the first glacier in the world to melt - there have been many others, certainly many smaller glacial masses - but now that glaciers the size of Ok are beginning to disappear, it won't be long before the big glaciers, the ones whose names are well recognised, will come under threat.\"\n\nGlaciers have great cultural significance in Iceland and beyond. Snaefellsjokull, a glacier-capped volcano in the west of the country, is where characters in Jules Verne's science fiction novel Journey to the Centre of the Earth found a passage to the core of the planet. That glacier is now also receding.\n\n\"My generation had to learn by heart the names of the most significant mountains, moors, fjords,\" Mr Magnason explained. \"So culturally it's also referring back to childhood textbooks.\n\n\"The world that we learned how it was, learned by heart as some kind of eternal fact, is not a fact any more.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Tourists fled a huge wave created as a section broke off a glacier in Iceland\n\nMr Sigurdsson made an inventory of Icelandic glaciers in the year 2000, finding there were just over 300 scattered across the island. By 2017, 56 of the smaller glaciers had disappeared.\n\n\"150 years ago no Icelander would have bothered the least to see all the glaciers disappear,\" he said, as they advanced over farmlands and flooded whole areas with melt waters and streams. \"But since then, while the glaciers were retreating, they are looked at as a beautiful thing, which they definitely are.\n\n\"The oldest Icelandic glaciers contain the entire history of the Icelandic nation,\" he added. \"We need to retrieve that history before they disappear.\"", "Tariffs on food such as beef and milk can be high\n\nLidl's Irish business has reminded British suppliers they are expected to pay any EU import tariffs imposed on goods crossing borders after Brexit.\n\nCurrently, as both countries are member states, no tariffs are paid.\n\nBut Lidl's current contracts with suppliers contain a clause saying goods must be delivered with tariffs paid.\n\nThe supermarket said it had held workshops with British suppliers to make sure they had the necessary information to \"avoid any disruption\".\n\n\"We have been working closely for over two years with external consultants, not only to get our business Brexit ready, but also to ensure our valued suppliers are as prepared as possible.\n\n\"All existing Lidl contracts contain a DDP ('delivered duty paid') clause. In an effort to understand the level of preparedness of key UK suppliers we are communicating proactively with them and working together to resolve any potential barriers to supply,\" the supermarket said in a statement.\n\nThe delivered duty paid clause means that the cost of transporting goods, including tariffs on EU exports, are the responsibility of the supplier.\n\nIn the event of a no-deal Brexit, tariffs on EU exports would come into force automatically, according to World Trade Organization (WTO) rules.\n\nEU tariffs on food can be both high and complex.\n\nOn some types of beef it is 12.8% plus 265 euros per 100kg for meat from outside the EU. The average for dairy products is more than 35%.\n\nSuppliers told the Times newspaper that other supermarkets are also likely to enforce deals similar to Lidl's agreement.\n\nA supermarket source told the newspaper that the potential costs were too high for all suppliers to be able to cover them.\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson has said that the UK will leave the EU with or without a deal on 31 October.\n\nWhile he has committed to cutting most tariffs on foreign goods being imported into the UK, tariffs for goods exported from the UK to the EU are outside of his control.\n\nDr Peter Holmes, fellow of the UK Trade Policy Observatory, told the BBC: \"The UK suppliers will pay tariffs going into the EU, and EU suppliers will pay tariffs going into the UK [if there are any].\n\n\"You can avoid this if you sign a free trade agreement, and the UK can unilaterally remove all trade tariffs but it has to do so for all trading partners and this would not remove the tariffs on UK exports to the EU.\"\n\nHe said that suddenly implementing WTO rules would be a \"serious shock\" to the economy.\n\n\"The point to make is that, tariffs are in general passed on from the supplier to the consumer, so it doesn't really make any difference who actually directly pays them. If Lidl lines up suppliers to cover no-deal costs, as soon as they can suppliers will pass those costs on, or withdraw from the market.\"", "Lucas Dobson's aunt Maciee Stanford said \"not knowing is the hardest bit\"\n\nA six-year-old boy who fell into a river in Kent while fishing is \"unlikely\" to be found alive, police have said.\n\nLucas Dobson slipped into the River Stour in Sandwich at about 13:30 BST on Saturday and has not been seen since.\n\nSupt Amanda Tillotson said more than 100 emergency services workers and 200 volunteers had taken part in a \"massive\" search for Lucas.\n\nBut there was \"unlikely\" to be a positive outcome, she added.\n\nRescuers, including specialist police divers, resumed their efforts early on Sunday after a hunt involving the coastguard helicopter on Saturday.\n\nAsked how likely it was Lucas would be found alive, Supt Tillotson said: \"Obviously as time has gone on...I think it is unlikely, unfortunately.\n\n\"But, we will continue to search and obviously I would like to have a positive outcome - I would like to find Lucas.\n\n\"We are getting increasingly concerned with the amount of time that has gone on.\"\n\nRescue teams resumed their search for Lucas on the River Stour early on Sunday\n\nRescue teams in canoes have been combing through dense vegetation on the riverbanks, while police officers have also been using sonar equipment.\n\nLucas's aunt Maciee Stanford thanked people for their support earlier and said \"we just need to find Lucas\".\n\nShe said he had slipped and fallen between a jetty and a boat while out fishing with his family.\n\nThree adults - including his father - jumped into the river to try to save him, but Lucas was swept away by the strong current, according to Ms Stanford.\n\n\"We appreciate everything everyone has done,\" she said.\n\n\"It's so overwhelming to see our community come together and help us - we could not thank you all enough for everything.\"\n\nMs Stanford added: \"Not knowing is the hardest bit.\"\n\nVolunteers searching for Lucas Dobson have been attending briefings from the fire service\n\nA mile-long exclusion zone has been set up along the river, around the scrapyard at Richborough Road.\n\nRescuers said this was to prevent any public vessels entering the search zone.\n\nThe fire service's assistant director Chris Colgan said: \"We're all incredibly grateful to everyone who has given everything to try and locate this little boy.\n\n\"Our thoughts are with him and his family at this very difficult and emotional time.\"\n\nSupt Amanda Tillotson, of Kent Police, said: \"This is understandably a very difficult and upsetting time for Lucas' family and our officers are continuing to support them.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Rescuers are searching for a man who has gone missing in a loch after a boat capsized.\n\nThree people were in the boat when it capsized on Loch Awe, near Inishail Island, on Saturday. The other two people made it to safety.\n\nA search and rescue helicopter, the coastguard, police and firefighters were called out.\n\nLocal coastguard teams from Oban and Inveraray and Appin inshore rescue team are involved in the search.\n\nHM Coastguard said: \"The two other people are in the care of the police and ambulance service. The search is ongoing.\"", "Last updated on .From the section Rugby League\n\nA rugby league player has been found dead in his hotel room the morning after making his debut for Championship side Batley Bulldogs at Toulouse.\n\nThe club said it was \"greatly saddened to announce the passing\" of scrum-half Archie Bruce, 20.\n\nInquiries are being conducted in France and the club's players have delayed their return home.\n\nClub chairman Kevin Nicholas said: \"The Bruce family have requested privacy during this most difficult of times.\"\n\nHe said that Batley Bulldogs, the Rugby Football League and the league's benevolent fund will be supporting the family.\n\nBruce, who previously played for Dewsbury Moor amateur club in West Yorkshire, made his debut off the replacements bench for Batley Bulldogs in a 46-0 defeat at Toulouse on Saturday.\n\nBatley are ninth in the 14-team Championship, the division below Super League.\n\nTributes to the scrum-half have been paid on social media by rugby league clubs and players.\n\n\"Incredibly sad news to wake up to, my condolences go out to his family, friends and teammates at both Batley and Dewsbury Moor. RIP Archie,\" said England and St Helens prop Alex Walmsley, who was born in Dewsbury and started his career at Batley.\n\nEngland and Huddersfield Giants wing Jermaine McGillvary, who spent two seasons on loan at Batley, said: \"Such shocking news. RIP Archie, thoughts go out to his family.\"\n\nToulouse offered their sincere condolences to his family, friends and the club, adding: \"We will do our maximum to support them.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Michael Gove was questioned about what had actually changed since the document was produced\n\nA leaked cross-government study warning of the impact of a no-deal Brexit outlines a \"worst-case scenario\", cabinet minister Michael Gove has said.\n\nDetails from the dossier warn of food and medicine shortages if the UK leaves the EU without a deal.\n\nMr Gove, who is responsible for no-deal preparation, said the document was old and Brexit planning had accelerated since Boris Johnson became PM.\n\nBut he acknowledged no deal would bring disruption, or \"bumps in the road\".\n\nThe leak comes as Mr Johnson is to meet European leaders later this week.\n\nThe prime minister will insist there must be a new Brexit deal when he holds talks with German Chancellor Angela Merkel and French President Emmanuel Macron.\n\nAccording to Operation Yellowhammer, the dossier leaked to the Sunday Times, the UK could face months of disruption at its ports after a no-deal Brexit.\n\nAnd plans to avoid a hard border between Northern Ireland and the Irish Republic are unlikely to prove sustainable, it adds.\n\nThe dossier says leaving the EU without a deal could lead to:\n\nThe dossier warns of disruption at ports, along with food, fuel and medicine shortages\n\nA No 10 source told the BBC the dossier had been leaked by a former minister in an attempt to influence discussions with EU leaders.\n\nThey added that the document \"is from when ministers were blocking what needed to be done to get ready to leave and the funds were not available\".\n\nResponding to the leak, Mr Gove said some of the concerns about a no-deal Brexit had been \"exaggerated\".\n\nHe said: \"It's certainly the case that there will be bumps in the road, some element of disruption in the event of no-deal.\n\n\"But the document that has appeared in the Sunday Times was an attempt, in the past, to work out what the very, very worst situation would be so that we could take steps to mitigate that.\n\n\"And we have taken steps.\"\n\nMr Gove also claimed some MPs were \"frustrating\" the government's chances of securing a new deal with the EU.\n\nHe said: \"Sadly, there are some in the House of Commons who think they can try to prevent us leaving on October 31st. And as long as they continue to try to make that argument, then that actually gives some heart to some in the European Union that we won't leave on October 31st.\n\n\"The sooner that everyone recognises that we will leave on that day, the quicker we can move towards a good deal in everyone's interests.\"\n\nBusiness minister Kwasi Kwarteng told Sky News' Sophy Ridge on Sunday: \"I think there's a lot of scaremongering around and a lot of people are playing into project fear.\"\n\nBut a former head of the civil service, Lord Kerslake - who described the document as \"credible\" - said the dossier \"lays bare the scale of the risks we are facing with a no-deal Brexit in almost every area\".\n\n\"These risks are completely insane for this country to be taking and we have to explore every avenue to avoid them,\" he told BBC Radio 4's Broadcasting House.\n\nIrish Deputy Prime Minister Simon Coveney said, in a tweet, that Dublin had \"always been clear\" a hard border in Ireland \"must be avoided\".\n\nThe Irish backstop - the provision in former prime minister Theresa May's withdrawal agreement that could see Northern Ireland continue to follow some of the same trade rules as the Republic of Ireland and the rest of the EU, thus preventing a hard border - was an \"insurance policy\" designed to protect the peace process, he said.\n\nMichelle O'Neill, Sinn Fein's deputy leader, accused Mr Johnson of treating the Northern Ireland peace process as a \"commodity\" in Brexit negotiations.\n\nShe said Ireland as a whole had been voicing concerns about a no-deal Brexit for months.\n\nThe SNP's Stephen Gethins said the documents lay bare the \"sheer havoc Scotland and the UK are hurtling towards\".\n\nLiberal Democrat MP Tom Brake said they showed the effects of a no-deal Brexit should be taken more seriously.\n\n\"The government has simply, I think, pretended that this wasn't an issue,\" he said\n\nMinisters were in \"a real pickle\" since \"the US has said that if that border is jeopardised, we're not going to get a trade deal with them\", he added.\n\nSpeaker of the US House of Representatives Nancy Pelosi said on Wednesday that a US-UK trade deal would not get through Congress if Brexit undermined the Good Friday Agreement.\n\nThe leak comes as the prime minister prepares to travel to Berlin to meet German Chancellor Angela Merkel on Wednesday, before going to Paris to see French President Emmanuel Macron on Thursday.\n\nMr Johnson is expected to say Parliament cannot and will not change the outcome of the 2016 EU referendum and will insist there must be a new deal to replace Mrs May's withdrawal agreement - defeated three times by MPs - if the UK is to leave the EU with a deal.\n\nHowever, it is thought their discussions will chiefly focus on issues such as foreign policy, security, trade and the environment, ahead of the G7 summit next weekend.\n\nMeanwhile, a cross-party group of more than 100 MPs has urged the prime minister to recall Parliament and let it sit permanently until the UK leaves the EU.\n\nIn a letter, MPs say the country is \"on the brink of an economic crisis\".\n\nLabour leader Jeremy Corbyn also reiterated his call for MPs to work together to stop a no-deal Brexit.\n\nElsewhere, anti-Brexit campaigner Gina Miller said the government had \"unequivocally\" accepted it could not shut down Parliament to clear the way for a no-deal Brexit.\n\nShe told Sky's Sophy Ridge On Sunday: \"What they have said is, unequivocally, they accept that to close down Parliament, to bypass them in terms of Brexit - stopping a no-deal Brexit, in particular - is illegal.\"\n\nMs Miller said she would continue to seek further reassurances that MPs would be able to pass legislation to stop a no-deal Brexit.\n\nAnti-Brexit campaigner Gina Miller said the government had accepted it could not shut down Parliament to clear the way for a no-deal Brexit", "Several neighbourhoods including Fatih, home to the historic Grand Bazaar, were affected.\n\nAuthorities said a homeless man was found in the Unkapani district, apparently drowned.\n\nThey warned the public to take care in the severe weather conditions.", "Although the fire was ferocious, no-one died in the blaze\n\nA massive fire has swept through a slum in the capital of Bangladesh, Dhaka, leaving thousands of people homeless.\n\nAt least 1,200 tin shacks were destroyed in the Chalantika slum late on Friday, officials said.\n\nMany homes had plastic roofs, which helped the flames to spread. No deaths have been reported, although several people were injured.\n\nMost residents are low-wage earners and many were away after the Muslim festival of Eid al-Adha.\n\nThere is no word on the cause of the fire.\n\nThe number of people made homeless by the fire is unclear, with Reuters news agency reporting it to be 3,000 people and AFP putting the number at 10,000.\n\nEarlier reports suggested the number was as high as 50,000.\n\nThe cause of the devastating fire is not yet clear\n\n\"According to our investigation committee 1,200 shanties were damaged and out of this 750 shanties burnt totally,\" Enamur Rahman, junior minister for disaster management and relief, told Reuters.\n\nThe government says relief will be provided for the many thousands who are now without shelter.\n\nDaytime images show the scale of the destruction\n\nSome 10,000 people are currently being sheltered in schools that were shut for the festival, fire official Ershad Hossain told AFP.\n\n\"I could not salvage a single thing. I don't know what will I do,\" Abdul Hamid, who ran a tea stall inside the slum, told the news agency.\n\nAn investigation is under way. Firefighters took more than six hours to put out the flames.\n\nResidents were pictured on Sunday searching through the debris of their homes for belongings\n\nLocal residents sit on the street with their belongings as the fire ripped through the slum", "Some kayakers got wetter than expected when they paddled near a glacier in Alaska.\n\nHuge chunks fell off, causing a massive wave that came straight at them.", "The man fell onto tracks in a Glasgow subway station\n\nA man was knocked unconscious after falling onto subway tracks in Glasgow following a gang attack.\n\nThe 53-year-old and his daughter, 22, were on the platform at Buchanan Street station at about 21:30 on Saturday when a gang of 10 men shouted abuse at them.\n\nThe pair were attacked and the man was knocked out after falling onto the tracks.\n\nHe was helped back on to the platform by members of the public and taken to hospital by ambulance.\n\nBritish Transport Police said the man's injuries were \"not life-changing or life-threatening\". His daughter was not seriously injured.\n\nOfficers want to trace a white man in his late 20s, of medium build and about 6ft tall.\n\nHe was unshaven with dirty blond hair, and was wearing a white T-shirt with an emblem on the sleeve and dark ripped jeans. He also had tattoos on his arms.\n\nPolice said the group left the station by the north exit at about 21:40.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Lucas Dobson's aunt Maciee Stanford said \"we just need to find him\"\n\nRescue teams are continuing to search for a six-year-old boy who fell into a river in Kent while fishing.\n\nLucas Dobson disappeared in the River Stour in Sandwich, close to Richborough Road, at about 13:30 BST on Saturday.\n\nAn initial search was called off at 22:00 due to poor light. Rescuers, including specialist police divers, resumed their efforts early on Sunday.\n\nLucas's aunt Maciee Stanford thanked people for their support and said \"we just need to find him\".\n\nKent Fire and Rescue Service said it had been \"inundated\" with offers of help from volunteers but urged people to stay away from the water.\n\nRescue teams in canoes have been combing through dense vegetation on the riverbanks.\n\nPolice officers have also been using sonar equipment in the search for Lucas.\n\nRescue teams resumed their search for Lucas on the River Stour early on Sunday\n\nMs Stanford said Lucas was wearing a black, white and red T-shirt, and black shorts when he fell between a jetty and a boat.\n\nThree adults - including his father - jumped into the river to try to save him, but Lucas was swept away by the strong current, according to Ms Stanford.\n\n\"We appreciate everything everyone has done,\" she said.\n\n\"It's so overwhelming to see our community come together and help us - we could not thank you all enough for everything.\"\n\nVolunteers searching for Lucas Dobson have been attending briefings from the fire service\n\nA mile-long exclusion zone has been set up along the river, around the scrapyard at Richborough Road.\n\nRescuers said this was to prevent any public vessels, such as canoes or boats with engines, entering the search zone.\n\n\"This is to allow the water to remain as still as possible and to enable the search and rescue teams to carry out their work,\" the fire service spokesman said.\n\nThe fire service's assistant director Chris Colgan said: \"We're all incredibly grateful to everyone who has given everything to try and locate this little boy.\n\n\"We have issued some safety advice about keeping clear of the river's edge, staying on the main tracks, working in groups and never alone, and please make sure you are equipped with a phone and torches.\n\n\"Our thoughts are with him and his family at this very difficult and emotional time.\"\n\nSupt Amanda Tillotson, of Kent Police, said: \"This is understandably a very difficult and upsetting time for Lucas' family and our officers are continuing to support them.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "About 300 officers are already on standby to help deal with any disruption\n\nPolice Scotland have spent more than £7m on planning for Brexit.\n\nThe figure has been released in a Brexit contingency planning report due to be discussed by the Scottish Police Authority (SPA) this week.\n\nIt also states that civil unrest is one of the biggest potential issues facing policing post-Brexit.\n\nIt comes as leaked government documents appear to show that Britain faces shortages of fuel, food and medicine, in the event of a no-deal Brexit.\n\nDeputy Chief Constable Will Kerr will present an update to an SPA board meeting in Stirling on Wednesday.\n\nThe report has revealed that a planning team are preparing the force for any civil unrest and demonstrations.\n\nA separate delivery team is planning to ensure international investigations and intelligence-sharing are maintained post-Brexit.\n\nThe number of officers working in the force's international bureau has been increased and arrangements made to exchange biometric data such as DNA, fingerprints and vehicle registration details with EU member states.\n\nA \"force reserve\" has been established since 5 August, located in five hubs across Scotland. This group of officers has already been deployed at events including football fixtures, Extinction Rebellion activity and Edinburgh's summer festivals.\n\nThe \"force reserve\" has been deployed at events including Extinction Rebellion activity\n\nThe report stated: \"Brexit is a highly contentious subject and the Brexit contingency planning team are fully aware of the potential civil unrest.\n\n\"Brexit intelligence officers continue to monitor social media sites in order that Police Scotland can prepare and respond to any potential protests.\"\n\nIt comes as The Sunday Times printed leaked government documents warning of food, medicine and fuel shortages in a no-deal scenario.\n\nA No 10 source told the BBC a former minister leaked the dossier to try to influence discussions with EU leaders.\n\nThe documents say the cross-government paper on preparations for a no-deal Brexit, codenamed Operation Yellowhammer, reveals the UK could face months of disruption at its ports.\n\nIt also states that plans to avoid a hard border between Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland are unlikely to prove sustainable.\n\nHowever, the UK government has sought to play down the documents. Energy minister Kwasi Kwarteng dismissed the reports as \"scaremongering\".\n\nHe said a \"lot of people\" were playing into \"Project Fear\" following the leak of documents from the government's \"Operation Yellowhammer\", which detailed the \"most likely aftershocks\" of the UK crashing out of the EU.\n\nHowever, Michael Gove - the cabinet minister responsible for no-deal planning - insisted Yellowhammer represented a \"worst-case scenario\".\n\nHowever, the SNP's Stephen Gethins said the documents lay bare the \"sheer havoc Scotland and the UK are hurtling towards\".\n\n\"The Tory prime minister is in a state of delusion and denial over the impact his extreme Brexit plans will have on essential supplies such as food, medicines and fuel,\" he said.\n\n\"The worrying reality is that these internal government papers are only setting out the best-case scenario. It is clear that even in the face of disaster this Tory government simply plans to walk over the cliff-edge, dragging Scotland with it.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Neil and Katya Jones celebrated their sixth wedding anniversary earlier this month\n\nStrictly Come Dancing professionals Neil and Katya Jones have separated after six years of marriage.\n\nThe dancers were the focus of a media storm during the 2018 edition of the TV show, after Jones was photographed kissing her celebrity partner, comedian Seann Walsh, on a night out.\n\nJones and Jones stayed together following the scandal and said it was not the cause of their split.\n\nBoth dancers are expected to continue to work on Strictly.\n\nIn a joint statement the pair said their 11-year relationship had become more of a friendship than a romance.\n\n\"We wish one another every happiness and we will remain the best of friends,\" they said.\n\n\"We are really looking forward to getting back to the ballroom and can't wait to keep on dancing.\"\n\nThe 17th edition of the BBC show returns this September.\n\nA spokeswoman for the pair said their decision to split was not influenced by the controversy surrounding Walsh.\n\nSeann Walsh and Katya Jones were voted off the show three weeks after images were published of them kissing\n\n\"It would be incorrect and unfair to attribute their separation to one isolated incident,\" the spokeswoman said.\n\nRussian choreographer Jones and her partner Walsh were voted off the show in October 2018, three weeks after pictures of them kissing were published in the Sun on Sunday.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe revelation led to the end of his relationship with actress Rebecca Humphries.\n\nWalsh said at the time that \"bar the last few weeks\" it had been the \"best experience of my life\".\n\nThe 2018 series was eventually won by Kevin Clifton and his celebrity partner Stacey Dooley. The pair have since revealed they are dating.", "Talking to reporters at the White House, President Donald Trump said he's concerned about the rise of hate groups - he mentioned white supremacists as well as the left-wing militant antifa.", "The Colombian city of Zipaquirá has welcomed home local hero Egan Bernal, 10 days after he won the Tour de France.\n\nLast month the 22-year-old became the first Colombian to win cycling's most prestigious race - and its youngest champion in 110 years.\n\nThousands of people gathered in the town's central square as early as 05:00.\n\nHis return also coincided with a national holiday - the 200th anniversary of Colombia's victory against Spain in the Battle of Boyacá.\n\n\"I'll never forget seeing so many people gathered for me,\" Bernal told his fans.\n\n\"When I see you there, I'm only just starting to realise what this meant for Colombia.\n\n\"It makes me very proud to be able to give something to society and to give Colombia hope.\"\n\nBernal landed in the capital, Bogotá, on Monday. He had been competing in a series of shorter races in Europe that followed his Tour de France win.\n\nHe turned down the offer of a parade through Zipaquirá, opting instead for a more modest stage in the town's central square.\n\nThere, he paid tribute to his first coach Fabio Rodriguez, and showed his white jersey - won for being the best young rider in the Tour.\n\nBernal also held up his yellow jersey worn by Tour de France champions.\n\nHe donated his yellow jersey to the Colombian Cycling Federation, and gave his white one to Mr Rodriguez.\n\n\"It was my dream to win the Tour de France, and now I've done it,\" Bernal said. \"I'm not sure I'll be able to win it again.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe EU should show \"common sense\" and agree to make changes to the Brexit withdrawal deal, Boris Johnson has told the BBC.\n\nThe prime minister said there was \"bags of time\" for the EU to compromise on the Irish border backstop plan before the Brexit deadline of 31 October.\n\nHe also warned MPs not to oppose Brexit, and to respect the 2016 referendum result.\n\nThe EU has said repeatedly the backstop arrangements cannot be changed.\n\nMr Johnson said the policy - designed to guarantee there will not be a hard Irish border after Brexit - would turn the UK into a \"satellite state\" of the EU if it came into effect.\n\nSpeaking during a visit to Oxfordshire, he said the arrangements would \"keep us locked in EU regulatory orbit, locked in the EU trading system, unable to control our own laws\".\n\n\"We need change on that, once we get change on that I think we're at the races, and I think there's a good deal to be done.\"\n\nTheresa May's deal has been rejected three times by MPs and as things stand, the UK will leave the EU on 31 October whether it has agreed a new one or not.\n\nMany of those who voted against the deal had concerns over the backstop, which if implemented, would see Northern Ireland staying aligned to some rules of the EU single market.\n\nIt would also see the UK stay in a single customs territory with the EU, and align with current and future EU rules on competition and state aid.\n\nThese arrangements would apply unless and until both the EU and UK agreed they were no longer necessary.\n\nThe prime minister's comments come amid growing speculation that opposition MPs will table a vote of no confidence in the government in a move to try and stop the UK leaving the EU without a deal.\n\nLabour leader Jeremy Corbyn has said Labour will table a no-confidence vote at an \"appropriate\" time, once MPs return from the summer break in September.\n\nAccording to the Sunday Telegraph, Mr Johnson's senior advisor at No 10, Dominic Cummings, has told MPs even losing such a vote could not stop the PM taking the UK out of the EU on 31 October.\n\nHe reportedly said Mr Johnson could call an election for after the deadline, with Brexit taking place in the meantime.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nOn Wednesday, shadow chancellor John McDonnell said he would expect Mr Johnson to step aside if he lost a no-confidence vote.\n\n\"No prime minister can sustain themselves in office when they no longer have a majority in the Commons\", he said, speaking at the Edinburgh Festival.\n\n\"I don't want to drag the Queen into this, but I would be sending Jeremy Corbyn in a cab to Buckingham Palace to say 'we're taking over'.\"\n\nAsked whether he would resign in those circumstances, Mr Johnson said MPs should ensure Brexit takes place by the end of October.\n\n\"What MPs should do and what they've already voted to do, when triggering Article 50 and reconfirmed several times, is honour the mandate of the people\", he said.\n\nOn Tuesday cabinet minister Michael Gove accused the EU of \"refusing to negotiate with the UK\" over a new Brexit deal.\n\nThe European Commission said it was willing to hold further talks, \"should the UK wish to clarify its position\".", "The Ulster Farmers' Union (UFU) has rejected claims that 45,000 dairy cows will be culled in Northern Ireland as part of a no-deal Brexit.\n\nBBC Newsnight reported that senior industry figures believe cows could be culled in the event of a no-deal Brexit, if new higher tariffs are applied to British milk.\n\nUFU president Ivor Ferguson said it was \"scare tactics\".\n\nThe Department of Agriculture said it was not planning a cull of animals.\n\nMr Ferguson said: \"We certainly don't anticipate culling dairy cows.\"\n\nHe told BBC Radio Ulster's Stephen Nolan Show that the figure of 45,000 cows appeared to have been \"plucked out of the air\".\n\n\"I don't agree with it and nobody in the Ulster Farmers' Union would agree with it,\" he said.\n\nA spokesperson for the Department of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs (DAERA) said: \"We are not planning a cull of animals; rather we are exploring ways to support industry through contingency measures and potential funding streams.\"\n\nThe spokesperson added DAERA had \"recruited additional resources and trained existing staff\" in anticipation of significant demand for export health certificates.\n\nUlster Farmers' Union president Ivor Ferguson said the group has warned that a no-deal Brexit would be \"disastrous\" for farmers\n\nAbout 800 million litres of milk are processed in the Republic of Ireland from Northern Ireland each year.\n\nAccording to BBC Newsnight, the fear among producers in Northern Ireland is that, if no agreement is reached and traditional trading relationships with the south become difficult, the country will be left with a glut of milk that it will not be able to process or sell.\n\nMr Ferguson said the UFU has been in contact with politicians, both locally and in Westminster, \"to make our case that a no-deal Brexit would be disastrous for farmers\".\n\n\"Farmers' reserves are at their lowest now because farming hasn't been profitable this year in a lot of the sectors,\" he said.\n\n\"If milk had to face a tariff, the only way that milk would go across the border would be if the government stepped up and paid a tariff, and that's assuming the Republic of Ireland would accept the milk.\n\n\"We are asking for advice on how to handle this.\"", "One source told Newsnight the culling of cattle could start within weeks of a no-deal Brexit\n\nSome 45,000 dairy cows could be culled in Northern Ireland, in the event of a no-deal Brexit if new higher tariffs are applied to British milk, senior industry figures have warned.\n\nNorthern Ireland is particularly vulnerable because about a third of its dairy output is processed in the Republic of Ireland, which would continue to be part of the EU.\n\nThe UK is due to leave the EU on 31 October and one source said the culling of cattle could start within weeks of that date if that happened without the UK and EU agreeing a deal.\n\nBBC Newsnight has been told that officials and ministers from the Department for the Environment, Farming and Rural Affairs (Defra), have been warned about the potential for a \"major cull of dairy cattle, but they are not listening\".\n\nIn a statement Defra said: \"A widespread cull of livestock is absolutely not something that the government anticipates nor is planning for in the event of no-deal.\n\n\"We will always back Britain and Northern Ireland's great farmers and make sure that Brexit works for them.\n\n\"The government is boosting its preparations to ensure we are fully prepared to leave the EU on 31 October, whatever the circumstances.\"\n\nBut another industry insider told Newsnight that despite their warnings there had been a \"metaphorical shrug of the shoulders from ministers\".\n\nIt comes after reports on Monday that the prime minister's de facto chief of staff, Dominic Cummings had said all government departments should be \"interrogated\" on Brexit planning and raise any issues with No 10 as soon as possible.\n\nThere are approximately 310,700 dairy cattle in Northern Ireland, and the industry exports between 700 and 800 million litres of milk to the Republic of Ireland each year.\n\nAt present the average trade price of a litre of British milk is 26p. In the event of a no-deal Brexit, where 19p tariffs could be applied, that price would be pushed up to 45p in the Republic.\n\nHowever, the concerns are not solely based on the introduction of tariffs, which would make British milk expensive.\n\nCustoms checks and paperwork relating to traceability and standards could add further complications, and crucially it may no longer be legal to mix milk from the north and south.\n\nThe fear among producers in Northern Ireland is that, if no agreement is reached and traditional trading relationships with the south become difficult, the country will be left with a glut of milk that it will not be able to process or sell.\n\nAn industry insider said: \"Dairy herds have to be milked, it's not like you can leave the milk in the cows they would bloat up and ultimately die.\n\n\"If there is no market, and farmers cannot sell their milk, they could only keep going for a very short period.\n\n\"We're talking about hundreds of thousands of litres of milk going to waste, and then the farmers would have no choice but to reduce their herds.\"\n\nIndustry insiders say they arrived at the figure having considered Northern Irish processing plants maximising their output and some milk being sent to other parts of the UK.\n\nDairy farmers in Northern Ireland and the rest of the UK could face a further threat if current government plans to apply a 0% tariff on dairy imports in the event of a no-deal Brexit allow foreign milk to enter the UK market at a comparative advantage.\n\nMichael Bell, executive director of Northern Ireland Food and Drink Association (NIFDA), said: \"The impact of a no-deal Brexit on food and drink - Northern Ireland's largest industrial sector - will potentially be very severe.\n\n\"Given our reliance on EU exports, and the fact that the agri-food sector on the island of Ireland is highly integrated, leaving the European Union without a deal would leave us uniquely exposed.\n\n\"Locally, the lack of a Northern Ireland executive at a time of immense uncertainty for the industry is a major problem.\n\n\"The Northern Ireland food industry and the economy as a whole is potentially facing unprecedented difficulty, yet we remain without ministers able to take important decisions and fight our corner.\n\n\"I would strongly urge the UK government, and our local politicians, to work together to avoid a no-deal at all costs, before it is too late.\"", "As President Trump meets victims of a deadly mass shooting, Dayton is divided over his visit.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Yousef Makki’s mum says her family were \"treated like criminals\"\n\nThe mother of a stabbed teenager has said one of the boys who faced charges relating to her son's death would \"moonwalk\" past her in court.\n\nYousef Makki, 17, was stabbed in the heart in Hale Barns, Greater Manchester, on 2 March.\n\nHis mum Debbie said she had to share a corridor with two defendants during a trial at Manchester Crown Court.\n\nA boy, 17, admitted stabbing Yousef with a flick knife but was cleared of murder and manslaughter.\n\nKnown in court as Boy A, the teenager pleaded guilty to perverting the course of justice and possessing a knife and will spend eight months in custody.\n\nAnother 17-year-old, known as Boy B, was given a four-month detention and training order after he admitted possessing a knife.\n\nThroughout the trial, Mrs Makki said, she would see both defendants outside the courtroom.\n\n\"One of them used to moonwalk past us and laugh, the other one just used to smirk at us,\" she said.\n\nMrs Makki said she felt her family was \"treated like criminals\" and were left feeling \"pushed out\" of proceedings.\n\nShe told BBC Radio 5 live: \"We were actually shown a video of Yousef dead on the floor and we weren't warned about any of it.\n\n\"That picture sticks in my daughter's head forever.\"\n\nYousef, who won a scholarship to the prestigious £12,000-a-year school, was \"extremely intelligent\", his mother said\n\nMrs Makki said her son, a Manchester Grammar School pupil, was \"made to look like the bad guy\" during the trial.\n\n\"The whole case for four weeks was aimed at the fact that these boys were good boys from a good area, as if they were innocent babies, as if they couldn't possibly do anything bad because they weren't from a council estate.\"\n\nThe family was \"shoved upstairs\" in the public gallery to watch the four-week trial \"through a glass window\", Mrs Makki said.\n\nThis made it difficult to hear proceedings and left them unable to see the accused, she said.\n\n\"They're protected like babies with their families next to them and we're told there is no room for us,\" she said.\n\nYousef, from an Anglo-Lebanese family from Burnage, had won a scholarship to the prestigious £12,000-a-year school.\n\nHe was stabbed in the village, which is popular with footballers and celebrities.\n\nMrs Makki described him as \"extremely intelligent, caring, kind\" and \"always true to himself\".\n\n\"It is as if a light has gone out,\" she added.\n\nA Ministry of Justice spokesman said victims' families were \"offered the use of a private suite and the option of sitting away from a defendant's family\" during cases and headphones were available to help those in the public gallery \"listen to proceedings more clearly\".\n\nHe added that it was \"a tragic case and our sympathies remain with Mr Makki's family\" and said the department was \"looking at the possibility of putting speakers into the upstairs public gallery\" at the court.\n\nCorrection 23rd October 2019: An earlier version of this article referred to \"one of the boys on trial\" over the killing of Yousef Makki and this has since been amended to make clear that while both boys faced charges relating to his death, only Boy A faced charges over his killing.\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 determined cyclist makes it through flood water in Edinburgh\n\nA major clear-up operation is under way after torrential rain caused severe disruption to commuters.\n\nThe main rail line from Edinburgh to Glasgow was shut after flooding at Winchburgh tunnel in West Lothian resulted in passengers on five trains being trapped for several hours.\n\nScotRail said engineers had been working through the night to pump 2ft of water from the tunnel.\n\nNetworkRail aims to have the line open for early-morning commuters on Friday.\n\nIt said engineers would be sent in to check the tunnel and signalling system for damage caused by the flood before it gets the all-clear.\n\nThe issue is continuing to affect rail services across the central belt.\n\nEngineers have been working to pump water from Winchburgh tunnel since Wednesday night\n\nScotRail said water levels were \"falling slowly\" and thanked crews from the Scottish Fire and Rescue Service who joined efforts on Thursday.\n\nIt tweeted: \"Once the water's cleared, engineers will need to ensure that the tunnel is safe for use. This will involve a thorough inspection and an empty train being driven through to test the lines.\"\n\nThe Scottish Fire and Rescue Service has deployed a high-volume pump to help Network Rail tackle the flood in the 340m-long tunnel. The pump can remove 7,000 litres a minute.\n\nFire crews lower the high-volume pump down to the tunnel\n\nRail passengers travelling between Glasgow and Edinburgh are being advised to make alternative arrangements for travel and to check ahead before setting off on journeys.\n\nSuz Scott was among passengers stuck on one of the five trains stranded in floodwater outside Linlithgow.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by ScotRail This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy 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 told the BBC Scotland website that there was an announcement that there was too much water ahead and behind the train to continue their journey.\n\n\"Then we saw this deluge of water start to submerge the tracks,\" she said.\n\nThe \"poor train staff\" were trying to find a solution to the problem but did not seem to have a \"plan B\", she added.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 2 by Suz Scott This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy 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 rail firm later tweeted to say the Glasgow-bound stranded trains would return to Edinburgh due to the depth of the water in the Winchburgh tunnel.\n\nReplacement bus services have been put in place between Linlithgow and Falkirk Grahamston to Edinburgh Park.\n\nEdinburgh/Gogarbank was the wettest spot in Scotland on Wednesday, with 36mm of rainfall.\n\nThis was for a 12-hour period from 07:00 to 19:00, but most fell between 16:00 to 19:00. The total included 13.4mm between 16:00 and 17:00. The nearby site of Murray Burn recorded 19mm in one hour.\n\nThere was 27mm of rain at Lossiemouth for the same 12-hour period, with 11mm falling between 15:00 and 16:00.\n\nDrumnadrochit recorded 24mm in 12 hours, of which 15mm fell in the hour from 17:00 to 18:00.\n\nThe village of Dipple in Moray saw 69.4mm in the 36 hours up to 13:00 on Thursday - which is the local average for a month.\n\nThe heavy rain also caused problems around Edinburgh Airport on Wednesday evening, with access roads flooded and cars stuck in floodwater.\n\nCars and buses were unable to access the airport for a time after the approach road from the M8 motorway came under several feet of water.\n\nA man was spotted cycling through flood water at a roundabout just off Eastfield Road, as the rain water left vehicles on the road partially submerged.\n\nFlooding in Dunfermline saw vehicles stranded on Admiralty Road\n\nPolice in Fife warned drivers to take care as water levels reached up to car bonnets on Admiralty Road, Dunfermline.\n\nA spokesperson posted on social media: \"Some serious rain out there causing widespread flooding and awful driving conditions across the south west Fife area.\n\n\"Please drive with care, switch your lights on and leave a large gap between the vehicle in front.\"\n\nThe Met Office has issued a yellow warning for further heavy rain and thunder storms for much of the UK on Friday.\n\nMeanwhile, part of a railway route in the west of Scotland will remain closed until 22 August after severe flooding swept away part of the track.\n\nThe decision was taken to keep the line closed between Ardlui and Crianlarich following detailed geotechnical and aerial surveys of the damage.\n\nHowever, services will be reintroduced between Crianlarich and Oban from Monday.\n\nHeavy rain washed the trackbed from under the railway last Sunday.", "Feltham was among the five YOIs featured in the report\n\nYoung offender institutions in England and Wales fail to provide necessary support for children to succeed in life after custody, a report has found.\n\nIn many cases, secure accommodation is not lined up, while mental health support, education and employment are often not arranged, the prison and probation inspectorates said.\n\nPenal reformers said children were being \"set up to fail\".\n\nThe government said it was reviewing resettlement services at YOIs.\n\nYOIs house inmates from the ages of 15 to 21 and the joint report by the Inspectorate of Prisons and Inspectorate of Probation focuses on the situation facing those who come out under the age of 18, when they are legally still children.\n\nThe report also found \"inadequate\" planning to protect others from the risk posed by those released.\n\nMany of the hundreds of children released each year from YOIs are categorised as having \"profound\" needs for support and follow-up care - but the report pointed to \"systemic\" weaknesses in meeting these needs.\n\nIn one example highlighted in the report, Nawaz, a 16-year-old boy with a history of possessing offensive weapons and robbery, was released and allowed to go home to his parents with \"no consideration\" of the threat he might pose to his family.\n\nThere were three young children in the house and within weeks of his return adult men \"wearing balaclavas\" arrived at the house and threatened the family.\n\nIn another case, a 16-year-old called Owen was placed in accommodation more than 60 miles away from his home area without any education plan, mental health support or assistance on how to avoid substance use..\n\nThe teenager, who had been jailed for eight months, had experienced early trauma in his life and was in the care of the local authority. Children's services provided him with a placement the day before his release.\n\nThe delay \"prevented planning for his release\", according to the report, and as a result he knew no-one in the area in which he was sent to live.\n\nFrances Crook from the Howard League for Penal Reform said children were being \"set up to fail\", adding: \"We have worked with children to find out what home means to them, and they told us that it meant much more than just a roof over their head.\"\n\nPeter Clarke, the chief inspector of prisons, and Justin Russell, the chief inspector of probation, said the issue with the most \"detrimental\" consequences for young people highlighted by the report was \"a lack of suitable accommodation\" provided in time for other support to be put in place.\n\nThe report gathered date on 115 children released in the first three months of this year and found that 14% of them did not know, 10 days before their release, where they would be living.\n\nThe inspectors were also concerned that \"not enough thought\" was given to children's future by YOIs before they released them.\n\nAnd they added: \"They did not consider sufficiently often the risk to others that the child might pose on release.\n\n\"There was often a view that that was the remit of external agencies, and that resettlement really started on the day of release.\n\nMr Russell said the findings were \"disappointing\", adding: \"Children and young people are being let down and are not being supported to succeed on release.\"\n\nHelga Swidenbank, executive director of the Youth Custody Service, said: \"Good resettlement support is vital for children leaving custody and, while inspectors recognised examples of excellent practice, our standards have to become more consistent.\n\n\"We are reviewing resettlement services at all Young Offenders Institutions and will be working closely with external agencies providing accommodation, education, training and employment to improve arrangements for support on release.\"", "Vigils were held in both El Paso (seen here) and Dayton\n\nIn distant parts of the country, just 13 hours apart, two mass shootings rocked the US over the weekend.\n\nThe first, a massacre in the Texan border-city of El Paso, left 22 people dead. Nine people were later killed in a shooting in Dayton, Ohio.\n\nHere's what we know about the attacks.\n\nPolice in El Paso, a large city on the Mexico-US border, first received reports of gunshots at 10:39 local time (16:39 GMT) on Saturday.\n\nA gunman had opened fire with an assault-style rifle in a crowded Walmart on the city's east side. Nearby businesses were placed on lockdown and shoppers were evacuated.\n\nThe store is near a retail park, the Cielo Vista Mall, which is popular with El Paso residents as well as shoppers from just across the Mexican border.\n\nIn addition to the 22 fatalities, 24 people were injured in the shooting. Eight Mexican nationals were among the dead and the victims' ages range from 15 to 90.\n\nOfficers arrived on the scene within six minutes and the attacker surrendered after he was confronted by police outside the store.\n\nSecurity camera images from inside the Walmart show an armed man in a dark T-shirt wearing glasses and what appear to be ear protectors. He has been named by US media as Patrick Crusius, a resident of the city of Allen, in the Dallas area, which is about 650 miles (1,046km) east of El Paso.\n\nHe purchased the weapon legally, police say, and was able to carry it into the Walmart because of the state's \"open carry\" laws.\n\nThe 21-year old has been charged with capital murder, meaning he could face the death penalty.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Police were filmed responding to the shootings\n\nHe is believed to be the author of a text posted on 8chan, an online message board frequently used by the far right, which says \"this attack is a response to the Hispanic invasion of Texas\" and rails against a \"cultural and ethnic replacement brought on by invasion\".\n\nThe vast majority of El Paso's 680,000 residents identify as Hispanic or Latino.\n\nThe four-page document, reportedly posted some 20 minutes before police received the first emergency call from the Walmart, also expresses support for the gunman who killed 51 people in Christchurch, New Zealand, in March.\n\nThe US Attorney for the Western District of Texas, John Bash, said prosecutors were considering bringing hate crime charges against the gunman.\n\nHours later, almost 1,600 miles away in Dayton, Ohio, shooting began at 01:07 local time (05:07 GMT) on Sunday in an area popular for its nightlife.\n\nSecurity camera footage shows dozens of people racing through the doorway of the local Ned Peppers nightclub on E 5th Street. Nine people were killed and 27 were injured.\n\nJust seconds later, the gunman is seen running towards the venue and being hit by police gunfire as he reaches the door. Police have confirmed they killed the gunman at the scene within 30 seconds of him opening fire.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nHad the gunman made it through the door, Dayton Police Chief Richard Biehl said, the loss of life would have been \"catastrophic\".\n\nThe suspect, 24-year-old Connor Betts, used a .223-calibre assault rifle with high-capacity magazines that he had ordered legally from Texas. There was nothing in his history that would have stopped him from buying the gun legally, police said.\n\nHe was wearing a mask, body armour and had additional ammunition with him, law enforcement officials said. A second weapon, which the suspect left in his vehicle, was bought locally.\n\nHe fired dozens of rounds in the attack. His 22-year-old sister, Megan, was among those killed.\n\nCCTV footage obtained by CNN showed Betts, Megan Betts and another man, Charles Beard entering a nearby bar a little after 23:00.\n\nBetts is seen leaving about an hour later, with Mr Beard and Megan Betts exiting at 12:59. It is not clear what Betts did after leaving the bar but minutes later his sister was dead and Mr Beard was wounded.\n\nPolice have searched his house and his motives remain unclear. When responding to questions about a possible racial element to the killings, Mr Biehl said there was nothing to suggest a \"bias motive\".", "If you're tempted to sit on the Italian capital's famous Spanish Steps, you might want to stand up again.\n\nThe Scalinata di Trinità dei Monti is classified as a monument, so it's subject to one of Rome's new strict laws where tourists could be given a hefty fine.", "Natalie Christopher was last seen going for a run on Monday morning\n\nPolice searching for a 35-year-old British woman who disappeared on the Greek island of Ikaria say they have found her dead in a ravine.\n\nNatalie Christopher, an astrophysicist from London, was reported missing by her partner on Monday after failing to return from a run.\n\nThe couple, based in Cyprus, were on holiday on Ikaria, 130 miles (210km) south-east of Athens.\n\nDetectives are investigating the circumstances of her death.\n\nA major air-and-land search had been launched with island authorities joined by specialist teams.\n\nThe body was found around three miles from where she was last seen in a 20m (66ft) ravine, police said.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Three officers are injured in New Lodge trouble\n\nThree police officers have been injured after trouble flared at the site of an anti-internment bonfire in north Belfast.\n\nMore than 150 officers were deployed after unrest earlier on Thursday.\n\nYoung people tried to push through police lines around the bonfire and fireworks, bottles and wood were also thrown.\n\nPolice later left the bonfire because of the \"risks to innocent bystanders\" posed by their presence.\n\nResidents in nearby tower blocks were told to leave their homes as the Housing Executive \"cannot guarantee their safety\" due to the proximity of the bonfire.\n\nThe bonfire was lit late on Thursday night.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Kelly Bonner This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy 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 PSNI said some of those trying to attack police lines were using women and children as human shields.\n\nAssistant Chief Constable Alan Todd said this posed a dilemma for him as a police commander.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript 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 Simon Byrne This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy 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 press conference on Thursday evening, he said: \"I regrettably have had to take a decision today that the risks of continuing an operation to remove a bonfire were outweighed by the risks that operation would then pose to the wider community, the women and children, and others there present.\"\n\n\"I have an objective to support our partners to clear a bonfire site in support of the local community's wishes, but I also have a legal obligation to minimise any resort to use of force by police and to minimise the risks of so doing to public safety.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe assistant chief constable said it was \"a matter of regret that we weren't successful in the objective of the operation\", but that it was \"nonetheless a responsible, professional policing decision taken within the law and taken with very little room for other decisions to be made\".\n\nHe said although he did not regard the move \"as a successful outcome\", it was made \"in interests of the wider public safety, rather than continuing with an operation which might be seen to use force merely to prove a point and not achieve an objective\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nSix petrol bombs were recovered in the operation and a 13-year-old boy was arrested on suspicion of riotous and disorderly behaviour.\n\nACC Todd said those carrying out attacks on police were mostly youths who were being manipulated by older people, \"probably related to violent dissident republican groupings\".\n\nHe added: \"We will be reviewing CCTV footage to identify those who have been involved in the disorder, who can expect to be the subject of further police investigation and action.\"\n\nThree police officers were injured during the rioting on Thursday\n\nThe Housing Executive has told residents in the nearby Oisin and Fianna tower blocks to leave their homes.\n\nSinn Féin MLA Gerry Kelly said: \"This is a disgraceful situation because residents include people who are already vulnerable, some of whom have disabilities and other health related problems.\"\n\nHe added that \"the vast majority of the community have told [Sinn Féin] they do not want this bonfire\" and that it had been built \"by anti-social elements who torture this district throughout the year\".\n\nNegotiations had been ongoing to persuade two young people to come down from the top of the bonfire so the removal could proceed.\n\nAfter police left, a number of young people barricaded off Victoria Parade, the main road leading to the bonfire site.\n\nPoliticians from both Sinn Féin and the SDLP have previously raised concerns about the \"unwanted\" anti-internment bonfire.\n\nAnti-internment bonfires are lit in some republican areas to commemorate the introduction of internment without trial of republican suspects, which was brought in by the British government on 9 August 1971.\n\nThe police said they had attended Queens Parade to \"support contractors who have been tasked by the landowner to remove a bonfire from the road\".\n\nVictoria Road has been barricaded off by young people\n\nIn 2017, wood was removed from the bonfire over concerns it was too close to nearby buildings.\n\nOn Wednesday, SDLP councillor Paul McCusker called for the bonfire's removal after it emerged that threatening graffiti had appeared on the wall of a nearby family centre.\n\nThe graffiti warnings, which are being investigated by police, stated \"our wood goes, this centre goes\" and \"contractors beware\".\n\n\"There's serious concerns about the level of threat here, there's serious concerns about the level of criminality,\" Mr McCusker told BBC Radio Ulster's Stephen Nolan 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 4 by Carál Ní Chuilín This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy 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 Twitter, Sinn Féin MLA Carál Ní Chuilín said the \"bonfire isn't wanted\" and that \"all the criminal behaviour needs to be dealt with\" by the police and statutory bodies.\n\n\"I'm not long back after visiting residents again and it's clear the local families of those involved need to sit with the residents who are afraid and intimidated.\"", "A total of £136,585-worth of compensation claims paid out by Network Rail happened at London Paddington\n\nA commuter received £27,602 from Network Rail after \"possibly slipping\" on pigeon poo at Paddington station.\n\nData obtained by the BBC has revealed Network Rail has paid out nearly £1m in five years for slips, trips and falls at its stations across the UK.\n\nOver half of the payouts were made following accidents at Euston, Paddington, Victoria and Liverpool Street stations.\n\nIn the five years up to the end of 2018-19 financial year a total of £951,360 was paid out in compensation.\n\nThe highest single amount was £39,631 for a passenger who \"slipped on some liquid\" at Charing Cross station.\n\nOther passengers have received large payouts for slips at Paddington (£36,392) and Euston (£35,721) while another commuter received £28,000 after suffering a \"possible lacerated finger\" at Liverpool Street.\n\nSettlements made by Network Rail were said to reflect the claims and would take into account not only the injury but the wider impact.\n\nNetwork Rail's Philip Thrower said Network Rail was a company that took its \"responsibilities seriously\".\n\nHe added: \"With tens of millions of people using our stations every day, only a tiny fraction of a percent experience a mishap.\n\n\"If we are at fault for causing damage or injury to anyone, we rightly compensate them for those accidents and put in place new ways of working to stop them from happening again.\"\n\nNetwork Rail manages 20 stations across the UK including 11 in London.\n\nOthers include stations in Edinburgh, Glasgow, Manchester, Liverpool, Birmingham, Reading, Guildford and Bristol Temple Meads.\n\nVictoria was the railway station that saw the highest number of successful claims paid out by Network Rail - 44.\n\nGuildford and Glasgow Central were the only Network Rail-run stations not to have had a compensation claim paid out in the past five financial years.\n\nThe lowest amount paid out by Network Rail was £10 to a commuter who slipped on ice at Victoria station \"suffering personal injury and damage to their suit\".\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Last updated on .From the section Premier League\n\nA late flurry of deadline-day signings took Premier League spending for the summer up to £1.41bn, just short of the £1.43bn record set in 2017, according to Deloitte.\n\nDeadline day spending alone by English top-flight clubs was £170m - but on just 18 deals, the joint fewest number of transfers on the last day of the summer window since 2009.\n\nEverton's £34m signing of forward Alex Iwobi from Arsenal was the biggest incoming Premier League deal, while the largest transfer saw Romelu Lukaku leave Manchester United for Inter Milan for £74m - a loss of £1m on the fee they paid Everton.\n\nArsenal were the biggest spenders in England during the window, splashing out £155m. On deadline day, they bought £25m Celtic left-back Kieran Tierney and £8m Chelsea centre-back David Luiz.\n\nTottenham recruited Real Betis midfielder Giovani lo Celso on loan and signed Fulham winger Ryan Sessegnon for £25m. Their pursuit of Juventus forward Paulo Dybala was one of the big stories earlier in the day but the deal fell through.\n\nWatford spent a club record, reported to be £25m, on Rennes winger Ismaila Sarr and Leicester bought Sampdoria's attacking midfielder Dennis Praet for a reported £18m.\n• None How did social media react to deadline day?\n• None What's new this season in the Premier League?\n\nThree former England internationals made moves - Burnley signing Chelsea midfielder Danny Drinkwater and Manchester City bringing in Derby goalkeeper Scott Carson, both on loan, while Newcastle re-signed free agent striker Andy Carroll.\n\nIf you are viewing this page on the BBC News app please click here to vote.\n\nA busy day in the Championship was headlined by West Brom spending £4m on Southampton striker Charlie Austin.\n\nThis was the second year in a row when Premier League clubs could only sign players until the day before the season started, instead of the end of August.\n\nThe deadline has also now passed for Championship clubs, but teams from Scotland, Leagues One and Two and all of Europe's major leagues can bring in players until 2 September.\n\nThe total number of Premier League signings in the summer fell for the sixth year in a row.\n\nWhat deals happened in the summer?\n\nEleven of the 20 Premier League clubs broke their transfer record this summer, with Sheffield United smashing theirs four times. Arsenal, Aston Villa, Leicester (twice), Manchester City, Newcastle, Southampton, Tottenham, Watford - on deadline day - West Ham and Wolves are the other 10.\n\nHarry Maguire's £80m switch from Leicester to Manchester United was the biggest Premier League signing of the summer, followed by Arsenal's £72m purchase of Lille winger Nicolas Pepe.\n\nChampions Manchester City bought Atletico Madrid midfielder Rodri for £62.8m and Juventus right-back Joao Cancelo for £60m.\n\nSpurs spent £53.8m on Lyon midfielder Tanguy Ndombele - their first first-team signing since January 2018.\n\nThe 10 biggest signings by Premier League clubs this summer\n\nVilla spent £125m, the second promoted club to hit nine figures after Fulham, who did so last summer, only to be relegated in April.\n\nThe other biggest transfers were Manchester United right-back Aaron Wan-Bissaka (£50m from Crystal Palace), West Ham striker Sebastien Haller (£45m from Eintracht Frankfurt), Newcastle striker Joelinton (£40m from Hoffenheim) and Leicester midfielder Youri Tielemans (reported £40m from Monaco).\n\nChelsea also spent £40m on Real Madrid midfielder Mateo Kovacic despite having a transfer embargo. The Croat was already there on loan, so Frank Lampard's side were allowed to sign him permanently as he was already registered. Their sale of Eden Hazard to Real for a fee of £89m, which could rise to £150m, was one of the biggest deals in the world.\n\nThis was the second highest total spend since the introduction of the transfer window system in 2003, according to analysis from Deloitte's Sports Business Group. It is the fourth consecutive summer that Premier League clubs have spent over £1bn.\n\nBut Premier League clubs' net expenditure (purchases minus sales) was £625m - the lowest in a summer since 2015, helped by Hazard and Lukaku's big-money moves.\n\nDan Jones, partner in the Sports Business Group at Deloitte, said: \"With this level of net spend, combined with a more modest increase in Premier League broadcast rights values for the coming season than we have seen previously, we would expect wages to increase at a greater rate than revenue, returning to a wages to revenue ratio of over 60%.\n\n\"However, this does not signal major financial concerns as Premier League clubs collectively generated pre-tax profits of £426m in 2017-18, while net spend as a proportion of revenue of 12% is at its lowest since 2012.\"\n\nHere are some of Deloitte's other findings...\n• None La Liga clubs could still overtake the Premier League's total. Spain's top-flight clubs have spent £1.1bn, with Real Madrid, Atletico Madrid and Barcelona accounting for two thirds of that alone. That number will increase with their deadline not until 2 September.\n• None Championship clubs spent £160m on transfers, an increase from the £155m spent last summer.\n• None Chelsea (who had a transfer embargo), Crystal Palace and Liverpool were the three clubs to make a profit on transfers this summer.\n• None Benfica (£170m) and Ajax (£165m) were among the sides to make the most in player sales this summer.\n\nWhat could still happen?\n\nThe deadline for La Liga, Serie A, the Bundesliga, Ligue 1 and other European leagues is on 2 September so their clubs can sign Premier League players until then.\n\nReal Madrid have been linked with United midfielder Paul Pogba all summer, but it seems unlikely United would let the France international go now without being able to bring in a replacement.\n\nSpurs playmaker Christian Eriksen is another who could leave the Premier League. The Denmark international, who has one year left on his contract, is interested in a move abroad. But could their failure to sign Dybala make a move less likely?\n\nManchester City winger Leroy Sane is a long-term Bayern Munich target but the cruciate ligament damage suffered in Sunday's Community Shield could see him stay at Etihad Stadium.\n\nReal Madrid forward Gareth Bale was never really linked to any English clubs before the deadline. He has got three and a half weeks to find a European club, or else face a season out of the team, with the Welshman seemingly not in Zinedine Zidane's plans.\n\nParis St-Germain forward Neymar continues to be linked to Real Madrid and former club Barcelona, while Real attacking midfielder James Rodriguez - like Bale - may have to move away for first-team football.\n\nThe Premier League deadline closing could spark a flurry of signings elsewhere. Some managers in Leagues One and Two have been waiting for this stage, with Premier League and Championship clubs now more likely to know who they will be willing to loan or sell.", "Some of the UK's newest and most popular cars are at risk of being stolen in seconds by exploiting weaknesses in keyless entry systems.\n\nThe systems let drivers open and start their cars without taking their key out of their pocket.\n\nWhat Car? magazine tested seven different car models fitted with keyless entry and start systems.\n\nA DS 3 Crossback and Audi TT RS were taken in 10 seconds, and a Land Rover Discovery Sport TD4 180 HSE in 30.\n\nWhat Car? security experts performed the tests using the same specialist technology operated by thieves.\n\nThey measured the time it took to get into the cars and drive them away.\n\nCar theft rates in England and Wales have reached an eight-year high. In 2018, more than 106,000 vehicles were stolen.\n\nAnd motor theft insurance claim payouts hit their highest level in seven years at the start of 2019.\n\nThe Association of British Insurers said claims for January to March were higher than for any quarter since 2012.\n\nIt said a rise in keyless car crime was partly to blame, but did not have figures on what proportion of claims were for keyless vehicles.\n\nAudi's parent company, the VW Group, said it collaborated with police and insurers as part of its \"continual\" work to improve security measures.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. \"Relay attacks\" - how they work and how to stop them\n\nThe PSA Group - the parent company of DS - told What Car? it had a team dedicated to treating potential security weaknesses and worked closely with police to \"analyse theft methods\".\n\nIt also said dealers could deactivate the keyless entry systems on the latest cars at the owner's request.\n\nJaguar Land Rover said: \"The Discovery Sport model tested is no longer in production. The current Discovery Sport produced today features technology which prevents relay attack.\n\n\"In addition, all our vehicles are available with InControl tracking devices which have delivered a more than 80% success of recovery.\"\n\nStephen Savigar, 59, from Newport, South Wales, was on his way to Heathrow Airport with his wife and two friends when they became victims of keyless car theft.\n\nThe couples were flying to Singapore for a cruise to celebrate his wife and her friend's 60th birthdays.\n\nThe thieves struck when they stopped for a toilet break at Reading services. Mr Savigar's Ford Mondeo was not stolen, but what was taken from the car almost ended their holiday on the spot.\n\n\"While we were inside thieves jammed my car's locking system,\" he said. \"They stole my travel bag which had mine and my wife's passports inside, as well as our glasses and an iPad.\n\nSteven Savigar and his wife Kim, managed to have their cruise holiday despite losing passports and an ipad to car thieves\n\n\"It meant we were unable to fly. But we still dropped our friends to the airport and waved them off at the desk. My wife ended up passing out at the desk as we were in a terrible state.\"\n\nThe couple drove home, went to the passport office, travelled back to Heathrow the next day, and paid for another flight with a different airline. They made it to Singapore just in time to catch the cruise.\n\nFive months later Mr Savigar said he still felt upset talking about it. \"It was an absolutely horrific experience. We had been planning this trip for two years. It's a horrendous crime.\"\n\nAndrew from North London had his keyless Mercedes c220 stolen from outside his home in November last year. \"The vehicle had keyless entry and my keys were not even near the front door,\" he told the BBC.\n\nThe vehicle is still missing and Andrew said Mercedes has not been able to explain how this happened.\n\nHe said: \"I was given the line by Mercedes that if I double tap my key when locking the vehicle it will be safe as the key does not transmit. For me that was standard practice, I had known about this function, the key was on the third floor at the back of my house.\n\n\"I believe people are being misled when manufacturers say vehicles are even more safe. According to my insurance there had been more than 10 cars stolen with keyless entry in my postcode in London alone , in that month.\"\n\nThieves, normally working in pairs, will target a car parked outside a house.\n\nOne criminal will hold a device close to the car that boosts the signal meant for the key, while the other thief will stand close to the house with another device that relays that signal to the key, fooling the system.\n\nOnce the cars have been broken into, they will be stripped for parts, police say.\n\nCar manufacturers have begun introducing new technologies to prevent keyless theft, such as motion detection technology.\n\nWhat Car? was unable to break into cars that had motion detection installed as a safety measure, however the technology is not available across the car market.", "Last updated on .From the section Man City\n\nManchester City have completed the signing of Portugal right-back Joao Cancelo from Juventus for £60m.\n\nThe agreement sees City full-back Danilo, 28, move in the opposite direction for a fee of £34.1m.\n\nCancelo, 25, has signed a contract at the Etihad Stadium until the summer of 2025 and becomes City's third signing of the summer after Angelino and Rodri.\n\n\"City are a fantastic club, with a brilliant manager and I am delighted to be here,\" said Cancelo.\n\nFind all the latest football transfers on our dedicated page.\n\n\"Everything about them has impressed me, from the facilities, to their style of play.\n\n\"I am always looking to develop my game and win trophies and I believe I can do that here, so now I'm really looking forward to the new season and testing myself in the Premier League.\"\n\nCancelo, who can play further forward as well as at left-back, joined Juventus from Valencia for £35m in 2018 after a season on loan at Inter Milan.\n\nHe was part of the Portugal squad that won the Nations League in June, although he did not play.\n\nCity director of football Txiki Begiristain said: \"Joao is a fine player and an excellent attacking full-back who will provide us with a real threat on the right-hand side.\n\n\"We have been impressed with his progress and have no doubt he can continue to shine here in Manchester.\n\n\"He fits the profile of player we want here at Manchester City. His best years are ahead of him, he's technically proficient and has the physical attributes we desire.\"\n\nCity signed Danilo from Real Madrid for £26.5m in 2017, and he made 22 league starts in 60 appearances for the Blues across all competitions.\n\nThe Brazilian, who has agreed a five-year contract at Juve, has been involved in back-to-back Premier League title wins under manager Pep Guardiola but has rarely been viewed as a first choice. He becomes City's record sale.", "There were more people than ever before waiting for routine operations on the NHS in England - 4.4 million - in June.\n\nThe government target is for 92% of patients to start treatment within 18 weeks - but only 86.3% did, meaning 600,000 people had to wait longer.\n\nIn July, the number of people going to accident and emergency units in England hit a record high of 2.27 million.\n\nNHS England says the heatwave was one factor - but overall demand also increased.\n\nTop surgeons are calling for a five-year plan to clear the backlog of patients waiting for consultant-led hospital treatment, including more hospital beds across the country.\n\nProf Derek Alderson, president of the Royal College of Surgeons of England, said the number of patients \"languishing on waiting lists remains at an utterly unacceptable level\".\n\nThe number of people waiting for routine operations is the highest since modern records began, in 2007.\n\nWaiting lists in England have been rising steadily for the past year, with June's figures a slight increase on May's.\n\nSome hospitals say one factor in recent months has been the row over doctors' pension tax relief, which has seen some consultants reluctant to take on extra shifts to help clear the backlog of operations.\n\nThe government has now come up with new proposals to end the row.\n\nAn NHS official said staff had \"pulled out all the stops\" to deal with the record heat during July, treating more patients than ever before within four hours in A&E.\n\nThe previous highest number of A&E attendances, 2.17 million, was in July 2018.\n\nHealth think tank the Nuffield Trust said the figures showed \"relentless pressure throughout the whole system\".", "The van stopped by police taken away for forensic examination\n\nA man has been charged with attempted murder and possessing an offensive weapon after a police officer was stabbed in the head in east London.\n\nThe PC was attacked as he tried to stop a van in Leyton early on Thursday. He managed to Taser his assailant while being stabbed in the head and body.\n\nHe suffered multiple injuries but the Met Police says he will recover.\n\nMuhammad Rodwan, 56, from Luton, is due to appear at Thames Magistrates' Court on Friday.\n\nTwo uniformed officers tried to stop the van at the junction of Coopers Lane and Leyton High Road, the Met said.\n\nThe injured PC, 28, is a patrol officer who has been with the force for about 10 years.\n\nSpeaking earlier, Prime Minister Boris Johnson said the attack \"underscores for me the bravery of our police, people who actually go towards danger to keep us safer\".", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nKnife possession offences involving women in England have increased steeply since 2014 - rising by at least 10% every year, police figures show.\n\nSome 1,509 offences were recorded in 2018 - an increase of 73% over the last five years - data obtained following freedom of information requests shows.\n\nYouth workers say some women carry weapons for gangs as they are less likely to be stopped by police.\n\nThe Home Office said it funds schemes to help gang-affected women and girls.\n\nFigures for England show that between 2014 and 2018 there were more than 5,800 recorded knife possession crimes involving women.\n\nThe BBC contacted the four police forces in Wales but the figures are incomplete. Police Scotland and Police Northern Ireland figures were unavailable.\n\nIt comes against a backdrop of rising knife crime nationally and after the number of fatal stabbings in England and Wales was last year the highest number since records began.\n\nSome 1,509 knife possession offences involving women were recorded in 2018\n\nWest Midlands Police found a gun, bullets and a knife in a designer handbag after searching a car\n\nData from 38 forces out of 39 in England shows almost a quarter of recorded offences involved girls under the age of 18 - with the youngest aged seven.\n\nWhile London's Metropolitan Police saw the highest number of possession cases involving women, parts of northern England have seen female knife possession crimes increase at a faster rate.\n\nLondon's Metropolitan Police recorded a 52% increase over five years, with a total of 916 recorded offences from 2014 to 2018.\n\nDuring the same time, Merseyside Police saw a 54% rise, to 499 offences, while the number of offences in Greater Manchester doubled, with 95 recorded offences last year.\n\nIn South Yorkshire there was an 82% rise over five years - with 248 offences involving women.\n\nTheresa John regularly carried a knife for 12 years. She said it \"became part of my identity\" on the streets in Essex.\n\n\"I used to name my knives. When I was 16 I had one that was like a flick Stanley blade and I used to call it Uncle Stan.\n\n\"If anyone asked me 'have you got Unc on you', I'd be like 'yeah'. That was my pet until I was 21.\"\n\nAfter a chaotic and difficult childhood, Theresa's life spiralled out of control. In her early 20s she became addicted to heroin and crack cocaine and worked as a prostitute to fund her addiction.\n\nTheresa says she regularly carried a knife for 12 years\n\n\"I'd either have a knife or a pair of scissors because when I was out working on the streets. There would be different guys who would force you to do stuff.\n\n\"I stayed in this lifestyle of crime and madness and just brokenness. I was in a very abusive relationship to the point that my kids were taken into care and at that point I just lost all hope.\n\n\"I started taking heroin, I was out on the streets working in prostitution. I used to get in a lot of fights - there was a lot of violence.\"\n\nOne night, the scissors were used as a weapon on her and a man stabbed her in the back of the head.\n\nAnd in 2012, Theresa stabbed her next door neighbour and was sentenced to 10 months in prison for actual bodily harm and possession of a knife.\n\nNow 35 years old, she says: \"It was like this mist came over me and I charged at her with the knife, and just stabbed her straight in the top of her head.\"\n\nJennifer Blake is a former gang leader from Peckham, in south London, who now works as a community support worker and independent gangs consultant.\n\n\"For some women it's a normal thing to have in your bag, like lipstick,\" she says.\n\n\"We have got girls that stab, but it's just like the elephant in the room. No-one wants to talk about it because no one knows how to deal with it.\n\n\"Everywhere you go you have problems with girls and their identity, their self-worth and those are the vulnerable ones that boys end up picking up.\"\n\nShe says some girls and women from broken homes see street gangs as their family and will do anything to fit it.\n\n\"Knife, guns, drugs - they are the couriers for it. They're not going to get stopped by police, and the men know that.\"\n\nThe Home Office said it was investing £220m into steering both young men and young women away from violent crime.\n\nFor female offenders specifically, it supports and funds young people's advocates who work with gang-affected young women and girls in London, Manchester and the West Midlands.\n\nA spokesman added: \"We recently announced plans to recruit 20,000 more police officers and empower them to use fair and intelligence-led stop and search, to prevent more young people falling victim to knife crime.\"\n\nEarlier this year South Yorkshire Police was one of seven forces to receive extra Home Office funding to tackle violent crime.\n\nThe force's assistant chief constable, Tim Forber, said while knife crime is still predominately a male problem, it is increasingly about \"vulnerability\" rather than gender.\n\n\"It's a very small proportion [of women] but it's a worrying proportion - we don't want to see any young people, any women carrying knives in society.\n\n\"I don't think it's any more nuanced, than it is for men, it's about vulnerable young people getting drawn into the fringes of organised crime.\"", "PC Mat Baker said he believed he was \"fighting for my life\" during the incident\n\nA police officer attacked by a man he was trying to restrain said it was one of the \"darkest moments\" in his life.\n\nPC Mat Baker and his colleague were bitten and strangled during the assault in Highworth in July 2017, and he said he was \"fighting for my life\".\n\nThe officer's account of the attack was shown on the BBC One documentary series Critical Incident this week.\n\nIn the past two years, assaults on Wiltshire Police officers have almost doubled.\n\nRecalling the attack, PC Baker said: \"I heard my colleague saying 'he's got his hand on my throat' and this guy's repeatedly saying 'I'm going to kill you. You're going to die. You're dead'. Repeatedly.\n\n\"You then start to wonder am I actually in the fight for my life. Yeah, I was in a fight for my life. It is that simple.\"\n\nHe said he and his colleague \"shared one of the darkest moments of our lives\".\n\nPC Baker said more than a year later he is still waiting for the traumatic memories to fade\n\nPC Baker described attacks on emergency service personnel as \"heinous\", and said more than a year later he was still waiting for the traumatic memories to \"fade into nothing\".\n\nHis attacker admitted assault charges in January 2018 and received a 14-month suspended jail term.\n\nWiltshire Police deputy chief constable Maggie Blyth said: \"What happened to Mat was dreadful and no police officer should come to work and be subjected to the sort of assault that he was.\n\n\"Sadly we have seen an increase in police officer assaults last year in Wiltshire, and that's mirrored across the country.\"\n\nThe force has adopted a seven point package of measures to help support officers assaulted in the execution of their duty, she added.\n\nFigures from Wiltshire Police and Crime Commissioner (PCC) Angus Macpherson last year showed there were 55 assaults on officers in 2016/17 and 103 in 2017/18.\n\n\"As with any job there are highs and lows, but being injured and abused on duty should not be part and parcel of working for the police,\" he said.\n• None Police and Crime Commissioner for Wiltshire and Swindon The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "After falling for several years, knife crime in England and Wales is rising again. So what is happening?\n\nThere were 43,516 knife crime offences in the 12 months ending March 2019.\n\nThis is an 80% increase from the low-point in the year ending March 2014, when there were 23,945 offences, and is the highest number since comparable data was compiled.\n\nThese statistics do not include those from Greater Manchester Police because of data recording issues.\n\nOut of the 44 police forces, 43 recorded a rise in knife crime since 2011.\n\nPolice figures are prone to changes in counting rules and methods, but data for NHS hospitals in England over a similar period showed an 8% increase in admissions for assault by a sharp object, leading the Office for National Statistics (ONS) to conclude there had been a \"real change\" to the downward trend in knife crime.\n\nDoctors said the injuries they were treating were becoming more severe and the victims were getting younger, with increasing numbers of girls involved.\n\nAll of the statistics here relate to England and Wales. Policing, criminal justice and sentencing are devolved in Scotland and Northern Ireland, which also collect crime data in slightly different ways.\n\nIn the latest figures, which include only selected knife offences, about half, 21,700, were assaults that caused an injury or where there was an intent to cause serious harm; a further 20,172 involved robberies.\n\nThese figures focus on homicides, or killings, a category comprising cases of murder, manslaughter and infanticide. In about two out of every five killings, the victim was fatally assaulted with a sharp object or stabbed to death.\n\nThe number of knife-related homicides went from 272 in 2007 to 186 in 2015. Since then it's risen every year, with a steep increase in 2017-18, when there were 285 killings, the highest figure since 1946.\n\nOne in four victims were men aged 18-24.\n\nThe figures also show 25% of victims were black - the highest proportion since data was first collected in 1997.\n\nAlthough knife crime is on the increase, it should be seen in context. It's relatively unusual for a violent incident to involve a knife, and rarer still for someone to need hospital treatment.\n\nMost violence is caused by people hitting, kicking, shoving or slapping someone, sometimes during a fight and often when they're drunk; the police figures on violence also include crimes of harassment and stalking.\n\nThe Crime Survey for England and Wales, which includes offences that aren't reported to police, indicates that overall levels of violence have fallen by about a quarter since 2013.\n\nHowever, the police-recorded statistics - which tend to pick up more \"high harm\" crimes - have indicated that the most serious violent crime is increasing.\n\nIn the year to March 2019, 22,041 people were cautioned, reprimanded or convicted for carrying a knife in England and Wales, most of whom were adults. But one in five - 4,451 - was under the age of 18.\n\nKnife crime tends to be more prevalent in large cities, particularly in London.\n\nFor every 100,000 people in the capital, there were 169 knife offences in 2018-19.\n\nIn 2018, figures from the mayor's office showed that young black and minority ethnic teenage boys and men were disproportionately affected, as both victims and perpetrators.\n\nThe Metropolitan Police Chief Commissioner Cressida Dick has said tackling violence in London is her \"priority\".\n\nNext highest was the North West, with 93 knife offences per 100,000 population, and Yorkshire and the Humber, 86.\n\nThe explanations for rising knife crime have ranged from police budget cuts, to gang violence and disputes between drug dealers.\n\nSome have also cited the steep decline in the use by police of stop and search.\n\nThe powers enable officers to search people on the street if they have reasonable grounds to suspect they may be carrying weapons, illegal drugs, stolen property or items to be used to commit a crime. People can also be searched without reasonable grounds if a senior officer believes there's a risk of serious violence in a particular area.\n\nFrom 2009, the number of stops fell sharply across England and Wales, especially in London, primarily because of concerns that the measures unfairly targeted young black men, wasted police resources and were ineffective at catching criminals.\n\nTheresa May, as home secretary, led efforts to drive down the number of stops, but there's anecdotal evidence from police that young people are now more inclined to carry knives because of growing confidence they won't be stopped.\n\nThe statistical basis for that is far from clear - but Scotland Yard, with the mayor of London's support, has begun increasing the use of stop and search again.\n\nSince 2010, police numbers have decreased by almost 20,000.\n\nPrime Minister Theresa May has said there is no \"direct correlation\" between the rise in knife crime and a fall in police numbers, but the issue is contested.\n\nIn 2018, a Home Affairs Committee report said police forces were \"struggling to cope\" amid falling staff numbers and a leaked Home Office document said they had \"likely contributed\" to a rise in serious violent crime.\n\nThe average prison term for those jailed for carrying a knife or other offensive weapon has gone up from almost five months to well over eight months, with 85% serving at least three months, compared with 53% only 10 years ago.\n\nSentences for all kinds of violent crime have been getting tougher, particularly for knife crime. The Ministry of Justice tracks the penalties imposed for those caught carrying knives and other offensive weapons in England and Wales.\n\nIn the year ending December 2018, 37% of those dealt with were jailed and a further 18% were given a suspended prison sentence. The figures for 2008, when the data was first compiled, were 20% and 9% respectively. Over the same period, there's been a steady decline in the use of community sentences, and a sharp drop in cautions, from 30% to 11%.\n\nPublic anxiety about knife crime, legislative changes and firmer guidance for judges and magistrates have led to the stiffer sentences, although offenders under 18 are still more likely to be cautioned than locked up.\n\nThis piece was originally published in January 2018, but is updated regularly to include the latest statistics.\n• None 'You have to keep a knife with you' - BBC News", "Katie Stevenson and her three daughters, Lacey, 11, Taleisha, seven, and Skyla, one had to be put in isolation\n\nA woman said she thought she was going to die after she was poisoned while cleaning out her fish tank.\n\nKatie Stevenson, 34, and her husband Mark were scrubbing coral in the tank at their home in Newport, Telford, when they began to feel ill.\n\nMrs Stevenson began \"shivering, shaking and hallucinating\" after the coral released deadly toxic fumes.\n\nThe couple and their three daughters had to be put in isolation and their home was sealed off for two days.\n\nMrs Stevenson was cleaning coral from an ornamental bridge on 30 July after the family's fish had died while they were on holiday.\n\n\"When you scrub it, because it's alive, it lets off toxins,\" she said.\n\nAfter 10 minutes, the couple began coughing and within an hour Mrs Stevenson \"started getting really bad shivers\".\n\nParamedics were called and the family had to be put in isolation for 48 hours while their house was sealed off and deep cleaned.\n\nMrs Stevenson had been cleaning coral from an ornamental bridge in the tank\n\nMrs Stevenson later learned she had been poisoned by palytoxin - a potentially lethal chemical released by coral when stressed.\n\n\"My kids could have died. We could have died. I've not slept properly since,\" she said.\n\n\"Nobody seems to know how dangerous coral can be and we only found out the hard way.\"\n\nShe criticised the lack of information she received when she bought the coral - admitting she was not told, and did not know, it was a living organism.\n\nThe family are now back at home but Mrs Stevenson is still unable to eat due to an inflamed stomach.\n\n\"It nearly killed us,\" she said. \"I don't want people to go through what we went through.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThousands of fans made a pilgrimage to London's Abbey Road 50 years after the Beatles walked over its zebra crossing for the cover of the last album the band recorded.\n\nThe band was pictured striding across the road the album was named after on 8 August 1969.\n\nJaime Garri, 61, flew more than 14 hours from Santiago, Chile, to mark the 50th anniversary.\n\n\"You have to say thank you to them for giving us such lovely music,\" he said.\n\nThe image of John Lennon, Sir Ringo Starr, Sir Paul McCartney and George Harrison outside the EMI Studios in St John's Wood is one of music's most iconic moments.\n\nThe Beatles in their iconic Abbey Road cover shot\n\nSince the release of the Liverpool group's 11th studio album, the zebra crossing has become a tourist hotspot for devout fans who stop traffic to pose for pictures on the same spot.\n\nAnd on Thursday, crowds came together in droves to recreate the moment once more.\n\nFans at the event were in high spirits and many dressed up as their heroes in tribute to the band.\n\nMomo Raickovic, who dressed as Harrison, told BBC News that the scene outside the studio was \"magical\", with groups bursting into renditions of their favourite Beatles songs.\n\nMomo Raickovic chose to dress as his \"hero\" George Harrison\n\nHaving travelled from Toronto, Canada, to visit the site for the first time the 27-year-old said the experience was beyond his \"wildest dreams\".\n\n\"To me their music means love, positivity and happiness. Their songs spread the positive message and that was evident in people here,\" he added.\n\nJaime Garri flew from Chile to pay tribute to the Liverpool group\n\nMr Garri, who has visited the crossing eight times, said he continued to return because the album cover was \"perfect\" and captured a time shortly before the band's split in 1970.\n\nSpeaking over the honking sound of frustrated motorists held up by fans, Mr Garri added that he admired the band for \"their music and their way of life\".\n\nThey were \"the kind of people that give you joy and pleasant moments in life\", he said.\n\nDaniela Geber jetted in to London for the day from Vienna, Austria\n\nDaniela Geber, 52, from Vienna, Austria, jetted in to the capital at 08:30 BST for a day trip to the crossing.\n\nOn her first visit to London, she said: \"I told myself I would stand on Abbey Road on the 50th anniversary. People came from all over the world, old and young. I feel like I am not alone.\n\n\"You know it's good music when it spans generations. This music will never die.\"\n\nA Paul McCartney impersonator proposes to his girlfriend surrounded by a group of Beatles lookalikes\n\nFans of the group were also joined by a Beatles lookalike band, who arrived in a replica of Lennon's Rolls Royce car.\n\nTransport for London said two bus routes were briefly diverted as queues to cross the road blocked access.\n\nAbbey Road Studios invited people to have their photo taken against a cardboard backdrop of the original Beatles image in their car park amid the crowds.\n\nPhotographer Iain Macmillan took six shots of the group during a 10-minute break from the nearby studio.\n\nThe modest shot of the musicians on the pedestrian crossing on the B507 road went on to adorn the cover of the last album the foursome recorded - although Let It Be was the last album the group released.", "Demonstrators protest against the passage of cruise ships in parts of Venice\n\nLarge cruise ships are to be banned from entering Venice's historic centre, the Italian government says.\n\nShips weighing more than 1,000 tonnes will be rerouted away from certain waterways from September.\n\nThe move follows an accident in June in which a ship collided with a dock, injuring five people.\n\nBut conservationists say the government's plans are insufficient to prevent underwater erosion and pollution in the lagoon city.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The MSC Opera, its horns blaring, crashes into a boat moored at a wharf in San Basilio-Zattere.\n\nStarting from next month, some liners will be forced to dock at the Fusina and Lombardia terminals away from the city centre, the Financial Times reported. By the end of 2020, a third of all ships will be rerouted.\n\nCritics have long said waves created by cruise ships on the canal erode the foundations of the city, which regularly suffers from flooding. Others have also complained that they detract from the beauty of Venice's historic sites and bring in too many tourists.\n\nBut the June accident, in which the MSC Opera - a 275m (900ft) long ship - collided with a dock and a small tourist boat in the city's Giudecca canal, galvanised protesters to call for a definitive ban.\n\nThe Giudecca, which passes close to the popular St Mark's Square, is one of Venice's major waterways.\n\nIn 2013, the government banned ships weighing more than 96,000 tonnes from the central Giudecca canal, but the legislation was later overturned.\n\nIn 2017, it was announced that larger ships would be diverted from the historic centre, but the plans were expected to take four years to come into force.", "Hundreds of people gathered outside Hong Kong's Space Museum on Wednesday night to carry out a protest using laser pointers.\n\nIt followed the arrest of a student for possessing what police called an \"offensive weapon\" after he was found with several of the devices.", "Ch Supt Mark Warrender (left) and Ch Supt Marc Budden (right) have both been suspended by Gwent Police\n\nTwo senior police officers have been suspended after one of them was accused of sexually assaulting a woman.\n\nAvon and Somerset Police is investigating the alleged assault, said to have happened in Cardiff on 28 June.\n\nBBC Wales has been told Gwent Police officers Ch Supt Mark Warrender and Ch Supt Marc Budden have been suspended.\n\nOne is over the alleged assault, the other over an allegation of misconduct in public office. It is not yet known what each man has been accused of.\n\nUntil recently, Ch Supt Budden was listed on the Gwent Police website as temporary assistant chief constable.\n\nLast year, the website also listed Ch Supt Warrender as head of professional standards.\n\nAvon and Somerset Police said: \"We're carrying out an investigation into an allegation of a criminal offence made against a serving officer at Gwent Police. The officer has been suspended while this investigation is carried out.\n\n\"Alongside this, our professional standards department are conducting an investigation into allegations of misconduct against other serving officers at Gwent Police.\n\n\"This investigation has resulted in a second officer being suspended.\"\n\nBoth investigations are being managed by the Independent Office for Police Conduct.\n\nThe Police Superintendents' Association confirmed it was \"providing support\" to one of its members as part of the investigation.\n\nThe force employs five chief superintendents and 10 superintendents.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Malcolm suffered an \"alarming weight loss\" after he was taken into care, the sheriff said\n\nA severely brain-damaged teenager who was in local authority care almost starved to death, a BBC Scotland investigation has found.\n\nThe 18-year-old weighed just over three and a half stones (23.1kg), was severely dehydrated and had sepsis.\n\nHis relatives claim they were told the young man, who cannot be named, was unlikely to survive.\n\nThe council responsible for his care said it \"utterly rejects\" any suggestion he was mistreated.\n\nHowever earlier this year, in a guardianship case, a sheriff's judgement seen by the BBC said the young man had \"suffered grievously\" while in the overall care of North Lanarkshire Council's social work department in December 2016.\n\nThe sheriff said he had not been cared for adequately and suffered an \"alarming weight loss\" before being admitted to hospital.\n\nIn the opinion of the doctor treating him, he exhibited signs of having been \"punched and deliberately struck\".\n\nDespite being aware of these failings, the sheriff appointed the council to be his legal guardian, saying that since his discharge from intensive care two years ago he had been \"appropriately cared for\".\n\nThe sheriff also said his father was no longer a suitable guardian.\n\nMalcolm is unable to walk or feed himself\n\nIn his written judgement, the sheriff outlined how the young man, whose name we have changed to Malcolm, sustained a brain injury as a young child and had complex neurological difficulties which meant he could not walk or feed himself.\n\nIt said he had complex dietary requirements and lost weight easily.\n\nThe sheriff said Malcolm only weighed about 34kg to 36kg (between 5st 5lb and 5st 9lb) and eating adequately and regularly was very important.\n\nHis father Dave, not his real name, had looked after him full-time throughout his life but he became seriously ill in December 2016 and Malcolm was taken into the care of the council's social work department.\n\nAbout two weeks later - just days after his 18th birthday - Malcolm's health had \"deteriorated significantly\" and he was admitted to an intensive care ward.\n\nHis father told the BBC: \"The doctor said he wouldn't see it through the night. And he'd lost a hell of a lot of weight. He couldn't hold his head up.\n\n\"When you look at the photographs, he should have been taken to hospital right away.\"\n\nMalcolm suffered an \"alarming weight loss\" after he was taken into care, the sheriff said\n\nNorth Lanarkshire Council denies any mistreatment of Malcolm while he was in its care.\n\nThe BBC understands the case was not referred to the police and there was no investigation.\n\nChild protection expert Tam Baillie said: \"Whoever comes across a child who is at risk or there is evidence of abuse or neglect should contact either social work or the police.\"\n\nMr Baillie, the vice chairman of Child Protection Committees Scotland, said: \"Where there is evidence of abuse or neglect then the police should always be involved at the earliest opportunity. That goes for not just children but for adults as well.\"\n\nHe said there were vulnerable groups, such as children with learning or communication disabilities, who were more susceptible to neglect and abuse.\n\nMr Baillie said: \"We have to pay close attention to those children. These are additional challenges as well as making sure children are safe in whatever environment they are staying in.\"\n\nMalcolm was discharged from hospital in February 2017 and was moved to a different care setting where he was said to have \"thrived\".\n\nIn October that year he was returned to the family home, with 24-hour assistance.\n\nHis father's health had improved but he had been left with \"significant disability\" and was unable to care for Malcolm without help.\n\nHowever, the sheriff heard that the father's behaviour with care staff meant that carers refused to visit and Malcolm was removed from the family home.\n\nMalcolm was cared for by his father and went on holidays to America and the west coast of Scotland\n\nThe sheriff said he believed Malcolm's health had improved in a new care home and that his father would not co-operate with social workers and carers, potentially putting his son at risk.\n\nIn February, the sheriff appointed the council as Malcolm's long-term legal guardians.\n\nHe said father and son had a \"close and loving\" relationship but since his illness Dave had been \"aggressive\" and \"abusive\" towards carers and social work staff, and was not a suitable guardian.\n\nMalcolm has been living in accommodation with 24-hour support since the end of 2018.\n\nHis father and the council have been unable to agree on arrangements for him to see his son.\n\nDave is worried he will never see Malcolm again and is desperate to bring him home.\n\n\"I can't put words to it,\" he said.\n\n\"It's very overpowering. He knows what home is. He does feel home, he knows home. I can't cry any more. I've cried so many times, and I've felt so weak.\n\n\"He's always been at my side 24 hours a day. I gave my whole life up to my son, because he needs it. And I enjoy sharing it with him. I enjoy sharing every single day.\"\n\nAlex Neil, the SNP MSP for Airdrie and Shotts, has been involved with the family and the care of the boy for the past 12 years.\n\nHe said: \"I don't believe the council should have care because the last time he was in the care of the council he ended up at death's door.\"\n\nMr Neil said the council had barred him from going to see Malcolm.\n\nHe said: \"The council used their powers in a dictatorial way to stop people like me checking on my constituent and I think that is totally outrageous and unacceptable.\n\n\"They see it as a power struggle between them and the family. That's not how these things should work. The only thing that should matter in this case are the interests of this young boy.\"\n\nIn a statement North Lanarkshire Council said: \"We utterly reject any suggestion that the individual was in any way mistreated while in our care. The sheriff had full access to all the relevant background information. He determined that North Lanarkshire Council should replace the individual's father as the appropriate Welfare Guardian.\n\n\"We will continue to provide everyone placed in our care with the highest standards of support and attention.\"", "Until about 2014, knife crime, as with overall violence, appeared to be on the decline - that's certainly what figures from the police, Ministry of Justice, and health service suggested.\n\nSince then, police forces have been logging more violent offences. Some of that is because of better recording methods - but among the most serious types of violence, there has been a genuine increase.\n\nWorryingly, the involvement of young people in knife crime has been growing, confirming anecdotal evidence that more boys (and girls) are carrying weapons, being drawn into gangs and exploited by drug dealers.\n\nTen-to-17-year-olds represent roughly 20% of those cautioned or convicted of knife offences - that's possession of a knife or threatening someone with one.\n\nHowever, the most recent sentencing statistics show a very small decrease.\n\nMost in that age group caught with a knife receive a community sentence or warning. One in nine is sentenced to a spell in youth custody.\n\nThe Office for National Statistics is responsible for the Crime Survey of England and Wales, which estimates crime trends from a sample of 34,000 people aged between 16 and 64.\n\nThe advantage of the survey is that it captures incidents that aren't reported to police, as well as those that are.\n\nIn a more recent development, the survey has begun interviewing 10-15-year-olds to pick up crime trends among children.\n\nThe results indicate that the majority of violent incidents involving children aged 10-15 occur around schools, in daylight - and 92% lead to injury. Around 3% resulted in serious injury.\n\nPolice are alerted in only a minority of cases.\n\nThe Millennium Cohort Study asked a representative sample of 14-year-olds whether they carried knives - 3.47% said they did and, of these, 71.3% were boys.\n\nLegislation banning people from carrying knives without good reason dates back 65 years. The maximum sentence is a four-year jail term.\n\nOver the decades the law has been extended and penalties toughened. In 1988 it was made a specific offence to possess a knife in school.\n\nStaff do not need consent to search a pupil for a knife, but guidance recommends that there are two teachers present and that children are not asked to remove clothes, except items such as coats.\n\nIn 2019, measures were approved by Parliament extending the ban on weapons to further education colleges.\n\nThe legislation also paves the way for knife-crime \"prevention orders\" that will allow the courts to apply conditions, such as curfews, exclusion zones and social-media bans on people aged 12 and over suspected of carrying knives.\n\nThere's some evidence that more children are taking knives into school.\n\nA Freedom of Information request by BBC News, to which 27 police forces responded, suggested weapon possession at schools had doubled in four years.\n\nNearly two-thirds were sharp instruments, a category that includes knives but also everything from broken bottles to corkscrews.\n\nThe Department for Education has compiled information about those who have been caught with a knife.\n\nIt showed that 10-18-year-olds convicted of knife-possession offences were generally lower achievers - 91.1% of them achieved one or more GCSEs, compared with 99.7% for the population as a whole - and they were also more likely than their peers to have been excluded from school.\n\nThere are clear benefits of having police officers permanently stationed in secondary schools, where they can pick up intelligence, help defuse tensions and win the trust of students. Not every school would want or need one, of course, but some do.\n\nHowever, there are only 420 safer-school officers in London, a city with 3,155 schools.\n\nThe Met Police aims to increase this to 600 by autumn 2019.\n\nThe London mayor's office has also encouraged every state-funded secondary school to take up its offer of a knife-detecting \"hand wand\" - 200 schools have done so.\n\nAcross the country, 10 of 33 forces in England recently told a select committee they did not have any dedicated safer-school officers, including West Midlands Police - the largest force outside of London.\n\nAlthough there's been a rise in knife crime and strong evidence that young people are increasingly involved, in terms of crime overall there's been a substantial drop over the past decade in the number of 10-17-year-olds being arrested, prosecuted, convicted and detained.\n\nThat partly reflects long-term offending trends, as well as efforts by the authorities to avoid criminalising children.\n\nAs the numbers of young people in the justice system have fallen, the budget and workforce have been reduced.\n\nAlthough the cutbacks might make economic sense, they're likely to fuel concerns they've compromised the effectiveness of youth justice services just when they're needed most.\n\nThis piece was originally published in November 2018, but is updated regularly to include the latest statistics.", "Thousands face disruption after a signal failure caused all services to be suspended\n\nThousands of rail passengers endured travel chaos after all services out of London Euston were suspended due to a signal failure.\n\nNational Rail said all lines reopened at about 17:00 BST but severe disruption continued throughout the evening with some cancellations and delays of up to an hour.\n\nIt apologised to rail users for the delays, which began at about 16:00.\n\nAmong those affected were passengers travelling on Virgin Trains.\n\nThe train operator said customers affected could use their tickets on Friday or apply for a full refund.\n\nLondon Northwestern, which runs services from London to north-west England, said customers could use their tickets on East Midlands Trains, Chiltern Railway, Cross Country, Great Western Railway, London Overground, Thameslink, Virgin and Southern Rail.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by London Euston This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nCommuters stranded at the busy rail hub tweeted about their frustration, with many posting pictures of the packed station.\n\nA BBC sports reporter who managed to get on an alternative train from King's Cross was told by LNER that Virgin tickets would not be accepted.\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\nVirgin has since tweeted Drew Savage to say \"we still have ticket acceptance in place with @LNER between King's Cross and Leeds.\"\n\nMeanwhile several said nearby Marylebone station was also \"in chaos\" as passengers sought to make alternative journeys.\n\nOthers tweeted about the lack of air conditioning on the few overcrowded trains making it out of Euston.\n\nThe station doors were closed to prevent overcrowding according to Mr Savage, who added officials had been handing out bottles of water to commuters.\n\nBritish Transport Police said officers were on hand \"for reassurance\" amid the disruption.\n\nServices reopened but delays and cancellations mean many are stranded at the busy rail hub\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "UK train companies will stay in the Interrail scheme, reversing Wednesday's decision, the operators' group says.\n\nThe Rail Delivery Group (RDG), which represents UK train operators, had said the arrangement would end in January following a dispute with Eurail Group which manages the scheme.\n\nBut it prompted a backlash, with Transport Secretary Grant Shapps calling for a U-turn.\n\nRDG said it had reversed course \"following the strong reaction\".\n\n\"We are pleased to be able to tell passengers that we have reached agreement and will be remaining part of both the Interrail and Eurail passes,\" said Robert Nisbet, director of nations and regions.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Rail Delivery Group This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nLaunched in 1972, the Interrail pass enables European citizens to travel around 31 countries by train and ferry, while the older Eurail pass lets non-European citizens do the same.\n\nPulling out of both schemes would have meant passholders could have travelled as far as London, but their tickets would not have taken them any further.\n\nBritish travellers would have been able to buy passes around the continent, but they would not have been valid on UK railways apart from in Northern Ireland and on Eurostar trains.\n\nThe decision received heavy criticism on social media on Wednesday.\n\nMr Shapps tweeted: \"It will make it harder for everyone else to explore the UK. A COUNTERPRODUCTIVE move in my view & I'm therefore calling on the RailDeliveryGrp to reverse their decision!\"\n\nFormer Labour transport secretary Lord Adonis tweeted: \"This is closing Britain to the next generation of continental Europeans.\"\n\nThe decision to restart talks and come to an agreement with Eurail was greeted with relief by some on social media, but others were less complimentary.\n\nOne Twitter user commented: \"The fact you even considered it has caused severe reputational damage for you.\"\n\nOthers expressed doubt about RDG's claim that it had \"never wanted to leave\" the Interrail scheme.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript 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 Just another Andy This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. End of twitter post 2 by Just another Andy\n\nOver the decades Interrail journeys have been a rite of passage for millions of mostly young tourists, although older people use the pass too.\n\nOn Wednesday RDG claimed that Eurail Group had pushed it out of both schemes following a dispute.\n\nThe argument was over Eurail's decision to merge its two passes into one, RDG said. It feared the new pass would clash with its own Britrail pass, also aimed at non-European citizens, which covers UK rail travel and offers discounts on local tourist attractions.\n\nBut Eurail disputed this version of events, saying that RDG had pulled out after failing to \"secure a competitive position\" for Britrail.\n• None UK pushed out of Interrail scheme after dispute", "Colin Dowler might not be alive today if it weren't for a small pocket knife with a two-inch blade and five forestry workers.\n\nThe Canadian man was mountain biking on a logging road in the remote backcountry of British Columbia, roughly 300km (185 miles) north of Vancouver.\n\nHe was exploring potential hiking routes on Mount Doogie Dowler - he and his brother had plans to climb the mountain named after their grandfather.\n\nHe was heading back home after spending the night in the woods when he came around a bend and saw a grizzly bear.\n\nAt the time he didn't know that he would end up in a life-or-death struggle with the animal - and that his luck would turn after the attack.\n\nHe was hoping that like most bears, it would prefer to avoid human contact and head back into the woods.\n\nUnprovoked bear attacks - provincial conservation officers believe this is such a case - are extremely rare.\n\nHe was about 100ft (30 metres) from the bear - \"too close in my opinion\", he told the BBC by phone from his hospital bed.\n\nAs he was considering what to do - ride away, cycle past the bear, or stay still - the animal kept walking towards him at what seemed a natural pace.\n\nMr Dowler took off his backpack and grabbed one of his hiking poles as \"some semblance of a deterrent\" and stepped off his bike to keep it between himself and the grizzly.\n\n\"There was a point - I was scared the whole time - but I thought, 'Man, it would be cool to be catching this on video,'\" he said.\n\nThere are about 15,000 grizzly bears in British Columbia and attacks are rare\n\nThe grizzly kept walking forward - parallel to the bike until its rump had almost passed the rear wheel. Then it \"made a hard turn to the left\" to get behind him.\n\nBut Mr Dowler says at that point he went from \"uncomfortable to wildly uncomfortable\".\n\nKeeping his bike between him and the bear, he gave it a firm poke with the hiking pole, which led to brief a tug-of-war.\n\nHe remembers negotiating with the bear, saying \"I know this is your territory, I'm just passing through - we don't have to do this\".\n\nThe grizzly kept coming at him with \"methodical, heavy swats\" and - as those swats got heavier and stronger - Mr Dowler threw his bike towards it.\n\nThat's when it came for him, biting deep into his abdomen below his ribs.\n\n\"It was so much pain and weirdness, I could feel the hot blood,\" he says. \"I'm being rag-dolled, suspended by my flank by a bear carrying me.\"\n\nIt dropped him near a ditch about 50ft away and began taking deep bites into his thighs. He tried gouging at the bear's eyes, and briefly, playing dead.\n\nHe then reached for a pocket knife in his right pants pocket - it was painful to do so as he could hear the grating of bear teeth on bone - and went for the bear's neck. There was a rush of blood and the bear let go and walked away from him, back towards where it had come from.\n\nMr Dowler used the knife to cut off a shirtsleeve to use as a tourniquet around his wounded leg. He recovered his bike and cycled 7km (4.5 miles) to a logging camp, where he collapsed.\n\nHe said that is where his luck turned. There were five men at the camp and all of them knew first aid.\n\n\"They just went to work, doing their best to save my life,\" he said. \"They're truly the heroes of the story because there's no way I would have made it without [them].\"\n\nThey also called an air ambulance, and emergency workers gave him a likely life-saving blood transfusion before he was flown to a Vancouver hospital, where he is now slowly - and painfully - recovering from the 29 July attack.\n\nProvincial conservation officers tracked the bear in the woods and it was put down. They say they are confident it was the same bear that attacked Mr Dowler, because it had a knife wound in its neck.\n\nBritish Columbia is bear country - there are about 15,000 grizzlies in the province and anywhere from 120,000 to 150,000 black bears.\n\nThe province gets between 14,000 to 25,000 calls in a year about bear sightings or conflicts, and the main cause of conflicts is due to bears who have developed a liking for human food sources like improperly stored garbage or dirty barbeques.\n\nA small percentage of calls end up with the bear being killed because it has become a danger to the public.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Footage taken from a nearby building shows police responding to the attack\n\nA police officer was stabbed in a \"frenzied\" machete attack as he tried to stop a van in east London.\n\nThe PC - described by colleagues as \"amazing\" - managed to Taser his attacker while being stabbed in the head and body.\n\nHe is in hospital with multiple injuries but the Met says he will recover.\n\nA 56-year-old man was arrested at the scene in Leyton on suspicion of causing grievous bodily harm.\n\nDet Ch Supt Richard Tucker described the attack, which happened shortly after midnight, as \"frenzied, unprovoked and shocking\".\n\nThe two uniformed officers suspected the van was being driven without insurance when they tried to stop it at the junction between Coopers Lane and Leyton High Road.\n\nWhen they spoke to the driver he became \"quite aggressive\" and returned to his van before \"a violent struggle\", Det Ch Supt Tucker said.\n\nThe injured PC is a patrol officer who has been with the force for about 10 years.\n\nDet Ch Supt Tucker said: \"He told me he was OK but that's the type of character he is.\"\n\nPrime minister Boris Johnson said the attack \"underscores for me the bravery of our police, people who actually go towards danger to keep us safer.\"\n\nThe van stopped by the officers has been taken away from the street for forensic examination\n\nMuhammad Faisal, who lives nearby, said he was woken up by a noise outside his flat and saw someone lying in the road.\n\nMr Faisal said he initially feared the officer \"had lost his life\", but he began to move and speak to colleagues after a few minutes.\n\nMinicab driver Mr Faisal reported seeing \"a lot of blood\" on the ground as fellow officers tried to stop their colleague bleeding.\n\nHe said he also saw a suspect being held face down on the floor before being taken away in a police van.\n\nInsp Julia James said: \"This was a sudden and brutal attack on a uniformed officer carrying out their duties.\n\n\"What began as a routine vehicle stop has transformed very quickly and unexpectedly into an unprovoked attack with a weapon.\"\n\nThe van stopped by the officers has been taken away from the street for forensic examination.\n\nOfficers suspected the van was being driven without insurance\n\nHome Secretary Priti Patel tweeted that she was \"absolutely horrified by the shocking stabbing\", while London mayor Sadiq Khan said he was \"utterly appalled by this sickening attack\".\n\n\"This was an attack on a police officer, who showed tremendous bravery by continuing to defend others even whilst being attacked himself,\" he said.\n\nKen Marsh, chairman of the Met Police Federation, said it was \"horrific news\".\n\n\"Police officers should be going home at the end of their shifts, not to hospital,\" he said.\n\nThe Met has urged witnesses to get in touch.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "A British man has died in Austria after getting cramp in his foot while he was swimming in a lake, police have said.\n\nThe 33-year-old drowned at the Schwarzindien beach area in Mondsee on Wednesday.\n\nHe was with a 36-year-old woman, also from the UK, when he disappeared below the surface after saying he was in pain.\n\nOfficers say when he did not come back up, the woman \"screamed for help\".\n\nOther swimmers tried to help, but his body was recovered at around 4.30pm local time.\n\nCramp is an involuntary muscle contraction which can be sudden and very painful - it is associated with exercise and dehydration.\n\nIt can last anywhere from a few seconds to 10 minutes and can make it hard for you to move.\n\nMost cramps go away on their own, but the NHS advises stretching and massaging the muscle if you can.", "A full-size helter-skelter has been constructed inside a cathedral to give visitors a unique view of the building.\n\nThe 16.7m (55ft) vintage fairground ride took four people two days to build in the nave of Norwich Cathedral.\n\nFor the first time it allows people to stand close to its medieval roof bosses, believed to be the largest display of their kind in the world.\n\nThe Very Reverend Jane Hedges, Dean of Norwich Cathedral, said the installation was \"certainly not a gimmick\".\n\nIt will be at the cathedral until 18 August.", "Goyt Wines manager Malcolm Swets says the company's insurance provider is disputing the bar's claim for loss of earnings\n\nHundreds of Whaley Bridge residents have spent almost a week away from their homes and businesses.\n\nNow, as they return, they are left wondering: \"What next?\"\n\nFor many, the question of compensation - for lost earnings or food and accommodation costs - springs to mind. But how much of a struggle is this likely to be?\n\nGoyt Wines manager Malcolm Swets said the shop and bar had lost \"thousands of pounds\" in revenue over the week.\n\n\"We're going to have trouble because our insurance company is disputing paying out anything for lost earnings,\" he said.\n\n\"A flood didn't happen, [there's been] no damage to the property, so we can't claim on anything like that.\"\n\nHe said the insurers were disputing whether the fact customers were prevented from accessing the shop fell under their policy.\n\nThe shop's owners have been referred to the Financial Ombudsman over the claim.\n\nHairdresser Julian Thompson reopened his salon within hours of the cordon being lifted on Thursday\n\nAdeva hairdressers owner Julian Thompson reopened his salon hours after the cordon had been lifted.\n\nHe said he would have struggled to cope if the evacuation had continued.\n\n\"I have staff and I have to pay their wages,\" he said.\n\n\"A week, I could just about do it. Any longer than that and I'm starting to panic.\"\n\nPhoenix Takeaway owner Siu Lok Wong worries his insurance premiums will go up if he claims for loss of earnings\n\nSiu Lok Wong, owner of the Phoenix Takeaway, said he had lost seven days' worth of trade.\n\nHe said: \"If we're not open, we're not making any money, but it's the same for every business here.\"\n\nHe said he had been in touch with his insurance company and expected to receive a payout for loss of earnings but feared it could push up his premium in the future.\n\nThe Association for British Insurers (ABI) said businesses with cover for \"denial of access\" should be able to claim for loss of earnings if they were inside the evacuation cordon.\n\nFor evacuated townsfolk who have paid out for accommodation, food and other emergency supplies, insurance claims may prove trickier.\n\nMalcolm Tarling, from the ABI, said: \"Flood insurance cover kicks in when any flooding actually occurs.\n\n\"When it does, insurers will respond quickly to help homeowners and firms recover.\"\n\nAs no properties in Whaley Bridge were damaged as a result of the dam breaching, costs incurred by the evacuation may not be reimbursable through home insurance - although the ABI said there was \"no harm in checking in with your insurer\".\n\nSome businesses based in the evacuation zone were unable to trade as emergency services worked to avert a flood\n\nOne Whaley Bridge resident, who did not wish to be named, said his insurers had already told him they would pay for his hotel costs after he had to pay for rooms on the first night of the evacuation.\n\nHis family also spent more than £1,000 on a week-long stay at a care home for an elderly relative, but he had yet to check with the relative's insurer over compensation for respite care.\n\nHowever, like many of the evacuees, his overriding feeling was relief that his family were safe.\n\n\"We're prepared to pay for it - at the end of the day everyone's safe and nobody's hurt,\" he said.\n\nThe overriding feeling among evacuees is relief that they are safe\n\nFellow resident Ruth Ashton, 26, agreed. She stayed with her parents after being advised to leave her home, so did not spend money on accommodation herself, but said: \"I know some people have found it financially difficult so they should definitely get some form of compensation or reimbursement for whatever they lost.\"\n\nShe pointed out that some people had been unable to work but still had to pay rent and living costs.\n\n\"Business owners have lost a massive amount of income and still have to pay business rates for properties that they're letting,\" she said.\n\n\"It's not really [the insurers'] fault we were evacuated; it's nobody's fault. It's a massive inconvenience but, at the end of the day, everybody's safe.\"\n\nSupport may be available from the council for residents returning to their homes\n\nBut might stricken residents have other options when it comes to financial support?\n\nDerbyshire County Council said it would set up two emergency funds - worth £160,000 - for residents and businesses that were financially affected by the evacuation.\n\nA spokeswoman said part of it would be funded through the Derbyshire Discretionary Fund, which would be topped up by county council's budget.\n\nShe added: \"The business emergency support fund of £100,000 is being set aside from existing council reserves to provide emergency relief to businesses out of pocket as a result of the Toddbrook Reservoir 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 Barry Lewis This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nOn a positive note for residents, Malcolm Tarling from the ABI said flooding as a result of dam breaches was \"extremely rare\".\n\n\"I don't think an incident that didn't happen will affect the cost of insurance,\" he said.\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.", "Higher VAT would most likely reduce German shoppers' meat purchases\n\nGreen and Social Democrat (SPD) politicians in Germany say the 7% sales tax (VAT) rate on meat should be raised to 19% to help curb global warming and fund animal welfare improvements.\n\nAccording to UN research, methane from livestock accounts for 14.5% of greenhouse gas emissions - more than the direct emissions from transport.\n\nThe German proposal, if made law, could reduce meat purchases and the supply of cheaper meats from factory farms.\n\nMinister Julia Klöckner, a member of Chancellor Angela Merkel's Christian Democrat (CDU) party, said she welcomed the discussion on improving animal welfare, but argued that raising VAT was not the way to do it, as a drop in meat sales could hurt farmers' incomes.\n\nThe standard VAT rate in Germany is 19%, but most foods, including meat, benefit from the reduced rate of 7%.\n\nThe SPD is in government with the CDU, and the German Greens made big gains in the May European elections.\n\nThe German debate coincided with a UN report from a panel of scientists calling for a determined switch away from livestock farming. They argue that the West's high consumption of meat and dairy produce is fuelling global warming.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Gases produced by livestock are a major factor in global warming\n\nBesides the harm caused by methane emissions from livestock, there is the widespread destruction of forests to make way for pasture, a process that releases CO2 stored in soil and reduces the absorption of CO2 by trees.\n\nThe UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) says the livestock sector produces 14.5% of greenhouse gas emissions, or 7.1 gigatonnes of CO2 equivalent - more than all the direct emissions from cars, aviation, ships and other transport.\n\nSPD agriculture spokesman Rainer Spiering said \"there are discount stores in Germany selling 500 grams of mince for €2.50 (£2.30), and if the VAT rate goes up by 12 percentage points they will charge €2.80 - I think that is acceptable\".\n\nGermany's Die Zeit daily reports that the average German eats about 60kg (132 pounds) of meat annually, but the German Nutrition Society (DGE) recommends only half that amount as a healthy level.\n\nIn the first half of this year, German abattoirs produced 3.9m tonnes of meat. Slaughtered animals - excluding poultry - totalled 29.4m.\n\nUnder EU rules, food generally qualifies for a reduced rate of VAT - as do many other essential goods and services.\n\nBut alcohol, fruit juice and some other types of food and drink are taxed at the standard rate. The minimum standard rate is 15%, and the lowest reduced rate is 5%.\n\nIn Germany, the reduced rate applies to pet food, but not to baby food. And carrots are reduced-rate, but not carrot juice.\n\nIn the UK the VAT rate on food is 0%, which remains legal under EU rules, because it predates the 5% threshold set in 1991.\n\nVAT rates vary widely across the EU, as taxation remains largely a national government responsibility. But the variation makes it harder to crack down on VAT fraud, and the EU has longstanding plans to reform VAT.", "Gynaecologists are warning of the potential risks of vaginal steaming after it emerged a Canadian woman burned herself attempting one.\n\nA case study, involving a 62-year-old, was published in the Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology Canada.\n\nThe woman had been suffering from a prolapsed vagina and believed the treatment could help avoid surgery.\n\nVaginal steaming, which involves sitting over a hot water and herb mix, has seen a growth in popularity.\n\nIt and other treatments for intimate areas, including vulva facials, are now available at some salons and spas.\n\nThe LA Times first reported on the steaming trend in 2010, and it later gained widespread attention when Gwyneth Paltrow's Goop brand recommended it.\n\nLast year, US model Chrissy Teigen also shared a photograph of herself undergoing the treatment.\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 chrissyteigen 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\nSpas advertising \"v-steaming\" claim it has been used throughout history in countries in Asia and Africa. They say the practice, which is sometimes called Yoni steaming, acts to \"detox\" the vagina.\n\nExperts, however, warn it can be dangerous and say there is no proven medical evidence for the health claims being made, including that steaming can ease period pains or help with fertility.\n\nDr Vanessa Mackay, a consultant and spokeswoman for the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists, says it is a \"myth\" that the vagina requires extensive cleaning or treatment. She recommends using plain, unperfumed soaps on the external vulva area only.\n\n\"The vagina contains good bacteria, which are there to protect it,\" she said in a statement.\n\n\"Steaming the vagina could affect this healthy balance of bacteria and pH levels and cause irritation, infection (such as bacterial vaginosis or thrush) and inflammation. It could also burn the delicate skin around the vagina (the vulva).\"\n\nA number of doctors have been sharing the injured woman's story in recent days in order to highlight the potential dangers from steaming.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Dr Philippa Kaye This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy 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\nDr Magali Robert, who authored the article, said the injured woman attempted to steam her vagina on the advice of a traditional Chinese doctor.\n\nThe woman, who gave permission for her case to be shared, sat over the boiling water for 20 minutes on two consecutive days before presenting at an emergency department with injuries.\n\nShe sustained second-degree burns and had to delay reconstructive surgery while she healed.\n\nDr Robert, who works in pelvic medicine and reconstructive surgery in Calgary, said word of unconventional therapies like steaming can spread through channels like the internet and word-of-mouth.\n\n\"Health care providers need to be aware of alternative therapies so that they can help women make informed choices and avoid potential harm,\" she says in the article.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. \"It has become the heart and soul of what our school is about\"\n\nA growing number of primary schools are keeping their doors open during the summer holidays.\n\nFunded by the Wales-wide School Holiday Enrichment Programme (Shep), children receive breakfast and lunch and lessons are replaced by sports and activities.\n\nKath Newman said her nine-year-old daughter Carianne \"absolutely loves\" going back to her Ebbw Vale primary school over the summer.\n\nMs Newman said the scheme had \"saved\" her family after financial struggles.\n\nThe number of schools offering the programme has risen by 43% this year.\n\n\"It started last year - my husband has ongoing problems and had four major surgeries, and money is an issue,\" explained Ms Newman.\n\n\"So we were really, really struggling and it was a case of feeding the children and going without ourselves. We heard about this programme and it has really saved us because it is a long time.\"\n\nKath Newman (centre) with her husband Chris, youngest daughter Carianne, son Dan, and eldest daughter Maddy\n\nOne teacher in Barry said the scheme had become \"the heart and soul of what our school is about\".\n\n\"Our children and our families need us to be there, not just during term time and not just in the traditional way,\" said Janet Hayward, head teacher of Cadoxton Primary, in Barry.\n\nLike 75 other primary schools around Wales, Mrs Hayward and her learning assistants welcome children back for three weeks during the holidays.\n\nThe school is in a ward in Barry where the latest figures estimate 31% are classed as living in child poverty - above the Wales average of 29.3%.\n\nFunding for the project is available to schools where more than 16% of pupils are entitled to free school meals.\n\nBut once running, the programme is open to all children in the school, whatever their circumstances.\n\nChildren can take part in a range of activities, such as baking\n\nAlmost 2,500 children took part in Shep last year. This month, 3,700 are expected to pass through school gates usually locked for six weeks.\n\nIt is a response to growing concern about some children not getting a healthy diet outside term time.\n\nIsolation and a lack of stimulation over the summer might also contribute to a growing attainment gap, say supporters of the scheme.\n\nMs Newman said it had \"made such a difference\" to Carianne's wellbeing.\n\n\"This year things have improved but she still loves going. She learns about healthy eating and it is something to do to break up the long holiday,\" she said.\n\n\"She gets to mix with new friends and they do a daily mile every morning and they can choose to walk or jog. They teach them about cooking and go on trips to the local park.\n\n\"They even brought owls in yesterday from a local owl sanctuary. It's absolutely brilliant,\" she told Claire Summers on BBC Radio Wales.\n\nBut the £900,000 spent by the Welsh Government this year is nowhere near enough to reach all the children in need, says the Bevan Foundation think-tank.\n\nIn a report on the \"national scandal\" of holiday hunger, it says guaranteeing a place for a quarter of children eligible for free school meals would cost £4.75m.\n\nA Welsh Government spokesman said: \"We have increased funding for the School Holiday Enrichment Programme by £400,000 to £900,000 this year, which includes £100,000 for a new pilot based on play and community based settings.\"", "Three people were pulled from the water, near Clacton Pier, at about 13:40 BST\n\nA 14-year-old girl has died and an 18-year-old man is in a critical condition after three people were rescued from the sea off the Essex coast.\n\nThe three, who are related, were pulled from the water near Clacton Pier at about 13:40 BST, police said.\n\nAll three were treated on the beach by paramedics before being taken to Colchester General Hospital.\n\nA 15-year-old girl is expected to make a full recovery, police said.\n\nAmbulance crews, the coastguard and police were called to the scene and Clacton RNLI said they were also called out\n\nActing Det Supt Paul Wells said: \"At this early stage, we believe that three teenagers got into difficulty at sea and were recovered from the water, close to Clacton Pier.\n\n\"A teenage boy and a girl were taken to hospital in a critical condition. Of these, a 14-year-old girl has died in hospital, an 18-year old man is stable but remains in a critical condition.\n\n\"The three casualties are related. Immediate family members have been informed and are at hospital. We are continuing to support the family at this unimaginably difficult time.\"\n\nActing Det Supt Paul Wells said police believe the three teenagers got into difficulty at sea\n\nChris Hines, from Sudbury, who has been trained in first aid, ran over to help.\n\n\"My wife said there were three people who was in trouble and I rushed over and started CPR,\" he told the BBC.\n\n\"An ambulance turned up pretty quickly. I just hope I did some good.\"\n\nA beach hut owner, who asked not to be named, said: \"I saw someone being dragged out of the water and people trying to resuscitate them.\n\n\"The beach patrol brought up a defibrillator and was working on them for 10 minutes before other emergency services arrived.\"\n\nAir ambulances were called to the scene\n\n\"It's a tragedy. I've lived here for 26 years. People underestimate the sea and they don't understand the currents and tides. Holidaymakers don't have a clue and there aren't any well-defined swimming areas here,\" he said.\n\nLast year 15-year-old Ben Quartermaine died after getting into difficulty while swimming with a friend near Clacton Pier on 26 July.\n\nAnu Cooray, 37, from Watford, told the BBC: \"We saw the lifeguards running and ambulance paramedics.\n\n\"They were doing chest compressions. Three helicopters came. One of them was really bad. We were so sad to see it.\"\n\nOne witness Becky Bryant, 40, said: \"I saw two people being pulled from the sea and lifeguards trying to do CPR until the paramedics turned up. Everyone tried to take turns doing the CPR while the lifeboat went out again and retrieved the third person who seemed not to be in such a bad way.\"\n\nThe carer, from Wivenhoe, added: \"It was so distressing, everyone was trying to do what they could; lifeguards, air ambulance, they truly worked as a team.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Police believe Nora Quoirin remains in the vicinity of the hotel where she was staying\n\nA mum's voice calling out for her missing daughter was played over loudspeakers during a search of the Malaysian jungle.\n\nPolice believe Nora Quoirin, 15, who has special needs, is still somewhere near the Dusan resort she vanished from on Sunday.\n\nThey played loudhailer recordings of Meabh Quoirin calling Nora's name during the search of nearby rainforest.\n\nPolice believe she could be lost but her family fear she has been abducted.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Éadaoin Agnew said Nora's disappearance had been \"extremely traumatic for the whole family\"\n\nNora, her parents Meabh and Sebastian - an Irish-French couple from London - and her younger brother and sister arrived on Saturday at the resort near Seremban, about 40 miles south of Kuala Lumpur, for a two-week stay.\n\nHer father raised the alarm the following morning when she was found to be missing from her bedroom with the window open.\n\nNóra Quoirin went missing from her room on 4 August 2019\n\nMalaysian police have \"not ruled out anything\" but are treating it as a missing persons case.\n\nDuring their search, teams used a recording of Meabh Quoirin calling \"Nora darling, I love you. Mum is here,\" according to Malaysia newspaper, the New Straits Times.\n\n\"This morning when we went out, we played the recording using loudspeakers,\" said Mohamad Mat Yusop, police chief of southern Negeri Sembilan state.\n\nOther family members have also been recorded with authorities hoping that they will draw Nora towards the sound.\n\nOfficers have been divided into six teams who are searching an area of jungle about 2.5 sq miles in size.\n\n\"We hope that on this fifth day we will be successful in finding the missing victim,\" district police chief Mohamad Nor Marzukee Besar said.\n\nNearly 250 officers are taking part in the search\n\nFrance's ambassador to Malaysia Frederic Laplanche has travelled to the area\n\nNora's relatives have told the BBC it was \"unthinkable\" the teenager, who has special needs, had left her room on her own.\n\nHer grandfather Sylvain Quoirin described her as \"very shy, very reserved, very fearful\".\n\n\"In my opinion, the adventure escapade line of inquiry is not at all valid,\" he said.\n\nThe operation is focused on an area of two-and-a-half square miles around the hotel\n\nAn online fundraising page set up to cover \"unforeseen expenses or charges\" as family members join the search in Malaysia has raised more than £55,000.\n\nMissing persons charity the Lucie Blackman Trust, which is supporting the family, has provided a hotline and email address for information.\n\nPeople can remain anonymous and can call +448000988485 or email ops@lbtrust.org.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The aunt of missing teenager Nora Quoirin has made an emotional appeal for help in locating her niece.\n\nÉadaoin Agnew asked people to keep the 15-year-old, who disappeared in Malaysia on Sunday, in their thoughts.\n\nFighting back tears at one point, she said Nora's disappearance had been \"extremely traumatic for the whole family\".\n\n\"Nora is still missing. She is very vulnerable and we need to do everything we can to bring her home,\" she said.\n\nMalaysian police said they had \"not ruled anything out\" as to the reason for Nora's disappearance.", "A newly-released tool that exploits a vulnerability in Facebook’s WhatsApp allows you to \"put words in people’s mouths\", researchers say.\n\nA team from cybersecurity firm Checkpoint has demonstrated how the tool can be used to alter the text within quoted messages, making it look as if a person had said something they did not.\n\nResearcher Oded Vanunu told the BBC the tool made it possible for “malicious actors” to manipulate conversations on the platform.\n\nFacebook would not provide a comment on the issue.\n\nThe tool was demonstrated at Black Hat, a cyber-security conference in Las Vegas, as a follow up to a research paper published by Checkpoint last year.\n\n“It’s a vulnerability that allows a malicious user to create fake news and create fraud,” Mr Vanunu explained.\n\nThe tool makes it possible to manipulate WhatsApp’s quoting feature to make it look like someone had written something they had not.\n\n“You can completely change what someone says,” Mr Vanunu said. \"You can completely manipulate every character in the quote.”\n\nThe tool also allows an attacker to change how the sender of the message is identified, making it possible to attribute a comment to a different source.\n\nA third issue highlighted by researchers has been successfully fixed by Facebook. That flaw could trick users into believing they were sending a private message to one person, when in fact their reply went to a more public group.\n\nBut Mr Vanunu said Facebook had told them the other issues could not be resolved due to “infrastructure limitations” on WhatsApp.\n\nIn particular, the encryption technology used by WhatsApp made it extremely difficult - perhaps impossible - for the company to monitor and verify the authenticity of messages being sent by users. Other potential measures to stop the problems highlighted could result in trade-offs in the usability of the app, researchers were told.\n\nWhen asked by the BBC why his team would release a tool that made it easier for others to exploit the vulnerability, Mr Vanunu defended the move, saying he hoped it would provoke discussion.\n\n“[WhatsApp] serves 30% of the global population. It's our responsibility. There is a big problem with fake news and manipulation. It's infrastructure that serves more than 1.5 billion users.\n\n\"We cannot like put it aside and say: 'Okay, this is not happening.’\"\n\nThe spread of misinformation on WhatsApp has been a major cause of concern, particularly in countries such as India and Brazil, where misinformation has lead to instances of violence, and in some cases, death.\n\nWhatsApp made changes to its platform in an effort to reduce the spread of misinformation, such as limiting the number of times a message could be forwarded.\n\n\"We carefully reviewed this issue a year ago and it is false to suggest there is a vulnerability with the security we provide on WhatsApp,\" it said.\n\n\"The scenario described here is merely the mobile equivalent of altering replies in an email thread to make it look like something a person didn't write.\n\n\"We need to be mindful that addressing concerns raised by these researchers could make WhatsApp less private - such as storing information about the origin of messages.\"\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", "Henri Belolo and Jacques Morali formed The Village People after a chance encounter in New York\n\nHenri Belolo, who co-founded pop group the Village People and co-wrote hits including YMCA, Go West and In The Navy, has died at the age of 82.\n\nA pioneer of disco, Belolo was also behind one of hip-hop's first crossover hits, Break Machine's Street Dance.\n\nThe record label he founded, Scorpio Music, confirmed his death \"with deep sorrow\" on Wednesday, but gave no further details.\n\n\"Henri will live on in our hearts and minds forever,\" it added.\n\nThis YouTube post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on YouTube The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. YouTube content may contain adverts. Skip youtube video by Village People 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\nBelolo was born in Casablanca, Morocco, in 1936. He moved to France in his twenties and received his musical education in Parisian jazz clubs.\n\nAs he refined his skills as a DJ and producer, he chanced upon an import of TSOP (The Sound of Philadelphia) by the band MSFB and fell in love with the sounds of disco.\n\nHe moved to the US in 1973, where he met fellow Moroccan producer Jacques Morali. They teamed up to produce hits for the Ritchie Family, including Brazil, Best Disco In Town and Give Me A Break.\n\nIn 1977, he and Morali assembled the six-member Village People after a chance encounter in New York. \"We were walking around [Greenwich] Village and we saw an Indian playing bells on the street,\" he told The Parisian Today.\n\n\"Intrigued, we followed him to a bar where he was a waiter, and sang a disco number every 20 minutes. Among the customers was a guy with a cowboy hat. That was the trigger: To create a group with all the stereotypes of the American male.\"\n\nThis YouTube post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on YouTube The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. YouTube content may contain adverts. Skip youtube video 2 by Village People This article contains content provided by Google YouTube. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Google’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. YouTube content may contain adverts.\n\nThe group were simultaneously high-concept and high camp, embracing gay culture with colourful costumes and life-affirming disco anthems.\n\n\"We were keen on doing something for [gay liberation], because Jacques was gay and I was feeling that an injustice was done to the gay community,\" Belolo told DJ History in 2004.\n\n\"I did not like that American mentality of bigotry and hypocrisy, and I didn't see why these people would be treated like this. Like black people, as well - I did not like the way they were treated.\n\n\"So I was not doing this, really, as a businessman trying to make a fortune... I really did it as a provocative, subversive way of telling you, 'This is the way it is.'\"\n\nBelolo wasn't sure the Village People would cross over to the mainstream, but the irresistible choruses of Macho Man, In The Navy and YMCA helped the band sell 100 million records worldwide.\n\nAlthough their fortunes declined after the disastrous 1980 film Can't Stop the Music, Belolo continued to exert an influence on dance music.\n\nAlong with Morali, he wrote hit records for Break Machine and Eartha Kitt in the 1980s. After moving back to France, his label released international hits like Eiffel 65's Blue (Da Ba Dee), Gala's Freed From Desire and Haddaway's What Is Love?\n\nMore recently, the label, which is now run by his son Anthony, has topped the charts with J Balvin and Willy Williams' Mi Gente, and Loud Luxury's club smash Body On My.\n\nThis YouTube post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. 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A funeral has already taken place, with plans for a public memorial service to be announced soon.\n\n\"I am devastated by the untimely death of Henri Belolo who was my former producer, mentor and co-creator of Village People,\" said the band's lead singer/policeman Victor Willis.\n\n\"[He] leaves an impressive body of work that helped shape the disco genre, and as a record executive, he was par excellence,\" 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 Scorpio Music This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. 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If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nHundreds of Whaley Bridge residents have been told they can return home, nearly a week after fears over a damaged dam saw them evacuated.\n\nAbout 1,500 residents were removed from their homes on Thursday after the dam at Toddbrook Reservoir was damaged during heavy rain.\n\nEmergency services worked to repair the dam wall and lower water to safe levels to allow people to return.\n\nDerbyshire Police said it had been an \"unprecedented crisis\".\n\nBut the immediate danger posed to Whaley Bridge and areas downstream in the Goyt Valley has now passed, according to the force.\n\nCordons on roads into Whaley Bridge were lifted on Wednesday\n\nDeputy Chief Constable Rachel Swann said at 13:00 BST on Wednesday the evacuation order for Whaley Bridge and surrounding areas had been lifted.\n\nThe danger posed by the dam \"which would have destroyed homes and livelihoods, could not be underestimated\", she added.\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson tweeted he was \"pleased to hear\" residents were returning and paid tribute to their \"spirit and patience\".\n\nThe first person to walk through the cordon, Liz McCann, said: \"We're home. That's what we wanted. We're all safe and we're all together so there's not a problem.\"\n\nMalcolm Swets wrote a message outside his shop to thank everyone who \"saved Whaley\"\n\nThe BBC's North of England correspondent Danny Savage said the evacuation \"has taken an emotional toll\" on residents.\n\n\"At least two people I talked to were in tears,\" he said.\n\nPhil Sharples returns to his house in Whaley Bridge\n\nJennifer Grant, landlady at The Goyt Inn, said she was \"relieved and pleased\" to have been allowed home.\n\n\"Thursday seems like a long time ago,\" she said. \"It'll be good to catch up with everyone and hear their stories. We all survived.\"\n\nResident Karen Edleston decided to get her hair cut soon after she returned to Whaley Bridge for the first time in six days.\n\nShe said: \"I was desperate to get my hair cut because I'm going to a wedding on Saturday and I didn't know where I would go if I didn't come back here.\n\n\"So as soon as I realised it was open, I contacted [the hairdresser] and he agreed to come down.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nAnother resident, Bernie Sharples said: \"It's been an upsetting time but it's absolutely fantastic [to be back] - all the authorities, the police, all who helped get us back here - a big thank you to everybody.\"\n\nMargot Graham, who spoke to the BBC during the emergency when she was briefly allowed back to her house, was in tears as she returned permanently.\n\n\"It's very, very emotional. It's an emotion I didn't expect to experience at all,\" she said.\n\nKaren Edleston headed straight for a haircut after returning to Whaley Bridge\n\nCamilla Dignan, of The Bridge Bakehouse, aims to open on Thursday despite having had to throw most of her existing stock away.\n\nShe said: \"We got the call [last] Thursday and it was literally just leave it, so it's a bit of a nightmare but we are glad to be back.\"\n\nFifty-five households in Horwich End were allowed to return on Tuesday by police after a public meeting.\n\nThe force and other agencies will help the remaining residents return to their homes on Wednesday, with police staying in the area over the next week \"to help the community and address any concerns\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe Environment Agency (EA) has confirmed measures in place at the dam mean emergency services \"will be able to manage the levels of rain forecast\".\n\nBut it said further inspections will take place as there is still \"significant\" work to be done to bring the dam to a condition where \"long-term safety can be assured\".\n\nMalcolm Swets, manager of Goyt Wines, said he wanted to thank everyone involved in the emergency effort for the \"professional way\" they had gone about their business.\n\nHe said: \"Everyone's had their problems during the disruption but at the end of the day everybody's safe and nobody got hurt.\"\n\nVolunteers have set up a hub in the local primary school, offering household necessities, toiletries and snacks.\n\nEnvironment Agency officials are also there to answer questions about work in the area.\n\nDerbyshire County Council leader Barry Lewis said the authority would provide £160,000 of \"additional funding\" to help residents and businesses recover.\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 government is assuming that French preparations for customs and regulatory checks have markedly decreased the anticipated trade disruption from a no-deal Brexit, the BBC has learned.\n\n\"Reasonable worst case scenarios\" still anticipate long disruption to about half the freight crossing the Channel.\n\nBut the assumption, the basis for a lot of the government's no-deal planning, has been upgraded twice recently.\n\nThe scenarios were told to industry, but kept secret from the public.\n\nLast year the government's original \"reasonable worst case scenario\" for no deal was that for three to six months, 75-87% of \"flow\" across the \"short straits\" would be interrupted and forced to join queues on motorways approaching the Channel Tunnel and ports.\n\nThat assessment assumed that French authorities would check every lorry coming into its country manually. As there had been no talks between authorities, UK officials had to use satellite photographs to estimate the potential for holding and processing facilities around French ports.\n\nIn April this secret assessment, shared with industry via non-disclosure agreements, was improved to 50-70% of freight stopped.\n\nThis was principally because of the new preparations made on the French side of the border. For example, the Eurotunnel facility for UK freight can check nine lorries at the same time and provides parking for 100 vehicles.\n\nIn the past few days, the possible disruption to trade flow in the \"short straits\" has been further downgraded to 40-60% of traffic.\n\nBetter than it was, but still meaning thousands of lorries stuck on motorways in Kent and around Calais, blocking and delaying crucial trade. Even at this improved rate of flow, the available spaces for emergency lorry parking on the M20 and at disused airfields, would fill up over a fortnight, better than the two or three days assumed last year.\n\nIt is understood that even if the flow rate was 80%, much higher than currently assumed, medicine suppliers say they would require access to emergency freight provision currently being sought by the government again.\n\nIn reply, a government spokesperson said: \"We are pushing on with all preparations for a no-deal scenario. There are already well-developed plans in place to manage any traffic disruptions in Kent.\"\n• None Brexit: Two can play that game theory", "Chancellor Sajid Javid has announced a one-year spending review to give government departments \"financial certainty\" as they prepare for Brexit.\n\nMr Javid said a spending round for 2020-21 would \"clear the ground ahead of Brexit while delivering on people's priorities\".\n\nHe told the BBC that he was confident it would meet the government's priorities for the NHS, police and schools.\n\nIt is not a multi-year spending review.\n\nThose usually happen every two to four years and due to Brexit delays there has not been such a review since 2015.\n\nThe Institute for Fiscal Studies called it \"long-awaited\", while Labour said the Tories were \"playing dangerous games with spending\".\n\nSpending reviews are regularly carried out by the Treasury to fix firm expenditure limits and set out what the public can expect from the government.\n\nMr Javid told the BBC: \"One of things I've done is I want to make sure all departments, including my own, are very focused on our priority which is to make sure we leave the European Union on October 31st.\n\n\"That's why I'm having a one-year spending round so we can just get focused on our priority.\n\n\"But I'm confident that in that spending round that we'll be able to meet all our priorities and that certainly means increased focus on the NHS, on police and on schools.\"\n\nMr Javid was appointed chancellor by incoming Prime Minister Boris Johnson last month, replacing Philip Hammond.\n\nSpeaking after data showed the economy had contracted in the second quarter of the year, he added: \"I'll be a chancellor to make sure that our country continues to live within our means.\"\n\nHe also said the economy remained strong and was forecast to return to growth, meaning the government could \"continue to invest in the priorities of the British people\".\n\nChief Secretary to the Treasury Rishi Sunak said: \"This spending round will give financial certainty to departments' plans for next year.\n\n\"We will invest in the priority areas of schools and policing, while delivering our promises on the NHS, defence and Official Development Assistance [foreign aid].\"\n\nMr McDonnell said the approach \"smacks of pre-election panic\"\n\nUnder Mr Johnson's administration, emergency preparations for a possible no-deal Brexit have been ramped up.\n\nLast week, Mr Javid announced an extra £2.1bn of funding to prepare for such an outcome - doubling the amount of money the government has set aside this year.\n\nLabour's Mr McDonnell said the approach \"smacks of pre-election panic measures by the government\".\n\n\"Boris Johnson is splashing a little bit of cash as a publicity stunt, but keeping the door open for even more austerity if a no-deal Brexit breaks the economy,\" he said.\n\nMr McDonnell said there were \"gaping holes\" in the spending plans, with \"nowhere near enough\" allocated to the NHS, schools or local government.\n\nAbout 50% of government spending is planned on a multi-year basis, when it comes to things like public services, such as the NHS, schools or the police, which are unlikely to alter drastically from year to year.\n\nTypically, these budgets are set three or four years in advance, in order to help government departments plan their spending more effectively.\n\nGovernment departments are likely to have mixed views about this announcement.\n\nOn the one hand, some public services - for example, health and the police - may be offered more money. There may also be extra cash to deal with the potential fallout from a no-deal Brexit.\n\nThe government says this decision is about getting Brexit done and delivering on people's priorities.\n\nBut the decision also makes it harder for public services to plan for the longer term, as they'll now have to wait another year for the real spending review.\n\nThere's also the risk that the spending taps might be turned off as quickly as they're turned on. That's Labour's line of attack - they're accusing the government of playing \"dangerous games\" and \"abandoning any pretence of a long-term economic plan\".\n\n\"If you're a head teacher or head of a police force, if you're trying to work out who to hire or whether to invest in a piece of equipment, it helps to know what your budget is going to be into the future,\" Ben Zaranko, a research economist with the Institute for Fiscal Studies, told the BBC.\n\n\"If you have to plan this on a year-to-year basis, it's quite hard.\"\n\nThis time, the spending review will be published in advance of the Budget, which means the chancellor will be making spending plans before he has updated forecasts for the economy, and before he has set tax policy, Mr Zaranko added.\n\nOne-year spending reviews are not unprecedented. In 2013, the government set the budget for 2015-16, so as to avoid spending decisions going beyond the next election.\n\nChancellor Sajid Javid and Home Secretary Priti Patel were given a tour of Tilbury Docks in early August\n\nThe IFS's Mr Zaranko said it made sense that the chancellor was unwilling to commit to longer spending plans, because \"we don't know what the economy is going to look like six months down the line, let alone three years\".\n\nHowever, it would make it much harder for government departments to plan for the future.\n\nEarlier this year, Her Majesty's Chief Inspector of Constabulary released a report warning that one-year spending reviews would not be good for the police in England.\n\nBut James Jamieson, chairman of the Local Government Association, welcomed the one-year spending round, saying councils \"urgently need some certainty about how local services will be funded next year as they begin their budget-setting process\".", "People were queuing at Newquay railway station after Boardmasters was cancelled\n\nThe last-minute cancellation of Boardmasters festival amid storm warnings is set to hit Newquay businesses hard.\n\nThe annual event makes the second week of August the busiest of the year for the town's traders, bringing in tens of thousands of visitors and an estimated £45m.\n\nKim Conchie from Cornwall's Chamber of Commerce said it was \"a bitter blow\".\n\nOne business said an order of \"several thousand\" pasties had been cancelled.\n\nFiona Rick, from Cornish Premier Pasties, said a customer had been planning to pick up a large batch of the snacks on each of the festival's five days.\n\nCornwall councillor Oliver Monk said Boardmasters was \"like Christmas\" for the area.\n\n\"It's three days of maximum trade and cancelling it has a massive, massive knock on effect for all the businesses in town,\" he said.\n\nThe music festival at Watergate Bay attracts world class acts and thousands of fans\n\nTim Rowe said they had lost out on \"T-shirts and hats\" trade\n\nHe said customers from the festival \"tend to come in and buy caps and T-shirts\".\n\n\"I put on extra staff because so many people come in the shop,\" the shop manager added.\n\n\"My biggest problem is that families are put off coming this week because of Boardmasters.\n\n\"So not only have we lost the T-shirts and hats trade from the festival goers, we won't get the families buying wetsuits and surfboards either.\"\n\nHe said the cancellation could cost the shop up to about £6,000.\n\nWe sell more wellies this week than the rest of year put together so have a couple of hundred pairs,\" he said.\n\n\"Last year we didn't have enough ponchos so I ordered 500 of them.\n\nHe said he also stocked up on cheap tents but said they would \"last till next year and maybe some proper campers will now come into town because the festival isn't on\".\n\nNick Coates has had a pitch at Fistral beach for the last six years of Boardmasters\n\nHe said organisers \"made the call for the right reasons, for public safety\".\n\nMr Coates added: \"I saw it in 2014 when the weather got really bad and they wanted to avoid that. It can be very dangerous at Watergate where it is exposed with lots of heavy equipment around.\n\n\"It's not good for the traders. Last year was amazing so I have travelled from Germany to be here.\n\n\"There won't be so many people down here but we should still get some good traffic for the surfing so it's not a complete loss, but it won't be as good as it could be.\n\n\"We don't pay small amounts for the pitches so we are hoping we may get some money back, or perhaps have it free next year.\"\n\nChris Rome and Aaron Richmond are from Peterborough\n\nMr Richmond said the cancellation would have an impact.\n\n\"People from the festival often come down here during the day so we won't see so many people. We found out last night and it's a big disappointment,\" he said.\n\n\"The atmosphere has completely dried up here - it's all anyone is talking about and it's not a nice topic.\n\n\"For trade this is not good news. Last year the pitch opposite made £3,000 to £4,000 a day. I didn't make that much, but still did well.\"\n\nMr Rome added: \"Hopefully the big surf will bring people down to Fistral but we are a bit concerned about numbers. We want to have a good time but we are here to make money.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Some festival-goers vowed to have a good time despite travelling for twelve hours\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "No new 1p and 2p coins were produced by the Royal Mint last year.\n\nIt is the first time in decades that it stopped making the coins, as the Treasury said there were already enough in circulation.\n\nThere are an estimated 10.5 billion 1p coins and around 6.3 billion 2p coins in use across the UK.\n\nThe government said it is not changing the mix of coins and notes, and it is not phasing copper coins out.\n\nThe last year that no 1p coins were produced was 1972.\n\nFor 2ps, the last year the UK went without new ones was 1984.\n\nThe Mint is owned by the Treasury, which requests that coins be made to meet the needs of the economy.\n\nIn some years there are enough of a certain coin value in circulation so there is no need to produce any more.\n\nThe Treasury said no £2 coins were produced either last year, because \"there are already enough\".\n\nCash use has fallen across the UK, and some feared the end of copper coins when the government announced a consultation on the mix of cash in circulation earlier this year.\n\nBut the Treasury concluded that the coins were still needed, and said they would continue to be used \"for years to come\".\n\nOver 2 million people are estimated to be almost entirely reliant on cash in their daily lives, with the elderly, vulnerable and those in rural communities likely to be hardest hit by any decline in cash availability.", "Boris Johnson: \"We're going to turn the UK into a supercharged magnet, drawing scientists like iron filings from around the world\"\n\nBoris Johnson has instructed government departments to devise a new fast-track visa system to attract leading scientists to work in the UK.\n\nThe PM plans to scrap the cap on \"tier one\" visas for highly skilled migrants - currently the limit is 2,000 a year.\n\nHe also wants to make the system easier for scientists and their families.\n\nScience bodies have welcomed the proposals but warn any benefits to research would be greatly outweighed by the damage caused by a no-deal Brexit.\n\nThe prime minister made the announcement at the Culham science centre in Oxfordshire which undertakes research on fusion power.\n\nThe Home Office and the Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy (Beis) are the departments involved in preparing the new visa process.\n\nSpeaking exclusively to BBC News about the announcement, he said that he wanted to see a greater openness to scientific top talent from around the world.\n\n\"We're going to turn the UK into a kind of supercharged magnet, drawing scientists like iron filings from around the world coming to help push forward projects like this (fusion research in Culham) in which we can not only take a scientific lead but a commercial lead as well,\" he said.\n\nThe Culham facility carries out research into nuclear fusion. It is among the scientific organisations that would benefit from Mr Johnson's proposed visa system for scientists\n\nEU researchers account for half of the total UK scientific workforce of 211,000. Currently, they don't need visas to work in British labs.\n\nThose from outside the UK currently need to go through a rigorous process supervised by the Home Office. The process is time consuming, taking up to 100 days and costly, with a bill of about £8,000.\n\nAfter Brexit, new applicants from EU countries will have to go through the same procedure, prompting fears of a large scientific skills shortage.\n\nIn response, Mr Johnson has asked the Home Office and Beis to develop a system that has no limit on numbers allowed to work in the UK under the tier one exceptional talent visas. He also wants them to expand the pool of UK research institutes and universities able to endorse candidates.\n\nIn addition, he wants officials to come up with criteria that confer automatic endorsement, subject to immigration checks, ensuring dependants are also able to work in the UK and remove the need to hold an offer of employment before arriving.\n\nProf Sir Venki Ramakrishnan, president of the UK's Royal Society, has been calling for such reforms since the result of the referendum on membership of the EU in 2016.\n\nProf Sir Venki Ramakrishnan, president of the UK's Royal Society: \"no-deal\" exit from the EU is the worst option for science.\"\n\n\"We welcome the government's objective of supporting science by facilitating immigration of researchers at all levels, and look forward to discussing the details of a new immigration system,\" he told BBC News.\n\n\"But the fact remains, half of international academic talent in UK universities comes from the European Union and the EU is our single largest research collaborator.\n\n\"Alongside immigration reform, therefore, maintaining close working ties with researchers in Europe and access to EU research funding, are essential. A no-deal exit from the EU is the worst option for science.\"\n\nChi Onwurah MP, the shadow spokesperson on science and industrial strategy, said that a no-deal Brexit would be \"hugely damaging\" for British science.\n\n\"Britain is a science superpower and we need to build an innovation nation but that won't be achieved by a few fast track visas and re-announcing commitments already given, and broken, on replacement funding for EU programmes\" she said.\n\n\"Science is a team activity, we need to promote collaboration at all levels not only the super-elite, and deliver on long-term commitments to be part of EU research programmes.\"\n\nMr Johnson reiterated that he did not want a no-deal Brexit but, were there to be one, he pledged to ensure that the UK would continue to collaborate in great scientific projects \"under any circumstances\".\n\n\"We are not only going to participate in the (EU funded) Horizon schemes, we in the new UK government are determined to finance big science as well,\" he said.\n\n\"So when these people come forward, as they are now, with plans for UK-generated fusion reactors, we are going to be championing those and supporting those as well.\"\n\nThe UK will be unable to participate fully in the EU-funded Horizon programmes once it leaves the EU and British scientists may not be able to be involved at all if the UK leaves without a deal.\n\nParticipation in Europe's programme to develop nuclear fusion, of which the Culham science centre is a part, will also be restricted after Brexit.\n\nUK researchers are as much concerned about the loss of scientific collaborations with EU research institutes as they are about the loss of European funding.\n\nA recent Royal Society study showed more than 33% of UK research papers are co-authored with EU scientists and countries associated to the Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme. This compares with 17.6% that are co-authored with US researchers.\n\nJames Wilsdon, professor of research policy at Sheffield University, described the proposed measures as \"small beer compared to the chaos, disruption and damage to the UK's attractiveness to international collaborators & mobile talent that will result from a no-deal Brexit\".\n\nDr Daniel Rathbone, assistant director of the Campaign for Science and Engineering (Case) welcomed the prime minister's \"powerful message\", but looked forward to seeing the details of his proposals.\n\n\"Any new visa system must be streamlined, easy to use and competitively priced compared to other leading science nations. Currently, UK visas are significantly more expensive than those of other countries.\n\n\"Science is also a collaborative enterprise, so it would be very beneficial if there was a streamlined process for these talented scientists to bring their teams with them to the UK.\"", "UK-based Ryanair pilots have voted to strike in a row over pay and conditions.\n\nThe British Airline Pilots Association (Balpa) has announced two walkouts, one from 22-23 August, while the second strike will be from 2-4 September.\n\nIt said pilots did not want to disrupt people's travel plans but felt they had no choice after \"decades of Ryanair refusing to deal with unions\".\n\nBut the airline said the \"ill-timed\" strikes would endanger pilot jobs.\n\nIt comes days after the budget airline warned of job losses following a 21% fall in quarterly profits, due to higher costs for fuel and staff, and reduced ticket prices.\n\nBalpa said its members have many disagreements with the airline, including over pensions, loss of licence insurance, maternity benefits, allowances and pay structure.\n\n\"We have had no formal offer from Ryanair and it is imperative that we resolve this dispute urgently to avoid strike action,\" said Balpa's general secretary Brian Strutton.\n\n\"No pilot wants to spoil the public's travel plans but at the moment it seems we have no choice.\"\n\nThe union said 72% of its members at the company had taken part in the ballot with 80% of those supporting strike action.\n\nHowever, Ryanair said that fewer than 50% of Ryanair's UK pilots were members of Balpa, and of these, just 57% voted in favour of industrial action.\n\nIn a letter to Balpa, Ryanair's director of HR strategy and operations Darrell Hughes said senior captains were paid up to £180,000 per annum and, because of this, pilot turnover had fallen to zero \"in recent months\".\n\nHe said: \"At this difficult time for UK pilots facing base cuts and closures, Balpa should be working with Ryanair to save UK pilot jobs, not endanger them through ill-timed and ill-judged disruption of our customers' travel plans, just 10 weeks before the threat of a no-deal Brexit. We remain available for talks at your convenience.\"\n\nOn 31 July, Ryanair boss Michael O'Leary warned staff in a video message to prepare for job cuts in the coming weeks, saying the airline has 900 too many pilots and cabin crew members.\n\nHe said the two weakest markets were Germany, where Ryanair faced fierce competition on price, and the UK, where there were Brexit uncertainties.\n\n\"It's been a challenging summer, we're facing into a very difficult winter,\" he said in the video, seen by the BBC.\n\n\"I'm sorry to advise you that this means we need to cut our aircraft numbers and our staffing, not just for summer 2020 but also in winter 2019.\n\n\"This will result in some base cuts, some base closures, and I'm very sorry to say, some job losses this winter for pilots and cabin crew, at the end of our summer schedule in September and October, and also some immediately after Christmas.\"\n\nMr O'Leary blamed planned cuts to flights next summer due to the grounding of its Boeing 737 Max fleet.\n\nThe 737 Max is grounded worldwide over concerns with its software following two deadly crashes.\n\nMr O'Leary said it been a big factor in the cuts, having delayed the delivery of some 28 planes and having forced the airline to cut flights and close bases.\n\nMr O'Leary also blamed the \"increasing likelihood of a no-deal Brexit in just 12 weeks' time\".\n\n\"We're worried this could have quite a damaging effect, particularly on our UK bases and on some of our Irish bases, which are heavily dependent on people travelling between Ireland and the UK,\" he added.", "More than 17,500 boys aged 14 carry a knife or weapon in England and Wales, according to an official estimate from the Home Office.\n\nThe figure is in a report analysing \"indicators of serious violence\" on people born in 2000 and 2001.\n\nThe research found that an only child, or teenagers with four or more siblings, were more likely to be involved in serious violence.\n\nOther factors included those who faced \"child maltreatment\", and bullying.\n\nThe study published by the Home Office found about a third of those arming themselves had had weapons used against them.\n\nThey were more likely to use drugs than those who did not use weapons.\n\nIt also concluded that ethnicity was \"not significantly associated\" with using or carrying a weapon.\n\nThe research was based on the Millennium Cohort Study (MCS) - a sample of 11,024 people.\n\nAnalysts examined their behaviour at the age of 13 to 15.\n\nIt said: \"3.47% of the sample population reported weapon carrying/use and that 71.3% of these were male.\n\n\"As the MCS is a nationally representative survey, this can be scaled to the national population by multiplying by the number of 14-year-olds in England and Wales.\"\n\nIt estimated 17,521 males in the population are likely to report weapon carrying or use at the age of 14.", "GDPR is supposed to protect personal data, but this experiment used the law to help achieve the opposite effect\n\nAbout one in four companies revealed personal information to a woman's partner, who had made a bogus demand for the data by citing an EU privacy law.\n\nThe security expert contacted dozens of UK and US-based firms to test how they would handle a \"right of access\" request made in someone else's name.\n\nIn each case, he asked for all the data that they held on his fiancee.\n\nIn one case, the response included the results of a criminal activity check.\n\nOther replies included credit card information, travel details, account logins and passwords, and the target's full US social security number.\n\nUniversity of Oxford-based researcher James Pavur has presented his findings at the Black Hat conference in Las Vegas.\n\nIt is one of the first tests of its kind to exploit the EU's General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), which came into force in May 2018. The law shortened the time organisations had to respond to data requests, added new types of information they have to provide, and increased the potential penalty for non-compliance.\n\n\"Generally if it was an extremely large company - especially tech ones - they tended to do really well,\" he told the BBC.\n\n\"But the kind of mid-sized businesses that knew about GDPR, but maybe didn't have much of a specialised process [to handle requests], failed.\"\n\nHe declined to identify the organisations that had mishandled the requests, but said they had included:\n\nMr Pavur has, however, named some of the companies that he said had performed well.\n\nMr Pavur says he believes he did not break the law himself while conducting the trial\n\nOne independent expert said the findings were a \"real concern\".\n\n\"Sending someone's personal information to the wrong person is as much a data breach as leaving an unencrypted USB drive lying around, or forgetting to shred confidential papers,\" said Dr Steven Murdoch, from University College London.\n\nMr Pavur's bride-to-be gave him permission to carry out the tests and helped write up the findings, but otherwise did not participate in the operation.\n\nSo for correspondence, the researcher created a fake email address for his partner, in the format \"first name-middle initial-last name@gmail.com\".\n\nAn accompanying letter said that under GDPR, the recipient had one month to respond.\n\nIt added that he could provide additional identity documents via a \"secure online portal\" if required. This was a deliberate deception since he believed many businesses lacked such a facility and would not have time to create one.\n\nThe attacks were carried out in two waves.\n\nFor the first half of those contacted, he used only the information detailed above. But for the second batch, he drew on personal details revealed by the first group to answer follow-up questions.\n\nThe idea, he said, was to replicate the kind of attack that could be carried out by someone starting with just the details found on a basic LinkedIn page or other online public profile.\n\nIf the organisation asked for a \"strong\" type of ID - such as a passport or driver's licence scan - Mr Pavur declined.\n\nHe also decided not to create forgeries of more easily faked documents.\n\nSo, for example, he would not sign documents saying he was the data subject. Nor would he send emails with spoofed headers when asked to write from the victim's registered account.\n\nBut he did try to convince the companies to accept documents that would theoretically be easy to mock up, but in this case could be sourced from his fiancee.\n\nSo, when one train operator asked for a photocopy of a passport, he convinced it instead to accept a postmarked envelope addressed to the \"victim\".\n\nIn another case, a cyber-security company agreed to accept a photograph of a bank statement, which had been blacked out so that the only information left on view was the target's name and address.\n\nMr Pavur says that in one case he a heavily redacted bank statement was accepted\n\nSometimes such subterfuge was unnecessary.\n\nOne online gaming company asked for the applicant's account password. But on being told that it had been forgotten, Mr Pavur said it disclosed his fiancee's personal data anyway without asking for alternative verification.\n\nMr Pavur said that a total of 60 distinct pieces of personal information about his girlfriend were ultimately exposed.\n\nThese included a list of past purchases, 10 digits of her credit card number, its expiry date and issuer, and her past and present addresses.\n\nIn addition, one threat intelligence firm provided a record of breached usernames and passwords it held on his partner. These still worked on at least 10 online services as she had used the same logins for multiple sites.\n\nIn one case, the GDPR request letter was posted to the internet after being sent to an advertising company, constituting a data breach in itself. It contained the fiancee's name, address, email and phone number.\n\n\"Luckily it only had very simple data,\" said Mr Pavur.\n\n\"But you could imagine someone sending a letter with more detailed information.\"\n\nOverall, of the 83 firms known to have held data about his partner, Mr Pavur said:", "A diet endorsed by US pop singer Beyoncé \"could be dangerous,\" the British Association for Nutrition and Lifestyle Medicine has told the BBC's Victoria Derbyshire programme.\n\nSubscribers to the 22-day plan pay $14 (£11.50) to access plant-based recipes.\n\nBut nutritionist Daniel O'Shaughnessy says the diet could lead to \"nutritional deficiencies\".\n\nBeyoncé's trainer Marco Borges said the singer was \"mindful of the importance of proper nutrition and exercise\".\n\nThe original diet was created in 2013 but the singer is now promoting Beyoncé's Kitchen, the plan she followed in preparation for her comeback performance at the 2018 Coachella festival after having twins.\n\nA promotional video released on her YouTube channel last month opens with a clip from her Homecoming film, showing her stepping on to some scales and saying her weight is \"every woman's worst nightmare\".\n\nThe video has been viewed 1.7 million times.\n\nBeyoncé also says to reach her goals she must limit herself to \"no bread, no carbs, no sugar, no dairy, no meat, no fish, no alcohol… and I'm hungry\". She followed the plan for 44 days.\n\nHer plan was devised by 22 Days Nutrition founder Borges, whom she describes as her \"friend, trainer, exercise physiologist and New York Times bestselling author\".\n\nFor example, one of the recipes, a \"vegg sandwich\" containing 36g (1oz) of protein, actually contained just 24g, he said.\n\nWhile another, a green smoothie, contained eight teaspoons of sugar.\n\nThe NHS recommends men consume 2,500 calories a day and women 2,000 - but the diet supplies just 1,400.\n\n\"This is quite low for anyone, users will feel tired and exhausted particularly when adding in the exercise,\" Mr O'Shaughnessy said.\n\n\"It could be dangerous for the average person to follow without a team of nutritionists and trainers like Beyoncé has.\"\n\nExcluding all animal products without any information on what nutritional issues the dieter may need to consider, such as replacing vitamin B12, iron or protein intake, was also problematic, Mr O'Shaughnessy said.\n\nAnd celebrities should be encouraging women to be comfortable with their bodies.\n\n\"This is worrying as she has a number of teenage followers who are easily susceptible.\n\n\"She is a gateway to millions of people.\"\n\nBeyoncé did not respond to a request for comment.\n\nIn a statement, Mr Borges, said: \"Beyoncé used a combination of a whole food plant-based diet and daily exercise as part of her discipline and hard work in order to reach her personal goals in preparation for her Coachella performance...\n\n\"She achieved her goals successfully and was able to show up and give 100% for a performance which required nothing less.\n\n\"She continues to be mindful of the importance of proper nutrition and exercise as part of a healthy and happy lifestyle.\n\n\"We applaud her and are humbled by her courage to share her journey with others.\"\n\nFollow the BBC's Victoria Derbyshire programme on Facebook and Twitter - and see more of our stories here.", "Strike action at Heathrow on Tuesday has been called off after the airport group and the union Unite reached a deal over pay.\n\nWorkers had planned to walk out on both Monday and Tuesday in a row over wages.\n\nStrike action over the two days has now been averted but Heathrow said a walkout on 23 and 24 August is still scheduled to go ahead.\n\nUnite and Heathrow have reached an improved pay offer which will now be presented to its members.\n\nFearing a strike on Tuesday, some airlines had cancelled flights - Heathrow has advised passengers to check whether those services will now go ahead.\n\nOn Sunday evening, when the first day of industrial action was suspended for Monday, a number of airlines chose to reinstate flights.\n\nA spokesman for Heathrow said: \"We regret that passengers have been inconvenienced by this and urge them to contact their airline for up to date information on the status of their service.\"\n\nSome 4,000 workers had threatened to walkout over a pay deal which Heathrow said is worth 7.3% over two-and-a-half years.\n\nMembers of Unite will now have the chance to consider and vote an a new pay package.\n\nUnite said that the strikes already announced for 23 August and 24 August \"remained on the table until the result of the ballot was known\".\n\nA spokesman for Heathrow said: \"Unite will now take an improved offer to its members and we remain hopeful that we can find a resolution and stop this disruptive and unnecessary threat of strike action.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Water is being pumped away from the reservoir and sandbags are still being dropped\n\nTwenty-two households have refused to leave a Derbyshire town despite being warned a damaged dam is at risk of bursting, police have said.\n\nThe 31 Whaley Bridge residents have been urged to leave by police, who say they are putting their own lives, and the emergency services', at risk.\n\nAround 1,500 people have been evacuated after part of a dam ruptured on Thursday.\n\nTeams are working round the clock to pump water from Toddbrook Reservoir.\n\nForecasters had warned that 30-40mm (1.2-1.6in) of rain could fall in two hours on Sunday night, and the Met Office issued a yellow weather warning for much of northern England and the Midlands.\n\nBut Whaley Bridge saw just a light shower before midnight, and has so far avoided the thundery downpours which passed through the area.\n\nPolice said the \"risk of adverse weather\" was to blame for the most recent evacuations, but that the dam was still unstable.\n\nDerbyshire Police deputy chief constable Rachel Swann urged \"in the strongest terms\" people still in the evacuation zone to leave.\n\nShe said: \"We've not evacuated this for no reason. We've evacuated this because there is a real prospect that the dam could fail, and if it fails it is catastrophic.\n\n\"People would die if they were in that evacuation zone. So those people who remain in that zone are putting their lives at risk.\n\n\"They are also putting the lives of the responders, primarily the police, at risk because we have to keep going in and speaking to them and asking them to leave.\"\n\nDeputy chief constable Rachel Swann says the dam bursting would be \"catastrophic\"\n\nShe also told a meeting for residents on Sunday that in the \"worst case scenario\" they would be out of their homes for a week.\n\nThe Canal and River Trust said water in the reservoir needed to get down to 8m below the normal level. It stood at 3.8m below normal and was being lowered 2m every 24 hours.\n\nDerbyshire chief fire officer Terry McDermott told the meeting that specialist engineers had monitored the dam wall 24 hours a day with lasers and there had been \"no significant deflection\" in the wall.\n\nHe added that six rescue boats had been deployed in the region in case the dam bursts.\n\nOn Saturday, people were allowed briefly into their homes to collect pets and essentials, but were warned they would be doing so at their own risk.\n\nOne resident per household was escorted by police back into their homes for 15 minutes.\n\nTwenty-four large pumps are now lowering the water level by 10 cm an hour\n\nSome 1,500 people in Whaley Bridge had sought shelter elsewhere after part of the reservoir's spillway broke away on Thursday.\n\nFather Jamie Mcleod, who lives in the town, said he had hardly slept for three days, taking supplies to the emergency workers.\n\nHe was there at the start of the crisis when he went to check the dam after days of heavy rain.\n\n\"When I was over there it started to crack,\" he said. \"When it got worse I went over to the council and raised the alarm and said, 'We have to evacuate the village'.\n\n\"We then went back to the reservoir and, of course, the police then came and procedures were put in place.\n\n\"At the time I really thought the village was going to go.\n\n\"Then it really struck me there is a school at the bottom of the dam and last week that playground was full.\"\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\nTwenty-four pumps are working and more than a third of the reservoir's water has been removed since Thursday.\n\nThe army and police officers have also visited residents in nearby Marple, issuing flooding advice.\n\nEmergency responders are planning and preparing for a \"potential incident\" but were not yet evacuating that area.\n\nAn RAF Chinook helicopter has placed 525 one-tonne bags to strengthen the dam wall and regulate water flow.\n\nPolice, the Environment Agency, and the Canal and River Trust have all said there is a \"real risk\" the 188-year-old dam could collapse and flood the town.\n\nThe trust has defended the maintenance and safety of the structure, which was built in 1831.\n\nEmergency services and volunteers have been working around the clock\n\nBBC Local Radio news special on the emergency in Whaley Bridge and surrounding areas near the River Goyt on BBC Radio Manchester, Sheffield and Derby from 18:00 through the night. Reporters in key areas and regular updates from emergency services.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Brexit secretary Stephen Barclay has called for the EU to find common ground with the UK\n\nEU leaders must give their chief negotiator the mandate to revise the UK's withdrawal agreement, otherwise a no-deal Brexit is \"coming down the tracks\", the Brexit secretary has said.\n\nWriting in the Mail on Sunday, Stephen Barclay said \"political realities\" had changed after May's European elections.\n\nNew MEPs were elected in 61% of seats, he said, marking a \"fundamental shift\".\n\nHe called on EU leaders to allow Michel Barnier to negotiate in a way that finds \"common ground\" with the UK.\n\nBrussels has consistently insisted that the withdrawal agreement - one of two main elements of Theresa May's Brexit deal, which was resoundingly rejected by MPs - cannot be renegotiated.\n\nMr Barclay said Mr Barnier had told him in their discussion last week that he is bound by the instructions given to him by the European Commission and leaders of member states.\n\nBut the change in the EU Parliament means there is a need for the EU to alter its approach, Mr Barclay said.\n\n\"Mr Barnier needs to urge EU leaders to consider this if they too want an agreement, to enable him to negotiate in a way that finds common ground with the UK. Otherwise, no deal is coming down the tracks,\" he said.\n\nBy contrast, Boris Johnson's appointment as prime minister strengthened the UK's mandate to leave on 31 October, he said.\n\nMichel Barnier has said demands to eliminate the backstop are \"unacceptable\"\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson has ramped up his rhetoric over his desire to take the UK out of the EU by 31 October, as part of his \"do or die\" commitment.\n\nHe has clashed with EU leaders over his demands to remove the Irish backstop - which prevents a hard border if the UK and EU fail to agree a long-term trade deal - from the withdrawal agreement.\n\nIrish Taoiseach Leo Varadkar told Mr Johnson this week \"the backstop was necessary as a consequence of decisions taken in the UK\".\n\nBut Mr Barclay said the backstop could mean people in Northern Ireland having EU rules \"foisted on them\" indefinitely to preserve the open border.\n\nHe rejected the UK staying in the customs union and the single market as a solution, saying the border issue should be resolved in future talks on the long-term trading agreement with the EU.\n\n\"There is simply no chance of any deal being passed that includes the anti-democratic backstop. This is the reality that the EU has to face,\" he said.\n\nSpeaking last month, Mr Barnier said demands to eliminate the backstop were \"unacceptable\" and Mr Johnson's approach to Brexit was \"rather combative\".", "The president blames the internet and video games for mass shootings and says \"mental illness pulls the trigger, not the gun.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Joanne Kay and her son Josh were on board the Airbus A321 and have described what happened\n\nA British Airways flight was evacuated after smoke filled the cabin shortly before landing.\n\nThe airline confirmed an \"incident\" on flight BA422 which departed London Heathrow at 15:10 BST on Monday and landed in Valencia.\n\nPassengers had to slide down emergency chutes to the runway, with one describing the \"terrifying\" experience as \"like a horror film\".\n\nBA has apologised to the 175 passengers on board the aircraft, an Airbus A321.\n\nA statement from the airline said the flight had \"experienced a technical issue\" as it approached Valencia.\n\nThree passengers were taken to hospital and have since been discharged, BA added. It said staff members had assisted customers in the airport terminal after the evacuation.\n\nBA said there were two pilots and six cabin crew members on the flight.\n\nPassenger Gayle Fitzpatrick, who was on holiday with her husband, said: \"There were no communications from the crew, some of which started to wear full oxygen masks and protective fire wear.\"\n\n\"People were crying and hyperventilating. It was genuinely scary,\" Mrs Fitzpatrick, from Glasgow, added.\n\nRachel Jupp, who was on the flight with her children, told BBC News smoke filled the cabin \"very quickly\" about 10 minutes before its scheduled landing.\n\nMs Jupp, the editor of BBC Panorama, said there had been no official announcement about what was happening as white smoke appeared to come through the air conditioning system into the cabin.\n\n\"Very quickly, you couldn't see the passengers two seats down from you,\" she said.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nAs the plane began to descend quickly Ms Jupp said she heard calls to \"get down\" in order to breathe the cleaner air near the floor of the aircraft.\n\nShe said the pilot did a \"really good job\" to make a \"pretty smooth landing\".\n\n\"We later found out the cockpit was full of smoke and he had a gas mask on,\" she added.\n\nMs Jupp said the cabin crew was unable to open the emergency exits for \"three or four minutes\" after the plane landed.\n\nMark Kay, who was travelling with his 13-year-old son, said they felt \"trapped and helpless\" while staff tried to open the doors.\n\nPassengers then slid down the emergency chutes to the runway.\n\nAs members of the emergency services ran towards the plane, Ms Jupp said: \"We were just told to run and get as far away as we could from the plane.\"\n\nMrs Fitzpatrick said fire crews were waiting on the runway when the plane landed and passengers were directed to the terminal.\n\nAnother passenger at Valencia airport told the BBC a member of staff on the ground had said there had been a \"fire in the motor\" of the aircraft.\n\nDaniel Kietzmann, who was on the plane with his wife, said the situation was \"poorly handled\" by staff and there was a lack of communication about what was happening.\n\n\"Nobody was on hand when we went down the slide so my wife hit the tarmac very hard,\" he said, adding that he and his wife were bruised.\n\n\"We were left for hours in the terminal with ground crew that had no idea what was happening and nobody spoke English.\"\n\nBA said all passengers were evacuated safely by its crew and met by the airport's emergency services.\n\n\"In addition to our team on site, other British Airways team members have arrived in Valencia to help our customers and our local airport partners with anything they need,\" the airline said in a statement.\n\nPassengers queuing to get a hotel booking at Valencia Airport\n\nIn an email to affected passengers BA said it was \"sourcing an alternative aircraft\" to operate flights back to London.\n\nTravellers who were delayed overnight were given free accommodation at a local hotel, BBC News was told.", "Scientists are to deliver a stark condemnation of the damage being done to the land surface of the planet.\n\nHuman activities have led to the degrading of soils, expanded deserts, felled forests, driven out wildlife, and drained peatlands, they will say.\n\nIn the process, land has been turned from an asset that combats climate change into a major source of carbon.\n\nThe scientists will say this land abuse must be stopped to avoid catastrophic climate heating.\n\nHow can the land protect us from climate change?\n\nUncultivated land covered with vegetation protects us from overheating because the plants absorb the warming gas CO2 from the air and fix it in the soil.\n\nBut the scientists meeting in Geneva, Switzerland, will say the way we farm and grow timber often actually increases emissions of carbon dioxide.\n\nBetween a quarter and a third of all greenhouse gas emissions are now estimated to come from land use.\n\nThe scientists will warn of a battle for land between multiple competing demands: biofuels, plant material for plastics and fibres, timber, wildlife, paper and pulp - and food for a growing population.\n\nTheir report will say we need to make hard choices about how we use the world’s soil.\n\nAnd it will offer another warning that our hunger for red meat is putting huge stress on the land to produce animal feed, as well as contributing to half of the world’s emissions of methane - another greenhouse gas.\n\nThe document’s being finalised this week among scientists and government officials on the UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).\n\nIt will become the most authoritative report yet on the way we use and abuse the land. Scientists hope it will give the issue of land use greater prominence in negotiations on climate change.\n\nAt its heart will be the paradox that the land can be a source of CO2 emissions, or a sink for CO2 emissions.\n\nThe question is how we use it.\n\nTake the fenlands in the east of England – a huge expanse of lowland peat.\n\nIn its natural state, it’s saturated with water. But over centuries, 99% of it has been drained for farming. Food crops don’t grow in peat bogs.\n\nThe remaining un-drained 1% is Wicken Fen, a plot owned by the charity the National Trust, where the soft black soil is still 4m deep.\n\nThe surrounding drained farmland is noticeably lower, because as it’s been drained the peat has shrunk to just 50cm thick.\n\nBetween 1-2% of the soil on the drained farmland is still being lost every year.\n\nThe fens in eastern England constitute a huge expanse of lowland peat\n\nThat’s because when peat is exposed to the air, it oxidises and produces CO2.\n\nBut here’s the problem: the peaty fields are also some of the most productive cropland in the UK – they’re known as Black Gold.\n\nFarmers want to grow food on them – not soak them to save carbon.\n\nOne young farmer, Charles Shropshire, told me he was concerned about carbon loss from his fields.\n\nHe’s already finding that existing climate change is disrupting growing patterns.\n\nFarmer Charles Shropshire is adopting regenerative farming techniques on his farm near Soham\n\nSo now he’s adopting so-called “regenerative farming” techniques - such as shallow ploughing, keeping the land covered in vegetation in the winter, and using drip-feed watering.\n\nHe’s willing to experiment with National Trust ideas such as re-wetting the soil over the winter, or growing sphagnum moss for use in beauty treatments or hanging baskets.\n\nBut many other farmers don’t want to change the way they run their business.\n\nAnd all round the world you’ll find similar stories as farmers strive to increase production of the food people want, which can negatively affect land in the long term.\n\nPart of the problem is that consumption of meat and vegetable oils has doubled since the 1960s.\n\nCan we solve the problem?\n\nScientists say the problem is huge. They admit it will be hard to solve, especially as conservation-style farming would involve teaching half a billion farmers to work differently.\n\nFarmers in some parts of the world will be hit harder by climate change\n\nThere’s still some debate. One option is to concentrate intensive farming into the smallest possible area of land, in order to leave as much natural land as possible to soak up CO2.\n\nAnother option is to farm in a less intensive, more climate-friendly way – but that means taking up more natural land to compensate.\n\nEither way, the report will warn that the poorest farmers will be hardest hit by global warming, and they’ll be least able to afford new technologies to change the way they farm.\n\nKelly Levin, from the US green think tank WRI, told BBC News the report should heap pressure on politicians to cut fossil fuel emissions.\n\nShe said: “If we consider the climate problem hard now, just think about how much harder it will be without the land serving as a large sink for carbon dioxide emissions.”\n\nProf John Boardman, from the Oxford Environmental Change Institute, told us climate change was already causing soil erosion in southern England through more intense rain.\n\nBut he warned: “We should recognise that in most parts of the world, a little more or less rain or heat is an irrelevance compared to human pressures.\n\n“(In some areas) if we change the land use from winter wheat to maize, we triple the risk of erosion.”\n\nProf Jane Rickson from Cranfield University, UK, told us: “Increased temperatures and heavier rainfall will aggravate soil erosion, compaction, loss of organic matter, loss of biodiversity, and landslides… many of which are irreversible.\n\n“I hope the final IPCC report will be robust enough to motivate politicians and land managers to implement policies and practices that will reverse, mitigate and adapt to the climate crisis”.", "Britain's largest supermarket, Tesco, has increased the price of more than 1,000 products in the past two weeks.\n\nThe firm raised prices on products including cheese, chocolate and bananas by an average of 11%, according to the Press Association.\n\nTesco says it held off raising prices for as long as it could, and insists it is still competitive when compared to Asda, Sainsbury's and Morrisons.\n\nIt comes as rivals Aldi and Lidl put pressure on the big four supermarkets.\n\nAll shops are having to deal with increases in the cost of the goods they sell. The prices of milk powder, potatoes and pork have all risen much faster than the official inflation figure of 2%.\n\n\"There's a lot of tension between the need be competitive and the need to boost margins,\" said independent retail expert Richard Hyman.\n\nIn October 2016, Tesco's chief executive Dave Lewis promised to get profit margins up to 3.5%- 4% by 2020. \"Now it's less than six months away,\" Mr Hyman says, \"the pressure is on.\"\n\nA weak pound is partly to blame, as it means that it costs more to import goods.\n\n\"Over recent months, cost pressures have continued to build and impact the market,\" Tesco said in a statement.\n\n\"We've worked hard to offset these pressures, and focused on protecting our customers for as long as possible. But, like the wider market, we have had to reflect these pressures in the price of some products.\n\n\"For the majority of products that have increased in price over the last three weeks, we still beat or match the cheapest of the big 4.\"\n\nThe Press Association found that a pack of five bananas is now £1, up from 90p, and own-brand pasta rose to 65p from 50p.\n\nHowever, Tesco has also dropped prices on 121 lines during the past three weeks, including some wines and soft drinks.", "Nóra Quoirin went missing from her room on 4 August 2019\n\nA large search is under way in Malaysia for a vulnerable 15-year-old British girl who has gone missing on her family's \"trip of a lifetime\" holiday.\n\nNora Quoirin's parents awoke on Sunday morning to find their daughter missing from her bedroom at the Dusun resort.\n\nMore than 160 people are searching nearby villages and forest for Nora, from London, who has special needs.\n\nPolice are treating it as a missing person case, not abduction. Her family said she would not have wandered off.\n\nNora, who is the daughter of an Irish-French couple who have lived in London for about 20 years, arrived at the resort in a nature reserve near Seremban, 39 miles south of the capital Kuala Lumpur, on Saturday.\n\nThe Malaysian police said they had been searching the area immediately around the resort with dogs.\n\nTeams led by local Orang Asli people, who have knowledge of the terrain, have also been searching the jungle in a neighbouring national park.\n\nPolice and other services are searching villages and the forest for Nora\n\nThe Lucie Blackman Trust, which is supporting the family, said her father raised the alarm when he discovered her missing from her bedroom - the window of which was open - at 08:00 local time on Sunday.\n\nIn a statement on Facebook, the resort's owners said they were \"extremely distressed and worried\" and \"pray for [Nora's] safety\".\n\nThey said staff were working with police and had searched in the surrounding area from Sunday morning until 03:00 on Monday.\n\nNora went missing the day after she and her family arrived in Malaysia\n\nSpeaking from Belfast, Nora's aunt Aisling Agnew said: \"Nora's parents and relatives in Ireland and France are distraught by her disappearance.\n\n\"Nora is a child with special needs and has learning and developmental disabilities which make her especially vulnerable and we fear for her safety.\n\n\"Nora would not know how to get help and would never leave her family voluntarily.\n\n\"We now consider this a criminal matter.\"\n\nThe family have launched a Twitter page to appeal for sightings or information and are using the hashtag #findingnora.\n\nSpeaking on Monday, Che Zakaria Bin Othman, deputy police chief of Negeri Sembilan, said: \"So far there's no indication of foul play, however investigations are still ongoing.\"\n\nThe Dusun resort is next to a large forest\n\nNora, whose mother Meabh is originally from Belfast and whose father is French, is understood to have been travelling on an Irish passport.\n\nMalaysian newspaper The Star quoted local officials who said Nora was at the resort with her parents and two siblings.\n\nFamily friend Catherine Cook said: \"It's out of character for Nora to go wandering off.\n\n\"I'm a mother and I burst into tears just hearing this story. I cannot imagine the hell that they are living right now. I just ask for anyone who can help them to do so as soon as possible.\"\n\nAccording to its website, the Dusun is a 12-acre orchard resort in the foothills of the Titiwangsa mountains and sits next to the 4,000-acre Berembun Forest Reserve.\n\nIt has a maximum capacity of 20 adults split across seven houses.\n\nThe resort's \"nearest neighbours\" are two Temuan villages where most of its staff are from.\n\nThe Dusun resort has seven houses with a maximum capacity for 20 adults\n\nThe LBT has provided a hotline and email address for information.\n\nPeople can remain anonymous and can call +448000988485 or email ops@lbtrust.org.\n\nA spokesman for the Irish Department of Foreign Affairs said: \"We are aware of the case and are providing consular assistance.\"", "Ofcom decided neither Jon Snow (left) nor Nigel Farage broke its rules\n\nChannel 4 News host Jon Snow has been cleared by Ofcom after more than 2,600 people complained about a remark he made about a pro-Brexit rally in March.\n\nSnow didn't break rules by saying he had \"never seen so many white people in one place\", the media watchdog decided.\n\nOfcom also investigated Nigel Farage's comment on his LBC radio show two days later that Snow \"should be attacked\".\n\nSeven people complained, but the Brexit Party leader was cleared because he added that he meant a verbal attack.\n\nSnow's original comments came at the end of of Channel 4 News on 29 March as he reflected on protests in Westminster on the day the UK was originally meant to have left the European Union.\n\n\"It has been the most extraordinary day... I've never seen so many white people in one place. It's an extraordinary story,\" he told viewers.\n\nTwo separate pro-Brexit demonstrations ended in Parliament Square on 29 March\n\nChannel Four described the comment as \"a spontaneous, unscripted observation\". Ofcom said the remark \"was ambiguous in its meaning and touched on a clearly sensitive issue\" and \"had the potential to cause offence\".\n\nHowever, the broadcasting regulator also noted that the programme included discussions with people with a wide range of views; that the programme was live; and that the crowd did appear to be \"predominantly white\".\n\nTwo days later, Mr Farage had a heated discussion with former Labour Party spin doctor Alistair Campbell on LBC about the march. Mr Campbell said protesters \"started beating up journalists\" and asked the host to condemn \"people who attack journalists, like Trump does\".\n\nMr Farage said: \"Well I think Jon Snow should be attacked without doubt, but that's slightly a separate issue.\"\n\nAsked why, he replied: \"Because of his terrible condescending bias, but that's a separate issue.\"\n\nOfcom said his comments \"had the clear potential to be interpreted by the audience as a reference to the use of physical violence against Jon Snow\".\n\nBut it noted that, four minutes later, Mr Farage read out a tweet accusing him of inciting violence and then gave his response.\n\n\"No! Verbally. Verbally attacked for his disgraceful coverage of the Leave rally on Friday,\" he told listeners.\n\nLBC pointed out that during the discussion, Mr Farage had condemned people who physically attacked journalists, and had spoken about his desire for people to have \"peaceful and democratic means of expressing their anger\".\n\nTherefore, sufficient context was given, and Mr Farage did not break the Ofcom broadcasting code, the regulator decided.\n\nOfcom did, however, warn broadcasters that \"particular care\" is needed when making statements that could be taken as being \"highly inflammatory and provocative\", given the \"current volatile public discourse surrounding Brexit\".\n\nFollow us on Facebook, on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The advert criticised by nurses for \"normalising\" incontinence after childbirth\n\nAn advert for incontinence underwear has been reported to a watchdog for implying the condition is \"normal and expected\" after childbirth.\n\nThe Royal College of Nursing (RCN) criticised TENA for not highlighting to mothers that treatment for the condition is available.\n\nTENA denied wrongdoing, but said it would amend its adverts.\n\nThe Advertising Standards Authority said the advert had not broken any rules, so it would not take action.\n\nThe advert for Tena Silhouette features a young mother - played by an actor - wearing the brand's black incontinence underwear, with her baby in a cot next to her.\n\nThe actor says: \"I knew being a mum would have a few surprises... nobody mentioned incontinence though.\"\n\nAfter pulling on her jeans, she adds: \"A little bit of wee is not going to stop me being me.\"\n\nIn its letter to the watchdog, the RCN said: \"Incontinence is known to be under reported due to the embarrassment experienced by women living with the condition.\n\n\"But the Tena Silhouette advert inaccurately portrays that it is normal to be incontinent post childbirth, providing no data to support the claim and with no acknowledgement that there is treatment available.\"\n\nSome women may develop a leaky bladder during pregnancy and after giving birth.\n\nActor Kate Winslet and TV presenter Nadia Sawalha have both talked publicly about their struggles with incontinence after having children.\n\nSawalha told the Daily Mirror newspaper: \"I've experienced incontinence ever since having my [two] children - and 90% of women I've met who've had a baby say the same.\"\n\nNadia Sawalha said she experienced incontinence after both her children were born\n\nBut the RCN said about 34% of women are living with urinary incontinence in the UK, and it can be treated with pelvic floor exercises or by having an operation.\n\nAmanda Cheesley, the college's professional lead for long term conditions, said: \"It is acknowledged that [urinary incontinence] can impact on many other aspects of health and wellbeing, including mental health issues such as low self-esteem, depression and social isolation.\n\n\"Such adverts must do more to provide advice as to where people can get help, rather than inaccurately portraying it as an inevitable consequence of childbirth.\"\n\nKate Winslet also revealed on TV that she had the condition after childbirth\n\nA TENA spokeswoman said the advert never referred to incontinence being \"normal\" after childbirth, but said: \"It is a fact that millions of women experience urinary incontinence both during and after childbirth.\"\n\nShe added: \"Our advertising directs women to visit our website where treatment advice is available and in addition, following feedback from healthcare professionals, we will be adding a line to our advertising advising women to seek healthcare advice if experiencing regular urinary leakage.\"\n\nAn ASA spokesman said the advert did not \"explicitly claim that incontinence is an inevitable part of childbirth\", but instead it had used it \"as an example of someone who is experiencing incontinence to promote a positive message\".", "The street where the 89-year-old woman was found dead\n\nAn 89-year-old woman has died after being assaulted in her north London home.\n\nPolice launched a murder investigation after the woman was found dead in Tottenham on Sunday morning.\n\nDetectives are considering burglary as a possible motive, although they said they retained an open mind.\n\nOfficers believe one or more suspects gained entry to the woman's house in Waltheof Gardens between Saturday evening and Sunday morning.\n\nPolice were called by the London Ambulance Service at around 10:45 BST on Sunday.\n\nThe woman was pronounced dead at the scene and her next of kin have been informed.\n\nDet Ch Insp Garry Moncrieff said: \"The woman had clearly been assaulted and, as such, a murder investigation has been launched.\n\n\"I want to hear from anyone who saw anything suspicious in and around Waltheof Gardens and the surrounding area on Saturday night or Sunday morning.\"", "July this year was the warmest month ever recorded worldwide, satellite data has confirmed.\n\nThe assessment was carried out by researchers at the EU's Copernicus Climate Change Service (C3S).\n\nScientists say it's the latest sign that Earth is experiencing unprecedented warming.\n\nScorching heatwaves saw records tumble across Europe last month, with unusually high temperatures within the Arctic Circle as well.\n\nGlobally, July 2019 was marginally warmer - by 0.04 degrees Celsius (0.072 Fahrenheit) - than the previous hottest month on record, July 2016.\n\nHowever, it's notable that the 2016 record followed a strong El Niño weather event, which boosts average global temperatures beyond the impact of global warming alone.\n\nThe new July mark follows on from a global record for June, which was confirmed by data from several different agencies.\n\nAccording to Copernicus, every month this year ranks among the four warmest on record for the month in question.\n\nWhile researchers can't directly link these new high marks to climate change, there is a wide sense among scientists that emissions of carbon dioxide from human activities are altering background temperatures and making new records more likely.", "The Environment Agency said about 3,000 trout and bullheads died as a result of the pollution in the River Sheppey\n\nThousands of fish have died in a pollution spill in the River Sheppey in Somerset.\n\nA 15km (9.3-mile) stretch of the river near Godney is affected, the Environment Agency said.\n\nThe agency is working to boost oxygen levels in the water and is spraying the river with hydrogen peroxide.\n\nSamples from the river have been sent for examination and the cause of the pollution is expected to be known later.\n\nIn one section of the river there are \"at least 3,000 dead fish\" - mainly trout and bullheads - but there are also huge numbers of dead invertebrates and insects, an Environment Agency spokesman said.\n\nA floball is being used to churn the water to help get oxygen back into it\n\nThe river is being sprayed with hydrogen peroxide to get the oxygen level back up\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Supermarket giant Tesco says about 4,500 staff in 153 Tesco Metro stores are set to lose their jobs in the latest round of redundancies.\n\nThe UK's largest grocer said changes to the way the stores operated would \"serve shoppers better\" and help to \"run our business more sustainably\".\n\nIt said the stores were operating in an increasingly competitive and challenging retail environment.\n\nTesco boss Jason Tarry said the firm did not take the jobs decision lightly.\n\nThe company said the Metro format was originally designed for larger, weekly shops, but now nearly 70% of customers used them as convenience stores, buying food for that day.\n\nTesco, which employs about 340,000 people in the UK and Republic of Ireland, said that changes to the stores would now include:\n\n\"In a challenging, evolving retail environment, with increasing cost pressures, we have to continue to review the way we run our stores to ensure we reflect the way our customers are shopping and do so in the most efficient way,\" Mr Tarry added.\n\nTesco Metro shops are sized between Tesco superstores and Tesco Express shops. They first opened in 1994.\n\nIt is also making some changes in 134 of its 1,750 Express stores, where customer footfall is lower.\n\nChanges in those stores will include \"a slight reduction in opening hours during quieter trading periods at the start and end of the day, and simplifying stock routines\".\n\nTesco is in the midst of trying to save £1.5bn as the competition between supermarkets intensifies. It comes as German budget rivals Aldi and Lidl continue to put pressure on the big four supermarkets.\n\nIn January, Tesco announced it would close food counters in 90 of its stores as part of a wider cost-cutting plan that would affect 9,000 staff. Tesco said then that its remaining fish, meat and deli counters in 700 stores would be run on a full-time or flexible basis.\n\nIt has also opened a discount chain, Jack's, to take on its German rivals.\n\nPauline Foulkes, Usdaw national officer, said: \"Our members at Tesco are shocked and dismayed by yet another round of potential job losses, coming just months after 9,000 staff were put at risk in stores.\n\n\"We will be working hard to make sure that any members potentially affected by these proposals are supported at this difficult time and throughout the consultation period.\n\n\"This issue is not confined to Tesco, our High Streets are in crisis, with jobs being lost due to shops closing, retailers folding and businesses engaging in significant restructuring to survive.\n\n\"We need the government to address the worries and concerns of shop workers and our members.\"", "An attack on a Walmart store in El Paso, Texas left 20 dead.\n\nArmy Specialist Glendon Oakley, who is being hailed as a hero after he ran towards the gunshots and pulled several children to safety, says he is \"focused on the kids that I could not get and the families that were lost\".\n\nChildren's baseball coaches Jimmy Villatoro and Ramon Garcia also drove to the Walmart car park after hearing about the shooting, and moved children there to a safe location.", "Cesar Sayoc admitted posting the crude devices to prominent Democrats and members of the media\n\nA Trump supporter who admitted sending mail bombs to critics of the US president has been jailed for 20 years.\n\nCesar Sayoc, a 57-year-old ex-pizza delivery man from Florida, posted 16 pipe bombs to 13 targets last October.\n\nProsecutors called for a life sentence for Sayoc, who they said was motivated by a \"hate-filled ideology\".\n\nHis targets included well-known media figures and Democrats, including former president Barack Obama and 2016 election nominee Hillary Clinton.\n\nSayoc also posted the packages - stuffed with explosives, wires and alarm clocks - to former vice-president Joe Biden, former CIA director John Brennan, senators Cory Booker and Kamala Harris, and actor Robert De Niro.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. From last October: Sayoc's former boss says he \"spewed a lot of hatred\"\n\nAll of the devices were intercepted and none detonated. A report by investigators found that they had no mechanism to set them off, meaning that they wouldn't have gone off.\n\nBut the incidents caused a national scare just weeks before the US mid-term elections.\n\nSayoc initially pleaded not guilty to the 65 charges against him, which included using weapons of mass destruction and mailing explosives with intent to kill. But he reversed his plea in March.\n\nAt his sentencing, Sayoc told a court in New York that he was \"beyond so very sorry\".\n\n\"Now that I am a sober man, I know that I was a sick man. I should have listened to my mother, the love of my life,\" he was quoted as saying by the Washington Post.\n\nThe package that was sent to CNN's offices in New York, addressed to John Brennan\n\nSayoc's lawyers argued their client suffered from severe learning disabilities, childhood abuse and steroid abuse that caused him to be paranoid and isolated.\n\nAt the time he was arrested, last year, they said, he was living in his van and was fixated on conspiracy theories he read about on social media.\n\nHis lawyers said: \"In this darkness, Mr Sayoc found light in Donald J Trump. The combination of his cognitive deficiencies, steroid-induced delusional thinking, political naivete and his isolation resulted in Mr Sayoc being unable to critically evaluate these claims [he saw online].\"", "There was intelligence Ian Watkins was in possession of a phone, Leeds Crown Court heard\n\nJailed former Lostprophets singer Ian Watkins concealed a mobile phone in prison in order to contact a woman he had been in a relationship with, a court has heard.\n\nThe 42-year-old \"produced a small white telephone\" after a strip search in HMP Wakefield in March last year, Leeds Crown Court heard.\n\nThere was intelligence he was in possession of a phone, the jury heard.\n\nWatkins denies one charge of possession of a mobile phone in a prison.\n\nThe court heard a prison officer at the West Yorkshire jail had conducted a search in a sterile cell but did not find anything before Watkins produced the phone.\n\nJurors were given the 3in-long (8cm) GT-Star phone to look at in a protective bag.\n\nProsecutor Stephen Wood said a small charger was later found in Watkins' cell.\n\nThe court heard Watkins, from Pontypridd in Wales, asked the officer if he would still be allowed to see his mother, who was travelling to visit him.\n\nMr Wood said Watkins told police \"he was being forced to hold onto the phone by other prisoners\".\n\n\"He said his life had been threatened. He told police he had been threatened with being slashed,\" he said.\n\nBut Mr Wood said Watkins was not acting under duress and told jurors the phone had been used to contact Gabriella Persson who told the prison about the phone.\n\nGiving evidence from behind a screen, Miss Persson said she had known Watkins from when she was 19 and had been in a relationship with him but stopped contacting him in 2012.\n\nMiss Persson said she began communicating with Watkins again in 2016 through letters, phone calls and via legitimate prison emails.\n\nShe told jurors she received a text in March last year from a number she did not recognise and then spoke to Watkins using the phone number to make sure it was him.\n\nMiss Persson confirmed she was aware he had been jailed for sexual offences.\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.", "Dorothy Woolmer was found dead in Tottenham on Sunday\n\nA man has been arrested on suspicion of murdering an 89-year-old woman who died in an assault at her home.\n\nDorothy Woolmer was found dead in Tottenham, north London, on Sunday morning.\n\nOfficers believe one or more suspects gained entry to her home in Waltheof Gardens between Saturday evening and Sunday morning.\n\nThe Met Police said it was considering burglary as a possible motive. The arrested man, 22, remains in custody.\n\nThe force said he was arrested in the Tottenham area at about 18:00 BST.\n\nPolice cordoned off a block of Waltheof Gardens between De Quincey Road and The Roundway\n\nNeighbour Photos Abraamides described Mrs Woolmer as \"a lovely lady and would always say hello with a smile\".\n\nHe said he had lived in the area for 43 years and was concerned for his mother, who is also elderly.\n\n\"We are completely shocked,\" he told BBC London.\n\nAnother neighbour John Cerisier said Mrs Woolmer was a keen gardener who had lived at the property since the 1940s with her husband Kenneth, who died two or three years ago.\n\n\"I have lived here 44 years and I have known them all that time,\" he said. \"They were a very devoted couple.\"\n\nHe added: \"It's very sad. She lived to such an age and to end up like that, it's horrible.\"\n• None Tributes to woman killed in 'possible burglary'\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "England surrendered on the final day of the first Ashes Test, giving Australia a crushing 251-run win and a 1-0 lead in the series.\n\nNeeding to bat out the day to earn a draw - chasing 398 to win was never in the offing - England at one stage lost six wickets for 37 runs on the way to being bowled out for 146 at Edgbaston.\n\nOff-spinner Nathan Lyon took advantage of the worn pitch to claim 6-49, while paceman Pat Cummins picked up 4-32 as the tourists surged to victory just before tea.\n\nIt puts them ahead in an Ashes series in the UK for the first time in 14 years.\n\nEngland can rightly point to the fact they have been without pace bowler James Anderson for almost the whole game - he pulled up with a recurrence of a calf injury after bowling only four overs on the first morning.\n\nHowever, the wisdom of selecting Anderson in the first place can be questioned, while the hosts will also rue a collapse of 4-18 on the third morning, some curious tactics on the fourth day and an awful shot by Jason Roy that began the final-day slump from 60-1.\n\nIn truth, though, this match will be remembered for the brilliance of Australia batsman Steve Smith, whose twin centuries rescued his side from 122-8 in the first innings and again from a deficit of 15 runs when three wickets down in the second.\n\nEngland have their own problems to address before the second Test at Lord's begins next Wednesday, but none are as big as what to do about Smith.\n• None 'Australia thrashing England? It's like we're back in the 1990s'\n• None Relive all the wickets and analysis as it happened\n\nWhile there was turn on offer for Lyon, an otherwise dead surface should have given England the opportunity to put up a better fight than they did in front of the final-day crowd in excess of 10,000.\n\nThat they were bowled out so meekly says much about the potency of the Australian attack, but also the tendency of England's batting to fall in a heap.\n\nAfter Rory Burns gloved a Cummins lifter to point, Roy and Joe Root were comfortable in a stand of 41, even if Root twice used the review system to reverse decisions made by umpire Joel Wilson - the seventh and eighth time that the West Indian had seen his calls overturned in the match.\n\nRoy had been chosen on the back of his one-day form and encouraged to play in an aggressive manner, but it was simply not the time to be charging down the wicket and looking to hit Lyon over the top.\n\nAfter Roy was bowled, the skittish Joe Denly was caught at short leg and when Root went the same way, England's fate seemed sealed before lunch.\n\nJos Buttler, Jonny Bairstow and Ben Stokes offered no resistance and even though the crowd sang for the shots of Chris Woakes, the last three wickets fell for 10 runs.\n\nTaking Anderson's injury, England's collapses and Australia's excellent final-day bowling into account, there still remains one overriding reason for the result of this match; the immovable Smith.\n\nFrom 17-2 in the first innings and 27-2 in the second, his fidgeting, flamboyant leaves and nudges off the pads for scores of 144 and 142 sucked the life from England - all this while dealing with constant taunting from the Edgbaston crowd in his first Test after being banned for the ball-tampering saga.\n\nHe has slipped back into the form that brought him 687 runs in Australia's 4-0 win in 2017-18 and, if he continues, it seems hard to imagine anything other than the urn returning down under.\n\nSmith set up the final-day push for victory, allowing Lyon to expertly exploit the conditions with accuracy, bounce and sharp turn, backed up by the hostility of Cummins.\n\nYes, openers David Warner and Cameron Bancroft failed in both innings, but Matthew Wade got a century in a middle order where the rest all made contributions, questions over captain Tim Paine's place have eased and there is still the pace of Mitchell Starc and Josh Hazlewood in reserve.\n\nIt is early in the series, but Australia are well-placed for a first away Ashes win since 2001 and have earned 24 points in the new International Cricket Council Test Championship.\n\nLittle more than three weeks on from a glorious day at Lord's, England are facing tough decisions over some of the players that won them the World Cup.\n\nOff-spinner Moeen Ali bowled desperately poorly in this match and is averaging only 15 with the bat in his last 12 Tests. He will come under pressure from Jack Leach.\n\nSimilarly, wicketkeeper Bairstow has made four consecutive single-figure scores and could lose his place to Ben Foakes or an all-rounder if England opt to give the gloves to Buttler.\n\nOn top of that, the loss of Anderson, England's all-time leading Test wicket-taker, is an immeasurable blow, even if the fiery Jofra Archer is waiting in the wings to make his debut.\n\nAnd, while opener Burns made a maiden Test century at Edgbaston, there are questions over whether Denly is worth his place at number four.\n\nEngland must find answers for the second Test, because another defeat would almost certainly put the Ashes beyond reach.\n\nRoot 'hurt and disappointed' - what they said\n\nEngland captain Joe Root at the presentation: \"It hurts. It is bitterly disappointing. We played really good cricket in the majority of the Test match. Credit to Australia. They fought hard to get back in it.\n\n\"Steve Smith played two brilliant innings. We have to keep working hard to get him out. Obviously it was hard that we lost Jimmy early on. We have to take it on the chin and come back hard at Lord's.\"\n\nOn Anderson's fitness: \"It was a group decision to select him. He passed all of the fitness tests. It is one of those freak things that happen in cricket. It is disappointing.\"\n\nAustralia batsman Steve Smith: \"Winning the first Test in England is really special.\n\n\"It feels great, I'm loving being back playing cricket for Australia, doing what I love and contributing to wins. To score two hundreds in a match - the first time I've done that in any form of cricket in my life - is very special and I'm very proud.\"\n\nAustralia captain Tim Paine: \"Steve Smith has been unbelievable, not just this week but in the last five or six weeks too. He makes guys better.\n\n\"He's one of the best Test batsmen we've seen and he seems to be getting even better.\"", "At least 20 people have been killed and many more injured in a mass shooting in the Texas city of El Paso.\n\nGovernor Greg Abbott described it as \"one of the most deadly days in the history of Texas\".\n\nThe massacre happened at a Walmart store near the Cielo Vista Mall, a few miles from the US-Mexican border.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Why does the Strait of Hormuz matter?\n\nThe Royal Navy will join a US-led taskforce to protect merchant ships travelling in the Gulf.\n\nThe move comes amid growing tensions between the two western powers and Iran over the shipping route in the Strait of Hormuz.\n\nIranian forces seized British-flagged vessel Stena Impero last month, while the US has tightened sanctions on Iran.\n\nForeign Secretary Dominic Raab said the new maritime taskforce would give \"reassurance for shipping\".\n\nBut it goes against plans laid out by his predecessor, Jeremy Hunt, for a European-led mission in the area.\n\nThe UK government confirmed last month that it would provide a Royal Navy escort, from warships HMS Duncan and HMS Montrose, for British-flagged ships passing through the strait.\n\nThe Ministry of Defence said the new mission would involve the same warships.\n\nThe US has also committed two warships to the mission, as well as aerial surveillance.\n\nHMS Montrose, centre, escorts the British-flagged Stena Important (front) and Sea Ploeg oil tanker through the Strait of Hormuz, through which a fifth of the world's oil travels\n\nWashington has re-imposed - and latterly tightened - its own sanctions on Iran, after withdrawing from a 2015 deal to limit the country's nuclear activities.\n\nThe UK and other European countries remain committed to the plan, but diplomatic tensions have been strained in recent months - increasing after the seizure of the Stena Impero.\n\nMr Raab said the UK's decision to join the US-led mission did not change its commitment to the nuclear deal and that the government was working to \"de-escalate the situation\" in the Gulf.\n\nBritish attempts to create a European-led coalition to provide maritime security in the Gulf - and to deter Iran - have clearly not born fruit, at least yet.\n\nHence the UK decision to \"join an international maritime security mission\", which will be led by the US.\n\nSo far, the UK is the only other member.\n\nThe apparent change of heart has been made easier by the recent changes in Downing Street.\n\nThe UK government still says it hopes the taskforce can transition to a European-led mission - though so far no other European countries have said they're willing to commit warships to protect merchant shipping as part of an international maritime force.\n\nThe government also insists that its policy to Iran has not changed.\n\nBritain says it remains committed, along with EU allies, to maintaining the Iran nuclear deal - unlike the US.\n\nBut Iran may view this latest move differently.\n\nAnnouncing the new mission, Defence Secretary Ben Wallace said the UK was \"determined to ensure shipping is protected from unlawful threats\".\n\nHe added: \"Upholding international maritime law and freedom of passage is in all our interests.\n\n\"We are seeing, across our seas and oceans, too many incidents that seek to challenge such freedoms.\"\n\n4 July: Royal Marines help authorities in Gibraltar seize a tanker carrying Iranian oil because of evidence it was heading to Syria in breach of EU sanctions\n\n9 July: The UK raises the threat to British shipping in Iranian waters in the Gulf to \"critical\"\n\n10 July: A Royal Navy ship warns off Iranian boats attempting to impede a British oil tanker in the region\n\n28 July: The Royal Navy sends a second warship to the Gulf to protect British ships", "Jaclene Paolucci, pictured with her husband, John, says she does not know why complete strangers feel they have the right to advise her on her pregnancy\n\nSix months into her pregnancy, Jaclene Paolucci has had enough of strangers offering unsolicited advice and thinking it's fine to touch her without permission.\n\nThe last straw was a stranger interrupting her as she ordered her regular latte at a Starbucks in New York - to suggest she switched to decaf.\n\nJaclene, 36, took to Twitter to tell her more than 3,000 followers what had happened and that her response - telling the woman: \"I'm not pregnant,\" - had led to a spluttered apology.\n\nAnd she was shocked by how many people could relate to her experience.\n\nSo far, her tweet has received nearly 5,000 responses, 78,000 retweets and close to 700,000 \"likes\".\n\nJaclene Paolucci's tweet resonated with hundreds of thousands of people\n\n\"I've discovered that if you want unsolicited advice, then you should get pregnant,\" Jaclene told BBC News.\n\n\"It feels like the moment you do get pregnant, then you lose your body's autonomy.\n\n\"People start touching you and everybody has an opinion on how you should act, what you should wear - everything.\n\n\"The only people who should be able to do that should be you and your doctor.\"\n\nJaclene said she limited herself to one coffee a day and had taken medical advice about it.\n\nShe said: \"What if I hadn't been pregnant?\n\n\"And there are many postpartum women who find it hard to get rid of their bellies.\n\n\"Comments like this can be hurtful so unless someone is having a baby in front of you, you shouldn't get involved.\n\nJaclene is tired of people having a say about her pregnancy\n\nShe added: \"People feel entitled and your body becomes a community body.\n\n\"We're in an exciting but scary time and there's so much information out there which can often be contradictory. However, I trust my body and I will make the best decisions for it.\n\n\"What I did find interesting, though, was after I tweeted, many of those who disagreed with my stance were men.\"\n\nDr Tara Chettiar says even with her expertise, she was not immune to unsolicited advice during her two pregnancies\n\nAmong the thousands of women who responded is Dr Tara Chettiar, of Kansas City, a specialist in obstetrics and gynaecology.\n\n\"I was in the hospital doing my patient rounds about six years ago, I was heavily pregnant and I was wearing my scrubs and white coat,\" she said.\n\n\"As I stopped to get a coffee, one staff member told me that I shouldn't be drinking coffee at all.\n\n\"I was astounded that anyone would say that - let alone to an expert in the field.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\n\"I had to pause and say that a small amount of caffeine had been shown to be safe outside of the first trimester.\n\n\"In fact, it's fine in the first trimester, although I was visibly beyond that point.\"\n\n\"I have so many patients who have told me about their experiences around unsolicited advice and as someone who has gone through this myself twice now, I loved seeing how Jaclene had called it out.\"\n\nShe added: \"A lot of pregnant women find they are constantly being told what to do by others but let's be clear: pregnancy is not a disability.\"\n\nThe advice is largely well intentioned, says Dr Chettiar, because it's about an issue everyone feels they can connect with.\n\n\"Family, babies are so much at the heart of the human experience. So many people want to become part of the journey. It's the same reason that people also feel they can ask, 'When will you have children?'\n\n\"Because in their minds, this is something that connects us all. But in reality, those questions and 'advice' make women feel separate, different, and as though something is wrong with them.\"\n\n@ethereumgirl also responded to the thread, highlighting the constant touching she had experienced during her pregnancies.\n\nAsked why she had wanted to share her experiences on Twitter, she told BBC News: \"I think what pulled me in is this unwanted expectation when you become pregnant that you belong to 'the collective society', that some others feel more comfortable responding to you in ways that would be otherwise socially unacceptable.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 2 by Ethereum Girl This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy 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 this is something Jaclene clearly understood. In one her tweets, she wrote about the constant touching: \"It is totally invasive. It's strange enough you have a foreign being inside of you using you as a punching bag and playroom, then everyone else is touching you from the outside.\"", "Javier Rodriguez had endless positive energy, friends and teachers say\n\nAs the US reels from two mass shootings, more details are starting to emerge about the victims of the attacks.\n\nThirty-one people were killed in a period of less than 13 hours over the weekend. The first shooting at a Walmart in El Paso, Texas killed 22. Nine more died in an attack on a busy nightlife district in Dayton, Ohio.\n\nHere is what we know about the victims.\n\nThe 15-year-old's friends say he could make anyone's day better with his positive energy.\n\nConfirming his death, his aunt, Elvira, posted on Facebook that \"many tears were being shed\" for the teenager.\n\nHis friend Alexis Acosta, told mourners at a vigil: \"If my friend was here, he would tell us everything is going to be OK.\n\n\"He would say to live on. Don't let the pain take over.\"\n\nJavier's teacher, Adrian Barros, told the vigil that \"with a small simple smile or a flick of his hair he would light up the room\" and that he usually would enter the classroom with a football at his feet.\n\n\"I would try to kick it away from him. But he was too quick with his feet,\" he said.\n\nJavier hoped to be a professional athlete and is thought to be the youngest victim of the El Paso shooting.\n\n\"As an athlete he was a fierce competitor on the field but most importantly he was the ultimate team mate,\" said Mr Barros.\n\nHis parents watched from the front row as respects were paid to their fallen son, with Javier's sister, Joanna, trying in vain to comfort their mother. The three members of the Rodriguez family took to the stage as 22 doves were released into the air - one for each victim of the mass shooting.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Gilbert Anchondo says he forgives his son's killer\n\nThe young couple had just celebrated their first wedding anniversary and were shopping for back-to-school supplies when they were targeted by the attacker.\n\nThey gave their lives to save their two-month-old son, relatives said.\n\nDoctors said the little boy's broken bones suggested his mother Jordan, who was 24, had tried to shield him from the onslaught, falling on him as she was shot; family members said that Andre, 23, tried to shield the mother-of-three as he was fatally injured.\n\n\"I forgive him because he was not in his senses. He had the devil inside of him. I'm a great believer and I forgive what he did,\" Gilbert Anchondo said.\n\nJordan and Andre Anchondo got married last year and were killed in El Paso\n\nThe 86-year-old last spoke to her son at 10:30 local time on Saturday morning, while she was in the check-out queue at Walmart.\n\nHer distraught daughter was later filmed at the scene, begging for information about her mother.\n\nHer family confirmed to CNN she had died on Sunday.\n\nFamily confirmed to CBS4 that the couple had died in the shooting on Saturday.\n\nAccording to the broadcaster, the family first knew something was wrong when the dog groomer called to say they had not picked their pet up.\n\nShe was a special-needs teacher who lived just across the border in Ciudad Juárez.\n\nShe came across the border most weekends to visit friends and relatives.\n\nHer husband and son were waiting outside in the car when she was shot and killed.\n\nThe 67-year-old bus driver was described to news website Buzzfeed as \"a strong-willed, caring, giving, and special person\" by his niece, Jacklin Luna.\n\nShe had earlier appealed on Facebook for information about her uncle.\n\nThis Facebook post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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Facebook content may contain adverts.\n\nHe had been out with his wife, who managed to escape.\n\nFrom Ciudad Juárez, Mexico, he leaves a wife and two children, aged five and seven.\n\nFrom Chihuahua, Mexico, she was in El Paso to pick up her daughter from the airport, but stopped at Walmart on the way to get a few household items.\n\nAlso from Ciudad Juárez, she was with a relative in El Paso.\n\nHer niece described her as a \"dedicated mother, grandmother and friend\".\n\nSara Esther Regalado and Adolfo Cerros Hernández, of Ciudad Juárez and Aguascalientes, Mexico\n\nThe 66-year-old was a German national, officials said\n\nThe other victims named by police are US citizens Maria and Raul Flores, both 77, David Johnson, 63, Luis Alfonzo Juarez, 90, Elsa Libera Marquez, 57, Maribel Loya, 56, Margie Reckard, 63, and Juan Velazquez, 77.\n\nA mother of two who worked at a children's nursery in Dayton, the 27-year-old had only recently returned from maternity leave for her second child.\n\n\"She was a wonderful mother, a wonderful person,\" her friend, Derasha Merrett, told the Dayton Daily News. \"I have cried so much, I can't cry anymore.\"\n\nIt is thought that Megan Betts, 22, was one of her brother Connor's first victims. She was studying environmental science.\n\nHe was a resident of Springfield, Ohio and was visiting Dayton with his son\n\nDanita Turner said her son Logan was the \"world's best\". He had recently got a job as a machinist in nearby Springboro, where he lived.\n\n\"He was very generous and loving.\" she told the Dayton Daily News. \"Everyone loved Logan. He was a happy go lucky guy.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Ryan Wilhite This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy 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 Pittsburgh-raised man was in Dayton completing an internship when he was killed.\n\nThe graduate student, who was in the Masters of Cancer Care programme at Saint Francis University, had just been offered a full-time position by Maple Tree Cancer Alliance.\n\nIn a post on Facebook, the organisation paid tribute to his \"loving and caring spirit\", as well as his dedication to his patients.\n\nHis family said they were \"heartbroken\" by his loss.\n\nThe 25-year-old had four children\n\nThe father-of-four, known as TeeJay, was a \"gentle giant\" who had got off work and gone out in town with his cousin when he was killed, his aunt Donna Johnson told WHIOTV.\n\n\"Everybody loved him. He was like a big kid,\" she added.\n\nHe leaves behind two boys and two girls, aged between two and eight.\n\nWe will update this article as more information becomes available.", "Audi's handler PC Karl Mander previously said the dog did not seem to have suffered \"lasting damage\"\n\nA man who stabbed a police dog in the head in a \"gratuitous\" attack while high on drugs has become the first person to be jailed under Finn's Law.\n\nDaniel O'Sullivan, 29, admitted attacking Audi as his handler tried to make an arrest in Stoke-on-Trent.\n\nO'Sullivan, of Liverpool, was the first person charged under the Animal Welfare (Service Animals) Act 2019.\n\nJudge Paul Glenn said the attack on 1 July was \"plainly premeditated\" and jailed O'Sullivan for 21 months.\n\nO'Sullivan, from the Litherland area, also admitted five counts of assaulting police officers and two of possessing offensive weapons.\n\nDaniel O'Sullivan had been found by police armed with a 4in lock-knife and glass bottle\n\nA member of the public called police after being concerned about O'Sullivan's behaviour near the Potteries shopping centre in Quadrant Road, Hanley town centre, at about 14:15 BST.\n\nHoward Searle, prosecuting, said he was seen \"bouncing up and down, punching the air with the knife, making practice lunges\".\n\nSeveral police officers arrived, including PC Karl Mander and Audi, and O'Sullivan was found with a 4in lock-knife in one hand and a glass bottle in the other.\n\nThe court heard O'Sullivan was high on cocaine and the synthetic drug known as monkey dust at the time.\n\nOfficers ordered O'Sullivan to drop the knife, but he refused and threw a glass bottle at them, at which point the police dog was released.\n\nO'Sullivan stabbed Audi near the eye and tried to stab him again, before being chased by officers, when he was tasered and fell to the floor.\n\nIn the scuffle he also kicked an officer in the head.\n\nSentencing O'Sullivan Judge Glenn said he had been \"screaming threats, including that [he] would stab the dog handler\".\n\nThe judge said it had been called a \"gratuitous\" and \"plainly premeditated\" assault on Audi and O'Sullivan had gone on to be aggressive to hospital staff when he was admitted for treatment.\n\n\"O'Sullivan was out to seriously hurt PD Audi and it was lucky that he wasn't blinded or killed as a result of his injuries,\" Det Insp Stephen Ward said.\n\nAudi has since returned to work with Staffordshire Police and has \"recovered well\", the force said.\n\nPC Mander said last month Audi had had \"lots of rest and TLC\", adding there did not seem \"to be any lasting damage to him\".\n\nO'Sullivan was also charged with one count of affray, which he denied.\n\nO'Sullivan - who had previous convictions for attacking police, battery and affray - was the first person to be charged under the Animal Welfare (Service Animals) Act 2019 - also known as Finn's Law - since it was introduced.\n\nBefore the act was passed, attacks on police dogs were treated as criminal damage.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Matt Hancock says he has changed his mind because \"the facts have changed\"\n\nParliament can no longer block a no-deal Brexit, the health secretary has said.\n\nDuring his bid for the Tory leadership, Matt Hancock said no deal was \"not an available choice\" to the next PM, as MPs \"will never allow it to happen\".\n\nHe told the BBC he had now changed his mind because they had a chance to block it in a series of votes last month, but failed to muster the numbers.\n\nJeremy Corbyn said Labour would do all it could to stop no deal.\n\nBut Downing Street insisted the UK would be leaving on 31 October \"whatever the circumstances\", whether a deal had been agreed with the EU or not.\n\n\"Politicians cannot choose which votes to respect. They promised to respect the referendum result and we must do,\" No 10 said.\n\nAsked whether Mr Johnson would respect the outcome of votes in Parliament - including a vote of no confidence in his government - the spokesman refused to be drawn, calling it a \"hypothetical\" question.\n\nMPs have repeatedly rejected the agreement Theresa May reached with Brussels, but have so far failed to coalesce around an alternative.\n\nIn a no-deal scenario, the UK would immediately leave the EU with no agreement about the \"divorce\" process, overnight exiting the single market and customs union - arrangements designed to help facilitate trade.\n\nOpponents say it would damage the economy and lead to border posts between Northern Ireland and the Republic - but other politicians argue any disruption could be quickly overcome.\n\nOn 12 June, the Commons rejected a motion tabled by Jeremy Corbyn, which would have allowed MPs to take control of the parliamentary timetable in the autumn to stop no deal going through.\n\nMr Hancock told BBC Radio 4's Today programme it was that vote which prompted him to change his mind.\n\n\"I thought that would go through and in fact, the government won by 11,\" he said.\n\n\"I now don't think it can (stop no-deal). I thought that it could and the votes went differently to what I anticipated. When the facts change, sometimes even as a politician you have to change your mind.\"\n\nMr Hancock's comments echo a warning reportedly made by the prime minister's senior adviser, Dominic Cummings, that MPs have left it too late to stop no deal.\n\nBut Dominic Grieve, one of the most prominent pro-European Conservative MPs, told the BBC Mr Cummings was a \"master of misinformation\", and there were a number of options still left for MPs wanting to block no deal.\n\nThey include bringing down the government, via a vote of no confidence, and setting up a new government in its place, he said.\n\nIf Mr Johnson loses a vote of no confidence and it becomes clear that another potential prime minister could command the confidence of the Commons, the convention is that he would be obliged to resign.\n\nHowever, Catherine Haddon, from the Institute for Government think tank, said this was \"untested territory\", adding: \"He could say: 'No, I'm staying as prime minister and we're having a general election.'\"\n\nThe date of an election is set by royal proclamation on the advice of the prime minister, so he could choose a date after 31 October and press on with Brexit in the meantime.\n\nSpeaking on a visit to Whaley Bridge to see efforts being made to shore up a damaged dam, Mr Corbyn said Labour would \"do everything to stop no deal, including a no confidence vote at the appropriate, very early, time to do it\".\n\nHe said Mr Johnson appeared to be \"trying to slip no deal through, slip past Parliament and slip past the British people\", and that was \"not acceptable\".", "Strictly's class of 2019 - but Jamie Laing (centre) had to pull out after the red carpet launch\n\nTV and radio presenters, soap stars, sportspeople, a YouTuber and a Viscountess - that's who is taking to the dancefloor for the 17th series of Strictly Come Dancing.\n\nBroadcaster Anneka Rice rose to fame on Channel 4's Bafta-nominated game show Treasure Hunt in the 1980s, before being given her own BBC One show, Challenge Anneka.\n\nShe joked: \"I haven't danced since I was seven and Miss Beer sent me home from my ballet class because I was hopelessly uncoordinated. My family and friends haven't seen me dance since, not at a wedding or round a handbag so it's going to be a challenge for my partner.\n\n\"In fact I've asked for two, one on each side. I can't see myself in a long frilly dress either. But I'm feeling recklessly excited. Strictly has always been my autumn's entertainment and now I'm part of it! My children will probably leave the country.\"\n\nMore recently, the 60-year-old has appeared on Celebrity Mastermind and Come Dine With Me, as well as Celebrity Hunted.\n\nOlympic rower James Cracknell promised to bring some \"dad dancing\" to the show early on. Cracknell was made an OBE in 2005 after winning gold in the coxless fours at the 2000 and 2004 Olympics.\n\nThe 47-year-old oarsman, who rowed for Cambridge in this year's Boat Race, said: \"It's going be really interesting having no confidence in it and then going 'OK, can you do it?'\"\n\nIn the official Strictly press release, Cracknell joked he was looking forward to taking part \"having spent so many years mucking around in a rowing boat with big men in tight lycra,\" and that \"it's time I learned a new skill\".\n\nHe added: \"I need to apologise to my kids in advance for the embarrassment.\"\n\nBBC Radio 1 DJ Dev Griffin - who presents the afternoon weekend show alongside Alice Levine - came second in a dance competition at a Pontins holiday park in 1996, when he danced to MC Hammer's Can't Touch This.\n\nGriffin was a finalist on 2017's Celebrity MasterChef and has appeared on other celebrity programmes, such as Mastermind. He's vowed to improve on those results by winning Strictly.\n\nHe said: \"I am really good at dancing. I never had any formal dance training, but I am pretty good, I have made myself good. All I want is to win. I don't believe in doing things for taking part, if you are going to do something, you do it to win.\"\n\nFormer Arsenal and England footballer Alex Scott said she \"felt like a kid at Christmas\" after her participation was revealed.\n\nScott, who is now one of the country's leading football pundits, won the Strictly Comic Relief special in 2018. \"This is a show that I've always wanted to be a part of,\" Scott admitted. \"When I did [Comic Relief], I was like, 'I want to be part of the main one.'\n\nThe former Lioness out-danced fellow ex footballers Chris Kamara and David Ginola en route to winning the 2018 Comic Relief Strictly special, alongside dance partner Pasha Kovalev.\n\nSeduction singer Michelle Visage - best known for her role as a judge on the US reality TV show RuPaul's Drag race - is also among the contestants.\n\nShe took part in Celebrity Big Brother in 2015, and was recently seen on the West End stage in Everybody's Talking About Jamie.\n\nTable tennis champion Will Bayley took gold for Great Britain at the 2016 Summer Paralympic Games in Brazil.\n\n\"I'm so proud to be on the show, it's my family's favourite show,\" he said. \"I have no dance experience at all, but I hope I can do well. I want to inspire people with a disability - that would mean a lot to me. I want to prove to people I can do this.\"\n\nEmma Thynn, Viscountess Weymouth, is a chef, model and a contributing editor for British Vogue, and also runs Longleat safari park with her family.\n\nThe 33-year-old mother of two - who married Ceawlin Thynn, Viscount Weymouth, in 2013 - said she had never danced professionally but was sure it would be \"such an amazing experience from start to finish\".\n\nCBBC presenter Karim Zeroual is a former child actor who starred in CBBC's The Sparticle Mystery. He said he was \"pinching\" himself after being offered the chance to take part.\n\nHe said: \"I want the lot. The skimpiest of clothes, the widest of flares, the brightest of colours and the tallest Cuban heels a guy can find! The more flamboyant the better... sequins galore please!\"\n\nBBC sports news presenter Mike Bushell said being revealed as a Strictly contestant felt \"like a weird dream\" but he wanted to fly the flag for \"all the dad dancers\".\n\nThe 53-year-old added he \"thought they'd got the wrong person\" when he got the call from the producers, because people frequently confuse him with former BBC colleague and 2009 Strictly winner Chris Hollins.\n\nFormer Coronation Street actress Catherine Tyldesley, 35, played Rovers Return barmaid Eva Price on the ITV Soap from 2011-2018 and said she was \"so excited\" and equally \"terrified\" because she \"literally can't dance\".\n\nShe said: \"I love to dance on a night out if I've had a couple of drinks and me and Alfie [her son] silly dance in the kitchen, but that's it, I'm terrified.\"\n\nTeenage social media star Saffron Barker - whose book Saffron Barker Vs Real Life topped the Sunday Times bestseller list - said she was \"very grateful for the opportunity\".\n\nShe added that she was inspired by the success of another of last year's finalists, fellow YouTuber Joe Sugg. \"I'm excited to follow in his footsteps,\" she declared. \"He did absolutely amazing... I've got a lot to live up to.\"\n\nEastEnders actress Emma Barton, who plays Honey Mitchell, was one of the first names to be announced.\n\nBarton said she was a big fan of Strictly and was therefore \"over the moon\" to be asked to appear in series 17.\n\nFormer England goalkeeper David James said he was persuaded to compete by ex-contestant and former swimmer Mark Foster, who had an \"amazing experience\" on the dancefloor.\n\nJames, 49, who was the oldest player at the 2010 World Cup in South Africa, said he was \"really excited\" to be chosen and had \"some big shoes to fill\" following previous appearances by sports stars.\n\nComedian Chris Ramsey, who starred as Jack Pearson in the BBC Two sitcom Hebburn, said he was \"really buzzing\" but noted that while he is hungry for success, he has never been a natural shoe shuffler.\n\n\"You will not find me on the dancefloor at parties,\" said the 32-year-old. \"You will find me at the buffet table... All night.\n\n\"At my wedding, I danced with my wife; that one song took about six months' practice, and I definitely stood on her feet a couple of times.\"\n\nKelvin Fletcher is best known for playing Andy Sugden on ITV soap Emmerdale between 1996 and 2016.\n\nThe 35-year-old was drafted in as a late replacement after Made In Chelsea's Jamie Laing was forced to pull out after injuring his foot while recording the group dance in the launch show.\n\nFletcher said being on Strictly was \"a dream come true\", but was also \"bittersweet\" because it came about as a result of Laing's withdrawal.\n\nLaing said: \"I'm absolutely devastated that I'm unable to continue in the competition. I was so excited to hit the dance floor.\"\n\nHosts Claudia Winkleman and Tess Daly are clearly excited. Are you?\n\nThis year's series will see the return of judges Shirley Ballas, Craig Revel Horwood and Bruno Tonioli, but Dame Darcey Bussell will be replaced by Motsi Mabuse - sister of Strictly professional Oti.\n\nLatin dancer Nancy Xu, a dancer in West End show Burn the Floor and a finalist on So You Think You Can Dance? in China, will replace the outgoing Pasha Kovalev as a professional dancer.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Tesco has announced it will close food counters in 90 of its stores as part of a wider cost-cutting plan that will affect 9,000 staff.\n\nThe UK's largest supermarket said its remaining fish, meat and deli counters in 700 stores will be run on a full-time or flexible basis.\n\nIt confirmed it will no longer offer a hot food service at its canteens and that head office staff will be cut.\n\nIt said up to 9,000 workers will be affected but half could be redeployed.\n\nMore than 10,000 jobs have been cut at Tesco since the current chief executive, Dave Lewis, took over in 2014.\n\nThe UK's biggest grocer is in the midst of trying to save £1.5bn as the competition between supermarkets intensifies.\n\nTesco said: \"Not only are customers shopping in different ways, but we know that they have less time available to shop too - which means they are using our counters less frequently.\n\n\"We will be making changes to the counters in our large stores to ensure that we have the right offer for customers.\"\n\nFor a company which makes more than a billion pounds a year in profit, and saw strong Christmas trading, Tesco seems remarkably keen to cut costs. Yet the reasons are pretty plain.\n\nCompetition between supermarkets is intense. The German discounters Aldi and Lidl, which arrived on these shores in the 1990s, are now big enough to make a real impact. They're steadily eroding the market share of established players, including Tesco, and forcing them to lower their own prices.\n\nAnd if competition regulators allow Sainsbury's to take control of Asda, then Tesco will lose its market dominance - and be faced with a rival just as powerful as itself, with as much bargaining power among suppliers. That could place further pressure on pricing - and profit margins.\n\nIn-store butchers and delicatessens may look pretty and please more discerning customers, but they need to be staffed; and staff cost money. Tesco insists the number of people using them is falling as shopping habits change. Seen in that light, getting rid of a few looks like an easy way to save a bit of cash.\n\nBut Tesco needs to be careful. Removing the things that make it different from the discounters may help it to cut costs - but it risks alienating existing consumers and eroding its brand value.\n\nAfter all, if there is nothing to differentiate the traditional supermarkets from the discounters, won't customers simply go to whichever is cheapest - trapping everyone in an endless cycle of cost cutting and ever-decreasing margins?\n\nPauline Foulkes, national officer at the Union of Shop, Distributive and Allied Workers (Usdaw), said: \"Staff at Tesco are shocked and dismayed by the scale of yet another round of potential job losses, which clearly demonstrates the pressure retailers are under in the current very difficult and uncertain economic climate, as the cost cutting continues.\n\n\"This is devastating news for staff, who have played a crucial role in Tesco's turnaround project, contributing to 12 successive quarters of growth, solid Christmas trading and over a billion pounds of profit.\"\n\nAs well as reducing its counters, Tesco said that after completing a detailed review: \"We're talking to colleagues about changes in some of our head office teams, moving to a simpler and leaner structure, which will allow us to focus on supporting our customers.\"\n\nIt also said that it made changes to the way it manages its stock which will mean \"a significantly reduced workload, with fewer hours needed to complete the routines\".\n\nMeanwhile, people who work for third party caterers that provide hot food services at some Tesco stores are also facing an uncertain future.\n\nTesco said it will introduce self-service kitchen areas which will affect people employed by caterers.\n\n\"We are working with them to provide as much support as we can,\" said Tesco.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Mark Welte was on the observation deck when the incident happened\n\nA six-year-old boy who was \"thrown\" from the 10th floor of the Tate Modern art gallery was a French national visiting London with his family.\n\nThe child was found on a fifth-floor roof after he fell from the viewing platform on Sunday and is in a critical but stable condition, the Met said.\n\nA witness said they heard a \"loud bang\", before seeing a woman scream: \"Where's my son, where's my son?\"\n\nA 17-year-old boy arrested on suspicion of attempted murder remains in custody.\n\nThe Met Police said it was treating the \"truly shocking incident\" as an \"isolated event with no distinct or apparent motive\".\n\nWriter Mark Welte was on the observation deck with a friend when he heard a commotion and what he described as a loud \"primal scream\".\n\n\"Someone said someone had thrown a child over. I leapt up and looked over the rail and I did indeed see a child down below there,\" he said.\n\n\"The child's mother then tried to climb the rail. I restrained her and pulled her back.\"\n\nThe emergency services were called to the Tate Modern on Sunday afternoon\n\nEmergency services were called to the gallery, based in Bankside near London Bridge Station, at about 14:40 BST.\n\n\"We treated a person at the scene and took them to hospital,\" a London Ambulance Service (LAS) spokesman said.\n\n\"There is no link between the victim and male arrested,\" Det Ch Insp John Massey said.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. BBC journalist Olga Malchevska was at the gallery with her son\n\nThe force said the child was \"no longer in a life-threatening situation\" but his family was waiting for more news about his condition.\n\nDet Ch Insp Massey added that officers were keen to speak to anybody who \"witnessed a male whose behaviour seemed out of place, suspicious or worrying, in the hour or two before the incident in or near the gallery\".\n\nThe boy was flown to hospital \"as a priority\", London Ambulance Service said\n\nThe Tate said it was \"working closely with the police\" and \"all our thoughts are with the child and his family\".\n\nA spokeswoman for the gallery added the Tate was open on Monday but the viewing platform would remain shut throughout the day.\n\nThe Tate said it was working closely with police\n\nAdmin worker Nancy Barnfield, 47, of Rochdale, was at the 10th floor viewing gallery with a friend and their children when her friend heard a \"loud bang\".\n\nMs Barnfield said she turned around and saw a woman screaming: \"Where's my son, where's my son?\"\n\nMembers of the public quickly gathered around a man who was nearby, she said.\n\nMs Barnfield said: \"We did not notice the mum before, we noticed her after because she was hysterical by then.\"\n\nShe said the person who was restrained by members of the public before the police arrived \"just stood there and was quite calm\".\n\nPeople were locked inside the gallery as emergency services helped the six-year-old boy\n\nBBC journalist Olga Malchevska, who was on the balcony with her son, said she heard a scream then saw some pushing.\n\n\"I just felt like something is going on, I should take my child out of there immediately and we tried to go towards the exit,\" she said.\n\nShe added: \"We got to the packed lift. People there were saying that one boy threw another one from the balcony. We were all shocked.\"\n\nStuart Haggas said he saw emergency crews moving along the roof between the gallery's Turbine Hall and its recent extension.\n\n\"They were carrying a stretcher with someone on it, plus a second stretcher was waiting by the door,\" he said.\n\nThe Tate Modern's viewing gallery has remained closed for the day\n\nBBC correspondent Jonny Dymond, who was also there, said visitors were \"funnelled towards the main Turbine Hall and the exits were all closed\".\n\n\"There were quite a lot of families with children, and security guards told us we couldn't leave,\" he said.\n\n\"There were at least two fire engines, 10 police cars and an incident control unit. Parts of the exterior of the building were taped off.\"\n\nThe Tate Modern opened in the disused power station on the River Thames in 2000, while the extension with the viewing platform was opened in 2016.\n\nIt was the UK's most popular tourist attraction in 2018 with 5.9 million visitors, according to the Association of Leading Visitor Attractions.\n\nThe viewing platform is part of an extension at the gallery which opened in 2016\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Dooley travelled to Kurdish-controlled northern Syria for Stacey Meets the IS Brides\n\nThe BBC has edited a scene in Stacey Dooley's Panorama documentary after she described a Muslim prayer gesture as an \"IS salute\".\n\nDooley's description of women raising their fingers in the air has been cut from Stacey Meets the IS Brides, which will be shown on BBC One on Monday.\n\nThe clip was also used on Sunday's BBC News at Ten, which has been taken off the iPlayer, and in a clip on the BBC News website, which has been re-edited.\n\nThe BBC apologised for the error.\n\n\"We wrongly described a gesture made by women filmed in a Kurdish controlled detention camp in northern Syria as an 'IS salute',\" a BBC spokesman said.\n\n\"While IS have attempted to adopt this for their own propaganda purposes, for accuracy we should have been clear that many people of Muslim faith use this gesture to signify the oneness of Allah.\n\n\"We apologise for this error and have removed this description from the footage.\"\n\nThe raised index finger is a symbol of Tawhid, described by the Oxford Dictionary of Islam as \"the unity and uniqueness of God as creator and sustainer of the Universe\". The gesture is part of Islamic prayer, and some Muslim footballers have used it during celebrations.\n\nSome Islamic State militants tried to co-opt the gesture by posing with one finger raised in propaganda images, particularly after executions.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by TellMAMAUK This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nFor the Panorama programme, the Strictly Come Dancing winner visited camps in northern Syria and spoke to women who left their own countries to join the Islamic State group.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.\n• None The IS brides living in Syria's camps", "The Royal Hospital for Sick Children was scheduled to open in July\n\nThe new £150m hospital for children in Edinburgh may have to be \"ripped down\" amid safety concerns, a senior trade union official has warned.\n\nTom Waterson said drainage at the building is a more pressing matter than the ventilation issues which saw the postponement of its official opening.\n\nHe also claimed NHS Lothian had paid millions of pounds in a settlement to help resolve some of the problems.\n\nThe health board said reviews into the delay are already under way.\n\nAs well as focusing on ventilation they will also look at drainage and water systems as a priority.\n\nThe development comes after BBC Scotland revealed NHS Lothian is paying millions of pounds to a private consortium for a hospital it cannot use.\n\nThe new hospital has faced a number of delays\n\nMr Waterson said: \"I've been speaking to senior staff within NHS Lothian over the last two or three weeks and more and more have been coming to speak to me.\n\n\"They are telling us that they have concerns primarily over drainage at the site. People are unable to confirm whether the drainage that has been put in, is in fact fit for purpose.\n\n\"We need to find out what's happening before everyone moves in. We can't wait to find out later on and just keep our fingers crossed.\"\n\nMr Waterson said the problems date back 18 to 36 months when senior staff were \"alerted to shortcomings in the drainage\".\n\nBut despite that the contractors continued to press ahead with construction.\n\nHe added: \"There is a school of thought that they might have to rip it down.\n\n\"How do you fix drainage in a building when it's \"x\" number of feet beneath the building? I'm not an engineer, but it's not going to be easy.\n\nThe father-of-two said he is also speaking as a parent.\n\nThe minister said she is \"accountable\" for what happens in the health service\n\nHe added: \"My daughter had to use the Sick Kids last year and the service was excellent.\n\n\"My concern is that we can't use the new building until we know that it's 100% safe.\n\n\"The Scottish government had three people on the project board from day one. They would have been fully aware of this issue 36 months ago.\"\n\nThe new Royal Hospital for Children and Young People, which will have over 200 beds, was supposed to open in July, but health secretary Jeane Freeman overruled NHS Lothian after last-minute inspections found safety concerns over its ventilation system.\n\nThe project has been marred by disputes between the local NHS board and IHSL Lothian, the consortium responsible for building the hospital.\n\nAlthough the investigation is expected to be finished this year, no date has been offered by the Government or NHS Lothian for when the hospital will open.\n\nMr Waterson, who is the chair of Unison's Scottish health committee, represents 12,500 members in NHS Lothian, including staff who were expected to switch from the existing facility in Edinburgh.\n\nThe new hospital will provide care for children and young people\n\nA Scottish government spokeswoman told The Herald: \"The health secretary has made clear that her greatest responsibility is the safety of patients, and for this reason decided to delay the move of patients, staff and services to the new hospital.\n\n\"Patients and carers have been contacted directly to confirm appointment arrangements and a dedicated helpline remains in place.\n\n\"She recognises that many staff share her frustration following the announcement of the delay.\"\n\nThe spokeswoman confirmed Ms Freeman will meet again with NHS Lothian staff representatives in the coming weeks.\n\nProf Alex McMahon, nurse director at NHS Lothian, said: \"There are a number of independent reviews and investigations underway to verify and provide assurance that all aspects of the Royal Hospital for Children and Young People, the Department of Clinical Neurosciences, and Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services meet the appropriate standards before it becomes operational.\n\n\"The decision to delay the move followed the identification of a problem with ventilation in critical care. Given the pause in occupation, the commissioned reviews will focus on ventilation and will also look at drainage and water systems as a priority.\n\n\"An Oversight Board, made up of Scottish government, NHS Lothian, National Services Scotland and Scottish Futures Trust, has been established in order to provide co-ordinated advice on the readiness of the hospital to open and on the migration of services to the new facility.\n\n\"The reviews and subsequent reports will be provided to the cabinet secretary for health and NHS Lothian.\"", "Brighton Pride has apologised after some disabled people were unable to watch Kylie Minogue's performance.\n\nIt said its accessibility platform was at \"full capacity\" by the time its main act took to the stage on Saturday.\n\nJenny Skelton says her 22-year-old daughter Charlie - who has severe learning disabilities - was \"crying inconsolably\" when they were told to stay in a tent without a view of Kylie during her performance.\n\nShe says up to 20 people were involved.\n\nBrighton Pride said the platform had a fixed capacity and access was on a \"first come, first serve basis\".\n\n\"We had the correct wristbands and then we were told no,\" Jenny tells Radio 1 Newsbeat.\n\n\"My issue is just simply that they didn't have sufficient space for disabled people and that's wrong.\"\n\nCharlie Skelton missed most of Kylie's performance after waiting for \"months and months\" to see her\n\nJenny says that most of the people kept in the tent left Pride before the end of Kylie's performance because their only option was to remain where they were or join the crowd, where they didn't feel safe.\n\nBut eventually - and after requests from those who remained - security staff were allowed to let disabled guests and their friends and family take empty spaces on a VIP viewing platform.\n\n\"Charlie was crying inconsolably for much of it,\" says Jenny, \"but then when we went onto the VIP area, in the end she loved it.\n\n\"She was dancing and she had an absolutely fantastic time, it's just such a shame it was spoiled by waiting for an hour and a half trying to explain to her why she wouldn't be able to see Kylie.\"\n\nJenny says she had only had positive experiences at Brighton Pride, partly because of the involvement of Brighton and Hove community safety forum, who had in previous years helped with disabled access.\n\nJenny also shared a video of her experience on Twitter.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Disability Pride Brighton This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy 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 was joined in the disabled tent with no view of Kylie by Liam Hackett and his mum, who's an amputee, and gran, who uses a wheelchair.\n\n\"My grandma was recently given a terminal diagnosis with cancer and on her bucket list was to come to her first ever Pride. It really meant a lot to us,\" Liam tells Newsbeat.\n\nIn a video posted on Twitter, he said around 10-15 people were left stuck in a tent without a view of the stage because there were no free seats on the platform.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript 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 Liam Hackett This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy 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 people who were at the event also shared their \"awful\" experiences of disabled access at Brighton Pride on Twitter.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 3 by Denys Whitley This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy 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 Ethan This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nBrighton Pride said 275 people applied and used its range of access services at Preston Park - where the event was held.\n\nIt denies claims that any people were prevented from leaving the access tent.\n\nBecky Stevens, head of operations said: \"Our aim is that all Pride-goers are able to enjoy what Brighton Pride has to offer. We work hard with our provider Tiger Tea to create safe, accessible spaces throughout the festival.\n\n\"Over 100 people with accessibility requirements enjoyed the main stage shows on the accessible viewing platform, on a first-come, first-serve basis.\n\n\"We encouraged people with accessibility requirements to contact us after purchasing tickets, so that we could help to make their day as inclusive and enjoyable as possible.\n\n\"We are sorry if some Pride-goers were unable to be accommodated at the viewing platform later on Saturday night.\"\n\nBut Liam wants a refund for the cost of tickets for himself, his mum and his gran.\n\n\"I think the statement Pride put out was absolutely ridiculous and I haven't seen any ownership,\" he says.\n\n\"I think Pride have made a lot of errors in this.\"\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. \"Vicky\" says she is proof of the crime\n\nA woman conceived by rape wants her father brought to justice in a so-called \"victimless prosecution\", in one of the first cases of its kind, the BBC has learned.\n\n\"Vicky\" says her mother was under the age of consent when a family friend she claims was in his 30s raped her.\n\nShe says her birth is proof of the crime and wants DNA testing to convict her dad of unlawful sexual intercourse.\n\nWest Midlands Police says the law does not recognise her as a victim.\n\nVicky - not her real name - from Birmingham, was adopted in the 1970s at seven months old.\n\nAged 18, she began searching for her birth mother and discovered from a social worker and her social services records that her conception was a result of rape.\n\n\"My birth mum had been 13 - a schoolgirl - and my birth dad was a family friend who was in his 30s,\" Vicky explains to the BBC's Victoria Derbyshire programme.\n\n\"The records said she'd gone to babysit at his house, and he raped her. It says in seven different places in the files that it was rape.\n\n\"It states his name and address, that social services, police, health workers knew - but nothing was done about it.\n\n\"It made me feel angry, devastated for my birth mum. For me.\"\n\nVicky managed to reunite with her birth mother, describing the moment as \"very surreal\".\n\nThen, years later, as historical sex abuse cases began to be covered by news outlets in the wake of the Jimmy Savile scandal, she decided to act. She had always thought it was wrong that her birth father had not been prosecuted.\n\n\"It was then that I thought, 'I've got DNA evidence, because I am DNA evidence. I'm a walking crime scene. And it's all written in the files. Surely people are going to take me seriously'.\n\n\"I wanted him to be held accountable. I wanted justice for my mum, I wanted justice for me. The ramifications of what he chose to do have shaped my entire life.\"\n\nHer birth mother, not wanting to relive the ordeal and having been let down by police originally, decided she did not wish to report the rape again herself - but supported her daughter pursuing it.\n\nVicky wanted police to consider a so-called \"victimless prosecution\" for unlawful sexual intercourse with a minor, commonly referred to as statutory rape. She says they could use DNA evidence and birth certificates to prove the ages.\n\nVictimless prosecutions, officially termed evidence-based, can be used in domestic abuse or rape cases, when the victim has withdrawn or declines to give a statement but it is in the public interest to pursue a prosecution, CPS guidance says.\n\nBut police, social services, solicitors and MPs have told her she is \"not the victim\" and so no case can be brought, she says.\n\nA victim is defined by the government as a person who has suffered emotional, physical or mental harm as the direct result of a crime.\n\n\"Because of that crime, I am alive. My whole life's been dictated by it, but no-one will see me as a victim.\n\n\"I am living, breathing proof of a child rapist and nobody is interested. How is that okay?\" she says.\n\nLabour MP Jess Phillips says it is in the public interest for the alleged perpetrator to face trial\n\nLabour MP for Birmingham Yardley, Jess Phillips, says children conceived through rape should \"absolutely\" be considered victims.\n\n\"The sort of emotional effect that would have on a person, their relationships going forward, on their lives, on how they feel about themselves, it undoubtedly will have affected them.\n\n\"I thought we had won this argument, the idea you don't have to be a direct victim of abuse - we would never suggest in a domestic violence situation that a child who had never suffered any violence themselves was not a victim of the crime happening around them - to me it's exactly the same test that is met.\"\n\nVicky tracked down her presumed father, wearing a secret camera to record their conversation.\n\nShe says he did not deny or confirm having sex with her mother.\n\n\"This could be one of the few historical cases where there's actually irrefutable DNA evidence.\n\n\"I want the police to demand a DNA test. I want the police and social services to apologise for their failures, and to learn. And I want the definition of victim to be reviewed.\"\n\nMs Phillips said the case was definitely in the public interest, as the alleged perpetrator was still alive.\n\n\"People who are alleged to have abused over the years, that doesn't just magically go away - these people are a risk to society. Not only do victims deserve justice - regardless of how long ago your abuse was - the authorities should have a prime interest in keeping people safe.\"\n\nVicky said: \"This has nearly beaten me down. Being adopted comes with so many difficulties, and the trauma of this has affected every part of my life.\n\n\"But I will persevere because I know this is so wrong. And I want justice.\"\n\nChief Superintendent Pete Henrick, head of West Midlands Police's public protection unit, said the force did not underestimate the psychological affects Vicky had \"no doubt suffered\".\n\nHe said the force had no record of a rape allegation in 1975 and, as such, no record of an investigation, and the alleged victim did not wish to co-operate when Vicky approached them in 2014.\n\nA statement said: \"In light of this, she asked whether she could be identified as a victim herself and if the case could be progressed on those grounds. The law does not recognise her as a victim in these circumstances. We liaised with the CPS and were advised they would not support a prosecution.\n\n\"Our handling of the case was scrutinised by both our Professional Standards Department and the Independent Police Complaints Commission at the time, and both agreed the police action and conclusion were appropriate.\"\n\nBirmingham City Council said: \"Since April 2018, children's social care services in Birmingham have been provided by Birmingham Children's Trust. Since then we have had no contact with \"Vicky\".\n\n\"We would, of course, be very happy to meet with her if she would find that valuable. It is certainly the case that the way allegations and incidents of harm to children are handled now is very different than was the case in 1975. We would be happy to discuss this with her when we meet.\"\n\nUpdate 5 August 2019: This report has been amended following updated information supplied by West Midlands Police.\n\nFollow the BBC's Victoria Derbyshire programme on Facebook and Twitter - and see more of our stories here.", "The Kurdish authorities are pleading with Western governments for support in dealing with foreign Islamic State fighters, their wives and children.\n\nAfter fighting the Islamic State group for five years, the Kurds are now having to manage prisons and camps full of radical IS supporters.\n\nAmongst them are thousands of women who fled their birth countries to become IS brides, and around 8,000 children.\n\nConditions in the camps are harsh and the atmosphere is tense. Stacey Dooley has been to northern Syria to visit some of them.\n\nAvailable to UK users only.\n\nWatch Panorama: Stacey Meets the IS Brides on Monday 5 August at 8:30pm on BBC One and on the iPlayer afterwards.\n\nThis video has been updated for editorial reasons.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Donald Trump spoke to reporters before boarding Air Force One\n\nA shooting at a supermarket in the US state of Texas that left 20 dead is being investigated as domestic terrorism, officials say.\n\nA 21-year-old white man was arrested at the scene of the attack in the city of El Paso, near the US-Mexico border.\n\nHe is believed to have posted an online document calling the attack a response to \"the Hispanic invasion of Texas\".\n\nPolice on Sunday said he had been charged with capital murder, meaning he could face the death penalty.\n\nUS President Donald Trump has said \"perhaps more has to be done\" to prevent mass shootings following the El Paso attack and another in Ohio 13 hours later in which nine people, including the gunman's sister, were killed.\n\n\"Hate has no place in our country, and we are going to take care of it,\" he told reporters on Sunday. \"This has been going on for years, for years and years in our country and we have to get it stopped.\"\n\nThe president went on to link both attacks to a \"mental illness problem\".\n\n\"If you look at both of these cases, this is mental illness. These are people who are very, very seriously mentally ill,\" he said.\n\nBut critics argue that the roots of the two massacres lie in the president's language about immigrants and Mexicans in particular, and his opposition to gun control.\n\nThe El Paso gunman opened fire on a crowded Walmart on Saturday with an assault-style rifle and surrendered after being confronted by police officers outside the store. Twenty-six people were injured in the shooting.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Police were filmed responding to the shootings\n\n\"We're treating this as a domestic terrorist case,\" John Bash, the US Attorney for the Western District of Texas, told a news conference on Sunday.\n\nHe said the attack appeared \"to be designed to intimidate a civilian population, to say the least\".\n\nThe suspect has been named by US media as Patrick Crusius, a resident of Allen, in the Dallas area, about 650 miles (1,046km) east of El Paso. It is not yet clear how long before the attack he had gone to the city.\n\nHe is believed to be the author of a text posted on 8chan, an online message board frequently used by the far right, which describes a \"cultural and ethnic replacement brought on by an invasion\" in alluding to Hispanic people in the US.\n\nThe four-page document, reportedly posted some 20 minutes before police received the first emergency call from the Walmart, also expresses support for the gunman who killed 51 people in Christchurch, New Zealand, in March.\n\nHe has been co-operating with investigators, according to police, and has reportedly told them he acted alone.\n\nThe shooting, believed to be the eighth deadliest in modern US history, took place in a city where most of the population of 680,000 is of Hispanic descent.\n\nThe victims have not yet been named but Mexico's President Andrés Manuel López Obrador said six Mexican nationals were among the dead and seven others were injured.\n\nSecurity camera images said to be of the attacker show an armed man in a dark T-shirt wearing eye glasses and what appear to be ear protectors.\n\nFootage of the gunman was filmed by security cameras\n\nReports of an active shooter were received at 10:39 local time (16:39 GMT), and law enforcement officers were on the scene within six minutes, police said.\n\nThe Walmart, near the Cielo Vista Mall, was full of shoppers buying back-to-school supplies at the time of the shooting, and witnesses described scenes of chaos as customers fled for their lives.\n\n\"People were panicking and running, saying that there was a shooter,\" Kianna Long told Reuters news agency. \"They were running close to the floor, people were dropping on the floor.\"\n\nMs Long said she and her husband ran through a stock room before taking cover with other customers.\n\n\"Yesterday I was in shock. Today, my heart is hurting.\"\n\nGilda Baeza Ortega is looking at the Walmart building in disbelief from across a car park. She had been on the way to the store, but then decided to go for breakfast with her parents instead.\n\nBut it is not just that that makes her feel so close to what has happened.\n\n\"It's the fact he was targeting us. I'm a Mexican-American and very proud of that. To me that is the biggest wound.\"\n\nPeople have been coming here all day to lay flowers, a cross, even a Rubik's cube, in tribute.\n\nSome are also asking police when they can retrieve their cars from Walmart's car park. It is a popular place for people to come shopping from Mexico, and many now cannot make the return journey as their passports are locked in their vehicles.\n\nEveryone talks of what a friendly place El Paso is, how everyone knows each other. A taxi driver mentions the \"six degrees of separation\" here. She is dreading the list of names coming out, worried she knows one of the victims.\n\nDemocratic presidential candidate Beto O'Rourke, an El Paso native, told CNN that Mr Trump's anti-immigrant rhetoric had stoked divisions: \"He's an open avowed racist and is encouraging more racism in this country.\"\n\nAlso on CNN, New Jersey Senator Cory Booker, another Democratic presidential hopeful, said: \"Donald Trump is responsible for this. He is responsible because he is stoking fears and hatred and bigotry.\"\n\nBut acting White House chief of staff Mick Mulvaney rejected the Democrats' allegations and attributed the attacks to \"sick\" individuals, saying on ABC: \"There's no benefit here in trying to make this a political issue, this is a social issue and we need to address it as that.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. After the Las Vegas attack in October 2017 the BBC looked at how US mass shootings are getting worse\n\nMr Trump, who has made curbing illegal immigration one of the key points of his presidency, has previously made derogatory comments about Mexican migrants and has called large groups of migrants trying to reach the US an \"invasion\".\n\nIn recent weeks, Mr Trump has been accused of racism after his attacks on members of Congress who are members of racial or ethnic minorities.\n\nMexican Foreign Minister Marcelo Ebrard said his government planned to seek legal measures to protect Mexicans and Mexican-Americans in the US.\n\nSpeaking at a news conference on Sunday, Mr Ebrard said the attorney general was considering litigation claiming that terrorism was committed against Mexicans in the shooting. Such an action could lead to the extradition of the gunman, he said.\n\n\"For Mexico, this individual is a terrorist,\" he told reporters.\n\nThe El Paso shooting fits a growing and disturbing trend of far-right violence internationally.\n\nLike the attack in Christchurch, the suspected attacker fits a particular profile - an individual who may have acted alone but who inhabited an international online subculture of extremism, one in which others incite and encourage violent acts.\n\nA document which authorities have linked to the attacker was posted online and was characteristic in its claims about population replacement (in New Zealand it was Muslims, in El Paso, Hispanics).\n\nAnd again, as in Christchurch, just before he acted the individual allegedly posted his intentions on the online forum 8chan. The pressure may grow now to act against such platforms and also for the authorities to take this growing threat more seriously, especially in the US.\n\nDid you witness what happened? If it is safe to do so please email haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also contact us in the following ways:", "About 7,000 litres of water a minute are being pumped from the reservoir\n\nCrews need to spend at least two more days pumping water from a reservoir to stop its dam bursting and flooding a town, firefighters have said.\n\nWhaley Bridge residents are spending a fifth day out of their homes because of the partial collapse of the dam wall.\n\nToddbrook Reservoir is 46% full but needs to drop to 25% before the 1,500 people evacuated are allowed home.\n\nThe government said it was considering a national review into the structural safety of dams across the country.\n\nThe Department for Environmental, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) said the focus was on Whaley Bridge but it would be \"following the advice of expert engineers on the best way forward\".\n\nPhotos show how the water levels at the reservoir have dropped since Friday\n\nLabour leader Jeremy Corbyn has visited the dam, following Boris Johnson's visit on Friday.\n\nEscorted by High Peak's Labour MP Ruth George, Mr Corbyn thanked emergency service workers for their efforts, expressed sympathy to residents and said an inquiry would need to take place.\n\n\"Hopefully people will be able to return to their homes but of course there has to be then the question of long-term repair to the dam and the safety of it in the future,\" he said.\n\n\"There has to be an inquiry. An inquiry to make sure all the co-ordination worked effectively, and everything I have seen shows it did, but there are always lessons to be learned.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe dam is said to be \"relatively stable\" after four days of efforts to bolster it.\n\nBut Derbyshire deputy chief fire officer Gavin Tomlinson said the operation would continue \"for a few days yet\".\n\nCrews using 23 high-volume pumps have removed more than a third of the reservoir's water since part of its spillway collapsed on Thursday following heavy rainfall.\n\nJeremy Corbyn was given the latest on the operation to pump water from the reservoir\n\nMr Tomlinson said: \"We're now below half the level we want and we're now aiming for about 25%.\n\n\"If the calculations are right we should be able to get below the level of the damage on the dam wall which will allow the engineers and the specialists to assess it.\n\n\"As soon as we get the water level down to a safe level, then the emergency phase is over and then the contractors can look at the repairing of the dam wall.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nRAF Chinooks have dropped more than 500 tonnes of aggregate into the damaged section of the wall to reinforce it.\n\nWing Cdr John Coles said: \"I think the assessment is now that actually the dam is relatively stable.\"\n\nMuch of the town lies beneath the reservoir's water level\n\nA quiet rural field at the edge of the Toddbrook reservoir is now at the centre of a massive engineering operation, with 10 high-volume pumps in a line along a hastily constructed road.\n\nIn the water there are another 12 pumps submerged, and every so often as the water levels drop they have to be turned off and moved back into the water.\n\nLocals have moved cars and livestock and allowed the emergency services to break down walls and fences to get access.\n\nThey say any inconvenience they are experiencing is nothing compared to what the evacuated residents from the other side of the dam are going through, and in the meantime they are supplying food and drinks to workers from the safe side of the reservoir.\n\nWhile this is not over, there is a feeling among the emergency services - and the locals that have come to watch the operation - that the critical dangerous stage has passed.\n\nThe Canal and River Trust, which owns the dam, said it carried out an annual inspection of the structure in November and it was \"absolutely fine\".\n\nWatersafe UK, a charity specialising in search and rescue operations, said it had 20 teams on standby to assist if the dam burst.\n\nRAF Chinooks have dropped more than 500 tonnes of aggregate\n\nRachel Swann said people refusing to leave their homes were putting themselves and officers in danger\n\nPolice have sharply criticised 20 residents from 16 homes who are refusing to leave.\n\nDeputy Chief Constable Rachel Swann said: \"We've evacuated this because there is a real prospect that the dam could fail, and if it fails it is catastrophic.\n\n\"People would die if they were in that evacuation zone. So those people who remain in that zone are putting their lives at risk.\n\n\"They are also putting the lives of the responders, primarily the police, at risk because we have to keep going in and speaking to them and asking them to leave.\"\n\nMs Swann said the emergency operation was \"ahead of schedule\" and she was hopeful engineers would be able to assess the dam integrity later so they could potentially begin making plans to allow residents back home.\n\nArmy troops have also been drafted in to help with the operation to shore up the dam wall\n\nThe situation at Whaley Bridge has continued to disrupt train services, with East Midlands Trains reporting delays on a number of routes.\n\nTransPennine Express services have also been affected.\n\nThe Canal and River Trust said it was monitoring water levels in the nearby River Goyt, where the water removed from the Toddbrook Reservoir is being taken.\n\nRichard Coakley, a former president of the Institution of Civil Engineers, told the BBC it would take years to get the dam back into full operation.\n\nHe said: \"It's a long haul actually back for a proper dam to provide water supply to the canal system.\n\n\"There'll be lots of investigation taking place about how it failed and the reasons for that, and eventually they'll have to take out everything that [the] Chinook has put into that hole and start to reconstruct the spillway in accordance with modern systems and modern techniques to actually make it safe.\"\n\nFollow BBC East Midlands on Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram. Send your story ideas to eastmidsnews@bbc.co.uk.\n\nDo you live in the evacuation zone? Share your story by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also contact us in the following ways:\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "An artificial \"tongue\" which can taste subtle differences between whiskies could help tackle the counterfeit alcohol trade, according to engineers.\n\nThey have built a tiny taster which exploits the properties of gold and aluminium to test differences between the spirits.\n\nThe technology can pick up on the subtler distinctions between the same whisky aged in different barrels.\n\nIt can tell the the difference between whiskies aged for 12, 15 and 18 years.\n\nEngineers say the tongue \"tasted\" the differences with greater than 99% accuracy.\n\nAlasdair Clark, of the University of Glasgow's school of engineering, said: \"We call this an artificial tongue because it acts similarly to a human tongue - like us, it can't identify the individual chemicals which make coffee taste different to apple juice but it can easily tell the difference between these complex chemical mixtures.\n\n\"We're not the first researchers to make an artificial tongue, but we're the first to make a single artificial tongue that uses two different types of nanoscale metal 'tastebuds', which provides more information about the 'taste' of each sample and allows a faster and more accurate response.\"\n\nHe said the tongue could be used to \"taste\" virtually any liquid - not just whisky.\n\nDr Alasdair Clark with a scaled-up version of the materials that make up the \"tongue\", which are usually too small to see with the naked eye\n\nDr Clark added: \"In addition to its obvious potential for use in identifying counterfeit alcohols, it could be used in food safety testing, quality control, security - really any area where a portable, reusable method of tasting would be useful.\"\n\nWhisky was poured over a chequerboard pattern of the two metals - which act as \"tastebuds\" - and researchers then measured how they absorbed light while submerged.\n\nSubtle differences which were highlighted on the artificial tongue allowed the team to identify different types of the spirit.\n\nThe team used the tongue to sample a selection of whiskies from Glenfiddich, Glen Marnoch and Laphroaig.\n\nResearch was conducted by engineers and chemists from the universities of Glasgow and Strathclyde.\n\nTheir paper, titled 'Whisky tasting using a bimetallic nanoplasmonic tongue', is published in Nanoscale.", "John Flint is giving up the role he held for 18 months \"by mutual agreement with the board\"\n\nThe chief executive of HSBC has stepped down after the bank said it needed a change in leadership to address a \"challenging global environment\".\n\nJohn Flint is giving up the role he has held for a year-and-a-half \"by mutual agreement with the board\".\n\nHe will immediately cease his day-to-day responsibilities at HSBC, but will help with the transition as Noel Quinn takes over as interim chief executive.\n\nChairman Mark Tucker thanked Mr Flint for his \"commitment\" and \"dedication\".\n\nHowever, he said: \"In the increasingly complex and challenging global environment in which the bank operates, the board believes a change is needed to meet the challenges that we face and to capture the very significant opportunities before us.\"\n\nHSBC made the surprise announcement as it reported a 15.8% rise in pre-tax profit to $12.4bn (£10.2bn) for the six months to 30 June.\n\nMr Flint, who has worked at HSBC for 30 years, said: \"I have agreed with the board that today's good interim results indicate that this is the right time for change, both for me and the bank.\"\n\nThe 51-year-old ran the bank's retail and wealth management business before taking over as chief executive last year. At that time, Mr Flint was seen as a safe choice for the top job.\n\nHSBC portrays itself as a conservative bank. Unlike some rivals, it has never pursued the wilder excesses of investment banking, and has a proud record of appointing its chief executive and chairman from within. It is part of the establishment in Asia and the West, and makes its money from the giant trade flows between.\n\nWith a 30-year track record at the bank, John Flint appeared the safest of hands when appointed 18 months ago. The bank's shares have fallen during his tenure, but the increasing trade tensions between America and China explain most of the fall. Mr Flint will be a \"good leaver\" - meaning he keeps his entitlement to most of his share options - and which rules out any idea his departure is linked to misconduct.\n\nMr Flint was regarded as the favourite of his predecessor as chief executive, Stuart Gulliver - so it is possible that Mark Tucker, HSBC's chairman, has simply decided he wants his own man in the job.\n\nBut the Huawei connection, although not confirmed by HSBC, cannot be discounted. In seeking to keep in the good books of the US authorities - which had a monitor embedded at the bank - HSBC provided the information that allowed America to apply for the extradition of Meng Wanzhou, Huawei's chief financial officer. That cannot have pleased Beijing, and HSBC is reliant on China's goodwill as much as America's. Mr Flint may have been the necessary sacrifice.\n\nCommenting on the current environment, HSBC said \"the outlook has changed\".\n\nIt said that US interest rates were now expected to fall rather than rise and \"geopolitical issues could impact a significant number of our major markets\".\n\nIt added: \"In the near term, the nature and impact of the UK's departure from the European Union remain highly uncertain.\"\n\nMr Flint has a 12-month notice period, but it is not clear when his departure date will be, because he has \"agreed to remain available to HSBC\".\n\nHSBC has also granted Mr Flint \"good leaver\" status, which means he will be entitled to any stock options that vest after he exits the bank, provided he does not work at a competitor for two years.\n\nThe bank said it has begun a search to find a new chief executive and \"will be considering internal and external candidates\".", "Nora's disappearance is described as \"completely out of character\"\n\nA 15-year-old girl from London has gone missing while on holiday in Malaysia, a friend of her family has said.\n\nNora Quoirin, who has learning difficulties, arrived there with her family on Saturday for a two week \"trip of a lifetime\".\n\nThey were staying in the town of Seremban, on the edge of rainforest near Kuala Lumpur.\n\nWhen her parents awoke on Sunday morning they found her missing and the window of her hotel room open.\n\nCatherine Morrison, a friend of the family, estimated that by noon UK time she had already been missing for 12 hours.\n\nNora went missing the day after she and her family arrived in Malaysia\n\nA spokesman for the Irish Department of Foreign Affairs said: \"We are aware of the case and providing consular assistance.\"\n\nMalaysian Police are said to be using sniffer dogs in the search for Nora.\n\nAlthough her family have been resident in the UK for at least two decades, she is thought to have been travelling on an Irish passport.\n\nMs Morrison described the disappearance, which was discovered at about 06:30 local time, as \"completely out of character\" and said her parents were \"frantic\".\n\nShe said: \"They had just arrived - it was going to be a trip of a lifetime.\n\n\"They checked into their hotel, the Dusun - it looked beautiful with little cottages and an infinity pool.\n\n\"They went to bed, but this morning Nora was not in her room and the window was open.\"\n\nNora has learning difficulties and going missing was completely out of character, Ms Morrison added.\n\n\"Police are looking for her with sniffer dogs. The hotel have been really helpful,\" she said.", "The new hospital has yet to open its doors to patients\n\nScotland's health secretary has offered assurances over Edinburgh's problem-hit new £150m children's hospital.\n\nJeane Freeman said work to establish the extent of problems with ventilation and drainage were \"on track\".\n\nShe shared hopes for a phased migration to the new site once safety reports were completed by September.\n\nIt comes after a senior trade union official warned the building, which has yet to open its doors to patients, might have to be \"ripped down\".\n\nThe new Royal Hospital for Children and Young People, which will have more than 200 beds, was supposed to open in July, but Ms Freeman overruled NHS Lothian after last-minute inspections found safety concerns over its ventilation system.\n\nA full safety review of the new building was commissioned to assess the water, ventilation and drainage systems.\n\nThe NHS-led review is due to be finished by September but no opening date for the hospital has been given.\n\nFollowing concerns over the site, Ms Freeman insisted \"we need to deal with facts\".\n\nShe told BBC Radio Scotland's Good Morning Scotland programme that she \"did not yet know\" whether ventilation in critical care would need to be completely replaced.\n\nThe minister said she is \"accountable\" for what happens in the health service\n\nMs Freeman explained: \"We're on track with the timetable that I set out [in July].\n\n\"I think the key thing to do at this point is to work our way through, hear what information we get from the reviews and then determine at that stage, most importantly, whether or not there are areas of the hospital where it is safe to migrate services.\n\n\"I just want to be absolutely sure before we move on that we are compliant across all those areas in that new site.\n\n\"That compliance, with the exception of the ventilation of the critical care area, will help trigger I hope a phased migration of services into the new hospital from the existing site and indeed from the Western General - but I won't know that until I have results of that work from Health Protection Scotland and Health Facilities Scotland.\"\n\nLast week BBC Scotland revealed that NHS Lothian was paying millions of pounds to a private consortium for a hospital it cannot use.\n\nAnd while Ms Freeman said issues on drainage were \"resolved\", Unison Scotland's health committee Tom Waterson said senior staff within NHS Lothian had raised concerns over drainage in the last two or three weeks.\n\nHe said the problems date back 18 to 36 months when senior staff were \"alerted to shortcomings in the drainage\".\n\nBut despite that the contractors continued to press ahead with construction.\n\nMs Freeman said she had asked for a number of \"other critical areas\" to be double checked to make sure they were compliant with all standards and that would include drainage.\n\nShe added \"I've been very careful, as I should be, to make sure local MSPs and MPs are kept informed with everything I have done so far and I will inform them as that information becomes available.\n\n\"To inform the parliament, I have written to all the staff involved and I have given the staff my absolute personal assurance that when I have the information they will have the information - and of course all of that includes the health and sport committee.\"\n\nThe new hospital will provide care for children and young people\n\nIt is not yet known whether the ventilation in the critical care unit will need to be improved or completely replaced.\n\nHowever, Ms Freeman said once a cost was established, work would be carried out.\n\nShe said: \"I don't know the cost just yet because that work I have outlined has to take its course and we have to then deal with facts.\n\n\"Once we have the facts about how we replace and improve the existing ventilation then we will have a cost associated with that, and we will do that work.\n\n\"Technicians, designers and engineers are working right at this moment to look at what exactly is the right fix for this without unnecessarily disrupting other areas of the build.\"\n\nProf Alex McMahon, nurse director at NHS Lothian, said: \"There are a number of independent reviews and investigations under way to verify and provide assurance that all aspects of the Royal Hospital for Children and Young People, the Department of Clinical Neurosciences, and Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services meet the appropriate standards before it becomes operational.\n\n\"The decision to delay the move followed the identification of a problem with ventilation in critical care. Given the pause in occupation, the commissioned reviews will focus on ventilation and will also look at drainage and water systems as a priority.\n\n\"An Oversight Board, made up of Scottish government, NHS Lothian, National Services Scotland and Scottish Futures Trust, has been established in order to provide co-ordinated advice on the readiness of the hospital to open and on the migration of services to the new facility.\n\n\"The reviews and subsequent reports will be provided to the cabinet secretary for health and NHS Lothian.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nMarieme and Ndeye, conjoined twins from Senegal, are preparing to start full-time nursery in their new home of Cardiff.\n\nOriginally not expected to live for more than a few days, they were brought by their father to the UK in the hope of getting a better life.\n\nNow aged three, the girls are continuing to surprise doctors with their progress.\n\nBut they have discovered the girls' circulatory systems are far more closely linked than previously thought - so it is now impossible to separate them.\n\nThis also explains why they have continued to thrive for so long.\n\n\"Doctors now know that they are a very unique and complex case,\" their father Ibrahima Ndiaye said.\n\n\"They are very linked internally and this explains why they have exceeded all expectations.\n\n\"They are working together to keep themselves and each other alive and the situation is a little more optimistic.\"\n\nThe new discovery has changed things for the girls.\n\nIbrahima laughing with his children at their Cardiff playgroup\n\nBack in January, surgeons at Great Ormond Street Hospital in London were considering attempting separation, something which Ibrahima did not want due to the risks involved.\n\nBut the new findings show that neither twin could survive without the other and that separation is now impossible.\n\nThe girls have separate hearts and spines, but share a common liver, bladder and digestive system.\n\nGillian Body, consultant paediatrician at Noah's Ark Children's Hospital for Wales, said: \"The girls are doing very well.\n\n\"They are enjoying a period of stability and constantly surprising us with their progress.\n\n\"Last year we thought Marieme was very much dependent on Ndeye, but recent CT scans show they are both dependent on each other for staying alive.\n\n\"Long term this means they cannot be separated but in many ways it is nice that they are both dependent on each other.\n\n\"This is a big turn-around. Previously the ethics were about could we and should we separate them but now we know this decision is no longer on the table.\n\n\"They are now looking forward to school placements and I hope they can enjoy being children.\"\n\nThe girls were not expected to live longer than a few days\n\nAlthough the girls' health is still changeable and their condition described as \"life-limiting\", this period of stability is enabling Ibrahima to focus on their future.\n\n\"My girls continue to grow and bring me so much joy,\" he said.\n\n\"Their speaking is coming along, and they can move with greater independence.\n\n\"When Ndeye sees me doing the dishes, she says 'poor daddy', which makes me laugh so hard.\n\n\"And when Ndeye is crying, Marieme will turn to her and say, 'Shhh, noisy'.\"\n\nCurrently the girls attend a playgroup for a few hours a week, but from September, they will attend nursery five mornings a week.\n\nIbrahima said: \"It's another chapter opening and bringing hope.\n\n\"It doesn't let you forget the situation, but I have learnt that when it is time to celebrate, you should celebrate and see a bright future.\n\n\"I can imagine it may be an emotional day for me, seeing them in a uniform as so many times I have thought this day might not come.\n\n\"I want people to know about this success as, although we are a private family, so many people ask about them and have taken the girls to their hearts.\"\n\nIbrahima and his girls in early 2019 - when doctors were considering separation\n\nAs well as looking after the girls, Ibrahima is hoping to set up a charity to help other children with disabilities.\n\nHe said: \"With this situation and all we have been through, I can't close my eyes to other children with disabilities and complex needs.\n\n\"So I am setting up a foundation for the girls, in conjunction with Ty Hafan children's hospice, called Conjoined Destiny.\n\n\"If the situation gets worse and they don't make it, I want to put something in place for them to leave a footprint to the world despite our humble and difficult beginning.\n\n\"And if they grow to see it, they will know how useful their lives have been.\"\n\nThe Conjoined Twins: An Impossible Decision is on BBC Two at 21:00 BST on Monday and on the BBC iPlayer.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Paper straws were brought in to replace the plastic ones\n\nMcDonald's new paper straws - described as \"eco-friendly\" by the US fast food giant - cannot be recycled.\n\nLast year, it axed plastic straws, even though they were recyclable, in all its UK branches as part of a green drive.\n\nBut the US fast food giant says the new paper straws are not yet easy to recycle and should be put into general waste.\n\nMcDonald's says the materials are recyclable, but their thickness makes it difficult for them to be processed.\n\nThe firm switched from plastic straws to paper ones in its restaurants in the UK and Republic of Ireland last autumn.\n\nThe straws are manufactured by Transcend Packaging, based in Ebbw Vale, south Wales.\n\nBut some customers were unhappy with the new straws, saying they dissolved before a drink could be finished, with milkshakes particularly hard to drink.\n\n\"As a result of customer feedback, we have strengthened our paper straws, so while the materials are recyclable, their current thickness makes it difficult for them to be processed by our waste solution providers, who also help us recycle our paper cups,\" a McDonald's spokesman said.\n\nThe firm said it was working to find a solution, and that current advice, as first reported by The Sun, to put paper straws in general waste was therefore temporary.\n\n\"This waste from our restaurants does not go to landfill, but is used to generate energy,\" the company added.\n\nA petition by irate McDonald's customers to bring back plastic straws has so far been signed by 51,000 people.\n\nThe restaurant chain uses 1.8 million straws a day in the UK, so the move to paper was a significant step in helping to reduce single-use plastic.\n\nSome single-use plastic products can take hundreds of years to decompose if not recycled.\n\nThis McDonald's move to paper straws followed a successful trial in selected restaurants earlier in 2018.\n\nIn April 2018, the UK government proposed a ban on plastic straws and cotton buds in England.\n\nMost straws are made from plastics such as polypropylene and polystyrene, which unless recycled, take hundreds of years to decompose.\n\nFriends of the Earth's Julian Kirby said: \"For too long the debate has been stuck on recycling and how to deal with waste once it is created. We should be thinking about how to avoid waste creation.\n\n\"Lips have been a waste-free alternative to straws for millions of years.\"", "Last updated on .From the section Sport\n\nMohammed 'MoAuba' Harkous won the 2019 Fifa eWorld Cup after beating Saudi Arabia's reigning champion Mosaad 'Msdossary' Aldossary 3-2 in the final.\n\nThe German outperformed 31 other players at the event at London's O2 Arena to take home the title and top prize of $250,000 (£205,600).\n\n\"It's crazy, I can't believe it,\" said MoAuba. \"I had such a hard bracket but I beat them all.\"\n\nHeading into the competition MoAuba was not one of the favourites but he beat the three highest-ranked PS4 players on his way to the final before taking down Msdossary, who until that point was undefeated, to become Germany's first ever Fifa eWorld Cup champion.\n\nIn possibly the game of the tournament he overcame Argentina's Nicolas 'nicolas99fc' Villalba in a penalty shootout in the semi-final.\n\nThe grand final kicked off on the Xbox One, the home platform of Msdossary, ending in a 1-1 draw. MoAuba then won 2-1 on PS4 to clinch the title.\n\nCrystal Palace's Wilfried Zaha was on hand to present the trophy to MoAuba, with other football stars such as former Manchester United and Tottenham forward Dimitar Berbatov also attending the event.\n• None The best Fifa players to compete for eWorld Cup at O2 Arena\n\nThe 32 players were split into four groups across the two platforms, with 16 Xbox One players and the 16 PS4 players.\n\nThe top four players from each group advanced to the last 16, where it became a knockout.\n\nDuring these matches Xbox players only played other Xbox players and PS4 players only played other PS4 players.\n\nThe last remaining Xbox player and PS4 player played two games in the final across both platforms.", "Kate Allsop was one of two special advisers hired to help Merthyr Tydfil council\n\nAn ex-mayor hired to help a troubled council has been sacked after being named as a Brexit Party candidate.\n\nKate Allsop, who served as independent mayor of Mansfield, Nottinghamshire, spent less than a week advising Merthyr Tydfil council.\n\nLocal government minister Julie James said it would be \"inappropriate\" for Ms Allsop to continue in the role.\n\nMs Allsop said she was \"absolutely gutted\", adding she had not been asked about her political leanings.\n\nShe was one of two advisers brought in by the Welsh Government last month after the independent-led council appealed to ministers for help.\n\nA damning Wales Audit Office report said the authority faced financial challenges, service pressures, leadership and governance issues.\n\nKate Allsop was named as a Brexit Party candidate less than a week into her role with Merthyr\n\nOn Friday, Ms Allsop was named by Brexit Party leader Nigel Farage as its candidate for Mansfield at the next general election.\n\nShe told BBC Wales she was called by a Welsh Government official on Saturday who said her contract to work with Merthyr council was being terminated.\n\n\"I'd done a huge amount of the work in just three-and-a-half days,\" Ms Allsop said.\n\n\"To be forced out because I'm standing up for democracy is an absolute travesty.\n\n\"Nothing changed in my views and ability and my skillset.\n\n\"I'm absolutely gutted - I loved Merthyr, it's a lovely town, I wanted to help the council get back on the right track, improve relationships with members, officers and the public.\n\n\"They never asked me if I had any political leanings, and they didn't say when they appointed me it was on the basis that I don't declare any political allegiance.\"\n\nThe Welsh Government said Ms Allsop had been hired because of her \"considerable previous experience as an independent council leader who would be able to work with the range of political interests in Merthyr\".\n\nMs James added: \"I am grateful for the work that Kate had already undertaken as part of our support package with the council.\n\n\"However, as she has declared her intention to stand as an MP it would be inappropriate for her to continue in her role as independent adviser.\"", "Profits at Tesco have jumped 28% in what the UK's biggest supermarket chain described as an \"uncertain\" market.\n\nChief executive Dave Lewis said the group was on track to meet the \"vast majority\" of the turnaround goals he set when he was appointed four years ago after an accounting scandal.\n\nThe group said its performance was \"strong\", and Tesco has almost doubled its dividend.\n\nFull-year pre-tax profits were £1.7bn, with Tesco's same store sales up 1.7%.\n\n\"After four years we have met, or are about to meet, the vast majority of our turnaround goals. I'm very confident that we will complete the journey in 2019/2020,\" said Mr Lewis, who oversaw the takeover of wholesaler Booker in 2017.\n\n\"I'm delighted with the broad-based improvement across the business,\" he said.\n\nOverall like-for-like sales (which strip out changes to stores) rose 2.9%, including the 1.7% at Tesco and 11.1% for Booker. Group sales fell in Asia.\n\nJobs have been lost as he aims to save £1.5bn a year and up to 9,000 roles were put at risk in January when the chain announced it would close food counters in 90 stores.\n\nHe has also launched a discount chain, Jack's, to take on German rivals Aldi and Lidl, which Tesco said had received a \"strong response\" in the eight new stores.\n\nThe proposed tie-up between Sainsbury's and Asda, which is currently being investigated by the competition authorities, could further change the landscape, said Julie Palmer, partner at Begbies Traynor.\n\n\"External threats are also putting pressure on the retailer with continued uncertainty due to Brexit and the turbulent High Street conditions, evidenced by its decision to cut up to 9,000 jobs by shutting the fresh food counters at 90 stores.\n\n\"With Marks & Spencer's tie up with Ocado and Amazon's new grocery arm, Amazon Fresh, Dave Lewis will be wary of standing still and instead will want to keep moving,\" she said.\n\nThe chain said it would set out some \"untapped value opportunities\" at a presentation in June.\n\nBooker \"bulk buys\" are already being offered in 70 Tesco stores and will be expanded this year, while Jack's will also be expanded.\n\nMr Lewis has previously said that in the lead-up to Brexit Tesco was focusing on how to ensure movements of fresh food were not held up.\n\nAs he presented the results on Wednesday, he said Tesco had been building stock of \"non-perishable\" goods such as canned food ahead of a possible no-deal exit from the European Union.\n\nBut he added Tesco had not seen any \"discernible change in behaviour\" from customers during the period of Brexit uncertainty, with no evidence of stockpiling from customers.\n\nMr Lewis said that Tesco's stockpiling was a \"sensible provision\" but that he hoped a no deal exit would not happen.\n\nThe shares rose 2% in early trading while the dividend is increasing to 5.77p a share from 3p the previous year.", "The US has officially named China as a \"currency manipulator\", a statement which will intensify tensions between the world's two largest economies.\n\nThe announcement by the US Treasury follows a sharp fall in the value of the Chinese yuan against the dollar.\n\nThe drop caught markets off-guard as Beijing usually supports the currency.\n\nLast week, China pledged to retaliate after US President Donald Trump vowed to impose 10% tariffs on $300bn (£246.7bn) of Chinese imports.\n\nOn Monday, the yuan passed the seven-per-dollar level for the first time since 2008, prompting Mr Trump to accuse China on Twitter of manipulating its currency.\n\nThe US Treasury department defines currency manipulation as when countries deliberately influence the exchange rate between their currency and the US dollar to gain \"unfair competitive advantage in international trade\".\n\nA weaker yuan makes Chinese exports more competitive, or cheaper to buy with foreign currencies.\n\nOn Monday, the People's Bank of China (PBOC) said the slump in the yuan was driven by \"unilateralism and trade protectionism measures and the imposition of tariff increases on China\".\n\nThe US government said Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin will now engage with the International Monetary Fund (IMF) \"to eliminate the unfair competitive advantage created by China's latest actions\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or 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\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript 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\nThe move is largely symbolic because the US is already engaged in trade discussions with China and has implemented tariffs on the country's imports.\n\nHowever, it fulfils a presidential campaign promise by Mr Trump who pledged to name China a currency manipulator on his first day in office.\n\nThe decision rattled investors, with Wall Street's main stock market indexes recording their worst trading day for 2019. Asia markets extended losses on Tuesday, with the Shanghai Composite down 1.3% in afternoon trading.\n\nThe move doesn't change much. Not legally speaking.\n\nBut it is a big deal, accentuating just how fast things have gone south between the world's two largest economies.\n\nWhen the US Treasury labels a country a currency manipulator - as it has done here with China - the next step would normally be for negotiations to begin between the two countries. In this case, trade negotiations have already been going on for more than a year.\n\nThe process also opens the path for America to introduce tariffs. Again, that's already happening as part of Mr Trump's 'America First' approach to trade.\n\nUnder the designation, Mr Mnuchin is also expected to work with the IMF to address its concerns. It's not clear yet what that will yield.\n\nStill it's worth remembering that while the decision may not change much technically, it will have significant political ramifications.\n\nNobody thinks this will increase the odds of a compromise by the Chinese side when it comes to trade.\n\nSo don't be surprised if the prospect of a currency war further rattles investors' already frayed nerves.\n\nNo country has officially been named a currency manipulator by the US since Bill Clinton's administration did so to China in 1994.\n\nIn its announcement, the US Treasury said: \"China has a long history of facilitating an undervalued currency through protracted, large-scale intervention in the foreign exchange market.\n\n\"In recent days, China has taken concrete steps to devalue its currency, while maintaining substantial foreign exchange reserves despite active use of such tools in the past.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nPolice in Hong Kong have been fighting running battles with activists in a third consecutive day of protests, after a call for a general strike caused widespread disruption on Monday.\n\nProtesters blocked roads and paralysed train services at peak times on a day of action across the city.\n\nMore than 200 flights were cancelled as the protests entered their ninth week.\n\nHong Kong's leader, Carrie Lam, has pledged to restore law and order, rejecting calls for her resignation.\n\nInitially the demonstrations, which began on 9 June, focused on a controversial extradition law, which would have allowed the transfer of suspects to mainland China. However, the protests have now become a wider challenge to Beijing's authority.\n\nMs Lam warned that Hong Kong was \"on the verge of a very dangerous situation\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Protests take place in Hong Kong for the ninth weekend - for and against the authorities\n\nIn her first media address in two weeks, Ms Lam said the protesters' actions had challenged the principle of \"one country, two systems\" - the extra freedoms granted to Hong Kong when it was returned from British to Chinese rule in 1997.\n\nShe also accused activists of using the extradition bill as a cover for their real goals.\n\n\"We continue to allow these violent protesters to make use of the [extradition] bill to conceal their ulterior motives,\" she said. \"Those ulterior motives are going to destroy Hong Kong.\"\n\nThe Chinese foreign ministry said no one should underestimate China's resolve to safeguard the stability of Hong Kong, Reuters news agency reports.\n\nPolice fired tear gas at several locations as protesters rallied into the night, setting fires and besieging police stations. In the North Point district, which has a reputation for pro-Beijing sympathies, men wielding long poles clashed with demonstrators before falling back.\n\nMore than 80 people were arrested, in addition to the 420 detained since 9 June. In that time, police said they had used more than 1,000 tear gas canisters and 160 rubber bullets.\n\nProtest leaders had called for a general strike. While many people made it to work, in some areas protesters blocked trains from leaving stations and scuffled with commuters. Several lines of the Mass Transit Railway (MTR) were suspended for a time, and the Cross-Harbour Tunnel was also blocked.\n\nOne video circulating on Twitter reportedly showed a car in the district of Yuen Long forcefully hitting a barricade set up by protesters, injuring one person.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Jeffie Lam This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nIt is not clear how many joined the strike, but tens of thousands of protesters were out on the streets. Several shops and businesses were closed, including international fashion retailers like Topshop and Zara.\n\nHong Kong airport, one of the busiest in the world, said travellers should check its website and seek updates directly from the airlines.\n\nMost of the cancelled flights were with local carriers Cathay Pacific and Hong Kong Airlines.\n\n\"The Airport Authority advises passengers... to proceed to the airport only when their seats and flight time have been confirmed,\" the airport said in a statement.\n\nThe protests were initially sparked by a controversial bill that would allow China to extradite suspects from Hong Kong to the mainland.\n\nCritics said it would undermine the territory's judicial independence and could be used to target those who spoke out against the Chinese government.\n\nAlthough the bill has now been suspended, demonstrators want it fully withdrawn.\n\nTheir demands have broadened to include an independent inquiry into alleged police brutality, Ms Lam's resignation, and the dropping of riot charges linked to the protests.\n\nLast week, more than 40 activists appeared in court charged with rioting. If convicted, they could be jailed for up to 10 years.\n\nThe Chinese army has so far stayed out of the dispute, but China's top policy office in Hong Kong has previously condemned the protests, calling them \"horrendous incidents\" that have caused \"serious damage to the rule of law\".\n\nUnease rose last week when China's army in Hong Kong posted a video on Chinese social media network Weibo showing soldiers conducting anti-riot drills.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The video shows a soldier using a loudspeaker to warn protesters", "Mike Ashley has emerged as the winner in an auction to buy the UK fashion retailer Jack Wills for £12.7m.\n\nMr Ashley's company Sports Direct has bought Jack Wills out of administration after competing against Edinburgh Woollen Mill Group.\n\nIt will acquire 100 Jack Wills stores in the UK and Ireland and take on 1,700 staff as part of the deal.\n\nIt is the latest in a series of struggling companies that Mr Ashley has acquired, with mixed results.\n\nSports Direct recently admitted that it regretted rescuing House of Fraser a year ago after discovering problems that it described as \"nothing short of terminal\" - and that it will have to close more stores.\n\nCommenting on Jack Wills, Sports Direct said: \"We will look to work with the landlords to reduce the rents to keep as many stores trading as possible.\"\n\nMike Ashley is the founder, majority owner and chief executive of Sports Direct\n\nThe company has 10 stores overseas and KPMG, which is the administrator to Jack Wills, is examining options for those assets.\n\nSuzanne Harlow, chief executive of Jack Wills, said that while the company has worked on improving its financial performance: \"The challenging trading environment led us to conclude that the company's long-term future would be best served as part of a larger group and Sports Direct will enable us to do this.\"\n\nJack Wills reported an operating loss of £14.2m for the year to 28 January 2018, the most recent results available.\n\nThe company will be housed in a new division at Sports Direct which will focus on buying and building fashion and sports brands.\n\nIt will report to Michael Murray, Sports Direct's head of elevation and Mr Ashley's future son-in-law who is engaged to the retail tycoon's daughter Anna.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. 'Do something!' Mourners at the vigil in Dayton demand action from Ohio's Republican governor.\n\nIt's become a familiar refrain after every mass shooting in the US. Will this time be different? Will outrage over the violence compel political action, as it has done in the UK after Dunblane, Australia after Port Arthur and, most recently, New Zealand after Christchurch?\n\nAmong gun control activists, there is a certain amount of resignation whenever a new incident splashes across the headlines. If public sentiment did not force action after the 2012 Newtown shooting, when 26 people - including 20 young children - were killed in a Connecticut school, then nothing will ever change.\n\nIf the double tragedy of El Paso and Dayton ends up being different, however, here are a few possible explanations.\n\nRecent mass shootings in the US have been attributed to a variety of causes - disaffected youth (Parkland and Santa Fe), mental illness (Annapolis), workplace conflict (Virginia Beach) and family discord (Sutherland Springs).\n\nThe deadliest such incident in modern US history, the 2017 shooting at a music concert in Las Vegas that claimed 58 lives, still has no attributed motive.\n\nIn this case, however, all evidence indicates that the El Paso shooting was a calculated political act drawn from the white nationalist rhetoric that has become increasingly prominent in modern US politics. In that way, it's more akin to last October's Pittsburgh synagogue shooting, which prompted discussions about rising anti-Semitism in the US, or the 2017 violence in Charlottesville, which served as a jarring display of the strength of the modern white supremacist movement.\n\nWhite supremacists took part in the Unite the Right march in Charlottesville in August 2017\n\nAlthough the suspected gunman, Patrick Crusius, has yet to be conclusively tied to the racist manifesto posted on the internet shortly before the attacks, the facts point in one direction. He did not launch this attack in his home town. He drove at least eight hours, from north Texas to within miles of the US-Mexico border, and opened fire in a shopping area frequented by Hispanics. Law enforcement says they are treating the case as an episode of \"domestic terrorism\".\n\nThat puts this incident square in the middle of the ongoing debate about immigration, border security and national identity. Americans in the past have wondered how young men could be drawn to political violence against innocents in other parts of the world. Now they're seeing firsthand that it can happen in their home country, as well.\n\nThe nature of the attack could prompt a rethinking of the domestic threat presented by militant white nationalists and ways to stop it, including new gun control measures. Democrats have been quick to offer condemnations, but there are voices on the right as well that have taken up the warnings.\n\nSenator Ted Cruz of Texas, who ran for president against Mr Trump in 2016, denounced the gunman's \"anti-Hispanic bigotry\" and called the violence a \"heinous act of terrorism and white supremacy\".\n\nTexas Land Commissioner George P Bush, son of 2016 Republican presidential candidate Jeb Bush, issued a statement saying that \"white terrorists\" are a \"real and present threat\".\n\nIf a consensus grows that there is a threat, the question then becomes how to address it.\n\nIt hasn't taken long for those on the left to point to Donald Trump and other Republican officeholders for employing the kind of rhetoric that might have inspired a white nationalist to murder.\n\nThe president has repeatedly labelled undocumented migrants \"an invasion\", and said European immigration is changing the \"fabric of Europe\" and not \"in a positive way\".\n\nAt a Florida rally in May, a member of the crowd shouted \"shoot them!\" when the president wondered how they could stop undocumented migration. Mr Trump responded to the comment with a joke.\n\nJust over a month ago, Texas Senator John Cornyn tweeted that last year Texas was gaining \"almost nine Hispanic residents for every additional white resident\".\n\nPresident Trump at a rally in North Carolina in July\n\nCriticism of the Republican response - or lack of response - to mass shootings isn't unusual, of course. The difference this time is that the criticism is being amplified by the Democratic presidential primary contest. Although the first ballots won't be cast for half a year, the campaigning and debating has already begun in earnest.\n\nMore than 20 candidates have an incentive to set themselves apart from the pack with aggressive calls for new gun-control measures and condemnation of what they view as incendiary racist rhetoric.\n\nBeto O'Rourke, an El Paso native, has already laid blame for the attack at the president's feet. South Bend Mayor Pete Buttigieg blamed an ideology of white nationalist terrorism that \"is being condoned at the highest levels of our government\".\n\nAlmost every candidate has come out with some new call for gun control as a response.\n\nNew Jersey Senator Cory Booker, who has proposed a national gun-licensing programme, said \"we have power to stop this\" - but the solutions are being blocked by \"spineless politicians and folks who are doing the bidding of the corporate gun lobby\".\n\nIn last week's Democratic debates in Detroit, the issue was only briefly touched upon. Public attention, however, sharpened by the shootings as well as the direct line the candidates are drawing to the president, ensures that at least in the near term there will be prominent voices calling for action.\n\nIn the days after the 2012 Newtown school shooting, Congress attempted to enact universal background checks on all gun purchases, including private transactions. Despite bipartisan support in the US Senate, a minority blocked the proposal through parliamentary procedure. The legislation was never even considered by the Republican-controlled House of Representatives.\n\nThe dynamic, in at least one chamber of Congress, is different today.\n\nWhen Democrats took over the House in January of this year, it didn't take long for them to approve similar legislation to the Newtown bill - marking the first time in a quarter century that the lower chamber of Congress has passed sweeping new firearm regulations.\n\nAfter the dual shootings in El Paso and Dayton, the pressure is now on the Republican-controlled Senate to take up the measure - something Majority Leader Mitch McConnell has so far declined to do.\n\nHe might be able to withstand the pressure. And even if it comes to a vote, the parliamentary obstacles allowing just 41 Republicans to block passage remain. But several of the senators who backed the bipartisan bill in 2013 are still in office. And with actual legislation from the House on the table, the Senate is the final obstacle keeping a bill from reaching the president's desk, not the first.\n\nBack in 2012, the National Rifle Association was near the height of its power and influence in US politics. Through decades of campaigning, the group - which represents millions of gun owners as well as gun manufacturers - had turned gun rights for many Americans into a red-white-and-blue bedecked symbol of God and country.\n\nMany Democrats viewed firearm regulation as ballot-box poison, blaming the issue for, among other defeats, Al Gore's narrow presidential loss in 2000. A candidate with a negative rating from the NRA practically ensured a well-funded opponent and grass-roots opposition in many parts of the US.\n\nEven after the Newtown massacre, the trend in firearm legislation in many parts of the country was toward greater freedoms - such as the right to carry concealed weapons - not less. And in 2016 its early and active support for Mr Trump's presidential campaign, considered a gamble at the time, was rewarded with his surprise victory.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. A soldier and a baseball coach recall how they tried to save children from the El Paso shooting\n\nRecently, however, the NRA has fallen on hard times. The organisation's revenue dropped by $56m in 2017, due to lower membership dues and contributions.\n\nIt's been beset by an internal power struggle that has spilled into the civil courts and targeted by criminal corruption probes in New York and Washington, DC.\n\nEven the NRA's sheen of electoral invulnerability has begun to dull. In the 2018 mid-term elections it was outspent by gun-control groups aided by contributions from former New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg. Several prominent gun-control advocates, such as Lucy McBath in Georgia, won in battleground districts.\n\nThis is not the same NRA that was able to aggressively push back against background-check legislation even in the aftermath of the Newtown shooting. It still has plenty of political muscle, of course, but cracks in the foundation are visible.\n\nIf all of the above are reasons why the situation may be different this time around, there are still plenty of reasons why it might be just the same.\n\nThe Senate roadblocks to national legislation outlined earlier are very real and very significant. What's more, the Senate is currently in recess until September, and if the past is any indication, the intensity of calls for gun control diminish as the tragedies recede from memory.\n\nThe president's support - or even his signature on legislation that is passed - is also not guaranteed.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. What's Donald Trump said about guns and gun control?\n\nAfter the 2018 Parkland shooting, Mr Trump expressed some interest in backing gun-control legislation, going so far as to say he was in favour of comprehensive background check despite NRA opposition.\n\nAfter meeting with NRA leadership the president quickly walked back those comments, however, and later told the group's annual convention that Second Amendment gun rights were \"under siege\" but he would always defend them as president.\n\nAlthough Mr Trump tweeted a condemnation of the El Paso shooting as a \"hateful act\", he will be pressed to go further in condemning white nationalist violence. The fact that Democrats are accusing him of contributing to the rhetorical environment that encourages such bloodshed might make the president disinclined to take more concrete action.\n\nHe could view doing so as tacitly admitting responsibility or fault - something Mr Trump has proven he is loath to do.\n\nIf that's the case, this could end up a reprise of the president's response to the 2017 Charlottesville clashes between white supremacists and counter-demonstrators, in which his early condemnations of the Nazi sympathisers was followed by a contentious press conference where he laid blame on \"both sides\".\n\nThe more Democratic candidates like Mr O'Rourke lob accusations at the president, the more probable it is that he will dig in, fire back and further fan the flames. Such an environment is hardly conducive to bipartisan solutions in Congress.", "Burundi has contributed little to rising temperatures, but will be hit hard by some of the effects\n\nThe impoverished African nation of Burundi comes top of a list of the world's most food-insecure countries says Christian Aid.\n\nThe charity argues that Burundi and others are now keenly feeling the impacts of climate change on their food production systems.\n\nBut Burundi's contribution to rising temperatures is marginal, say experts.\n\nIn fact, the annual carbon emissions of one Briton is equal to the CO2 produced by over 200 Burundians.\n\nScientists and government officials from all over the world are meeting in Geneva this week to consider how climate change impacts the land and how the lands and forests impact the climate.\n\nTheir detailed report will be released on Thursday.\n\nHowever, researchers at development charity Christian Aid have put together a study showing how that climate change is now having a disproportionate impact on the food systems of the countries that have done least to produce the carbon emissions that are driving up temperatures.\n\nTheir study says that the top 10 most food insecure countries all generate less than half a tonne of CO2 per person, and in total just 0.08% of global emissions.\n\nAs well as Burundi, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Madagascar, Yemen and Sierra Leone make up the top five countries.\n\nThe rest of the top 10 includes Chad, Malawi, Haiti, Niger and Zambia.\n\nBurundians produce 0.027 tonnes of CO2 per person per year. Someone living in Saudi Arabia produces the same as 718 people in Burundi. The equivalent number for the US would be 581 and for Russia 454.\n\nThe report's authors draw a clear link between rising global temperatures and increasing food security issues.\n\n\"Our research shows that rising concentrations of CO2 in the atmosphere are reducing the nutritional quality of the food we eat and that the most vulnerable people to these impacts are those least responsible for rising global CO2 concentrations,\" said Dr Samuel Myers, principal research scientist at Harvard University's department of environmental health.\n\n\"From this, and other research, what is quite clear is that climate change is not only a global health crisis, it is a moral crisis.\"\n\nOther researchers say that the report on food insecurity is a warning for rich and poor alike, that climate change is having profound effects on our ability to feed the planet.\n\n\"These are warning signals that all of us ignore at our peril, for agriculture ultimately is one of the most threatened of our economic sectors and most fundamental for the healthy functioning of our societies and our communities,\" said Dr Doreen Stabinsky, professor of global environmental politics at the College of the Atlantic in Maine, US, who was not involved with the study.\n\n\"Both the Christian Aid report and the upcoming IPCC Special Report on Climate Change and Land begin to make clear how serious a threat this is, and how urgently we need to act.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. 'My heart hurts on every level'\n\nThe US border city of El Paso is in shock after a gunman apparently drove hundreds of miles to commit an atrocity there.\n\n\"I've never been scared of being Hispanic ever before, but now I am,\" says Ivonne Diaz, 31, bursting into tears. \"I can't believe this has happened. El Paso is a city of immigrants and we have always fought for each other.\"\n\nAt 10:30 on a Saturday in August, there is no more ordinary activity than heading to the supermarket.\n\nThousands of people were at the Walmart in El Paso that day. The car park at the border town was full of cars bearing US and Mexican number plates, their drivers and passengers picking up back-to-school supplies or just some bread and milk. Maybe a few beers for the weekend.\n\nAnd then gunshots rang out, killing 20 people. Two more have since died from their injuries.\n\nThe shockwaves have been reverberating all weekend.\n\n\"I'm just worried for the list of names to come out,\" says taxi driver Carla Karam. \"Everyone will have known someone. We all know each other - it's a city of six degrees of separation.\"\n\nWhat strikes you here is the friendliness. Strangers are welcomed with open arms - literally in some cases, with hugs being given to journalists along with bottles of water.\n\nMemorials have sprung up around the Walmart\n\nCynthia Chavez, 41, says: \"I'm so sad and don't know how we're meant to explain this to our kids. In El Paso, we're the type of people who, if you come to town, we will welcome you with open doors and make you feel part of this town.\"\n\nDanielle Novoa, 30, who was with her husband, her twin sister and 10-month-old son, says they were heading to the store and were half an hour away when they heard what had happened.\n\n\"We knew right away it wouldn't be someone local. There's no way any citizen could live or think that way.\n\n\"Being Latina, in a huge Hispanic community, there were times I would think: 'Hey, we could be a target because of how things are now in other states.' But then I never really thought it would happen to us.\n\n\"We feel so safe walking out the door in El Paso. But now, we'll be thinking: 'Am I OK to go out and get a gallon of milk? Some diapers for the baby?'\"\n\nThe Novoa family hold a sign commemorating the victims of the attack\n\nJulio Novoa, her husband, says: \"We've always been proud of the fact we accept the diversity of being Mexican-Americans and US citizens. And we all get on so well.\n\n\"We were targeted because we're the best of what unity and diversity means. They know we are representative of how America really can be. And because of that, it doesn't surprise me that a white supremacist would want to target us.\"\n\nOthers visit the makeshift memorial behind the Walmart store with their own tributes. There are flowers, teddy bears, and signs proclaiming \"El Paso Strong\". There are tears, too, for those who died and for the shattered innocence of the community.\n\nDeena Delgado, 26, who is there with her 10-month-old daughter Aerie, is weeping as she tells how her brother and niece were in Walmart at the time of the shooting. They were contemplating looking for one more item to buy when shots were fired.\n\nShe fears her niece, seven, will be left traumatised.\n\nEveryone speaks of the need for the city to come together. They say they will unite and come back stronger than before.\n\nAnd one of the major talking points is the issue of gun control.\n\nJose Rijos, who has lived in the city for more than 30 years, says: \"As long as we have hatred and we have a way to release that anger through guns, we're not going to have the answer. But we have the combination right now to cause this - we have the hatred and we have guns. And this is the result.\"\n\nSigns and flowers were left at a roadside near the site of the shooting\n\nBut Willa Melendez says: \"I know there's going to be a lot of people doing applications for carrying guns after this. I think that's the reality. It shouldn't be that way, but it's got to that.\"\n\nShe says her sister had just left Walmart when the shooting happened. \"We were on the freeway when I found out. I called everybody to check up on them, everybody,\" she says.\n\n\"My 26-year-old grandson got stuck at the mall, where he was working. He's not doing so well. He didn't sleep last night. We're so near the border here - we don't consider it two different countries.\n\n\"So this hurts. It hurts.\"\n\nPeople take part in a rally against hate a day after the shooting\n\nJonas Porras, 19, speaks of the suspected gunman, who is just a few years older than him.\n\n\"The thought of coming here, of all places, coming here and disturbing the peace… Why not leave alone what's not to be broken? But I think this makes us stronger. It makes us who we are. We're going to pull through.\"\n\nHe had been on his way to Walmart when the cars in front of him started turning around, so he followed suit.\n\n\"I feel very blessed at the moment,\" he adds.\n\nAs night fell, vigils were held in the city. Thousands turned out at the events to remember those who died and to join together as one community.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. A soldier and a baseball coach recall how they tried to save children from the El Paso shooting\n\nIn Ponder Park, a short distance from Walmart, hundreds upon hundreds filled the Little League field. There was a multi-faith procession before people's voices joined together in song, holding phone torches aloft.\n\nOne of the biggest cheers was for three Walmart employees hailed as the heroes of the community for saving countless lives. They wept on stage as their bravery was applauded.\n\nAnd Democratic presidential candidate and El Paso native Beto O'Rourke was among the speakers at a rally at the city's Las Americas headquarters, following a silent walk of remembrance.\n\nHe was cheered as he called for an end to gun violence, alongside the parents of Joaquin Oliver, who died in the Parkland shooting in 2018. Today would have been Joaquin's birthday.\n\nVigils were held in El Paso over the weekend\n\nAs Happy Birthday was sung, people were in tears, the joint tragedies bringing them together. Butterflies were released, flying between and fluttering around people's heads. It was a reminder of the grim list of names this city joins.\n\nPeople held their banners again as they left the rally. One of them read: \"Shaken, not broken.\"\n\nEl Paso is not the kind of place where this happens. That's what its residents repeat, over and over again.\n\nThe queues to give blood to the injured, with people happily waiting for hours? That's El Paso. Coming out in their thousands at a candlelit vigil to sing Amazing Grace? That's El Paso.\n\nA community coming together in one of its darkest moments to vow this can never happen again? That's El Paso.", "Ambulance staff dealt with the casualty at the scene\n\nA teenager was still being questioned after a six-year-old boy was thrown five floors from the 10th floor of the Tate Modern art gallery in London.\n\nThe boy, who landed on the fifth floor roof, is in a stable but critical condition following the fall on Sunday.\n\nA witness said they heard a \"loud bang\", before seeing a woman scream: \"Where's my son, where's my son?\"\n\nA 17-year-old boy arrested on suspicion of attempted murder remains in police custody.\n\nThe Met Police said the six-year-old was thrown from a viewing platform.\n\nThe emergency services arrived in force at Tate Modern after the boy's fall\n\n\"We treated a person at the scene and took them to hospital as a priority,\" a London Ambulance Service (LAS) spokesman said.\n\nThe boy was taken to hospital by air ambulance after he fell at about 14:45 BST.\n\nA police spokesman said there was \"nothing to suggest [the suspect] is known to the victim\".\n\nThe teenager had remained on the platform after the boy fell, police said.\n\nVisitors were initially locked inside the gallery at Bankside on the South Bank.\n\nAdmin worker Nancy Barnfield, 47, of Rochdale, was at the 10th floor viewing gallery with a friend and their children when her friend heard a \"loud bang\".\n\nMs Barnfield said she turned around and saw a woman screaming: \"Where's my son, where's my son?\"\n\nMembers of the public quickly gathered around a man who was nearby, she said.\n\nMs Barnfield said: \"We did not notice the mum before, we noticed her after because she was hysterical by then.\"\n\nShe said the person who was restrained by members of the public before the police arrived \"just stood there and was quite calm\".\n\nOlga Malchevska, who was also on the 10th floor, said she heard a scream and then headed to the exit with her child.\n\n\"Some people started panicking. We got to the packed lift. People there were saying that one boy threw another one from the balcony. We were all shocked.\"\n\nA London Air Ambulance helicopter takes off from outside the Tate Modern\n\nStuart Haggas said he saw emergency crews moving along the roof between the gallery's Turbine Hall and its recent extension.\n\n\"They were carrying a stretcher with someone on it, plus a second stretcher was waiting by the door,\" he said.\n\nBBC correspondent Jonny Dymond, who was also there, said visitors were \"funnelled towards the main Turbine Hall and the exits were all closed\".\n\n\"There were quite a lot of families with children, and security guards told us we couldn't leave,\" he said.\n\n\"There were at least two fire engines, 10 police cars and an incident control unit. Parts of the exterior of the building were taped off.\"\n\nThe Tate Modern opened in the disused power station on the River Thames in 2000.\n\nIt was the UK's most popular tourist attraction in 2018 with 5.9 million visitors, according to the Association of Leading Visitor Attractions.\n\nWere you in the area when this happened? Share your story by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also contact us in the following ways:", "The brawl took place while the train was at Great Portland Street Station on Sunday\n\nSeven men have been arrested after a large fight, which is thought to have involved football fans, broke out on a Tube train in central London.\n\nThe brawl took place while the train was at Great Portland Street Station at 14:00 BST on Sunday.\n\nThe men were all held on suspicion of violent disorder and remain in custody, British Transport Police (BTP) said.\n\nSupporters of Manchester City and Liverpool, who were playing at Wembley, were in the station at the time.\n\nThe two clubs met in the Community Shield match at 15:00 with Manchester City winning on penalties.\n\nThe BTP said no injuries were reported.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Men who kill their partners follow a \"homicide timeline\" that could be tracked by police to help prevent deaths, new research suggests.\n\nCriminology expert Dr Jane Monckton Smith found an eight-stage pattern in 372 killings in the UK.\n\nThe University of Gloucestershire lecturer said controlling behaviour could be a key indicator of someone's potential to kill their partner.\n\nOne murder victim's father said the findings could help to \"save lives\".\n\nAbout 30,000 women across the world were killed by current or former partners in 2017.\n\nDr Monckton Smith said women account for more than 80% of victims killed by their partners - and most of the time, the partner is male.\n\nTo conduct her study, she looked at all cases on the Counting Dead Women website where the woman had had a relationship with the perpetrator - as well as several extra cases such as those of male victims killed by their male partners.\n\nThe eight steps she discovered in almost all of the 372 killings she studied were:\n\nThe only instance where a stage in the model was not followed was when men did not meet stage one - but this was normally because they had not had a relationship before, she said.\n\n\"We've been relying on the 'crime of passion, spontaneous red-mist' explanation [of killing] forever - and it's just not true,\" Dr Monckton Smith told the BBC.\n\n\"If you start looking at all these cases, there's planning, determination, there's always coercive control.\"\n\nAlice Ruggles was murdered by her ex-boyfriend in 2016\n\nAlice Ruggles, 24, had been stalked by her ex-boyfriend, soldier Trimaan Dhillon, after their intense relationship ended.\n\nDhillon killed Miss Ruggles after breaking into her Gateshead flat in October 2016.\n\nHer father, Clive Ruggles, said the outcome of the case \"absolutely\" could have been different if police had known about Dr Monckton Smith's eight-stage model.\n\n\"He had a history of stalking and controlling - the warning signs were there,\" Mr Ruggles said.\n\nA domestic homicide review concluded Army officials had failed to record a previous domestic assault charge against Dhillon in Kent.\n\n\"That information wasn't known to police, Alice had no idea - we had no idea,\" Mr Ruggles said.\n\nWhen Dhillon began stalking Miss Ruggles, she and her family \"did not realise how much danger she was in\", Mr Ruggles said.\n\n\"If [police] had looked at Jane's stages, they'd have realised - the constant messages, the emotional blackmail, all of that sort of thing - it was quite clear that he was already onto stage five,\" he added.\n\n\"We really believe that if this model gets out there and people start acting on it, then it will improve things for people and very likely save lives.\"\n\nDr Monckton Smith said she believes her homicide timeline model can prevent killings\n\nDr Monckton Smith has taught her model to lawyers, psychologists, police forces across the country and probation officers.\n\nShe hopes that now the study has been published in the Violence Against Women Journal, the model can be rolled out more widely.\n\n\"As soon as they see it, victims and professionals are able to say, 'Oh my God, I've got a case at stage three', or 'My relationship is at stage five',\" she said.\n\n\"Police have been incredibly receptive, and recognise the steps in cases they are working on, because it speaks to their experience and makes an order out of the chaos that is domestic abuse, coercive control and stalking,\" she added.\n\nDr Monckton Smith said once police learn the eight stages, they will be able to keep track of certain potential perpetrators - while victims will more easily be able to articulate to professionals what situation they are in.\n\nShe also said there should be more research into ways in which victims can leave controlling relationships safely, and into what causes people to seek control in intimate relationships.\n\nThe charity Women's Aid said improving understanding of domestic homicides could help save lives.\n\nHead of communications Teresa Parker said: \"We know that controlling and coercive behaviour underpins the vast majority of domestic homicides, and this important study shows why it is vital that we take non-physical abuse as seriously as physical abuse when considering a woman's safety.\n\nShe added: \"A greater understanding will also reduce misleading and damaging headlines which cite jealousy, an affair or heartbreak as the reasons why women are killed by a current or former partner.\"\n\nIf you have been affected by any of the issues in this story, you can find information and support on the BBC Action Line website.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "A daytime disco for over-65s in the Korean capital Seoul is giving seniors a new lease of life.\n\nThe event is the first of its kind organised by the local government and aims to tackle loneliness and dementia in the rapidly ageing country.\n\nVideo by Olivia Lang, Julie Yoonnyung Lee and Youjin Do", "Parents spend so much money to get their children onto the housing ladder that they are now among the biggest lenders in the UK, a survey suggests.\n\nThe average parental contribution for homebuyers this year is £24,100, up by more than £6,000 compared to last year, according to Legal & General (L&G).\n\nCollectively parents have given £6.3bn, high enough to rank the bank of mum and dad 10th if it was a mortgage lender.\n\nL&G said thousands of UK buyers were reliant on their parents to either get onto the housing ladder in the first place, or upgrade to a larger home.\n\nAlmost a fifth of those who said they had, or would help a family member buy a home, said it was because they felt it was their personal responsibility to help out.\n\nBut the financial services firm warned that parents' generosity could hurt their standard of living in retirement.\n\n*Data from UK Finance, the trade body for UK banking and financial services\n\nL&G's research, based on a poll of 1,600 parents, found more than half were using cash to help their children, but others were withdrawing money from their pensions or said they would consider using equity release from their homes.\n\nDespite this, it found that more than a quarter of those surveyed were not confident they had enough money to last through their retirement.\n\nMeanwhile, 15% said they had already accepted a lower standard of living due to helping out their children.\n\nChris Knight, chief executive of L&G's Retail Retirement division, said retirees had \"a vast range of considerations\" to take into account when deciding whether to help out, including \"setting aside funds for any future care needs they may have\".\n\n\"Many are using their pensions and savings to help out and unfortunately this could be leaving some facing a poorer retirement,\" he said.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Ben Moore ponders whether renting is better than buying", "The old £10 note has gone the way of the old pound coin\n\nMore than £1.5bn in old fivers and tenners has still not been cashed in more than a year after the last of them ceased to be legal tender.\n\nThe Bank of England says 118 million paper £5 notes and 94 million £10 paper notes have still not been returned.\n\nThe £5 notes were withdrawn in May 2017 and the £10 notes in March 2018, since when they have not been a legally accepted means of payment.\n\nThey can still be exchanged at face value from the Bank of England.\n\nA bank spokeswoman said the number of £5 paper notes returned - more than 224 million - was lower than expected, while the number of £10 notes (697 million) was in line with expectations.\n\nShe said the shortfall in returned fivers was likely to be because, as notes of relatively low value, they were more likely to be lost or damaged - together with a desire to retain them as souvenirs.\n\nWhile the paper £5 and £10 notes are no longer legal tender, they will always be accepted by the Bank of England.\n\nPeople can take or post any old notes to the bank in Threadneedle Street, in the City of London, to be exchanged for a new-style polymer one.\n\nThe spokeswoman added: \"All genuine Bank of England banknotes that have been withdrawn from circulation retain their face value for all time and can still be exchanged over the counter.\n\n\"There is no fee for this service and there is no expiry on the period in which we will exchange old notes. Banknotes can also be exchanged by post.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Five facts about the new Winston Churchill fiver\n\nThe move to the new £10 and £5 notes - depicting author Jane Austen and Winston Churchill respectively - has been controversial.\n\nThe Bank of England has persevered with the polymer material despite complaints from religious and vegan groups that it contains a small amount of tallow, which is derived from meat products.\n\nThe demise of the paper notes follows the official withdrawal in October 2017 of the old circular £1 coin, which has been replaced by a 12-sided version.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Supermarkets are still offering misleading special offers and discounts despite rules designed to stop this, according to Which?\n\nThe consumer group found \"dubious\" deals that were worse than they first appeared at most major UK chains.\n\nThese included multi-buys that cost more despite the alleged offer, and special offers in which goods are sold at the special price most of the year.\n\nSupermarkets were trying to cut costs for shoppers, a retailers' group said.\n\nWhich? looked at pricing data from May 2018 to June 2019 for 459 products. These spanned seven of the UK's biggest supermarkets: Asda, Iceland, Morrisons, Ocado, Sainsbury's, Tesco and Waitrose.\n\nAmong the \"dodgy\" deals it came across was an Iceland multi-buy, where customers were offered two packets of Kellogg's Crunchy Nut cornflakes for £4, or £2 each.\n\nWhile this appeared to offer a saving, Which? found that the price was just £1.49 per packet a week earlier - 51p less per item.\n\nIt also found a promotion at Asda for Wall's Carte D'Or Strawberry Ice Cream (1L) that read, \"was £3.50 now £2\".\n\nHowever, Which? said the product retailed at £2 for around eight months of the year, with the special offer only lasting about a third of that time.\n\nA previous Which? investigation into misleading pricing in 2015 led the government to roll out new guidance to ensure retailers' pricing practices complied with consumer law.\n\nThe rules state that retailers must ensure the information they present to consumers is fair and does not waste time or cause annoyance, disappointment or regret.\n\nNeither should it cause a consumer to overspend or buy a product that is inappropriate for them.\n\nBut Natalie Hitchins, head of home products and services at Which?, said: \"Four years on... many of the big supermarkets are clearly still in the wrong, with numerous examples of dodgy discounts and never-ending offers.\n\n\"These retailers must stop tricking shoppers with deceptive deals... if not, the CMA must intervene to ensure that pricing guidelines are followed.\"\n\nShe said that the magazine would report its latest findings to the Consumer and Markets Authority (CMA).\n\nIceland said it would review its promotional calendar following Which?'s findings, but Asda rejected claims its offers were misleading.\n\nThe other supermarkets did not respond to requests for comment.\n\nMeanwhile, industry body the British Retail Consortium said: \"Supermarkets seek to provide the best value for consumers on the hundreds of thousands of product lines they sell.\n\n\"This is often through promotions and discounts, which can change week to week, even on the same product lines, as retailers seek to cut the cost for shoppers.\"", "Lindsay Birbeck was last seen on CCTV walking on Burnley Road in Huncoat\n\nA 16-year-old boy has been arrested on suspicion of murdering a teaching assistant whose body was found in a cemetery.\n\nLindsay Birbeck 47, was last seen in Huncoat, Lancashire, on 12 August and was found at Accrington Cemetery on Saturday.\n\nPost-mortem tests found she had been strangled.\n\nThe youth, from Accrington, was arrested following an appeal on Tuesday, Lancashire Police said.\n\nThe teenager is being held in custody.\n\nMs Birbeck went missing at about 16:00 BST on 12 August and her disappearance prompted wide-ranging searches by hundreds of members of the public.\n\nOn Tuesday, police released CCTV images of a suspect walking along Burnley Road towards Accrington with a blue wheelie bin five days after she vanished.\n\nA bin similar to the one in the footage was found near the scene where Ms Birbeck's body was discovered, police said.\n\nMs Birbeck's body was found in Accrington Cemetery on Saturday\n\nDet Supt Andy Cribbin, from Lancashire Police's major investigation team, said: \"The response to our earlier appeal has been absolutely overwhelming and I would like to thank everyone who has come forward with information.\n\n\"While we have made an arrest, our inquiries are very much continuing and I would continue to appeal for anyone with information to come forward.\n\n\"However, I would urge people not to speculate and to be mindful of the comments they make, especially on social media, as this causes distress to the family and could impact on our investigation.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The BBC is planning to launch a digital voice assistant next year, the corporation has announced.\n\nIt will not be a hardware device in its own right but is being designed to work on all smart speakers, TVs and mobiles.\n\nThe plan is to activate it with the wake-word Beeb, although this is \"a working title\", a spokesman said.\n\nBBC staff around the UK are being invited to record their voices to help train the programme to recognise different accents.\n\nAnalyst Ben Wood, from CCS Insight, was among those who have expressed surprise at the news.\n\nHe said he feared the BBC would find it difficult to compete with the tech giants already in this market, such as Amazon, Google and Apple.\n\nChinese tech firm Baidu and Amazon had a combined 43% share of the global smart-speaker market in the second quarter of 2019, according to a new report from Canalys.\n\nFirms like this are already able to invest \"eye-watering sums\" to solve the challenges presented by regional dialects and still face problems, Mr Wood said.\n\nHe also expressed scepticism about the choice of the wake-word.\n\n\"Typically voice assistants use a multi-syllable word or phrase such as Alexa or Hey Google to ensure accurate identification. I fear Beeb might end up being unreliable,\" he said.\n\nThe BBC said the word had worked well in its research so far but added that it was not a final decision.\n\nIt said that that having its own assistant would enable it to \"experiment with new programmes, features and experiences without someone else's permission to build it in a certain way\".\n\n\"Much like we did with BBC iPlayer, we want to make sure everyone can benefit from this new technology, and bring people exciting new content, programmes and services - in a trusted, easy-to-use way,\" said a spokesman.\n\n\"This marks another step in ensuring public service values can be protected in a voice-enabled future.\"", "Michelle Pearson was seriously injured in the fire in Walkden, Salford, in December 2017\n\nThe mother of four children who were killed in an arson attack on their home has died.\n\nMichelle Pearson's mother Sandra said on Facebook that after 20 months of fighting her daughter had \"gained her wings\" and \"joined her babies\"\n\nThe four siblings, Demi, Brandon, Lacie and Lia were killed in the blaze in Walkden, Salford, on 11 December 2017.\n\nIn April 2018, Ms Pearson came out of the coma she had been in since the fire and was told of her children's deaths.\n\nGreater Manchester Police said the news of Ms Pearson's death was \"incredibly tragic\".\n\nDet Supt Lewis Hughes said as the senior investigating officer he knew how \"devastating the death of her four children was for Michelle\".\n\nHe added: \"I would like to extend my sincere condolences to Michelle's loved ones at this terrible time. We will ensure that they receive any support they need from the investigation team as they come to terms with their loss.\"\n\nMs Pearson's children Brandon, Lacie, Demi and Lia were all killed in the blaze\n\nZak Bolland, 23, and David Worrall, 26, were both given four life sentences for the children's murder in May 2018.", "Last updated on .From the section Bolton\n\nBolton have 14 days to find a buyer or prove they have the funds to complete the season, or they will be expelled from the English Football League.\n\nThe EFL suspended the withdrawal notice while Bolton, in administration since May, negotiated a proposed takeover by Football Ventures (Whites) Limited.\n\nIt appeared the sale collapsed on Saturday, with administrators saying the club was close to liquidation.\n\nBury were expelled from the EFL on Tuesday after a takeover collapsed.\n\nBolton's administrators, however, retain hope a deal can be found to save their club, with a statement from David Rubin & Partners saying: \"All parties have been in continuous dialogue throughout the day (Tuesday) and are working closely together this evening in order to bring a deal to completion.\n\n\"We will continue to work through the night if necessary. There will be a further update as soon as possible.\"\n• None 'For Bolton to no longer exist is unthinkable' - what next for Wanderers?\n\nWanderers have lost four of their five League One and cup games this season, are without a manager and have only five senior outfield players available.\n\nOne fixture, against Doncaster, was postponed because of concerns over the welfare of youth-team players.\n\nThe EFL said administrators have until 11:59 BST on 12 September to meet the requirements.\n\nEFL executive chair Debbie Jevans said: \"Despite repeated assurances, we are extremely disappointed that we are still not in a position to reach a successful resolution with the sale of Bolton Wanderers and have therefore taken the decision to lift the suspension on the notice of withdrawal.\n\n\"I again urge all parties to finalise the proposed takeover.\n\n\"The reality of this action is that there are now 14 days to secure the club's long-term future, and I sincerely hope we can find a way through these challenging circumstances for the benefit of all those who have an association with the club.\"\n• None Bolton were relegated from the Premier League in 2012\n• None Four years later their football existence was threatened before former striker Dean Holdsworth was\n• None after Holdsworth's company Sports Shield were wound up\n• None after being relegated from the Championship, before Football Ventures agreed a deal to take over the club\n• None The deal was almost stopped after Laurence Bassini, who had bid to buy the club before administration, was awarded a court order blocking the sale on 8 August\n• None The court order was adjourned paving the way for the takeover to continue before it eventually collapsed\n• None called off their match against Doncaster last week citing welfare concerns having only five senior outfield players available\n• None Boss Phil Parkinson resigned on Thursday after three years with the club and a young side lost 5-0 against Ipswich last Saturday\n\nHow could it impact the league structure?\n\nThe EFL has already reduced the number of teams in the league to 23 following Bury's expulsion and reduced the number of relegation places to three from four.\n\nThere have been knock-on effects to the number of teams relegated from League Two as well, with one club rather than two facing the drop.\n\nIf Bolton are also be expelled, it would leave further changes to be made across the league.\n\n'I never believed the situation would become this bad' - former player's view\n\n\"It would be a terrible blow - it's not a club, it's an institution and I think all the people of Bolton are really proud of the history of the club.\n\n\"It's been incredibly frustrating in recent years to see the demise and troubles the club has faced.\n\n\"I never believed the situation would become this bad, but hopefully things can be solved and new owners can rebuild the club.\"\n• None 'It cuts deep, all we want is to watch our team on a Saturday' - Bury fan on team's expulsion", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. 'He was going under so I went out with the lilo'\n\nTwo teenage sisters have been praised for rescuing a man and a toddler who were in danger of drowning off the Aberdeenshire coast.\n\nIsla Noble, 15 and her sister Eilidh, 14, heard cries for help while swimming near Fraserburgh on Monday afternoon.\n\nRealising the man, who had his son on his shoulders, was in trouble, Isla swam out with a lilo airbed and helped them to shore.\n\nThe man passed out but the girls phoned 999 to alert the Coastguard.\n\nThe teenagers used a lilo-type airbed to ferry the man and child to shore\n\nThe drama unfolded while the Fraserburgh Academy pupils were enjoying some time in the water after school at the Waters of Philorth nature reserve.\n\nThe man was exhausted and out of his depth, but Isla was able to put the child on the airbed and help him lie across the inflatable, while her sister went back to fetch her phone.\n\nIsla and Eilidh were helped by Keith Gray\n\nIsla told the BBC's Good Morning Scotland programme: \"The toddler started screaming - we thought the dad was just dunking him under as a laugh and he was getting cold, but then the dad started shouting help.\n\n\"I went out with the lilo to try to take him back in while Eilidh went to get the phone from the beach.\"\n\nAnother rescuer, Keith Gray, who was picnicking with his family, joined her to help push the airbed back to shore.\n\n\"Keith came out and grabbed the other side of the lilo and we both managed to take them in,\" Isla said.\n\nThe man was able to thank his rescuers before he was airlifted to hospital\n\nBy then, the man had passed out, but nurse Sophie Ross, who was strolling on the beach, put him in the recovery position.\n\nShe said: \"The young lass had pulled the fellow out of the water and he was on the lilo.\n\n\"We put him in the recovery position and got him to cough up some sea water, checked his pulse and breathing and kept the coastguard up to date with his condition until they arrived.\"\n\nVarious emergency services were also called in to help\n\nAfter the emergency services arrived the man regained consciousness and was able to lift his oxygen mask briefly to thank his rescuers before being airlifted by Coastguard helicopter to Aberdeen Royal Infirmary.\n\nHis condition was not believed to be life-threatening, and the child was said to be uninjured.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Fraserburgh Academy This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nFraserburgh Academy rector Irene Sharp said on Twitter: \"Well done to two of our heroic pupils Isla and Eilidh Noble in their fast thinking and quick actions last night.\n\n\"All of us at Fraserburgh Academy are immensely proud of you both.\"\n\nFraserburgh RNLI praised all those involved in the rescue and said their actions had almost certainly averted a tragedy.\n\nIt posted on its Facebook page: \"Isla and Eilidh and Keith did brilliant.\n\n\"The girls, for being so young and springing into action and having the presence of mind to phone the coastguard and calmly give them the details of the incident, enabled the emergency services including ourselves to respond and arrive so quickly.\n\n\"Make no mistake their presence and actions today made all the difference. They all deserve medals.\"", "A near-total ban on taking baby African elephants from the wild and selling them to zoos has been approved at a meeting in Geneva.\n\nParties to the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (Cites) decided to tighten the rules after days of debate.\n\nThe European Union decided to back the ban late in the day, despite concerns, and the move passed by 87 votes to 29.\n\nBut Zimbabwe, the main exporter, voted against, as did the United States.\n\nZimbabwe and Botswana, which have healthier elephant populations than other African nations, have been permitted to export elephants to \"appropriate and acceptable\" destinations.\n\nUnder that rule, the country has captured and exported more than 100 baby elephants to Chinese zoos since 2012, Humane Society International says.\n\nTuesday's decision significantly strengthens the restrictions on the elephant trade.\n\nA baby elephant being washed and fed in Nairobi, Kenya, in January\n\nNow elephants can only be taken from the wild and placed in \"captive facilities\" elsewhere in the world under exceptional circumstances - and subject to approval by a committee of Cites members.\n\nThe ban was approved by committee last week, but it was far from certain to pass a new vote at the end of the two-week conference. Zimbabwe had campaigned fiercely against the move, and the EU had initially opposed it because of concerns over genetic variation in zoos around the world.\n\nBut the EU changed its vote after some amendments were made to allow trade in exceptional circumstances, and once it was made clear that elephants already in zoos could be transferred between them.\n\n\"It doesn't mean that no elephant will ever be taken from the wild and put into a captive facility overseas,\" said Will Travers, president of the Born Free Foundation.\n\n\"But it's going to tighten it up so much that mass shipments of elephants to zoos in the Far East, for example, simply won't happen.\"\n\nHumane Society International said it was \"celebrating a momentous win\".\n\n\"Despite compromise language being introduced by the EU, we are relieved by its passing,\" said Audrey Delsink, the group's Africa wildlife director.\n\nShe said the highly sociable animals found separations \"incredibly traumatising\".\n\n\"Speaking personally as an elephant field biologist, I am jubilant that we have secured this victory for all the elephants who will now be spared the ordeal of being ripped away from their families.\"\n\nSome African nations had pushed for a re-opening of the ivory trade during the convention, arguing that existing stocks - confiscated from poachers or left over from already-dead animals - were worth vast sums of money that could be used for conservation.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.", "So many newspaper column inches have been devoted over the last week to a debate over whether or not Boris Johnson has managed to \"win a victory\" over his EU counterparts, getting them to \"budge\" over changing the Withdrawal Agreement.\n\nYou can in fact argue this both ways.\n\nThe \"Yes-they've-budged\" camp point to German Chancellor Angela Merkel and French President Emmanuel Macron now saying they will consider any new proposals from the UK on replacing the contentious Irish border backstop (if they are realistic and immediately operable).\n\nThis is a marked change from the EU's official position when Boris Johnson became UK Prime Minister: that the Brexit Withdrawal Agreement (containing the backstop) was signed, sealed and carved in stone.\n\nThe \"No-the-EU-hasn't-really-budged\" camp say EU leaders don't believe Boris Johnson has any realistic alternatives to the backstop up his sleeve, so they are trying to take the initiative in the blame game that would inevitably follow a no-deal Brexit by wanting to appear open.\n\nThe aim being that Angela Merkel, for example, could turn to German businesses that would lose out in a no-deal scenario and say: \"Look, I tried my best. It's Boris Johnson who failed you.\"\n\nEU figures who've been involved in Brexit negotiations are also keen to point out that being open to alternatives to the Irish backstop is not a change of position for Brussels. It's written into the existing Withdrawal Agreement.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Donald Tusk at the G7: I hope Boris Johnson will not want to go down in history as Mr No Deal\n\nAnd as for Angela Merkel's positive words to Boris Johnson about finding new solutions, the German media was quick to underline how often she has repeated over the last few years that she would work \"until the last minute to make a deal with the UK,\" as long as EU single market rules were respected.\n\nHer attitude - in public at least - is unchanged.\n\nBehind the scenes though, EU leaders have been readjusting their view of Boris Johnson somewhat.\n\nDuring this summer's Conservative party leadership contest to replace Theresa May as prime minister, I heard Boris Johnson described in private conversations in EU circles as \"a buffoon\" and \"a reckless populist willing to drive his country over the cliff-edge of a no-deal Brexit to satisfy his ambition to become prime minister\".\n\nI now notice a subtle tone change. In his one-to-one chats in Paris, Berlin and at the G7 with European Council President Donald Tusk, the prime minister has managed to persuade Brussels that:\n\na) He is serious in his threat to pursue a no-deal Brexit if no agreement with the EU can be found;\n\nand b) He would actively prefer to get a deal through parliament if possible.\n\nBut this change in perception does not alter facts on the ground.\n\nEU leaders still think a no-deal Brexit is the most likely option right now.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. What is the customs union? Reality Check unpacks the basics.\n\nTime is running out - unless the prime minister were to do a last-minute U-turn and request a new Brexit extension after all.\n\nEU politicians also speak of the numbers not adding up in parliament for Boris Johnson. A reason they give for not being willing to jump forward with a backstop compromise.\n\n\"There is little-to-no pressure from the rest of us in the EU on Dublin right now to find and accept a backstop compromise,\" one high-level EU diplomat told me.\n\n\"If we did introduce a time limit - or even if we got rid of the backstop altogether from the Withdrawal Agreement, as Boris Johnson says he wants us to do - what would be the point? The prime minister doesn't have the majority in parliament to guarantee the Brexit deal would then go through and we, the EU, would have sacrificed our principles, our reputation, exposed our single market on the island of Ireland and thrown member state Dublin under a bus voluntarily. We'd be worse off than if we just accept a no-deal Brexit is going to happen.\"\n\nBoris Johnson's majority of one in parliament means EU leaders understand his focus is now domestic: shoring up his premiership by winning a general election, rather than agreeing a compromise deal with the EU.\n\nFew in the EU are holding their breath that MPs will succeed in stopping a no-deal Brexit in the coming weeks - though if they did, Brussels would be delighted.\n\nI notice rather that a number of European politicians are placing any hopes they have on Boris Johnson to avoid no deal. They speak of the prime minister's ambition to remain in the job and to go down in the history books in a positive way.\n\nOne European official remarked: \"Johnson can see a no-deal Brexit is bad for his country but we're afraid he's boxed himself in with all his threats and promises at home.\"\n\nEU leaders will now watch and wait for what early autumn brings in UK politics. The next scene in this Brexit drama will play out in Westminster, not Brussels.", "Iran has detained a number of dual citizens and foreign nationals in recent years\n\nIran's judiciary says it has sentenced a British-Iranian dual national to 10 years in prison for spying for Israel's Mossad intelligence agency.\n\nAnousheh Ashouri was also handed a two-year term for illicitly acquiring money and fined $36,600 (£29,850).\n\nAn Iranian citizen, Ali Johari, was also jailed for 10 years for allegedly passing information to Mossad.\n\nThe UK Foreign Office confirmed it had been supporting the family of a British-Iranian man detained in Iran.\n\n\"Our embassy in Tehran continues to request consular access,\" it added.\n\n\"The treatment of all dual nationals detained in Iran is a priority and we raise their cases at the most senior levels. We urge Iran to let them be reunited with their families.\"\n\nIran has detained a number of dual citizens and foreign nationals in recent years, many of them on spying charges. They include Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe, a British-Iranian project manager for the Thomson Reuters Foundation who was sentenced to five years in prison in 2016.\n\nThe Iranian authorities do not recognise dual nationality for Iranian citizens and do not grant consular access for foreign diplomats to visit them in detention.\n\nIran's judiciary also confirmed on Tuesday that an Iranian woman employed by the British Council had lost her appeal against a 10-year sentence for spying.\n\nAras Amiri, who had been working for the UK cultural organisation in London, was detained in Iran in March 2018.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. 'Iran are using my fiancée as a bargaining chip'\n\nLast week, her fiancé told the BBC that she was being used as a \"bargaining chip\" by Iran's government. James Tyson said the UK needed to \"get on the phone\" to Iran and \"say this can't happen\".\n\nHe added that Aras Amiri was being held in the same prison as Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe, and that the two women were \"close\" and \"very supportive of each other\".\n\nRelations between the UK and Iran have been strained in recent weeks by a row over the seizure of two oil tankers.\n\nOn 4 July, an Iranian tanker was seized off the coast of Gibraltar with the help of the Royal Marines on suspicion of breaching EU sanctions on Syria.\n\nThe vessel was released on 15 August, but Iran is still holding a British-flagged tanker it seized in the Gulf on 19 July for breaking \"international maritime rules\".\n\nCorrection 27 August 2019: An earlier version of this article identified Anousheh Ashouri as a woman in line with reports from local and international news agencies.", "Twelve men appeared in court over the alleged attack\n\nA British woman has pleaded not guilty in a Cypriot court to lying about being raped in the tourist town of Ayia Napa.\n\nIn July, 12 Israeli tourists were arrested after the 19-year-old said they gang-raped her.\n\nShe then retracted her allegation, the men were released and returned home, and she was arrested for allegedly making up the claims.\n\nThe woman faces up to a year in jail, and a fine, if found guilty of a charge of causing public mischief.\n\nJustice Abroad, which is providing legal assistance to the woman, said Cypriot police had pressured her to retract the claim.\n\nThe woman was released on conditional bail until her next court appearance on 2 October, Justice Abroad said.", "A bridge collapsed following torrential rain in the Black Sea town of Terme, northern Turkey.\n\nTwo people fell into the river but survived with minor injuries.", "An inherently positive approach can help cope with stressful situations\n\nOptimists are more likely to live longer than those who have a more negative approach to life, a US study has found.\n\nPositive people were more likely to live to the age of 85 or more.\n\nThe theory is that optimists may find it easier to control emotions and so be protected from the effects of stress.\n\nAnd researchers said pessimists could benefit from doing things like imagining a future where everything turns out well.\n\nThe study used two existing groups of people recruited for different studies - 70,000 women in the Nurses' Health Study and 1,500 men in the Veterans' Health Study.\n\nTheir levels of optimism were assessed, as well as their overall health. They were also asked about exercise and diets, as well as how much they smoked and drank alcohol\n\nOn average, the most optimistic men and women had an 11-15% longer lifespan, and were significantly more likely to live to 85 compared with the least optimistic group.\n\nWhile a lot is known about the risk factors for disease and early death, far less is understood about what the researchers call \"positive psychosocial factors\" that could enable healthy ageing.\n\nProf Lewina Lee, associate professor of psychiatry at Boston University School of Medicine, who worked on the study, said: \"Our findings speak to the possibility that raising levels of optimism may promote longevity and healthy ageing.\n\nMonty Python might have had a point...\n\n\"Evidence from randomised control trials suggest that interventions, such as imagining a future in which everything has turned out well, or more intensive cognitive-behavioural therapy, can increase levels of optimism.\"\n\nHowever, exactly why optimistic people appear to live longer is still up for debate, she said.\n\n\"Healthier behaviours and lower levels of depression only partially explained our findings.\n\n\"Initial evidence from other studies suggests that more optimistic people tend to have goals and the confidence to reach them, are more effective in problem-solving, and they may be better at regulating their emotions during stressful situations,\" she added.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. See how people react when a BBC calculator tells them how long they're going to live\n\nProf Bruce Hood is chair of developmental psychology in society at the University of Bristol, and runs a course called \"the science of happiness\".\n\nHe said the study supported existing evidence of the benefits of positive thinking.\n\nHe added: \"I think that one causal mechanism could be that optimists cope better with stress, and this could be by avoiding rumination about negative life events.\n\n\"Stress impacts on the immune system and so there is a possibility that this means that optimists cope better with infections.\n\n\"A number of studies have also linked stress with shorter telomeres, a chromosome component that's been associated with cellular ageing and risk for heart disease, diabetes and cancer.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. More than 80 firefighters were involved in tackling the blaze\n\nEvery part of a Fife high school at the centre of a major blaze has been damaged in the fire, according to council officials.\n\nThey said Woodmill High School in Dunfermline would be unable to re-open in the \"short to medium term\".\n\nThe wing that was least damaged contained an assembly hall and sports halls - but no classrooms.\n\nA 14-year-old appeared at Dunfermline Sheriff Court earlier charged with wilful fireraising to danger of life.\n\nThe Kirkcaldy teenager, who cannot be named, made no plea and was bailed. He is due to appear at a later date.\n\nMore than 80 firefighters worked through the night to extinguish the school blaze, after the alarm was raised on Sunday evening.\n\nSome fire service staff travelled from across the country to help bring the \"protracted and challenging\" incident to a safe conclusion.\n\nThe Scottish Fire and Rescue Service remained on the scene for almost 48 hours before handing full control of the building back to Fife Council on Tuesday.\n\n\"No part of the building is left untouched by fire\", said the local authority's executive director Carrie Lindsay.\n\nThe school will be closed in the \"short to medium term\" due to a lack of classrooms - but that means weeks rather than months, according to the council.\n\nMs Lindsay said the council was working \"flat out\" to find alternative locations to educate Woodmill High's 1,400 pupils.\n\n\"There are lots of things to take into account, such as pupil numbers, available spaces, timetabling across year groups and transport,\" she added.\n\n\"We've had lots of offers of help, all of which we're grateful for, and all of which are being explored to find the best possible solutions.\n\n\"I hope to be able to give parents and our young people some more information about short-term arrangements tomorrow (Wednesday).\"\n\nShe said Woodmill High teachers were meeting at nearby St Columba's High School.\n\nThey are putting together homework packages which will be available on the school's website and they are trying to arrange practical sessions for senior pupils in local community facilities.\n\nWoodmill High School has been ravaged by the fire\n\nSupport centres providing free school meals to Woodmill High School pupils have been set up across Dunfermline.\n\nDavid Ross, Conservative councillor for Dunfermline South, said the community was in \"disbelief\" about the incident.\n\n\"They are emotional and some very upset as the school was the heart of the community and used for other activities out with school hours too,\" he added.\n\n\"I hope something is arranged soon for the children as its not fair that their education is disrupted. I'm deeply saddened as its a great school with good exam results.\"\n\nMeanwhile the Fife community has been rallying around.\n\nLocals have raised £6,500 by crowd funding to help replace damaged equipment and the Visit Dunfermline Facebook page said it had been inundated by offers of practical help.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Susan Powell with the UK forecast for late Monday and the rest of the week\n\nIt has been the hottest late August Bank Holiday Monday ever, as temperatures soared across the UK.\n\nTemperatures had reached 33.2C (91.8F) at Heathrow by 14:16 BST, the Met Office said, beating the previous record of 28.2C set two years ago.\n\nTrawsgoed near Aberystwyth saw the top temperature of 24.3C in Wales, while Scotland's highest was 24C at Fyvie Castle in Aberdeenshire.\n\nIn Northern Ireland, thermometers peaked at 21.2C in Killowen.\n\nOn Sunday, the record for the hottest late August Bank Holiday weekend was broken, with a high of 33.3C.\n\nA girl splashes in the sea at Blyth in Northumberland\n\nTemperatures in London made the 2019 Notting Hill Carnival the hottest one ever\n\nPeople in deckchairs enjoy the warm weather on Bournemouth Pier in Dorset\n\nLast month, the UK's highest ever temperature was officially recorded in Cambridge at 38.7C.\n\nIt beat the previous UK record of 38.5C, set in Kent in 2003.\n\nSwimmers cool down in a lake in Beckenham Place Park in south-east London\n\nMen in full armour compete in a jousting contest in Hever Castle, Kent\n\nMeanwhile, in Frinton-on-Sea, Essex, beachgoers hoping to enjoy the sunshine were left struggling to breathe after what some witnesses were told might have been a fuel spill.\n\nPolice, paramedics and the fire service attended the beach at Fourth Avenue after receiving calls at about 14:00 BST on Sunday.\n\nThe cause is unknown and is being investigated.\n\nTourists enjoy the sunshine on boats on the River Avon in Stratford-upon-Avon\n\nPaddle boarders take to the sea at Blyth, Northumberland\n\nMiriam Lansdell told the PA news agency: \"My daughter started coughing. She said 'I don't feel good. It hurts to breathe in'.\"\n\nThe government's advisory Committee on Climate Change has warned the UK is not prepared for the increase in heatwaves that is expected with global warming.\n\nEarlier this summer, it called for more action to make sure homes and other buildings such as hospitals and care facilities could be comfortable and safe in higher temperatures.\n\nMeanwhile, the London Ambulance Service advised people attending Notting Hill Carnival on Monday to drink plenty of water, use sun cream and remain in the shade where possible.", "Shale company Cuadrilla has been fracking at the Preston New Road site\n\nAn earthquake with a magnitude of 2.9 has been recorded near the UK's only active shale gas site in Lancashire.\n\nThe tremor near Blackpool was recorded at about 08:30 BST and is stronger than those that forced Cuadrilla to suspend test fracking in 2011.\n\nCuadrilla said it was investigating the tremor and said no fracking was being carried out at the time.\n\nThe Oil and Gas Authority (OGA) said fracking would be suspended while it assessed recent seismic activity.\n\nThe latest quake is the third recorded in less than a week.\n\nIt follows another earthquake, with a magnitude of 2.1, measured at the Little Plumpton site on Saturday, which followed another tremor measured at 1.6 on Wednesday.\n\nAt present, government guidelines state that if fracking induces quakes above 0.5 magnitude then all drilling must cease for 18 hours.\n\nHowever, the OGA said the current suspension would potentially remain in place longer, allowing it to consider carefully whether Cuadrilla's fracking plans \"continued to be appropriate to manage the risk\" of increased seismic activity in the area.\n\nDrilling was previously suspended at the Preston New Road site in 2011 after earthquakes of 1.4 and 2.3 magnitude were recorded.\n\nCuadrilla's chief executive, Francis Egan, said he \"sincerely hoped\" fracking would not be halted this time and said the company now measured \"surface ground motion vibration\" which allowed it to put any seismic activity \"into context\".\n\nDrilling had only resumed last October after campaigners failed to get an injunction preventing it.\n\nSamantha Wheeler, who lives five miles away in Lytham St Anne's, said her \"wardrobe shook and her bed moved\" when she felt the earthquake on Monday.\n\nShe said: \"It's getting really worrying.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Samantha Wheeler This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nHeather Goodwin, who also lives in Lytham St Anne's, said: \"The walls of my house shook, there was a really deep, guttural roar. For a moment, I really thought my house was going to fall down.\n\n\"It only lasted a few seconds but I felt the need to go all round the house and check for damage.\n\n\"We've been afraid of this happening. How long before there's real damage done and people injured?\"\n\nProfessor Peter Styles, a specialist in applied and environmental geophysics at Keele University who has advised the government on fracking, said the latest quake was caused by the movement of a geological fault.\n\nHe said: \"I think we're going to have to halt fracking, certainly for the time being as we did in 2011. We haven't collected a huge amount of data - remember there have only been a few fracks.\n\n\"We need data from the UK to make a reasoned argument. This is in the context of how we supply our energy to the UK so we're going to have to make decisions whether we want to have our own native energy or we want to import gas.\"\n\nDr Ben Edwards, reader in seismology at the University of Liverpool, said a tremor of 2.9 would not cause structural damage but the increase in magnitude of each recorded seismic activity recently was \"a concern\".\n\nRegulators would want to be assured the magnitude would not increase further, he added.\n\nCuadrilla said it appreciated the tremor had \"caused concern for local people\" and said \"it is worth noting that this event lasted for around a second and the average ground motion recorded was 5mm per second\".\n\n\"This is about a third of that permitted for construction projects,\" it added.\n\nIt said the shale gas well was intact and it was working with regulators.\n\nHowever, environmental campaign group Friends of the Earth has called for a complete fracking ban after three of the latest tremors.\n\nSpokesman Jamie Peters said it was \"getting out of hand\".\n\n\"It's clearly not under control and at this point there is only one thing that can fix this situation: a ban, right now.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The countdown to the new series of Strictly Come Dancing has begun, with the stars donning their sequins and taking to the stage in London for the launch. This year's competition kicks off on BBC One on 7 September.\n\nThe celebrities for this year's Strictly Come Dancing were introduced by co-hosts Tess Daly and Claudia Winkleman at a red carpet launch on Monday evening.\n\nThis year's 15 celebrity contestants offered a glimpse of their dance floor moves on the stage at BBC Television Centre in west London.\n\nOlympic rower James Cracknell has previously promised to bring some \"dad dancing\" to the show.\n\nIt wasn't long before he broke out those dad moves alongside broadcaster Anneka Rice, CBBC presenter Karim Zeroual and Emma Thynn, Viscountess Weymouth.\n\nEastEnders actress Emma Barton, who plays Honey Mitchell, was one of the first names to be announced for the 17th series of Strictly.\n\nFormer England goalkeeper David James and Made In Chelsea's Jamie Laing took to the stage hand in hand.\n\nFormer Coronation Street actress Catherine Tyldesley revealed: \"I'm really excited but I'm petrified.\"\n\nTable tennis paralympic champion Will Bayley shimmied for the crowd with former Arsenal and England footballer Alex Scott, who is the bookies' favourite to win the show.\n\nComedian Chris Ramsey was clearly delighted to be there, despite previously revealing he has never been a natural on the dance floor.\n\nRadio 1 DJ Dev Griffin kept his signature moves under wraps.\n\nTeenage YouTube star Saffron Barker and BBC sports news presenter Mike Bushell looked like a couple of naturals. Bushell is the favourite to go out first, but said: \"That's great because I can't really go down, I can only go up.\"\n\nThe judges - Craig Revel Horwood, Motsi Mabuse, Shirley Ballas and Bruno Tonioli - were keen to show they've still got a few moves of their own. Roll on September!", "Sineenat Wongvajirapakdi, pictured here piloting a fighter jet, was appointed the king's royal consort in July\n\nRare photographs of the king of Thailand's newly-anointed consort have been released by the palace, reportedly causing its website to crash.\n\nA consort is a title given by a monarch to his or her spouse or companion.\n\nKing Maha Vajiralongkorn, 67, bestowed the title on Sineenat in July, two months after his marriage to Queen Suthida, his fourth wife.\n\nSineenat, a major-general, was the first person to have been awarded the title of Royal Noble Consort in nearly a century.\n\nSineenat Wongvajirapakdi taking part in the Royal Cremation ceremony of Thailand's late King Bhumibol Adulyadej\n\nThe website hosting the photos went down after receiving high volumes of traffic, according to Reuters news agency.\n\nHer biography has been published alongside the images.\n\nIn a statement, Thailand's palace said the king had \"ordered the creation of a royal biography\" for Sineenat, who is a trained pilot, nurse and bodyguard.\n\nQueen Suthida - a 41-year-old former flight attendant and deputy head of his bodyguard unit - is King Vajiralongkorn's long-term partner and has been seen with him in public for many years.\n\nHe ascended to the throne after the death of his father in 2016.\n\nSineenat Wongvajirapakdi (C) pictured with the king (L)\n\nThis 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 when they were married in May", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Police release CCTV footage of a man they say is a suspect in the killing of Lindsay Birbeck.\n\nA man caught on CCTV pulling a blue wheelie bin has been identified as a suspect in the hunt for Lindsay Birbeck's killer, police have said.\n\nThe man was seen walking along Burnley Road towards Accrington at about 14:30 BST on 17 August - five days after the 47-year-old disappeared.\n\nA bin, similar to the one in the CCTV, was found nearby when her body was discovered at Accrington Cemetery on Saturday, police added.\n\nTests found she had been strangled.\n\nLindsay Birbeck was last seen on CCTV walking on Burnley Road in Huncoat\n\nLancashire Constabulary has launched a murder inquiry but no arrests have been made.\n\nTeaching assistant Ms Birbeck was last seen in the village of Huncoat on 12 August.\n\nPolice said they were trying to piece together her movements after she was last seen on CCTV footage at about 16:00.\n\nDet Supt Andy Cribbin said while the man in the CCTV is now a suspect, he was \"conscious that there could be a perfectly reasonable explanation for this footage\".\n\nMs Birbeck's body was found in Accrington Cemetery on Saturday\n\n\"If this is you in these images then I would ask you to come and speak to us so we can eliminate you from our inquiry,\" he added.\n\nIn the footage, the man passes the camera before turning down Whitewell Road towards the cemetery.\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. Dash-cam footage showed drivers swerving to avoid William McLean on the East Kilbride Expressway\n\nA driver who killed a motorcyclist after taking cocaine and driving the wrong way on a dual carriageway has been jailed for six years.\n\nWilliam McLean, 35, took five lines of the drug before driving on the East Kilbride Expressway in Blantyre, South Lanarkshire, on 10 November last year.\n\nHis Ford Mondeo struck student Allan Nicholson, 24, who died at the scene.\n\nThe High Court in Edinburgh heard that five motorists had to take evasive action to avoid hitting McLean's car.\n\nWilliam McLean, pictured, struck Allan Nicholson after driving the wrong way down the East Kilbride Expressway\n\nJudge Lord Brodie said: \"You drove when your ability to do so was impaired by a controlled drug, namely cocaine.\n\n\"For a long period of time you persistently drove on the wrong side of the road. You ignored or did not react to the warnings given by other motorists.\"\n\nLord Brodie told McLean, of Cathkin, Glasgow, that if he was sentencing after a trial he would have jailed him for nine years.\n\nMcLean was also disqualified from driving for 10 years.\n\nThe judge said the victim was a clearly much-loved young man with a highly promising life ahead of him.\n\nProsecutor Alex Prentice QC had told the court that Mr Nicholson was studying civil engineering and had left his girlfriend's house that morning to go to work.\n\nHe said: \"Due to the impact Mr Nicholson was thrown from the motorcycle, landing on the carriageway as the motorbike burst into flames.\"\n\nMcLean's car stopped on the grass verge where motorists heard him say \"What have I done?\"\n\nHe fled across the southbound carriageway and attempted to climb a wall, however, witnesses chased and detained him until police arrived.\n\nOfficers asked him who the driver of the Mondeo was and McLean told them \"It was myself.\"\n\nDefence counsel Tony Graham QC said: \"There has never been any attempt on his part to justify his actions or to mitigate his actions.\"", "The model said she wanted the incident to be a \"wake-up call to the industry\"\n\nAn Australian magazine has apologised after publishing a story about a model with another black woman's image.\n\nSouth Sudanese-Australian model Adut Akech says she has been deeply affected by the error in WHO Magazine and says Australia \"has a lot of work to do\".\n\nIn the magazine interview, she discussed people's attitudes to colour and her career in fashion.\n\nWHO Magazine issued an apology, saying it had been given the wrong picture by the agency that set up the interview.\n\nMs Akech appeared in the magazine ahead of Melbourne Fashion Week. However the magazine printed an image of Flavia Lazarus, another model appearing at the show, instead.\n\nIn the interview, Ms Akech spoke about using her voice to start a conversation about how people viewed refugees. She fled South Sudan for Kenya where she resided in a refugee camp before seeking asylum in Australia in 2008.\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 adutakech 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\nWriting on Instagram after the error was made, the model said: \"This is a big deal because of what I spoke about in my interview. By this happening, I felt it defeated the purpose of what I stand for and spoke about.\"\n\nShe added that she wanted the incident to be a \"wake-up call to people within the industry\".\n\nWHO Magazine said it had spoken with Ms Akech directly to apologise and \"to explain how the error occurred\".\n\nMelbourne Fashion Week published an apology on its Instagram page: \"We are extremely disappointed that a photo of one of our campaign models, Flavia Lazarus, was mistakenly printed instead of a photo of Adut.\n\n\"Both Adut and Flavia have expressed their disappointment and we support them. This error is unacceptable, and both Who Magazine and our public relations agency, OPR, have apologised.\"\n\nOPR said in a statement quoted by ABC: \"The error was administrative and unintentional and we sincerely apologise for this mistake and any upset it has caused to the models involved, and our client the City of Melbourne.\"", "The Madrid region was hit by a hail storm on Monday evening, with heavy rainfall bringing roads to a standstill.\n\nCars were washed away as torrents of water flowed through the neighbourhood of Arganda del Rey.\n\nSeveral villages nearby were also affected, but there were no reports of injuries.", "Last updated on .From the section Bolton\n\n\"It's heartbreaking. It cannot happen to the club and town. It's a devastating prospect.\"\n\nBolton Wanderers face two of the most crucial weeks in their 145-year history after they were given a 12 September deadline by the English Football League to complete a sale or prove they have the funds to finish the season.\n\nA takeover of the club by Football Ventures collapsed at the weekend, plunging their immediate future into doubt.\n\nBut how did one of the founder members of the Football League, who reached the last 16 of the Uefa Cup only 11 years ago, reach this point and where do they go now?\n\nBBC Sport looks at what is next for this historic club as it faces the threat of extinction.\n\n'The community does not deserve this'\n\nMonday's administrators' statement said that the deal to sell the club collapsed after all parties involved agreed terms to complete the sale, other than former owner Ken Anderson.\n\nThe news left those at the club stunned, with the administrators suggesting 150 jobs could be lost if they went under.\n\n\"We are very worried at the prospect of the club being liquidated and we urge all parties involved to work together to get a deal to save us sorted,\" an unnamed staff source told the BBC.\n\n\"We are a founder member of the Football League and have a long and proud history in English football.\n\n\"For Bolton Wanderers to no longer exist is unthinkable.\"\n• None Bolton Wanderers: Joy and despair after Wanderers got back on home soil\n\nMuch of the summer has been a stalemate as the protracted takeover showed no sign of getting over the line, leaving the club's fan base hoping a last-minute deal could be done to get the takeover back on track.\n\n\"Please, please save this club. You've got so much on the line here. You've got several generations and the whole Bolton community just pleading for you to get this deal done,\" Will Jones, of fan blog Lion of Vienna Suite, told BBC Radio Manchester.\n\n\"You've got the elderly generation who've been watching for 70-80 years and it might be the last thing they have left.\n\n\"For the parents who have got to tell their youngsters that they are not able to go and watch their club on a Saturday any more, that's just devastating in itself.\n\n\"It's absolutely devastating and all I'd say is please do it for the community and the club because it does not deserve this.\"\n\nClub legend and former striker John McGinlay, who scored 118 times in five years with Wanderers, said \"there's a fear and a worry when it gets to this stage\".\n\nMcGinlay was the last man to score at Bolton's old ground Burnden Park before their move to the Reebok Stadium in 1997 and finished as top scorer as Bolton bounced straight back to the Premier League.\n\n\"It's time to either put your money on the table or walk away because we've been through this for long enough,\" McGinlay told BBC Radio Manchester.\n\n\"We've been told the deal is imminent or just about to be signed for so long and it's really frustrating now.\n\n\"All of us supporters are now worried and it's coming to the end of the line now. The statements in the past couple of days from the administrators and EFL have really brought things to a head.\"\n\n\"Generally speaking, most people up and down the country probably think that has been going on for a very short time,\" Maggie Tetlow of Bolton Wanderers Supporters' Trust told BBC Radio 5 Live.\n\n\"However, this has been rumbling on since Ken Anderson took charge.\"\n• None Bolton were relegated from the Premier League in 2012\n• None Four years later their football existence was threatened before former striker Dean Holdsworth was\n• None after Holdsworth's company Sports Shield were wound up\n• None after being relegated from the Championship, before Football Ventures agreed a deal to take over the club\n• None The deal was almost stopped after Laurence Bassini, who had bid to buy the club before administration, was awarded a court order blocking the sale on 8 August\n• None The court order was adjourned paving the way for the takeover to continue before it eventually collapsed\n• None called off their match against Doncaster last week citing welfare concerns having only five senior outfield players available\n• None Boss Phil Parkinson resigned on Thursday after three years with the club and a young side lost 5-0 against Ipswich on Saturday\n\n\"There's something wrong in British football where these clubs with so much history and local connection are struggling at the same time the Premier League is absolutely booming,\" Bolton North East MP David Crausby told BBC Radio Manchester.\n\n\"We've really got to put it right in the interest of the fans, not just for some individual who picks it up to make a profit on it.\n\n\"We've got to be absolutely determined to defend this football institution. It can't be allowed to fail and disappear.\"\n\nWhat happens to Bolton Wanderers now?\n\nOn Saturday, the EFL gave Bolton until its board meeting at 17:00 on Tuesday to complete a sale of the club or provide \"credible plans\" they can compete this season.\n\nAs Bolton could not satisfy the league's requirements by that point, a 14-day notice period was activated for the club to prove it has the funds to survive or face losing its place in the league.\n\nLocal neighbours Bury, who have had stark financial troubles of their own, were expelled from the Football League on Tuesday after failing to sell the club.\n\nWanderers' administrators said on Monday that the club are not in a position to carry on trading and \"the process of closing down\" could start on Wednesday.", "Parys Lapper appeared on the BBC series Child Of Our Time in 2010\n\nThe son of a disabled artist who posed for a famous Trafalgar Square sculpture while pregnant with him has died aged 19.\n\nParys Lapper died suddenly last week, his family said.\n\nHis mother Alison Lapper, who was born with shortened legs and no arms, posed nude for the artwork mounted on the square's fourth plinth in 2005.\n\nHer fiance has appealed to bikers to escort Parys on his final journey to Worthing Crematorium on Thursday.\n\nOn Facebook Si Clift said Parys was a \"mischievous, generous, kind, loving, frustrating, cheeky, forgiving, beautiful boy\".\n\nHe was \"his own man\" and \"a good son\", Mr Clift said.\n\nThe marble sculpture of Alison Lapper by Marc Quinn stood in Trafalgar Square between 2005 and 2007\n\nMr Clift said he and Ms Lapper had been \"blown away\" by people's kindness, humbled by their kind sentiments, and overwhelmed by messages of support.\n\nHe added: \"Please take away from this a realisation that you are not alone, that you can talk and not to hold things within.\n\n\"Whatever it is, there is help.\"\n\nMs Lapper \"would absolutely love to see as many noisy motorbikes as possible to escort Parys on his final journey\", he said.\n\nThey will accompany him from her home in Shoreham-by-Sea, West Sussex.\n\nThe family is also holding an open house on Tuesday evening for his friends to decorate, paint, stick messages or sign their names on his empty coffin.\n\nMs Lapper co-hosted the 2016 BBC Four show No Body's Perfect with fashion photographer Rankin, exploring how digital photography, social media and selfie culture had affected people's sense of identity.\n\nParys also made appearances on screen as one of the stars on the BBC series Child Of Our Time, which tracks millennial babies from their infancy into their young adult lives.\n\nMs Lapper co-hosted the BBC Four series No Body's Perfect", "Bury are facing expulsion from the English Football League after the company attempting to buy the club, C&N Sporting Risk, said it was unable to proceed with its takeover.\n\nThe Shakers had been given until 17:00 BST on Tuesday to complete the deal.\n\nChris Farnell, the lawyer working to broker a deal, has said \"alternative bids\" have been put to the EFL and they were now \"awaiting an outcome\".\n\nBury would be the first team to drop out of the EFL since Maidstone in 1992.\n\n\"The league announced at the weekend that it was working exclusively with the club and C&N in an attempt to finalise a change of control at the club,\" said the EFL in a statement.\n\n\"However, following a period of due diligence, C&N have opted not to progress matters.\n\n\"The league continues to be in discussions with Bury FC and will provide a further update as appropriate.\"\n\nThe EFL suspended each of Bury's first six fixtures this season, requesting evidence the League One club could pay off creditors and had the funding to make it through the entire campaign.\n\nThey were initially given until 23:59 BST on Friday to either provide the required information or find a buyer to take them over.\n\nWith the third-tier side effectively an hour from being thrown out of the EFL, owner Steve Dale told BBC Radio Manchester he had sold the club and they were set to survive.\n\nThat news subsequently secured them an extension until Tuesday to complete the deal, although C&N Sporting Risk expressed concern that it was still not enough time.\n\nAn estimated 300 volunteers turned up at the club's Gigg Lane home on Tuesday to help get the ground ready for Saturday's scheduled game against Doncaster Rovers, but their efforts could prove to be in vain.\n\nBury have since issued a warning on their website asking fans not to enter the stadium \"unless authorised\" at what is a \"difficult and emotional time for all supporters\".\n\nDespite the withdrawal of C&N Sporting Risk's interest, Farnell told BBC Radio 5 live that other bids had been put to the EFL \"as late as in the last hour\" leading up to the deadline.\n\n\"From what I understand they appear to be credible and certainly at this stage to attract offers is the main thing that can happen,\" he said.\n\n\"I'm also informed that Mr Dale is aware of them as well, so we're awaiting to see the outcome of that.\n\n\"Some of the bids actually came in towards the end of last week, while there have been some new bids that have come in today too. They're not simply last-minute, shooting-at-the-moon type bids.\"\n\nOne of the offers is understood to be from MP Ivan Lewis, who has told BBC Radio Manchester that he has presented a plan and shown proof of funds to the EFL.\n\nDale, who confirmed three bids had been passed to the EFL, said he remained hopeful Bury would be given a \"reprieve to help get a deal over the line\".\n\n'This decision has not been taken lightly'\n\nC&N Sporting Risk said it had informed the EFL of its decision not to complete the takeover \"at the earliest possible opportunity\".\n\n\"As part of our due diligence, we set ourselves a list of key criteria regarding the CVA, the ground and the overall financial state of the club that had to be met in order for us to be satisfied that we have enough knowledge to proceed with the takeover,\" the company said in a statement.\n\n\"The complexities involved in each of these matters escalated and continue to do so.\n\n\"Despite previously stating we would have liked an extra 24 hours to conclude the deal, actually our position is not a condition of the strict timeline they have put in place, but reflective of the systemic failings of a football club over a number of years.\n\n\"With this in mind, we will be happy to work together with the EFL to share our findings to help them with their ongoing review of football governance, which is essential for the long term future of all members of the EFL and the broader football family.\"\n\nFounded in 1885 and first elected to the EFL nine years later, Bury were playing in what is now known as the Championship as recently as 1999 and have twice won the FA Cup.\n\nNo club has ever dropped out of the third tier before, and the Shakers will also become the first FA Cup winners to have been expelled by the EFL.\n\nEngland women's manager Phil Neville, whose mother Jill resigned as Bury's club secretary last week, described their demise as an \"absolute disgrace\" on Friday.\n\nSupporters staged numerous protests in the build-up to the deadline, with former director Joy Hart handcuffing herself to a drainpipe outside their Gigg Lane home and a coffin with the words 'RIP Bury FC 1885-?' painted on it was placed at the directors' entrance.\n\nGreater Manchester Mayor Andy Burnham also wrote to EFL executive chair Debbie Jevans asking for the club to be granted more time \"given the urgency of Bury's plight\".\n\nHow did we reach this point?\n\nAt the end of April, Bury were celebrating promotion back to the third tier of English football, but were already enduring major issues off the pitch.\n\nThe club was in financial trouble even before Dale bought it for £1 in December from previous owner Stewart Day, with players and staff often being paid late.\n\nA winding-up petition filed against the club was adjourned three times before eventually being dismissed by the High Court on 31 July.\n\nBy then, creditors had approved a company voluntary arrangement (CVA) put forward by Dale, which was proposed to help settle some of their debts.\n\nThe CVA meant unsecured creditors, including HM Revenue & Customs, would be paid 25% of the money owed - but also triggered a 12-point deduction in the League One table under EFL rules.\n\nFurthermore, the EFL were unsatisfied Bury had given enough evidence of their financial viability, leading to a string of postponed fixtures while the organisation awaited \"the clarity required\".\n\nC&N Sporting Risk's interest in a takeover was enough for the EFL to extend the original cut-off on Friday - but their withdrawal came less than 90 minutes before Tuesday's latest deadline.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Prime Minister Boris Johnson: Brexit \"is a matter for parliamentarians to get right ourselves\"\n\n\"The job of everybody in Parliament\" is to deliver Brexit, the PM has said at the end of the G7 summit in France.\n\nBoris Johnson also said he was \"marginally more optimistic\" about striking a new Brexit deal with the EU.\n\nBut he refused to be drawn on whether he would suspend Parliament to stop it preventing a no-deal exit.\n\nMr Johnson's comments come as MPs from other parties prepare to meet to discuss ways to avoid the UK leaving the EU without a deal on 31 October.\n\nLabour leader Jeremy Corbyn hopes to win a vote of no confidence in the government and then delay Brexit to stop a no-deal exit.\n\nAsked about the possibility of MPs thwarting plans to leave the EU at the end of October, Mr Johnson said: \"I think it's the job of everybody in Parliament to get this thing done.\n\n\"I think it's what the people want, I also think, by the way, it's what our friends and partners on the other side of the Channel want - they want it over.\"\n\nOn Sunday, Mr Johnson had told the BBC the chances of securing a new Brexit deal were \"touch and go\" - but on Monday he said: \"I am marginally more optimistic.\"\n\nHe continued: \"But, remember that all statistical estimates that I give about the chances of a deal - whether they are expressed in odds of millions to one, or getting closer, or hotter or colder, or whatever - they all depend exclusively on the willingness of our friends and partners to compromise on that crucial point and to get rid of the backstop and the current withdrawal agreement.\"\n\nLabour leader Mr Corbyn wants to call a vote of no confidence in the government to prevent a no-deal Brexit.\n\nIf he were to win a vote, Mr Corbyn plans to become a caretaker prime minister, delay Brexit, call a snap election and campaign for another referendum.\n\nHowever, in Biarritz on Monday, Mr Johnson reiterated his determination to stop Mr Corbyn becoming prime minister.\n\n\"One of my many missions in life is to protect the people of this country from the appalling consequences of a Labour government,\" Mr Johnson said.\n\nHe added that Mr Corbyn, if in power, \"would also renege, reject, revoke the mandate of the people\".\n\n\"I cannot think of anything worse for democracy or for trust in politics and I very much hope that does not happen,\" he said.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Boris Johnson: \"In the last few days there's been a sort of dawning realisation in Brussels and other European capitals\"\n\nBeginning his final speech at the G7 summit - a get-together of most of the leaders of the world's largest economies - Mr Johnson said that in \"every conversation\" he had had with his fellow leaders, he had been \"struck by their enthusiasm to expand and strengthen their relations with our country\".\n\nHe added the subjects discussed included \"the biggest global challenges confronting us all today\".\n\nReferencing both the fires in the Amazon rainforest and a global decline in biodiversity, Mr Johnson said nations could not just \"sit back as animals and plants are wiped off the face of the planet\".\n\nThe summit comes just two months before the UK is scheduled to leave the EU.\n\nMr Johnson previously said if the UK left without a deal, the UK would keep a \"very substantial\" part of the £39bn former prime minister Theresa May had agreed to pay the EU in her withdrawal agreement - the deal which British MPs rejected three times.\n\nBut, responding, European Commission spokeswoman Mina Andreeva said the UK must honour commitments made during its EU membership, and said this was \"especially true in a no-deal scenario\".\n\nShe said that \"settling accounts is essential to starting off a new relationship on the right foot\".\n\nGuy Verhofstadt, the European Parliament's Brexit co-ordinator, said: \"If the UK doesn't pay what is due, the EU will not negotiate a trade deal.\"\n\nThe SNP, Liberal Democrats, Change UK, Plaid Cymru and the Green Party have all accepted an invitation to meet Mr Corbyn to discuss his proposals to avert a no-deal Brexit on Tuesday.\n\nBut Lib Dem leader Jo Swinson said Mr Corbyn's plans risks jeopardising a potential vote of no confidence in the government.\n\nShe said the discussions should examine how to seize control of Commons business, oust Mr Johnson and install an emergency \"government of national unity\".\n\nThe Labour leader's insistence on being interim leader meant there was a danger not enough MPs would support the vote, Ms Swinson said.", "Gary Copland said he was offered little exam support by the university\n\nA severely visually-impaired student fears he will fail his final year at university because of \"discrimination\".\n\nGary Copland says the University of Glasgow failed to provide him with accessible books, and then marked him down for citing too few materials.\n\nHe said he was made to feel like he was taking up too many resources and was offered little exam support.\n\nThe university acknowledged some shortcomings but said it was committed to \"equality of opportunity\".\n\nMr Copland, 27, told the BBC's Victoria Derbyshire programme his experience of studying law at the university had been \"characterised by multiple barriers, failings, misunderstandings, stress, anxiety and a sense that there is no way forward to resolve the numerous issues\".\n\nHe said there had been \"repeated failures\" and \"huge delays\" in making course texts accessible to him in all four academic years.\n\nIn his first year, he said, he was provided with just one out of 600 texts in a digitised format - causing him to have to retake two exams.\n\nAnd he said even in his current fourth academic year he had received accessible versions of only 3% of course materials.\n\nMr Copland, who also has autism, told the BBC he had also been put at a disadvantage during exams.\n\nHe said tests were halted because of technical issues, exams lasting up to five hours had no screen breaks and in one instance an agreed support worker was barred from the exam room because the invigilator had not been informed.\n\nAnd he said his request for such experiences to be taken into consideration and his grades moderated was refused by the university.\n\nIn letters seen by the BBC, the university accepted Mr Copland did not receive all the reading material he needed during the first three years of his course - and not all of that which was provided arrived in time.\n\nBut it said allowances had been made and extra time allowed during examinations to take into account his needs.\n\nMr Copland and his family made 19 formal complaints about his concerns between 2016 and 2019.\n\nBoth the university and the Scottish Public Services Ombudsman (SCPO) upheld a complaint in April 2019 relating to insufficient reading material being made available.\n\nThe SCPO is still investigating other complaints made during that time.\n\nMr Copland's family said seven complaints to the university - including failings with IT systems, exam results being downgraded and an accusation of victimisation - were not upheld.\n\nThey said five were partially upheld, while the others were rejected - resulting in no action being taken - or were still outstanding, although the university says all but one complaint has been dealt with.\n\nThe University of Glasgow said its Disability Service provides dedicated support for students with disabilities and impairments\n\nThe University of Glasgow said in a statement it always seeked to address the needs of individual students and to offer appropriate support, but in some complex cases \"this can take some time to get right\".\n\nIt added: \"In this instance, huge efforts have been made by both academic and professional support colleagues (aided by expert external advice) to ensure that the student can progress his studies effectively.\n\n\"We are pleased that he is progressing well at an academic level. Preparations for his next year of study have been under way for some time and we are confident that we will be able to continue to support him effectively through to the completion of his studies.\"\n\nBut Mr Copland said that \"little, if anything, has changed\" since he first reported issues to the university.\n\nHe has now been diagnosed with depression, and said he had \"numerous doubts about my ability to complete my studies\".\n\nHe added: \"I do not know what I will do or what will happen if this does not get resolved.\"\n\nFollow the BBC's Victoria Derbyshire programme on Facebook and Twitter - and see more of our stories here.", "Last updated on .From the section Bury\n\nBury have been expelled by the English Football League after a takeover bid from C&N Sporting Risk collapsed.\n\nThe League One club had been given until 17:00 BST on Tuesday to complete the deal, having been granted an extension to Friday's initial deadline.\n\nBury are the first team to drop out of the EFL since Maidstone's liquidation in 1992.\n\nLeague One will comprise 23 clubs for the rest of the season, with only three teams to be relegated.\n\n\"When the news broke at Gigg Lane, fans instantly let out a huge cry - for help, of disbelief,\" said BBC Radio Manchester's Mike Minay.\n\n\"Fans walked away in instant tears, some crouching down to the floor.\"\n\nEFL executive chair Debbie Jevans said it was \"one of the darkest days\" in the league's history, and added: \"I understand this will be a deeply upsetting and devastating time for Bury's players, staff, supporters and the wider community.\n\n\"There is no doubt today's news will be felt across the entire football family.\"\n• None 'It cuts deep, all we want is to watch our team on a Saturday'\n• None How Bury went from promotion to expulsion\n\nBolton Wanderers, also of League One, have been given 14 days to avoid being expelled themselves, with their prospective takeover by Football Ventures (Whites) Limited still yet to go through.\n\nIn a statement on Monday, the club's administrators warned they were on the brink of liquidation, saying if they were unable to resurrect the move the club was \"not in a position to carry on trading\".\n\nHowever they said on Tuesday they would \"continue to work through the night\" to complete a deal, adding there would be another update \"as soon as possible\".\n\n'No-one wanted to be in this position'\n\nThe EFL had suspended each of Bury's first six fixtures this season, requesting evidence the Shakers could pay off creditors and had the funding to make it through the campaign.\n\nIn a statement at 23:05 BST on Tuesday, the league said it decided \"after a long and detailed discussion\" to withdraw Bury's EFL membership \"with enormous regret\".\n\n\"No-one wanted to be in this position but following repeated missed deadlines, the suspension of five league fixtures, in addition to not receiving the evidence we required in regard to financial commitments and a possible takeover not materialising; the EFL board has been forced to take the most difficult of decisions,\" Jevans said.\n\nBury were initially given until 23:59 BST on Friday to either provide the required information or find a buyer to take them over.\n\nWith the third-tier side effectively an hour from being thrown out of the EFL, owner Steve Dale told BBC Radio Manchester he had sold the club and they were set to survive.\n\nThat news subsequently secured them an extension until Tuesday to complete the deal, but C&N Sporting Risk quickly expressed concern it was still not enough time.\n\nAn estimated 300 volunteers turned up at the club's Gigg Lane home on Tuesday to help get the ground ready for Saturday's scheduled game against Doncaster Rovers, but their efforts were in vain.\n\nReacting to news of the Shakers' expulsion, Bury North MP James Frith was critical of the EFL and claimed there was a lack of consistency in how it has treated the situations at Bury and Bolton - allowing Bolton to play games but not Bury, for example.\n\n\"I'm angry. My head is in my hands. I feel Bury is the victim… and those left to pick up the pieces are the town and the community. Yes we will rise again and keep the faith but we shouldn't be at this point,\" he told BBC Radio 5 Live.\n\n\"We have to make this a moment in time for lower league football. We are just the latest victim of this. I have had clubs speak to me who are a default payment on a mortgage away from this.\"\n\nFounded in 1885 and first elected to the EFL nine years later, Bury were playing in what is now known as the Championship as recently as 1999 and have twice won the FA Cup.\n\nNo club has ever dropped out of the third tier before, and the Shakers also become the first FA Cup winners to have been expelled by the EFL.\n\nEngland women's manager Phil Neville, whose mother Jill resigned as Bury's club secretary last week, described their demise as an \"absolute disgrace\" on Friday.\n\nSupporters staged numerous protests in the build-up to the deadline, with former director Joy Hart handcuffing herself to a drainpipe outside their ground and a coffin reading 'RIP Bury FC 1885-?' was placed at the directors' entrance.\n\nGreater Manchester Mayor Andy Burnham also wrote to EFL chief Jevans asking for the club to be granted more time \"given the urgency of Bury's plight\".\n\nHow did it come to this?\n\nAt the end of April, Bury were celebrating promotion back to the third tier of English football, but they were already enduring a torrid time off the pitch.\n\nThe club was already in financial trouble when Dale bought it for £1 in December from previous owner Stewart Day, with players and staff often being paid late.\n\nA winding-up petition filed against the club was adjourned three times before eventually being dismissed by the High Court on 31 July.\n\nBy then, creditors had approved a company voluntary arrangement (CVA) put forward by Dale, which was proposed to help settle some of their debts.\n\nThe CVA meant unsecured creditors, including HM Revenue & Customs, would be paid 25% of the money owed - but also triggered a 12-point deduction in the League One table under EFL rules.\n\nFurthermore, the EFL were unsatisfied Bury had given enough evidence of their financial viability, leading to a string of postponed fixtures while the organisation awaited \"the clarity required\".\n\nOn 9 August, the Shakers were given a 14-day deadline to provide the necessary information or face expulsion. That deadline expired at 23:59 BST on Friday.\n\nHow will it impact the league structure?\n\nThe EFL had already outlined how it intended to balance the leagues if Bury were expelled:\n• None The current League One season would be completed with 23 teams, with the number of relegation places reduced to three.\n• None Four teams will still be promoted from League Two this season, ensuring League One is rebalanced in 2020-21.\n• None Only one team will be relegated from League Two, with two to be promoted from the National League as usual.\n\nWhat next for Bury?\n\nIt is not yet certain what will happen to Bury Football Club, its staff and players or the stadium.\n\nPaul Wilkinson was appointed manager on 2 July, but has not taken charge of a game.\n\nBefore Saturday's announcement, the EFL said if the Shakers were expelled the club would \"be free to make an application to the Football Association to rejoin league competition further down the English football pyramid from season 2020-21\".", "Jo Swinson said the success of a no-confidence vote \"must be the priority\"\n\nJeremy Corbyn risks jeopardising a vote of no confidence in the government by insisting he becomes caretaker PM, Lib Dem leader Jo Swinson has said.\n\nIf he wins a no-confidence vote, the Labour leader plans to form an emergency government and then delay Brexit to avoid a no-deal scenario.\n\nBut in a new letter, Ms Swinson said Mr Corbyn's insistence on being interim leader meant there was a danger not enough MPs would support the vote.\n\nLabour did not respond to the letter.\n\nInstead, the party referred to comments made by its shadow international trade secretary, Barry Gardiner, who on Sunday described Ms Swinson as \"extremely petulant\" for dismissing Mr Corbyn's initial proposal to lead a temporary government.\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson has repeatedly insisted that the UK will leave the EU on 31 October, with or without a deal.\n\nOn Sunday, he told the BBC the chances of securing a new Brexit deal were \"touch and go\", having previously said the odds of no deal were \"a million to one\".\n\nAhead of cross-party talks on how to avoid no deal - due to take place on Tuesday - Ms Swinson said the discussions should examine how to seize control of Commons business, oust Mr Johnson and install an emergency \"government of national unity\".\n\nIn her letter to Mr Corbyn, Ms Swinson added: \"Insisting you lead that emergency government will therefore jeopardise the chances of a no confidence vote gaining enough support to pass in the first place.\n\n\"As you have said that you would do anything to avoid no deal, I hope you are open to a discussion about how conceding this point may open the door to a no-confidence vote succeeding. Its success must be the priority.\"\n\nJeremy Corbyn's plans to avert a no-deal Brexit have been met with resistance by some key potential allies\n\nEarlier this month, Mr Corbyn outlined his plans to avert a no-deal Brexit - which involve him becoming a caretaker prime minister - but was met with resistance from some key potential allies.\n\nMs Swinson and Conservatives opposed to no deal were among those who rejected the idea of Mr Corbyn being interim leader, but Scottish First Minister Nicola Sturgeon criticised the Lib Dem leader's stance, adding that \"nothing should be ruled out\".\n\nMr Corbyn said he would call a no-confidence vote at the \"earliest opportunity when we can be confident of success\". That cannot happen before 3 September, when MPs return from summer recess.\n\nIn order for such a vote to succeed, Labour would require support from across the House of Commons, including the Lib Dems, the SNP and Conservative rebels.\n\nMs Swinson has suggested Tory MP Ken Clarke and former deputy Labour leader Harriet Harman as possible caretaker leaders, and both have expressed willingness to do the role, she said.\n\nIn her letter, Ms Swinson also called on Mr Corbyn to \"clarify\" his position on whether he was opposed to Brexit altogether.\n\nThe SNP, Liberal Democrats, Change UK, Plaid Cymru and the Green Party have all accepted the invitation to meet Mr Corbyn to discuss proposals for an alternative government to be formed when Parliament returns in September.\n\nSpeaking ahead of the meeting, Labour's Barry Gardiner told Sophy Ridge on Sky News on Sunday Labour was offering a \"failsafe procedure to stop no deal\" by holding a vote of no confidence followed by a temporary government to set up a general election.\n\nFormer Prime Minister Gordon Brown told BBC Radio 4's Today programme: \"I think it is more likely Parliament will force Boris Johnson to delay a no deal and the question is whether in these circumstances he will think it is the right thing to call an election.\n\n\"My view is that an election at this point will not solve the problem we have - and the problem we have is making sure that we do not inflict harm on ourselves, by leaving the EU with no deal.\"", "Allegations of ill treatment began to surface at Muckamore Abbey Hospital in November 2017\n\nCCTV footage has revealed 1,500 crimes on one ward of Muckamore Abbey Hospital in County Antrim, the police officer leading the investigation has said.\n\nThe incidents happened in the psychiatric intensive care unit over the course of six months in 2017-18.\n\nPolice are investigating allegations about the physical and mental abuse of patients.\n\nThe hospital provides treatment for people with severe learning disabilities and mental health needs.\n\nTwenty staff, mainly nurses, have been suspended at the hospital since 2017.\n\nAllegations of ill treatment began to surface at Muckamore in November 2017 when it was revealed four staff members had been suspended.\n\nIn August 2018, BBC News NI reported there had been 53 assaults on patients by staff reported at the hospital - five of those incidents were investigated and substantiated.\n\nIn an interview with the Irish News, Det Ch Insp Jill Duffie described it as the \"largest adult safeguarding case\" of its kind undertaken by the Police service of Northern Ireland (PSNI).\n\nSpeaking to BBC Radio Ulster's Good Morning Ulster programme, Det Ch Insp Duffie said police were examining a series of \"very traumatic events\" seen in more than 300,000 hours of footage.\n\nShe said officers were going through the footage \"minute by minute\".\n\nShe said the footage included the repeated physical abuse of patients.\n\n\"Over the period of six months we are looking at a pattern of very traumatic events,\" she added.\n\nDetectives have been watching more than 300,000 hours of CCTV footage from the hospital\n\n\"We have seen the repeated pattern of physical and mental abuse of the patients contained within that ward.\n\n\"These patients would not normally have been able to tell anyone what was happening to them and that is why it is so crucial in this case that we have the CCTV evidence.\"\n\nThe PSNI has been in \"regular contact\" with the families affected.\n\n\"I do believe the families understand and they appreciate the size of the task at hand,\" said Det Ch Insp Duffie.\n\nThe Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) MP Gavin Robinson repeated his call for a public inquiry into the Belfast Health Trust's handling of the \"sorry catalogue of abuse\" at the hospital.\n\n\"Candour has been severely lacking,\" he said.\n\n\"Every element of this horror story must be reviewed. Every system. Every decision.\"\n\nEarlier this month, Northern Ireland's health regulator - the Regulation and Quality Improvement Authority (RQIA) - took action against the Belfast Health Trust over care standards at the facility.\n\nThree enforcement notices have been issued about staffing and nurse provision; adult safeguarding and patient finances.\n\nThe RQIA said it had been working with the trust since February and had escalated its response to enforcement action because it felt it had no other choice.\n\nThe Belfast Health Trust acknowledged the improvement notices and said, alongside sister organisations across health and social care, it was trying to develop a model of care \"which is receptive to the changing needs of patients\".", "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\nBritain's Johanna Konta and Dan Evans came through tricky encounters to reach the second round of the US Open.\n\nBritish number one Konta started in devastating form against Daria Kasatkina, winning the first set in 24 minutes, but was then frustrated before going on to triumph 6-1 4-6 6-2.\n\nBut fellow Britons Harriet Dart and Cameron Norrie were knocked out at Flushing Meadows.\n\nKonta will play Russian world number 61 Margarita Gasparyan next, while Evans takes on French 25th seed Lucas Pouille.\n\nKonta is the only British woman left in the singles after Dart's first appearance in the main draw here ended with a 6-3 6-1 defeat by Romanian Ana Bogdan.\n\nBritish number three Norrie also failed to advance on day one of the final Grand Slam tournament of the year, succumbing 7-6 (7-4) 6-4 4-6 6-7 (5-7) 7-6 (7-2) to French qualifier Gregoire Barrere in a match that ticked past four hours.\n\nBritish number one Kyle Edmund opens his campaign on Tuesday against Spaniard Pablo Andujar.\n\nKonta, who reached the French Open semi-finals and Wimbledon quarter-finals this year, got off to a flying start in what was a tough first-round draw against former top-10 player Kasatkina.\n\nThe British 16th seed did not drop a point on her first serve in the opening set but was then held back in the second when unforced errors crept in.\n\nShe was also left frustrated by a series of line calls that were overruled by the umpire.\n\nShe was particularly angry after a Kasatkina forehand was called out before the umpire overruled and awarded the point to the Russian and her mood darkened moments later when her own shot was called out and overruled only for the point to be replayed.\n\n\"How is 'replay the point'?\" she asked the umpire. \"It's the same situation!\"\n\nShe went on to lose that set but after taking a bathroom break before the start of the third she returned to deliver more of the dominance she had shown in the opening set.\n\nAfter trading breaks early in the third, Konta got the key breakthrough to go 4-1 up, eventually sealing victory when Kasatkina served back-to-back double faults.\n\nKonta glad to win in front of celebrity guest\n\nKonta was supported by award-winning British actor Tom Hiddleston, who sat courtside in her players' box alongside his co-stars in the Broadway play Betrayal.\n\nKonta says she met the 39-year-old, who is most famous for appearing in several Marvel films and BBC drama The Night Manager, when he approached her on a New York street last week.\n\n\"I did the Good Samaritan thing and said to myself, 'Don't bother him, he's obviously busy',\" Konta said.\n\n\"And then he actually said, 'I don't usually do this but I'm a massive fan,' and I was like, 'What, who? Who else is here?'\n\n\"So I invited him to come down and it was a good match for everyone to watch.\"\n\nEvans into second round but Norrie falls short\n\nLike Konta, Evans started his match comfortably, going two sets up against French world number 57 Mannarino.\n\nBut the British number two, who split with his coach David Felgate earlier this month, then became increasingly frustrated with himself as errors began to creep in on his serve and he was broken twice to lose the third set.\n\n\"I haven't felt comfortable, I was frustrated - I didn't like how I was hitting the ball or serving, I was pretty angry, I wasn't great out there,\" he said in a courtside interview.\n\n\"I was fine physically. It was more mental, going through service games - my own games - which I was struggling with.\"\n\nEvans, who reached the third round on his last outing to Flushing Meadows in 2016, is hoping to build on an excellent grass-court season this year which included reaching the Wimbledon third round and back-to-back Challenger titles.\n\nNorrie could not follow Evans' lead despite a battling performance against world number 109 Barrere, who had come through three rounds of qualifying and had started to look like he was cramping in the fifth set.\n\nThe Briton trailed by two sets but then staged a comeback, saving two match points to force a fourth-set tie-break, which he won to take it to a decider.\n\nHe served for the match twice but both times allowed the Frenchman back in and paid the price for his errors as Barrere raced to a 6-1 lead in the fifth-set tie-break.\n\nThe Briton saved another match point but there was nothing he could do about the next one where his racquet was sent flying from his hand by Barrere's powerful winning shot.\n• None Alerts: Get tennis news sent to your phone", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The withdrawal agreement is not Brexit, argues Nigel Farage.\n\nA no-deal Brexit is now \"the only acceptable deal\", says Nigel Farage.\n\nThe Brexit Party leader said his party would fight in every seat at a general election if the government tried to pass the existing withdrawal agreement.\n\nBut he said if Boris Johnson \"summoned the courage\" to pursue a no deal, The Brexit Party would work with him.\n\nHe added: \"A Johnson government committed to doing the right thing and The Brexit Party working in tandem would be unstoppable.\"\n\nThe Brexit Party was launched in April this year ahead of the European Parliament elections, and after former Prime Minister Theresa May agreed to extend the Brexit deadline to 31 October.\n\nMr Johnson has promised the UK will leave on that date \"do or die\", including without a deal if necessary.\n\nHowever, the PM has also said he is still pursuing a deal with the EU, urging European counterparts to reopen the withdrawal agreement agreed by Mrs May and make changes - especially to the backstop clause.\n\nThe backstop is the so-called insurance policy to preventing a hard border - things like cameras and security posts - returning to the island of Ireland.\n\nIf used, it would keep the UK in a very close relationship with the EU until a trade deal permanently avoiding the need for checks was agreed - but critics fear the UK would be trapped in it indefinitely.\n\nMr Farage was speaking at an event in London which saw hundreds of prospective parliamentary candidates for The Brexit Party gather.\n\nHe revealed it had vetted 635 people for any upcoming election - 15 short of ensuring the party can fight every seat - and he believed there was a \"better than 50% chance\" the country would go to the polls in the autumn.\n\nHe warned Mr Johnson not to try to revive the withdrawal agreement - already rejected by MPs in the Commons three times - in any form.\n\n\"I want to make this pledge from The Brexit Party,\" he said.\n\n\"The withdrawal agreement is not Brexit. It is a betrayal of what 17.4 million people voted for.\n\n\"If you insist on the withdrawal agreement, Mr Johnson, we will fight you in every seat up and down the length and breadth of the United Kingdom.\"\n\nHowever, Mr Farage said he would be willing to work with the Tories if they backed a \"clean break\" from the EU and supported a no-deal Brexit.\n\n\"If Boris Johnson is prepared to do the right thing for the independence of this country, then we would put country before party and do the right thing.\n\n\"We would be prepared to work with him, perhaps in the form of a non-aggression pact at the general election.\n\n\"The Conservative Party has lost so much trust that the only way they could win a general election is with our support.\"\n\nThe Brexit Party event took place on Tuesday while members of opposition parties in Westminster were meeting to discuss how to prevent a no-deal Brexit.\n\nCritics of no deal say it would damage the UK's economy and lead to a hard border returning between Ireland and Northern Ireland.\n\nThe SNP, Liberal Democrats, The Independent Group for Change, Plaid Cymru and the Green Party all accepted an invitation from Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn to talk about a strategy ahead of MPs returning from recess next week.\n\nMr Corbyn also invited five Conservative MPs opposed to a no-deal exit, but none attended.\n\nLeader of The Independent Group for Change, Anna Soubry, said the meeting was \"excellent\" and party leaders had agreed to work together.", "I write this after being sent home from work - in floods of tears - by my boss.\n\nI'd been quietly crying at my desk since the light at the end of the tunnel for my beloved Bury Football Club - in the form of prospective buyers C&N Sporting Risk - disappeared. It feels like the plug to my club's life support machine has been switched off.\n\nThis is more than a game to people like me - it's who we are and what we do.\n\nTo have 134 years of history (22 years for me) disappear in a heartbeat has floored me. That Bury FC are no longer members of the Football League cuts deep.\n\nI've been supporting my local football team since the 1997-98 season - I guess you could call me a glory hunter, but I'd argue I was bitten by the Bury bug!\n\nUnder Stan Ternent, Bury had just been promoted to what is now the Championship and we were a very small fish in a very big pond.\n\nAnd despite the club enjoying their best spell of sustained success in decades, I was still surrounded by Manchester United and Manchester City fans at school. That's just the way it was in Bury, which is nine miles from Manchester city centre.\n\nSince then, I've been coming to Gigg Lane week in week out, sitting alongside my brother Adam. He's been lucky enough to have a family of his own and both my nephews, Oliver and George, were mascots on the final day of last season.\n\nWe made their first tinfoil FA Cup - a rite of passage for any football fan - for them to proudly hold aloft at Bury's first-round match against Dover Athletic last November.\n\nThis is a family thing for us and to have it taken away is the ultimate heartbreak.\n\nIn my relatively short time as a Bury fan - there are some who have been following the Shakers for 70 years - I have seen a lot.\n\nWe were the last team to be relegated based on goals scored, instead of goal difference, in 1999. This rule was swiftly changed.\n\nAnd, in 2006, we were ejected from the FA Cup for fielding an ineligible player - a paperwork mishap. When Bradford City did the same six years later, they successfully appealed and got to replay their tie.\n\nFast forward to the present day and we're powerless as fans yet again.\n\nWe can at least take some solace in our memories of this historic club. Nobody can take those away.\n\nThere's something about supporting your local club through thick and thin that makes you appreciate the good times even more.\n\nI've seen three promotions from League Two - away at Chesterfield in 2011 plus twice away at Tranmere - in 2015 and four months ago as Ryan Lowe's men, who hadn't been paid in months, got the one point needed to leave League Two behind once again.\n\nWe watched on as Bury came from behind to beat Leeds United at Elland Road in November 2007 to reach the northern area semi-final of the Johnstone's Paint Trophy.\n\nAnd, 10 years later, I spent Valentine's Day at Gigg Lane with my brother while my now-husband went to support Bradford City at Fleetwood. It's the other love in our lives! (We watched a bore draw against MK Dons while Bradford lost.)\n\nSupporting a lower league club is special: you can have a chat with your manager as they leave the ground, have a quick selfie with your favourite player or have a pre-match tour of the ground (especially without forking out for the privilege).\n\nWe're happy to be 'little Bury', we always have been. We're happy to be the underdog. We just want to watch our team on a Saturday.\n\nDavid Squires, cartoonist for the Guardian, summed it up perfectly in his strip today: \"If the football pyramid burns, even those at the top will eventually choke.\"\n\nWho will be next? And where will it end?\n• None How Bury went from promotion to expulsion", "A carpenter whose hand was left hanging by skin and bone after a horrific accident with an electric saw has had it successfully reattached by surgeons.\n\nAnthony Lelliott, 46, almost completely severed his left hand in two places while cutting floorboards with the power tool.\n\nIt took surgeons at St George's Hospital in South London 17 hours to repair the damage.\n\nThey say it is one of the worst cases they have ever seen.\n\nConsultant plastic surgeon Roger Adlard performed the initial 13-hour operation with his colleague Farida Ali.\n\nMr Adlard said: \"There are many surgeons who, once they'd seen that level of injury, would think it was unsalvageable. [Mr Lelliott] had taken out a swathe of tissue. The saw he used had curved teeth on it. It doesn't just cut a nice straight line.\"\n\nMr Lelliott's hand was still attached, but only by skin and small bit of bone. He had lost a lot of blood at the scene and doesn't remember much about his accident.\n\nHe said: \"I threw myself off the saw. I don't know whether it was my brain playing tricks on me, but it was like an out-of-body experience; I could see myself and see what I'd done. There was blood spurting out everywhere.\"\n\n\"All I remember was coming through the doors into A&E and being greeted by a phenomenal amount of people. I couldn't count them.\"\n\nMr Adlard said once in theatre they realised the injuries were worse than initially thought.\n\n\"We had to join not just tendons and nerves and arteries but put in grafts for every single piece of tissue that we needed to repair.\n\n\"It had been described as a sub-total hand amputation, which was true. However, it had been cut off almost completely in two places - at the base of his palm and again just below the fingers - resulting in a double-level amputation.\n\n\"I knew then that it was going to be a very long operation.\"\n\nIn the first operation the surgical team worked through the night to establish a good blood and nerve supply to as many of the fingers as possible.\n\nAfter fixing the broken bones, they took veins from Mr Lelliott's foot and nerves from his forearm to use in the repair to his hand.\n\nMr Adlard said: \"Farida and I took it in turns, with one of us taking veins from his foot and the other stitching the veins to arteries in his hand using a microscope and a very small needle.\n\n\"Every microsurgical repair takes a lot of concentration, so it was useful to be able to alternate between two surgeons.\n\n\"We did the same thing for his nerve grafts harvested from his forearm and I repaired any tendons that I could.\"\n\nAfter the operation, the doctors noticed some of the skin on Mr Lelliott's palm was infected and dying and that his middle finger was still too badly damaged to be saved.\n\n\"We made the decision that to save the rest of his hand, we'd sacrifice his middle finger and effectively fillet it to help reconstruct the skin and bone which was missing from his palm.\"\n\nThe next problem was finding enough skin to cover the area.\n\nThe surgeons decided to cut a flap of skin from his groin and surgically bury Mr Lelliott's injured palm into this wound and leave it there for two weeks to grow the new covering for his palm.\n\nMr Lelliott, from Walton-on-Thames, in Surrey, has regained some movement in his hand and is having regular physiotherapy sessions to gain more function and hopefully, be able to return to work.\n\nMr Adlard said: \"Tony is very realistic about things. It's never going to be a normal hand for him. We hope that sensation will return to some degree. He already has pinch grip, which is really good, so he can hold a pen between his thumb and index finger.\n\n\"The final function that we are hoping to restore, which will require more surgery, is power grip so he can hold a hammer in his hand or a pint of beer.\"\n\nMr Lelliott said: \"The care I've received has been fantastic and I've got so much gratitude for everyone. Words can't describe it because I was expecting to wake up without a hand. It's just trying to get it to work now. It's unbelievable, really, I'm so grateful.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Emmanuel Macron said the comments about his wife Brigitte were \"extraordinarily rude\"\n\nFrench President Emmanuel Macron has lashed out at Brazil's Jair Bolsonaro for endorsing \"rude\" remarks about his wife.\n\nA supporter of the Brazilian president mocked Mr Macron's wife, Brigitte, 66, in a Facebook post.\n\nThe post contained a photo contrasting the French first lady's appearance with that of Mr Bolsonaro's wife, Michelle Bolsonaro, 37.\n\n\"Now you understand why Macron is persecuting Bolsonaro?\" it reads.\n\nIn response to the comment, Mr Bolsonaro wrote (in Portuguese): \"Do not humiliate (him)... man, ha ha.\"\n\nAsked about Mr Bolsonaro's remarks, Mr Macron said it was \"extraordinarily rude\" and \"sad\".\n\nJair Bolsonaro with his wife Michelle in a presidential convoy\n\n\"He said very disrespectful things about my wife. I have great respect for the Brazilian people and can only hope they soon have a president who is up to the job,\" Mr Macron said at a news conference at the G7 summit in Biarritz on Monday.\n\nThe exchange highlights the acrimony between Mr Macron and Mr Bolsonaro in a diplomatic spat sparked by the Amazon fires.\n\nMr Macron is spearheading efforts to get world leaders to do something about the fires ravaging parts of the Amazon rainforest.\n\nMr Macron has described the wildfires as an \"international crisis\", which critics have blamed on Mr Bolsonaro's anti-environmental rhetoric and lack of action on deforestation.\n\nBut Mr Bolsonaro, whose country is not in the G7, accused Mr Macron of having a \"colonialist mentality\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe right-wing Brazilian president has a long track record of making abusive comments about women, black people and minorities.\n\nOne of his most infamous remarks came during a heated debate in parliament with left-wing congresswoman Maria do Rosario in September 2014.\n\n\"I wouldn't rape you because you don't deserve it,\" Mr Bolsonaro told Ms Rosario.\n\nMr Bolsonaro also caused uproar while talking about his own daughter during a public event in April 2017. \"I have five children. I had four boys, and in the fifth, I weakened and a girl came,\" he said at the time.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. More than 80 firefighters were involved in tackling the blaze\n\nA community in Fife has been rallying round after a devastating fire at a Dunfermline high school.\n\nMore than 1,400 children have been displaced following the blaze at Woodmill High School on Sunday.\n\nLocals have raised £6,000 by crowd funding to help replace damaged equipment and the Visit Dunfermline Facebook page said it had been inundated by offers of practical help.\n\nA 14-year-old boy is due to appear at Dunfermline Sheriff Court later.\n\nSupport centres providing free school meals to Woodmill High School pupils have been set up across Dunfermline.\n\nA local martial arts gym is also opening to pupils affected by the closure of the school.\n\nIain Feenan, who runs Fu Dog with his father, said it was important to give the children something to do and a place to meet while their school was shut.\n\nWoodmill High School has been ravaged by the fire\n\nFay Sinclair, convener of Fife Council's education and children's services committee, said planning had begun into how to accommodate the 1,400 displaced pupils.\n\nShe said: \"Dunfermline has seen a lot of house building in recent years and that has had an impact on the capacity of our schools.\n\n\"The schools are all very full so there is not a nearby immediate solution of an empty building for example.\n\n\"But there are a number of things being looked at.\n\n\"A number of neighbouring local authorities have also offered some support, in particular we are looking to get something in place as soon as possible for those pupils from the department of additional needs.\"\n\nKelly Elliot, who has two children at the school including one who attends the department of additional needs, said: \"It is a lifeline for our special children who attend that unit.\n\n\"My son has very complex needs, he can't just go anywhere else, he's in a wheelchair full-time, he's registered blind, he has learning disabilities, it's not just a case of relocating him anywhere.\n\n\"There's just not enough places in the area for our mainstream pupils in the area let alone children in additional support.\"\n\nShe said she had to take her son to see the damage for himself in order for him to process it.\n\n\"He just keeps making crackling noises because that's what he heard when the roof was caving in, which is distressing as a parent as I don't want him to have that as a lasting memory of the unit when we have so many special memories,\" she said.\n\nMore than 80 firefighters worked through the night at Woodmill High School\n\nShe added: \"We are absolutely devastated by what's happened, all his equipment has gone, it is going to take so much time to plan where all these children will go.\"\n\nHer younger son, aged 12, had just started at the school and had been settling in well.\n\n\"My husband works full time and I'm due to go back to my student education next week, which I may not be able to do because we are all sat at home waiting to see what is going to happen now,\" she said.\n\nJames Calder, Lib Dem councillor for Dunfermline South, said: \"This is devastating for the community.\n\n\"Our big concern is school capacity and how the council is going to deal with it.\n\n\"The children are at a key point in their lives at school. We need to minimise disruption and get pupils back in the classroom as it is a huge stress for them.\n\n\"It is an incredibly major challenge.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "A government advert telling EU citizens what they need to do to stay in the UK after Brexit has been banned.\n\nIn a Home Office radio advert aired in April, listeners were told: \"All you need to apply is your passport or ID card and to complete an online form\".\n\nBut the Advertising Standards Authority ruled the claim was misleading, as many applicants were required to submit further documents not stated in the ad.\n\nThe Home Office said: \"We completely disagree with ASA's decision.\"\n\nThe Home Office advert was promoting the government's EU Settlement Scheme, which allows EU citizens and their families to apply to live and work in the UK after freedom of movement ends.\n\nApplicants must prove their identity, show that they live in the UK and declare any criminal convictions.\n\nIn its ruling, advertising watchdog the ASA ruled that the proportion of people asked to submit further documents was higher than what the audience was likely to believe from listening to the ad.\n\n\"Listeners would likely understand that an official application process of this nature would always require some applicants to provide further information in exceptional cases,\" the ASA said.\n\n\"However, we understood that in 27% of decided adult cases, applicants had been asked to provide documents as evidence of residence.\n\n\"Furthermore, some applicants were also asked for other documents, such as evidence of a family relationship.\"\n\nIt added: \"In that context, we considered that the ad did not make sufficiently clear that, in some cases, applicants would need to supply documents beyond their passport or ID card.\"\n\nIn response to the complaint, the Home Office insisted the advert was part of a wider campaign promoting awareness of the EU Settlement Scheme.\n\nThe Home Office said its website page about the scheme had seen more than five million page views\n\nIt told the ASA it was not possible to include all aspects of the application process in a short ad, and listeners were directed to the scheme's website where there was more detailed information.\n\nIt argued that - regardless of the application outcome - in 73% of cases people did not have to submit any more documents as evidence of their residence.\n\nThe ASA rejected the government's defence and ruled the advert must not be broadcast again in the same format.\n\nIt also told the Home Office that, in future, adverts must make clear that applicants may need to provide additional documents.\n\nResponding to the ruling, the Home Office told the BBC: \"The campaign was factual and complied with all necessary clearance processes for radio advertising.\n\n\"The campaign has had a positive impact and encouraged more than one million successful applications so far.\"\n\nThere are an estimated 3.3 million EU citizens living in the UK - meaning more than two million people have either not registered for the scheme or not been successful.\n\nThe Home Office says it spent £3.75m on a marketing campaign to encourage EU citizens to apply early for the EU Settlement Scheme.\n\nIn May, MPs warned that government risked another Windrush scandal if \"serious concerns\" about the scheme were not addressed.\n\nThe Commons Home Affairs Committee said the scheme had been \"blighted\" by technical issues and some people were struggling to navigate the online application system.\n\nThe scheme has been open to EU, EEA and Swiss citizens since March of this year, with applications currently having to be made by 31 December 2020 if the UK leaves without a deal, and 30 June 2021 if it leaves with a deal.\n\nAnyone granted settled status will be entitled to the same work, healthcare, housing and education rights after Britain leaves the EU as they do now.", "A leaked government document appears to confirm an expected £4bn boost in funding for schools in England.\n\nDetails of the cash injection for education, revealed by the BBC at the weekend, have been published by the Guardian newspaper.\n\nIt follows warnings by heads and teachers of a worsening funding crisis in schools and colleges.\n\nIn the Conservative leadership campaign, Boris Johnson had promised to reverse cuts to school budgets.\n\nHead teachers' leader Geoff Barton said school leaders would \"need some convincing that any funding commitment really does address the crisis and isn't simply part of a strategy for a forthcoming general election\".\n\nIt is understood that the leaked document published by the Guardian shows the education department's bid for funding, rather than a final outcome.\n\nIt includes proposals for how extra funding would be spent, such as higher starting salaries for teachers to tackle a staffing shortage.\n\nThere are also suggestions of measures to improve discipline, such as ensuring that teachers are able to use \"reasonable force\" in restraining pupils and to ban mobile phones.\n\nAnd there would be a further commitment to open more free schools.\n\nBut it is understood that these have been ideas put forward during negotiations for more funding - and that the final deal will reflect Mr Johnson's pledge to put £4.6bn extra per year into schools by 2022.\n\nA one-year settlement would be seen as a stepping stone towards that amount.\n\nThe Guardian's leak breaks down potential increases - including £2.8bn for primary and secondary schools up to the age of 16, including £800m for children with special educational needs and disabilities.\n\nA further £800m could be for two areas which have faced particular funding problems - sixth form and further education.\n\nPutting more money into cash-strapped schools is likely to be seen as a popular grassroots measure ahead of a possible autumn general election.\n\nThere has been a long-running campaign by school leaders protesting about inadequate funding.\n\nThis was backed by analysis from the Institute for Fiscal Studies that suggested schools had suffered budget reductions of 8% since 2010.\n\nThe Department for Education had rejected such accusations, saying that schools were receiving record levels of funding.\n\nBut teachers' unions and head teachers' campaign groups have maintained a constant challenge - writing directly to millions of parents about the financial difficulties facing schools.\n\nFurther protests by head teachers are expected in the autumn term - and school leaders will want to check the detail of any promises.\n\nJules White, the West Sussex head teacher who has organised a funding campaign involving thousands of schools, says there is a \"strong sentiment\" among heads that there must be a \"guaranteed long-term settlement\" and there is transparency in the detail of what is being promised.\n\n\"Once we see the details we will tell parents the accurate truth again,\" said Mr White.\n\n\"If the news is good we will say it but we will not be fobbed off by any election-driven gimmicks.\"\n\nGeoff Barton, leader of the ASCL head teachers' union, said schools would welcome any increase in funding.\n\nBut he warned that: \"Any extra money must be allocated immediately and it needs to be part of a longer-term commitment to reverse the education cuts because the sums of money being discussed are not enough to achieve that objective on their own.\"\n\nLabour's shadow education secretary, Angela Rayner, said: \"Time after time Boris Johnson has backed Tory cuts to school budgets that created the crisis in our classrooms, while slashing taxes for the richest.\n\n\"Johnson shows no sign of taking the action needed to undo that damage, and isn't even proposing to reverse the Conservatives' cuts to schools since 2010.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Sir Keir said Tuesday's meeting was about finding \"a unified approach\"\n\nJeremy Corbyn has met other opposition party leaders to discuss ways of averting a no-deal Brexit.\n\nThe Labour leader had outlined a plan to become caretaker PM after defeating the government in a no-confidence vote.\n\nBut in his invitation letter, he pledged to discuss \"all tactics available\" to stop the UK leaving the EU on 31 October without a deal.\n\nTory Party chairman James Cleverly said Mr Corbyn was offering \"chaos, delay and uncertainty\".\n\nThe SNP, Liberal Democrats, Change UK, Plaid Cymru and Green Party all accepted the invitation to meet Mr Corbyn and discuss his proposals.\n\nThe Labour leader also invited five Conservative MPs opposed to a no-deal exit, but none said they would be attending.\n\nOne of them, former Attorney General Dominic Grieve, said he was not able to make it, but was willing to meet Mr Corbyn at another time.\n\nBrexit Party leader Nigel Farage criticised those attending, saying they were \"very out of touch with public opinion\" and leaving the EU without an agreement was now \"the only acceptable deal\".\n\nMr Corbyn has said if he wins a no-confidence vote, he will delay Brexit, call a snap election and campaign for another referendum.\n\nThe Liberal Democrats, and some potential Tory allies opposed to a no-deal exit, have indicated they won't back a plan that leads to him in No 10.\n\nAhead of the meeting, Lib Dem leader Jo Swinson told BBC Breakfast a plan involving Mr Corbyn as interim leader was less likely to succeed.\n\nShadow Brexit secretary Sir Keir Starmer said Tuesday's meeting would be \"a pretty frank discussion\" about the options available.\n\n\"Today is about, can we get a unified approach that we agree? There'll have to be give and take, but we must have a plan that everybody can coalesce around and that we implement as soon as we can next week,\" he told BBC Radio 4's Today programme.\n\nAs well as Mr Corbyn's no-confidence plan, MPs will also discuss taking legislative measures to block a potential no-deal, Sir Keir said.\n\n\"I think they're direct, I think they're effective. I want something with a legal edge.\"\n\nMPs previously passed a law in April to force former PM Theresa May to request an extension of the UK's EU membership beyond the original Brexit deadline of 29 March.\n\nRepeating that approach would require them to first take control of the parliamentary timetable to make time for the law to be debated.\n\nSpeaking on Tuesday, SNP Westminster leader Ian Blackford said one way to do that would be to amend a motion debated as part of an emergency debate in the Commons.\n\nEmergency debate motions - topical matters added to business at short notice - are normally considered unamendable, meaning Speaker John Bercow may have to give a ruling that one is.\n\nIf successful, Mr Blackford told the BBC, this strategy would allow MPs to pass a law compelling the prime minister to seek a Brexit delay at a summit of EU leaders in mid-October.\n\nAhead of the meeting, Change UK leader Anna Soubry said passing legislation was the \"immediate solution\" for avoiding a no-deal exit.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Jo Swinson said she favoured passing legislation to stop a no-deal exit\n\nOn Monday, PM Boris Johnson said he was \"marginally more optimistic\" about striking a new Brexit deal with the EU.\n\nAsked at the end of the G7 summit in France about the possibility of MPs thwarting plans to leave the EU at the end of October, Mr Johnson said: \"I think it's the job of everybody in Parliament to get this thing done.\n\n\"I think it's what the people want, I also think, by the way, it's what our friends and partners on the other side of the Channel want - they want it over.\"\n\nMr Johnson says he wants to leave with an agreement, but the UK must leave the EU by the latest deadline of 31 October \"do or die\".\n\nAlthough Boris Johnson only has the most emaciated of majorities, the opposition seems to be divided on tactics and outcome.\n\nMr Corbyn wants to be a caretaker prime minister, he wants to call a general election and campaign for another referendum. But Jo Swinson wants to know, does he really want to stop Brexit? Or whether, in a referendum, he would have a Labour version of leave on the ballot paper?\n\nMore crucially, she says the only way for Mr Corbyn to become caretaker leader is to win a vote of no confidence against Mr Johnson. And if Tory rebels won't support Mr Corbyn, she wants to know if he would stand aside for a veteran parliamentarian such as Ken Clarke or Harriet Harman.\n\nAlready her attitude has been described as petulant by a senior Labour frontbencher so that doesn't necessarily augur well for today's talks.\n\nThe most likely outcome is that MPs will try to seize the parliamentary agenda and legislate against a no deal, but that in itself isn't a watertight solution.\n\nThere are two weapons in Mr Johnson's armoury. He has ruled out suspending Parliament in September, but hasn't ruled it out entirely ahead of the 31 October deadline. If he does that, that stops them trying to block no deal at the last minute.\n\nOn the other hand, if MPs tell him 'you're going to have to legislate to extend Brexit,' he can say 'I refuse to do it' and call an election.\n\nWriting in the Independent, Mr Corbyn pledged to discuss all options with other party leaders to \"stop this no-deal disaster in its tracks\".\n\nHe said: \"[No-deal Brexit] won't return sovereignty, it will put us at the mercy of Trump and the big US corporations dying to get their teeth into our NHS, sound the death knell for our steel industry and strip back our food standards and animal welfare protections.\"\n\nGreen Party MP Caroline Lucas, who attended Tuesday's meeting, tweeted: \"Boris Johnson's intentions are clear: suspending Parliament, a crash out Brexit and blaming MPs for the chaos\".\n\n\"We will not be bullied. We will not surrender parliamentary sovereignty to the right wing cabal in No 10. MPs must unite to stop this abuse of executive power.\"\n\nFormer Tory MP Nick Boles - who rejected Mr Corbyn's invitation to talks - tweeted that he would not \"countenance\" a no-deal exit, or \"any undemocratic steps to frustrate the will of Parliament\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Prime Minister Boris Johnson: Brexit \"is a matter for parliamentarians to get right ourselves\"\n\nMeanwhile, MPs from different parties are later expected to sign a declaration pledging to set up an alternative assembly if the PM prorogues - or suspends - Parliament.\n\nMr Johnson says he has no plans to do this, but has not ruled out such a move to make sure the UK leaves the EU by the end of October.\n\nResponding to Mr Corbyn's newspaper article, Mr Cleverly said: \"The alternative to delivering Brexit is Jeremy Corbyn in Downing Street, a man who would wreck the economy, break up our Union, is soft on crime and won't stand up for Britain.\"\n\nHe insisted only Mr Johnson and the Conservatives could provide the leadership needed to deliver Brexit by 31 October, \"whatever the circumstances\".", "The government and HS2 knew that the new high speed railway was over budget and was probably behind schedule years ago, documents seen by the BBC show.\n\nCrucially, the documents were written in 2016, before MPs had signed off the first phase of the project.\n\nIt is evidence that both the public and Parliament were not given the full picture about the true cost.\n\nThe Department for Transport said: \"Like all major, complex projects delivery plans evolve over time.\"\n\n\"We regularly keep Parliament and members of the public updated on the progress of the project,\" the DfT added.\n\nHS2 Ltd is a public company, set up to build a new high-speed line linking London, Birmingham, Manchester and Leeds. It is funded by the taxpayer.\n\nThe line was due to be built in two phases, beginning with a new railway linking London and the West Midlands.\n\nThis would be followed by a second phase taking services from Birmingham to Manchester and Leeds.\n\nPhase one of the development was due to open at the end of 2026, with the second phase scheduled for completion by 2032-33.\n\nIn total, the railway was supposed to cost £55.7bn.\n\nEarlier this month, the government said it planned to review the costs and benefits of the rail project, with a \"go or no-go\" decision by the end of the year.\n\nBut until recently, ministers and bosses at HS2 have insisted everything was on track.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. HS2: How much work has already been done?\n\nOnly last month, the Transport Minister, Nusrat Ghani MP, who is now a government whip, told Parliament \"confidently\" that the programme would be delivered on budget and on time.\n\n\"There is only one budget for HS2 and it is £55.7bn,\" she said.\n\nBut the documents obtained by BBC News show that at least three years ago both the government and HS2 knew that wasn't the case.\n\nIn May 2016, then Chancellor George Osborne received a letter from Patrick McLoughlin, the Transport Secretary at the time, in which he admitted that the first stretch of the railway was already a billion pounds over budget.\n\nThe budget for phase one of HS2, linking London to Birmingham, is £24bn.\n\nThe £1bn overspend did not include a realistic estimate for land and property costs\n\nHowever a former HS2 director told the BBC that the £1bn overspend was considered, at the time, to be \"a very conservative estimate\".\n\n\"Internally the teams knew it was a lot higher than that,\" he added.\n\nThe £1bn overspend is worse than it first seems because it did not include a realistic estimate for how much the land and property needed to build the railway would cost.\n\nThe estimate for land and property which HS2 was using at the time for the London-Birmingham stretch was £2.8bn.\n\nThe consultancy firm PwC found that \"fundamental parts\" of that estimate had been calculated in an \"ad-hoc manner\", according to a report seen by the BBC.\n\nThe plan has attracted fierce criticism from some of those living on the intended route\n\nAnd two senior figures who worked in the Land and Property department at HS2 from August 2015 to April 2016 calculated that, in reality, the true cost was £4.8bn.\n\nThat would have added a further £2bn, taking the total overspend at the time on phase one of the project to at least £3bn.\n\nThe May 2016 letter to George Osborne also shows that a one-year delay to the opening of phase one was already being considered as it could \"bring cost savings\".\n\nCost was, in the words of the then transport secretary, \"a significant challenge\".\n\nThe letter also reveals that, at that time, HS2 failed a critical hurdle called Review Point One.\n\nAccording to a former HS2 director that \"was like saying it wasn't fit for purpose\".\n\nThe BBC has also obtained a Department for Transport briefing note labelled as \"confidential\", written in December 2016.\n\nThe document acknowledges that even with planned savings \"a significant gap to target price will remain\".\n\nAnd it says, following alterations to the scheme, phase one of HS2 would need to open a year late.\n\nThe situation has become a lot worse since the two documents were written.\n\nLast month, a leaked letter suggested that HS2 could be up to £30bn over its budget.\n\nHS2 platforms in Manchester Piccadilly would be covered by a folded roof\n\nBut in December of last year, HS2's chief executive, Mark Thurston, was still insisting everything was fine.\n\n\"We're confident we have a good estimate for the first phase,\" he told BBC Panorama.\n\n\"We are not over budget.\"\n\nThe Department for Transport memo also states that there is a relatively small chance that the stretch of the railway, linking Birmingham to Crewe, which is known as phase 2a, would be delivered on time.\n\nIt puts the probability of that happening at a mere 35%.\n\nThe Crewe to Birmingham stretch is due to run trains from December 2027.\n\nSome commuters hope that HS2 could reduce overcrowding on trains\n\nIn a statement to the BBC, HS2 Ltd said it had \"provided regular updates on the project\".\n\nIt said there had been \"extensive scrutiny\" from the National Audit Office and Parliamentary Committees.\n\nAnd it said that chief executive Mark Thurston had \"spoken publicly for some time about the cost pressures facing the project\".\n\nMr Thurston was appointed as HS2's chief executive in March 2017.\n\nHis predecessor, Simon Kirby, said during his tenure HS2 Ltd \"operated fully transparently in respect of the Department for Transport who were kept fully appraised of all relevant information on the cost and timetable of the project\".\n\nThe new Transport Secretary, Grant Shapps, is due to provide Parliament with a full update on the project next week.", "A problem which saw RBS and Natwest's online banking websites inaccessible for several hours has been resolved.\n\nRBS, which owns Natwest, said both the websites were now both working again.\n\nBoth websites were out of action from 09:00 BST. In RBS' case the disruption lasted seven hours, while Natwest's online banking was down for nine hours.\n\nRBS had suggested customers could use other methods to access their accounts, including mobile apps, ATMs, telephone banking, or going into a branch.\n\nRBS has not explained what caused the problem, but simply said its websites were now \"both up and running again\".\n\nAt 15:00 BST, the NatWest Help Twitter account had told a customer the bank did not know when the problem would be resolved.\n\nAn RBS spokesperson earlier told the BBC that customers were experiencing issues accessing its websites and online banking login pages.\n\n\"We apologise for the inconvenience caused,\" it said at the time.\n\nMark McLeod said the \"sporadic\" access to his firm's bank online was \"frustrating\"\n\nMark McLeod, the owner of Clouds Property Management, an estate agent based in Edinburgh, says his business has been affected by the RBS outage.\n\n\"We've had tenants who want to move into flats but as we couldn't confirm the funds had been received, we couldn't allow them to move in,\" he told the BBC.\n\nMr McLeod said access to the firm's online bank account had been \"sporadic\", but he was able to get into it again recently.\n\nHe said the disruption meant he was unable to see what funds had been transferred to the bank on Monday, a bank holiday in England, but not Scotland.\n\n\"Today was quite a crucial day because it was our first opportunity to see what funds have been transferred to us since Friday,\" he said.\n\n\"It's frustrating. The last thing anyone needs is unpredictability,\" he added.\n\nNatWest is part of the RBS group and it is not the first time that both banks' websites have gone down.\n\nFigures published last week showed that they were the banks with the most problems in the past three months, although Barclays has had the most in the past year.\n\nBarclays reported 33 incidents in the 12 months to the end of June this year, higher than NatWest which had 25 and Lloyds Bank, which had 23.", "The government has released an assessment of the possible effects of a no-deal Brexit on the UK, after MPs demanded that it be made public.\n\nThe document, marked as \"Official Sensitive\" and dated 2 August 2019, outlines a series of \"reasonable worst-case planning assumptions\".\n\nIt was drawn up as part of \"Operation Yellowhammer\" - the name for the government's contingency plan to prepare for leaving the European Union (EU) without a deal.\n\nThe government says it is spending an extra £2.1bn on no-deal planning and is updating these planning assumptions.\n\nSo, what does the document say and what is being done - as far as we know - to prepare for no-deal?\n\nTo ensure more lorries are ready for customs, the government announced last month that 88,000 companies would be automatically enrolled in a new customs system.\n\nThe Port of Dover in Kent handles approximately 10,500 lorries a day. To prevent nearby roads from clogging up, the government has a traffic management plan codenamed Operation Brock.\n\nIf the plan is activated, up to 2,000 lorries will be held in a queue leading to the port. Other traffic will be kept flowing around the queued-up lorries, in what is known as a contraflow system.\n\nA fallback option would be to divert lorries to the disused Manston airfield, near Ramsgate - and use it to hold up to 6,000 lorries on the runway at any one time.\n\nIf further capacity was still required, a \"last resort\" would be to turn the 10-mile M26 motorway into a temporary lorry park.\n\nBut there is a still a lot of confusion, according to Rona Hunnisett, from the Freight Transport Association.\n\n\"The report shows there's still significant detail to be clarified if Britain is to keep trading efficiently,\" she says. \"Businesses can only prepare for, and implement, new processes once, and still need confirmation of what they are to adopt in the way of new practices.\"\n\nThe government has said that it will continue to recognise EU standards for food being imported into the UK, to minimise disruption.\n\nThe British Retail Consortium has said retailers are doing all they can to prepare for no-deal, but will not be able to prevent all negative effects. It stresses that many fresh fruits and vegetables will be out of season in the UK and that there will be a shortage of warehouse space ahead of Christmas.\n\n\"No deal Brexit would be extremely disruptive to the supply chains that we operate, particularly the fresh food supply chains,\" Mike Coupe, chief executive of Sainsbury's told BBC News.\n\n\"There will inevitably be disruption simply because we've never done this before,\" he added, although he also said that previous delays to the Brexit date mean \"there's probably more understanding of what could go wrong and therefore more contingency planning\".\n\nAnother factor is what tariffs (the taxes on imports) will be charged on food coming into the UK.\n\nThe government published a \"tariff schedule\" in March, which removed most tariffs on imports in the event of a no-deal Brexit\n\nThat means some food from outside the EU that currently attract a tariff could be cheaper, but some goods from the EU that are currently imported with 0% tariffs, like beef and dairy, will now carry tariffs, and so could become more expensive.\n\nAt the end of June, the Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) started putting out contracts for freight, warehouse space and fridges. These will be used to stockpile medicines and fly in those which cannot be stored, like radioisotopes for cancer treatment.\n\nOf the £2.1bn pledged for no-deal preparations, £434m has been set aside for this.\n\nThat includes a £25m contract for planes to bring in emergency medical supplies within 24 hours.\n\nAhead of the UK's original departure date of 29 March - then extended to 12 April - the DHSC said thousands of medicines had been analysed to work out what might be affected by supply disruption from the EU.\n\nSuppliers stockpiled an additional six weeks' worth of these drugs over and above the usual \"buffer\" stock.\n\nThis exercise is being repeated to ensure the department is \"as prepared for leaving the EU without a deal in October as it was on 29 March and 12 April\".\n\nSpecific ferry routes were made available for suppliers to book onto 11 weeks before the no-deal deadline in March.\n\nSix weeks before the 31 October deadline, the government had only just opened the bidding process to freight firms competing to transport medicines. So the pharmaceutical industry doesn't currently know which ports and ferry routes will be made available.\n\nSteve Bates, an industry official working with government on no-deal planning, said the time frame to make sure everything was in place for the October deadline was \"significantly compressed\".\n\nHe said the difference for drug suppliers between three months and potentially three weeks to put plans into action was \"material\".\n\nOn social care, the government website advises providers to draw up contingency plans and support EU staff who may be working for them.\n\nPlans are in place to ensure there are enough essential medicines like insulin\n\nIn the event of no-deal, the UK has said it will not impose tariffs on electricity and gas coming into the country.\n\nHowever, if the value of the pound falls in response to a no-deal Brexit, it will become more expensive to import energy from abroad.\n\nThe government intends to remain part of the single energy market, in order for the UK's energy laws to continue to work after Brexit and that supplies are not disrupted.\n\nWater is unlikely to be affected, although there is still a low risk in the event of a chemical supply problem. The Yellowhammer report says water companies are well-prepared and have significant stockpiles of critical chemicals.\n\nThe UK government has said it is committed not to have any physical infrastructure at the border between Ireland and Northern Ireland.\n\nOn 13 March it published its contingency plan to avoid a hard border in the event of a no-deal Brexit. It said it would not bring in new checks or controls, or require customs declarations for any goods moving from Ireland to Northern Ireland, in the event of no-deal.\n\nBut this will only be a temporary measure while negotiations take place to find longer-term solutions.\n\nTo protect people's health, some plant and animal products that come into Northern Ireland from outside the EU, via Ireland, will still need to be checked. The UK government has said these checks will not happen at the border itself, but it has not specified exactly where they will take place.\n\nIt remains unclear what will happen to goods travelling from Northern Ireland to Ireland. Under EU rules, checks would normally be required at the point certain goods enter the EU single market.\n\nThe Irish government says it is securing additional space, and has recruited more customs and agriculture staff to allow for a \"significant increase in checks and procedures\".\n\nThe National Police Coordination Centre will plan the allocation of officers across the country although it has said there has been no intelligence to suggest that any protests will not be peaceful.\n\nThe government has also established the International Crime and Coordination Centre, which is supposed to help the police cope with the change to the UK's relationship with law enforcement agencies in the EU.", "A British composer, an acclaimed musician and their baby have died in a plane crash in Switzerland.\n\nJonathan Goldstein, saxophonist Hannah Marcinowicz and seven-month-old Saskia were in the light aircraft when it came down in the Alps on Sunday.\n\nGoldstein ran a company specialising in making music for TV adverts, as well as composing for screen and stage himself.\n\nHis plane took off from western Switzerland on Sunday morning, bound for Italy, but crashed near the border.\n\nA family spokesperson said: \"We are all devastated by the news of Jonathan, Hannah and Saskia's deaths. We loved them all so very much. They were so happy together, and we will miss them terribly.\n\n\"We would ask the media to respect the family's privacy at this extremely difficult time.\"\n\nGoldstein started out as a music director and composer for the Royal Shakespeare Company and National Theatre, working on productions including the RSC's Othello, starring Sir Ian McKellen, in 1989, and the National's Primo, featuring Sir Antony Sher, in 2004.\n\nBoth were subsequently filmed by the BBC, and Goldstein's soundtrack for Primo earned him a nomination for the prestigious Ivor Novello songwriting awards.\n\nAfter working as a composer and orchestrator for film, TV and advertising, he set up the Goldstein Music Group in 2008. He released his debut classical album, Cyclorama, in 2013.\n\nMeanwhile, Marcinowicz performed a solo at the BBC Proms in 2005 while studying at the Royal Academy of Music. She went on to perform with the London Symphony Orchestra, Philharmonia Orchestra, BBC Concert Orchestra and Royal Philharmonic Orchestra.\n\nSwiss authorities have launched an investigation into the cause of the crash.", "BBC correspondent Stephen McDonell's gas mask face visor was smashed by a projectile while he was observing clashes between protesters and police in Hong Kong.\n\nPolice have been fighting running battles with activists in a third consecutive day of protests, after a call for a general strike caused widespread disruption.", "Thousands of people took to the streets in Srinagar after Friday prayers, in the largest demonstration since a lockdown was imposed in Indian-administered Kashmir.\n\nThe BBC witnessed the police opening fire and using tear gas to disperse the crowd. Despite that, the Indian government has said the protest never took place.", "Gordon Brown has warned that under Boris Johnson the union of England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland is \"sleepwalking into oblivion\".\n\nWriting in the Observer, Mr Brown blamed \"destructive, nationalist ideology\" and said the ideal of Britishness as tolerant \"could not survive\" a no-deal Brexit.\n\n\"We are, at best, only a precariously united kingdom,\" Mr Brown wrote.\n\nHe also criticised the prime minister's new adviser, Dominic Cummings.\n\nIt comes after Mr Johnson travelled across the UK in his first few weeks in office, with No 10 saying he was a \"passionate believer in the power of the Union\".\n\nAfter taking office, Mr Johnson travelled to Scotland to meet First Minister Nicola Sturgeon\n\nMr Johnson has said the UK will leave the EU on the current deadline of 31 October, whether a Brexit \"divorce\" deal - which sets out how Britain leaves - is agreed in time or not.\n\nMr Brown criticised Mr Johnson's government, which he said was driven \"not by the national interest but by a destructive, populist, nationalist ideology\".\n\n\"We must recognise that nationalism is now driving British politics,\" he wrote.\n\nUnder Mr Johnson's premiership, claimed Mr Brown, the UK is \"devoid of a unifying purpose powerful enough to hold it together and to keep four nationalisms - Scottish, Irish, English, and also a rising Welsh nationalism - at bay.\n\n\"What is most worrying is not just that so many think the union will end but how, at least for now, so few appear to care.\"\n\nGordon Brown and wife Sarah outside No 10 as he took office in June 2007\n\nA recent opinion poll indicated that most Conservative Party members prioritise leaving the EU over preserving the union.\n\nSome 63% of respondents said they would rather Brexit took place even if it led to Scottish independence - 59% expressed the same view about Brexit leading to Northern Ireland leaving the UK.\n\nSpeaking later on Sunday at a Fringe by the Sea event in North Berwick, Mr Brown repeated his assertion a no-deal Brexit would be a \"complete disaster\", arguing it would place new strain on the union.\n\nHe also said withholding UK contributions to the EU in the event of a no-deal Brexit would be the \"economic equivalent of declaring war\" and create hostility between the UK and Europe.\n\nHe called for a constitutional convention to consider the future of the whole UK and a new senate of the nations and regions to replace the House of Lords.\n\nIn his Observer article, Mr Brown also attacked the style of Mr Johnson's cabinet, saying the UK's approach to leadership now included \"choosing an enemy and accusing opponents of treason\".\n\nHe described the PM's new adviser, Mr Cummings, as someone who \"depicts the House of Commons as the enemy in a 'people v parliament' election\".\n\nMr Brown also criticised shadow chancellor John McDonnell, who he said \"fell into the nationalist trap\" over comments made earlier this week about a future Labour government not blocking a second Scottish independence referendum.\n\nMr Brown added that Britain needed to rediscover virtues such as empathy and co-operation - and that the idea of a Britishness, which is tolerant, inclusive and outward-looking, \"could not survive\" a no-deal Brexit.\n\n\"To prevent the rise of dysfunctional nationalism, the first step is to stop no deal in its tracks,\" he added.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Dramatic rescues after typhoon Lekima causes floods in China\n\nThe death toll from Typhoon Lekima in China has risen to 32 with another 16 people missing, local authorities say.\n\nOfficials say about five million people in Zhejiang province have been affected, with over one million evacuated to safe spaces.\n\nLekima made landfall in the early hours of Saturday in Wenling, between Taiwan and China's financial capital Shanghai, packing strong winds and heavy rain.\n\nIt was moving further north up the east coast on Sunday.\n\nMost of the deaths were in the city of Wenzhou where torrential downpours caused a landslide, state media said.\n\nThe landslide occurred after a barrier lake - or natural dam - formed, pooling water from the heavy rains before collapsing.\n\nEmergency crews battled to save stranded motorists from floods and searched for survivors in the rubble of damaged buildings.\n\nRescuers search for survivors following a landslide in Wenzhou\n\nIn Zhejiang province, Lekima damaged crops and 34,000 houses. The direct economic loss amounts to 14.57 billion yuan (£1.7 billion), state media said.\n\nFootage on Sunday from state broadcaster CCTV showed rescue workers on boats in Linhai city where streets were completely submerged in water.\n\nLekima has now passed over Shanghai and is expected to hit Shandong province later on Sunday.\n\nCars were left partially submerged in water in Wenzhou, Zhejiang province\n\nMore than 3,200 flights have been cancelled due to the typhoon with Shanghai, Beijing and other cities grounding planes.\n\nLekima is the ninth typhoon to hit China so far this year.\n\nWeather experts quoted by Xinhua news agency said it was among the top three strongest typhoons to have ever hit Zhejiang.\n\nIt was initially given China's highest level of weather warning but was later downgraded to an \"orange\" level.\n\nChinese weather forecasters said the storm, which had winds of 187km/h (116mph) when it made landfall, was moving north at 15km/h.\n\nIt earlier passed Taiwan, skirting its northern tip and causing a handful of injuries and some property damage.\n\nLekima is one of two typhoons in the western Pacific at the moment.\n\nFurther east, Typhoon Krosa is spreading heavy rain across the Northern Mariana Islands and Guam. It is moving north-west and could strike Japan some time next week, forecasters said.", "Police say the suspect appears to have acted alone\n\nA man has been arrested in Norway after a shooting inside a mosque left one person injured on Saturday.\n\nPolice say a gunman opened fire on the Al-Noor Islamic Centre, on the outskirts of the capital Oslo.\n\nLater a woman was found dead at the house of the suspect, police said.\n\nThe suspect \"is around 20 years old, a Norwegian citizen from the area,\" said assistant chief of police Rune Skjold, adding that the man was now suspected of murdering a relative.\n\n\"We consider this a suspicious death... The dead person is related to the man arrested earlier today,\" he said.\n\nPolice say the man acted alone when he attacked the mosque.\n\nThe mosque's director told local media that the victim was a 75-year-old member of the congregation.\n\n\"One of our members has been shot by a white man with a helmet and uniform,\" Irfan Mushtaq told local newspaper Budstikka.\n\nHe later told local channel TV2 that the attacker had \"carried two shotgun-like weapons and a pistol. He broke through a glass door and fired shots.\"\n\nThe gunman, who wore body armour, was overpowered by people at the mosque before police arrived at the scene, Mr Mushtaq added.\n\nPolice sources told public broadcaster NRK that several weapons were found inside the mosque, located in the town of Baerum, following the shooting.\n\nThe mosque had previously implemented extra security measures after a gunman killed 51 people at two mosques in Christchurch, New Zealand, earlier this year, according to Reuters news agency.", "Last updated on .From the section Premier League\n\nManchester United recorded their biggest Old Trafford win over Chelsea since 1965 to condemn Frank Lampard to a miserable start as a Premier League manager.\n\nMarcus Rashford scored twice, either side of a close-range effort from Anthony Martial, who had been given the number nine shirt back following the sale of Romelu Lukaku to Inter Milan.\n\nSubstitute Daniel James completed the scoring with a goal on his debut nine minutes from time.\n\nThe final scoreline was harsh on the visitors, who were the better side before the break and hit the frame of the goal through Tammy Abraham and Emerson, but still suffered their worst ever opening-day defeat in 104 league seasons.\n\nThe ecstatic home supporters did not care about that though, as the negativity of a difficult summer was swept away by their best result against Chelsea since they beat them by the same score in the 1994 FA Cup final.\n• None We have to learn harsh lessons quickly - Lampard\n• None Wan-Bissaka your player of the match\n\nUnited had to pay Leicester £80m - and make Harry Maguire the most expensive defender ever - to land manager Ole Gunnar Solskjaer's number one summer transfer target.\n\nMaguire's England team-mate Rashford may grab the plaudits with his brace but the Yorkshireman's authoritative performance underlined why his new boss wanted him above getting the big name midfield or striking reinforcements so many United fans have demanded on social media.\n\nHis calmness under pressure helped ensure that when the home side looked shaky in the first half they did not add to their concerns with self-inflicted mistakes.\n\nMaguire was happy to keep it simple in possession and push the ball on to Paul Pogba when he could, and had the awareness to spot team-mates in trouble, something former United boss Jose Mourinho rather churlishly said on TV might be frequently needed in the case of Luke Shaw.\n\nThe game was still in the balance when Maguire stepped up to challenge Abraham on the edge of the United box. Maguire calmly took possession, leaving Abraham on the floor in the process, and strode away, setting in motion the attack that ended with Martial bundling home.\n\nLampard went for an early morning run around Old Trafford to prepare for his Premier League debut as Chelsea manager.\n\nThe Blues' record goal-scorer has made some bold decisions already, despite being barely a month into his new job.\n\nHe has picked seven home-grown players in his senior squad: the four in action against United - Abraham, Mason Mount, Andreas Christensen and Fikayo Tomori - the currently injured duo of Ruben Loftus-Cheek and Callum Hudson-Odoi, and promising defender Reece James.\n\nIt is an unprecedented number for the Roman Abramovich era. But, while it is the philosophy of promoting youth from within that Chelsea's fans have wanted, it comes with risk.\n\nFor every powerful fourth-minute shot from Abraham that thunders off the inside of a post, there is the moment Mount had when, presented with a shooting opportunity from an angle on the right of the United box, the 20-year-old elected for a cut-back, which ran disappointingly through for new United defender Aaron Wan-Bissaka.\n\nGiven that investment in youth, this summer's transfer ban and the departure of Eden Hazard to Real Madrid, Lampard took a brave decision to sell David Luiz to Arsenal on deadline day.\n\nThe Brazilian may not be the most reliable defender but his experience is valuable and Luiz's replacement on Sunday, Kurt Zouma, struggled badly.\n\nHe not only conceded the penalty but was also caught out of position and gave away possession, both expensive mistakes in an era when top teams routinely build from the back.\n\nChelsea's inability to stem the flow of goals in the second half will be a major concern for Lampard, whose name was still being sung heartily by the visiting fans at the end.\n\nUnited's opening goal came from the penalty spot.\n\nReferee Anthony Taylor played an excellent advantage after Andreas Pereira had been fouled, allowing play to continue as Zouma brought Rashford down.\n\nNever a regular penalty taker for club or country, two of the three penalties Rashford has scored were in the World Cup last-16 shoot-out with Colombia last year and in the fourth-minute of injury-time to give United their memorable Champions League victory against Paris St-Germain in March.\n\nDay to forget for Lampard - the stats\n• None Frank Lampard suffered the heaviest defeat by a Chelsea manager in his first match in charge since Danny Blanchflower lost 7-2 to Middlesbrough in December 1978.\n• None For a second consecutive season, Manchester United's first goal of their Premier League campaign has been a penalty (also Paul Pogba v Leicester City in 2018-19).\n• None Chelsea will end the day in the Premier League relegation-zone for the first time since 30 September 2000.\n• None Since his debut in September 2015, Anthony Martial has scored 49 goals in all competitions for Manchester United - more than any other player.\n• None The last manager before Frank Lampard to lose by four or more goals in his first Premier League match in charge was Gustavo Poyet in October 2013 (Swansea City 4-0 Sunderland).\n• None Chelsea's starting XI average age was 25 years and 199 days - compared to Manchester United's average age of 24 years and 227 days.\n\nUnited have a full week to prepare for the game at Wolves on 19 August (20:00 BST). Before then, Chelsea play two games - the Uefa Super Cup against Liverpool in Instanbul on Wednesday (20:00) and a home league game with Leicester next Sunday (16:30).\n• None Attempt saved. Emerson (Chelsea) left footed shot from the left side of the box is saved in the top centre of the goal. Assisted by Christian Pulisic.\n• None Offside, Manchester United. Scott McTominay tries a through ball, but Anthony Martial is caught offside.\n• None N'Golo Kanté (Chelsea) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.\n• None Attempt missed. Pedro (Chelsea) with an attempt from the left side of the six yard box misses to the left. Assisted by Emerson with a cross.\n• None Attempt blocked. Christian Pulisic (Chelsea) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Assisted by Mason Mount.\n• None Attempt blocked. Mason Greenwood (Manchester United) right footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked. Assisted by Aaron Wan-Bissaka with a cross.\n• None Attempt saved. Mason Mount (Chelsea) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the bottom left corner. Assisted by Pedro.\n• None Goal! Manchester United 4, Chelsea 0. Daniel James (Manchester United) right footed shot from the centre of the box to the bottom left corner. Assisted by Paul Pogba following a fast break. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page", "Prince Andrew, left, has previously been criticised for his association with Jeffrey Epstein\n\nPrince Andrew was accused of groping a woman at Jeffrey Epstein's US home, according to newly released court papers.\n\nThe accusation is contained in documents from a 2015 defamation case, released by a judge on Friday.\n\nBuckingham Palace said on Saturday this related to US proceedings \"to which the Duke Of York is not a party\".\n\n\"Any suggestion of impropriety with underage minors is categorically untrue.\"\n\nThe court papers were released on Friday, a day before wealthy US financier Epstein was found dead in his prison cell while awaiting trial on sex trafficking charges.\n\nContained in the defamation case papers is an allegation by a woman called Johanna Sjoberg that Prince Andrew touched her breast while they sat on a couch in Epstein's Manhattan apartment in 2001.\n\nShe recalled in the documents: \"I just remember someone suggesting a photo, and they told us to go get on the couch. And so Andrew and Virginia sat on the couch, and they put the puppet, the puppet on her lap.\n\n\"And so then I sat on Andrew's lap, and I believe on my own volition, and they took the puppet's hands and put it on Virginia's breast, and so Andrew put his on mine.\"\n\nThe papers relate to a defamation case brought by Virginia Giuffre, an alleged victim of Epstein, against socialite Ghislaine Maxwell.\n\nMs Maxwell was alleged to have procured underage girls for her then-boyfriend Epstein and his wealthy friends, but she has always denied the allegations.\n\nMs Giuffre subsequently sued Ms Maxwell for defamation after the media heiress claimed she was a liar.\n\nMs Giuffre had also claimed she was forced into a sexual encounter with the Duke of York.\n\nBut in 2015, Buckingham Palace denied this allegation, saying then that \"any suggestion of impropriety with underage minors\" by the duke was \"categorically untrue\".", "England ended Wales' 14-match winning run as Eddie Jones' relatively inexperienced side beat the world number two team in their first World Cup warm-up match at Twickenham.\n\nAn energetic start from England saw Billy Vunipola and Joe Cokanasiga score from close range, before a solo effort from Wales scrum-half Gareth Davies got the visitors back in the game.\n\nLuke Cowan-Dickie then scored his first England try to give his side a 14-point lead before half-time.\n\nGeorge North and Wyn Jones kicked off a second-half comeback for Wales with a try each, but it was not enough to earn them a first win at Twickenham since 2015.\n• None Jones to name England World Cup squad on Monday\n\nWales travelled to south-west London as favourites, bidding to become world number ones after New Zealand's loss to Australia on Saturday.\n\nBut Warren Gatland's side looked as if they might have been working too hard in their training camps in Cardiff and Switzerland, crouching down and looking breathless whenever there was a break in play.\n\nThe visitors brought a strong side to Twickenham, but were undone by an England team which looked eager to impress before head coach Jones names his 31-man World Cup squad on Monday.\n\nWhile many of those starting for Wales will almost certainly be on the plane, England's players had to prove their worth to get to Japan.\n\nEngland flanker Tom Curry and winger Anthony Watson made their presence known early, making breaks to get inside Wales' 22, and Vunipola managed to wrestle the ball down with Wales defenders hanging off him after just three minutes.\n\nIt was not just World Cup spots being played for, though. Any questions about whether this warm-up would have the usual intensity of an England v Wales game were soon settled when a fight broke out at the scrum shortly after the hosts' score.\n\nEngland debutant Willi Heinz then had a dart to within a metre of the try-line, but it was Cokanasiga who picked up the ball from the back of the ruck and drove over.\n\nBut the hosts' level began to drop and Wales suddenly picked up as Davies shot round a scrum and left Elliot Daly lying on the floor, side-stepping the full-back to score at the same end where he went over for a crucial try against England in the 2015 World Cup.\n\nA mistake from experienced forward Ken Owens allowed England to turn the tables again, though. Owens threw his line-out long and England hooker Cowan-Dickie was on the end of it, diving over before half-time.\n\nWales continued to build pressure in the second half as North grabbed the ball off the floor after a maul and darted through defenders to score.\n\nCentre Hadleigh Parkes then cut an impressive line and Wales built through the phases inside the five-metre line, allowing Jones to cut the deficit to five points.\n\nBut three penalties from fly-half George Ford, who did not miss a kick all afternoon, and a Daly drop-goal gave England the 14-point lead with which they finished the game.\n\nEngland head coach Jones had already been forced into three changes the day before the match, with flanker Sam Underhill, centre Henry Slade and wing Ruaridh McConnochie withdrawing from the starting XV because of injury.\n\nAnd England's back-row issues worsened when Curry, originally selected at blind-side flanker but who started in place of Underhill on the open-side, left the field injured after 28 minutes with an injury to his right arm.\n\nBut flanker Lewis Ludlam, who has made only 25 Premiership appearances for Northampton, made an impressive England debut and may have earned himself an unexpected place in the squad.\n\nShortly after Curry's departure, Wales were also dealt a blow as fly-half Gareth Anscombe was helped off the pitch supported by two physios after going down with a knee injury.\n\nThe number 10 was replaced by Dan Biggar, but Warren Gatland will want to take both players to Japan and will not have been happy to see Anscombe return to the bench on crutches.\n\n'All you have to do is worry about yourself' - What they said\n\nEngland coach Eddie Jones: \"We had a good team out there, a good mix of young guys, guys who haven't played for a while, and I knew their attitude would be right. I was pleased for the young guys playing today - it's a special moment for those guys.\n\n\"Wales had a lot of expectation to cope with. I thought that would weigh them down and in the end it probably did.\n\n\"These are tough games, we don't know what sort of work Wales have been doing - we might be at different stages of our preparation. All you have to do is worry about yourself.\"\n\nWales coach Warren Gatland: \"It's all about what happens in the middle of September, it's what we are building for.\n\n\"Everyone's writing off the All Blacks, but you do so at your peril. England probably have a few more headaches than we do. It looked like a pre-season game for us and we will definitely be better next week.\"\n\nThe prospect of the number one ranking was probably a bit of a distraction for Wales. They have been lung-busting in training and you could see that in the opening 15 minutes.\n\nYou got the feeling England slightly tapered towards the game as Eddie Jones saw it as a last chance to tweak his 31-man squad. I can see these two playing a heavyweight quarter-final out in Japan.\n\nReplacements: Tuilagi for Francis (74), Youngs for Heinz (50), H Williams for Cole (53), Singleton for Launchbury (79), Kruis for Ludlam (69), Lawes for T Curry (29), Marchant for Jospeh (79). Not Used: Marler.\n\nReplacements: Watkin for Parkes (68), Biggar for Anscombe (34), A. Davies for G. Davies (53), W. Jones for Smith (50), Dee for Owens (52), Lewis for Francis (50), Ball for Beard (68), Shingler for Tipuric (62).", "Last updated on .From the section Rugby Union\n\nCoverage: Live on BBC Radio Wales, BBC Radio Cymru, BBC 5 Live Extra & BBC Sport website and BBC Sport app, plus live text commentary\n\nWales travel to Twickenham as favourites to beat an injury-hit England in their World Cup warm-up and move to the top of the world rankings.\n\nCoach Warren Gatland has picked a strong team featuring 13 starters from Wales' Grand Slam-clinching victory over Ireland in March.\n\nEngland's experimental starting XV, rejigged after a trio of late injuries, have 390 caps compared to Wales' 676.\n\nWales have won their last 14 Tests, a run that goes back to February 2018.\n• None Slade, Underhill and McConnochie out for England\n\nIf they extend their streak to 15 against their oldest rivals, or even draw, they will overtake New Zealand as world number one when the rankings are published on Monday.\n\nThe All Blacks suffered a heavy defeat against trans-Tasman rivals Australia on Saturday.\n\nAs the teams meet in their first warm-up match before Japan 2019, Wales will be aiming for a first win at Twickenham since their famous pool-stage success in the previous World Cup.\n\nSeven of Wales' starting XV on Sunday were involved in the dramatic 28-25 win that derailed hosts England's campaign.\n\n\"We won't take it lightly, but we have to be confident,\" said captain Alun Wyn Jones.\n\n\"There are a few of us who have been to Twickenham and been successful. We are a settled side, but that does put pressure on us.\"\n\nGatland has admitted that he is taking a gamble by exposing selection certainties such as Jones, flanker Justin Tipuric and full-back Liam Williams to the possibility of injury ahead of their World Cup opener against Georgia on 23 September.\n\nIt is a risk that Gatland has fallen foul of before. Key men Rhys Webb and Leigh Halfpenny were ruled out of the 2015 tournament after picking injuries in Wales' final warm-up match against Italy.\n\n\"Sometimes you have just got to roll the dice and go with it,\" said Gatland.\n\n\"You can't get it right all the time. You are trying to negotiate warm-up games with sides and trying to get the balance right.\"\n\nWales will meet England in Cardiff next weekend, before playing Ireland home and away on 31 August and 7 September respectively.\n\nEngland coach Eddie Jones has made light of the disruption that has blighted his team's build-up to the match.\n\nAs well as the late withdrawal of centre Henry Slade (knee), flanker Sam Underhill (toe) and would-be debutant wing Ruaridh McConnochie (hip) from the starting line-up, it has emerged that Ben Te'o and Mike Brown were dropped from the squad after an incident during the team's heat and humidity training camp in Italy last week.\n• None Jones refused to confirm reports of an altercations between the pair.\n\n\"It's all part of a World Cup campaign - adapting, adjusting, bring people in and out, finding your role. It's a most fascinating time,\" said Jones.\n\n\"I have had four World Cups so I think I know how to prepare the team for the tournament.\"\n\nEven without McConnochie, Jones' line-up contains two players making their England debuts, with another two uncapped players on the bench.\n\nNew Zealand-born scrum-half Willi Heinz, 32, will audition for a place on the plane as back-up to first-choice nine Ben Youngs while Lewis Ludlam, who has made only 25 Premiership appearances for Northampton, is attempting to force his way into consideration in the back row.\n\nHooker Jack Singleton and centre Joe Marchant could make their first England appearances off the bench while prop Joe Marler, who has come out of retirement for the World Cup, is also among the replacements.", "The suspect was arrested in a busy street\n\nA police officer was seriously hurt when he was run over with his own vehicle by a suspected car thief.\n\nWest Midlands Police said the man, suspected of stealing a Range Rover Sport, punched the officer to the ground as he tried to arrest him at 16:45 BST on Saturday in Birmingham.\n\nThe traffic officer was then run over, suffering serious head and pelvic injuries.\n\nA 29-year-old man has been arrested on suspicion of attempted murder.\n\nThe officer was in Moorcroft Road, Moseley, tracing the Range Rover which had been stolen minutes earlier from a woman, police said.\n\n\"As he [the officer] moved in to arrest the man he was violently assaulted and punched to the ground - and then run over by the suspect as he jumped behind the wheel of the PC's police patrol vehicle,\" a force statement said.\n\n\"It's understood the man drove the marked police car for around a mile into Ladypool Road, Sparkbrook, where he abandoned the vehicle and tried to steal another car.\"\n\nThe traffic officer was attacked in Moorcroft Road, Moseley, as he tried to arrest a suspect\n\nThe suspect was later cornered by armed police and Tasered before being arrested,\n\nAssistant Chief Constable Sarah Boycott said: \"This is a shocking attack in which a member of our police family has been seriously hurt while trying to detain a crime suspect.\"\n\nEyewitness Sohail Razaque said he was driving up to the junction of Ladypool Road when a police car came past him on sirens and crashed with another vehicle.\n\nMr Razaque, a manager at Birmingham-based BMV Solicitors, said he then saw a man trying to get into a car.\n\n\"He half got in it, then got back out again and then he tried to get through some metal shutters that looked like it was a shop at the roadside.\n\n\"By then the police were already following him trying to get him to stop, shouting at him to get down.\"\n\nThe man was then Tasered and pinned down, Mr Razaque said.\n\nThe attack came just days after PC Stuart Outten was stabbed in the head as he tried to stop a van suspected of having no insurance in Leyton, east London.\n\nThe Met Police officer Tasered his assailant despite receiving multiple stab wounds to his head and body.\n\nMuhammad Rodwan, 56, of Luton, is charged with attempted murder and possessing an offensive weapon.\n\nHe is due to appear at the Old Bailey on 6 September.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "It was a quiet Friday morning last July when pandemonium broke out at a school in north-east Malaysia. Siti Nurannisaa, a 17-year-old student, was at the centre of the chaos.\n\nThis is her account of what happened.\n\nI was at my desk feeling sleepy when I felt a hard, sharp tap on my shoulder.\n\nI turned round to see who it was and the room went dark.\n\nFear overtook me. I felt a sharp, splitting pain in my back and my head started spinning. I fell to the floor.\n\nBefore I knew it, I was looking into the 'otherworld'. Scenes of blood, gore and violence.\n\nThe scariest thing I saw was a face of pure evil.\n\nIt was haunting me, I couldn't escape. I opened my mouth and tried to scream but no sound came out.\n\nSiti's outburst triggered a powerful chain reaction that ripped through the school. Within minutes students in other classrooms started screaming, their frantic cries ricocheting through the halls.\n\nOne girl fainted after claiming to have seen the same \"dark figure\".\n\nClassroom doors slammed shut at the Ketereh national secondary school (SMK Ketereh) in Kelantan as panicked teachers and students barricaded themselves in. Islamic spiritual healers were called to perform mass prayer sessions.\n\nBy the end of the day, 39 people were deemed to have been affected by an outbreak of \"mass hysteria\".\n\nMass hysteria, or mass psychogenic illness, as it's also known, is the rapid spread of physical symptoms such as hyperventilation and twitching among a substantial group of people - with no plausible organic cause.\n\n\"It is a collective stress response prompting an overstimulation of the nervous system,\" says American medical sociologist and author Robert Bartholomew. \"Think of it as a software problem.\"\n\nThe mechanisms behind mass hysteria are often poorly understood and it is not listed in the DSM - the manual of mental disorders. But psychiatrists like Dr Simon Wessely from King's College Hospital in London view it as a \"collective behaviour\".\n\n\"The symptoms experienced are real - fainting, palpitations, headaches, nausea, shaking and even fits,\" he says. \"It is often attributed to a medical condition but for which no conventional biomedical explanation can be found.\"\n\nTransmission, he adds, \"is largely due to psychological and social factors\".\n\nOutbreaks have been recorded around the world, with cases dating back as early as the Middle Ages. Incidents in Malaysia were particularly prevalent among factory workers during the 1960s. Today it largely affects children in schools and dormitories.\n\nOne of many mosques in the town of Ketereh\n\nRobert Bartholomew spent decades researching the phenomenon in Malaysia. He calls the South East Asian country \"the mass hysteria capital of the world\".\n\n\"It is a deeply religious and spiritual country where many people, especially those from rural and conservative states, believe in the powers of traditional folklore and the supernatural.\"\n\nBut the issue of hysteria remains a sensitive one. In Malaysia, cases have involved adolescent girls from the Malay Muslim ethnic majority more than any other group.\n\n\"There's no denying that mass hysteria is an overwhelmingly female phenomenon,\" says Mr Bartholomew. \"It's the one constant in the [academic] literature.\"\n\nSurrounded by lush green rice fields, the sleepy Malay village of Padang Lembek sits on the outskirts of Kelantan's capital Kota Bharu.\n\nIt's a small, tight-knit community where everyone knows each other, the sort of place that would make many Malaysians reminisce about how their country used to be. There are family-run restaurants, beauty salons, a mosque and good neighbourhood schools.\n\nSiti's family at their home in Padang Lembek\n\nSiti and her family live in a modest, single-storey terrace house, easily distinguishable by its weathered red roof and green exterior. An old, sturdy motorbike she shares with her best friend Rusydiah Roslan, who lives nearby, is parked outside.\n\n\"We rode it to school on the morning I was possessed by 'spirits',\" Siti says.\n\nLike any other teenager, stress affects Siti. She says she felt it most during her final school year in 2018, when all-important examinations loomed.\n\n\"I was preparing for weeks, trying to memorise my notes but something was wrong,\" she says. \"It felt like nothing was going into my head.\"\n\nThe incident at school during the July study period left Siti unable to sleep or eat properly. It took her a month of rest before she returned to her - almost-regular - self.\n\nAn outbreak of mass hysteria usually begins with what experts call an \"index case\", the first person to become affected.\n\nIn this story, that is Siti.\n\n\"It doesn't happen overnight,\" says Robert Bartholomew. \"It starts with one child and then quickly spreads to others because of an exposure to a pressure-cooker environment of stress.\"\n\nAnd all it takes is a major spike in anxiety in a group situation, like seeing a fellow classmate faint or have a fit - to trigger a reaction in another person.\n\nSiti compares her experiences with spirits as having her \"eyes covered\"\n\nRusydiah Roslan will never forget seeing her best friend in that state. \"Siti was screaming uncontrollably,\" she says. \"No one knew what to do. We were afraid to even touch her.\"\n\nThe girls have always been close but the events of the past year have strengthened their bond. \"It helps us to talk about what happened,\" Rusydiah says. \"It helps us to move on.\"\n\nFrom the outside, SMK Ketereh looks like any other Malaysian high school. Giant trees shade its premises and its walls have fresh coats of grey and bright yellow paint.\n\nMakcik (aunty) Zan runs a popular stall across the street selling local rice dishes. She was preparing food a year ago, on that humid July morning, when she heard screams.\n\n\"The cries were deafening,\" the elderly vendor says as she serves up dishes of grilled mackerel, yellow curry and steaming glutinous rice.\n\nThe SMK Ketereh, Siti Nurannisaa's school, sits along a busy road in the Kelantan countryside\n\nShe saw at least nine girls being carried out of their classrooms, kicking and screaming. She recognised some of them as regulars at her stall. \"It was a heartbreaking sight,\" she says.\n\nShe later saw a witch doctor enter a small prayer room with his assistants. \"They were in there for hours,\" she recalls. \"I pity the children for what they must have seen that day.\"\n\nSecurity at SMK Ketereh has been heightened since the July 2018 incident. \"In order to prevent outbreaks from spiralling again, we restructured our safety programme and had a change in staff,\" a senior staff member told the BBC on condition of anonymity as he was not authorised to speak to the media.\n\nDaily prayer and psychology sessions have also been introduced, he said. \"Safety comes first but we also know the importance of aftercare for our students.\"\n\nIt is unclear what such sessions involve or if they have been designed by mental health professionals. He would not provide further details.\n\nExperts like Robert Bartholomew strongly advocate that Malaysian students be educated about the phenomenon, given its prevalence in the country.\n\n\"They should be taught why mass hysteria happens and how it spreads,\" he says. \"It's also important they learn how to cope with stress and anxiety.\"\n\nMalaysian education ministry officials have not responded to a request for comment.\n\nSMK Ketereh is one of 68 secondary schools in Kelantan. But it is far from the only one to have witnessed an outbreak.\n\nIn early 2016, mass hysteria took hold across many schools in the state. \"Officials could not handle the multiple outbreaks and shut all the schools,\" said Firdaus Hassan, a local reporter.\n\nHe and TV cameraman Chia Chee Lin remember a febrile atmosphere that April. \"It was mass hysteria season and cases were happening non-stop, spreading from one school to another,\" says Chia.\n\nOne case in the nearby town of Pengkalan Chepa attracted significant media attention. Students and teachers were described in reports as becoming \"possessed\" after seeing a \"dark, shadowy figure\" lurking around the compound. About 100 people were affected.\n\nGraduate Siti Ain (pictured right) with her mother, who sells drinks and snacks outside the school\n\nSiti Ain, who studied at SMK Pengkalan Chepa 2, says she will remember it as being \"the most haunted school in all of Malaysia\".\n\n\"The scare lasted hours but it took months for life to return to normal,\" the now 18-year-old says.\n\nShe shows us a secluded spot next to a basketball court. \"This is where it first started,\" she says, pointing to a row of tree stumps. \"My schoolmates said they saw an elderly woman standing amongst the trees.\n\n\"I couldn't see what they saw but their reactions were real.\"\n\nA row of stumps, where large Angsana trees used to stand\n\nMalaysia's fascination with ghosts dates back centuries and is deep-rooted in shamanic tradition and South East Asian folk mythology.\n\nChildren grow up hearing stories about dead infants called toyol - invoked by shamans using black magic - and other terrifying vampiric ghosts like the pontianak and penanggalan, vengeful powerful female spirits that feed on the living.\n\nTrees and burial sites are common settings for these eerie tales. These locations stoke fears that feed into superstitious beliefs.\n\nIt's hard to determine what really happened that day at Pengkalan Chapa 2 but officials wasted no time in tackling what they believed to be the source of the problem.\n\n\"We watched from our classrooms as workers came with electric saws to cut down the trees,\" Siti Ain says. \"The old trees were beautiful and it was sad to see them go but I understood why.\"\n\nLike many students here, she sees what happened that day not as an outbreak of mass hysteria but as a supernatural event.\n\nIn 2016 a \"mass hysteria outbreak\" was reported at this sprawling multi-storey school\n\nBut this isn't a phenomenon confined to Islamic schools in deeply religious areas.\n\nDr Azly Rahman, a US-based, Malaysian anthropologist described an episode of mass hysteria in 1976 at an elite boarding school he attended in neighbouring Kuantan city.\n\n\"All hell broke loose\" during a campus singing competition when a female student claimed to have spotted \"a smiling Buddhist monk\" on top of a nearby dormitory. \"She let out a bloodcurdling scream,\" he recalls.\n\nAs more of Malaysia's forests are lost in the name of development, some believe that spirits have lost their final resting places\n\nWitch doctors were brought in to perform exorcisms on 30 affected girls.\n\n\"Their role was to mediate between the living and the dead. But it's important for society today to look to logical explanations behind such outbreaks,\" Dr Rahman says.\n\nSiti Nurannisaa and her family were given the scientific and medical language of mass hysteria to understand the events of a year ago.\n\n\"It would hurt any parent to see their child suffer like ours has,\" says doting father and former military man Azam Yaacob. He insists that \"nothing was wrong\" with Siti psychologically.\n\nIn the wake of the incident they turned to Zaki Ya, a spiritual healer with 20 years of experience.\n\n\"Science can't fully explain the supernatural,\" says Zaki Ya\n\nAt his centre in Ketereh, he greets us with a warm smile. \"Apa khabar, how are you?\"\n\nHe abides by the teachings of the Koran, Islam's holy book, and also believes in the power of Jinn - spirits in Middle Eastern and Islamic cosmology that \"appear in a variety of shapes and forms\".\n\n\"We share our world with these unseen beings,\" Zaki Ya says. \"They are good or bad and can be defeated by faith.\"\n\nIslamic scriptures adorn the centre's bright green walls. Bottles of holy water are stacked up high near its entrance.\n\nIn a corner by a window, a collection of mysterious objects are gathered on a table - rusty knives, combs, orbs and even a dried seahorse.\n\n\"These are cursed items,\" Zaki Ya warns. \"Please do not touch anything.\"\n\nZaki Ya met Siti Nurannisaa and her family after the 2018 outbreak at SMK Ketereh. \"I've been guiding Siti and she has been getting better with my help,\" he says proudly.\n\nHe shows me a video of another girl he \"treated\". She is seen thrashing about wildly on the floor and screaming before being restrained by two men.\n\nMinutes later, Zaki Ya enters the room and approaches the visibly distressed girl. He holds her head and chants Islamic verses, and she appears to calm down.\n\n\"Women are softer and physically weaker,\" he tells us. \"That makes them more susceptible to spiritual possession.\"\n\nHe professes to understand that mental health plays a role in many of the cases he sees, but is emphatic about the power of Jinn.\n\n\"Science is important but it can't fully explain the supernatural,\" he says. \"Non-believers won't understand these attacks unless it happens to them.\"\n\nAn \"anti-hysteria kit\" costs more than $2000\n\nA more controversial approach comes from a team of Islamic academics in Pahang, the largest state in peninsular Malaysia.\n\nPriced at a hefty 8,750 Malaysian ringgit (£1,700; $2,100), the \"anti-hysteria kit\" they offer consists of items including formic acid, ammonia inhalants, pepper spray and bamboo \"pincers\".\n\nWooden pincers are meant to induce pain in a possessed person and drive out demons and spirits\n\n\"According to the Koran, evil spirits are unable to tolerate such items,\" says Dr Mahyuddin Ismail, who developed the kit with the aim of \"combining science and the supernatural\".\n\n\"Our kits have been used by two schools and solved more than 100 cases,\" he says. There's no scientific evidence to back up these claims.\n\nDr Mahyuddin Ismail poses with his \"anti-hysteria kit\" outside his office at the Universiti Malaysia Pahang\n\nThe kit drew widespread criticism upon its release in 2016. Former minister Khairy Jamaluddin called it \"the mark of a backward society\".\n\n\"It's nonsensical, absurd superstition. We want Malaysians to be scientific and innovative, not remain entrenched in supernatural beliefs.\"\n\nBut clinical psychologists, like Irma Ismail from Universiti Putra Malaysia, do not discount such beliefs when it comes to mass hysteria cases.\n\n\"Malaysian culture has its own take on the phenomenon,\" she says. \"A more realistic approach is integrating spiritual beliefs with adequate mental health treatment.\"\n\nIf Malaysia is the \"mass hysteria capital of the world\", Kelantan on the north-east coast is ground zero.\n\n\"It is no coincidence that Kelantan, the most religiously conservative of all Malaysian states, is also the one most prone to outbreaks,\" Robert Bartholomew says.\n\nKnown as the Muslim-majority nation's Islamic heartland, Kelantan is one of two states ruled by the conservative opposition Malaysian Islamic Party (PAS).\n\nUnlike the rest of the country, Kelantan's week follows the Islamic calendar - with the working week beginning on Sundays and ending on Thursdays to free up Fridays for prayers.\n\n\"This is a different side of Malaysia,\" says Ruhaidah Ramli, a sprightly 82-year-old vendor at a local market. \"Life here is simple. It isn't busy or stressful like it is in [the capital] Kuala Lumpur.\"\n\nA woman walks past a mural at the central Siti Khadijah market in Kota Bharu\n\nAre religion and supernatural beliefs related? Academic Afiq Noor argues that the stricter implementation of Islamic law in school in states such as Kelantan is linked to the surge in outbreaks.\n\n\"Malay Muslim girls attend school under rigid religious discipline,\" he says. \"They observe stricter dress codes and can't listen to music which isn't Islamic.\"\n\nThe theory is that such a constricted environment could be creating more anxiety.\n\nSimilar outbreaks have also been reported in Catholic convents and monasteries across Mexico, Italy and France, in schools in Kosovo and even among cheerleaders in a rural North Carolina town.\n\nEach case is unique - the cultural context is different and hence the form varies. But it ultimately remains the same phenomenon and researchers argue that the impact of strict, conservative cultures on those affected by mass hysteria is clear.\n\nTo clinical psychologists like Steven Diamond, the \"painful, frightening and embarrassing symptoms\" often associated with mass hysteria could be \"indicative of a frustrated need for attention\".\n\n\"Might their remarkable symptoms be saying something about how they are really feeling inside but are unable or unwilling to allow themselves to consciously acknowledge, feel or verbalise?\" he wrote in a 2002 article for Psychology Today.\n\n2019 has been a quiet year for Siti Nurannisaa.\n\n\"I have been doing okay. It's been calm for me,\" she says. \"I haven't seen bad things for months now.\"\n\nShe's lost touch with much of her cohort after graduating from SMK Ketereh already but this doesn't bother her - she tells me she's always kept a small circle of friends.\n\nShe is now taking a break from study before going on to university.\n\nOn the day we meet, she shows me a shiny black microphone.\n\n\"Karaoke has always been a favourite pastime of mine,\" she says. Pop songs by Katy Perry and homegrown Malaysian diva Siti Nurhaliza are her favourites.\n\nSinging proved to be a great stress-reliever for the young girl during her ordeal. It helped her gain some confidence back after the very traumatic incident.\n\n\"Stress makes my body weak but I have been learning how to manage it,\" she says. \"My goal is to be normal and happy.\"\n\nSiti and her father Azam Yacob, at their home\n\nOn that note, I ask her what she wants to be in future.\n\n\"A policewoman,\" she says. \"They are brave and aren't afraid of anything.\"", "Women going through the menopause are facing a national shortage of hormone replacement therapy (HRT).\n\nMany of the most commonly prescribed forms of HRT, which helps deal with the symptoms of the menopause, are out of stock in some pharmacies.\n\nThe Department for Health and Social Care said it was aware of \"ongoing supply issues\" due to \"manufacturing delays\".\n\nA spokesperson said alternative HRT products were available.\n\nAffected patients should discuss alternatives with their doctor, they said, adding that the government was working closely with suppliers to \"maintain the overall flow of medicines to patients\".\n\nSeveral women have told to the BBC how they have been affected, with one saying she feels \"absolutely devastated\" and another suffering \"considerable discomfort and distress\".\n\nChair of the Royal College of GPs Professor Helen Stokes-Lampard said the reasons for the delays were unclear.\n\n\"We know that there are the generic phrases like 'supply issues' and 'manufacturing problems,'\" she said.\n\n\"But because it's commercially sensitive... nobody will be honest with the public and the NHS. So it's frustrating.\"\n\nSpeaking to BBC Radio 4's PM programme, she said: \"It's really complicated and as a GP myself it's an intensely frustrating problem.\n\n\"Occasionally over the years we've had shortages of drugs and we have to deal with that. But the last six months in particular have been spectacularly difficult for HRT.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Menopause: what are the symptoms and why does it happen?\n\nShe urged women on HRT to start thinking about their getting their repeat prescriptions earlier than usual.\n\nShe said if patients found their pharmacies were out of stock of their prescription, they should ask the pharmacist what similar treatments were available and feed that back to their GP surgery.\n\nOne woman, Rachel, said her HRT went out of stock at the end of last year and she has struggled to find something as effective.\n\n\"In the meantime I have been tearful, angry, overwhelmed at work, tired and have struggled with some physical symptoms. I simply haven't been me.\n\n\"I know none of it is life-threatening, but the impact on life, work and family is greater than I'd ever expected.\"\n\nAnother woman, Judie, said she has had unwanted side effects after being forced to try alternative HRT, while Joan said: \"[I am] absolutely devastated.\n\n\"I cannot function without my medication. I lose concentration, confidence. I am sleep deprived and constantly anxious.\"\n\nMeanwhile, Ava, a trans woman who is taking HRT, said: \"As I'm sure you can imagine, the realisation that my ability to continue on the course I've committed myself to for the last three years is dependent on such a fragile supply chain is not a happy one and leaves me feeling rather anxious whenever my supply gets low.\"\n\nProf Stokes-Lampard said it was not clear how long the shortages would continue. Some products were experiencing a \"temporary blip\", she said, but for others it would be into early next year before the supply problems were fixed.\n\nHRT is the most common treatment for menopausal symptoms such as hot flushes and night sweats, and involves taking oestrogen to replace the decline in the body's own levels, the NHS website says.\n\nIt is available as tablets, skin patches, a gel to rub into the skin or implants.\n\nAround a million women in the UK use treatment for menopausal symptoms, according to the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence.", "Richard Gere called on the Italian government to stop \"demonising people\"\n\nHollywood star Richard Gere has called upon the Italian government to assist migrants who have been stranded on a Spanish charity boat in the Mediterranean for more than a week.\n\nThe Italian government needed to stop \"demonising people\", the actor said.\n\nMr Gere boarded the vessel on Friday, which has been blocked from entering Italian waters.\n\nItaly's Deputy Prime Minister Matteo Salvini hit back, saying Mr Gere should take the 160 migrants to Hollywood.\n\nMr Gere, who visited the Open Arms ship in a show of support, joined a news conference on the Italian island of Lampedusa calling for the migrants to be allowed to dock.\n\nHe made comparisons between Mr Salvini, who is also interior minister and has made repeated efforts to block migrant ships from docking in Italy, and US President Donald Trump, who has faced widespread criticism for his immigration policies.\n\n\"We have our problems with refugees coming from Honduras, Salvador, Nicaragua, Mexico... It's very similar to what you are going through here,\" he said, accusing politicians in both Italy and the US of demonising migrants.\n\n\"This has to stop everywhere on this planet now. And it will stop if we say stop,\" he added.\n\nIt didn't take Mr Salvini long to respond.\n\n\"Given this generous millionaire is voicing concern for the fate of the Open Arms migrants, we thank him: he can take back to Hollywood, on his private plane, all the people aboard and support them in his villas. Thank you Richard!\" he said in a statement.\n\nMr Salvini has pushed through sanctions on NGO boats that aim to bring migrants rescued at sea to Italy.", "Thousands of demonstrators demanded free elections in a rally in Moscow\n\nTens of thousands have attended Moscow's largest opposition rally since 2011, independent monitors say.\n\nUp to 60,000 people reportedly gathered in the rain to demand fair elections.\n\nThe protest was officially authorised but dozens of people were arrested as they moved to other parts of the city, many outside President Vladimir Putin's offices in the city centre.\n\nUnauthorised rallies on the last two Saturdays saw hundreds detained. This is the fifth demonstration in a month.\n\nMany Muscovites are unhappy that opposition candidates have been banned from running in municipal elections in September, but anger has increased after apparent incidences of police brutality in previous weeks.\n\nProtests in solidarity with Moscow in several other Russian cities on Saturday also saw dozens of people detained.\n\nThis protest and one on 20 July were authorised by the city authorities.\n\nThe latest arrests took place after groups of demonstrators left the official rally outside the city centre. Protest leaders had encouraged people to join an unauthorised \"stroll\" afterwards.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Protesters were urged to join an unauthorised \"stroll\" after the rally\n\nAn organisation that tracks participants in demonstrations, The White Counter, counted 49,900 people at the authorised march in Moscow.\n\nBut it later said more people had arrived through side streets, boosting numbers above 50,000.\n\nSome protesters carried placards with slogans such as \"Give us the right to vote!\" and \"You've lied to us enough\".\n\nOthers held up pictures of activists arrested at earlier demonstrations.\n\nRussian opposition figure Lyubov Sobol was detained near her office in Moscow\n\nOpposition politician, Lyubov Sobol, an ally of Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny, was detained by police ahead of the protest.\n\nAround 600 people were arrested after an unauthorised protest last weekend, amid reports of police violence. More than 1,000 were detained the week before.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Mesut Ozil and Sead Kolasinac were involved in a carjacking attempt by an armed gang last month\n\nTwo men have been charged with a public order offence connected to an Arsenal player, police have said.\n\nFerhat Ercan, of Highgate, and Salaman Ekinci, of Tottenham, were arrested on Thursday outside the north London home of Gunners star Mesut Ozil.\n\nOzil and Sead Kolasinac were not in Arsenal's squad for Sunday's Premier League opener at Newcastle due to \"further security incidents\".\n\nBoth players were targeted by carjackers in north London last month.\n\nAccording to reports, the men were arrested after becoming involved in an altercation with security staff outside Ozil's home.\n\n\"Two men have been charged under Section 4a of the Public Order Act following an incident in Camden on Thursday, 8 August,\" the Met said.\n\nMr Ercan and Mr Ekinci, both 27, are due to appear at Highbury Corner Magistrates' Court on 6 September.\n\nPolice said they were treating the public order offence and the attempted car-jacking as separate incidents.\n\nSead Kolasinac and Mesut Ozil were left out of the squad for Sunday's game against Newcastle\n\nMidfielder Ozil, 30, and defender Kolasinac, 26, were left out of a friendly against Lyon following the attempted car-jacking in Golders Green in July.\n\nAfter the attack, Kolasinac posted a picture of himself and Ozil on social media and added: \"Think we're fine.\"\n\nArsenal said on Friday the players had been left out of Sunday's squad following \"further security incidents which are being investigated by the police\".\n\n\"The welfare of our players and their families is always a top priority and we have taken this decision following discussion with the players and their representatives,\" the club said.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The National Grid's operations director explains why nearly one million people lost power on Friday\n\nNational Grid has said it will \"learn the lessons\" after nearly one million people across England and Wales lost power on Friday.\n\nBut director of operations Duncan Burt told the BBC that its systems \"worked well\" after the \"incredibly rare event\" of two power stations disconnecting.\n\nHe said he did not believe that a cyber-attack or unpredictable wind power generation was to blame.\n\nThe government has announced an investigation into what happened.\n\nBusiness Secretary Andrea Leadsom said she is asking the Energy and Emergencies Executive Committee to carry out the investigation, which will look at whether National Grid's procedures are \"fit for purpose\".\n\nRegulator Ofgem has demanded an \"urgent detailed report\" into what went wrong.\n\nIt said it could take enforcement action, including a fine, after train passengers were stranded, traffic lights failed to work and thousands of homes lost power during the blackout.\n\nNational Grid power was restored by 17:40 BST on Friday but some train services continued to be disrupted on Saturday.\n\nThe power cut happened at about 17:00 BST on Friday, National Grid said, with blackouts across the midlands, the south east, south west, north west and north east of England, and Wales.\n\nNational Grid said its systems were not to blame.\n\nIndustry experts said a gas-fired power station at Little Barford, Bedfordshire, failed at 16:58 followed, two minutes later, by the Hornsea offshore wind farm disconnecting from the grid.\n\nSpeaking on BBC Radio 4's Today programme, Mr Burt acknowledged the \"immense disruption\" the blackout had caused.\n\nHe said the near-simultaneous loss of two generators was more than the grid was routinely prepared for, prompting automatic safety systems to shut off power to some places.\n\n\"We think that worked well; we think the safety protection systems across the industry, on generators and on the network, worked well to secure and keep the grid safe, to make sure that we preserved power to the vast proportion of the country,\" he said.\n\nBut he said the industry needed to examine whether these safety systems were set up correctly to have \"minimal impact\" on people's daily lives.\n\nRWE, owner of the Little Barford power station, said it shut down temporarily on Friday as a routine response to a technical issue, and called for National Grid and Ofgem to investigate the \"wider system issues\".\n\nAnd Orsted, the owner of the Hornsea offshore wind farm, said automatic systems on Hornsea One \"significantly reduced\" power around the same time others failed.\n\nA spokesperson added: \"We are investigating the cause, working closely with National Grid System Operator, which balances the UK's electricity system.\"\n\nPolice were called to help travellers during the huge disruption on the railways on Friday, with delayed passengers stranded for hours.\n\nDisruption continued into Saturday for some routes.\n\nGovia Thameslink Railway (GTR), which operates Thameslink, Southern, Great Northern and Gatwick Express, says it is investigating why the power cut had such a severe effect on its trains.\n\nThameslink trains were particularly badly impacted as GTR had to deploy technicians to manually restart trains north of London.\n\nAll services in and out of King's Cross station were suspended during Friday's rush hour\n\nShadow business and energy secretary Rebecca Long Bailey said the impact of the power cut was \"unacceptable\" at a time when National Grid reported £1.8bn in profits and increased dividends to shareholders.\n\nYesterday's power outage caused chaos for thousands of rail passengers left stranded as the electric trains they were on ground to a halt when the power supply went dead.\n\nBut although the National Grid restored power inside a couple of hours, many passengers remained stuck on hot, stuffy trains because the drivers couldn't get them started again and had to wait for technicians to come out.\n\nThe trains worst affected are the relatively new Class 700 and Class 717 commuter trains built in Germany by Siemens to specifications laid down by the Department for Transport.\n\nThey were introduced onto the British network for Thameslink and Great Northern services from 2014.\n\nWhen the power died, the trains would have switched to back up batteries to keep essential systems going.\n\nPassengers on a train near Kentish Town station got off and began walking along the tracks\n\nBut getting the trains restarted once the power came back was not straightforward. Drivers found that in some cases the on-board computers had shut systems down more fully, so a technician was needed.\n\nThe Class 700 fleet is normally fast and efficient, but GTR has already launched an investigation with Network Rail and Siemens to examine what went wrong this time.\n\nAnd it's likely that the manufacturers will be asked to examine how they respond to serious power failures in future.\n\nBattery performance is also likely to come under scrutiny - a back-up diesel generator cannot be fitted to these trains because they spend much of their lives in long tunnels.\n\nKing's Cross was one of the worst-hit stations, with all trains suspended for several hours.\n\nPassenger Dayna McAlpine told BBC Radio 5 Live her train took nearly 13 hours to reach London King's Cross from Edinburgh - a journey which would normally take less than five hours.\n\n\"By hour seven things were starting to get pretty tense,\" she said. \"People were threatening to self-evacuate off the train... Food ran out about five hours ago.\"\n\nOthers on social media reported having travelled for 12 hours, while some rail passengers were stuck on trains until the early hours of the morning.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Joshua Carr This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy 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 the worst point of the power cut, about 500,000 people were affected in Western Power Distribution's area - including 44,500 customers in Wales - while 110,000 Northern Powergrid customers also lost power.\n\nIn London and south-east England, 300,000 people were affected, UK Power Networks said, and another 26,000 customers were without power in north-west England.\n\nNorthern Powergrid said the problems had affected Newcastle airport and city's metro system.\n\nBBC Radio 5 Live listener Ed, in Woodford Green, north-east London, said he felt \"totally cut off\" as mobile phone networks were also down.\n\n\"You heard all the alarms going off all around. Everything else was pretty eerie and quiet,\" he said. \"There was no way we could know anything - it could be any reason that the power had gone down.\"\n\nA staff member guides train passengers by torchlight at Clapham Junction station in London\n\nAt Ipswich Hospital, a back-up generator which was supposed to supply power to outpatient areas did not work after the power cut, causing problems for 15 minutes before power was restored.", "The fire happened at a house in Heckmondwike, Kirklees\n\nA 17-year-old boy is in a serious condition in hospital after an arson attack in West Yorkshire.\n\nEmergency services were called to a house on Stonedene Court, Heckmondwike, Kirklees, at about 04:10 BST.\n\nFour people in the house managed to escape the fire by jumping from upstairs windows, with the teenage boy suffering burns and an injury from jumping.\n\nWest Yorkshire Police said the attack was being treated as attempted murder.\n\nThe 17-year-old's condition is described as serious but stable.\n\nA woman and two girls, aged 16 and 11, needed treatment for the effects of breathing in smoke.\n\nPolice said the attack was \"very serious\" and could easily have been fatal for the family.\n\nPolice said the occupants escaped by jumping from upstairs windows\n\nDet Supt Mark Swift said: \"This is clearly a very serious incident in which a male has suffered burn injuries and three females have also suffered smoke inhalation.\n\n\"It took place at a time of night when a family were at home sleeping and could quite easily have had fatal consequences for those inside.\n\n\"We are treating this incident as an attempted murder and I am appealing to members of the public for information.\"\n\nDet Supt Swift said it was likely the attackers were also injured and anyone with information - particularly about men or boys buying petrol in cans from garages - should call 101.\n\n\"It is quite possible the suspects will have suffered some injuries as a result of lighting the fire and I would like to speak to anyone who has information about males having turned up at home this morning with burns,\" he said.\n\nPolice also want to hear from anyone who saw suspicious behaviour, or who has CCTV images of the area.\n\nPolice investigators have been collecting material from the scene of the 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.", "Prince Harry wore the frockcoat uniform of the Blues and Royals during his wedding\n\nRoyal Air Force personnel will be allowed to grow beards under new rules aiming to promote inclusivity.\n\nThe hair-raising move, which comes into force on 1 September, will allow serving members to wear \"a smart, neatly-trimmed, full set beard\".\n\nThe RAF has insisted members will still have to maintain \"high standards of appearance\".\n\n\"Scraggly or patchy beards will not be accepted,\" a Ministry of Defence spokesman said.\n\nThe RAF says: \"This move will help broaden the recruitment pool, promote inclusivity and help us retain our highly-skilled personnel.\"\n\nBeards were originally banned in the RAF for historical and practical reasons - hair makes it harder for gas masks and other breathing apparatus to form an airtight seal around a person's face, according to the spokesman.\n\nThe new rules, which will cover both regular and reserve personnel, will be confirmed in a routine internal notice.\n\nThere are no plans to revise the rules for facial hair in the Army, where only moustaches are allowed.\n\nUnder current rules in the Army, beards are permitted for operational reasons, such as covert operations.\n\nCertain appointments and military ranks, such as Pioneer Sergeants, Drum Majors, Pipe Majors, Bugle Majors and Goat Majors are allowed beards.\n\nNavy personnel hoping to grow a beard currently have to get approval from their commanding officer.\n\nThey are then allowed a certain amount of time to grow their facial hair, before having to present their beards for inspection, a government spokesperson said.\n\nIt's yet to be confirmed whether beard-growing in the RAF will operate in the same way.\n\nAll three services allow beards on religious grounds.\n\nPrince Harry was given special permission from the Queen to keep his beard during his wedding as he chose to wear his Army uniform during the ceremony.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Why Caroline Lucas wants an all-female \"emergency cabinet\"\n\nCaroline Lucas has asked 10 female politicians from all parties to join her in forming an \"emergency cabinet\" in a bid to stop a no-deal Brexit.\n\nWriting in the Guardian, the Green Party MP said the all-women cabinet could \"bring a different perspective\".\n\nMs Lucas, whose party wants another Brexit referendum, said the aim would be to force a no-confidence vote in Prime Minister Boris Johnson.\n\nShe would then hope to form a \"national unity government\".\n\nThis arrangement - when a group of MPs of multiple parties choose to work together and form a government - has not been seen since the Second World War.\n\nIn her Guardian article, Ms Lucas - a former Green Party leader - said the national unity government would \"press the pause button\" and organise another referendum offering a choice between staying in the EU or the government's Brexit plan, whether that is an agreed deal or no deal.\n\n\"In my experience, women tend to be less tribal, they tend to find it easier to establish trust more quickly,\" she told BBC Radio 4's Today programme.\n\nShe also added that her proposed unity government would have to be led by a female Labour MP, as they would be representing the largest opposition party.\n\nBut her idea was criticised by International Trade Secretary Liz Truss, who tweeted: \"Is there anything more sexist than claiming your gender determines your worldview/behaviour/attitude?\"\n\nAmong the women Ms Lucas has invited to join her are Labour's shadow foreign secretary Emily Thornberry, Liberal Democrat leader Jo Swinson, Scotland's First Minister Nicola Sturgeon, Conservative MP Justine Greening, and Plaid Cymru Westminster leader Liz Saville Roberts.\n\nThe others are: Heidi Allen, Kirsty Blackman, Yvette Cooper, Sylvia Hermon, and Anna Soubry. She has asked to meet the 10 women in the coming days.\n\nOn Monday, Ms Lucas told the BBC she had received responses from five of the women she has written to, expressing differing levels of interest.\n\nShe added she wasn't completely against involving men - for instance accepting that a key anti-Brexit campaigner like Dominic Grieve could be given a cabinet seat.\n\nMs Thornberry tweeted a reply to say she would not be able to take part in the planned talks because she is currently on holiday.\n\nShe added that returning the issue of Brexit \"to the people\" was the \"best route to go down at this point\".\n\n\"My fear with the other suggested route - imposing some alternative coalition government without any reference to the public - would risk worsening the feelings of anger and resentment towards 'Westminster' that have led us into this Brexit mess,\" she added.\n\nMs Saville Roberts welcomed Ms Lucas's bid to break the deadlock over Brexit, but said she was \"not entirely comfortable\" that only women would be involved.\n\nMs Lucas's suggestion has also attracted widespread discussion on social media, with many people expressing criticism.\n\nLabour's shadow home secretary Diane Abbott tweeted it \"won't work... whatever the gender of the participants\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Diane Abbott This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nLabour MP Clive Lewis called it a \"very interesting proposal\", but asked: \"Where are the BAME women politicians?\"\n\nMs Lucas replied to him, saying she agreed that the list should be opened out further and she would love Ms Abbott to be involved.", "Marina Wheeler says she is 'cancer-free' after undergoing two operations\n\nThe estranged wife of Boris Johnson has urged women \"to make time\" for smear tests after having surgery, following her cervical cancer diagnosis in May.\n\nMarina Wheeler QC had two operations after a routine screening revealed she had developed the disease, she told the Sunday Times.\n\nThe 54-year-old now considers herself \"cancer-free\", she added.\n\nShe said: \"I know the take-up of smear tests is way down. I know they can save your life.\n\n\"If people are willing to listen - as they seem to be - why not say so? Why be afraid?\n\n\"I would urge other women to make the time and do the tests.\"\n\nDescribing her own reaction in May, after a doctor told her of her cancer diagnosis, she said she thought: \"That's absurd. I have no time for this.\n\n\"Quite apart from everything else, I have a book to write.\"\n\nShe said her experience made her appreciate \"the incalculable value of holding close those who you love and trust\".\n\nMs Wheeler is the second wife of Prime Minister Johnson and the couple share four children.\n\nThe UK's leading cervical cancer charity said it is \"fantastic\" Ms Wheeler has talked so openly to raise awareness of the disease, which affects women of all ages.\n\nRobert Music, of Jo's Cervical Cancer Trust, said: \"Cancer can be very isolating and Marina's story may help others facing diagnosis feel less alone.\n\n\"While cervical screening does not prevent against all cervical cancers, it provides a high degree of protection against the disease.\n\n\"By using her experience to highlight the importance of the test, Marina may prevent others from going through the same as her.\"\n• None What happens during a smear test- - BBC News", "Martin Broom, 29, was killed in a hammer attack as he slept at home\n\nA man 'in women's clothes' and a bloodied wrench may hold the key to a 30-year-old murder probe, say police.\n\nMartin Broom, 29, was killed in a hammer attack in Boreham near Chelmsford in 1989. No-one has ever been charged with his murder.\n\nPolice have released four key leads they want the public's help with as they seek Mr Broom's killer.\n\nHis family had \"spent 30 years waiting for justice\", said a spokesman, urging witnesses \"to do the right thing\".\n\nMr Broom was beaten to death at his home in Sussex Close on 22 July. The murder weapon, a small hammer, was found at the scene and a bloodstained wrench was also recovered.\n\nThere was no sign of forced entry and nothing was stolen, though the house appeared to have been searched.\n\nEssex Police made several arrests but now want information linked to four strands.\n\nMartin Broom lived in Sussex Close in Boreham, near Chelmsford\n\nMr Broom's childhood friend Ian Lawrence said he would not be forgotten.\n\n\"Every year I think of him. I keep hoping someone will be caught, with advances in forensic techniques,\" he said.\n\n\"It makes me very sad. I've got married, had children, a family, and all that was taken away from him at 29.\"\n\nA police spokesman said all new leads would be followed up.\n\n\"Three decades is a long time, during which loyalties change and people, who felt unable to come forward to us before, may feel now is the time to do the right thing,\" she added.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The UK Labour Party deputy leader Tom Watson has spoken out against a second Scottish independence referendum.\n\nIt follows comments by shadow chancellor John McDonnell that a future Labour government would not block another vote.\n\nMr Watson said another referendum \"is not the answer\" to Tory austerity and Brexit.\n\nHe added that he fully endorsed the position of Scottish Labour leader Richard Leonard.\n\nHis intervention comes after Mr McDonnell told an audience in Edinburgh last week that any decision about holding an independence vote would be up to the Scottish Parliament.\n\nAnd it follows a warning by ex-Labour prime minister Gordon Brown, who said unionism \"appears to be sleepwalking into oblivion\".\n\nIn a video released on Sunday, Mr Watson said: \"We can see the mess caused by the prospect of the UK leaving the four decade-long union with Europe - imagine how much more disruptive it would be to break our three centuries-long Union of Scotland within the UK.\"\n\nHe pointed out that the party's Scottish leader Richard Leonard had already made it \"absolutely clear\" that there was no case for a second independence referendum.\n\nMr Watson added: \"As we said in our 2017 manifesto, Labour opposes another referendum and the turbo-charged austerity in Scotland that leaving the UK would cause, with the inevitable threat to thousands of jobs and livelihoods.\n\n\"That is not because our society doesn't need to change. It does, and badly.\n\n\"But another independence referendum isn't the answer. More nationalism, more uncertainty, and more division isn't the answer.\"\n\nSNP deputy leader Keith Brown said: \"People across the UK overwhelmingly believe that independence should be a matter for the Scottish Parliament and the Scottish people - not Westminster.\n\n\"UK voters believe it should be up to people of Scotland to decide how they are governed - not a Tory party which has no mandate in Scotland, putting our economy at risk to suit their own political ends.\"", "The claim: Shadow Home Secretary Diane Abbott told Radio 4's Today programme there was no evidence the old \"indiscriminate\" stop and search regime was an effective tool when it came to tackling gun and knife crime.\n\nReality Check verdict: She's right that the old system was less effective at targeting criminals and meant a high proportion of people were being stopped by the police where there was no cause to arrest them. However, in absolute terms, there were more arrests for possession of weapons in 2010 than there were last year.\n\nThere's been a big fall in the number of people being stopped and searched by police in England and Wales since 2010. This was after reviews of the policy called for a more \"fair and proportionate use of the power\".\n\nBut there hasn't been a comparable fall in the number of people being arrested after being stopped and searched. This suggests that the police are now more likely to stop and search people who were then found to be committing a crime than they were in 2010.\n\nIn fact, the latest figures we have show the year to March 2017 features the highest rate of police stops leading to an arrest since the data was first collected (17%). In 2010, 9% of police stops resulted in an arrest.\n\nWhen it comes to arrests specifically for the possession of firearms and other offensive weapons, the rate is even higher. Last year about 20% of police stops where possession of a weapon was suspected resulted in an arrest. In 2010, the rate was half that.\n\nSo it looks like Ms Abbott is right that the old regime was not particularly effective at targeting people who were committing crimes. The new more targeted use of the powers means a greater proportion of police stops are of people found to be in possession of a weapon.\n\nIn London, where there have been 48 murders so far in 2018 - and where Ms Abbott is an MP - the change is even more dramatic.\n\nLast year, 33% of stops resulted in an arrest compared with 9% in 2010. Overall there were a similar number of weapon-related arrests following stop and search in 2010 and 2017 (6,671 vs 7,225) suggesting the old regime was far less effective in the capital than the newer, more targeted approach.\n\nThe Home Office says: \"This continues the rising trend in arrest rates in recent years, and supports the idea that the police are taking a more targeted approach to the use of stop and search, and are therefore finding reason for an arrest in a higher proportion of cases.\"\n\nBut we can't say the old regime was totally ineffective.\n\nWhen it comes to the raw numbers, across England and Wales there were more arrests for weapon-related offences in 2010 (13,833) than there were in 2017 (7,794).\n\nSince 2013 the total number of arrests as a result of police stop and search has been falling.\n\nThere were almost four times as many police stops in 2010 than there were last year across England and Wales. And these stops resulted in just under twice as many arrests - so more arrests, but a lot more people being stopped by the police who were not found to be doing anything that would result in an arrest.\n\nWhether violent crime is up or down depends on which figures you look at. The Office for National Statistics thinks that overall, all crime including violent crime is falling, but there is evidence of recent rises in certain less common, but very serious crimes, including murder.\n\nThe homicide rate has been creeping up over the past couple of years, after significant decreases since the early 2000s.\n\nBut there's no evidence to link this to a fall in the use of stop and search powers.\n\nIt's very difficult to pinpoint a single cause driving changes in crime.\n\nBig reductions to the number of police officers and to forces' budgets since 2010 have piled on the pressure.\n\nIt's not clear whether that has contributed to the rise in some crimes.", "Police released a photo of the slack line and a car which fell only a short distance\n\nCanadian police are investigating after a cable car gondola was sabotaged in an apparent act of vandalism.\n\nAlmost all of the 30 cars on the Sea-to-Sky gondola in Squamish, north of Vancouver, fell to the ground.\n\nPolice believe someone deliberately cut the cables in the early hours of Saturday.\n\nThe company said the incident happened at around 04:30 local time (11:30 GMT), when the line was closed, and no injuries were reported as a result.\n\nThe tourist attraction's manager told Canadian broadcaster CBC that maintenance on the line had been conducted recently \"and it was a big, thick, beautiful healthy rope\".\n\nThe rope is a multi-strand steel cable, 55mm (2.2 inches) across.\n\nPolice said that technical safety experts were assessing the line.\n\nInspector Kara Triance told CBC experts would know the difference between a faulty cable and one that was cut deliberately.\n\nShe added that the person responsible put themselves in \"extreme jeopardy\" if they had climbed a maintenance pole – but also because the steel cable unravelling under tension would have been very dangerous.\n\n\"We recognise the potential of what could have been and are thankful that no one was injured,\" police said in a statement.\n\nThe Sea to Sky operator, meanwhile, says that the gondola is closed \"for the foreseeable future\".\n\nPolice are asking for any hikers, climbers, or campers who were in the area to contact them.\n\nThe gondola has 30 cars, each of which can carry eight passengers on the 10-minute ride to the top, 885m (2,900ft) above sea level.", "WK050 lay wrecked at the bottom of a tree after the crash\n\nA £6m military drone crashed after it landed beyond its planned touchdown point and hit a tree, a Ministry of Defence (MoD) report has revealed.\n\nThe Watchkeeper WK050 came down on 13 June, 2018, less than a mile from Penparc school, Aberporth, where pupils were taking part in a sports day.\n\nFive drones - almost 10% of a 54-strong fleet bought from French firm Thales - have been wrecked in mid Wales crashes.\n\nThe MoD said action had been taken to address problems.\n\nIts report, revealed following a Freedom of Information request, said the drone \"landed long\" of its touchdown point, before veering to the right.\n\nThe system computer failed to register it had landed so \"auto-aborted as it approached the end of the runway\".\n\nIts engine then powered up and the drone \"climbed away\".\n\nWhen it was 40ft (12m) above the ground, the pilot cut the engine.\n\nThe report concluded \"the pressing of the engine cut was the cause of the accident\".\n\nThe Ministry of Defence ordered 54 Watchkeepers in 2005 as part of an £847m deal\n\nAfter that it \"glided over the road and crashed into a tree, approximately 900m beyond\" the landing point.\n\n\"Had no action been taken by the crew the AV (aerial vehicle) would have completed its automatic go-around, from which it could have been commanded to conduct a further approach,\" the report said.\n\nThe drone was being tested at West Wales Airport at Aberporth, Ceredigion.\n\nAn MoD spokesman said action had been taken to address identified problems and it was \"considering all of the recommendations\".\n\nThe drone crashed near Aberporth, Ceredigion in June 2018\n\nA Thales spokesman said it had \"already addressed the vast majority of the recommendations\".\n\n\"Unmanned aircraft systems like Watchkeeper are designed to keep our service people out of hostile environments,\" he said.\n\n\"Our ability to rigorously test their capabilities and meet the highest standards of testing and certification demanded of the UK's military aviation authorities means that we are ultimately able to deliver a safe system when deployed in operational situations.\"", "The traffic officer was seriously injured in Moorcroft Road, Moseley on Saturday afternoon\n\nA man has been charged with attempted murder after a police officer was run over in Birmingham.\n\nThe traffic officer had attempted to pull over a suspected stolen car in Moorcroft Road, Moseley, on Saturday when he was assaulted, police said.\n\nHe was then run over by a man who got behind the wheel of the officer's marked patrol car.\n\nMubashar Hussain, 29, will appear at Birmingham Magistrates' Court on Monday.\n\nThe PC - who has worked with West Midlands Police for almost 20 years - was taken to hospital in critical condition and while his injuries are no longer life-threatening, the force said they could be life-changing.\n\nThe 42-year-old suffered a broken pelvis as well as head, abdominal and internal injuries and underwent surgery on Saturday and Sunday.\n\nMr Hussain, formerly of Sherwood Road in Hall Green, is also charged with causing serious injury by dangerous driving, a separate count of dangerous driving, wounding another officer who suffered a cut arm, four counts of assaulting other PCs, driving while disqualified, motoring offences and two car thefts.\n\nA second man, 24-year-old Ahsan Ghafoor, of Fulham Road in Sparkhill, has been charged with the same two car thefts, plus dangerous driving and other motoring offences. He will also appear in court on Monday.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Director of public prosecutions Max Hill QC: \"The £85m will allow us to do more for those affected by crime\".\n\nThe Crown Prosecution Service will receive an extra £85m over the next two years, to help deal with a rise in violent crime in England and Wales.\n\nIt comes as Boris Johnson launches a review of sentencing of some dangerous and prolific offenders.\n\nHe said dangerous criminals must be taken off the streets and punishments \"fit the crime\" if the public was to have confidence in the justice system.\n\nLawyers said the new money did not make up for 10 years of \"relentless cuts\".\n\nThe news fuels speculation ministers are preparing for a general election with a series of spending commitments and new initiatives.\n\nOn Sunday the prime minister promised to create an extra 10,000 new prison places and expand stop-and-search powers.\n\nBut Downing Street said it is not planning an early election.\n\nAnnouncing the sentencing review, Mr Johnson said: \"We have all seen examples of rapists and murderers let out too soon or people offending again as soon as they're released.\n\n\"This ends now. We want them caught, locked up, punished and properly rehabilitated.\"\n\nThe review, which will begin immediately, will look at whether violent and sexual offenders are serving sentences that reflect the severity of their crimes.\n\nIt will report back in the autumn.\n\nUnder the current system, criminals sentenced to 12 months or more generally serve the first half of their time in prison and the second half \"on licence\" in the community, where they may be subject to recall.\n\nDangerous offenders can be given extended sentences, which mean they must serve two-thirds before being eligible for parole.\n\nJustice secretary Robert Buckland said the review will focus on those violent, sexual and prolific offenders who are not currently given these extended sentences.\n\nHe told BBC Radio 4's Today programme that Mr Johnson \"wants to see prison being used appropriately to protect the public\".\n\nBut sentencing decisions should still be based on individual circumstances not \"targets or numbers\", Mr Buckland said.\n\nOpposition parties warned there was no easy fix for the current rise in violent crime.\n\nLiberal Democrat justice spokeswoman Wera Hobhouse said increasing prison sentences would merely \"overcrowd prisons and waste millions of pounds\".\n\nShe said: \"For years, Labour and Tory ministers have made sentences longer and longer, without any evidence that they prevent crime.\n\n\"It may sound tough, but it hasn't made our communities any safer.\"\n\nThe incentive of early release is seen by many as critical for keeping order in prisons.\n\nSir David Latham, a former judge and chairman of the Parole Board for England and Wales, told BBC Radio 5 Live: \"Prisons are significantly overcrowded and the risks of violence in prisons have increased very substantially over the last few years.\"\n\nBoris Johnson and Home Secretary Priti Patel last month announced more police officers will be hired\n\nLast year saw record levels of assaults on prison staff as well as a rise in self-harm by inmates.\n\nSir David said the way to ensure the safety of the public was by monitoring offenders after release with effective probation services. \"The essence of early release is that there should be proper control over that prisoner,\" he said.\n\nBut he denied that sentencing needed to be tougher. \"Sentencing has in fact increased over the last 20 to 30 years quite substantially,\" Sir David said.\n\nDowning Street said the extra £85m for the CPS - which prosecutes criminal cases in England and Wales - will help staff respond to the rise in violent crime and an \"explosion of digital evidence\".\n\nDirector of public prosecutions Max Hill QC said the money came at a \"crucial time\" for criminal justice.\n\nMr Hill said: \"Our work is changing, and this new funding will provide the increased capacity to enable us to respond effectively to challenging trends we currently face.\"\n\nA spokesman from the CPS said the money would also help deal with the higher caseload they were anticipating as a result of Mr Johnson's plan to recruit 20,000 more police officers.\n\nIn 2018-19 the CPS received £528m in government funding, but lawyers said the additional funding over two years was only a \"modest first step\".\n\nChris Henley, chair of the Criminal Bar Association, said: \"The criminal justice system is severely underfunded, as a result of relentless cuts over the last 10 years.\"\n\nHe said more money was needed for the prosecution system and the courts to \"restore public faith\", as increasingly \"those who commit crime walk free and the innocent risk being convicted\".\n\nLabour's shadow home secretary, Diane Abbott, accused the prime minister of \"clearing the ground\" for a general election rather than creating real solutions for the criminal justice system.\n\nShe said: \"Anyone can promise tens of thousands of police officers, if you're not saying exactly how you're going to fund it. There's been a whole series of these promises and Boris doesn't explain how he will pay for it.\"\n• None The return of stop and search?", "Campaigners said they wanted to draw attention to climate change and the threat of rising sea levels\n\nAbout 100 people took part in the demonstration at Porthmeor Beach in St Ives.\n\nCampaigners said they wanted to draw attention to climate change, the extinction of marine life and the threat of rising sea levels.\n\nThe government wants greenhouse gas emissions cut to near zero by 2050, but the protesters want a target of 2025.\n\nThe \"peaceful\" protest was aimed at drawing attention to climate change and zero carbon targets\n\nCornwall Council declared a climate emergency in January with the aim of becoming carbon neutral by 2030.\n\nManda Brookman, from Extinction Rebellion, said it was a \"peaceful and engaging\" protest on \"this fantastic beach in St Ives\" to push the government for a 2025 zero carbon target.\n\n\"Everyone here is dependent on the tourism industry, the health of the beach, the health of the seas,\" she said.\n\nProtesters make their way on to the beach\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The swimmers were pulled from the sea near Clacton Pier on Thursday\n\nAn 18-year-old man who got into difficulty in the sea off the Essex coast has died, days after his teenage sister was killed in the same incident.\n\nHaider Shamas and his 14-year-old sibling Malika, both from Luton, were rescued from the water near Clacton Pier on Thursday.\n\nMalika died hours later while Haider died on Saturday.\n\nPolice said a 15-year-old girl, who is a relative and was pulled from the sea with the pair, is expected to recover.\n\nA witness said the teenagers had been with a group of up to 30 people at the beach.\n\nOnlookers tried to help the siblings after they were pulled from the water, with some performing CPR on the beach until ambulances arrived.\n\nAll three were treated at Colchester General Hospital, police said.\n\nFlowers have been left near Clacton Pier\n\nVolunteers from the Clacton RNLI Lifeboat attended the scene, along with the police, ambulance and coastguard.\n\nIn a post on Facebook, the RNLI said it had been \"praying for a more positive outcome\".\n\n\"Our hearts and thoughts go out to the family at this heartbreaking time,\" it added.\n\nLast July, Ben Quartermaine, 15, died after getting into difficulty while swimming with a friend near Clacton Pier.\n\nHis mother and stepfather Vicky and Colin Gentry said a lack of warning signs in Clacton was \"one of the main issues\".\n\nThey also called for better education for \"all year groups in all schools, whether coastal or not\".\n\nClacton's beach patrol said several people had been swimming close to the pier on Sunday, despite red flags warning against going in the sea due to strong winds.\n\nLifeguard Sian Rowlen said: \"We don't feel it's safe enough for people to go out. They have to be very conscious of the fact they're going out when we've advised them not to.\n\n\"If we do have to go out after them, it might be not only their lives at risk but ours as well.\"\n\nAir ambulances were called to the scene\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "PC Stuart Outten was attacked in Leyton, east London, in the early hours of Thursday\n\nA police officer who was attacked with a machete has left hospital.\n\nPC Stuart Outten, 28, was stabbed in the head as he tried to stop a van suspected of having no insurance in Leyton, east London, in the early hours of Thursday.\n\nThe Met Police officer Tasered his assailant despite receiving multiple stab wounds to his head and body.\n\nMuhammad Rodwan, 56, of Luton, is charged with attempted murder and possessing an offensive weapon.\n\nHe is due to appear at the Old Bailey on 6 September.\n\nPC Outten suffered a wound to the side of his head which required stitches and needed an operation to a hand injury caused while trying to fend off the attack.\n\nThanking police and the public for their support in the wake of the attack, his family said PC Outten had joined the Met straight from school and \"loves being a police officer and protecting the public\".\n\nIn a statement released before he was discharged from hospital, they said: \"We are incredibly proud of the bravery Stuart showed during the incident.\n\n\"His injuries could have been fatal and we are thankful that he is stable and recovering in hospital with his loved ones around him.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Ferries at Dover have been delayed by up to five hours\n\nPassengers were stuck on cross-Channel ferries off the Dover coast as the port operated a \"one ship in, one ship out\" policy due to high winds.\n\nCrossings between Dover and Calais were delayed by up to six hours, with tugs deployed to guide ships into port, P&O Ferries said.\n\nA man was also severely hurt when a tree fell on him in London.\n\nAnd train passengers across the UK faced disruption caused by the winds and flooding.\n\nP&O has said it will accommodate passengers on the \"first available sailing once you reach check-in\" and the wait time was a maximum of six hours.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nOne ferry passenger, Justin Hodge, 41, who was trying to get back to Sittingbourne in Kent with his partner and three children, said he had been waiting at Calais for six hours with \"no ferry in port\".\n\nThe family had been due to catch the boat from the French port at 15:15 BST to Dover.\n\n\"The time now is 21:00 and still sitting in the docks nearly six hours later and no sign of boarding,\" he said.\n\nHe added they had \"not moved\" since passing border control.\n\n\"We're sat in a queue with hundreds of cars,\" he said.\n\n\"I'm one of the lucky ones, I'm towing a caravan so I've got milk, water and somewhere to sleep but there are others who are not so lucky.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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\nStephen Deadman, from Nottingham, earlier reported waiting for three and a half hours alongside five other ferries after stopping four miles off the coast at Dover.\n\n\"The wind was very bad and the captains of the ferry and tug boats did a great job in difficult conditions,\" he said.\n\nIn Scotland, passengers on five trains were trapped for a time after heavy rain caused the temporary closure of the West Coast mainline.\n\nNetwork Rail said water levels had risen a foot above the track between Penrith North Lakes and Lockerbie.\n\nNetwork Rail said water levels were about a foot above the rails\n\nServices were also suspended between Lewes and Haywards Heath due to a fallen tree blocking the line, Southern said.\n\nSpeed restrictions were also imposed, particularly in coastal areas, where wind speeds were forecast to hit 60mph.\n\nNetwork Rail urged passengers to check for updates before they travel.\n\nA fallen tree at Cooksbridge stopped trains running between Lewes and Haywards Heath\n\nEarlier, trains to London from Kent were suspended for about two hours while a tree was removed from the line in Newington.\n\nAnd high winds toppled trees in London and Norwich, severely injuring one man and blocking a number of roads.\n\nThe man, thought to be in his 50s, suffered potentially life-threatening injuries when a tree fell in Greyhound Lane, Streatham Vale, at about 13:00, a Met Police spokesperson said.\n\nFire crews were at the scene in Russell Square\n\nA road through Norwich was blocked by a fallen tree\n\nA spokesperson for Scottish and Southern Electricity Networks (SSEN) said about 1,000 customers had been without electricity across its network.\n\n\"These are mainly small, localised faults and we are working to restore customers throughout the course of this evening.\n\n\"We'd like to apologise for the interruption to their supply and thank them for their patience as we work to restore them as quickly and as safely as possible,\" the spokesperson added.\n\nThe adverse weather conditions have also led to scores of events being cancelled.\n\nAt the Boomtown Fair in Winchester, dozens of tents were wrecked overnight after strong winds tore through the festival's campsites.\n\nWhile in Ascot, damage to the stage for a concert at the racecourse due to be held later featuring Jessie J and Tinie Tempah led to it being cancelled.\n\nOrganisers of Bristol's hot-air balloon festival were also forced to temporarily close the site.\n\nIn a statement on the event's Facebook page, organisers said they hoped to reopen the event for the final day on Sunday.\n\nEvents at the Blackpool Air Show on Saturday were also cancelled due to strong winds and heavy rain, but plans for Sunday are expected to go ahead from 13:30.\n\nA yellow weather warning is in place covering southern and central England as far north as Blackpool, Huddersfield and Grimsby, the Met Office said.\n\nChief meteorologist Neil Armstrong said summer storms were more likely to cause disruption because \"more people are likely to be outdoors, especially by the coast\".\n\n\"Additionally, with trees in full leaf they are more vulnerable to being brought down by strong winds,\" he added.\n\nFollow BBC South East on Facebook, on Twitter, and on Instagram\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. Russian President Vladimir Putin attended a gathering organised by a right-wing bikers' group in the contested area of Crimea\n\nUkraine has protested to Russia after a leather-clad President Vladimir Putin visited the annexed Crimean peninsula to attend a bikers' festival.\n\nIts foreign ministry described Saturday's visit as a \"blatant violation of Ukraine's sovereignty\".\n\nUkraine said attempts by Moscow and its media to present such visits as routine were \"pathetic\".\n\nCrimea was annexed from the Ukraine in 2014, triggering a wave of ultra-patriotism in Russia.\n\nThe Night Wolves, a right-wing nationalist bikers' group close to President Putin, were prominent supporters of the annexation.\n\nThis year, they held their annual show in Sevastopol, the peninsula's largest city.\n\nMr Putin - who arrived at the event astride a motorbike - appeared to be the guest of honour, with bikers thronging around the Russian leader, hoping to get a selfie.\n\nBut the visit comes as Mr Putin faces growing disquiet at home.\n\nUp to 60,000 people thronged the streets of the Russian capital on Saturday in an authorised demonstration to demand \"fair\" municipal elections in September.\n\nSome tried to reach the presidential administration building in a later unsanctioned protest and hundreds were arrested.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Protesters were urged to join an unauthorised \"stroll\" after the rally", "The coin will look similar to a previous design - but with a different departure date.\n\nChancellor Sajid Javid is drawing up plans for millions of commemorative 50p coin to be issued when the UK leaves the European Union later this year.\n\nMr Javid has asked officials to see whether it would be possible to produce the coins in time for the UK's scheduled departure date of 31 October, according to the Daily Telegraph.\n\nHis predecessor Philip Hammond planned a collectors' version of the coin.\n\nHowever Mr Javid hopes to mint a similar 50p piece for mass circulation.\n\nGovernment officials said the move was a statement of intent that the Treasury is dedicated to leaving the EU.\n\nIn October last year Mr Hammond announced plans for around 10,000 coins to be sold to collectors for £10 each.\n\nHowever, beyond a few test versions, none of the coins were minted after the UK delayed its departure from the EU.\n\nThe government said the trial coins did not come at a cost to the taxpayer.\n\nThe new coins will carry the same design, bearing the words \"peace, prosperity and friendship with all nations\" but will be updated with the new departure date.\n\nA 50p coin was struck when the UK joined the European Economic Community in 1973 and when the UK held the presidency of the EU in 1998.", "There are warnings heavy rain across central and south-western Scotland could cause flooding and travel problems.\n\nThe Scottish Environment Protection Agency has issued 10 flood alerts running through until 18:00 on Sunday.\n\nA more serious flood warning for Arbroath is no longer in force.\n\nTrain services are getting back to normal after heavy rain caused the temporary closure of the West Coast mainline between England and Scotland.\n\nFlooded roads were closed in Earlston in the Borders\n\nServices between Carlisle and Glasgow Central or Edinburgh have since resumed but passengers were warned their train might be delayed or cancelled.\n\nProblems remain between Glasgow and Oban, where the track was badly damaged during a week of heavy downpours.\n\nThere are yellow warnings for heavy rain across central and southern parts of Scotland\n\nIt comes amid fresh Met Office warnings of rain and thunderstorms across the UK.\n\nMeteorologist Helen Roberts said: \"It does look like remaining unsettled and changeable right through most of the next seven days.\"\n\nIn Forfar, parts of the town's West High Street are under water and inaccessible to drivers and pedestrians.\n\nHouseholders were advised to guard their homes with sandbags in Castle Douglas\n\nFlood alerts remain in place for Dumfries and Galloway, and in the Scottish Borders where flash floods forced road closures in Earlston.\n\nOn Saturday, a landslide resulted in the closure of the A7 south of Langholm. The road has since reopened\n\nResidents in Castle Douglas were forced to use sandbags to keep flood water out of their homes.\n\nUp to three inches of rain fell in some parts of the region during 12 hours of downpours.\n\nNetwork Rail said services were getting back to normal after lines were flooded on Saturday", "The bear was probably attracted by the smell of rubbish\n\nA black bear broke into a house in the US before escaping by smashing through a wall.\n\nPolice in Colorado said the break-in happened on Friday evening when the house was vacant. Nobody was injured.\n\nThe smell of rubbish probably attracted the bear, Estes Park police said.\n\n\"Upon officer's arrival, said bear forcibly breached a hole in the wall like the 'Kool-Aid Man' and made its escape,\" the police department wrote on Facebook.\n\nThe mascot for the soft drink Kool-Aid is typically featured in adverts smashing through walls.\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 Estes Park Police Department 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\n\"Please do your part to keep bears wild. Bears are extremely smart, which means we all have to be too,\" it added.\n\nColorado Parks and Wildlife reported that bears broke into more than 35 vehicles and nine houses in the Estes Park area in the 10 days before 3 August.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.", "The film, featuring Hillary Swank, was due to be released on 27 September\n\nUniversal Pictures has pulled the release of The Hunt following a series of mass shootings and criticism from US President Donald Trump.\n\nThe Hunt, a satirical film in which liberals hunt Trump supporters and kill them for sport, was due to be released on 27 September.\n\nMarketing of the film had already been put on hold following the El Paso and Dayton shootings.\n\nUniversal said the decision was made after \"thoughtful consideration.\"\n\nThe Hunt's storyline is intended to reflect the divided nature of US politics.\n\nOne trailer for the film was pulled by ESPN. It was said to open with the sound resembling an emergency broadcast signal.\n\nAccording to the Hollywood Reporter, the liberal characters refer to their prey as \"deplorables\", a term used by Hillary Clinton to describe some of Mr Trump's fans in the run up too the 2016 elections.\n\nWithout naming the film, Mr Trump tweeted about an upcoming Hollywood release.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. What does this hat mean to Americans?\n\nHe said: \"The movie coming out is made in order to inflame and cause chaos. They create their own violence and then try to blame others. They are the true racists and are very bad for our country!\"\n\nA statement from Universal said: \"We stand by our filmmakers and will continue to distribute films in partnership with bold and visionary creators, like those associated with this satirical social thriller, but we understand that now is not the right time to release this film.\"", "London is one of seven areas where the change to stop and search will be trialled\n\nPolice in England and Wales are being given greater stop and search powers to tackle rising knife crime.\n\nHome Secretary Sajid Javid is making it easier for officers to search people without reasonable suspicion in places where serious violence may occur.\n\nIt comes after fatal stabbings rose last year to the highest point since records began.\n\nBut campaigners said the move was \"disappointing and regressive\" and that stop and search is not effective.\n\nStop and search powers have been controversial for many years, with evidence that they are frequently misused and that they target black people disproportionately.\n\nBut Mr Javid said: \"The police are on the front line in the battle against serious violence and it's vital we give them the right tools to do their jobs.\"\n\nThe change is being trialled in seven police force areas where more than 60% of knife crime occurs: London, the West Midlands, Merseyside, South Yorkshire, West Yorkshire, South Wales and Greater Manchester.\n\nIt makes it easier to use so-called \"section 60\" checks, where for a limited period of time officers can search anyone in a certain area to prevent violent crime.\n\nUnder the new rules, inspectors will be able to authorise the use of section 60. Currently, more senior officers have to give approval.\n\nThere will also be a lower threshold. Police will only need to reasonably believe serious violence \"may\" occur, not that it \"will\".\n\nShadow home secretary Diane Abbott said evidence-based stop and search was \"a very important tool for police\".\n\nBut she added: \"Random stop and search is not effective in bringing down levels of knife crime.\"\n\nSection 60 has been used at large events such as Notting Hill Carnival last year and after violent incidents such as the stabbing of a man outside Clapham Common Underground station on Friday.\n\nOther powers which account for the majority of searches will remain the same, and will still require officers to have reasonable suspicion of an offence.\n\nWith 285 deaths from stabbings in 2017-18, the most ever recorded in the UK, ministers have come under increasing pressure to tackle knife crime.\n\nPrime Minister Theresa May will host a summit on serious youth violence on Monday.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nMetropolitan Police Commissioner Cressida Dick said officers in London had increased the use of section 60 over the past 18 months, following 132 deaths from stabbings in the capital during 2017-18.\n\nShe said: \"Stop and search is an extremely important power for the police. It is undoubtedly a part of our increasing results suppressing levels of violence and knife crime.\"\n\nBut Katrina Ffrench, chief executive of StopWatch, which campaigns against excessive use of stop and search, said: \"This decision is a disappointing and regressive move, which is about politics not saving lives.\"\n\nRemoving the need for reasonable suspicion \"will not only exacerbate the racial disparity, but has the potential to further damage the relationship between the black community and the police,\" she said.\n\nGarvin Snell, an anti-knife crime activist in Hounslow, west London, said that when stop and search was \"used in the correct manner\", there was \"nothing wrong with it\".\n\nBut he added: \"I grew up in an era in the 1990s when you almost felt being young and black was enough to be stopped and searched and I don't want to go back to that environment.\"\n\nHe said some of the extra £100m the government has promised to help reduce knife crime should be used to open more youth centres.\n\n\"A lot of these incidents are happening in poorer parts of London,\" he said. \"Why don't we do something to raise the aspirations of these young people?\"\n\nA data study for the College of Policing into a decade of London stop and searches found them to be \"inconsistent\" and \"weak\" as a deterrent.\n\nThe extra powers reverse a key change made by Mrs May in 2014 as home secretary.\n\nShe introduced a revised code of conduct after an inquiry examined thousands of police searches and found 27% may have been illegal.\n\nWhen misused, stop and search was \"an enormous waste of police time\" and \"an unacceptable affront to justice\", she said.\n\nReflecting on the recent announcement, the prime minister said the powers were \"an important tool in the fight against knife crime\".\n\nIt is vital police have the right tools to do their jobs, Home Secretary Sajid Javid says\n\nJohn Apter, chairman of the Police Federation, welcomed the government's renewed support for stop and search, saying it \"had been lacking for far too long\".\n\nHe said it was a useful and accountable tool for officers to use in tackling knife crime and there was \"no credible alternative\".\n\nPartly as a result of the 2014 changes, the use of stop and search fell in England and Wales from a peak of 1.4m ten years ago to 277,378 last year.\n\nThe numbers of searches fell for every ethnic group, but ethnic and racial inequality has grown.\n\nIn 2014-15 black people were four times more likely to be searched than white people, while in 2017-18, they were 9.5 times as likely to be targeted.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Dr Nigel Ruddell, NIAS medical director, said measures were being put in place to deal with the shortages\n\nOver the weekend, it was down by about 20 crews - roughly a quarter of its normal workforce - but management say there was no major incident.\n\nTwo ambulance crews were drafted in from the Republic of Ireland over the weekend.\n\nThe NIAS was short of 12 crews on Monday, according to chief executive Michael Bloomfield.\n\nMr Bloomfield told the BBC that over the summer period, many shifts will not be covered.\n\n\"We rely on staff overtime and our partners in the voluntary and private ambulance services\", he said.\n\nHowever, he added that there will be \"intensive work going on\" to improve the situation.\n\nThere have been staff shortages for the past four nights, with 20 crews unavailable on Sunday night.\n\nThe crews from the Republic of Ireland were based at Altnagelvin Hospital in Londonderry on Saturday and Newry ambulance station on Friday.\n\nDr Nigel Ruddell, NIAS medical director said voluntary ambulance services were being drafted in and NIAS had been working with private services.\n\nNorthern Ireland does not have enough paramedics.\n\nBetween 2014 and 2018, practically no new paramedics were trained.\n\nThere was no forward planning to allow for those retiring or the high numbers off on sick leave.\n\nThis is a familiar story throughout the health service - all front-line services are reporting gaps.\n\nThe Royal College of Nursing is reporting 2,600 unfilled nursing posts. General practice is also reporting too few doctors.\n\nIt is a problem across the system and across the UK.\n\nAccording to sources, wards, surgeries and - as we have known for some time - the ambulance and fire services are often being run on a wing and prayer.\n\nThe service had appealed for staff to come to work at the weekend because of difficulties filling rotas.\n\n\"We are doing everything we can to provide as high a level of cover as we can,\" said Dr Ruddell.\n\n\"We are going to prioritise those calls which have the most critical need.\n\n\"Unfortunately, those people who have a less critical need are the ones who wait longer and we apologise for that.\"\n\nHe also thanked staff for \"stepping up to the plate\" and volunteering to take on extra shifts.\n\nThe medical director said NIAS received about 600 emergency calls to its control room every day.\n\n\"We have 46 extra paramedics due to qualify in November and around 48 extra technicians who qualified in May,\" he said.\n\n\"We are training and recruiting people as quickly as we can.\"\n\nJohn Compton, the former head of the Health and Social Care Board, told BBC Radio Ulster's Good Morning Ulster programme that it is not unusual for the trust to be under pressure with annual leave.\n\n\"While under staff pressure they [the NIAS] have maintained a reasonable service for the population,\" he said.\n\n\"But if the disruption persists for more than six to eight weeks there needs to be other things we look at.\"", "Police officers announced the new hotline during a press conference earlier\n\nMalaysian police have set up a hotline dedicated to receiving information about teenager Nora Quoirin who has been missing for a week.\n\nA team of 200 people are currently searching for the 15-year-old, who has special needs.\n\nNora was last seen in the Dusan resort on 4 August where she was on holiday with her parents.\n\nPolice officers announced the new hotline in Malaysia - 0111 2285058 - on Sunday.\n\nOn Saturday, her parents Meabh and Sebastien Quoirin thanked the teams searching the Malaysian jungle for her.\n\nNora's mother thanked the emergency crews for their work \"especially at a special festival time\", referring to the Islamic festival of Hari Raya Haji.\n\nNóra Quoirin went missing from her room on 4 August 2019\n\nThe Quoirins, an Irish-French family who have lived in London for 20 years, arrived in the Dusun forest eco-resort in southern Negeri Sembilan state a week ago.\n\nNora was last seen on Sunday 4 August. Her father raised the alarm the following morning when the family realised the teenager had gone missing from her bedroom with the window open.\n\nThe teenager's family said she was born with holoprosencephaly, a disorder which affects brain development, meaning that she \"struggles with co-ordination\".\n\nHer family has said Nora is \"not independent and does not go anywhere alone\".\n\nAt Sunday's press conference the local police force also released pictures of them with Nora's father.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Howard 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\nOver the past few days a recording of Nora's mother saying \"Nora darling, Nora I love you, mum is here\" has been played out on loudspeakers into the jungle.\n\nMissing persons charity the Lucie Blackman Trust, which is supporting the family, has also provided a hotline and email address for information.\n\nPeople can remain anonymous and can call +448000988485 or email ops@lbtrust.org.\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. Geoffrey Berman: \"If you believe you are a victim of this man... we want to hear from you.\"\n\n\"I'm not a sexual predator, I'm an 'offender,'\" Jeffrey Epstein told the New York Post in 2011. \"It's the difference between a murderer and a person who steals a bagel.\"\n\nEpstein died in a New York prison cell on 10 August as he awaited, without the chance of bail, his trial on sex trafficking charges.\n\nIt came more than a decade after his conviction for soliciting prostitution from a minor, for which he was registered as a sex offender.\n\nThis time, he was accused of running a \"vast network\" of underage girls for sex. He pleaded not guilty.\n\nThe 66-year-old in the past socialised with Prince Andrew and former presidents Donald Trump and Bill Clinton.\n\nBut who was Jeffrey Epstein?\n\nBorn and raised in New York, Epstein taught maths and physics in the city at the private Dalton School in the mid 1970s. He had studied physics and maths himself at university, although he never graduated.\n\nA father of one of his students is said to have been so impressed that he put Epstein in touch with a senior partner at the Wall Street investment bank Bear Stearns.\n\nHe was a partner there within four years. By 1982, he had created his own firm - J Epstein and Co.\n\nThe company managed assets of clients worth more than $1bn (£800m) and was an instant success. Epstein soon began spending his fortune - including on a mansion in Florida, a ranch in New Mexico, and reputedly the largest private home in New York - and socialising with celebrities, artists and politicians.\n\n\"I've known Jeff for 15 years. Terrific guy,\" Donald Trump told New York magazine for a profile on Epstein in 2002. \"He's a lot of fun to be with. It is even said that he likes beautiful women as much as I do, and many of them are on the younger side.\n\n\"No doubt about it - Jeffrey enjoys his social life.\"\n\nJeffrey Epstein, left, with Donald Trump at the former president's Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida in 1997\n\nIn 2002, Epstein flew former President Bill Clinton and the actors Kevin Spacey and Chris Tucker to Africa on a customised private jet. He made an unsuccessful bid to buy New York magazine with then film producer Harvey Weinstein in 2003 - the same year he made a $30m donation to Harvard University.\n\nBut he also strove to keep his life private, reportedly shunning society events and dinners in restaurants.\n\nHe dated women like Miss Sweden winner Eva Andersson Dubin and Ghislaine Maxwell, daughter of publisher Robert Maxwell, although he never married.\n\nRosa Monckton, the former CEO of Tiffany & Co, told Vanity Fair for a 2003 article that Epstein was \"very enigmatic\" and \"a classic iceberg\".\n\n\"You think you know him and then you peel off another ring of the onion skin and there's something else extraordinary underneath,\" she said. \"What you see is not what you get.\"\n\nIn 2005, the parents of a 14-year-old girl told police in Florida that Epstein had molested their daughter at his Palm Beach home. A police search of the property found photos of girls throughout the house.\n\nThe Miami Herald reports that his abuse of underage girls dated back years.\n\n\"This was not a 'he said, she said' situation,\" Palm Beach Police Chief Michael Reiter told the newspaper. \"This was 50-something 'shes' and one 'he' - and the 'shes' all basically told the same story.\"\n\n\"He has never been secretive about the girls,\" columnist Michael Wolff told New York magazine for a 2007 profile piece, as the case against Epstein moved through the courts.\n\n\"At one point, when his troubles began, he was talking to me and said, 'What can I say, I like young girls.' I said, 'Maybe you should say, 'I like young women.'\"\n\nHowever, prosecutors forged a deal with the hedge fund manager in 2008.\n\nHe avoided federal charges - which could have seen him face life in prison - and instead received an 18-month prison sentence, during which he was able to go on \"work release\" to his office for 12 hours a day, six days a week. He was released on probation after 13 months.\n\nPrince Andrew, left, has been criticised for his association with Jeffrey Epstein\n\nThe Miami Herald says that the federal prosecutor Alexander Acosta - who was Secretary of Labour in the Trump administration - struck a plea agreement hiding the extent of his crimes and ending an FBI investigation into whether there were more victims or more powerful people who took part. The paper described it as the \"deal of the century\".\n\nMr Acosta resigned in July 2019 over the scandal, though he defended his actions as guaranteeing at last some jail time for Epstein.\n\nSince 2008 Epstein had been listed as a level three on the New York sex offenders register. It is a lifelong designation meaning he was at a high risk of reoffending.\n\nBut Epstein maintained his properties and his assets after his conviction.\n\nIn December 2010, Prince Andrew, the third child of the Queen, was pictured in New York's Central Park with Epstein, drawing controversy.\n\nIn a BBC interview in November 2019, the prince, who had known Epstein since 1999, said he had gone to New York to break off their friendship. He said he regretted staying at the financier's house while he was there, and that he had \"let the side down\" by doing so.\n\nAn Epstein accuser, Virginia Roberts - now Virginia Giuffre - would later allege that she was made to have sex with Prince Andrew in the early 2000s when she was 17.\n\nPrince Andrew categorically denied having sex with her and said he has no recollection of a photo of the pair being taken together in London.\n\nEpstein was arrested in New York on 6 July 2019 after flying back from Paris on his private jet.\n\nProsecutors were reportedly seeking the forfeiture of his New York mansion, where some of his alleged crimes occurred.\n\nEpstein always denied any wrongdoing, and pleaded not guilty to the charges against him.\n\nAfter being denied bail by the court, he was being held in New York's Metropolitan Correctional Center. He was taken to hospital briefly in July for what was widely reported to be injuries to his neck - which neither prison officials or his lawyers would officially comment on.\n\nAt his last court appearance on 31 July, it became clear that he would spend a year in prison, with a trial no earlier than summer 2020. Prosecutors said they wanted no delay, and bringing the trial quickly was in the public interest.\n\nNow, Epstein will never face the trial at all.\n\nAfter Epstein's death, his former girlfriend, Ghislaine Maxwell, came into the spotlight.\n\nShe was arrested in July 2020 at her secluded mansion in the US state of New Hampshire on suspicion of having assisted Epstein's abuse of minors by helping to recruit and groom victims known to be underage.\n\nIn December 2021, a jury in New York City found her guilty on five out of six counts, including the most serious charge - that of sex trafficking of a minor.\n\nThis carries a possible 40-year sentence, which means the 60-year-old could spend the rest of her life behind bars.\n\nThe Oxford-educated Ms Maxwell is said to have introduced Epstein to many of her wealthy and powerful friends, including Bill Clinton and the Duke of York.\n\nFriends said that although Ms Maxwell and Epstein's romantic relationship lasted only a few years, she continued to work with him long afterward.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: The secret lives of Maxwell and Epstein\n\nIn court documents, former employees at the Epstein mansion in Palm Beach describe her as the house manager, who oversaw the staff, handled finances and served as social co-ordinator.\n\nIn a Vanity Fair profile published in 2003, Epstein said Ms Maxwell was not a paid employee, but rather his \"best friend\".\n\nDuring the trial, prosecutors alleged Ms Maxwell preyed on and groomed young girls for Epstein to abuse. Her defence claimed she is being used as a scapegoat for Epstein's crimes following his death.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Dramatic rescues after typhoon Lekima causes floods in China\n\nAt least 28 people have been killed and more than a million forced from their homes as Typhoon Lekima hit China, according to state media.\n\nOfficials said the deaths were caused by a landslide triggered by the storm. Ten others have been reported missing.\n\nLekima made landfall in the early hours of Saturday in Wenling, between Taiwan and China's financial capital Shanghai.\n\nThe storm was initially designated a \"super typhoon\", but weakened slightly before landfall.\n\nThe fatal landslide happened in Wenzhou, near where the storm made landfall, state media said. It occurred after a barrier lake - or natural dam - formed, pooling water from the heavy rains before collapsing.\n\nLekima is now slowly winding its way north through the Zhejiang province, and is expected to hit Shanghai, which has a population of more than 20 million.\n\nEmergency crews have battled to save stranded motorists from floods and searched for survivors in the rubble of damaged buildings. Fallen trees and power cuts are widespread.\n\nRescue workers have been searching for survivors in the rubble of damaged buildings\n\nAuthorities have cancelled more than 1,000 flights and cancelled train services in preparation for the storm. Shanghai Disneyland was also shut for the day.\n\nThe storm is expected to weaken further by the time it reaches the city, but will still bring a high risk of dangerous flooding.\n\nThe typhoon has brought heavy rain to Shanghai\n\n\"Now the disaster zones are mainly in the rural-urban integration zones,\" said Fu Songliang, head of a rescue team for Ningbo City's fire service.\n\n\"These are low-lying areas. When the flooding from mountainous areas converges and comes down, these areas are quite seriously affected,\" he told Reuters news agency.\n\nShanghai evacuated some 250,000 residents, with another 800,000 in Zhejiang province also being taken from their homes.\n\nAn estimated 2.7 million homes in the region lost power as power lines toppled in the high winds, Chinese state media said.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nIt is the ninth typhoon of the year, Xinhua news said - but the strongest storm seen in years. It was initially given China's highest level of weather warning but was later downgraded to an \"orange\" level.\n\nChinese weather forecasters said the storm, which had winds of 187km/h (116mph) when it made landfall, was moving north at 15km/h.\n\nIt earlier passed Taiwan, skirting its northern tip and causing a handful of injuries and some property damage.\n\nComing just a day after a magnitude six earthquake, experts warned that the combination of earth movement and heavy rain increased the risk of landslides.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nLekima is one of two typhoons in the western Pacific at the moment.\n\nFurther east, Typhoon Krosa is spreading heavy rain across the Northern Mariana Islands and Guam. It is moving north-west and could strike Japan some time next week, forecasters said.", "Clapham Junction station in south London was one of the areas where lights went out\n\nThe government has launched an investigation into Friday's huge power cut which affected nearly one million people across England and Wales.\n\nBusiness Secretary Andrea Leadsom said a committee will look at what happened.\n\nTrain passengers were stranded, traffic lights failed to work and thousands of homes were plunged into darkness during the blackout.\n\nThe investigation will consider whether the procedures followed by National Grid are fit for purpose.\n\nMrs Leadsom said the power outages \"caused enormous disruption\", adding: \"National Grid must urgently review and report to Ofgem.\"\n\nThe Energy Emergencies Executive Committee, carrying out the inquiry, will also explore whether there were any technical problems, plus how well National Grid communicated about the incident and resolved the problem.\n\nEnergy regulator Ofgem has already demanded an \"urgent detailed report\" into what went wrong and could take enforcement action, including a fine.\n\nAnd the National Grid has promised it will \"learn the lessons\" - but added its systems were not to blame.\n\nThe outage happened after problems at two power stations - the gas-fired station at Little Barford in Bedfordshire at 16:58 BST and then at Hornsea offshore wind farm two minutes later.\n\nBlackouts were reported across the Midlands, the south east, south west, north west and north east of England, and Wales.\n\nNational Grid power was restored by 17:40 BST on Friday but there was a knock-on effect for some train services, which continued to be disrupted into Saturday.\n\nNational Grid's director of operations Duncan Burt said he did not believe that a cyber-attack or unpredictable wind power generation was to blame.\n\nSpeaking on BBC Radio 4's Today programme on Saturday, Mr Burt acknowledged the \"immense disruption\" the blackout had caused.\n\nHe said the near-simultaneous loss of two generators was more than the grid was routinely prepared for, prompting automatic safety systems to shut off power to some places.\n\n\"We think that worked well; we think the safety protection systems across the industry, on generators and on the network, worked well to secure and keep the grid safe, to make sure that we preserved power to the vast proportion of the country,\" he said.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The National Grid's operations director explains why nearly one million people lost power on Friday\n\nBut he said the industry needed to examine whether these safety systems were set up correctly to have \"minimal impact\" on people's daily lives.\n\nShadow business and energy secretary Rebecca Long Bailey said the impact of the power cut was \"unacceptable\" at a time when National Grid reported £1.8bn in profits and increased dividends to shareholders.\n\nAll services in and out of King's Cross station were suspended during Friday's rush hour\n\nPolice were called to help travellers during the huge disruption on the railways on Friday, with delayed passengers stranded for hours.\n\nDisruption continued into Saturday for some routes, with services to and from King's Cross station in London particularly badly hit.\n\nPassenger Dayna McAlpine told BBC Radio 5 Live her train took nearly 13 hours to reach London King's Cross from Edinburgh - a journey which would normally take less than five hours.\n\n\"By hour seven things were starting to get pretty tense,\" she said. \"People were threatening to self-evacuate off the train... Food ran out about five hours ago.\"\n\nPassengers on a train near Kentish Town station got off and began walking along the tracks\n\nAt the worst point of the power cut, about 500,000 people were affected in Western Power Distribution's area - including 44,500 customers in Wales - while 110,000 Northern Powergrid customers also lost power.\n\nIn London and south-east England, 300,000 people were affected, UK Power Networks said, and another 26,000 customers were without power in north-west England.\n\nNorthern Powergrid said the problems had affected Newcastle Airport and the metro system in the city.\n\nAt Ipswich Hospital, a back-up generator which was supposed to supply power to outpatient areas did not work after the power cut, causing problems for 15 minutes before power was restored.", "Zippy Duvall has been a farmer for 34 years\n\nThe UK must accept US food standards as part of any future trade deal with Washington, the head of America's farming lobby has said.\n\nZippy Duvall, head of the American Farm Bureau, said US farmers were keen to trade with their British \"friends\".\n\nBut he said fears over practices such as washing chicken in chlorine and using genetically modified (GM) crops were not \"science-based\".\n\nThe US has said the UK will be \"first in line\" for a trade deal after Brexit.\n\nBut some fear the UK will have to compromise on standards currently enshrined in EU law in order to secure a deal with Washington.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. How would a no-deal Brexit affect your chicken dinner?\n\nMr Duvall, himself a poultry farmer in Georgia, said he wanted to have \"a conversation\" about US food standards given the concerns in the UK.\n\nOne of the most controversial practices is washing chicken with chlorine to kill germs, which is banned in the EU. This is not because the wash itself is harmful but over fears that treating meat with chlorine at the end allows poorer hygiene elsewhere in the production process.\n\n\"You know, here in America we treat our water with chlorine,\" Mr Duvall told the BBC's Today programme.\n\n\"So there is no scientific basis that says that washing poultry with a chlorine wash just to be safe of whatever pathogens might be on that chicken as it was prepared for the market, should be taken away.\n\n\"If there was something wrong with it our federal inspection systems would not be allowing us to use that,\" he added.\n\nIn London this week, Donald Trump's national security advisor John Bolton suggested that the US could strike trade deals with the UK after Brexit on a \"sector-by -sector basis\" to speed up the process.\n\nBut asked whether he could envisage a trade deal with the UK that did not include agriculture, Mr Duvall said it would be seen as a betrayal by US farmers.\n\n\"To have a trade treaty and not discuss agriculture would be turning your back on rural America and that's where a big part of our population lives.\"\n\nJohn Bolton said the UK would be \"first in line\" for a trade deal after Brexit.\n\nHe also dismissed concerns that a deal would expose British farmers to harmful competition from much larger US farms with lower production costs.\n\nMr Duvall said the British public should have the right to buy cheaper US produce if they wanted to.\n\n\"A lot of our farmers don't understand why other countries implement tariffs on our products but then they don't want us to implement any tariffs on our end, so we need to level that playing field, tear down all those barriers and let our people be able to make the choice of what food they want to eat and where it's grown at.\"\n\nSeparately, Mr Duvall said that President Donald Trump's trade war with China had created the \"perfect storm\" for US farmers, who were already suffering after a series of natural disasters devastated crops in some areas.\n\nSince 2018, the US and China have slapped tariffs on billions of dollars' worth of each other's goods and Beijing has specifically targeted US agricultural products such as soya beans.\n\nIt has led to a sharp drop in US farm exports to China and forced the Trump administration to pay subsidies to support American farmers. .\n\nHowever, Mr Duvall told the BBC that despite this, US farmers still supported Mr Trump's approach to China and viewed the \"short term pain\" as worth it.\n\n\"Historically, even though agriculture and trade have been growing all around the world it hasn't kept up to the pace that it should have as the middle class have been rising up, especially in Asia, and we think that we ought to have the opportunity to have a bigger piece of that market,\" he said.\n\n\"[US farmers] all will tell you that... they still support the president in his efforts to come up with fair trade for the farmers here in America.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. She tells Today her constituents are \"horrified\" at the Tory Party's \"shift to the right\"\n\nFormer Conservative MP Sarah Wollaston has joined the Liberal Democrats, saying it was the best way for her to fight for the UK to remain in the EU.\n\nMs Wollaston was one of three Tory MPs to quit the party in February and join what would become Change UK, but she left that newly-formed party in June.\n\nShe follows ex-Change UK and Labour MP Chuka Umunna in joining the Lib Dems - which now has 14 MPs.\n\nThe Totnes MP quit the Conservatives in February over the party's \"disastrous handling of Brexit\".\n\nShe told BBC Radio 4's Today programme that she had now joined the Liberal Democrats because of their work in \"making the unequivocal case for us to remain at the heart of Europe and tackle no deal, which would be a disaster\".\n\nIt is a \"time of national crisis\" and \"people wanted to see a single unified force making the case against no-deal\", she said.\n\nBut Ms Wollaston backed Lib Dem leader Jo Swinson in rejecting Labour's proposal for a caretaker government. She said their plan to stop the UK leaving the EU without a deal was not \"realistic\".\n\nInstead, she called for a \"trusted figure who commands cross-party support\", who was not a party leader, to take temporary control instead.\n\nMr Umunna told BBC Newsnight that Ms Wollaston's decision to join the Lib Dems was \"massive\" and underlined that it was the \"biggest and strongest Remain party in this country\".\n\nWhen asked if the Lib Dems expected any more defections, he said there were \"lots of conversations going on and there are lots of people on the train but only they ultimately know when they will arrive at the destination\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Sarah Wollaston 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\nIt is the latest boost for Lib Dem leader Ms Swinson - who was elected in July - following the party's success in the Brecon and Radnorshire by-election on 1 August.\n\nMs Wollaston, who was first elected in Totnes in 2010, left the Tories alongside Heidi Allen and Anna Soubry in February to join an independent group.\n\nWhen asked if her newest MP should now trigger a by-election, Ms Swinson said she looked forward to seeing Ms Wollaston re-elected at a general election - which she expected to happen \"in months, if not weeks\".\n\nHeidi Allen, Anna Soubry and Sarah Wollaston quit the Tories to join an independent group\n\nHowever, she was among six MPs to leave Change UK - which has since become the Independent Group for Change - in June following a disappointing performance in the EU elections.\n\nLeader of the Independent Group for Change Anna Soubry said she would not be following Ms Wollaston in joining the Lib Dems.\n\nShe said the Lib Dem leader Ms Swinson had \"many of the qualities needed in a prime minister\" but added that her own party \"offers something that adds to the centrist movement\".", "Nóra Quoirin went missing from her room on 4 August 2019\n\nThe parents of Nora Quoirin have identified a body found in Malaysia as that of the missing teenager.\n\nNora, who had special needs, was on holiday with her family when she disappeared from her room at the Dusun resort on 4 August.\n\nPolice said the 15-year-old Londoner's parents have confirmed the body discovered by a search team on Tuesday was their daughter.\n\nA post-mortem examination will be carried out on Wednesday.\n\nAbout 350 people had been hunting for Nora, who was of Irish-French descent, in dense jungle near the resort.\n\nHer body was found just over a mile (2km) away from the Dusun, according to BBC correspondent Howard Johnson.\n\nMalaysia's deputy police chief Mazlan Mansor said Nora was found beside a stream in a \"quite hilly\" area of plantation, and was \"not in any clothing\".\n\nRescuers found Nora's body near to the Dusun resort\n\nAuthorities have been treating Nora's disappearance as a missing persons case, but her family have said they believe she may have been abducted.\n\nHer cause of death has not yet been confirmed.\n\nNora was born with holoprosencephaly, a disorder which affects brain development, and her family said she was \"not independent and does not go anywhere alone\".\n\nOn Monday, her parents Meabh and Sebastien, a French-Irish couple who have lived in London for 20 years, put up a 50,000 Malaysian ringgit (£10,000) reward for help to find her.\n\nWhile announcing the reward, they described their daughter as being \"so precious to us\", adding their \"hearts are breaking\".\n\nMore than £115,000 has been donated on two crowdfunding sites set up by relatives to cover costs incurred by the family during the 10-day search.\n\nOver £100,000 has been raised on a page set up by Nora's aunt, while a second created by her uncle which allows people to pay in euros has reached more than €18,000 (£16,700).\n\nInvestigators previously said they had not ruled out a \"criminal element\" in the teenager's disappearance.\n\nAbout 350 people had been searching dense jungle for Nora\n\nNora, her parents and her younger brother and sister arrived at the resort in a nature reserve near Seremban, about 39 miles south of Kuala Lumpur, on 3 August for a two-week stay.\n\nHer father raised the alarm at 08:00 local time the next day after she was discovered missing from her bedroom.\n\nSearch teams were assisted by local Orang Asli people, who have knowledge of the jungle terrain, while two shamans also joined the operation.\n\nThe National Crime Agency (NCA), the Met Police, Irish and French police have also been providing support to Malaysian authorities.\n\nIrish President Michael D Higgins has offered his \"deepest condolences\" to Nora's family and thanked Malaysian authorities for their search efforts.\n\n\"Our thoughts and prayers are now with Nora's family, at this most difficult time,\" he said.\n\nTaoiseach Leo Varadkar tweeted: \"Our thoughts and sincere condolences are with Nora Quoirin's parents, siblings and wider family at this unimaginably difficult time.\"\n\nIn a statement, France's Ministry of Europe and Foreign Affairs said French police remain \"at the disposal of the Malaysian authorities so that light can be shed on the circumstances of her death\".\n\nMissing persons charity the Lucie Blackman Trust said it was \"thinking of the family and continue to support them as they come to terms with this news\".\n\nSt Bede's School in south London, which Nora attended, has opened its doors to allow the community \"to join in prayer for Nora and her family... in this heartbreaking and horrific moment\".\n\n3 August: The Quoirins arrive at the Dusun forest eco-resort\n\n5 August: The Lucie Blackman Trust says Malaysian police are treating Nora's disappearance as a potential abduction, but officers deny any foul play is involved\n\n6 August: Nora's family say they believe she has been abducted\n\n11 August: Malaysian police set up a hotline dedicated to receiving information about teenager\n\n12 August: A reward of £10,000 - donated by an anonymous Belfast business - is made available for information leading to Nora's safe return\n\n13 August: A body is found in the search for Nora\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The BBC has obtained pictures from inside the Grace 1, which was seized in July.\n\nThe ship was raided by Royal Marines off the coast of the British overseas territory, triggering a standoff with Tehran.\n\nJudges in Gibraltar are expected to decide within days whether to extend the detention of the supertanker. and on Tuesday Iran suggested a resolution may come soon.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nJeremy Corbyn has said the UK parliament should not block a second Scottish independence vote - but he does not think \"it is a good idea\".\n\nThe issue has sparked a row in the Labour party in recent weeks after similar comments from John McDonnell.\n\nThe official policy of Scottish Labour is still to oppose such a vote.\n\nThe Labour leader said: \"It's not up to parliament to block it but it's up to parliament to make a point about whether it's a good idea or not.\"\n\nFirst Minister Nicola Sturgeon welcomed Mr Corbyn's comments, but said he was \"just stating basic democracy\".\n\nMr Corbyn was echoing the views of his shadow chancellor, Mr McDonnell, who was criticised by several senior Scottish Labour figures after speaking out at an Edinburgh Fringe event.\n\nMr McDonnell said the \"English parliament\" should not stand in the way of a referendum \"if the Scottish people decide\" they want one - although he conceded that \"there are other views within the party\".\n\nScottish party leader Richard Leonard said he had spoken to Mr McDonnell to \"put to him the very clear view that the people of Scotland do not want a second independence referendum and also to remind him that the last independence referendum was supposed to be once in a generation\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Richard Leonard: \"I am clear that the Labour Party's position at the moment is opposition to a second independence referendum.\"\n\nAsked if he agreed with Mr McDonnell, Mr Corbyn said: \"My view is that I'm not in favour of Scottish independence, the referendum did take place and a decision was reached on that.\"\n\nHowever, he said he did not think it was up to the UK Parliament to block an independence referendum.\n\nHe added: \"I would advise that we don't have another referendum. I'm not in support of Scottish independence. What I am in support of is justice for Scotland and that means investment in Scotland by a Labour government for the whole of the UK.\"\n\nA spokesman for Scottish Labour said: \"Jeremy Corbyn and Richard Leonard have made clear that there is no economic case for independence, especially with the SNP's new position of ditching the pound and new policy of turbo-charged austerity to bear down on the deficit.\"\n\nMs Sturgeon welcomed Mr Corbyn's refusal to block a referendum, adding: \"It's perfectly legitimate to oppose independence, as he does, it's perfectly legitimate to argue against there being a second referendum.\n\n\"What's not legitimate is for Westminster to block a mandate as now exists for a second referendum, and to seek to block majority opinion in the Scottish Parliament.\"\n\nMs Sturgeon said Mr Corbyn was \"just stating basic democracy\" by refusing to block a new independence vote\n\nThere has been speculation that Labour and the SNP are moving towards an agreement to join forces at Westminster in an attempt to remove Boris Johnson from Downing Street.\n\nOn Wednesday, Mr Corbyn wrote to opposition leaders at Westminster and Tory rebels outlining a plan to table a no-confidence vote \"at the earliest opportunity when we can be confident of success\".\n\nIf passed, he suggested he would then become leader of a \"strictly time-limited\" caretaker government, pending a general election.\n\nMs Sturgeon said she would \"work with anyone and explore any option to stop Brexit\", saying that while she was \"not a great fan of Jeremy Corbyn\" she \"won't rule out any option if it helps to avert what is a looming catastrophe of no-deal Brexit\".\n\nQuestioned about the SNP backing a Labour government, the party leader said: \"Labour and the SNP are political opponents. But if we cast our minds back to the 2015 and 2017 general elections, I made clear that if the arithmetic lent itself to this, I would want the SNP to be part of a progressive alternative to a Tory government.\n\n\"I don't foresee or envisage a formal coalition between the SNP and Labour, I don't think that's what we'd be looking at. But we're talking hypothetically here, we don't know what the arithmetic will be after a general election, but I want to see this Tory government out of office because they are doing real damage.\"\n\nJo Swinson said Jeremy Corbyn was not a person who could build a consensus\n\nBut the Liberal Democrat leader Jo Swinson said Mr Corbyn was not the right person to build \"even a temporary majority\" in the Commons.\n\nShe said: \"I would expect there are people in his own party and indeed the necessary Conservative backbenchers who would be unwilling to support him. It is a nonsense.\"\n\nOther party leaders have also taken issue with parts of the proposal, with the Greens and Plaid Cymru calling for a new EU referendum to come before a general election.\n\nDowning Street accused the Labour leader of planning to \"overrule\" the UK's vote to leave the EU.", "Those rescued were initially treated at a local community centre\n\nFifteen people from an Irish college rescued from the sea in County Donegal were caught in a rip tide while out swimming.\n\nThe incident happened at Machaire Rabhartaigh in west Donegal. The Irish Coastguard was called at about 16:30 local time on Tuesday.\n\nEleven people, 10 of them teenagers, along with the principal of Gael Linn college, were taken to hospital.\n\nThey were treated for hypothermia and shock.\n\nAll but one were discharged on Tuesday night. The teenagers are understood to have been aged 14 and 15.\n\n\"They were swimming on the beach itself, the conditions were fine, but unfortunately, with the tide turning they got caught in a rip tide which basically takes you out to sea,\" Dara O Malley Daly of Malin Head Coastguard said.\n\n\"They were swept out maybe 200 or 300 metres, but the rip can take you out maybe 300 to 400 metres.\n\n\"It can be very disconcerting, you can be swimming along and everything's fine, but when a rip current comes, it just takes you out to sea.\n\n\"You can't swim against it - it's like a river flowing from the shore out to sea and it really catches people unawares.\"\n\nAs well as the Coastguard vessel, the 118 rescue helicopter - which had been on an exercise in the area - two fishing boats and the Tory Island ferry all took part in the rescue.\n\nMr O Malley Daly said it was fortunate there had not been a major tragedy.\n\n\"Fifteen people were in difficulty, thankfully everybody was successfully rescued,\" he said.\n\nAll, but one, of those rescued were discharged from hospital\n\n\"There could have been major casualties, but thankfully people on the shore had their mobile phones and they dialled 999.\"\n\nIt is understood the beach did not have lifeguards on it.\n\nMr O Malley Daly said anyone caught in a rip tide should try and swim parallel to the shore and not against the tide.\n\n\"That will get you out of it and then line up with something on shore, like a house or a pole and swim back to shore,\" he said.\n\n\"The other thing would be to swim at lifeguarded beaches. They'll have safe places to swim and they'll be able to advise you on rip currents that will appear at certain times.\"\n\nHe added: \"If you see anything that doesn't look right, doesn't feel right, we would ask you to call 999 and ask to speak to the Coastguard. Don't delay it.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Irish Coast Guard This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy 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 post on the Gael Linn Facebook page read: \"The Irish coastguard, together with local people and college staff, assisted in the rescue.\n\n\"The good news is that everybody is fine and all have been discharged with the exception of the college principal who is making a good recovery.\n\n\"The parents of the students involved were contacted immediately.\"", "John Williams was hit while officiating a match on 13 July\n\nA cricket umpire has died, one month after being hit on the head by a ball during an amateur match.\n\nJohn Williams, 80, from Hundleton, Pembrokeshire, was flown to hospital after being struck with the ball during a match on 13 July.\n\nHe was taken to the University Hospital of Wales in Cardiff, where he was placed in an induced coma.\n\nOn 1 August, he was transferred to Withybush Hospital in Haverfordwest, but died two weeks later.\n\nMr Williams, who was secretary of Hundelton Cricket Club, was officiating a Pembrokeshire County Division 2 match between Pembroke and Narbeth when he was hit by the ball.\n\n\"John passed away this morning with his family at his bedside. Thoughts of all of Pembrokeshire Cricket are with Hilary and the boys at this difficult and sad time.\"\n\nSorry, we're having trouble displaying this content. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nRobert Simons from Narberth Cricket Club, who was the other umpire at the Pembroke-Narberth match, said: \"He was a grand gentleman, truly a gent from a cricketing point of view, and he gave up a tremendous amount of his time for the sport.\n\n\"I mean, he was willing to officiate even in his 80th year.\n\n\"It's very, very sad. The whole of Pembrokeshire cricket would say the same of him. There's not many of them around. A marvellous chap.\n\n\"I was officiating as the other umpire... It was traumatic.\"\n• None Cricket umpire in hospital after being hit by ball", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nAlmost half a million homes in Northern Ireland will see their electricity bills rise by 6% from October.\n\nPower NI, which has 458,000 domestic customers across Northern Ireland, is increasing prices in a move that will add about £35 a year to the average household electricity bill.\n\nThis is the third year in a row that Power NI has hiked its prices.\n\nThe company said the change, which has been agreed with the Utility Regulator, was due to increased costs.\n\nIt said these had come from the electricity network provider and the market operator.\n\n\"Unfortunately, like all suppliers, we have no alternative but to pay these increased network and market charges, which have a knock-on effect on our prices,\" said Stephen McCully, managing director of Power NI.\n\n\"Having been through a rigorous process with the Utility Regulator, our customers can be sure that although unwelcome, this increase is as low as possible.\"\n\nThe Consumer Council advises people to shop around for a better deal\n\nThe Consumer Council described the increase as disappointing.\n\nPaulino Garcia, head of energy policy, said the council is concerned about the impact on vulnerable consumers on low incomes.\n\nHe said the fall in wholesale energy prices over the last three months had not materialised in prices.\n\nMr Garcia added that Power NI and the Utility Regulator assured the council that if wholesale prices continue to fall, the savings will be passed on.\n\nThe Consumer Council advises bill payers to use their independent comparison tool to check if they can make savings. It also pointed out that bills can be cut without switching your supplier by setting up a direct debit.\n\nPower NI has 35,000 farm and business customers who will also see a rise in their bills, but as many have personalised contracts with either a market tracker or a fixed-price deal, the increase will vary depending on contract type and tariff.\n\nPower NI is regulated by the Utility Regulator in Northern Ireland.\n\n\"Approving any increase to electricity bills is not a decision we take lightly,\" said Utility Regulator chief executive Jenny Pyper.\n\n\"It is disappointing that, due to a number of rising costs, Power NI need to increase their domestic tariff.\"\n\n\"Despite this increase, Power NI's standard domestic electricity tariff continues to be lower than the Great Britain and Republic of Ireland average,\" she added.\n• None Energy prices to fall for millions this winter", "Nora Quoirin went missing from her room on 4 August\n\nThe family of British teenager Nora Quoirin, whose body has been found in Malaysia, have said their \"hearts are broken\".\n\nNora, who had special needs, was found just over a mile away from the Dusun resort on Tuesday.\n\nThe 15-year-old Londoner had been on holiday with her family when she disappeared from her room on 4 August.\n\nIn a statement, her family thanked the 350 people who had been hunting for Nora in dense jungle near the resort.\n\nThey added: \"Nora has brought people together, especially from France, Ireland, Britain and Malaysia, united in their love and support for her and her family.\n\n\"She has truly touched the whole world.\n\n\"The cruelty of her being taken away is unbearable. Our hearts are broken.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Volunteer searchers in Malaysia describe how they found the body of Nora Quoirin\n\nHer cause of death has not yet been confirmed and Malaysian police said a post-mortem examination was under way.\n\nPolice said the teenager's parents confirmed the body discovered by a search team was their daughter.\n\nMalaysia's deputy police chief Mazlan Mansor said Nora, who was of Irish-French descent, was found beside a stream in a \"quite hilly\" area of plantation, and was \"not in any clothing\".\n\nAuthorities have been treating her disappearance as a missing persons case, but her family have said they believe she may have been abducted.\n\nNora was born with holoprosencephaly, a disorder which affects brain development, and her family said she was \"not independent and does not go anywhere alone\".\n\nOn Monday, her parents Meabh and Sebastien, a French-Irish couple who have lived in London for 20 years, put up a 50,000 Malaysian ringgit (£10,000) reward for help to find her.\n\nNora, her parents and her younger brother and sister arrived at the resort in a nature reserve near Seremban, about 39 miles south of Kuala Lumpur, on 3 August for a two-week stay.\n\n3 August: The Quoirins arrive at the Dusun forest eco-resort\n\n5 August: The Lucie Blackman Trust says Malaysian police are treating Nora's disappearance as a potential abduction, but officers deny any foul play is involved\n\n6 August: Nora's family say they believe she has been abducted\n\n11 August: Malaysian police set up a hotline dedicated to receiving information about teenager\n\n12 August: A reward of £10,000 - donated by an anonymous Belfast business - is made available for information leading to Nora's safe return\n\n13 August: A body is found in the search for Nora\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. BT said the removals were due to the boxes being underused\n\nCommunity leaders are campaigning for public phone boxes to be removed from an area of Cardiff, saying they are used by addicts to take drugs.\n\nTwo have been removed from Butetown but residents, a councillor and religious leaders said others also need to go.\n\n\"It wouldn't solve the problems here, but it would be one small step,\" said Father Dean Atkins of St Mary the Virgin Church.\n\nBT said it had no plans to remove any more phone boxes.\n\nJeffrey Gabb lives near one of the boxes and said residents regularly saw drug-taking in public view.\n\n\"I have been down here all my life and this is as bad as I have seen it,\" he said.\n\n\"It's a phone box for dealing. It can happen any time of day. Somebody is going to die down here sooner or later.\"\n\nSaeed Ebrahim has seen people taking drugs in the phone boxes\n\nButetown councillor Saeed Ebrahim said: \"Thankfully, two boxes have been removed recently and we are looking to get rid of the rest in the near future.\n\n\"I have seen it myself. People inside the boxes injecting [drugs]. It has not been pleasant.\"\n\nFather Atkins said phone boxes were \"not used a lot\" to make calls, but seeing them used for drug-taking and dealing \"makes people fearful\".\n\n\"BT have refused to tell us how much they are used because it's confidential information,\" he said.\n\n\"They have admitted that, actually, it brings in good revenue from advertising so, really, they are just advertising billboards, not phone phones.\"\n\nBT said phone boxes had been removed near Loudoun Square and Alice Street due to a decline in the calls being made.\n\n\"While crime and anti-social behaviour is a matter for the police, BT works regularly with local community groups and authorities to address any concerns,\" a spokesman said.\n\nInsp Sohail Anwar, from South Wales Police, said: \"We are working really hard every day to tackle this issue, whether through uniformed officers or plain-clothed teams targeting the bigger players, as well as working in partnership with other agencies and organisations.\n\n\"Members of the public can be our eyes and ears in the community, and people have reported their concerns consistently about the use and supply of drugs in this area.\"\n\nFather Dean Atkins said he knows of parents who \"won't let children play in the local streets any more\"", "Hundreds of people in the UK are turning to private clinics for medical cannabis, BBC News has been told.\n\nSince its legalisation in November 2018, there have been very few, if any, prescriptions for medical cannabis containing THC on the NHS.\n\nAnd this has led some patients, with conditions such as epilepsy and MS, to pay up to £800 a month privately.\n\nThe government said it sympathised with families \"dealing so courageously with challenging conditions\".\n\nCheryl Keen says it is \"disgusting\" some patients have to seek private help\n\nCheryl Keen has been trying to get medical cannabis on the NHS for her daughter Charlotte - who has brain damage and epilepsy - but has been refused twice.\n\nAnd she had been told it was too expensive and she had not yet tried all the other available options, she said.\n\n\"Nothing has happened, nothing has changed [since the legalisation],\" Ms Keen told BBC Two's Victoria Derbyshire programme.\n\n\"It's absolutely disgusting that anyone is having to pay to go private,\" she added - something she cannot afford to do.\n\nCharlotte has twice been refused medical cannabis on the NHS\n\nCampaign groups say by not prescribing cannabis medicines with THC, the NHS is limiting treatment options for patients.\n\nA review earlier this month by NHS England, however, highlighted a lack of evidence about the long-term safety and effectiveness of medical cannabis.\n\nNICE said it was unable to make a recommendation about the use of cannabis-based medicines for severe treatment-resistant epilepsy \"because there was a lack of clear evidence that these treatments provide any benefits\".\n\nAnd this has led to the introduction of private clinics.\n\nGrow Biotech, which handles about three-quarters of all medical cannabis imported into the UK, said as of July it had received more than 100 requests for private prescriptions - of which about 60 had been fulfilled.\n\nThe new London branch of The Medical Cannabis Clinics has not yet opened but said it had 162 patients on its waiting list - with conditions such as epilepsy, Parkinson's, post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and fibromyalgia.\n\nProf Mike Barnes says private clinics can be a \"lifeline for patients\"\n\n\"Everyone can get an appointment to come here but not everyone leaves with a prescription for cannabis,\" its director, Prof Mike Barnes, said.\n\n\"There are some conditions for which there is good evidence for cannabis to be useful, so you'd have to have one of those conditions - like pain, anxiety, or nausea and sickness in chemotherapy or epilepsy.\"\n\nThe clinic says consultations are carried out to ensure prospective patients have tried all reasonable licensed medication for their conditions and reached \"the end of the road for treatment\".\n\nProf Barnes described the service as a \"lifeline for patients in need\".\n\nPrescriptions cost between £600 and £800 a month but Prof Mike Barnes rejected any suggestion the clinic was exploiting patients.\n\n\"This is the only way patients who are in significant need can get access to this medicine,\" he said.\n\nA report last month by the Health and Social Care Committee said the hopes of patients and families had been unfairly raised when doctors were allowed to prescribe cannabis.\n\nLabour MP Ben Bradshaw, who sits on the committee, told BBC News the government was \"failing patients\".\n\n\"If anything [since its legalisation], it's become more difficult for people to obtain it,\" he said.\n\n\"[The government] now has to put this right, by delivering on the promises that it's made to the patients.\"\n\nThe Department of Health said in a statement: \"To support doctors prescribing these products, we have asked the National Institute of Health and Care Excellence (NICE) to develop additional clinical guidelines and are working with Health Education England to provide additional training.\n\n\"The decision to prescribe unlicensed cannabis-based products for medicinal use is a clinical decision for specialist hospital doctors, made with patients and their families, taking into account clinical guidance.\"\n\nFollow the BBC's Victoria Derbyshire programme on Facebook and Twitter - and see more of our stories here.", "Peter Duncan died in hospital shortly after being attacked\n\nA 52-year-old lawyer who was stabbed to death with a screwdriver in a busy shopping centre was a devoted father, his family has said.\n\nPeter Duncan was attacked after what police said was a chance \"coming together\" with a group of youths near Old Eldon Square in Newcastle.\n\nHe was attacked at about 18:20 BST on Wednesday and died later in hospital.\n\nSeven teenage boys have been arrested on suspicion of his murder.\n\nThe boys, a 14 year-old, two 15-year-olds and four 17-year-olds, remain in custody.\n\nNorthumbria Police said it believed Mr Duncan was attacked after a \"chance encounter\" outside a branch of Greggs.\n\nA cordon was put in place in Eldon Square\n\nMr Duncan, from Newcastle, was described by his family as a \"devoted father and husband\".\n\n\"Peter was a kind and caring man who was always first to help others,\" they added.\n\n\"He was a devoted father, husband, son, brother, uncle and friend and loved by all who knew him.\n\n\"His death will leave such a huge hole in our lives and he'll be deeply missed by us all.\"\n\nAccording to his profile on LinkedIn, Mr Duncan trained as an electrical engineer before graduating from Northumbria University with a law degree in 2003.\n\nHe was working as legal counsel in the Newcastle office of Royal IHC Limited, and previously as a solicitor and legal advisor with other companies in Darlington and Newcastle.\n\nCh Supt Ged Noble said it appeared there had been a \"coming together\" at the entrance to the shopping centre, which led to Mr Duncan receiving a single puncture wound to the chest.\n\nHe added: \"This was a tragic incident and our thoughts go out to Peter's family and friends at this incredibly difficult time.\n\n\"Peter's family have requested that their privacy is respected during this difficult time.\n\n\"We will be continuing extra patrols in the area and I would urge anyone with concerns to speak to an officer.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Liu Xiaoming, China's ambassador to the UK, made the remarks during a press conference\n\nChina's ambassador to the UK has warned British politicians against interfering in Hong Kong's affairs, amid clashes between protesters and police.\n\nLiu Xiaoming said the UK should \"refrain from saying or doing anything that interferes or undermines the rule of law in Hong Kong\".\n\nSome British politicians think \"their hands are still in the colonial days\", he told a press conference in London.\n\nThe UK has called for \"calm from all sides\".\n\nMillions of Hong Kong citizens have taken part in 10 weeks of anti-government protests, demanding democratic reform and an investigation into alleged police brutality.\n\nWhile many of the demonstrations were peaceful, an increasing number have ended in violent clashes with police.\n\nMr Liu's warning comes days after the Chinese foreign ministry told Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab to stop interfering in Hong Kong's affairs.\n\nHe accused some British politicians of viewing Hong Kong as \"part of the British empire\".\n\nHe made the comment in response to a question about a proposal by Commons Foreign Affairs Select Committee chairman Tom Tugendhat to extend UK citizenship rights to Hong Kong Chinese.\n\n\"I think some of them still regard Hong Kong as part of British empire and they treat Hong Kong as part of the UK,\" Mr Liu said.\n\n\"They are going to have to change their mindset, put them in the proper position and regard Hong Kong as a part of China, not as a part of the UK,\" he added.\n\nChina's Ambassador in London was forthright and uncompromising.\n\nLiu Xiaoming can be relied on by Beijing to deliver strong messages in the clearest of English.\n\nHe is proud of having served in London for almost 10 years, since Gordon Brown was prime minister.\n\nNow he is warning that Beijing is ready to intervene in Hong Kong with its own security forces if China judges that necessary \"to quell the unrest swiftly\".\n\nHe is broadening complaints of foreign interference - talking of unnamed \"foreign forces\" and accusing Britain in particular of interference in what he regards as purely a Chinese internal matter.\n\nBritish government pressure for substantial dialogue in Hong Kong is simply rejected.\n\nBritish politicians are dismissed as continuing to live in their imperial past.\n\nBut any deployment of Chinese military police or other security forces over the border and into Hong Kong would be a huge and risky step - posing its own threat to the strictly limited autonomy of Hong Kong, which foreign investors and traders still clearly value highly.\n\nSo, for now, the warning remains just that.\n\nHong Kong, which was a British colony until 1997, is a special administrative region of China, giving it greater independence.\n\nThe Sino-British Joint Declaration signed in 1984 said Hong Kong would enjoy a \"high degree of autonomy, except in foreign and defence affairs\" and be \"vested with executive, legislative and independent judicial power\".\n\nMr Liu questioned whether the government would allow protesters to commit \"crimes\" in the UK.\n\n\"Would the UK allow extremists to storm the Palace of Westminster and damage its facilities and get away with it?\" he said.\n\n\"Would the UK give permission for attacking police officers with lethal weapons or set fire to police stations without any punishment?\n\n\"Would the UK allow so-called pro-democracy rioters to occupy the airport, obstruct traffic, disturb social order or threaten the safety and people's life and property?\n\n\"Aren't all these regarded as crimes in the UK?\"\n\nIn recent weeks protesters have stormed the Chinese government office in Hong Kong and defaced the national emblem, and also laid siege to police stations.\n\nSome protesters argue they have been forced to resort to more confrontational tactics, as peaceful protests have not worked.\n\nMr Liu also condemned unnamed \"Western politicians and organisations\" for lending \"support to violent radicals\" and trying to \"obstruct Hong Kong's police from bringing the violent offenders to justice\".\n\n\"Foreign forces must stop interfering in Hong Kong's affairs,\" he said.\n\n\"Evidence shows that the situation in Hong Kong would not have deteriorated so much if it had not been for the interference and incitement of foreign forces.\"\n\nActivists in Hong Kong have denied that foreign governments are involved in the movement, while observers say the protests have largely appeared leaderless and unpredictable.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Comedian Bill Bailey witnesses \"chaos\" at Hong Kong airport during the protests on 13 August\n\nThe protests initially started after Hong Kong introduced a bill in April that would allow those accused of crimes against mainland China to be extradited there.\n\nThe bill's critics said the move could endanger activists and journalists, and result in those accused facing unfair trials and violent treatment.\n\nThe bill was suspended in June after hundreds of people took to the streets in protest.\n\nThe protesters have since called for the complete withdrawal of the extradition bill and for other democratic reforms, including amnesty for all arrested activists.\n• None How could China intervene in Hong Kong protests?", "Results day can be nerve-wracking. A year on, BBC News apprentice Paige Neal-Holder shares her experience and a few tips for getting through the day.\n\nIt's been a year since I nervously walked into school to receive my A-level results.\n\nI was neither ecstatic nor disappointed. I didn't quite get what I had hoped for but I was just glad I had passed and somehow got through all the stress without tearing my hair out.\n\nOne thing I wish I had done that day was to be proud of myself regardless of my grades.\n\nIt was a shame I couldn't recognise my achievement.\n\nA year later, I look back differently at my time doing A-levels.\n\nA-levels are undoubtedly an important, useful and well recognised qualification that can help launch you into the next chapter of your life - be it university or employment.\n\nBut at the same time, an individual's mental health and wellbeing is even more important. I can't stress that enough.\n\nNo-one should break themselves over something that is essentially a letter on a piece of paper.\n\nAnd my A-level certificates are probably collecting dust - I haven't even picked them up from my school yet.\n\nIt may not seem like it at the time - but if results day doesn't go to plan, it's not the end of the world.\n\nYou might be screaming: \"Yes it is!\" at your screen right now.\n\nIt's safe to say I didn't look like this on results day\n\nBut things do have a way of working themselves out.\n\nOne year later, I'm not doing too badly.\n\nIn fact, I didn't need A-level grades for this BBC apprenticeship.\n\nThe recruiters were looking for a candidate with five GCSEs and some potential.\n\nSo, although this is probably not what you want to hear when you have your heart set on one particular option, there may be other options you have not even considered.\n\nFor what it's worth, here are my top pieces of advice for the big day.\n\nAnd finally, please do not be the annoying kid who goes around asking what grades people got - because your invite to the future school reunion may accidentally on purpose get lost in the post.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Emma McNulty described the death of Millie as like \"losing a member of the family\"\n\nA woman who says she was sacked on the same day her family dog died has started a campaign for bereavement leave when employees lose their pets.\n\nEmma McNulty, from Glasgow, said she was too upset to work after her terrier Millie died at the weekend.\n\nShe claims she was physically sick with grief, but the 18-year-old student was told to find cover or risk dismissal.\n\nUnable to find a replacement, she said her part-time job in a sandwich shop was terminated.\n\nMs McNulty described the death of Millie as like \"losing a member of the family\".\n\nShe has started a petition asking for employers to recognise pet bereavement in the same way as a human family member.\n\nHer online change.org petition has already gained more than 700 supporters.\n\n\"I was sacked on the same day as I lost my dog,\" she said.\n\n\"Millie was 14 and I am 18, so I don't remember a time when she wasn't part of my life.\n\n\"We did everything together. I was so close to her and she was my best pal.\"\n\nMs McNulty added: \"She became ill on Saturday night and we had to have her put to sleep on Sunday. I was devastated, distraught and physically sick.\n\n\"I thought my employer would show a bit of compassion. Instead I was told to find cover and that if I didn't come in I would risk dismissal.\n\n\"When I told them I couldn't find a replacement I was told not to show up for any other shifts and that the boss would be in touch.\"\n\nMs McNulty said she was dismissed for not turning up for a planned shift.\n\nSince starting her online petition she has received dozens of messages of support.\n\nDaniel Taylor wrote: \"Dogs are family. You should be allowed to grieve for them too.\"\n\nTracy Rawding added: \"Pets are family members and the grief is very real.\"\n\nAnd Geraldine Kennedy posted: \"This is no different to losing a human family member. Our animals mean more to us than our human family and we should be allowed the same time to grieve their loss.\"\n\nArbitration service Acas has produced guidance for employers around bereavement.\n\nIt says: \"Grief impacts on the emotional, physical, spiritual and psychological well-being of the person who is bereaved. At any time research indicates one in 10 employees is likely to be affected by bereavement.\n\n\"Bereavement in the workplace can be challenging to manage: employees may need to take time off unexpectedly; find their performance is impacted, or be temporarily unable to perform certain roles.\n\n\"However, a compassionate and supportive approach demonstrates that the organisation values its employees, helps build commitment, reduce sickness absence, and retain the workforce.\"\n\nDiane James, pet bereavement support service manager at Blue Cross, said: \"We fully support understanding employers who offer bereavement leave to allow time for pet owners to come to terms with their loss.\n\n\"We have been helping pet owners for 25 years and are contacted by over 12,000 devastated pet owners every year who are struggling to cope.\"\n\nAs an employee, you have a right to time off to deal with an emergency involving a dependant.\n\nA dependant could be a spouse, partner, child, grandchild, parent, or someone who depends on you for care. However, it is unlikely a pet would be included in this benefit.\n\nAccording to the UK government website, compassionate leave can be granted by an employer as paid or unpaid leave for emergency situations.\n\nHowever, this is at the discretion of the employer. The site advises checking your employment contract, company handbook or intranet for details about the company's policy on compassionate leave.\n\nA spokesman for Acas said: \"The law gives a day one right for an employee to have reasonable time off work to deal with a bereavement involving a dependant.\n\n\"Bereavement is a very personal issue and can affect different people in different ways.\n\n\"Pets are not specifically mentioned within workplace bereavement legislation but the death of a beloved pet can impact a worker's mental health and a good employer should be sensitive and mindful of their employees' wellbeing.\"\n• None Time off for family and dependants The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Mariner said the startup of the field marks a significant milestone\n\nOil has begun to flow from the biggest development project in the North Sea in a decade.\n\nMore than 300 million barrels of heavy crude oil are expected to be recovered from the Mariner field, 95 miles east of Shetland.\n\nNorwegian state-owned operator Equinor said the field was a \"cornerstone\" in its expansion into UK waters.\n\nBut environmental charity Friends of the Earth Scotland insisted the oil should be left in the ground.\n\nThe field was first discovered in 1981 but was taken over by Equinor, then Statoil, in 2007.\n\nLow flow rates meant it was not economically profitable to recover the oil until technology advanced 25 years later.\n\nHedda Felin, senior vice president at Equinor, said: \"The startup of the Mariner field marks a significant milestone for us as it's our first UK operatorship and Mariner is our cornerstone. So it contributes to our commitment to be a safe and reliable long-term energy partner for the UK.\n\n\"We have a lot of new technologies to be applied on the field. We have been able to get much better data of the subsurface so we have been able to increase the recoverable volumes.\n\n\"Carbon and climate are at the core of everything we do and we want to push the energy transition in the right way.\n\n\"We believe there will be a need for both oil and gas and renewables. There are different opinions on how quick it will go but we will be part of that path.\"\n\nThe field was first discovered in 1981\n\nProduction drilling started in December 2016 and more than £6bn has been spent on the project over the past seven years.\n\nThis has created 800 construction jobs and a further 700 permanent posts.\n\nAt its peak, about 70,000 barrels of oil a day is expected to be produced.\n\nMike Tholen, from industry body Oil and Gas UK, said: \"First oil from Mariner represents a significant achievement for Equinor and its pioneering development of the field, helping the company to become a major player in the UK sector of the North Sea with a long-lasting, positive impact on the region.\n\n\"As the largest offshore development in the UK for a decade, Mariner has utilised pioneering technology to bring on stream a field first discovered nearly 40 years ago; in doing so it has provided thousands of highly-skilled jobs across the country during its development and will support many more in the years to come.\"\n\nMariner is one of the largest development projects in the North Sea oil and gas sector in a decade.\n\nProduction has started just a few months after the huge Culzean field began supplying up to 5% of the UK's gas demand.\n\nMary Church, from Friends of the Earth Scotland, said: \"The Mariner project is seriously bad news for life on earth. We know we have got to stop burning oil and gas if we want to avoid climate breakdown, so every new field like this takes us in the wrong direction.\n\n\"Its time for the Scottish and UK governments to stop backing oil and gas expansion and instead redirect support and subsidies towards creating decent jobs in the renewable energy economy.\"", "Details of A-level grade boundaries for all papers set by two exam boards have been leaked on social media a day before the results are published.\n\nThe documents reveal that A-level maths candidates needed little more than half marks to get a grade A in papers set by both Pearson/Edexcel and OCR.\n\nExam boards send marking schemes to schools in confidence ahead of the results to help them prepare students.\n\nThey said confidentiality was usually respected.\n\nA-level students are due to get their results on Thursday.\n\nThe leaked Edexcel documents, first reported in the Daily Telegraph, show A-level maths candidates needed 55% to get the A grade, while candidates with the OCR board needed 54%.\n\nEdexcel's biology students needed 56% (167 marks out of 300) for an A, while OCR's candidates needed 59% (158 out of 270).\n\nIn physics, candidates needed 59% (176 out of 300) for a grade A with Edexcel, while with OCR, this was 76% (204 out of 270).\n\nIn English literature, candidates with the OCR board needed 89% for an A grade - significantly higher than those with Edexcel, who needed 69% (208 marks out of 300) to get A.\n\nThis summer is the first time that grades for new-specification A-level maths are being awarded to the vast majority of students.\n\nThe exam was reported by students to be very challenging, but the exam board had said before the leak emerged that it was clear the paper was of an appropriate standard.\n\nExam boards set grade boundaries once all the results are in.\n\nThey take into account the predicted achievement levels of the cohort taking the exam and the difficulty of the paper, in an attempt to keep standards the same from year to year.\n\nResponding to the leak, a spokesman for Pearson said: \"Our systems are working as they should and the information was shared today via a password-protected, secure website.\n\n\"Boards do ask schools not to share this widely to avoid unnecessary stress for students awaiting their results.\n\n\"Schools are trusted to treat the info confidentially on behalf of their students - and the vast majority do.\"\n\nA spokesman for Cambridge Assessment, which owns the OCR board, said: \"We provide schools and colleges with results information, including grade boundaries, the day before results day on a special site which is accessible to exams officers.\n\n\"Grade boundaries are then released by schools to their students on results day and we publish them on our website.\n\n\"We do it this way to minimise the chance of students feeling anxious if they see grade boundaries without their results — which can lead some to jump to the wrong conclusion.\"\n\nGeneral secretary of the Association of School and College Leaders Geoff Barton said: \"We are extremely disappointed if grade boundaries have been leaked ahead of results day.\"\n\nBut he said was a pointless exercise because the purpose of grade boundaries was to account for differences in the difficulty of papers so that students were not disadvantaged from one year to the next.\n\n\"We would urge students against losing sleep over grade boundaries and to wait for their results tomorrow.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "More than half of qualifications awarded for 16-18 year olds in England are for vocational courses, like BTECs and City&Guilds. Today thousands of students receive their BTEC results.\n\nThe government says it wants to reform the sector and is rolling out T-level courses in autumn 2020. The new two-year courses will follow on from GCSEs and be equivalent to three A-levels.\n\nRead more: Who are the students who didn't just do A-levels?", "More than 40% of under-18s didn't visit an NHS dentist last year, figures show\n\nDental surgeons are calling for the government in England to encourage all schools to go sugar-free in a bid to combat tooth decay.\n\nThey say it is essential to cut sugar in school meals to tackle a condition affecting a quarter of five-year-olds.\n\nDentists also want more supervised teeth-brushing in schools and guidelines on healthy packed lunches.\n\nBefore leaving Downing Street, Prime Minister Theresa May announced plans to improve children's oral health.\n\nHer government produced a green paper on tackling the causes of preventable ill health.\n\nBut the Faculty of Dental Surgery says that while progress has been made, more needs to be done.\n\nTooth decay is the leading cause of hospital admissions among five-to-nine-year-olds over the last three years, its report says.\n\nYet figures show that 41% of under-18s didn't visit an NHS dentist last year.\n\nAnd the figure is 77% among children aged between one and two, despite guidance that all children should see a dentist at least once a year.\n\nThe faculty has produced a report containing 12 recommendations to try to cut down on cases of tooth decay.\n\nProf Michael Escudier, dean of the Faculty of Dental Surgery at the Royal College of Surgeons of England, said: \"It is incredibly worrying that levels of tooth decay among children in England remain so high - especially when you consider that it is almost entirely preventable through simple steps, such as brushing twice a day with appropriate-strength fluoride toothpaste, visiting the dentist regularly and reducing sugar consumption.\"\n\nHe added: \"The scourge of child dental decay cannot be allowed to continue.\n\n\"Everyone needs to play their part in ensuring our children have healthy, happy teeth.\"\n\nThe Faculty of Dental Surgery said a campaign to remind people how often to take their children to a dentist, and the availability of free NHS dental care, was needed.\n\nThe British Dental Association said many parents were not aware that dental check-ups and treatment for under-18s were free.\n\nAnd it called for investment in a national oral health programme for children in England, matching those already set up in Scotland and Wales, to help children develop good habits from an early age.\n\nBDA chairman Mick Armstrong said: \"It's a scandal that tooth decay remains the number one reason for child hospital admissions.\n\n\"We will not see real progress until ministers start going further and faster on prevention.\"\n\nThe Department for Education said schools in England had to provide pupils with a nutritious school meal and restrict foods high in sugar from lunch options.\n\nA spokesperson said: \"This includes a ban on drinks with added sugar, chocolate or sweets in school meals and vending machines.\n\n\"Additionally, we are in the process of updating these standards to further reduce the sugar content of school meals.\"\n• None Pledge to end smoking in England by 2030", "The facial-recognition system at King's Cross is to be investigated by the UK's data-protection watchdog.\n\nMedia exposure of live facial recognition at the site prompted the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) to look into how it was being used.\n\nThe ICO will inspect the technology in place and how it is operated to ensure it does not break data protection laws.\n\nThe regulator said it was \"deeply concerned\" about the growing use of facial-recognition technology.\n\nThe Financial Times was the first to report a live face-scanning system was being used across the 67-acre (0.3-sq-km) site around King's Cross station in London.\n\nDeveloper Argent said it used the technology to \"ensure public safety\" and it was just one of \"a number of detection and tracking methods\" in place at the site.\n\nBut the use of cameras and databases to work out who is passing through and using the site has proved controversial.\n\nSo far, Argent has not said how long it has been using facial-recognition cameras, what is the legal basis for their use, or what systems it has in place to protect the data it collects.\n\nIn its statement, the ICO said: \"Scanning people's faces as they lawfully go about their daily lives, in order to identify them, is a potential threat to privacy that should concern us all.\"\n\nThe regulator said it was keen to ensure that King's Cross developer was using the technology in accordance with UK laws governing the use of data.\n\n\"Put simply, any organisations wanting to use facial recognition technology must comply with the law - and they must do so in a fair, transparent and accountable way,\" said the ICO.\n\nIt must have documented how and why it believed its use of the technology was legal, proportionate and justified, it added.\n\nArgent has not yet responded to a request for comment by BBC News.\n\nThe mayor of London is also quizzing developer Argent about its use of facial-recognition systems.\n\nSadiq Khan wrote to the company and said there was \"serious and widespread concern\" about the legality of facial recognition.", "Last updated on .From the section Football\n\nLiverpool won the Super Cup for the fourth time in their history by beating Chelsea 5-4 on penalties after a 2-2 draw in Istanbul.\n\nGoalkeeper Adrian kept out Tammy Abraham's spot kick to secure victory for the Champions League winners.\n\nChelsea had taken the lead in the first half through Olivier Giroud's clinical strike but Sadio Mane scored twice to give Liverpool the lead.\n\nJorginho's spot-kick took the game to penalties, where Liverpool triumphed.\n\nThe win comes just two months after Jurgen Klopp won his first trophy as Liverpool boss when he led the Reds to a 2-0 win over Tottenham in the Champions League final.\n\nGames between these two sides in Europe have historically been tight affairs, with just one of their 10 previous meetings having been won by a margin of more than one goal.\n\nIt was the same again on Wednesday night as the two teams tussled for 120 minutes in a game that did not finish until almost 1am in Istanbul.\n\nIn the end, it came down to who could keep their cool in the sweltering heat and after nine excellent penalties, Abraham placed his shot too close to Adrian to hand Liverpool their first silverware of the season.\n• None Football Daily podcast: Liverpool win silverware on penalties in Istanbul ... again\n\nTwo weeks ago Adrian was without a club, having been released by West Ham at the end of last season.\n\nBut, following Simon Mignolet's departure to Club Brugge, Klopp snapped up the 32-year-old shot-stopper to provide experienced cover for Alisson.\n\nAdrian had barely had time to get to know his new team-mates when he was called upon earlier than expected as Liverpool's first-choice goalkeeper injured his calf in the 4-1 win against Norwich in the Premier League's season-opener last Friday.\n\nWith Alisson facing a spell on the sidelines, Adrian made his full debut against Chelsea. It was his first competitive start since January, but he showed little signs of nerves or rustiness, catching the eye in the first half when he sprung off his line to deny Mateo Kovacic from close range.\n\nThere was little he could do about Chelsea's opener, which was a clinical finish by Giroud, although he did give away the penalty deep in extra time when he took the legs of Abraham.\n\nBut that gave him the platform to produce his penalty shootout heroics, which will give him and the Liverpool fans confidence he can be an able deputy during Alisson's absence.\n\nTwo defeats, but promising signs from Chelsea\n\nChelsea lost 4-0 at Manchester United on Sunday and while this was another defeat for the Blues and their new manager Frank Lampard, there were plenty of positives to be taken from Wednesday night's performance.\n\nLampard fielded a young side at Old Trafford but turned to the older heads in his squad for this game. The added bit of experience and quality showed, particularly in a dominant first-half display.\n\nN'Golo Kante was by far the best player on the pitch in the opening 45 minutes as he pulled the strings in midfield, while Giroud showed the clinical finishing that was absent for the Blues at the weekend.\n\nChristian Pulisic also caught the eye on his first competitive start for Chelsea.\n\nThe 20-year-old American provided a creative spark, while his movement and vision had more than a hint of Eden Hazard about them.\n\nOne moment that caught the eye saw him run onto a through ball in the first half, cut inside before tucking a neat finish inside the near post. However, the goal was ruled out for offside following a VAR check.\n\nIf Lampard is able to get the balance of youth and experience right in his first XI, Chelsea could be an exciting team to watch this season.\n\nHistory was made in the game as France's Stephanie Frappart became the first woman to referee a major European men's game.\n\nThe 35-year-old has officiated matches in the third division of men's football in France and refereed the Women's World Cup final in France this summer.\n\nFrappart, who led a team largely made up of female officials which included assistant referees Manuela Nicolosi of France and Michelle O'Neill from the Republic of Ireland, was praised on social media for her performance.\n\nShe let the game flow, while VAR was not called upon in the game to overturn any of her decisions.\n\nChelsea come close again - the stats\n• None Only Barcelona and AC Milan (5) have won the Super Cup more times than Liverpool (4).\n• None Chelsea have now lost three consecutive Super Cup appearances (2012, 2013 and 2019) - only Barcelona and Sevilla (four each) have been runners-up on more occasions.\n• None This was the 11th match between Liverpool and Chelsea in European competition, making it the most-played European fixture between two sides from the same nation.\n• None With the scores level at 1-1 after 90 minutes, this was the fifth time in the past seven seasons the Super Cup has gone to extra time or penalties.\n• None Liverpool became the first Premier League club to be involved in two penalty shootouts in the same month since Middlesbrough in February 2007.\n• None Olivier Giroud has scored 12 goals in 16 appearances in European competition for Chelsea, compared with just seven goals in 49 domestic games for the Blues.\n• None Liverpool's Sadio Mane became the first African player to score in the Super Cup since Frederic Kanoute for Sevilla vs Barcelona in 2006.\n\n'I've nothing but pride' - what they said\n\nLiverpool manager Jurgen Klopp speaking to BT Sport: \"It was a very difficult game for both teams. It was all about winning it and we did that in the end.\n\n\"Nobody in the stadium wanted extra time, it was a killer. I'm not sure about the penalty but who cares now.\n\n\"We started well then dropped off... we could talk about football but it's too late now. We had to fight and the boys did tonight.\"\n\nChelsea manager Frank Lampard speaking to BT Sport: \"I've got nothing but pride in the team and the performance, and confidence in what that means.\n\n\"It was a tough game against a good Liverpool team that had extra time to recover after the weekend. But sometimes football comes down to little moments of luck.\"\n\nLiverpool travel to Southampton in the Premier League on Saturday (15:00 BST), while Chelsea host Leicester the following day (16:00 BST)\n• None Penalty saved! Tammy Abraham (Chelsea) fails to capitalise on this great opportunity, right footed shot saved in the centre of the goal.\n• None Goal! Liverpool 2(5), Chelsea 2(4). Mohamed Salah (Liverpool) converts the penalty with a left footed shot to the bottom left corner.\n• None Goal! Liverpool 2(4), Chelsea 2(4). Emerson (Chelsea) converts the penalty with a left footed shot to the centre of the goal.\n• None Goal! Liverpool 2(4), Chelsea 2(3). Trent Alexander-Arnold (Liverpool) converts the penalty with a right footed shot to the bottom left corner.\n• None Goal! Liverpool 2(3), Chelsea 2(3). Mason Mount (Chelsea) converts the penalty with a right footed shot to the top left corner.\n• None Goal! Liverpool 2(3), Chelsea 2(2). Divock Origi (Liverpool) converts the penalty with a right footed shot to the bottom left corner.\n• None Goal! Liverpool 2(2), Chelsea 2(2). Ross Barkley (Chelsea) converts the penalty with a right footed shot to the bottom right corner.\n• None Goal! Liverpool 2(2), Chelsea 2(1). Fabinho (Liverpool) converts the penalty with a right footed shot to the bottom right corner.\n• None Goal! Liverpool 2(1), Chelsea 2(1). Jorginho (Chelsea) converts the penalty with a right footed shot to the bottom left corner.\n• None Goal! Liverpool 2(1), Chelsea 2. Roberto Firmino (Liverpool) converts the penalty with a right footed shot to the bottom left corner.\n• None Delay over. They are ready to continue.\n• None Delay in match because of an injury Fabinho (Liverpool).\n• None Offside, Chelsea. Mason Mount tries a through ball, but Tammy Abraham is caught offside.\n• None Attempt saved. Mason Mount (Chelsea) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the bottom right corner. Assisted by Pedro. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page", "Green Party MP Caroline Lucas has complained to Twitter over a tweet by Brexit campaigner Arron Banks aimed at climate change activist Greta Thunberg.\n\nOn Wednesday, Mr Banks referred to Ms Thunberg's sea voyage across the Atlantic and tweeted: \"Freak yachting accidents do happen in August...\"\n\nMs Thunberg, who chooses not to fly, is sailing from the UK to attend UN climate summits in New York and Chile.\n\nMs Lucas said she reported his comment, while Mr Banks said it was a joke.\n\n\"Arron Banks' vile tweet about @GretaThunberg makes me sick to the stomach,\" Ms Lucas wrote on Twitter on Thursday morning.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Caroline Lucas This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nA spokeswoman from Twitter said: \"We don't comment on individual accounts for privacy and security reasons.\n\n\"We take threats of violence very seriously and take action on accounts if and when the Twitter rules are violated.\"\n\nA Twitter source told the BBC the content did not violate its rules.\n\nMs Thunberg set sail from Plymouth on Wednesday at the start of her two-week journey to New York and Chile.\n\nThe 16-year-old refuses to travel by air because of its environmental impact, so has chosen a carbon-neutral racing yacht.\n\nCaroline Lucas - who used to be the Green Party leader - had wished Ms Thunberg a good trip\n\nShortly after she departed, Mr Banks, an insurance tycoon who founded Leave.EU, shared a tweet from Ms Lucas that wished Ms Thunberg \"bon voyage\".\n\nHis tweet faced widespread criticism, with Mr Banks later responding, saying it was \"a joke\" and accusing his critics of having \"no sense of humour\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 2 by Arron Banks This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy 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 Banks later added: \"Obviously I don't hope she encounters a freak yachting accident!\n\n\"I just enjoy watching the ludicrous tweeter mob following the next outrage.\"\n\nAmong those who condemned his post was actress Amanda Abbington, who tweeted: \"You're wishing a potentially fatal accident onto a sixteen year old girl, why..?\"\n\nOthers called his tweet \"disgraceful\" while Labour MP Paula Sherriff said he was \"utterly vile\".\n\nThe novelist Philip Pullman said: \"That's how you'll be remembered, Banks. That's the measure of you.\"\n\nAccording to Twitter, anybody can report an individual tweet or profile for certain violations, including: spam, abusive or harmful content, inappropriate ads, self-harm and impersonation.\n\nMs Thunberg set sail on the Malizia II, which was built for high-speed, long-distance endurance races around the world\n\nFans gathered to wave Ms Thunberg off on her voyage across the Atlantic.\n\nBefore leaving, she said of climate sceptics: \"There's always going to be people who don't understand or accept the united science, and I will just ignore them, as I'm only acting and communicating on the science.\"\n\nShe added she thought people's mindsets were changing \"even if it's not enough, and not fast enough, that's something, it's not for nothing\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Inside the boat Greta Thunberg will be travelling on to cross the Atlantic", "The UK Labour Party deputy leader Tom Watson has spoken out against a second Scottish independence referendum.\n\nIt follows comments by shadow chancellor John McDonnell that a future Labour government would not block another vote.\n\nMr Watson said another referendum \"is not the answer\" to Tory austerity and Brexit.\n\nHe added that he fully endorsed the position of Scottish Labour leader Richard Leonard.\n\nHis intervention comes after Mr McDonnell told an audience in Edinburgh last week that any decision about holding an independence vote would be up to the Scottish Parliament.\n\nAnd it follows a warning by ex-Labour prime minister Gordon Brown, who said unionism \"appears to be sleepwalking into oblivion\".\n\nIn a video released on Sunday, Mr Watson said: \"We can see the mess caused by the prospect of the UK leaving the four decade-long union with Europe - imagine how much more disruptive it would be to break our three centuries-long Union of Scotland within the UK.\"\n\nHe pointed out that the party's Scottish leader Richard Leonard had already made it \"absolutely clear\" that there was no case for a second independence referendum.\n\nMr Watson added: \"As we said in our 2017 manifesto, Labour opposes another referendum and the turbo-charged austerity in Scotland that leaving the UK would cause, with the inevitable threat to thousands of jobs and livelihoods.\n\n\"That is not because our society doesn't need to change. It does, and badly.\n\n\"But another independence referendum isn't the answer. More nationalism, more uncertainty, and more division isn't the answer.\"\n\nSNP deputy leader Keith Brown said: \"People across the UK overwhelmingly believe that independence should be a matter for the Scottish Parliament and the Scottish people - not Westminster.\n\n\"UK voters believe it should be up to people of Scotland to decide how they are governed - not a Tory party which has no mandate in Scotland, putting our economy at risk to suit their own political ends.\"", "Last updated on .From the section Triathlon\n\nBritain's Jess Learmonth and Georgia Taylor-Brown's were disqualified from the World Triathlon Olympic qualification event in Tokyo after crossing the finish line hand-in-hand.\n\nA photo finish initially gave Learmonth, 31, victory but the pair were later deemed to have broken a race rule.\n\nAn appeal was rejected and compatriot Vicky Holland was upgraded to third.\n\nBermuda's Flora Duffy was awarded the win ahead of Italy's Alice Betto.\n\nIn searing temperatures, Learmonth led the field after the swim but was reeled in by 13 others on the bike, including Taylor-Brown, 25, and eventual winner Duffy, who was competing in her first race after a year out to injury.\n\nThe British duo then forced a healthy lead on the run and finished together, breaking International Triathlon Union (ITU) competition rule 2.11.f, which states \"athletes who finish in a contrived tie situation, where no effort to separate their finish times has been made, will be disqualified\".\n\nThe running section of the race was cut from 10km to 5km because of the extreme heat at the Olympic test event.\n\nTokyo 2020 organisers have been testing misting sprays and air-conditioned tents to combat soaring temperatures, after a 2018 heatwave in the city killed more than a dozen people.\n\nGames spokesman Masa Takaya told Reuters that a \"comprehensive review is necessary\" following the triathlon event.\n\nHad the race been over an Olympic distance, then third place would have earned Holland, as a Rio 2016 medallist, an automatic spot for Tokyo next year under British Triathlon's selection policy.\n\nAthletes will now be chosen at a selection meeting later this year.\n\nHolland, 33, said: \"I really feel for Jess and Georgia because they raced exceptionally well today and I feel like they absolutely smashed it and deserved the first and second finish.\n\n\"I don't know how British Triathlon will choose things now. I wouldn't want to be a selector.\"\n\nWhy Learmonth and Taylor-Brown were disqualified and Brownlees were not\n\nBack in 2016, an exhausted Jonny Brownlee was helped over the finish line by his brother Alistair at the Triathlon World Series in Mexico.\n\nNeither sibling was penalised because Alistair pushed his brother ahead of him on the line. It meant that Jonny clearly completed the race in second place, in front of Alistair in third.\n\nThis was a legal move at the time, although the ITU subsequently changed its rules to prohibit such assistance.\n\nRule 2.2.c now states that: \"An athlete cannot physically assist the forward progress of another athlete on any part of the course. This will result in both athletes being disqualified.\"", "Operation Motorman was carried out in Londonderry in 1972\n\nThe Army's killing of a member of the IRA in Londonderry in 1972 was unjustified, a coroner has found.\n\nSeamus Bradley, 19, was shot and killed in the Creggan area of the city during Operation Motorman on 31 July 1972.\n\nThe Army claimed the teenager was shot while he was in a tree and suffered additional injuries as he fell.\n\nHis family alleged he was killed later, claiming he was taken away in an Army Saracen vehicle.\n\nThey allege he sustained fatal injuries while being subjected to interrogation.\n\nSeamus Bradley was 19 when he was shot dead\n• James Oliver Bradley was born on 16 July 1953 in Derry.\n• He was a single man employed as a scaffolder.\n• He died, aged 19, on 31 July 1972 some time between 05:15 BST and 06.30 BST.\n• The cause of death was laceration of his left femoral artery due to a gunshot wound.\n• It was agreed and accepted that he was a Provisional IRA member at the time of his death.\n\nBoth those versions of events were rejected by coroner Judge Patrick Kinney at Belfast Coroner's Court on Thursday.\n\nJudge Kinney said he was satisfied Mr Bradley was killed by a soldier who got out of a Saracen vehicle, dropped to one knee and opened fire several times.\n\n\"The coroner found that the soldier who shot Seamus Bradley was not justified in opening fire and that the investigation into his death was flawed and inadequate,\" the summary of the inquest's findings read.\n\nOperation Motorman was the name given to a military operation by the Army to reclaim 'no-go areas' set up by republican paramilitaries in towns across Northern Ireland.", "The attack took place outside the Home Office in Marsham Street, Westminster\n\nA government employee has been stabbed outside the Home Office in central London.\n\nThe victim, who is in his 60s, suffered non-life threatening injuries on Marsham Street, near the Houses of Parliament, just after 13:00 BST.\n\nA 29-year-old man was arrested on suspicion of causing grievous bodily harm and possession of CS spray.\n\nPolice said it was not being treated as terror-related, but they were \"keeping an open mind\" about possible motives.\n\nItems including a sheathed knife and a mobile phone were seen behind a police cordon near the Home Office building\n\nThe wounded man went into the building to seek assistance, an eyewitness said. The building was put into lockdown.\n\nThe Ministry of Housing, Communities & Local Government said the man was a government employee.\n\nCommunities Secretary Robert Jenrick said: \"I am deeply shocked by this horrific attack on a colleague today.\n\n\"My thoughts, and those of all my staff, are with him and his family.\n\n\"We are ready to provide as much support as we can and we all wish him a speedy recovery.\"\n\nHe said security will be reviewed across the department, which shares the building with the Home Office.\n\nHome Secretary Priti Patel sent out a tweet saying her thoughts were with the victim and his family following the \"unprovoked knife attack\".\n\nEyewitness Gareth Milner said he was outside the Home Office when \"a number of armed police officers arrived on scene and entered the building\".\n\n\"Some time later a gentleman with quite a bloodied face and with dressing pressed into his face was escorted out of the Home Office by paramedics,\" said Mr Milner.\n\nInvestigations into the stabbing are continuing\n\nHe said the man was \"walking on his own two feet\".\n\nA Home Office spokesperson said: \"The Metropolitan Police is investigating a knife attack which took place outside the Home Office this afternoon. The victim is receiving medical care.\n\n\"This is a deeply concerning incident and our thoughts are with him and his family.\n\n\"As this is an ongoing investigation. It would be inappropriate to comment further.\"", "Boris Johnson has accused MPs \"who think they can block Brexit\" of a \"terrible collaboration\" with the EU.\n\nThe prime minister said the EU had become less willing to compromise on a new deal with the UK because of the opposition to leaving in Parliament.\n\nHe said this increased the likelihood of the UK being \"forced to leave with a no-deal\" in October.\n\nBut some MPs said his claim they were collaborating with the EU was a \"wicked lie\" and a \"big deflection exercise\".\n\nThe EU has said the agreement struck by Theresa May is the only deal possible.\n\nSpeaking during a Facebook event hosted at Downing Street, Mr Johnson said he wanted to leave with a deal but \"we need our European friends to compromise\".\n\n\"There's a terrible kind of collaboration as it were, going on between people who think they can block Brexit in Parliament and our European friends,\" he added.\n\n\"The more they think there's a chance that Brexit can be blocked in Parliament, the more adamant they are in sticking to their position.\"\n\nHis comments come after former Chancellor Philip Hammond said the PM's negotiating stance increased the chance of a no-deal before the latest Brexit deadline of 31 October.\n\nMr Hammond told BBC Radio 4's Today programme a no-deal exit would be \"just as much a betrayal of the referendum result as not leaving at all\".\n\nA No 10 source accused Mr Hammond of undermining the UK's negotiating stance, and said he \"did everything he could\" to block preparations for leaving whilst he was in office.\n\nThe former chancellor rejected this suggestion in a tweet, saying he wanted to deliver Brexit \"and voted to do so three times\".\n\nLabour MP Mary Creagh said Mr Johnson's accusation that MPs were collaborating with the European Union was a \"wicked lie\".\n\n\"MPs trying to stop his catastrophic no-deal Brexit are true patriots,\" she tweeted.\n\nLiberal Democrat MP Chuka Umunna said Mr Johnson's claim was a \"big deflection exercise to divert attention from the damage his Brexit policy is already doing\".\n\nHe said: \"This is fatuous nonsense from a prime minister flailing about trying to find people to blame for the almighty mess he and his Vote Leave government has created.\"\n\nBoris Johnson didn't name Philip Hammond when he said there was \"collaboration\" between MPs trying to block Brexit and the EU - a stark and controversial word to use.\n\nThe prime minister says EU leaders need to believe Parliament cannot thwart a no-deal Brexit, and only then will they bend.\n\nNo 10 knows Mr Hammond is not the only senior Tory resolved to try to stop a no-deal departure if that is what Boris Johnson plumps for. Other ex-cabinet ministers intend to join the ranks of Tory backbenchers and opposition MPs determined to act.\n\nBut with only 22 parliamentary sitting days until the UK is set to leave and with no obvious single mechanism for MPs to stop a no deal at the end of October, it might be very hard for a cross-party alliance to park tribal loyalty, mobilise and block No 10 before the Brexit clock expires.\n\nMr Johnson has said he wants to leave the EU with a deal, but the UK must leave \"do or die\" by the end of October.\n\nHe wants the EU to ditch the Irish border backstop plan from the deal negotiated by Mrs May, which was rejected three times by Parliament.\n\nBut the EU has continued to insist the policy - intended to guarantee there will not be a hard Irish border after Brexit - must remain and cannot be changed.\n\nMany of those who voted against the deal had concerns over the backstop, which if implemented, would see Northern Ireland staying aligned to some rules of the EU single market.\n\nIt would also see the UK stay in a single customs territory with the EU, and align with current and future EU rules on competition and state aid.\n\nThese arrangements would apply unless and until both the EU and UK agreed they were no longer necessary.\n\nMr Hammond said the prime minister's demand for the backstop to be entirely removed from the deal meant a no-deal was inevitable on the current deadline.\n\nHe said that agreeing to changes now would \"fragment\" the EU, adding: \"they are not going to take that risk\".\n\n\"Pivoting to say the backstop has to go in its entirety - a huge chunk of the withdrawal agreement just scrapped - is effectively a wrecking tactic,\" he told Today.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The ex-chancellor says removing the Irish border 'backstop' is a \"wrecking tactic\"\n\nOn Thursday Downing Street said it expects a group of MPs to try to block a no-deal Brexit by attempting to pass legislation when Parliament returns next month.\n\nA No 10 source said they expected the challenge to come in the second week of September, when MPs are are due to debate a report on Northern Ireland.\n\nThe source assumes the EU will wait until after that date before engaging in further negotiations.\n\nUse the list below or select a button", "Love Island's Rosie Williams (right) said she \"struggled\" dealing with \"trolls\"\n\nTwo TV bosses have called for an independent regulator to decide whether people are fit to appear on reality TV.\n\nJonathan Stadlen, who makes shows like GPs: Behind Closed Doors, said psychological tests should not be paid for by the people making the shows.\n\nHe warned of a conflict of interest if programme-makers take those decisions.\n\nFormer Big Brother boss Steve Regan agreed there should be \"an independent body in the middle of all of us who are making those assessments\".\n\nA committee of MPs is currently carrying out an inquiry into reality TV following the deaths of a former Jeremy Kyle Show guest and two ex-contestants on Love Island.\n\nJeremy Kyle declined the invitation to appear at the DCMS inquiry\n\nMr Stadlen, who is managing director of production company Knickerbockerglory, told BBC Radio 4's The Media Show that support offered to members of the public currently varied.\n\n\"The problem is you're at the mercy of whatever assistant producer or producer is on duty that time to think, 'does this person need help?'\" he said.\n\n\"So I think we need some independent body to try and help us to decide whether people have the capacity to be in it.\"\n\nCurrently, production companies and broadcasters must balance finding the most entertaining participants with deciding - using advice from psychologists - whether those contestants can cope.\n\nMr Stadlen said: \"I don't think that body should be paid by the production company, because at the moment we're paying psychs to test people but there's a conflict of interest because the people paying them are the people doing that [making the shows].\"\n\nPeople on reality TV shows are \"potentially much more vulnerable\" than contributors who take a skill like baking onto programmes, he added.\n\n\"They're saying 'judge me on my personality', and when social media does judge them on their personality, it's a much harder thing to deal with this sense of 'people don't like me for who I am'.\"\n\nMr Regan, a former entertainment commissioner for Channel 5, said there should be more distance between those doing psychological tests and those making the shows.\n\n\"I agree with Jonathan,\" he said. \"To make it work better there almost needs to be an independent body in the middle of all of us who are making those assessments, because at the moment it's all too connected.\"\n\nThe Media Show also heard from Rosie Williams, who took part in Love Island in 2018. The former solicitor admitted that despite the support of her friends, family and partner, she \"struggled\" to deal with \"trolls\" and \"paps\" [paparazzi] after coming out of the villa.\n\n\"There was a period of time over Christmas where I didn't want to go to any events, I didn't want to be seen as I didn't want the paps to take photos of me, simply because I couldn't deal with the negative comments following those photos being released,\" she said.\n\n\"We all think we can deal with it ourselves, especially when you've never really experienced anything like that before and you see yourself as a strong independent woman you just think, 'I can deal with this, I can get over this'. But it is a lot more difficult than it seems.\"\n\nShe added: \"I worry about those people who don't have that support around them like I did.\"\n\nTV watchdog Ofcom recently proposed new rules to require broadcasters to ensure they take \"due care\" of the mental health of people participating in television and radio programmes.\n\nOfcom director of content standards Tony Close said participants \"must be properly looked after by broadcasters\", and that its new safeguards would be \"effective\".\n\nThe Department for Culture, Media and Sport House of Commons select committee is in the middle of an inquiry into the support offered to reality TV participants.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch how the controversial case has unfolded\n\nA case involving a Christian bakery, which refused to make a cake with a slogan supporting same-sex marriage, has been referred to the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR).\n\nGareth Lee tried but failed to order the £36.50 cake at Ashers bakery in Belfast in May 2014.\n\nThe company declined the order as it was \"at odds\" with its beliefs.\n\nLast year, the firm won its appeal at the UK Supreme Court, which ruled its actions were not discriminatory.\n\nMr Lee's latest legal bid will argue that the Supreme Court \"failed to give appropriate weight\" to him under the European Convention of Human Rights.\n\nThe high-profile dispute began in 2014 when the bakery refused to make a cake with the slogan Support Gay Marriage.\n\nGareth Lee tried but failed to order the cake from Ashers bakery in 2014\n\nMr Lee, a gay rights activist, sued the company for discrimination on the grounds of sexual orientation and political beliefs.\n\nBut the bakery has always insisted its objection was to the message on the cake, not the customer.\n\nDaniel and Amy McArthur, who own Ashers Bakery, welcomed the Supreme Court's judgement last October\n\nIn a statement, Mr Lee's solicitor said the latest legal bid \"does not directly implicate the owners of Ashers bakery or challenge their right to privately hold religious/political views\".\n\n\"Instead the case will be against the United Kingdom, a member state of the European Court,\" the statement read.\n\nIt added: \"The latest hearings will attempt to challenge that ruling at the highest human rights court in Europe, citing the Supreme Court failed to give appropriate weight to Mr Lee's rights under the European Convention of Human Rights.\n\n\"The Supreme Court ruling blurred the line, creates legal uncertainty for all of us in Northern Ireland, and the ECHR is the appropriate place to clarify this issue.\"\n\nMeanwhile, Mr Lee said he would fight for the rights of business owners to hold their own religious beliefs.\n\n\"I have my own beliefs. But that's not what my case has ever been about,\" he said.\n\n\"This is about limited companies being somehow able to pick and choose which customers they will serve.", "Patients who cannot eat have told BBC News they are petrified and fear for their lives after problems making their replacement nutrition.\n\nThey are completely dependent on bags filled with a liquid that contains everything their body needs and is infused directly into the bloodstream.\n\nThe NHS in England has described the issue as a national emergency.\n\n\"My life is in a lot of danger right now,\" Lauren Mitchell, 21, from Stansted, Essex, told BBC News.\n\nShe was born with chronic intestinal pseudo-obstruction.\n\nIt means the muscles that should push food round her digestive system do not work and her meals would just sit on her stomach.\n\nKeith Millen, from Bridgend, is completely dependent on bags of total parenteral nutrition - but supplies have been disrupted\n\nLauren has been kept alive by total parenteral nutrition (TPN) since she was seven years old.\n\nIt was manufactured by the company Calea and is tailored to the needs of her body so it contains precise quantities of vitamins, minerals, sugars, fats and proteins.\n\nFive nights a week, she connects a 2.7-litre (4.7-pint) bag to a tube that slowly releases the contents into blood at her heart. It takes between 12 and 16 hours.\n\nShe used to have a weekly supply of TPN delivered on Thursday mornings - but six weeks ago her deliveries were late and then there was none at all.\n\nTwo weeks ago, she said, her account with Calea had been suspended.\n\nThe reason goes back to an inspection of Calea's manufacturing site in Runcorn, Cheshire, in June.\n\nThe medicines safety body - the Medicines and Healthcare Regulatory Agency - found bacterial contamination in the production area and said the facility's manufacturing processes did not meet guidelines the MHRA had set out in 2015.\n\nNo contaminated bags were discovered but the MHRA said there was a potential risk to patients.\n\nThe MHRA said: \"When our inspectors identified this issue, we requested that Calea take immediate action to change their manufacturing process to ensure compliance with the MHRA's published standards.\n\n\"This has led to a reduction in output while they consider longer term changes to their processes.\"\n\nCalea sources said it had stopped supplying 511 of its patients, chosen based on their medical need in consultation with the NHS.\n\nNormal service would not resume until \"towards the end of the year\", they added.\n\nLauren is no longer receiving the TPN bags tailored for her. Instead, she is being supplied with an \"off the shelf\" alternative.\n\n\"The consequence of that is it has made me very ill,\" she told the BBC's Victoria Derbyshire programme.\n\nShe now regularly feels tired, nauseous and dizzy.\n\n\"This is a national crisis,\" she said.\n\nShe told the BBC News website: \"If diabetics' insulin was taken away, then there would be uproar - but because no-one knows what TPN is, no-one's bothered and no-one knows how serious this is.\n\n\"This is our lives on the line here and we need answers and something to be done about it.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Michelle Collingwood has had intestinal failure since August 2014\n\nKeith Millen, 48 from Bridgend, is also dependent on TPN, because of a fistula that means food \"pours straight out\" of his digestive system.\n\nHe has also been hit by the supply problems since the MHRA inspection.\n\n\"For 10 days I had nothing, all I had to go on were litre bags of saline [salt water],\" he told BBC News.\n\n\"There was nothing, no explanation.\"\n\nIt left him \"knackered\" and, Keith said, all he could do was sleep.\n\n\"You are that dependent on these bags - if they don't come in, then it's hospital, that's it.\n\n\"It's petrifying, it's so scary... I'll die, I know it sounds dramatic but they're playing around with what I need to survive.\"\n\nKeith's doctors eventually managed to get him on the limited list of patients Calea is still manufacturing the nutrition replacement bags for.\n\nLetters, seen by the Health Service Journal, show NHS England has declared a national emergency over the issue.\n\n\"We realise that the disruption presents a clinical risk and have been careful to try and balance the risk of contamination and sepsis against the risk of supply disruption, which we know has already had a significant impact,\" Dr Aidan Fowler, national patient safety director, wrote.\n\n\"This is a difficult balance but we are of the view that the manufacturing changes are necessary to ensure safe supply now and in the long term.\"\n\nA Calea representative said: \"Supplying patients is Calea's number one priority and we apologise to patients and their families for the distress caused.\n\n\"We are fully committed to... return to usual and reliable supply levels as quickly as possible during this challenging period.\"", "Chicken boxes featuring warnings about the dangers of carrying a knife have been sent to takeaways in England and Wales as part of a government campaign.\n\nMore than 321,000 boxes will replace standard packaging at outlets including Chicken Cottage, Dixy Chicken and Morley's, the Home Office said.\n\nReal life stories of young people who chose positive activities over carrying a weapon are printed inside the boxes.\n\nShadow home secretary Diane Abbott said the plan was \"crude\" and \"offensive\".\n\nHowever, Home Secretary Priti Patel defended the campaign, accusing Ms Abbott of \"playing politics with knife crime\".\n\nPrinted inside the special boxes, part of the Home Office's #knifefree campaign, are first-hand accounts of young people who have opted to pursue pastimes such as boxing or music instead of carrying a knife.\n\nBoth independent and branch-owned chicken shops will carry the new boxes, and many will also house digital screens highlighting the campaign.\n\nPolicing Minister Kit Malthouse says they \"will bring home to thousands of young people the tragic consequences of carrying a knife and challenge the idea that it makes you safer\".\n\nBut the government has been accused of racial stereotyping. David Lammy, Labour MP for Tottenham, wrote on Twitter: \"Is this some kind of joke?! Why have you chosen chicken shops? What's next, #KnifeFree watermelons?\"\n\nDal Babu, a former chief superintendent with the Metropolitan Police, said: \"This initiative seeks to target chicken shops because the assumption is that's where young black people go.\n\n\"There's a racial element to it - it stereotypes people, it's patronising and I can understand why people see it as racist.\"\n\nMs Abbott tweeted: \"Instead of investing in a public health approach to violent crime, the Home Office have opted for yet another crude, offensive and probably expensive campaign.\n\n\"They would do better to invest in our communities not demonise them.\"\n\nCourtney Barrett, who runs his own knife amnesty in east London told BBC News the scheme was a \"step in the right direction\" but stressed that it should not just involve chicken shops.\n\n\"The public need to be made aware not all knife crime is carried out by young people, black people and gangs,\" the founder of Binning Knives Saves Lives said.\n\nRecent figures showed most perpetrators of knife crime were over the age of 18.\n\nMeanwhile, Patsy McKie, who founded Mothers Against Violence in Manchester after her son was shot dead, said sharing stories in this way was not enough to discourage young people from carrying knives.\n\n\"Just putting it on a box isn't going to stop it,\" she said. \"Someone who is carrying a knife to feel safe isn't going to put it down.\"\n\nMs McKie added: \"You often have to go through an experience to change your views.\"\n\nPeter Grigg, director of external affairs at the Children's Society, is urging more government investment \"in education for young people about knife crime\" as well as in \"early intervention and prevention\".\n\nOn Twitter Jeffrey Boakye described it as a \"mess\" and said there was a \"national crisis in the perception of black kids in urban areas\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Jeffrey Boakye This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy 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 Sharmaine Lovegrove described it as \"irresponsible\" and \"wildly out of touch\".\n\nAccording to the Home Office, the #knifefree campaign aims to change the attitudes and behaviours of young people aged between 10 and 21.\n\nIt follows a series of government pledges to tackle serious violence, including the recruitment of 20,000 new police officers and enhanced stop and search powers for all 43 police forces in England and Wales.\n\nSimilar chicken boxes were distributed in 15 branches of south London based Morley's in March, and the company's managing director Shan Selvendran said it was \"proud\" to support the campaign.\n\n\"We want to start conversations amongst all of our customers,\" he said.", "Vanessa George has been deemed eligible for parole\n\nA father who believes his child was sexually assaulted by nursery worker Vanessa George has said he is \"tormented\" by her unwillingness to admit which infants she abused.\n\nGeorge pleaded guilty in 2009 to seven sexual assaults on children and making 124 indecent images of children - but she refused to identify her victims.\n\nShe has now been judged eligible for parole under strict conditions.\n\nThe child's father, \"Simon\", said this was \"disgusting\".\n\nThe Parole Board said its decisions were made \"with great care, and public safety is the number one priority\".\n\nBut local MP Luke Pollard questioned how George, who worked at a nursery in Plymouth, could have shown remorse if she was still withholding victims' names.\n\nSimon - whose name we have changed - told the BBC's Victoria Derbyshire programme the affected families had been \"forgotten\" in the decision to deem her eligible for parole.\n\nHis child had attended Little Ted's nursery in Plymouth when George worked there.\n\nHe said he was angry at the judgement, adding the families had never been offered the support promised to them by the authorities when the abuse came to light.\n\n\"She's getting better treatment than we are,\" he claimed.\n\nGeorge was jailed for a minimum of seven years in 2009 for abusing children in her care at the nursery, and taking photos and swapping indecent images over the internet.\n\nAs part of her release she would be obliged to live at a \"designated address\", restricted in her \"movements and contacts\" and required to operate under a curfew.\n\nLittle Ted's nursery was closed following the discovery of abuse of young children\n\nSimon said every day remained \"a living nightmare\" - and he feared his child one day asking what nursery they attended, and having to tell them the truth.\n\nHe said believes his child was abused but would prefer George to confirm that \"so I can deal with it\", than never know for certain.\n\n\"She's still got that hold on us,\" he said, describing George as \"calculating\".\n\n\"Our sentence is still carrying on.\"\n\nMr Pollard, Labour MP for Plymouth, Sutton and Devonport, told Victoria Derbyshire he had written to Home Secretary Priti Patel to ask if the police investigation could be reopened, in the hope new evidence could prevent George's release.\n\nHe said having spoken to police and probation officers who worked on the case there were \"suspicions\" some charges were never brought to court in the original case because they may have been considered \"overly complex\" or that there was not enough evidence.\n\nHe said he hoped \"every avenue\" could now be explored.\n\nMr Pollard also criticised the Parole Board's handling of the case, and its inability to keep many families informed.\n\nHe said, just as boards took into account when murderers refused to say where their victim's body was buried, George's unwillingness to give the names of her victims should also have been held in consideration when determining her potential release.\n\nMembers of the local community have also voiced anger at George's forthcoming release.\n\n\"Emma\" - also not her real name - who worked at the nursery at the same time as George, said she and her colleagues had been \"fooled\" by the abuser, and struggled with the feeling they had let the children down.\n\nShe said while she had challenged George over her sexualised descriptions of men at the nursery, she had never suspected she was abusing children.\n\nShe added that she \"never wanted to see\" George's face again.\n\nThe Parole Board said in a statement its decisions were \"solely focused on whether a prisoner would represent a significant risk to the public after release\".\n\n\"The panel will have carefully looked at a whole range of evidence, including details of the original evidence and any evidence of behaviour change,\" it said.\n\nFollow the BBC's Victoria Derbyshire programme on Facebook and Twitter - and see more of our stories here.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Mr Trump has said Mr Xi could bring about a \"happy and enlightened ending\" by meeting protesters\n\nUS President Donald Trump has urged his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping to meet protesters in Hong Kong who have been demanding democratic reforms.\n\nHong Kong has been in turmoil for weeks, with protesters causing chaos at the airport earlier this week.\n\nMr Trump had previously appeared to suggest that he himself should meet Mr Xi to discuss the crisis in the city.\n\nMillions of Hong Kong citizens have taken part in 10 weeks of anti-government protests.\n\nAlso on Thursday, the Chinese ambassador to the UK warned that Beijing would intervene in Hong Kong if events deteriorated further. He said the territory was facing its gravest situation since it was handed back from the UK to China in 1997.\n\nThe tumultuous pro-democracy protests were sparked by opposition to a bill that would have allowed extraditions from Hong Kong to mainland China.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Donald J. Trump This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nIn an earlier tweet, Mr Trump said he had \"ZERO doubt\" that Mr Xi could \"humanely solve the Hong Kong problem\".\n\nHe also tied the protests to a US trade deal with Beijing, in the face of ongoing trade tensions.\n\n\"Of course China wants to make a deal. Let them work humanely with Hong Kong first!\" he tweeted.\n\nThe controversial extradition bill has now been suspended, but the protests have evolved into a broader movement, with demonstrators expressing anger at alleged police brutality, and demanding democratic reform.\n\nHong Kong, a former British colony, is part of China under a \"one country, two systems\" model that grants it a high level of autonomy.\n\nIt has its own legal system and judiciary and enjoys certain freedoms not seen in the mainland - Hong Kong and Macau for example, are the only places in Chinese territory where people can hold vigils commemorating the 1989 Tiananmen Square crackdown.\n\nIt's highly unlikely that President Xi of China will meet the Hong Kong protesters.\n\nBeijing has labelled them as \"rioters with behaviour that is close to terrorism\". It would be difficult for the Chinese government to justify a meeting between its leader and the \"rioters\". Also, the protests have had no obvious leaders who can potentially lead a negotiation with Beijing.\n\nMore importantly, a meeting between Mr Xi and protesters would look too much like the one between the then Chinese Premier Li Peng and student leaders in May 1989 during the Tiananmen uprising.\n\nLi Peng's meeting, where he refused to withdraw the \"riot\" definition of the student movement, was fruitless at best. Li, later known as the \"Butcher of Beijing\", was believed to have supported the violent crackdown two weeks after the meeting. The Chinese government would not want to remind the world about this piece of history.\n\nClashes between demonstrators and police have escalated in recent days, with Hong Kong leader Carrie Lam warning the city could be \"pushed into an abyss\".\n\nSeparately, the US president's national security advisor, John Bolton, warned China on Wednesday to tread \"carefully\" in Hong Kong \"because people in America remember Tiananmen Square\".\n\nA repeat of the military crackdown on the 1989 student-led protests in China would be a \"big mistake\", he told news outlet Voice of America.\n\nChina's ambassador to the UK, Liu Xiaoming, said Hong Kong was at a \"critical moment\".\n\n\"Should the situation in Hong Kong deteriorate further... the central government will not sit on its hands and watch,\" he said at a press conference in London.\n\n\"We have enough solutions and enough power within the limits of (the) Basic Law to quell any unrest swiftly,\" Mr Liu added.\n\nDemonstrators are now using laser pointers as a sign of protest\n\nRelations between protesters and police, already tense, have worsened in recent days.\n\nOn Sunday, police were seen firing pepper ball rounds on protesters at close range and using tear gas in an enclosed train station.\n\nOn Monday and Tuesday, Hong Kong airport was forced to close after protesters occupied the terminal. They clashed violently with police on Tuesday evening.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. A police officer draws his gun and aims at protesters in the airport building\n\nOn Wednesday evening, police armed with riot shields fired tear gas to disperse hundreds of demonstrators who had been shining laser pointers at a police station.\n\nThey were mocking the police who had arrested a student for possessing laser pointers, which they described as \"offensive weapons\" that could cause eye injuries.\n\nWhile China's People's Liberation Army (PLA) has troops stationed in Hong Kong, they are not expected to interfere in local issues.\n\nHowever, Hong Kong's mini constitution, known as the Basic Law, does allow the government to request the PLA's assistance for maintaining public order, or disaster relief.\n\nSo far, Hong Kong's government and police have said they have no plans to involve the army.\n\nWhat questions do you have about Hong Kong? Let us know and a selection will be answered by a BBC journalist.\n\nUse this form to ask your question:\n\nIf you are reading this page on the BBC News app, you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question on this topic.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Footage from inside the plane showed it striking birds after take-off\n\nA Russian passenger plane has made an emergency landing in a cornfield near Moscow after striking a flock of birds.\n\nAt least 74 people were injured in the incident, which saw the plane land with its engines off and landing gear retracted, emergency officials said.\n\nThe Ural Airlines Airbus 321 was travelling to Simferopol in Crimea when it hit the flock of gulls shortly after take-off, disrupting its engines.\n\nState media has dubbed the landing the \"miracle over Ramensk\".\n\nThe Kremlin on Thursday hailed the pilots as heroes for \"saving people's lives and landing the plane\". A spokesman said they would receive state awards soon.\n\nThe airline said the plane was significantly damaged and would not fly again. An official investigation is under way.\n\nThe plane had more than 230 passengers and crew on board when the birds were reportedly sucked into its engines and the crew immediately decided to land.\n\nAn unnamed passenger told state TV the plane started to shake violently after take-off.\n\n\"Five seconds later, the lights on the right side of the plane started flashing and there was a smell of burning. Then we landed and everyone ran away,\" he said.\n\nAir transport agency Rosaviatsia said the plane landed in a cornfield about a kilometre (0.62 miles) from the runway at Zhukovsky International Airport, with its engines off and landing gear retracted.\n\nPassengers were evacuated from the plane, with 74 then seeking medical treatment, according to Russia's emergencies ministry. Nineteen children were among those reported injured.\n\nOne person remains in hospital, according to Russian media reports.\n\nUral Airlines Director General Kirill Skuratov told state news agency Tass that passengers who wanted to continue with their trip would be put on alternative flights.\n\nRescue crews attended to the plane following the emergency landing\n\nRussian media compared the incident to the US Airways flight that carried out an emergency landing on the Hudson River shortly after take-off in 2009.\n\nBut while the crew were hailed as heroes in Russia, they have been added to a blacklist on the website of the Ukrainian NGO Myrotvorets, affiliated to the country's security services. It accused them of \"knowingly and on multiple occasions making illegal crossings of the state border of Ukraine\".\n\nCollisions between birds and planes are a common occurrence in aviation, with thousands reported every year in the US alone. However, they rarely result in accidents or cause damage to the aircraft.", "Four of the deaths on Everest this climbing season were blamed on overcrowding\n\nClimbers who want to attempt Mount Everest should first have to demonstrate that they are experienced mountaineers, a panel advising Nepal's government has recommended.\n\nIts report proposes that applicants must already have climbed a Nepali peak of at least 6,500m (21,325ft).\n\nThey should also have to provide a certificate of physical fitness, and employ experienced guides, it adds.\n\nEarlier this year at least 11 people died or went missing on Mount Everest.\n\nNine of the deaths occurred on the Nepali side of Everest and two on the Tibetan side, with four of them blamed on overcrowding.\n\nThe panel's report also proposes a fee of at least $35,000 (£29,000) for those wanting to climb Everest, and $20,000 for other mountains higher than 8,000m.\n\n\"We will take this forward by amending the laws and regulations. We will make our mountains safe, managed and dignified,\" Tourism Minister Yogesh Bhattari told reporters.\n\nNepal is home to eight of the world's 14 highest mountains, and foreign climbers are a major source of revenue.\n\nThe Nepali panel was staffed by government officials, climbing experts and climbing community agencies.\n\nIt was set up after criticism from experienced climbers and guides of the system that allows anyone who pays $11,000 to climb Everest.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Everest Summit: What's it like to queue during climbing?", "Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia survived the poisoning attempt\n\nA second police officer was contaminated with Novichok during the 2018 poisonings in Salisbury, it has been revealed.\n\nFormer Russian spy Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia were targeted with the nerve agent in March 2018.\n\nDet Sgt Nick Bailey was also contaminated with the nerve agent at the Skripal's home.\n\nThe Metropolitan Police has now confirmed the nerve agent was found in the blood sample of another officer.\n\nThe force said the Wiltshire Police officer, who does not wish to be identified, displayed signs at the time that indicated exposure to a very small amount of Novichok.\n\nThe officer received medical treatment and returned to duties shortly afterwards.\n\nDetectives from the Counter Terrorism Policing (CTP) network said a forensic examination of the officer's blood has now confirmed that traces of Novichok were in the sample.\n\nThe officer is the sixth person to be confirmed through forensic testing as a victim of the Salisbury attack.\n\nMr Skripal and his daughter recovered after intensive care in hospital, and their current whereabouts are being kept secret.\n\nDet Sgt Nick Bailey was contaminated at the home of Sergei and Yulia Skripal in March\n\nDet Sgt Bailey needed hospital treatment but returned to full active duty two months after the attack.\n\nDawn Sturgess was fatally poisoned after suffering high levels of exposure to Novichok in nearby Amesbury in June 2018.\n\nMs Sturgess and her partner Charlie Rowley - who was also contaminated but has since recovered - are believed to have come into contact with a bottle of Novichok discarded by the Skripals' attackers.\n\nA UK investigation blamed Russian agents for the Novichok attack, identifying two suspects using the names Alexander Petrov and Ruslan Boshirov. Both deny any involvement.\n\nThe attack prompted the UK and its Western allies to expel many Russian diplomats, with Russia retaliating with its own expulsions.\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. Abdulah Husseini (left) was parodied by David Schwimmer on Twitter\n\nA lookalike of Friends actor David Schwimmer has been jailed for theft and fraud offences.\n\nA CCTV image of Abdulah Husseini, 36, clutching a crate of beer went viral after police posted it in an appeal to trace him in October.\n\nHusseini, who was described in court as a \"wandering, nomadic thief\", used a stolen bank card to make or attempt to make fraudulent purchases in Blackpool.\n\nHe was jailed for nine months at Burnley Crown Court on Thursday.\n\nJudge Dodd told Husseini he had an \"appalling criminal history\"\n\nHusseini, described by Judge Sara Dodd as \"an habitual thief\", had walked into a restaurant in the Lancashire resort and swiped a wallet from a customer's jacket while he was away from his table.\n\nHe then made two purchases at nearby stores using a card from the wallet before CCTV showed him carrying cans of beers to the till at an Iceland store, the court heard.\n\nA month later, Blackpool Police posted the CCTV image on its Facebook page.\n\nThe post went viral with more than 11m shares and 30,000 comments as members of the public pointed out the suspect's likeness to Friends character Ross Geller.\n\nThe jacket was taken from a restaurant in Blackpool's town centre\n\nSchwimmer responded with a video on Twitter and Instagram in which the star was seen furtively glancing at a camera as he walked through a convenience store clutching cans of beer.\n\n\"Officers, I swear it wasn't me,\" he said in an accompanying post.\n\nHusseini, an Iranian national from Slough, denied the offences but he was convicted by a jury after a two-day trial of one count of theft and four counts of fraud by false representation.\n\nThe court heard he has 32 previous convictions for 60 offences since 2008, including 27 offences for theft and dishonesty.\n\nIn mitigation, his barrister, Rebecca Filletti, said her client had problems with drugs but had made \"significant efforts\" to overcome his addiction while in custody.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The proportion of students achieving the top grades at A-level has fallen to its lowest level for more than a decade, this year's results show.\n\nThis year some 25.5% got an A grade or higher - the lowest level since 2007 when it was 25.3%.\n\nGirls narrowly reclaimed the lead from boys, with 25.5% achieving A* and A grades compared with 25.4% of boys.\n\nThe overall pass rate remains the same as last year at 97.6% for students in England, Wales and Northern Ireland.\n\nThe figures, released by the Joint Council for Qualifications, also show that - for the first time - the number of girls taking the three sciences has overtaken boys at 50.3% compared with 49.6%. There has been a big push to increase the take-up of sciences among girls.\n\nAlthough far more boys - 30,159 - still took physics A-level, compared with 8,799 girls.\n\nSix weeks after the last A-level exams were taken, more than 300,000 18-year-olds have ended the anxious wait to learn their A-level results.\n\nEntries to Spanish have overtaken French for the first time, making it the most popular language at A-level.\n\nThis year 8,625 students took Spanish, compared with 8,355 taking French.\n\nPerhaps unsurprisingly, this cohort of young people seem to have an increasing interest in politics, with entries for the A-level up by 1,765 on last year to 19,729.\n\nThey would have been making their A-level choices in 2017, after the election of Donald Trump in America and the Brexit referendum in the UK.\n\nThe results also show that English has taken a hit in popularity, with entries for English literature down 7.8% from 44,200 last year to 40,824 and English language down 21.8% from 18,049 last year to 14,114.\n\nThe Association of School and College Leaders says this is because reformed GCSE courses are \"sucking the joy\" out of the subject, and putting teenagers off taking it at A-level.\n\nUniversities and colleges use the results to confirm and withdraw offers of places to students.\n\nThe University and College Admissions Service (Ucas) has already said there is a slight dip in the number of students being accepted on to UK degree courses.\n\nThe total dropped 1% to 408,960, initial Ucas figures show, but the number of applicants looking for a place through clearing on Thursday morning rose slightly to 126,170.\n\nThousands of students who have done better or worse than expected will be seeking places on courses at universities through the clearing system run by Ucas.\n\nIt is expected to be very busy again this year with a record 638,000 18-year-olds having already applied in the UK. Ucas anticipates 70,000 students will get a place through clearing this year.\n\nEducation Secretary Gavin Williamson wished candidates good luck, urging them to be proud of their achievements.\n\n\"Of course, the minds of thousands of young people getting their results will soon turn to the next chapter in their lives, whether that's a place at one of our world-class universities, earning on an apprenticeship or entering the world of work,\" he said.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. A-level results: \"I didn't go to uni and I love what I do\"\n\nStudents were told not to worry on Wednesday after the marks for each grade boundary for all subjects of the two major exam boards, Pearson/Edexcel and OCR, were leaked online.\n\nThe documents revealed that at maths A-level, which is a new, tougher specification this year, candidates had to score only just over 50%.\n\nSchools Minister Nick Gibb said he was confident this was appropriate, because grade boundaries depended on the difficulty of the exam.\n\nOverall in maths, the top grades fell by just 1.2% across the UK - which is slightly higher than the decline for all exams.\n\nNational Association of Head Teachers general secretary Paul Whiteman said A-level students were coping well with the reforms, and that schools and colleges had worked hard to support them.\n\nAs candidates received their results, the exam boards published details of the national picture.\n\nOverall, A-level pass rates and the percentages reaching each grade never change very much, as exam boards and regulators seek to maintain standards over time.\n\nThey do this by making minor adjustments to grade boundaries, formulated by marrying the difficulty of papers with the predicted ability of the group of students sitting the qualifications.\n\nIn England, over the past few years, A-levels have moved away from coursework and returned to students being graded on final exams.\n\nThis was part of efforts to upgrade exams to keep up with the highest performing nations.\n\nA mix of old-style and new exams are still being taken in Wales and Northern Ireland.\n\nThe pass rate (grades A* to E) in England was down by 0.1% on last year, at 97.5%.\n\nBut it was up 0.2% in Wales, at 97.6%, and 0.1% in Northern Ireland, at 98.3%.\n\nStudents in Scotland received their results earlier this month, with the pass rate for Highers falling to 74.8%, compared with 76.8% last year.\n\nThe Advanced Higher pass rate also fell slightly, to 79.4% from 80.5%.", "No one was injured in the accident. The local police department shared the footage as a warning to not text and drive.", "The British overseas territory of Gibraltar, a limestone outcrop on the southern tip of the Iberian peninsula, occupies a commanding position at the western gateway to the Mediterranean Sea.\n\nSpain continues to claim sovereignty over the territory, which has been ruled by Britain since 1713 under the terms of the Treaty of Utrecht.\n\nNamed in Arabic \"Jabal Tariq\", after the Muslim commander Tariq Ibn-Ziyad, who turned \"the Rock\" into a fortress in 711, Gibraltar has been an important naval base for more than 1,000 years.\n\nThis long maritime history has resulted in a diverse population. Most Gibraltarians are bilingual in English and Spanish, and are of mixed Genoese, British, Spanish, Jewish, Maltese and Portuguese descent. Recent arrivals have included migrant workers from Morocco.\n\nFabian Picardo became chief minister in December 2011 and again in November 2015 and October 2019 after elections won by the coalition made up of the Gibraltar Socialist Labour Party and the Gibraltar Liberal Party (GLP).\n\nMr Picardo was born in Gibraltar in 1972 and studied law at Oxford University. After graduating from Oxford, he attended the Inns of Court School of Law at Gray's Inn in London.\n\nMr Picardo's predecessor as chief minister, Peter Caruana, held the post for more than 15 years, from 1996 to 2011.\n\nMr Caruana strongly opposes the idea of shared sovereignty with Spain and oversaw a 2002 referendum that roundly rejected the concept.\n\nHe has been credited with helping to develop Gibraltar's offshore financial industry. In 2010, he said his government was transforming the economy from a European tax haven to a financial services hub.\n\nGibraltarians are British citizens. It is self-governing in all areas except defence and foreign policy and is home to a British military garrison and naval base.\n\nThe UN has urged Spain and Britain to resolve the issue of Gibraltar's status. Both sides, under the Brussels Process launched in 1984, have attempted to reach an agreement.\n\nBut Spain's insistence on eventually acquiring full sovereignty, and Britain's determination to retain full control of Gibraltar's military base, have been among the stumbling blocks.\n\nGibraltar's 1969 constitution states that there can be no transfer of sovereignty to Spain against the wishes of locals. In a 2002 referendum Gibraltarians resoundingly rejected the idea of joint sovereignty.\n\nFree travel between Spain and Gibraltar was fully restored in 1985, but travellers continued to suffer delays at the border.\n\nIn 2006, passenger flights between Spain and Gibraltar resumed for the first time in nearly 30 years, but 2013 saw renewed border checks by Spain in response to a Gibraltarian plan to build an artificial reef.\n\nTelevision and radio services on the Rock are operated by the Gibraltar Broadcasting Corporation (GBC).\n\nRadio and TV stations based in Spain, and broadcasts for British forces in the territory, can be received.\n\nMuch of Gibraltar's income comes from customs duties, offshore finance, internet gaming, tourism and the provisioning of ships\n\n1501 - Isabella I, queen of Castile and Aragon, annexes Gibraltar to Spain.\n\n1713 - Spain cedes Gibraltar to Britain under the Treaty of Utrecht.\n\n1940 - Civilian population temporarily evacuated to make Gibraltar a military fortress during the World War Two. Discontent at the slow pace of repatriation after the war becomes one of the sources of demands for self-government.\n\n1963 - Spanish government begins a campaign through UN for the handover of Gibraltar to Spain.\n\n1967 - Gibraltarians vote resoundingly in favour of continued British sovereignty in referendum.\n\n1969 - Britain introduces full internal self-government under a new constitution, with an elected House of Assembly. Spain closes border with Gibraltar, withdraws labour force and cuts transport and communication links in protest.\n\n1980 - Lisbon agreement between UK and Spain initiates the gradual re-establishment of talks over Gibraltar.\n\n1981 - Gibraltarians granted full British citizenship after a campaign against the British Nationality Act, which had proposed removing their right of entry to Britain.\n\n1984 - Britain and Spain agree to provide equal rights for Spaniards in Gibraltar and for Gibraltarians in Spain. Free border crossing between Spain and Gibraltar is restored.\n\n2002 - Referendum reaffirms almost total Gibraltarian opposition to UK proposals for joint British-Spanish sovereignty. UK reaffirms that no decision on Gibraltar's future will be made without the consent of Gibraltarians.\n\n2004 - Gibraltar marks the 300th anniversary of the establishment of British rule.\n\n2006 - Britain, Spain and Gibraltar sign a landmark agreement under which border controls are further eased. Spain agrees to allows flights to Gibraltar's airport. The deal makes no mention of sovereignty.\n\n2006 - Voters back a new constitution in referendum confirming Gibraltarian home rule, and renaming the House of Assembly the Parliament of Gibraltar.\n\n2009 - Spanish Foreign Minister Miguel Angel Moratinos visits Gibraltar, the first visit by a Spanish minister since Britain captured the Rock.\n\n2014 - Declassified documents show former King Juan Carlos of Spain told Britain in 1982 that it was not in his country's \"interest to recover Gibraltar in the near future\" as it would trigger Moroccan claims to the Spanish territories of Ceuta and Melilla.\n\n2016 - UK referendum on EU membership, 96% of Gibraltarians vote to remain. Turnout is 84%.\n\n2020 - UK and Gibraltar leave the EU. UK and Spain agree in principle to a basis on which the UK and the EU could negotiate terms for Gibraltar to participate some aspects of the Schengen Agreement to ease border movements. The arrangements have not entered into force.\n\nGibraltar has been a key British naval base ever since the 18th Century\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Nora's disappearance is described as \"completely out of character\"\n\nA 15-year-old girl from London has gone missing while on holiday in Malaysia, a friend of her family has said.\n\nNora Quoirin, who has learning difficulties, arrived there with her family on Saturday for a two week \"trip of a lifetime\".\n\nThey were staying in the town of Seremban, on the edge of rainforest near Kuala Lumpur.\n\nWhen her parents awoke on Sunday morning they found her missing and the window of her hotel room open.\n\nCatherine Morrison, a friend of the family, estimated that by noon UK time she had already been missing for 12 hours.\n\nNora went missing the day after she and her family arrived in Malaysia\n\nA spokesman for the Irish Department of Foreign Affairs said: \"We are aware of the case and providing consular assistance.\"\n\nMalaysian Police are said to be using sniffer dogs in the search for Nora.\n\nAlthough her family have been resident in the UK for at least two decades, she is thought to have been travelling on an Irish passport.\n\nMs Morrison described the disappearance, which was discovered at about 06:30 local time, as \"completely out of character\" and said her parents were \"frantic\".\n\nShe said: \"They had just arrived - it was going to be a trip of a lifetime.\n\n\"They checked into their hotel, the Dusun - it looked beautiful with little cottages and an infinity pool.\n\n\"They went to bed, but this morning Nora was not in her room and the window was open.\"\n\nNora has learning difficulties and going missing was completely out of character, Ms Morrison added.\n\n\"Police are looking for her with sniffer dogs. The hotel have been really helpful,\" she said.", "Global stock markets fell around the world as concerns about the US-China trade war and the global economy prompted investors to dump shares.\n\nThe three main US stock markets closed 3% lower overnight, European stocks fell across the board, while Asian stock markets opened lower.\n\nWeak data from Germany and China on Wednesday helped fuel a rush for safe assets like bonds and gold.\n\nBond market moves pointed to possible recessions in major economies.\n\nThe US central bank also came under renewed pressure from US President Donald Trump for not doing enough to support the world's largest economy.\n\nThere are concerns that renewed attacks by Mr Trump on the Federal Reserve could erode investor confidence on its ability to make independent decisions.\n\nAnalyst Oliver Pursche, from financial services company Bruderman, said the global picture was precarious.\n\n\"What's happening in Hong Kong, what's happening with Brexit and the trade war, it's all a mess,\" the chief market strategist said. \"Every central bank around the world is trying to prop up economies and every politician around the world is trying to destroy economies.\"\n\nNews that Germany's GDP contracted in the second quarter, and that China's industrial growth in July hit a 17-year low, had already spooked markets in Europe. The FTSE 100 closed more than 1% lower, while in Germany and France the markets finished more than 2% lower.\n\nJapan's benchmark Nikkei 225 dropped some 2% in early trading on Thursday, while Hong Kong's Hang Seng index opened 1.4% lower. Both later regained some ground. Disruptions related to pro-democracy protests have also weighed on the stock market in Hong Kong.\n\nAnother worry was that bond markets are flashing recession warnings.\n\nThe yield on two-year and 10-year Treasury bonds inverted for the first time since June 2007.\n\nThis means investor appetite for safety is such that they are willing to get lower returns for holding bonds for a longer period. Usually investors demand higher returns for holding bonds for longer due to the risks involved with parking your money away for a long time.\n\nHistorically, such bond movements have been a reliable indicator of possible recessions, and preceded the last global downturn more than 10 years ago.\n\nThe UK bond yield curve also inverted for the first time since 2008, while the yield gap between 10-year and 2-year German government bonds was at its tightest since the financial crisis.\n\nMeanwhile, the CBOE volatility index - the so-called fear index - jumped higher, and spot gold prices rose.\n\nOn Wednesday, Mr Trump again attempted to deflect the market turmoil onto the US Federal Reserve and its interest rate policy, calling Fed chief Jerome Powell \"clueless\".\n\nIn raising interest rates four times last year \"the Federal Reserve acted far too quickly, and now is very, very late\" in cutting borrowing costs, the president tweeted. \"Too bad, so much to gain on the upside!\"\n\nRecent presidents have avoided commenting on Fed policy, in a sign of respect for the bank's independence.\n\nThe recession signal from the bond market will only heap pressure on the Federal Reserve to give the president what he wants - more rate cuts.\n\nWall Street certainly thinks it's inevitable, pricing in a cut in September.\n\nLast month, America's central bank reduced its benchmark interest rate for the first time since 2008. That failed to impress Donald Trump who berated Fed Chair Jay Powell for not cutting rates quickly enough.\n\nAnd as the havoc on the financial markets was unfolding, President Trump was back on twitter defending his administration's tariff war with China and attacking the Fed, calling the chairman clueless.\n\nBut if Mr Trump gets what he wants, it may come at a steep price.\n\nThe Fed's recent rate cut didn't buoy the markets like it used to. So it's not clear that more rate cuts will blunt the damage from his ongoing trade war with China which is creating uncertainty and raising costs for businesses and consumers.\n\nEarlier on Wednesday, White House trade adviser Peter Navarro told Fox Business Network the central bank should cut rates by half a percentage point \"as soon as possible\", an action he claimed would lead to stock markets soaring.\n\nDespite the US delaying the 1 September imposition of tariffs on some Chinese imports into the US, it has done little to ease concerns.\n\n\"The challenge is that Trump's trade policy has proven so erratic that you cannot relieve the sense of uncertainty,\" said Tim Duy, an economics professor at the University of Oregon.\n\nAs of September last year, the US central bank had a relatively rosy outlook for the economy, expecting that the stimulus from the Trump administration's massive $1.5tn tax cut package and spending in 2018 would sustain growth and justify steadily higher interest rates.\n\nMr Trump wants to make the economy a central part of his case for his 2020 re-election campaign.\n\nIn an interview scheduled to air on Fox Business Network on Friday, former Fed chief Janet Yellen said she felt the US economy remained \"strong enough\" to avoid a downturn, but \"the odds have clearly risen and they are higher than I'm frankly comfortable with\".", "Preparing for the possibility of a no-deal Brexit should be \"the top priority\" for civil servants, Boris Johnson has told them in a letter.\n\nThe PM said he would prefer to get a deal with the EU, but he said he recognised this \"may not happen\".\n\nEarlier Jeremy Corbyn had urged the UK's top civil servant to intervene to prevent a no-deal Brexit happening during a general election campaign.\n\nIt comes amid speculation MPs could back a no-confidence motion in the PM.\n\nIn his letter to civil servants, Mr Johnson said the UK must be prepared to leave the EU by the latest Brexit deadline of 31 October \"whatever the circumstances\".\n\n\"That is why preparing urgently and rapidly for the possibility of an exit without a deal will be my top priority, and it will be the top priority for the civil service too.\"\n\nIt is understood that government special advisers also received an email last night from the PM's senior adviser Eddie Lister instructing them not to take annual leave until after 31 October.\n\nMr Johnson's message to civil servants follows a similar letter sent by Chancellor Sajid Javid earlier this month to HM Revenue and Customs.\n\nMr Javid also ordered the tax authority to make preparing for no-deal its \"absolute top priority\", including helping the public to prepare for the possibility.\n\nHe said this should include making sure IT systems are ready, helping businesses with a helpline, and contacting traders directly.\n\nIn his letter to Cabinet Secretary Sir Mark Sedwill, Mr Corbyn said it would be an \"anti-democratic abuse of power\" if the PM allowed a no-deal to occur by default during a general election campaign, if the government was defeated in a vote of no confidence.\n\nShadow chancellor John McDonnell has said it is \"almost inevitable\" that Labour would push for such a vote when the Commons returns from its summer recess on 3 September.\n\nIt is thought MPs opposed to no-deal could back the vote in a bid to prevent the UK leaving the EU without an agreement - leading to a general election being called.\n\nElection rules say Parliament should be dissolved 25 working days before polling day - so some people are concerned Mr Johnson could allow a no-deal Brexit to happen while MPs are not sitting.\n\nAccording to the Sunday Telegraph, Mr Johnson's senior adviser at No 10, Dominic Cummings, has told MPs even losing such a vote could not stop the PM taking the UK out of the EU on 31 October.\n\nHe reportedly said Mr Johnson could call an election for after the deadline, with Brexit taking place in the meantime.\n\nTheresa May's Brexit deal was rejected three times by MPs and, as things stand, the UK will leave the EU on 31 October whether it has agreed a new one or not.\n\nMr Johnson has urged the EU to make changes to the deal, but has said the UK must leave by this deadline with or without an agreement.\n\nMany of those who voted against the deal had concerns over the backstop, which if implemented, would see Northern Ireland staying aligned to some rules of the EU single market.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nIt would also see the UK stay in a single customs territory with the EU, and align with current and future EU rules on competition and state aid.\n\nThese arrangements would apply unless and until both the EU and UK agreed they were no longer necessary.\n\nOn Thursday Mr Johnson again urged the EU to compromise on the Irish border backstop plan, designed to guarantee there will not be a hard Irish border after Brexit.\n\nHowever, the EU has continued to insist that the withdrawal deal agreed by Mrs May last year, including the backstop, cannot be renegotiated.\n\nMeanwhile, a transport minister has said he supports the government position of leaving the EU in all circumstances, following comments he made about a no-deal Brexit.\n\nGeorge Freeman told HuffPost UK's Commons People podcast it would be an \"absolute disaster\" for the UK in the long term if it only traded with the EU on WTO [World Trade Organization] terms, without its own free trade deal with the bloc.\n\nBut he later tweeted to say he \"totally supports\" the position that the UK should leave with no deal on 31 October, \"if the EU is unwilling to negotiate\".\n\nIn response, Downing Street told the BBC that Mr Freeman has the \"full support of the prime minister\".", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe US Department of Justice has made a last-minute request to the authorities in Gibraltar to halt the release of a seized Iranian supertanker.\n\nGrace 1, carrying Iranian oil, was stopped by Royal Marines on 4 July, triggering a standoff with Tehran.\n\nThe vessel was due to be released, after Gibraltar's attorney general indicated there would be no further order for its detention.\n\nBut the US request will be considered, with a court hearing set for 15:00 BST.\n\nGibraltar said the US application is based on a \"number of allegations which are now being considered\".\n\nThe UK Foreign Office said it was unable to comment on the US request.\n\nA spokesman for Gibraltar's government also confirmed that police proceedings against four members of the crew, including the captain - an Indian national - had ended.\n\nThe crew's legal team told the BBC that police had said this was due to actions by the Iranian government, and that it was no longer in the public interest to proceed.\n\nThe crew of 28 are Indian, Russian, Latvian and Filipino and have spent 43 days in detention on board the ship.\n\nThe Grace 1's captain said in a statement: \"I am grateful and thankful for my release. And I am grateful to all who have facilitated my release in my legal team.\"\n\nThe tanker was seized after the government of Gibraltar suggested it was heading for Syria, in breach of EU sanctions.\n\nAbout 30 marines were flown from the UK to Gibraltar to help police detain Grace 1 and its cargo, at the request of the Gibraltar government.\n\nThe initial seizure of the tanker sparked a diplomatic crisis between the UK and Iran, which has escalated over recent weeks and saw the seizure of a British-flagged and Swedish-owned oil tanker, Stena Impero, in the Gulf.\n\nThe Gibraltar authorities have since received assurances from the captain of the ship and Iran that Grace 1 would not travel to Syria.\n\nIt is clear from the Gibraltarian authorities that without the last minute US intervention the Grace 1 would have been released and on its way.\n\nThe hope was that this in turn would clear the way for the eventual release by the Iranians of the Stena Impero - the British-flagged vessel they seized in the Gulf.\n\nThe last-minute effort by the US Justice Department has certainly muddied the waters, raising more questions.\n\nWhat grounds do they have for seeking to seize the vessel? And crucially how much co-ordination if any was there between the US, Britain and Gibraltar.\n\nOr did Washington's request come out of the blue?\n\nThe Stena Impero was seized by Iran's Revolutionary Guard on 19 July.\n\nThe British-flagged Stena Impero was seized by Iran on 22 July\n\nThe UK later announced it would join a US-led taskforce to protect merchant ships travelling through the key shipping route in the Strait of Hormuz.\n\nTensions between Iran and the West can be traced to the resurgence of another crisis - that over Iran's nuclear programme.\n\nLast year, Washington withdrew from a 2015 deal to limit Iran's nuclear activities, amid suspicion that Tehran was still trying to develop nuclear weapons. Something Iran has always denied.\n\nSince then, US-Iran tensions have grown after Washington imposed - and latterly tightened - its sanctions against the country.\n\nThe UK and other European countries have said they remain committed to the deal.", "\"I don't think we'll be allowed back due to my 'behaviour',\" Healy said\n\nMatt Healy, the frontman of Brit Award-winning band The 1975, has defied Dubai's anti-LGBTQ laws by kissing a male audience member during a gig.\n\nFan footage showed Healy venturing into the crowd and kissing a man on the lips, to loud cheers, on Wednesday.\n\nHe is then seen returning to the stage and declaring: \"I love you bro. We're all human, right?\"\n\nHomosexuality is illegal in the Arab emirate, and any public displays of affection are frowned upon.\n\nPosting online afterwards, the singer said he did not regret his actions, which took place during their performance of the 2016 track Loving Someone.\n\nHe tweeted: \"I don't think we'll be allowed back due to my 'behaviour' but know that I love you and I wouldn't have done anything differently given the chance again.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by 🥾🌍 This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy 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 was the Cheshire band's first gig in the United Arab Emirates. They won best British group and best British album at this year's Brit Awards, and all three of their studio albums have gone to number one in the UK.\n\nLast year, the 30-year-old singer helped to finance a new LGBTQ community centre in London, telling The Observer: \"You might wonder why it is needed, and even ask yourself what exactly is everyone still scared of, but sadly, I think stigma still exists even in London and we still have some way to go.\"\n\nAccording to the Foreign Office, there have been reports of people being punished for homosexual activity in the UAE, particularly where there is a public element or the behaviour has caused offence. There have also been several arrests for heterosexual kissing in public.\n\nThe socially-conscious band, who will headline the Reading and Leeds festivals next week, feature 16-year-old climate change activist Greta Thunberg on the first track of their forthcoming fourth album, Notes on a Conditional Form, which is out next February.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "A test \"Presidential alert\" was sent to Americans on 3 October, 2018\n\nABC talk show Jimmy Kimmel Live! has been fined $395,000 (£326,000) for mimicking a presidential alert on the programme, a US regulator has said.\n\nThe show replicated the alert tone three times, which is illegal, during a sketch mocking the warning system.\n\nOn the same day the programme aired, 3 October last year, the alert was officially tested nationwide.\n\nAs part of the trial, more than 200 million US mobile phones received a test \"Presidential Alert\" notification.\n\nThe alert system, which is designed to warn of major threats such as missile attacks, natural disasters and acts of terrorism, is run by the Federal Emergency Management Agency (Fema).\n\nIn the event of a national emergency, US President Donald Trump would be in charge of ordering the agency to activate the warning system.\n\nWireless Emergency Alerts (WEAs) can be sent by state and local public safety officials, the National Weather Service, the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children as well as the president of the United States. They look like text messages, but are designed to alert people with a unique sound and vibration.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The presidential alert system, dubbed the \"Trump Alert\", was tested in October 2018\n\nBy simulating the alert tone, the Jimmy Kimmel Show! breached broadcasting rules, said the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), which regulates television in the US.\n\nUnder FCC rules, broadcasters are barred from mimicking the warning system \"to avoid confusion when the tones are used, alert fatigue among listeners, and false activation\".\n\nABC admitted to broadcasting the alert on 3 October 2018, but said it did so under the impression that \"use of the tone was permissible\".\n\nPeople look at their phones during the alert in New York's Grand Central Terminal\n\nIn a statement, ABC - which is owned by Walt Disney Television - said it takes \"regulatory compliance seriously and we are pleased to have resolved this issue\".\n\nABC has agreed not to broadcast it again, the FCC said.\n\nSeparately, AMC Networks, Discovery and Meruelo have agreed to pay civil fines for broadcasting the presidential alert in programmes.\n\nThe penalties agreed are $104,000 (£86,000) for AMC; $68,000 (£57,000) for Discovery; and $67,000 (£55,000) for Meruelo, the FCC said.\n\nLast October's emergency alert trial was held to test the readiness of the system.\n\nThe alert produced a tone and showed a notification saying: \"THIS IS A TEST of the National Wireless Emergency Alert System. No action is needed.\"\n\nThe test was mandated under a 2015 law, the IPAWS Modernization Act, that said one must be run at least every three years.", "Stormzy says he wants to help students \"pursue their dream\" of studying at Cambridge\n\nGrime star Stormzy has announced he will fund the university costs of two more Cambridge students.\n\nStormzy will also continue to cover costs for the first two students to be supported by the scheme.\n\nThe Stormzy Scholarship is aimed at supporting people from minority backgrounds who have earned a place at the university.\n\nThe scheme is intended to help address the low number of black students who attend Oxbridge institutions.\n\nStormy, who recently headlined Glastonbury, is paying the tuition fees of the four students.\n\nThe identities of the students supported by the scheme have been kept secret to ensure they have a normal life during their studies, although the grime star keeps track of their academic progress.", "Natalie Crichlow had three children who are trying to raise funds to bring her body home\n\nA British woman has died in Barbados after being doused in a flammable liquid and set alight while in bed.\n\nNatalie Crichlow's \"shocked and devastated\" family are raising funds to repatriate her body.\n\nMs Crichlow, 44, of Colindale in London, was in Barbados to look after her disabled brother when she was attacked.\n\nThe mother of three had survived cancer twice and had two strokes in the past decade, according to her niece.\n\nAshley Best said her aunt suffered 75% burns to her body in the attack in Christchurch on 28 July. She died in hospital on 6 August.\n\nMs Best said: \"The intruder broke in the house, then strangled her and then set her alight. She went into hospital and died of her injuries.\n\n\"I do not understand why it happened and we are all in a state of shock.\"\n\nMs Crichlow died of her injuries after being choked and set on fire while in bed\n\nMs Crichlow, who was born in Luton, has three children aged 10, 20 and 26 who are \"devastated\" and want to get her back home to Britain for burial.\n\nThey have set up a crowd-funding page in an attempt to raise £8,000 to bring her body home.\n\nHer niece said the family are concerned the Royal Barbados Police Force is not treating the death as a murder investigation.\n\nA spokesman for the local police told the Press Association no arrests had been made.\n\nMs Best said of her aunt: \"For someone who had battled through so much to just be taken in this way and lose their life is just beyond understanding.\n\n\"She said she wanted to live life to the fullest because her life had nearly been taken from her.\"\n\nFamily friend Mitra Wikes said Ms Crichlow was \"a true survivor and warrior who endured so much in life but always kept going and had a true passion for living life to the max no matter what she had gone through\".\n\nA Foreign Office spokesman said: \"Our staff are supporting the family of a British woman following her death in Barbados, and are in contact with the Barbados police force.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Lewis Ludlam went to meet his primary school teacher Sandra Taylor after the game\n\nA retired primary school teacher got to witness a former pupil's England debut after he kept an old promise that he would give her tickets to the match.\n\nLewis Ludlam made the vow to Sandra Taylor when he was a promising rugby player at Gorseland Primary School in Martlesham Heath, near Ipswich.\n\nMrs Taylor and her husband watched England play Wales at Twickenham as the flanker made his first appearance.\n\nShe said she was \"privileged\" to enjoy the \"most amazing Sunday\".\n\n\"I don't know how his parents cope with the burst of pride, I was full of pride,\" Mrs Taylor added.\n\nShe said the Northampton Saints player, now 23, was a \"promising rugby star\" and a \"delightful pupil in the classroom\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nIt was when he was leaving the school to move up to Kesgrave High School Ludlam said he would make sure she got tickets when he got called up for England.\n\nMrs Taylor said there had been a bit of detective work by Ludlam's mother Dorinda to find her.\n\nIn a tweet, Ludlam said \"can't believe we actually managed to track her down\".\n\nMrs Taylor said: \"He was magnificent and to meet him afterwards was the icing on the cake.\n\n\"He's still the same charming, friendly, delightful boy that he was when I knew him when he was 11.\"\n\nSandra Taylor said she was \"full of pride\" watching Ludlam (centre) play for England\n\nHowever, the Scottish mother of two admitted national loyalties had to be put to one side as she cheered on her former pupil.\n\n\"I was very grateful that he was playing against Wales and not Scotland,\" Mrs Taylor said.\n\n\"It was a very strange thing for me to cheer on an England team.\"\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. Graeme Stenhouse said the Apprentice Boys had no prior knowledge of the uniform worn by Clyde Valley Flute Band\n\nThe Apprentice Boys of Derry have said they recognise the potential upset caused to nationalists by a Parachute Regiment emblem worn by a visiting flute band during a parade in the city.\n\nThey said they had no prior knowledge of the uniform worn by Clyde Valley Flute Band during Saturday's march.\n\nThe Larne group wore a Parachute Regiment insignia on their shirts as they paraded, bearing the letter 'F'.\n\nPolice escorted them during the parade, and later stopped the band's bus.\n\nThe Apprentice Boys governor said on Tuesday night that the Apprentice Boys were unaware of the incident until after the parade.\n\n\"We had no prior knowledge of the band's uniform, or this incident, until the conclusion of the main parade on Bond Street,\" he said.\n\n\"We recognise this may have caused upset to many in the nationalist community.\"\n\nSDLP leader Colum Eastwood described the Apprentice Boys statement as a \"positive step that will contribute to healing in the city\".\n\n\"It is welcome and demonstrates the kind of leadership that Derry and the north needs right now,\" he added.\n\nMr Stenhouse added that the main focus of the parade is to commemorate the 1689 Siege of Derry.\n\nHe said it should in no way be used as a means to \"heighten tensions in a shared city\".\n\nThe governor again rejected claims that an agreement about symbols supporting the Parachute Regiment had been put in place before the march.\n\n\"This agreement never took place,\" he said.\n\n\"We would never place our marshals under such difficult circumstances.\"\n\nMembers of Clyde Valley Flute Band from Larne wore the symbol with the letter 'F' on their shirts\n\nMr Stenhouse said the police were \"heavy handed\" in how they dealt with the band and that he would discuss the matter further with local police commanders.\n\n\"A lot of hard work has been contributed to ensuring peaceful parades over many years,\" he said.\n\n\"We wish to continue with this constructive dialogue to ensure that good will and understanding prevails.\n\n\"We also wish to ensure our city continues to lead in promoting reconciliation and is a model of respect to all communities.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Arlene Foster said the policing of an Apprentice Boys parade in Londonderry was not balanced.\n\nEarlier on Tuesday, Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) leader Arlene Foster said that a lot of loyalists are concerned by the police approach.\n\n\"It is important that everybody in the community in Northern Ireland has support for the police service. That's a fundamental of our society,\" she said.\n\n\"Therefore it concerns us greatly if there's a perception building that there isn't that confidence in policing. It's something that we are very concerned about.\"\n\nThe DUP and UUP met PSNI officials separately to discuss Saturday's policing operation.\n\nUUP leader Robin Swann, who led his party's delegation, said \"intervention could've been handled in a completely different way\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\n\"The deployment of the TSG (Tactical Support Group), in my opinion, was uncalled for, unnecessary, and obviously too early because they should have given the elected representatives and stewards from the Apprentice Boys of Derry an opportunity to see what resolution could have come about before the TSG was deployed,\" he added.\n\nDeputy Chief Constable Stephen Martin said he \"listened carefully to all the strong concerns that have been raised\" and that there will be a full debrief of the force's actions.\n\nThirteen people were shot dead when members of the Army's Parachute Regiment opened fire on civil rights demonstrators on Bloody Sunday in Derry in 1972.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nAn ex-paratrooper, known as Soldier F, is facing prosecution for two murders.\n\nRelatives of the victims of Bloody Sunday said the band's display caused great hurt.\n\n\"People are very angry about what happened,\" said John Kelly, whose brother, Michael, was killed on Bloody Sunday.\n\n\"The way we look at it, and I'm talking about the families, and the people of Derry, we found it very, very provocative.\"\n\nMembers of the Apprentice Boys, one of the Protestant Loyal Orders, made their way around the city's historic walls accompanied by bands\n\nPolice said an agreement had been put in place before the march, and officers flanked the band during the parade.\n\nBut DUP MP Gregory Campbell shared Mr Stenhouse's opinion that there was no such agreement.\n\nSinn Féin MP Elisha McCallion said the insignia display by the band had caused \"deep anger in the city\".\n\n\"Ahead of Saturday's parade, assurances were given that there would be no Parachute Regiment or Soldier F imagery involved but this agreement was broken,\" she said.\n\n\"Subsequent Apprentice Boys denials of such an agreement do not stand up to scrutiny, and are in direct contravention of the accounts from the PSNI and the Bogside Residents Group.\"\n\nResponding to criticism of how police handled the incident, Assistant Chief Constable Alan Todd it was \"proportionate, responsible and constructive\".\n\nThe Parades Commission said it had received a number of complaints regarding the Apprentice Boys parade.\n\nGovernor of the Apprentice Boys, Graeme Stenhouse, laid a wreath at the cenotaph in Derry on Saturday\n\nClyde Valley Flute Band said that the symbol on their shirts was an expression of \"a legitimately held view which they are entitled to hold\".\n\n\"The officers of the band wish to correct any false impression which may be held regarding the band's uniform being deliberately provocative and specifically designed for the parade in Londonderry,\" the band said in a statement.\n\nMr Stenhouse earlier said he would be willing to meet the Bloody Sunday families and other community representatives.\n\n\"I'm more than willing to meet them if that's something that they wish to do,\" he said.\n\n\"What the Apprentice Boys have achieved over the last 20 years is taking things forward by talking to different communities.\n\n\"That's why we do have very successful parades now in the Maiden City. We'll discuss with other community representatives and if there's some hard, straight talking to be done, then that's something that we'll have to do.\"\n\nIt was the third consecutive night police have been attacked in the city.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nA US-UK trade deal will not get through Congress if Brexit undermines the Good Friday Agreement, the Speaker of the US House of Representatives has said.\n\nDemocrat Nancy Pelosi, whose party controls the House, said the UK's exit from the EU could not be allowed to endanger the Irish peace deal.\n\nHer comments came after the US national security adviser said the UK would be \"first in line\" for a trade deal.\n\nThe reimposition of frontier controls between Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland if the UK leaves the EU without mutual agreement on 31 October - a so-called \"hard Brexit\" - is seen as a threat to the 1998 Good Friday Agreement, which ended decades of bloodshed in Northern Ireland.\n\n\"Whatever form it takes, Brexit cannot be allowed to imperil the Good Friday Agreement, including the seamless border between the Irish Republic and Northern Ireland,\" Ms Pelosi said in a statement on Wednesday.\n\nMr Bolton said on Tuesday that the Trump administration supported a no-deal Brexit, and added Washington would propose an accelerated series of trade deals in the event of one.\n\nHe said these could be done on a \"sector-by-sector\" basis, with an agreement on manufacturing made first. A trade deal for financial services and agriculture would not be the first to be agreed, he added.\n\nAsked whether his proposed plan would follow World Trade Organization (WTO) rules, Mr Bolton said \"our trade negotiators seem to think it is\".\n\nHe said there would be enthusiastic bipartisan support in Congress for speedy ratification at each stage.\n\nMr Johnson said there were \"all sorts\" of opportunities for UK business in the US, particularly service companies, but the negotiations will be a \"tough old haggle\".\n\nHowever, critics warn that the UK will have to give in to some US demands in return for any trade agreement.\n\nThe EU currently bans chlorine-washed chicken products on welfare grounds\n\nFormer UK Foreign Secretary Jack Straw, who served under a Labour government, described Mr Bolton as \"dangerously bellicose\".\n\nHe suggested the UK would have to agree to some US demands, for example allowing imports of US chlorine-washed chicken.\n\n\"This is a highly transactional administration… you don't get something for nothing,\" he told BBC Radio 4's Today programme.\n\nLewis Lukens, a former deputy chief of mission at the US embassy in London and former acting US ambassador, said Mr Bolton was aligned to President Trump's \"America first agenda\" and would be making \"strong demands\" on the UK to back the US position on issues like China, Iran and Chinese tech giant Huawei.\n\nMr Johnson is expected to have his first face-to-face meeting as prime minister with Mr Trump later this month at the G7 summit in France.", "The gunman opened fire as officers served a drug warrant at a home in Philadelphia\n\nA suspect has been taken into custody after injuring six officers in a shootout in the US city of Philadelphia.\n\nA gun battle broke out between police and a male shooter at about 16:30 local time (20:30 GMT).\n\nThe officers were serving a drugs warrant at a home in Philadelphia's Nicetown-Tioga neighbourhood when the gunman opened fire.\n\nA seven-hour stand-off ensued as police urged the gunman to surrender.\n\nA video on social media purportedly shows the suspect, named by US media as 36-year-old Maurice Hill, leaving the house with his hands in the air.\n\nThe suspect's lawyer Shaka Johnson told CBS3 he helped police negotiate the surrender.\n\nA Swat team rescued two officers and three civilians who were trapped inside the home with the gunman, police said.\n\nPolice urged the gunman to surrender for some hours before the stand-off ended\n\nPolice Commissioner Richard Ross said the Swat team \"were able to use stealth\" to safely evacuate the officers from a \"hostage situation\".\n\nMr Ross said the trapped officers were holding people they arrested during a raid \"that went awry almost immediately\".\n\nThe gunman fired on the Swat team's truck outside the home, where police wearing bulletproof vests took cover behind cars with guns drawn.\n\nThe suspect was reportedly armed with a semi-automatic rifle and several handguns.\n\nAt one point, he was said to have been livestreaming the incident on Facebook, according to local media reports.\n\nA Swat team rescued two officers from the home where the gunman is holed up\n\nDuring the stand-off, officers attempted to \"communicate with the shooter\" and urged him to give himself up, police Sergeant Eric Gripp tweeted.\n\nNegotiators attempted to call the suspect's phone and were working with a family member and his lawyer.\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\nSix officers who sustained non-life threatening injuries in the shooting have been released from hospital.\n\nMr Ross said \"many of them had to escape through windows and doors\" as the suspect fired.\n\n\"It's nothing short of a miracle that we don't have multiple officers killed today,\" the commissioner said.\n\nA seventh officer, who was injured in a car crash while responding to the shooting, remains in the hospital.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Police Commissioner Richard Ross addresses the media during the stand-off\n\nA witness told local media she heard more than 100 gunshots and people running for their lives. \"They kept us safe the whole time, the whole time, they kept us safe,\" one woman said of the officers.\n\nVideo from the scene shows dozens of police cars and officers outside the home where the gunman was hunkering down.\n\nUS President Donald Trump was briefed on the shooting, deputy White House press secretary Hogan Gidley said.\n\nThe incident comes after two mass shootings - in El Paso, Texas and Dayton, Ohio - brought the debate about gun control in the US into sharp focus.", "A teenager found dead in Malaysia after vanishing on a family holiday had not been abducted, police say.\n\nNora Quoirin's body was found beside a stream about 1.6 miles (2.5km) from the jungle resort of Dusun on Tuesday.\n\nShe died from internal bleeding probably caused by hunger and stress, a post-mortem examination revealed.\n\nMalaysian Police said there was no suspicion the 15-year-old, who was discovered following a 10-day search, was the victim of foul play.\n\nNora died two or three days before she was found, the force believes.\n\nHer unclothed body was found in an area that had previously been searched by rescuers.\n\nShe was described by her family as vulnerable having been born with holoprosencephaly, a disorder which affects brain development.\n\nHer Irish-French parents, Meabh and Sebastian, previously said they didn't believe she would have wandered off alone and feared she had been abducted.\n\nRescuers found Nora's body near to the Dusun resort\n\nNegeri Sembilan state police chief Mohamad Mat Yusop, said: \"For the time being, there is no element of abduction or kidnapping.\n\n\"The cause of death was upper gastrointestinal bleeding due to duodenal ulcer, complicated with perforation.\"\n\nFurther analysis would be carried out on samples taken from her body, he said, adding Nora's family was now free to take her home.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Volunteer searchers in Malaysia describe how they found the body of Nora Quoirin\n\nSpeaking after her body was found, Mr and Mrs Quoirin, from London, said their \"hearts are broken\" and paid tribute to their daughter as \"the truest, most precious girl\".\n\nThey said Nora had \"truly touched the world\" after her disappearance sparked a huge search operation and good wishes from across the globe.\n\nA book of condolence was opened on Wednesday in Belfast, where Mrs Quoirin is from.\n\nIn a statement, the Dusun resort said it wanted to \"extend support and assistance in whatever way possible to the Quoirins during these very difficult times\".\n\n\"We deeply regret that this has happened to the Quoirins during their stay here,\" it said.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "When US couples want to adopt a baby they often post ads online and search social media for women pregnant with a child they aren't planning to keep. Sometimes it works - but there are dangers. One young scammer has tricked countless couples, just for fun, by stealing the identity of a pregnant woman.\n\nIt's early February 2019, half way through one of the coldest Michigan winters in recent history. The grey sky threatens snow.\n\nThirty-three-year-old Samantha Stewart is in her pyjamas at home in Wixom, just outside Detroit, doing Sunday morning chores. There's a full washing basket, a house to be cleaned and dogs to walk. It's just after 11:00 when she receives a direct message request on Instagram from @ashleymamabear2019.\n\nIt's not anyone she knows - but she accepts the message and starts reading.\n\n\"Are you looking to adopt still?\" are the opening words.\n\nIt's six years since Sam had a hysterectomy. Throughout her 20s she underwent a series of operations in an attempt to control her endometriosis, a condition that causes the womb lining to grow in other parts of the body and can lead to crippling pain. They didn't work. By the time she was 27 it had become clear she would have to lose her womb - and the chance of carrying a child.\n\nIt took time for Sam to recover from the stress and the heartache. Though she longed for a family, it was only at the end of last year that she and her husband, Dave, felt ready to contact an adoption agency and begin the laborious process of adopting a child. They passed their home study, an assessment of their suitability to be parents, and underwent training. Then they set up an Instagram account, @findingbabystewart, posting requests for birth parents to contact them, illustrated by an empty cot in a freshly painted nursery.\n\nSam examines @ashleymamabear2019's Instagram feed. Ashley is 16, from a small town outside Atlanta, Georgia.\n\nShe posts mirror photos, love notes to her boyfriend Chris, and selfies with Snapchat filters. Her hair is straight and honey-blonde and a backwards cap usually covers his. But there is one thing that sets them apart from thousands of other American teen couples - the occasional shots of Ashley's figure, her face beaming as Chris places his hand against her swollen, round belly. This is the baby Ashley is offering to Sam and Dave.\n\nThe women begin messaging, but not before Sam has excitedly called Dave, her parents and Dave's parents. She doesn't spend much time wondering why they look so happy about the pregnancy, bearing in mind that it is unwanted. They're young, she thinks.\n\n\"Are you guys talking to any other adoptive families?\" ventures Sam. \"I'm just scared of being hurt. I want to be a mom so badly.\"\n\nAshley's life had been harrowing. Her parents were abusive, her mother killed herself. She was raped by her brother at the age of 14, resulting in a premature baby, a little girl who was placed for adoption. The adoptive parents shut Ashley out, preventing her from seeing her child. It would be hard to write a bleaker story.\n\nThe contact is constant. Sometimes Chris takes over texting because Ashley is feeling sick. When they talk on the phone, Sam finds Ashley's conversation immature, makes her excuses and hangs up after half an hour. They text about adoption plans late into the evening.\n\nThe temperature has now dropped to -5C, and a light snow is falling. Sam is exhausted from messaging. She explains that she's heading out for dinner, and so won't be on her phone for a few hours. She passes on her adoption agency's details.\n\nBut then, suddenly, Ashley becomes abusive. She tells Sam she would be a bad parent. Shocked and hurt, Sam stops replying. The adrenaline that has kept her going all day suddenly drains away, and she crashes on to the sofa.\n\n\"It's just - it's devastating. There's no other way to describe it,\" she says later, remembering this moment.\n\nSam assumes she will never hear from Ashley again. She and Dave consider deleting their Instagram posts appealing for pregnant women to contact them. Sam begins to feel that adopting a baby will take a long, long time.\n\nThen, exactly a month later, as icy patches of ground are beginning to thaw, a message arrives. Ashley tells Sam the baby has been born early, at 31 weeks. Exasperated, Sam tells Ashley to contact her adoption agency, or leave her family alone: \"Have a nice life and don't contact me.\"\n\nIt only takes 14 messages, though, for Ashley to persuade Sam that there really is a premature baby waiting for adoption. She names the medical centre where she gave birth and Sam and Dave get ready to fly there. Ashley sends a photograph of her cuddling a premature baby, wrapped in a white towel, wires trailing from the small body. It's captioned, \"She's yours.\"\n\n\"Omg I'm literally losing it. I can't wait to meet her,\" Sam replies. \"I can't wait to spoil that pretty little baby!\"\n\nThere are three days of non-stop talking. Then Ashley blocks Sam on Instagram. When Sam calls, Ashley doesn't pick up.\n\nThere is no explanation, just silence.\n\nDistressed, frantic, but already sensing that Ashley has been getting a thrill out of tormenting her, Sam posts a drawing of a broken heart on Instagram.\n\n\"They don't ask for money, they don't ask for material things like a lot of scams do. They want your time, emotional investment and quite frankly someone to talk to while promising you what you are desperate to find: your future child,\" she writes in the caption.\n\n\"We need to talk about this.\"\n\nThe comments start coming in. Sam is not the only one whom Ashley has tricked.\n\nIn many countries, social media would be the last place anyone would look for a baby to adopt. In the US, though, most states allow something called private adoption, where couples hoping to adopt and birth mothers find each other independently. The arrangement is then formalised by an attorney or an adoption agency.\n\nWhen Sam and Dave first signed up at their adoption agency, they were number 21 on the list of prospective adoptive parents. The agency warned them to expect a long wait and said they might get quicker results advertising themselves on the internet.\n\nPregnant women who don't intend to keep their child have the same choice - to approach adoption agencies, or search for adoptive parents online. Apparently, many feel that by making contact with parents directly they have more control.\n\nAt the time of writing, #hopingtoadopt is hashtagged 44,892 times on Instagram; #waitingtoadopt is mentioned 18,844 times and #hopefuladoptiveparents 10,758. Images of letter boards jostle for the attention of birth mothers: No Bump, Still Pumped, We're Adopting; Share This Photo and Help Our Family Grow; We are Officially a Waiting Family.\n\nThere aren't enough babies to go round, though, so many of these thousands of hopeful parents will be disappointed. The problem has got worse since countries that once provided large numbers of babies for adoption, such as Russia, China and Guatemala, clamped down.\n\n\"Most countries have ceased to allow the adoption of their children internationally, so the raw numbers have plummeted over the last 10 to 15 years by huge margins,\" says Adam Pertman, president of the National Centre on Adoption and Permanency.\n\nUnplanned pregnancies have also become less common in the US - and the reduced stigma around single parenthood means that, when they do occur, the mothers are more likely to keep the child. The National Council for Adoption's last survey estimates that less than 0.5% of babies are placed for adoption.\n\nCouples hoping to adopt may already have spent years trying to conceive, and even if they haven't, the long wait for a baby to become available for adoption can be frustrating and lead to impatience.\n\n\"Urgency creates desperation, and desperation creates sometimes decisions not being made with enough thought,\" says adoption specialist Dawn Smith Pleiner.\n\n\"Even though in the back of your head you know that it's probably not real, there's that glimmer, that feeling that there's a 1% chance it could be,\" says Sam. \"And you go with it anyway.\"\n\nThe comments stack up under Sam's broken-heart Instagram post. In Utah, Kristen and Michael Johnson have also been contacted by Ashley and Chris, though this time the teenagers from Georgia have used a different account. In Kentucky, Ashley Middleton and her husband Brian have received messages from this second account. Another woman says she has been contacted by both Instagram accounts. (It is most often women who are approached - two couples say that Ashley refused to speak to their male partner.) The photos all feature the same pregnant blonde-haired young woman from Georgia, offering up her child.\n\nKristen starts getting messages from Ashley on 14 March, the day after - unbeknown to her - Ashley has ghosted Sam.\n\nOver rambling, intense phone-calls, Ashley urges Kristen to visit her 31-week-old prematurely born baby. \"One time, I talked to her for four hours. It's a long time. I don't even talk to my own mother for that long, ever,\" says Kristen.\n\nAshley hits the Johnsons at a particularly vulnerable moment.\n\nThey've been waiting two-and-a-half years to adopt one more child. \"We were so tired and sick of trying to adopt, and wanting it to be done,\" Kristen says. \"We got highly emotional about it instead of thinking more rationally.\"\n\nKristen books flights to Atlanta for $500. In the frantic scrum to find a babysitter, she realises that Ashley hasn't sent any documents from the hospital. She rings to double check. It's a brief phone call: the charge nurse tells her there is no 15-year-old called Ashley, no father called Chris - and no baby.\n\n\"My stomach just dropped and I was literally sick. We cried a lot. My husband cried,\" she says.\n\n\"We couldn't believe, after everything we had been through, that we still fell for it.\"\n\nThere was a Facebook group where couples shared stories like this - the internet has made it easier to carry out a scam, but also harder to sustain one. The names used by many scammers all over the country are shared and circulated quickly.\n\nAshley, it turns out, uses a number of names and accounts: Alyssa and Josh, Ciara and Daniel, Mackenzie and Matt. Each couple's story has familiar elements, either the same abusive parents, the mum lost to suicide or the connection to Georgia. Usually, it's all three. Messages are incessant, phone calls come at strange times, and conversations drag out over hours. Sometimes the ruse lasts for a day, sometimes a few. It typically ends in tears.\n\nSam thinks the scammer's real name is Melissa, because a couple of the fake Instagram accounts have tagged someone with this name. Melissa has square-framed glasses, tangled red hair, and looks as though she's in her late 20s.\n\nKristen isn't convinced. She has a hunch the scammer is a spiteful middle-aged woman. Both agree, though, that the perpetrator is probably based somewhere not far from Atlanta, because she knows the area so well.\n\nOther victims have different theories. Some wonder if the scammer is in fact a group of people, because of the amount of time it must take to send so many messages - perhaps a group of anti-adoption activists, whose aim is to keep hopeful parents busy, to demoralise them and to hinder their search for real birth mothers.\n\nThe same image of Ashley, posted to a different Instagram account\n\nJuli Wisotsky, an adoption attorney based in Athens, Georgia, says she too has had her time wasted.\n\nIn March, an adoption agency from another state asked her to talk to a pregnant girl who had matched with one of their couples. Although Juli was about to go on a platinum wedding anniversary trip with her husband, she delayed it to talk. She and the 15-year-old exchanged messages through the night, as the girl claimed she was being admitted to hospital.\n\nDespite her 23 years' experience in the job, it took Juli nearly 24 hours to realise she was being conned. The final giveaway was an ultrasound image, stripped of all identifying details.\n\n\"It's partly my fault as I'm a very nurturing person. So I'm trying to nurture her and help her,\" Juli says.\n\nAnd the same scammer has remained active.\n\nSince March, Juli says, she and her colleagues have been called by families from Georgia, Colorado, Texas, Alaska, New York, Minnesota, Alabama, Illinois and Utah. All of the families were approached on Instagram by a young woman from Georgia.\n\n\"The emotional scams took me - when I was younger - completely off-guard,\" says Dawn Smith Pleiner, who has run the Vermont-based Friends in Adoption agency for nearly four decades.\n\nLong before the arrival of the internet, women would call for \"hour-long-talking-with-your-best-friend conversations\", she says, and it was \"never ever to do with money - never\".\n\n\"Then you realise that the due date is long gone, and you're still talking.\n\n\"There are so many lonely people out in this world today that just want some attention.\"\n\nIt's a scam that's hard to prosecute. Most states still don't have the legal tools.\n\nSince September 2018 there have been laws in place in Georgia to stop financial adoption fraud, but not the emotional kind. \"It's very frustrating,\" says Juli Wisotsky.\n\nOne option could be to raise a civil case for intentional infliction of emotional distress. \"But, does somebody want to get involved in a lawsuit for that?\" she asks. \"Or do they just want to let it go and try to heal and grieve what is a loss to them? Even though there was no baby there, they thought there was a baby. It's a grief.\"\n\nTraumatised couples regularly report this scam to the FBI's Internet Crime Complaint Centre. In a statement, the FBI told the BBC that although they were aware of emotional adoption scams, these were still uncommon. None of the parents have received a follow-up call.\n\nBut it's not only the potential parents who have been hurt, there's another person too. Because Ashley isn't just a fake Instagram profile, cobbled together from some images and an active imagination. Ashley is a real 22-year-old, who lives in Georgia. Her name is Ashley King - and her identity has been stolen.\n\nSam, playing detective, finds Ashley's profile easily - the pictures are all public. She messages her to warn her that her photographs are being used to trick people. And she points out that whoever runs the fake Instagram accounts knows intimate details about her life, her husband and her baby.\n\nAshley's voice lowers as she describes the shock of seeing photos of her newborn child on another person's Instagram account.\n\n\"The woman had loads of people thinking that they were going to adopt my daughter,\" she says. \"It's a really scary thought. Why would someone do that?\"\n\nShe immediately files a report with Gwinnett County Police. What the scammer says about Ashley's childhood is completely false, she explains, but when it comes to her daughter the impostor even knows what hospital she was born in.\n\n\"King stated the only information that was incorrect on her daughter was that she was listed as being born premature at 2lb 8oz when in reality she was born at 2lb 12oz,\" reads the police report.\n\n\"All other information was correct.\"\n\nSam thinks it's likely that the fake Ashley knows the real one.\n\n\"I don't live in a very big town but if you picked a random woman out of my town and expected me to know her life story, I wouldn't know it,\" she says. \"You would only know those details if you actually knew someone.\"\n\nBut Ashley has no idea who it might be, and this makes her nervous.\n\n\"Now I have to look over my shoulder making sure this woman isn't watching my kid, because she knows about where I lived,\" she says. \"It's really scary.\" (Ashley and her family have since moved house.)\n\nGeorgia has a law on identity theft, but it's debatable whether it is applicable in this case. A few states have already passed legislation to tackle online impersonation, but prosecutions may not succeed if no money has changed hands. Who can put a value on a broken heart?\n\nGwinnett County Police say they are not currently investigating.\n\nIt must be hard for the scammer to remember exactly what she has said to different couples. When Sam is first contacted it's by someone pretending to be 16 years old. But a month later, Ashley says she will get her dad to call the adoption attorney \"since I am only 15\".\n\nThe scammer tells another couple that her middle name is Lorraine. Later, they suggest Olivia Lorraine as a potential name for the baby. She then replies, \"Olivia is my middle name! Sounds perfect to us!\"\n\nBut these are not her biggest mistakes.\n\nTo call or text hopeful parents, the scammer uses non-fixed Voice over IP (VoIP) telephone numbers, the technical name for calls that go over the internet, created through companies such as Google or Skype. These numbers require very little information on sign-up, making them difficult to trace.\n\nBut just occasionally she gets careless. One of the numbers used to contact Juli and Kristen isn't an internet number. It's a real mobile number, from Georgia, and registered to someone called Harry.\n\nType the number into Google and it immediately pops up - on a very pink website selling homemade slime. Thick, gluey and intensely squishable, slime was the toy of 2017 (the same year the site was last updated). The shop sells slime for $5, shipping is the same again. It also, inexplicably, sells six cupcakes for $18. And there is an email address with a name - Gabby.\n\nThe homepage of the slime website\n\nWhen I call the number, it doesn't go well. After my first question Gabby goes silent. Then she hangs up.\n\nJessica Simmons, a mother of two adopted children, both of whom she found on Facebook, knows the name Gabby, and that telephone number, all too well.\n\nIn August 2016, a young woman contacted her on Facebook, saying she was pregnant. She began to fill in forms with Jessica's adoption agency, giving her name and address: a small town outside Atlanta. Her age: 23.\n\n\"After about a month of talking to her every day, I reached out to one of her family members by private message,\" says Jessica. The family member told her this was not the first time Gabby had pretended to be pregnant, and not to trust her. There was \"nothing anybody could do to stop her\" Jessica was told.\n\nThree years later, a pregnant 16-year-old from Georgia called a Google Voice number on a Minnesotan couple's adoption page. As they talked with her for hours, they inadvertently recorded part of a conversation.\n\nListening back to the recording, the young woman's nasal voice still gets to the wife, making her anxious. \"She spoke very low and quiet,\" she remembers. \"She was very needy and demanding and it made me very uncomfortable.\"\n\nAs well as the fake Instagram accounts, Gabby also has a personal one. Photos of a curly-haired girl with glasses sit alongside slime-making videos, in which her voice can be heard - it's the same as in the recording, and it's the one I heard on the telephone.\n\nNothing has been posted on this Instagram account since June 2018. There is no mention of babies, adoption or pregnancy. The list of people she is following is revealing, however. It includes Ashley King.\n\nBy the time I speak to Ashley a second time, she herself has come to suspect Gabby may be the woman impersonating her, after stumbling across a bizarre series of messages from her on Facebook, most of which she doesn't remember having received.\n\nA small selection of the images sent to Ashley King\n\nThe first message congratulates Ashley on the birth of her daughter. Then they keep coming, asking for baby pictures and updates on the child's health, month after month. At one point Gabby says:\n\n\"Can you send me a video of yourself saying, 'Hey'? Then I'll leave you alone.\n\nAlthough that request goes unanswered, Ashley does occasionally send short, polite replies. And once or twice she even responds to Gabby's strange demands - for example by sending a photo of her post-baby stomach. A photo which, of course, ends up on Instagram.\n\nAt the time, Ashley points out, she had a newly born premature baby and passed much of her time in a sleep-deprived haze. It was only later that she realised just how many messages she'd received from this random Facebook friend, whom her husband had known vaguely when they were younger.\n\n\"When I was going through them, I was like, 'Oh my goodness, I should've seen this a long time ago, when it first started happening,'\" says Ashley. \"I was very angry at myself. How I could not have caught it before?\"\n\nJuli Wisotsky can't quite believe it when she ends up on the phone with Gabby again on 31 July, four months after their first conversation. From her law office, she takes a call from a 15-year-old named Mackenzie on behalf of a couple in New York, with a story she feels like she's heard before. After one minute 20 seconds the girl hangs up and blocks her number.\n\nThis call comes more than two weeks after I started messaging Gabby and asking questions about her conversations with couples hoping to adopt.\n\nA number of fake accounts Gabby used were reported to Instagram by her victims, but they remained online for months, until the BBC started asking Instagram why. Then they were deleted. An Instagram spokesman said: \"Keeping people safe on Instagram is one of our biggest priorities. We're aware of this issue and will disable any further accounts in violation of our policies. We encourage anyone to report content they think is against our guidelines using our in-app tools.\"\n\n\"It is breaking people's hearts,\" says Juli. \"It's just wrong and it's evil. And that's a strong word to use. But I believe it is.\"\n\n\"The more I think about her and who she probably is - she probably has a very sad existence,\" says Sam. \"Part of me thinks that she might not even realise what she's doing is wrong.\"\n\nSam just wishes she would stop.\n\nIt is another rainy Sunday in Wixom, this time in May. An Instagram message from a private account comes through to Samantha Stewart's phone. \"Here we go again,\" she thinks.\n\n\"I was super suspicious. But it was much different on the phone with her,\" remembers Sam. The woman \"asked all the right questions. She wanted to know about me and my husband. About our house.\"\n\nThe next day, the sun comes out. Sam and Dave drive for three-quarters of an hour to meet the young woman with their adoption agency worker.\n\nTwelve days later the couple are at home with their new baby, Parker.\n\n\"The instant he took his first breath everything was healed,\" Sam sobs.\n\n\"Every bit of heartache and worry, it all disappears. I wouldn't want this type of scam or anything like this to deter people. Because even though it's horrible, you won't regret it. It won't matter.\n\n\"You bring your baby home and none of it matters.\"\n\nSam changes their Instagram handle to @wefoundbabystewart.\n\nListen to her report We were promised a baby on Instagram on BBC World Service's Trending.\n\nAnd find out what happened next: Can this adoption hoaxer be stopped?", "Inpe said it had detected more than 72,000 fires so far this year\n\nSwathes of the Amazon rainforest in Brazil are on fire.\n\nThe sky in São Paulo turned black due to smoke drifting from the fires 2,700 km (1,700 miles) away. Politicians and environmental activists are taking a stand against Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro, blaming the fires on his policies.\n\nBut it's a complex story, and online discussion of it has been riddled with misinformation, misleading photos and errors. We asked you to send us your questions on the Amazon fires, so we could fill in the gaps and clear up some common myths.\n\nWe chose a sample of the many questions we received and where we didn't know the answer, we enrolled the experts.\n\n1) Why are there fires? Is it Bolsonaro's men doing it to clear rainforest for mining/farming etc? - Alex\n\nBrazilian journalist Silio Boccanera argues that some fires at this time of year - the dry season in Brazil - are to be expected. But many of the fires burning through the Amazon are believed to have been started deliberately.\n\nPresident Bolsonaro has not condemned deforestation and supports clearing the Amazon for agriculture and mining.\n\n\"So it's a combination of natural phenomena with locals feeling comfortable enough to do it because the government has not made any effort to prevent it,\" Mr Boccanera says.\n\nHe thinks that smaller groups of people are more responsible for starting the fires than big corporations selling beef and soy, which could run the risk of being boycotted.\n\nAlthough the big corporations are not innocent, they are better informed, he says.\n\nBut smaller groups - who benefit from destroying areas of the forest for farming - have gone ahead because they have not been stopped by authorities, Mr Boccanera explains.\n\nAlthough deliberate fire-starting has always been a problem, it has never been seen to this extent. Mr Boccanera says perpetrators now know that if they are caught, they won't be punished.\n\n2) The number of fires seems like a bad metric, because the size of fires varies. Is there year-on-year data on the total area affected? - Peter\n\nThis is a fair point. On 20 August, Brazil's satellite agency said there had been an 84% increase in the number of fires compared with the same period in 2018. It's the highest number since 2010, but significantly less than in 2005 during the same period, when the number of fires was at its highest.\n\nThis year, the satellite agency detected more than 74,000 fires in Brazil between January and 20 August. Most of those were in the Amazon, and the New York Times reports most of those fires were on land already cleared for agricultural use.\n\nBut does this mean more land is being burned than ever before? After all, we could be looking at tens of thousands of tiny fires.\n\nThe truth is we don't know yet, but the evidence points towards more land being consumed by fire.\n\nWe don't have the full picture at the moment, partly because many fires are still burning. We asked Copernicus, the European Union's earth observation programme, and they said the best way to assess how destructive these fires are is to look at how much carbon dioxide is being released.\n\nSo far this year, the equivalent of 228 megatonnes has been released, according to the Copernicus Atmosphere Monitoring Service. This is the highest level since 2010.\n\nAt some point in the future, there should be more detailed satellite information about how much land had been burned, but that information isn't available yet.\n\n3) What's being done to stop the fires? - Paul\n\nPresident Bolsonaro is coming under growing political pressure to end the burning of the Amazon - France's President Emmanuel Macron even threatened to scrap a huge trade deal between the European Union and South America as a result.\n\nBut warnings by themselves don't put out fires, and a few days after the satellite data was revealed, Brazil's government stepped up its response.\n\nMr Bolsonaro has called in the armed forces, who have more resources to tackle the fires, including the use of helicopters and aeroplanes to drop water.\n\nHowever, journalist Silio Boccanera believes the attitude at the top of government needs to change. Before, people believed deforestation needed to be prevented. But now \"people are burning without fear\", he says.\n\n4) The coverage on this subject has only come to light recently because of the #PrayforAmazonas and #PrayforAmazonia hashtag. Why have you not reported it? - Jake\n\nBut the extent of the fires has only recently become clear. It was not even being reported very widely in Brazil.\n\nThe first real sign vast burning was taking place came when a daytime blackout, caused by smoke from the Amazon, hit Sao Paulo on Monday, 19 August.\n\nWe first published an article a day later, just a few hours after our colleagues at BBC Brasil, and we've kept updating it ever since.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe #PrayforAmazonas hashtag was first used in the early hours of Wednesday, UK time. This, and others such as #prayforrondonia have become trending topics around the world.\n\n5) Is this a natural, healthy way the forest self-clears for new growth? - Lucy\n\nAs Lucy suggests, there is a case to be made that some fire-adapted forests benefit from fires - they can help clear the forest and allow trees space to grow stronger.\n\nBut this is not the situation right now in the Amazon, says Yadvinder Malhi, Professor of Ecosystem Science at the University of Oxford. \"These are fires that we are concerned about,\" he says. The humid forests of the Amazon have no adaptation to fire and suffer immense damage. Almost all fires in humid forests are started by people.\n\nHe believes the driving force behind the fire is human rather than natural.\n\nWhile statistics show that 2016 also saw a significant number of fires in the Amazon, this was considered a \"drought year\"- when there is naturally less rain so the forest is drier and therefore more fire-prone.\n\nBut 2019 has not been a drought year. Professor Malhi says there is such a large number of fires because people have lit them.\n\n6) How quickly does the Amazon rainforest regenerate after a fire? - Emily\n\n\"The forest takes around 20-40 years if it's allowed to regenerate,\" says Prof Malhi.\n\nBut any fires that are currently burning will leave the surviving trees more vulnerable to drought and repeated fires.\n\nProf Malhi is worried that if the Amazon is hit by fires every few years large parts of it will shift to a degraded shrubby state.\n\n\"Once you've had multiple fires there's the chance of permanent damage,\" he says.\n\n7) If this current trend were to continue at its present rate, how long would the Amazon rainforest area survive? - Christopher\n\n\"We are at an early stage where we can still do lots to save the forest,\" says Prof Malhi. About 80% of the Amazon is still intact.\n\nBut he says that climate change and deforestation are a dangerous combination. A reduction in rainfall would create dry conditions for fires to spread.\n\nIf 30-40% of the Amazon was cleared, then there would be a danger of changing the forest's entire climate, he says.\n\nIn the years before 2005, Brazil had an extremely high rate of deforestation.\n\n\"If Brazil were to return to that, it would take around 50-60 years to deforest 40% of the Amazon,\" Prof Malhi says. \"But in eastern and southern Amazonia it would take only 20-30 years to reach that threshold.\"\n\n8) What percentage of oxygen does the Amazon supply? - Tom\n\nOur colleagues from BBC Reality Check spent a whole day getting to the bottom of this.\n\nMany claim on social media that the Amazon produces about 20% of the world's oxygen. It's widely quoted - by campaign groups and well-known figures, including Emmanuel Macron and footballer Cristiano Ronaldo.\n\nBut academics say this is a very common misconception, and that the figure is less than 10%.\n\nOxygen is released by plants during the process of photosynthesis, where carbon dioxide and water are converted into energy in the form of carbohydrates using sunlight.\n\nA large proportion of the world's oxygen is produced by plankton, explains Professor Malhi. He says of the oxygen produced by land-based plants, about 16% comes from the Amazon.\n\nBut this isn't the whole story. In the long run, the Amazon absorbs about the same amount of oxygen as it produces, effectively making the total produced net zero.\n\nProfessor Jon Lloyd from Imperial College London says although the Amazon produces a lot of oxygen during the day through photosynthesis, it absorbs about half of it back through the process of respiration to grow. Further oxygen is used up by the forest's soil, animals and microbes.\n\nThe fires are also emitting carbon monoxide - a gas released when wood is burned and does not have much access to oxygen.\n\n9) Will the smoke from these fires have an effect on global weather in future months? - David\n\nProf Malhi says the immediate effect of the fires will be on the climate of South America. Reduced rain fall is likely, leading to a more intensive dry season.\n\n\"The carbon emission could contribute to global warming,\" he adds, but the longer term global impact is \"more difficult to pin down\".\n\nIn the long-term, scientists have told the BBC the fires could make the Paris climate target more difficult to achieve. The global treaty aims to limit average temperature rise to well below two degrees Celsius to avoid dangerous climate change.\n\n10) How are these fires affecting the indigenous people? - Samantha\n\nIn just one week in mid-August, 68 fires were registered in indigenous territories and conservation areas, the majority in the Amazon, according to Jonathan Mozower from Survival International, which campaigns for indigenous rights.\n\n\"It's hard to overstate the importance of these forests for indigenous peoples,\" he says. \"They depend on them for food, medicines, clothing and a sense of identity and belonging.\n\nBut the incentives to steal these resources are high and \"sadly it's not a question of one or two rogue actors\", Mr Mazower says. He says this could be the \"worst moment for the indigenous people of the Amazon\" since the military dictatorship, which ended in the 1980s.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Members of Brazil's indigenous Mura tribe vow to defend their land\n\nThis article initially stated there was a record number of fires in Brazil this year. After more satellite data was made accessible, it has been updated to reflect the fact the fires are instead the worst since 2010.\n• None Amazon fires: How bad have they got?", "Mr Johnson will meet Mr Trump for one-on-one talks on Sunday\n\nThe UK will not \"retreat\" from the international community as it leaves the EU, Boris Johnson has said.\n\nThe prime minister was speaking ahead of this weekend's G7 in France, his first international summit as leader.\n\nThere Mr Johnson will discuss his plans for Brexit with European Council President Donald Tusk and hold trade talks with US President Donald Trump.\n\nOn Friday, he and Mr Trump spoke by phone and discussed \"foreign policy issues and global trade\".\n\nThe G7 meeting in Biarritz - a get together of most of the leaders of the world's largest economies - comes with just over two months until the UK is scheduled to leave the EU on 31 October.\n\nMr Johnson will meet Mr Tusk on Sunday in their first face-to-face meeting and spell out his absolute commitment to getting the UK out of the EU by that date.\n\nAhead of the summit he insisted the UK would be an \"energetic partner\" on the world stage after Brexit.\n\nMr Johnson said: \"Some people question the democratic decision this country has made, fearing that we will retreat from the world. Some think Britain's best days are behind us.\n\n\"To those people I say: you are gravely mistaken.\"\n\nHis comments come after French President Emmanuel Macron suggested a post-Brexit trade deal with the US could see Britain as a \"junior partner\" in a position of \"historic vassalisation\".\n\nMr Trump, who has consistently praised Mr Johnson, has predicted a speedy US-UK trade deal after Brexit.\n\nBut the British side is adamant it wants to secure the right deal rather than a quick agreement.\n\nIn any future trade deal, the UK wants protections for the NHS and animal welfare standards, but also wants to cover issues such as opening up agricultural markets, services and public procurement.\n\nA UK government spokesman said: \"Of course we want to move quickly, but we want to get the right deal that works for both sides.\"\n\nA No 10 spokesman said Mr Johnson and Mr Trump \"looked forward to speaking further\" during one-on-one talks on the sidelines of the summit on Sunday morning.\n\nMr Johnson met with Mr Macron at the Elysee Presidential Palace this week\n\nThe G7 summit follows a hectic week of diplomacy for Mr Johnson, who visited Paris and Berlin in an effort to persuade the EU to amend the withdrawal agreement it reached with his predecessor Theresa May.\n\nThe prime minister wants to renegotiate the Irish backstop - a key Brexit sticking point which is part of the agreement and aims to prevent a hard border on the island of Ireland after Brexit. The EU has consistently ruled this out.\n\nIf implemented, the backstop would see Northern Ireland staying aligned to some rules of the EU single market, should the UK and the EU not agree a trade deal after Brexit.\n\nMr Johnson previously said that would mean \"signing away\" the UK's \"economic independence\".\n\nAt a news conference on Wednesday with Mr Johnson, German Chancellor Angela Merkel suggested an alternative to the backstop might be achievable, adding that the onus was on the UK to find a workable plan.\n\nBut the next day Mr Macron said it was \"indispensable\" to preserving political stability and the single market.\n\nAfter visiting his counterparts, Mr Johnson said there was \"new mood music\", but reaching a new deal would not be \"a cinch\".\n\nHe has insisted the UK will leave the EU by the end of October, whether or not a new deal is reached.\n\nMeanwhile, Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn accused the prime minister of putting the UK at \"the mercy\" of a US administration that \"threatens peace, prosperity and the future of our planet\".\n\nHe also accused G7 governments of being key drivers of global inequality and called for them to do more to tackle climate change and reduce inequality.\n\n\"The UK should use its position in the G7, on the UN Security Council and the international financial institutions to promote policies to tackle the climate emergency and that are proven to reduce inequality and improve lives around the world, including universal healthcare, education and social security,\" he said.\n\n\"Instead, this weekend we'll see the ugly spectacle of our prime minister pursuing his Trump-first policy, putting us at the mercy of a US administration that threatens peace, prosperity and the future of our planet.\"\n\nThe G7 summit, which comprises the UK, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan and the United States, runs from Saturday to Monday.\n\nIssues on the agenda include the global economy, tackling inequality and responding to the challenges of the digital age and the rise of artificial intelligence.\n\nOn Friday, Mr Macron - who is hosting the summit - and Mrs Merkel said the ongoing fires in Brazil's Amazon rainforest must be discussed among the G7 leaders this weekend.", "Thousand of Ryanair flights were cancelled or delayed due to strikes last summer\n\nRyanair has come bottom in an annual Which? survey rating the customer services of 100 popular UK brands.\n\nThe budget airline achieved a customer satisfaction score of only 45% for 2019. It is the sixth year in a row that Ryanair has come last.\n\nGiven a choice of 50 terms to describe the airline, many respondents picked \"greedy\", \"sneaky\" and \"arrogant\".\n\nIt comes as Ryanair pilots in the UK strike for a second day over pay and conditions.\n\nThe BBC has contacted the airline for comment.\n\nThe Which? survey asked around 4,000 members of the public to rate the customer services at up to three of 100 well-known brands.\n\nThis included how the companies made them feel, how helpful and knowledgeable their staff were, and how well they handled complaints.\n\nAfter Ryanair the worst performers included Scottish Power, BT, TalkTalk and Virgin Media.\n\nWords used to describe Scottish Power included \"arrogant\", while respondents said that BT's staff were \"aloof\" and that Virgin Media was \"greedy\".\n\nOther airlines did badly too, with British Airways coming 83rd on the list and EasyJet ranked 79th.\n\nMarks and Spencer, which came second in the survey, was described as having \"well-mannered\" staff\n\nMeanwhile, telephone and online bank First Direct came top, followed by kitchenware retailer Lakeland, supermarket chains Marks & Spencer and Waitrose, and book retailer Waterstones.\n\n\"It's those firms that have gone out of their way to prioritise customer service as a key part of their business that have topped the survey,\" said Harry Rose, editor of Which? magazine.\n\nHe told the BBC that retailers had done particularly well, while service providers such as energy and telecoms companies had struggled.\n\n\"There's a bit of complacency in some of these companies,\" Mr Rose said. \"Customers should hold them to higher standards, they shouldn't put up with it.\"\n\nRyanair's poor customer service rating comes as its UK pilots stage a 48-hour walkout this week over pay and conditions.\n\nPassengers had been braced for disruption, but the carrier said 97% of flights took off as normal on Thursday, the first strike action day.\n\nAnother 48-hour walkout is planned by the British Airline Pilots Association union in early September to coincide with the end of the summer holidays.\n\nStrikes at Ryanair caused thousands of flights to be cancelled or delayed last summer, angering passengers.\n\nThe airline has so far not compensated customers, saying the strikes amounted to \"extraordinary circumstances\".\n\nBut in December the Civil Aviation Authority launched legal action against the airline, saying this breached EU law.\n\nMr Rose said: \"Ryanair has never done well in these surveys, but they've been struggling particularly in the last 18 months with the staff strikes and flight cancellations, so the ill-feeling has only intensified.\"", "Amitpal Singh Bajaj and his wife Bandhna had been staying at the five-star Centara Grand Hotel\n\nA British man died in a fight at a Thai hotel after telling another guest to keep the noise down as his wife and son tried to sleep, his family said.\n\nAmitpal Singh Bajaj, 34, from London, complained about noise from the next room at the five-star Centara Grand Hotel in Phuket.\n\nHis family claims a man forced his way into their room via the balcony early on Wednesday and strangled Mr Bajaj.\n\nHis wife said her husband \"sacrificed his life\" to save her and their son.\n\nThe Foreign Office confirmed it was assisting a family in the area.\n\nIn a statement Mr Bajaj's wife Bandhna Kaur Bajaj said: \"My husband sacrificed his life to save my son's life and mine. He will always be our hero.\"\n\nMrs Bajaj, also 34, told how the attacker \"barged\" into their room naked and \"just started charging at my husband\".\n\n\"My husband tried to block the man and move me and my son away. As the man was kicking, punching and just, beating him up, my husband told me to please leave and save our son,\" she said.\n\nMrs Bajaj, from Southall, said she grabbed the couple's two-year-old son Veer Singh and fled the hotel room to look for help.\n\nShe ran down a staircase and hid under a tree with her son in her arms while calling the reception from her mobile to tell them what had happened.\n\nShe said: \"I asked the reception to please make sure someone attends to my husband - 'please give him some medical help, I'm very scared, I've escaped'.\n\n\"I could still hear [the attacker] screaming. I didn't want to be attacked.\"\n\nAn ambulance and police then arrived at the hotel, in the Karon part of the city, and took Mr Amitpal to Patong Hospital where he was confirmed dead.\n\nThe Norwegian Foreign Ministry confirmed that a Norwegian citizen has been arrested in Thailand and is being provided consular assistance.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Guto Aaron believes exams should change to better reflect how children live their lives\n\nPaper and pens should be things of the past in school exams to reflect \"the world we live in\", according to a teacher who helps others with technology.\n\nGuto Aaron said handwritten tests go against how pupils now revise, learn and live their lives.\n\nThe Welsh exam board WJEC is \"committed to expanding our digital assessment offering\", a spokesman said.\n\nA consultation also takes place later this year on how exams work.\n\n\"We will have to move with this in future,\" said Mr Aaron, who is also a technology teacher at Ysgol Bro Sannan in Bargoed, Caerphilly county.\n\n\"It's not going to be an easy task or something that can be done next year, but it's fair to ask now why we are asking children to sit down for three hours with a pen and paper when it's something we would never do in our professional lives,\" he told Post Cyntaf on BBC Radio Cymru.\n\n\"Why are we expecting anything different from the pupils?\"\n\nHowever, there are potential pitfalls in going digital - in May, the WJEC exam board had to apologise after a \"technical issue\" affected pupils taking a GCSE computer science exam.\n\nIt is unclear how many schools were affected, but people in the Vale of Glamorgan, Cardiff, Pembrokeshire and Rhondda Cynon Taff raised issues.\n\nMr Aaron acknowledged technology has its problems and it would be \"a long process\" before exams are fully digital.\n\nPupils now spend much of their time using computers in class\n\n\"When we tested something similar in primary schools last year, it went quite well but I'm sure all schools will tell you they had their difficulties,\" Mr Aaron added.\n\n\"I know of one primary school where a child took a test but they didn't get the results because the system had lost the answers.\n\n\"If that happened with GCSE exams, what on earth would you do?\"\n\nHe said any system would need to be created with \"plenty of failsafes\", to cover problems such as the school wi-fi going down or a power cut during the exam.\n\nBut he added: \"Does it have to happen?\n\n\"Yes. The way the world is going, and although writing is important, we need to at least give children the choice.\"\n\nPupils from Ysgol Gyfun Gymraeg Plasmawr in Cardiff were born into the digital world and use different devices to study.\n\nGwion said: \"I think things should change because technology has come so far to make our lives easier, but education is behind with this.\n\n\"We've still got to take the exams using a pen and paper and we don't use computers where we could.\"\n\nBut Isabella said: \"Everyone knows how to write, and in my opinion, it's easier to write everything out.\n\n\"If I was to type in the exams, I'd overthink things and go back on it and that takes a lot of time, and we really don't have a lot of time.\"\n\nExam regulator Qualifications Wales' chief executive Philip Blaker said it would consult later this year on now things need to change to support the Welsh Government's new curriculum.\n\nHe added: \"We want exams to make optimal use of technology to better engage with learners, and will be looking at how the qualifications system might shift towards better use of digital testing in future.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Jared O'Mara has been an independent MP since resigning from Labour in 2018\n\nMP Jared O'Mara has been arrested on suspicion of fraud, according to multiple sources.\n\nThe independent MP for Sheffield Hallam was arrested at the same time as his chief of staff Gareth Arnold, the BBC's Next Episode Podcast found.\n\nElectronic equipment was confiscated in the South Yorkshire Police inquiry, the BBC also understands.\n\nMr O'Mara did not respond to requests for comment while Mr Arnold said he had \"no comment\".\n\nBoth have been released under investigation.\n\nSouth Yorkshire Police would not confirm details of either man's arrest.\n\nThe Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority said it was a \"matter for the police\".\n\nMr O'Mara said he was \"taking time out for mental health treatment\" in July and promised to resign at the end of summer recess after allegations of sexual misconduct towards staff.\n\nConstituents have complained that case work has not been dealt with in the MP's absence, allegations Mr Arnold denies.\n\nResponding to the latest news, Sinead Parkinson, a member of the Hallam Constituents Facebook group, told the BBC: \"We are pleased that an investigation is under way but we are still a constituency unrepresented and action needs to be taken to correct that.\"\n\nDuring its investigation, the BBC uncovered staff running the MP's office without the proper security clearance required by Parliamentary authorities.\n\nAfter the investigation was published, the constituency office was closed and staff formally given four weeks' notice.\n\nThe Treasury confirmed Mr O'Mara had, in recent weeks, given formal notice of his intent to resign in September.\n\nWhen the BBC has visited the constituency offices, on a number of occasions, they were found to be empty.\n\nYou can listen to The BBC's Next Episode Podcast on BBC Sounds here.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Jay Powell or Xi Jinping: Which chairman is Trump's enemy?\n\nPresident Donald Trump says he has \"hereby ordered\" American companies to leave China, after Beijing announced plans to slap new tariffs on US goods.\n\nThe White House did not immediately say what authority the president had to compel private firms to quit a country.\n\nPresident Trump announced a 5% increase on tariffs on Chinese imports, after China unveiled plans for duties of 10% on $75bn (£61bn) of US goods.\n\nThe latest salvos in the trade war sent global financial markets tumbling.\n\nThe Dow Jones Industrial Average lost more than 620 points, or 2.4%, while London's FTSE 100 and the German DAX also turned negative.\n\n\"In the spirit of achieving Fair Trade, we must Balance this very unfair Trading Relationship,\" President Trump tweeted.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\n\"Our great American companies are hereby ordered to immediately start looking for an alternative to China,\" Mr Trump tweeted earlier on Friday.\n\nChina's new tariffs will range between 5% and 10% and apply to more than 5,000 goods coming from the US.\n\nAgricultural goods, crude oil and small aircraft are among the targeted items.\n\nMr Trump hit back, tweeting that $250bn of Chinese imports, currently taxed at 25%, would from now on be taxed at 30%.\n\nBeijing also said it would revive a 25% tariff on US car imports that it lifted earlier in 2019 in a goodwill gesture as the two countries tried to negotiate a trade agreement.\n\nCarmakers warned that the tax would put US jobs at risk.\n\n\"When these tariffs were initially imposed by China in 2017, American exports of finished vehicles dropped by 50%,\" said John Bozzella, who represents car manufacturers. \"We can't let that happen to American workers again.\"\n\nOn 1 August, President Trump unveiled a further 10% tariff on $300bn of Chinese goods, blaming China for not following through on promises to buy more American agricultural products.\n\nThat tariff was expected to be introduced on 1 September, but less than two weeks later Mr Trump delayed that date to 15 December, partly due to concerns it might hit Christmas shoppers.\n\nChina said it planned to impose its new tariffs in two stages on 1 September and 15 December.\n\nMr Trump also turned his fire on Friday against the head of the US central bank after he spoke out about the economic risks of a trade war with China.\n\nThe president questioned whether Federal Reserve chairman Jerome Powell was a greater \"enemy\" than China's leader Xi Jinping.\n\nAt a symposium of central bankers in Jackson Hole, Wyoming, on Friday Mr Powell warned that trade tensions were hitting the global economy.\n\nHe also said the Fed - the world's most powerful central bank - didn't have a \"rulebook\" to deal with the fallout.\n\nDonald Trump said the US economy was \"strong and good\"\n\nThe White House moved to play down the new tariffs. President Trump's trade adviser, Peter Navarro, told CNN that the Chinese duties were \"well signalled,\" adding: \"This isn't breaking news.\"\n\nHe said that talks between the two countries were on schedule and argued that the tariffs were not hurting Americans. \"Consumers aren't feeling the pain [of the trade war] and we are focused on making sure they [China] feel the pain not us.\"\n\nHe added that the economic slowdown was the fault of the US Federal Reserve, which has drawn criticism from Mr Trump for not making bigger cuts in interest rates.\n\nMr Navarro said the central bank should lower the benchmark interest rate further to stimulate growth.\n\nUS bond markets have recently sent warning signals of an impending recession. However, equities are trading at near record highs and employment is at its highest level in almost 50 years.\n\nMr Trump also said on Twitter on Friday that the economy was \"strong and good\", while \"the rest of the world is not doing so well\".\n\nStock markets in the US fell following news of China's tariffs, but then recovered, only to fall again in response to Mr Trump's tweets.\n\nThe Dow Jones Industrial Average closed down 2.4% at 25,629. The S&P 500 dropped 2.6% while the Nasdaq was 3% lower.", "The boy died at Center Parcs in Wiltshire at the weekend\n\nA boy has died after becoming ill at a Center Parcs resort.\n\nHe is reported to have collapsed by the side of a swimming pool at the holiday chain's \"village\" in Longleat, Wiltshire.\n\nThe boy's mother was heard \"screaming\" for her son to wake up amid desperate attempts to revive him, according to one eyewitness.\n\nEmergency services were called to the park on Saturday afternoon but were unable to resuscitate the boy.\n\nA spokesperson for Center Parcs said it was \"deeply saddened by the tragic news\" and its thoughts were with the family \"at this extremely difficult time\".\n\n\"Our team responded professionally and appropriately in very challenging circumstances,\" she said.\n\n\"They provided CPR, with the assistance of medically-trained members of the public, until paramedics arrived and screened the area from view while the boy was being treated.\"\n\nHe is reported to have collapsed by the side of a swimming pool\n\nThe witness, who did not wish to be named, said a group of about 20 people were at the scene when the boy fell ill.\n\nShe said she saw a member of the public administering CPR before ambulance crews arrived.\n\nSouth Western Ambulance Service (SWAS) said paramedics were called at about 15:40 BST and attended with two rapid response vehicles, an ambulance and an air ambulance.\n\nCenter Parcs Longleat Forest takes up a 400-acre site of the Longleat estate.\n\nThe park opened in 1994 and in 2017 opened its new Tropical Cyclone and Typhoon water rides.\n\nA Health and Safety Executive spokeswoman said it would not be investigating the circumstances of the death.\n\nWiltshire Police said it did not attend the scene.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Irradiated victims of a Russian weapons test were taken to civilian hospitals (archive pic)\n\nRussian medics who treated radiation victims after a military explosion in the Arctic had no protection and now fear they were irradiated themselves.\n\nTwo of the medics in Arkhangelsk spoke to BBC Russian about the victims' evacuation, on condition of anonymity.\n\nFive nuclear engineers died on 8 August when an \"isotope-fuel\" engine blew up at the Nyonoksa test range, officials said. Two military personnel also died.\n\nPresident Vladimir Putin said the test involved a new weapon system.\n\nSix people were injured in the accident, but officials gave few details about it.\n\nOn 14 August Russia's weather service Rosgidromet revealed that radiation levels had spiked 16 times above normal, in Severodvinsk, a city 47km (29 miles) east of Nyonoksa.\n\nAccording to the official data, the radiation that reached Severodvinsk was not heavy enough to cause radiation sickness.\n\nExperts in Russia and the West say the test was most likely linked to the new 9M730 Burevestnik nuclear-powered cruise missile, called \"Skyfall\" by Nato. Last year Mr Putin said the technology would give the missile \"unlimited\" range.\n\nThe Arkhangelsk medics, who spoke to the BBC's Pavel Aksenov, said at least 90 people came into contact with the casualties, but the military did not warn them of any nuclear contamination risk.\n\nThe medics were at the civilian Arkhangelsk regional hospital, which treated three of the injured, while three other casualties were taken to an Arkhangelsk hospital called Semashko, which is equipped for radiation emergencies.\n\nThree radiation victims were brought to the Arkhangelsk regional hospital\n\nThe medics said they were speaking out now because they feared for their own health and did not want any similar \"[safety] violations\" to recur.\n\n\"We don't want them to bring us next time not three, but ten people, God forbid, and hide the information from us again,\" said one.\n\nThe degree of secrecy surrounding the explosion has drawn comparisons with the 1986 Chernobyl disaster, when Soviet officials were slow to admit the truth.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. President Putin says a new cruise missile will have 'unlimited' range\n\nThe Arkhangelsk medics said it was clear that the three brought to their regional hospital were very sick. Doctors examined them in the emergency room, then sent them to an operating theatre.\n\nBut the emergency room continued to admit other patients for about an hour, the medics said, until the doctors realised that the three \"had received a very high radiation dose\". The hospital handles pregnancy complications and other difficult medical conditions.\n\n\"The radiation picture was developing by the hour. Blood tests were being done, and every hour you could see that this or that cell count was plunging. That signified a very high radiation dose,\" they said.\n\nThe hospital staff kept treating the victims despite knowing about the radiation dose. The staff had to improvise some self-protection - for example, they took face masks from the helicopter crews' emergency kit.\n\nThe next day the three victims were transferred to a hospital in Moscow which has radiation specialists. Their condition now is unknown.\n\nA military team later carried out decontamination work in the Arkhangelsk hospital.\n\nThe medics said the casualties' clothing was removed, along with stretchers and a \"highly radioactive bath\".\n\n\"Our cleaners should have been advised, they're just simple country folk, they were just picking up sacks and bundles and carrying them out,\" said one.\n\nThe other medic said hospital staff were now mentally stressed, knowing that radiation safety information had been withheld from them during the emergency.\n\nTwo weeks after the explosion the Russian health ministry said none of the medics at the Arkhangelsk hospitals had received a hazardous radiation dose. Its conclusion was based on medical examination of 91 staff.\n\nOne of Russia's radiation monitoring units, in Peleduy (Dec 2007 pic)\n\nOn Monday an international nuclear agency reported that the two Russian radiation monitoring stations nearest to Nyonoksa had gone offline soon after the explosion. The revelation fuelled suspicions that the radiation could have been heavier than officially reported.\n\nThe Comprehensive Nuclear Test-Ban Treaty Organization (CTBTO) said the technical failure at those sites was then followed by a failure at two more. It tweeted an animation showing the potential radiation plume from the explosion.\n\nRussia said the weapons test was none of the CTBTO's business, and added that handing over radiation data was voluntary. Two of the monitoring stations have since started working again.\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.", "Flybe said it was \"delighted\" to have the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge on board\n\nThe Duke and Duchess of Cambridge have taken a budget airline flight from Norwich to Scotland.\n\nThe royal couple and their children took the Flybe jet from Norwich Airport to Aberdeen on Thursday morning.\n\nIt comes a week after the Duke and Duchess of Sussex were criticised in some circles for using private jets.\n\nBudget airline Flybe confirmed Prince William, Catherine and their children were on board Thursday's flight.\n\nTickets from Norwich to Aberdeen cost from £73.05 per person, according to Flybe's website.\n\nA Flybe spokeswoman said: \"We were delighted to welcome the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge and their family on board one of our flights again, this time when they flew from Norwich to Aberdeen on a Flybe flight operated by Eastern Airways.\"\n\nEarlier this week Sir Elton John waded into the debate about Prince Harry, Meghan and their son Archie taking his private jet to visit his home in Nice, in the south of France, saying: \"We ensured their flight was carbon neutral, by making the appropriate contribution to Carbon Footprint.\"\n\nThe royal couple had faced criticism after newspapers claimed they took four private jet journeys in 11 days.\n\nDefending the right of members of the Royal Family to take private planes, one person wrote on Twitter: \"They can't be expected to travel Flybe...\"\n\nPrince William and Catherine took Thursday morning's Flybe flight to visit the Queen and Prince Philip at Balmoral, the Daily Mail first reported.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The device was believed to have been found by a guest at Whitecliff Bay who thought it was a fossil\n\nAn old hand grenade found in a holiday resort has been retrieved by a Royal Navy bomb disposal team.\n\nA guest staying at the park on the Isle of Wight found the device on a beach and carried it back to their caravan, thinking it was a fossil, local media reported.\n\nAway Resorts Management, which runs a centre at Bembridge, Whitecliff Bay, said the device was discovered at about 23:30 BST on Thursday.\n\nGuests were evacuated from the area.\n• None Woman 'kicked grenade then took it home'\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Last updated on .From the section Bury\n\nBury are waiting to hear if a last-ditch offer to buy the League One club will save them from being expelled from the English Football League.\n\nOwner Steve Dale told BBC Radio Manchester he had agreed a deal with analytics company C&N Sporting Risk, led by Henry Newman and Rory Campbell.\n\nThe EFL said it had been notified of an offer being accepted by Dale.\n\nBury had been given until 23:59 BST on Friday to prove their financial viability.\n\nThe EFL is now considering an extension to the deadline.\n\n\"We are currently in discussions with the potential purchaser and await information to allow the board to consider a request for an extension to Friday's deadline,\" said an EFL spokesperson.\n\nBury needed to show they could pay off creditors and had funding to complete the season, or risk expulsion from the EFL.\n\nThe EFL's previous update, issued at 17:00 BST on Friday, said \"limited progress\" had been made by Dale in either providing the evidence they required or finding a new owner, but it would \"keep working to find a resolution\".\n\n'Bury ought to have a viable long-term future'\n\nIn a statement given to PA Media, Newman and Campbell said: \"We can confirm that over the past 10 weeks we have been in discussions with Bury FC, the EFL and others with a view to putting forward a proposal to buy the club.\n\n\"It is a very complicated scenario and there remain a number of outstanding legal and other issues that have to be addressed.\n\n\"Our background is in football and data analytics and it should therefore not be surprising that we are taking a very detailed forensic look at the realities of Bury FC's finances.\n\n\"A club like Bury ought to have a viable long-term future even if the short-term future is clearly very challenging. To that end we have been in discussions with the EFL about an extension so that we can continue to explore the prospects for a purchase.\"\n\nDale told the BBC earlier on Friday that he had found a \"prospective buyer\" who was \"waiting for the EFL to come back to him on a few points\".\n\nHe carried out numerous media interviews throughout the day and had earlier asked members of the public to pledge money to help \"save a football club\".\n\nEFL chief executive Debbie Jevans said earlier this week that a short extension to the deadline may be granted if a buyer could be found.\n\nAnd Bury North MP James Frith, who had earlier claimed a bidder he had been liaising with was going to submit the relevant documentation to the EFL on Friday, said Dale's announcement was a \"massive step forward\".\n\nHe told BBC Radio 5 Live: \"This is not over the line fully, there are a lot of questions to be answered about the complexity of the financial situation, but it is their (Newman and Campbell) bid that Dale is referencing.\n\n\"I don't think the EFL have any reason now not to extend the deadline.\n\n\"It is a time to breathe a sigh of relief, but it's not 100% due diligence watertight.\"\n\nThe Shakers have had their first five league games of the season suspended by the EFL and they were also withdrawn from the Carabao Cup.\n\nNo club has been removed from the EFL since Maidstone were liquidated in 1992.", "When asked what she had been up to to get her new uniform in such a \"state\", Lucie, five, said: \"Nothing much\"\n\nBefore-and-after photos of a five-year-old's first day back at school have been shared thousands of times online after her mother posted the \"really funny\" images on Facebook.\n\nLucie, from East Renfrewshire, \"likes to be clean\" and looked immaculate before she left home, mother Jill said.\n\nBut by the end of a day of playing with her friends, her clothes were \"a mess\".\n\nThe photos were liked more than 10,000 times after Jill agreed to let a local newspaper put them on their page.\n\n\"She absolutely loves school and this was her first day in P2 so she absolutely loved having her new things on,\" Jill said.\n\nWhen Jill saw the \"state\" of her daughter on Monday afternoon, she asked what Lucie had been up to.\n\n\"Nothing much,\" Lucie said.\n\n\"The wonders of primary two,\" Jill said. \"The teachers are really good, they do a lot of active learning and things with them - so I take it it was down to that.\"\n\n\"She'd obviously had a really fun day,\" she added.\n\nJill said she often likes to take pictures \"off-cue\" because they are less \"posed\".\n\n\"I knew if I'd asked her for a picture, she would have said no, because of the mess of her. She likes to be clean and things,\" she added.\n\nHarper, four, also looked slightly less tidy by the end of her first day at school\n\nJill, a mother of three, sent Lucie's father the photo after he asked how her first day back had been.\n\n\"He thought it was really funny so we shared it with friends and family on our Facebook,\" Jill said.\n\nAfter that, they sent the photos to Barrhead News, which said the images were its \"favourite\" set of back-to-school pictures.\n\n\"I don't think they quite anticipated how it would spread,\" Jill said.\n\nShe said Lucie has \"taken it in her stride\" and has been telling everyone \"Oh, I'm famous\".\n\n\"I think she's still just a bit too young to understand,\" Jill added.\n\nLots of parents responded to the post with their own before-and-after photos.\n\nLaura's four-year-old daughter Harper was \"so excited\" for her first day at school near their home in Broxburn - and looked a little worse for wear by home time.\n\n\"I said to her, 'your shoes are on the wrong feet,' and she said: 'But I had a great day today mummy,'\" said Laura.", "Eddie Stobart has suspended trading in its shares and announced that its chief executive will stand down with immediate effect, as the firm looks into accounting discrepancies.\n\nThe firm also warned its results for the first half of 2019 would be \"significantly lower\" than forecast.\n\nThe transport company, known for its green and red lorries, revealed a £2m error in its 2018 results last month.\n\nThe review is being undertaken by chief financial officer, Anoop Kang, who joined in April, alongside auditors PwC. It found that in 2018 operating profits were overstated by about 4%.\n\nPublication of the firm's results for the six months to 31 May has also been delayed, They were due to be released on 29 August, but are now expected in early September.\n\nThe firm warned that profits for that six-month period were likely to be revised down from recent projections, and that it is \"applying a more prudent approach to revenue recognition\". The group's dividend policy would also be reviewed, it said.\n\nIn December last year, Eddie Stobart announced that PwC had been appointed as its auditor, replacing KPMG.\n\nKPMG resigned from the role, stating in a letter that there had been a \"breakdown\" in the relationship between the firms, and citing \"difficulties in obtaining sufficient appropriate audit evidence,\" although that information was \"ultimately obtained\". Eddie Stobart have declined to comment on the letter.\n\nOutgoing chief executive Alex Laffey, who spent four years at Eddie Stobart, will be replaced by Sebastien Desreumaux.\n\nMr Desreumaux, formerly head of the group's retail delivery arm iForce, joined the company in July 2018.\n\nThe accounting revisions are likely to add to pressure on high-profile investment manager Neil Woodford, who is the largest shareholder in Eddie Stobart, with a 22.9% stake.\n\nIn June this year, Mr Woodford suspended trading in his largest fund after rising numbers of investors asked for their money back.\n\nEddie Stobart shares, listed on the Alternative Investment Market (AIM), a less regulated alternative to the main FTSE exchanges, have nearly halved over the past year.\n\nFounded by Edward Stobart in 1970, the firm operates 2,700 vehicles and 43 logistical hubs in the UK and Europe, and employs around 6,600 people, according to its website.\n\nIts distinctive lorries are a mainstay on British motorways, while its merchandise spin-off offers a wide range of branded goods including model trucks, teddy bears, watches and wrapping paper.\n• None How did Eddie Stobart become so famous?", "Lizzie said one man \"moved his hand, quite forcefully, up my skirt\"\n\nWomen working on shows at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe have reported facing sexual harassment on a daily basis while out promoting their performances, the BBC has been told.\n\nSome reported being groped, while others said lewd comments had left them feeling vulnerable.\n\nThe actors' union Equity said it was receiving reports of \"more and more\" incidents each year.\n\nPolice Scotland said it had not received any reports of harassment.\n\nIt said it had an increased police presence.\n\nIt is estimated that more than 30,000 male and female artists perform at the Fringe each year, across 3,500 shows.\n\nLizzie - whose surname we are not using - said that the sexual harassment she received made her alter her behaviour to try to avoid unwanted attention, while continuing to promote her show.\n\nShe told the Victoria Derbyshire programme that while handing out flyers, one man \"pretended to brush something off my thigh and then moved his hand, quite forcefully, up my skirt\".\n\nShe said on another occasion she was \"cornered\" by three men, who appeared to be twice her age, who said they would \"only buy a ticket or take a flyer in exchange for my phone number\".\n\nOn other occasions, men would make comments about her appearance or \"invade\" her personal space \"so their grope could go unnoticed\", she added.\n\nLizzie said she wished handing out flyers was not necessary, but that it was by far the most effective means of selling tickets for lesser-known productions.\n\nFi said she felt under pressure to \"laugh off\" harassment\n\nMost of the abuse is thought to take place on the Royal Mile - a busy street at the heart of the city.\n\nFi said she had felt under pressure to \"laugh off\" any harassment she endured, such as having her bottom pinched, because she was \"trying to get customers\".\n\nAnd one woman, who did not wish to be named, said that while handing out flyers: \"A man stopped me on the street and started staring at me. When I asked him if he wanted a flyer he said, 'no, I just want to stare at you'.\"\n\nAnother woman said many like her felt pressured into putting up with the unacceptable behaviour of show reviewers - who can make a great difference in getting more people to watch their performances.\n\nShe said: \"One reviewer would come up to me while I was flyering every day, being overly complimentary and holding a review over my head for the whole run of the Fringe.\n\n\"He made me feel really uncomfortable.\"\n\nPerformers and showgoers flock to Edinburgh throughout August\n\nPolice Scotland said it had set up two mobile police stations for the duration of the month and had increased high-visibility patrols.\n\nIt added that it had not received any complaints regarding sexual harassment.\n\nThe actors' union, Equity, said many female performers had become accustomed to abuse - but it encouraged them to report all incidents to police.\n\nIts president, Maureen Beattie, said a \"slight level of hysteria\" at the Fringe \"seems to release this kind of underbelly of bad behaviour\".\n\n\"It is completely and utterly unacceptable.\n\n\"We are a workforce, and you must respect us,\" she added.\n\nMaureen Beattie said Equity had seen \"more and more\" reports of harassment each year\n\n\"Somebody recently had their bum grabbed, and that's supposed to be all right?\" she questioned. \"Would you do that to anyone else who was out on the street?\"\n\nEdinburgh Festival's Fringe Society, which supports the running of the month-long event, said: \"Everyone who is part of the Fringe - be they a performer, member of the crew, producer, audience member, critic and so on - has the right to feel safe and supported.\"\n\nIt added that it \"takes matters of this nature very seriously\" and urged those who experienced inappropriate behaviour to contact police.\n\nFollow the BBC's Victoria Derbyshire programme on Facebook and Twitter - and see more of our stories here.", "A daily pill containing four medicines can cut the number of heart attacks and strokes by a third, a study shows.\n\nThe polypill contains blood-thinning aspirin, a cholesterol-lowering statin and two drugs to lower blood pressure.\n\nThe researchers - in Iran and the UK - said the pill had a huge impact but cost just pennies a day.\n\nThey suggest giving it to everyone over a certain age in poorer countries, where doctors have fewer options and are less able to assess individuals.\n\nCoronary heart disease and stroke are the top two causes of death worldwide, killing more than 15 million people a year.\n\nSmoking, obesity and doing little exercise all increase the risk of an unhealthy heart.\n\nThe study, published in the Lancet, was based in more than 100 villages in Iran and about 6,800 people took part.\n\nHalf the people were given the polypill and advice on how to improve their lifestyle, with the other half just getting the advice.\n\nAfter five years there were:\n\nAt this rate, giving the preventative drug combination to 35 people would prevent one of them developing a serious heart problem over the course of five years.\n\n\"We've provided evidence in a developing or middle-income country - and that's a lot of countries - that this is a strategy worth considering,\" Professor Tom Marshall, from the University of Birmingham, told BBC News.\n\nThe polypill led to large reductions in bad cholesterol but had only a slight effect on blood pressure, the study showed.\n\nThe drug was given to people over the age of 50 whether they had had a previous heart problem or not.\n\nA third of Britons with high blood pressure were unaware they have the condition\n\n\"Given the polypill's affordability, there is considerable potential to improve cardiovascular health and to prevent the world's leading cause of death,\" said Dr Nizal Sarrafzadegan, of Isfahan University of Medical Sciences, Iran.\n\nThe idea of the polypill has been around since 2001 but this is the first major trial to prove its effectiveness.\n\nIn the UK and other wealthier countries doctors have the time to assess the needs of individual patients and a wide choice of different drugs, such as statins, to chose from.\n\n\"In the UK, the advantages would be more marginal and you would probably want a clinical trial to see any benefits over what is offered at the moment,\" said Prof Marshall.\n\nThe drug is also not licensed in the UK and would be tricky to get approved.\n\nThe British Heart Foundation said a third of Britons with high blood pressure were unaware they have the condition.\n\n\"This means that the biggest priority in the UK is to identify more people who do not realise they have high blood cholesterol or high blood pressure and to help people prescribed medications to take them as prescribed,\" the charity said.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. 'I saved his life on our first date'", "David Hughes has been given less than six months to live\n\nA British citizen has said he is stuck in Oman needing life-saving medical treatment because the British embassy has failed to help repatriate him.\n\nDavid Hughes had been working in the country when his passport was confiscated by police in 2017 after a car crash.\n\nHe now has end-stage liver disease and requires a transplant but cannot return home without UK intervention.\n\nThe Foreign Office said it was \"offering advice and support\".\n\nMr Hughes travelled to Oman in 2016 to work as a project director on the construction of an airport.\n\nBut in 2017 he was a passenger in a car involved in a collision and had to be cut out of the vehicle.\n\nAfter this, his passport was confiscated, despite no charges being brought against him.\n\n\"I was interviewed by an officer who barely spoke English,\" Mr Hughes told the BBC's Victoria Derbyshire programme.\n\n\"He then wrote up my statement in Arabic and wanted me to sign it. I can't read Arabic, so I refused.\n\n\"He then gave me two options - hand over my passport, or go to prison, so I handed over my passport and I haven't had it back since.\"\n\nMr Hughes was a passenger in the car\n\nMr Hughes was given documentation that confirmed his passport was being held by police but told the programme the Omani authorities had now said they no longer had it.\n\nHe is currently in hospital in the country and - having been given only months to live - is desperate to return to the UK to be with his family and receive treatment.\n\nHe said he had made numerous attempts to contact the British embassy in Oman but had been repeatedly told it was an issue for the local authorities.\n\n\"The embassy knew about my situation, they were sympathetic but said they couldn't get involved,\" he said.\n\n\"I'm very shocked by their lack of care. I don't have much time left and they don't seem to realise the urgency.\"\n\nHe later learned his phone calls to the embassy had not been logged.\n\nDavid Hughes is currently in hospital in Oman\n\nIn August, Mr Hughes contacted the BBC, which in turn spoke to the Foreign Office - which has now begun offering him assistance.\n\nHe said Addenbrooke's Hospital, in Cambridge, had been made aware of his case by his son - but he was worried he would not receive the treatment he needed unless the UK helped repatriate him.\n\nThe Foreign Office said in a statement: \"Our staff are offering advice and support to a British man who has been hospitalised in Oman and are in contact with his family and the Omani authorities regarding his case.\n\n\"The British ambassador has raised his case with the Omani authorities.\"\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. Boris Johnson: \"This is not going to be easy.\"\n\nBoris Johnson has said it will not be \"a cinch\" to persuade the EU to change its Brexit deal with the UK.\n\nSpeaking in Devon, the prime minister said the government was \"making progress\", but would \"have to prepare to come out without an agreement\".\n\nMr Johnson wants to renegotiate the backstop - which aims to prevent a hard border on the island of Ireland after Brexit - but the EU has ruled this out.\n\nThe EU's chief Brexit negotiator said it will analyse \"realistic\" proposals.\n\nMr Johnson insists the backstop - part of the withdrawal agreement reached by his predecessor Theresa May and the EU, but not ratified by Parliament - must be ditched if a new deal with Brussels is to be reached before then.\n\nOn Wednesday, German Chancellor Angela Merkel said the onus was on the UK to find a workable alternative plan.\n\nDuring a visit to Torbay Hospital, Mr Johnson, who held talks in Berlin and Paris earlier this week, said: \"It was interesting that there a was a lot of new mood music... from our friends and partners.\"\n\nHe added: \"They can see that we want a deal. They can see the problems with the backstop.\"\n\nBut the prime minister also said: \"This is not going to be a cinch. This is not going to be easy. We will have to work very hard to get this done...\n\n\"I'm afraid we will have to prepare to come out without an agreement. We can do that. We are very confident.\"\n\nMichel Barnier said in a tweet that the withdrawal agreement was \"the best deal possible, based on UK red lines\".\n\nHe added: \"We are ready to analyse UK proposals that are realistic, operational & compatible with our principles. EU wants an orderly withdrawal but is ready for any outcome.\"\n\nThe message followed a meeting on Friday in The Hague with the Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte.\n\nIf implemented, the backstop would see Northern Ireland staying aligned to some of the EU's single market rules, if the UK and the EU do not agree a trade deal after Brexit.\n\nIt would also see the UK stay in a single customs territory with the EU, and align with current and future EU rules on competition and state aid.\n\nThese arrangements would apply until both the EU and UK agreed they were no longer necessary.\n\nMr Johnson argues that the backstop could leave the UK tied to the EU indefinitely, contrary to the result of the 2016 referendum, in which 52% of voters opted to leave.\n\nBut the EU has repeatedly said the withdrawal deal negotiated by Mrs May, including the backstop, cannot be renegotiated.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nSpeaking as he met Mr Johnson on Wednesday in Paris, French President Emmanuel Macron said he was \"very confident\" the UK and EU would be able to find a solution within 30 days - a timetable suggested by Mrs Merkel - \"if there is a good will on both sides\".\n\nBut, were any new agreement reached, it would not be \"very different from the existing one\", he added, given the timescale.\n\nLabour leader Jeremy Corbyn is meeting the Liberal Democrats, SNP, Change UK, Plaid Cymru and the Green Party next week to discuss ways of avoiding a no-deal Brexit.\n\nHe has proposed that MPs should help him defeat the government in a no-confidence motion and install him as a caretaker prime minister.\n\nIf he wins the vote, he plans to delay Brexit, call a snap election and campaign for another referendum.\n\nWhile on a visit to Swansea on Friday, Mr Corbyn said: \"We'll be discussing all the options. We will obviously discuss a legislation option [to prevent a no-deal Brexit] as well as a motion of no confidence.\n\n\"They're not mutually exclusive things to do. They are both possibilities and both things we'll be discussing.\"\n\nOn Saturday, Mr Johnson will attend the G7 summit in Biarritz, France, alongside other leaders including US President Donald Trump.\n\nEnter the word or phrase you are looking for", "Last updated on .From the section Bury\n\nBury Football Club's possible demise is \"absolutely disgraceful\", according to England women's manager Phil Neville.\n\nThe Shakers have not played a game this season and could be expelled from the English Football League on Friday unless owner Steve Dale can prove they have the funding to continue.\n\nBury-born Neville's mother Jill last week resigned as club secretary, while his late father Neville was a director.\n\n\"Common sense has to prevail,\" said ex-Manchester United defender Neville.\n\n\"One man cannot stop one football club, which has hundreds of years of history, going out of existence.\n\n\"It's probably the biggest day in their history. Today Bury, the town, might not have a football club. It's absolutely disgraceful.\"\n• None Deadline day for Bury: When will they learn their fate & what next?\n\nOwner Steve Dale said on Thursday there were four parties interested in buying the club, who have had six successive games suspended and have been withdrawn from the Carabao Cup.\n\nGreater Manchester mayor Andy Burnham this week wrote to English Football League chief executive Debbie Jevans asking for the Shakers to be granted more time \"given the urgency of Bury's plight\".\n\nHe also requested an urgent meeting with the EFL, the Football Association, Premier League, Professional Footballers' Association and \"other local stakeholders\" over the issue.\n\nMeanwhile, Shakers fans have staged numerous protests, with former director Joy Hart handcuffing herself to a drainpipe outside their Gigg Lane home and a coffin reading 'RIP Bury FC 1885-?' was placed at the directors' entrance.\n\nNeville, the brother of fellow former England defender Gary and England Netball coach Tracey, told Robbie Savage's Premier League Breakfast on BBC Radio 5 Live: \"I hope somebody is allowed to buy that club and the town has something to be proud of again.\n\n\"My mum worked for [Bury for] 30 years and my dad had a stand named after him.\n\n\"To consider they might not have a football club, for me it's so upsetting. My mum is devastated. She resigned on Friday because she couldn't work with the current ownership.\"\n\nFounded in 1885 and first elected to the EFL nine years later, Bury were playing in what is now known as the Championship as recently as 1999 and have twice won the FA Cup.\n\nFormer Shakers boss, and current Cardiff City manager, Neil Warnock said he was uneasy with the idea that Dale was able to buy the club from Stewart Day in December 2018 for just £1.\n\n\"I've never been a fan of anyone buying a club for a pound. There's so many things in the cupboard that you don't find out,\" he said.\n\n\"The EFL should have some sort of rigorous check when a club is sold for a pound.\"", "The injured were transported to hospitals in the nearby town of Zakopane\n\nAt least four people died and more than 100 were injured in lightning strikes during a thunderstorm in Poland, Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki says.\n\nThe worst bolt fell on a group of hikers at the summit of Giewont, a popular peak in the Tatra range in the south of the country.\n\nA fifth person was killed in neighbouring Slovakia. At least one of the victims was said to be a child.\n\nThe storm is said to have descended suddenly after a sunny morning.\n\n\"Nobody expected such a sudden storm to break out and from our human point of view it was something which was impossible to predict,\" Mr Morawiecki said an emergency meeting in the region.\n\nThere were reports of casualties in different parts of the mountain range. At least four rescue helicopters were sent to the area.\n\nThe worst incident occurred on Thursday at the top of the 1,894m (6,214ft) Giewont mountain, where a metal cross is sited.\n\nA lightning bolt is thought to have struck the 15m structure at a time when a large number of hikers were at the summit, and the current then travelled along a metal railing.\n\n\"We heard that after (the) lightning struck, people fell. The current then continued along the chains securing the ascent, striking everyone along the way. It looked bad,\" Polish mountain rescue service chief Jan Krzysztof told the country's PAP news agency.\n\nA resident in the mountain resort town of Zakopane in the Tatra region posted a video showing the thunderstorm.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Maciej Kleniewski 🇪🇺🇵🇱 This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nLocal radio in the city of Krakow posted video of a rescue helicopter on its way to Giewont.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript 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 Radio Kraków This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy 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. What causes thunder and lightning?", "Thousands of people held hands to form a human chain of peaceful protest against a suspended extradition bill.\n\nDemonstrators believe the bill could undermine Hong Kong's legal freedoms and might be used to intimidate or silence dissidents.\n\nThere have been nearly three months of pro-democracy protests.\n\nClashes between police and demonstrators have led to claims that some police have used brute force.", "Brazil's President Bolsonaro has responded to criticism about his previous comments, suggesting non-governmental organisations could be to blame for starting the fires in the Amazon.\n\nDuring his post on Facebook Live, he said that NGOs were \"the biggest suspects\" because of their lost funding, but still failed to offer any evidence to support his claim.\n\nThe president also suggested lack of funding was to blame for the crisis.\n\n\"There aren't the resources. The chaos has arrived\", he said.", "Dr Angelo Grubisic was taking part in a planned event in Saudi Arabia when he died\n\nA university lecturer and space scientist who worked to design safer wingsuits has died in a base jumping accident, his family has confirmed.\n\nDr Angelo Grubisic, 38, was taking part in a planned jump in Saudi Arabia on Tuesday when he was killed.\n\nThe astronautical engineer had led a wingsuit design team at the University of Southampton and was crowned a British wingsuit champion in July.\n\nIn a statement, his family described him as \"phenomenally talented\".\n\nThey added: \"Angelo lost his life doing what he loved the most, wingsuit base jumping, and we want to ensure his achievements and ambitions are known to the world and to celebrate the mark he made on all of our lives.\n\n\"Angelo captivated the hearts and minds of every single person who was privileged to meet and work with him.\n\n\"'The candle that burns twice as bright burns half as long' has never rung more true to the family and friends Angelo had across the world.\"\n\nDr Grubisic had performed base jumps around the world\n\nThe University of Southampton said: \"We are extremely saddened and shocked by the death of Angelo and our thoughts are with his family at this terrible time.\n\n\"Angelo made many pioneering contributions to the University's research into astronautics and was incredibly popular with his students and colleagues.\"\n\nIn 2015 Dr Grubisic set up the Icarus project at the university which was attempting to design a wingsuit to break world records while improving safety.\n\nHe had previously worked on spacecraft propulsion for both NASA and the European Space Agency, and was a consultant engineer for the European Space Agency's BepiColombo mission to Mercury in 2018.\n\nEarlier this year Dr Grubisic gave evidence at an inquest into the death of Rob Haggarty, who died in 2018 when he lost control during a wingsuit jump in Italy.\n\nIn a statement, the Foreign Office said: \"Our consular staff are supporting the family of a British man following his death in Saudi Arabia, and are in contact with the local authorities.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. A witness filmed smoke coming from a flat in the tower block in Notting Hill, with Grenfell tower seen in the foreground\n\nA fire broke out in a high-rise flat a short distance from the site of the Grenfell Tower disaster.\n\nTen fire engines and 70 firefighters were sent to the scene in Darfield Way, the London Fire Brigade said.\n\nThe fire on the 12th floor of Markland House was brought under control by 12:55 BST and no injuries have been reported. Its cause is not yet known.\n\nThe block of flats is under a mile from Grenfell Tower where seventy-two people died on 14 June 2017.\n\nAbout 70 firefighters were called to the tower block in Darfield Way, Notting Hill\n\nResident Dhin Chittenden said she cried as she ran down the steps from her flat on the 11th floor of the tower block.\n\nThe 26-year-old receptionist, who has lived in the building with her husband for a month, said she was already fearful about another Grenfell Tower-type tragedy before the fire broke out.\n\n\"I kept thinking about that. If it's happened somewhere else then it could happen again,\" she said.\n\nBilly Hunt, who had been sleeping after a night shift but was woken by the smell, said he did not feel safe living in the tower block.\n\nMr Hunt, who knocked on neighbours' doors on his way out to alert them to the blaze, said he heard no alarms, adding: \"They should be going off all over the place, especially after Grenfell.\"\n\nThe 57-year-old, who has lived in Markland House for 27 years, said someone told him the fire hose had only reached the fifth floor, and called that \"ridiculous\".\n\nAround 70 firefighters tackled the blaze on a 12th floor balcony\n\nSamantha Findley, 41, smelled what she thought was burning plastic in the tower block before immediately fleeing her 10th floor flat.\n\n\"I smelled it. So I thought 'let me get out, I'm out'. I grabbed my keys, my phone. I'm out. I'm not seeing where it is or anything. I'm out.\"\n\nMiguel Alves, who survived the Grenfell Tower blaze in 2017, was passing the area when he saw fire engines and police.\n\nHe said: \"I feel shocked because it's only 200 metres or 300 or 400 metres anyway from Grenfell Tower. It's on the same area. It's difficult to believe something happened again on the same area.\"\n\nLondon Ambulance Service urged people living near the scene of the fire to keep their windows shut.\n\nA cordon is in place around the tower and a roll-call of residents was taken to ensure everyone was out of the building.\n\nLondon Fire Brigade policy states: \"If the fire isn't in your own flat and your flat is not affected by smoke from a fire elsewhere in the building, it's often safer to stay put.\"\n\nUpdated 7th October 2019: This article has been updated to refer to the London Fire Brigade's policy for escape from flats during a fire.\n• None How the tragedy unfolded at Grenfell Tower\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "British Airways pilots are to strike on 9, 10 and 27 September in a dispute over pay, the British Airline Pilots Association (Balpa) has said.\n\nThe three-day strike - the first by BA pilots - could cause severe disruption, as Balpa represents about 90% of the airline's pilots.\n\nThe union said strikes were a \"last resort\" born out of \"enormous frustration\" with airline management.\n\nBA called it \"unjustifiable\" and said Balpa was \"destroying\" travel plans.\n\nThe union said BA rejected a \"number of packages\" that were proposed to resolve the pay dispute, and that there remains a gap of around £5m between the two sides' positions.\n\nThe industrial action comes after 93% of Balpa's members voted in favour of striking.\n\n\"Over recent years BA pilots have made sacrifice after sacrifice to assist the company such as taking a pay cut, productivity increases, closing the final salary pension scheme, giving up annual leave days, a new rostering system, and reducing flying pay,\" Balpa said.\n\nPilots have rejected a pay increase worth 11.5% over three years, which the airline put forward in July.\n\nBA's chairman and CEO, Alex Cruz, said it was a \"fair deal\" and called the move by Balpa \"disappointing\".\n\nBA said it is making changes to its flight schedule, adding that it will \"do everything [it] can to get as many people away on their journeys as possible\".\n\n\"However, it is likely that many of our customers will not be able to travel and we will be offering refunds and rebookings for passengers booked on cancelled flights,\" it said.\n\nSpeaking to BBC News, Mr Cruz said it remains unclear how much disruption the strikes may cause.\n\n\"We are focused on minimising disruption to those who may be affected,\" he said.\n\nBA lost an appeal aimed at halting the strikes last month.\n\nIts owner, International Airlines Group (IAG), had sought an injunction to prevent the strike in the High Court, but it was overturned.\n\nIt was then rejected by the Court of Appeal on 31 July.\n\nIAG, which also owns Spanish carrier Iberia and Ireland's Aer Lingus, reported a pre-tax profit of €3bn (£2.7bn) last year, up almost 9.8% on the previous year.\n\nBritish Airways contributed £1.96bn to that, up 8.7% on 2017.", "Last updated on .From the section Bury\n\nThere has been \"limited progress\" made in Bury's bid to avoid expulsion from the English Football League, the organisation has said.\n\nBury have been asked to provide evidence they can pay off creditors and have the funding needed to survive the season by 23:59 BST on Friday.\n\nOwner Steve Dale has said he has found a \"prospective buyer\" for the club.\n\nThe EFL said it would \"keep working to find a resolution\" with the League One side in an update issued at 17:00 BST.\n\n\"As of 5pm there has been limited progress made either by the current ownership providing the required evidence in regard to outstanding financial information, or through a change of control being achieved with new owners,\" the EFL said in a statement.\n\n\"The EFL will continue to provide all support available and will keep working to find a resolution to the ongoing issues ahead of the notice of withdrawal deadline, which remains at 11.59pm on Friday, 23 August.\n\n\"If a successful solution is not found ahead of tonight's deadline, the club's share in the EFL will be withdrawn and its membership in the league will come to an end.\"\n\nThe Shakers have had six successive matches suspended at the start of 2019-20, while they have also been withdrawn from the Carabao Cup.\n\nOwner Dale has told BBC Radio Manchester that he had found a \"prospective buyer\" who was \"waiting for the EFL to come back to him on a few points\".\n\nDale, who carried out numerous media interviews throughout Friday, had earlier asked members of the public to pledge money to help \"save a football club\".\n\nMeanwhile, speaking to BBC Radio 5 Live, Bury North MP James Frith claimed that he has been liaising with a separate \"credible bidder\" who will submit their offer before Friday's deadline and provide the required documentation to the EFL.\n\nEFL chief executive Debbie Jevans told BBC Sport on Thursday that if a buyer did come forward they would consider giving them more time - but that \"it's very difficult to see how we can postpone more matches\".\n\n\"The clock is ticking, there's no question,\" said Jevans. \"Nobody wants to see this club disappear out of the league, least of all me, which is why we are working 24/7 to try to stop that happening.\"\n\nHow did we reach this point?\n\nAt the end of April, Bury were celebrating promotion back to the third tier of English football, but they were already enduring a torrid time off the pitch.\n\nPlayers and staff had often been paid late, while a winding-up petition filed against the club was adjourned three times before eventually being dismissed by the High Court on 31 July.\n\nBy then, creditors had approved a company voluntary arrangement (CVA) put forward by Dale, which was proposed to help settle some of their debts.\n\nThe CVA meant unsecured creditors, including HM Revenue & Customs, would be paid 25% of the money owed - but also triggered a 12-point deduction in the League One table under EFL rules.\n\nFurthermore, the EFL has been unsatisfied Bury have given enough evidence of their \"financial viability\", leading to a string of postponed fixtures while the organisation awaited \"the clarity required\".\n\nWhat needs to happen for Bury to survive?\n\nThe Shakers were given a 14-day deadline to provide the necessary information on 9 August, which is due to expire at 23:59 on Friday.\n\nIf the club are unable to satisfy the EFL's request, their only other hope is that a buyer comes in with a rescue plan at the 11th hour.\n\nOwner Dale said he would consider selling Bury after the club's staff \"implored\" him to accept an offer last week - but then reportedly rejected a fresh bid on Tuesday.\n\nDale told BBC Radio Manchester on Thursday there were four interested parties - one of which has his backing - but time appears to be against any takeover going through.\n\nWhat if Bury don't meet their deadline?\n\nThe EFL reiterated this week that \"if a solution is not found by the deadline, the board will authorise the necessary share transfer on behalf of Bury FC which shall be legally binding on all parties and result, regretfully, in the club no longer being a member of the League\".\n\nIn other words, the Shakers will be expelled from the EFL.\n\nThe club would then \"be free to make an application to the Football Association to rejoin league competition further down the English football pyramid from season 2020-21\", according to the EFL.\n\nHow will it impact the league structure?\n\nThe EFL has already outlined how it intends to balance the leagues if Bury are expelled:\n• None The current League One season would be completed with 23 teams, with the number of relegation places reduced to three.\n• None Four teams will still be promoted from League Two this season, ensuring League One is rebalanced in 2020-21.\n• None Only one team will be relegated from League Two, with two to be promoted from the National League as usual.\n\nCould the deadline be extended? Can they appeal?\n\nEFL chief executive Jevans has confirmed they would consider extending Friday's deadline by \"24 to 48 hours\" if a solution appeared to be imminent.\n\nHowever, she also said a \"long delay\" was \"not possible\", stressing that once a decision has been made Bury will \"cease to be a member of the league\", meaning an appeal would appear unlikely.\n\nWhen should we find out their fate?\n\nWith the deadline set for 23:59, there is not likely to be any confirmation regarding Bury's future from the EFL until Saturday morning.\n\nBut, if the EFL does decide to grant a short deadline extension, there may yet be an update on Friday.\n\nHas a team ever been expelled from the EFL before?\n\nIt is 27 years since an EFL club was unable to complete a season, with Maidstone and Aldershot both liquidated in 1992.\n\nNo club has ever dropped out of the third tier before and Bury would also become the first FA Cup winners to have been expelled by the EFL.", "Bowles admitted to killing six men in 1994 from Florida to Maryland\n\nA serial killer who preyed on gay men along the US east coast has been executed in Florida.\n\nGary Ray Bowles was executed by lethal injection after the Supreme Court rejected a last-ditch appeal.\n\nBowles admitted to killing six men in 1994 from Florida to Maryland but was only convicted of three deaths.\n\nSometimes dubbed the \"I-95 killer\", most of his victims were found near the interstate corridor that spans the entire eastern seaboard of the US.\n\nInvestigators say the 57-year-old West Virginia native left an abusive household as a child and worked as a prostitute to gay men for a number of years before beginning his killing spree.\n\nAfter two jail sentences for grand theft, robbery, assault and rape, he moved to Daytona Beach in 1993.\n\nDuring this time he continued to work as a prostitute, and was living with a girlfriend who left him after discovering his sex work.\n\nHe later told authorities that he blamed gay men for their break-up, and was angered to learn that his girlfriend had had an abortion, according to the Daytona Beach News-Journal.\n\nAfter a manhunt, Bowles was arrested in Jacksonville while living under a false identify.\n\nHe was convicted of killing Walter Hinton, 47, and given a death penalty.\n\nHe also pleaded guilty and was given life sentences for the murders of John Hardy Roberts, 59, and Albert Alcie Morris, 37.\n\nHis lawyers had contended in their appeal that he was too intellectually disabled to be executed.\n\nBowles became the 99th inmate to be put to death in Florida since 1976 when the death penalty was restored by the Supreme Court, according to the Daytona Beach News-Journal.\n\nHe is the 13th person to be executed in the US so far this year, the Death Penalty Information Center says.\n\nHis execution came a day after Texas executed a man convicted of the murder of a 19-year-old student, which he maintained he did not commit.", "There are only two northern white rhinos left in the world - both of them female and infertile\n\nA team of vets has successfully managed to harvest 10 eggs from the last two surviving female northern white rhinos in Kenya, in an unprecedented procedure.\n\nIt is hoped the harvested eggs will be fertilised using frozen sperm from a deceased northern white rhinoceros.\n\nThe last male, who was named Sudan, died in March 2018.\n\nThe rare rhino has been brought to the brink of extinction by poaching and loss of habitat.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. How technology could help save the northern white rhino\n\nThe procedure was a joint effort by Ol Pejeta Conservancy, the Leibniz Institute for Zoo & Wildlife Research (IZW), Dvůr Králové Zoo in the Czech Republic and the Kenya Wildlife Service (KWS).\n\n\"We are delighted that this partnership gets us one step closer to prevent extinction of the northern white rhinos,\" said John Waweru, KWS director general.\n\n\"This is particularly touching given the heartbreaking death of Sudan, the last male, who died of old age last year in Kenya.\"\n\nThe two surviving rhinos, a mother and a daughter called Najin and Fatu, live under 24-hour armed guard at Ol Pejeta in central Kenya.\n\nFor genetic reasons they are, however, both unable to breed. Any embryos will be implanted into a surrogate southern white rhino in the near future.\n\nThe technique for the process has been developed over several years, experts say, but is not without risk.\n\nIt remains uncertain if the implanted embryos will result in pregnancy.\n\nLast year, a team removed eggs from female southern rhinos and fertilised them with frozen sperm from a male northern white rhino, to create hybrid embryos.\n\nRhinos are the second-largest land mammal after elephants. The white rhinoceros consists of two sub-species - the southern white rhino and the much rarer and critically endangered northern white rhino.\n\nPoaching is the primary threat facing all rhino species.\n\nLoss of habitat is the other main threat and conservationists say governmental protection of parks and reserves is now essential.\n• None 'Last hope' for northern white rhinos. Video, 00:02:32'Last hope' for northern white rhinos", "The model was burned at a bonfire party in south London on 3 November 2018\n\nA court's move to clear a man who filmed a cardboard effigy of Grenfell Tower being burned on a bonfire has been branded \"appalling\".\n\nPaul Bussetti, 47, was cleared on Thursday of posting \"grossly offensive\" material at a London party in 2018.\n\nCampaign group Justice 4 Grenfell said \"no justice had been served for the 72 people who had needlessly died\".\n\nMr Bussetti was found not guilty after magistrates said they could not be sure the film was taken by him.\n\nThe clip of the cardboard building, which had \"Grenfell Tower\" written on it, was recorded at a party attended by about 30 people in south London on 3 November, Westminster Magistrates' Court heard.\n\nIt was later uploaded to YouTube and sparked outrage, with a relative of one of the 72 people who died in the blaze on 14 June 2017 calling it \"revolting\".\n\nMoyra Samuels, of Justice 4 Grenfell, said she was appalled by the court's decision\n\nMoyra Samuels, of Justice 4 Grenfell, said: \"I am just appalled.\n\n\"For someone who has caused so much offence by mocking the needless deaths of 72 people... if they cannot be found guilty of causing offence, then it raises questions about whether the judicial system is able to give justice to the bereaved.\"\n\nPaul Bussetti told the court he had never intended the video to go further\n\nAt the end of the two-day trial, defence barrister Mark Summers QC revealed he had just been made aware of evidence that a second video was recorded.\n\nHe argued it meant there was \"absolutely no way\" to know which piece of footage had made its way onto YouTube and gone viral.\n\nOn this, Ms Samuels said: \"This case highlights a weakness within the police's role in making this case as well as the CPS. Why was this evidence presented so late?\n\n\"I believe the outcome of the case would have been different if this evidence was presented earlier.\"\n\nMr Bussetti, of South Norwood, told magistrates the effigy had been created by his friend, and the characters featured on the model were meant to represent \"the majority of people that were at the party\", not people who died in the disaster.\n\nThe father-of-two said he shared the footage with about 20 people on two WhatsApp groups but he had never intended it to go further.\n\nThe CPS has been contacted for comment.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The BBC has spoken to 26 employees of Costa Coffee franchise stores managed by Goldex Essex Investments Ltd and Bristal Investments Ltd.\n\nComplaints include managers' alleged refusal to pay for sickness or annual leave, working outside of contracted hours and the retention of tips.\n\nA Costa Coffee spokeswoman said an independent audit has been launched.\n\n\"Given the serious nature of the allegations, we have today informed all of our Individual Franchise Partners that we will be launching an independent audit into the legal and ethical compliance of their operations, including employment matters,\" she said on Thursday.\n\nThe latest allegations surfaced after the BBC reported that staff at Costa stores, managed by Kafeel Khan's Goldex Essex Investments Ltd, were being charged a minimum of £200 for their own training.\n\nA previous complaint against the Costa franchise partner by ex-employee Daniel Gyori, for withholding wages, was upheld in court in the claimant's favour.\n\nAn anonymous former employee at a store under Goldex Essex Investments Ltd claims they had almost £1,000 of their holiday pay deducted from their salary, despite being contracted to work 48 hours a week.\n\nThe employee claimed they worked, on average, 60 hours per week because of the expectation to arrive at the store at 05:30 in the morning.\n\nThe employee says they had accrued the necessary days to claim annual leave - as stated in the contract seen by the BBC - but still had pay deducted.\n\nThe complainant outlined a number of other working conditions that they found distressing. They say they found it \"impossible\" to find time to see their children due to the \"long hours\", and suffered a severe amount of emotional distress as a result.\n\nA franchise is a type of licence that allows a third-party partner to have access and rights to a larger business's logo, name and model, so that the partner can sell a product or provide a service under the business's name.\n\nThree Bristal Investments Ltd employees working under Emilio Aleo alleged they regularly worked 13-hour shifts with 20-minute breaks.\n\nMr Aleo says: \"We do not obligate staff to work more than 44 hours per week without their agreement.\n\nHe added that breaks \"are given in accordance with the hours worked\" and that the franchisee \"fully [complies] with [his] statutory obligations\".\n\nAnother former employee at a Costa store managed by Mr Aleo's Bristal Investments Ltd claimed that gratuity money earned by staff for good customer service was used to purchase presents for Mr Aleo and his wife and co-Director Kerry Morgan.\n\nMr Aleo says he is unaware of how tip money is spent.\n\n\"This is left to the store manager and his/her team of staff to administer. We are not aware of the quantum of any tips/gratuities enjoyed by the staff in each store,\" he said.\n\nA second employee at Mr Aleo's Costa Coffee store claimed that employees \"were not treated like human beings\" and complained of a \"complete lack of empathy and consideration of our feelings\".\n\nIn an email, leaked to the BBC by a third employee, a staff member asked if she could keep her mobile phone with her to keep in contact with her father who had been diagnosed with terminal cancer.\n\nThe manager refused to let the employee keep her phone, and suggested she give the Costa Coffee store number to the hospital instead.\n\nThe person who leaked the emails said the affected employee was \"very upset\" and \"shocked\" because she had worked there for seven years.\n\nMr Aleo said: \"We reject the suggestion of a lack of empathy towards staff, and could cite numerous examples of granting compassionate leave when appropriate.\"\n\nBaristas and employees at managerial level have complained about the numerous deductions outlined in Costa Coffee contracts written by franchise partners.\n\nOne former manager at Goldex Essex Investments lost \"£150 from [her] wages because [she] was five minutes late to opening the store\", she said.\n\nOther fines outlined in the contracts were for used uniform that was damaged when returned to the employer, excessive waste and till discrepancies.\n\nContracts issued by Costa Coffee Bristal Investments Ltd include an appendix outlining deductions\n\nSeema Gill, a consultant employment solicitor at My Business Counsel says the deductions may be legally contentious.\n\nDeductions for \"maintenance and cleanliness of store equipment\" led one anonymous employee at Goldex Essex Investments Ltd to \"clean concrete posts and pull weeds out by fences next to the store\".\n\nWhen the BBC approached Mr Khan for comment, he said he found it \"extremely upsetting to hear the allegations about unhappy team members\".\n\nHe said: \"There would be no repercussions for any employee who wanted to question their pay, holiday days etc and if a mistake had occurred we would rectify it immediately. We have recently re-communicated to staff all the ways they can contact us or raise any questions.\"\n\nBut he added that he could not address the problems without reviewing the evidence.\n\nIn response to all of the allegations, a Costa Coffee spokeswoman added: \"We take any allegations of this nature very seriously and would like to reassure team members and customers that we will not tolerate illegal and unethical behaviour in any circumstances under the Costa Coffee brand.\"", "Google's move followed a similar clamp down by Twitter and Facebook earlier this week\n\nGoogle has shut down 210 channels on YouTube it said were part of a \"coordinated” attempt to post material about the ongoing protests in Hong Kong.\n\nThe firm said attempts had been made to \"disguise the origin of these accounts and other activity commonly associated with coordinated influence operations”.\n\nThe search giant linked its move to similar action taken by Twitter and Facebook earlier this week.\n\nHowever, unlike those companies, Google stopped short of explicitly saying it believed the Chinese government had been behind the now-disabled accounts.\n\nNor would it share further details on the nature or motivation of the material it had taken down from its platform.\n\n\"Earlier this week,” a statement read, \"as part of our ongoing efforts to combat coordinated influence operations, we disabled 210 channels on YouTube when we discovered channels in this network behaved in a coordinated manner while uploading videos related to the ongoing protests in Hong Kong.\n\n\"This discovery was consistent with recent observations and actions related to China announced by Facebook and Twitter.”\n\nA Google spokesperson would not comment when asked by the BBC whether Google agreed with Twitter’s assessment that it was a state-backed misinformation campaign, designed to undermine the protest movement in Hong Kong.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. How Hong Kong got trapped in a cycle of violence\n\nThe company has not said whether it planned to prohibit advertising sales to state-controlled media organisations, such as the Chinese broadcaster, Xinhua.\n\nTwitter announced it would no longer allow ads from broadcasters who were financially and editorially controlled by governments, after facing severe criticism for allowing anti-Hong Kong ads to spread on the platform.\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", "British officials saw the 1994 meeting between Gerry Adams, Albert Reynolds and John Hume (L-R) as an example of \"indecent haste\"\n\nDeclassified government papers show there were serious tensions between the British and Irish governments over their responses to the paramilitary ceasefires of the 1990s.\n\nThe detail is contained in previously confidential documents released by the Public Record Office in Belfast.\n\nThey show how the then Tánaiste (Irish deputy prime minister) Dick Spring felt the British government was too slow with the process of demilitarisation.\n\nSpeaking in 1995 at an Anglo-Irish conference, Mr Spring stressed the Irish government's view on the need for a \"rapid and visible response\" by the security forces to the new situation.\n\nThe Irish government felt the withdrawal of troops from the streets of Northern Ireland was proceeding too slowly\n\nHe welcomed recent moves, including the ending of military patrolling and troop withdrawals.\n\nHowever, he spoke of \"a growing sense among the nationalist community that [the British government's] response was unduly cautious\".\n\nThe then Royal Ulster Constabulary (RUC) Chief Constable Sir Hugh Annesley was \"taken aback\" by Mr Spring's view that demilitarisation should proceed more rapidly.\n\nThe files also reveal that a senior civil servant in the Northern Ireland Office (NIO) was critical of the then Taoiseach (Irish Prime Minister) Albert Reynolds' famous public hand-clasp with the Sinn Féin president, Gerry Adams, SDLP leader John Hume at Government Buildings in Dublin on 6 September 1994.\n\nThe official wrote that the meeting was \"widely believed to reflect indecent haste although clearly designed to tie Adams into a process from which he personally would not be able to escape\".\n\nHistorian Dr Eamon Phoenix, who has examined the documents, said decommissioning was the key issue of the time.\n\nHe said the Irish and the British governments took different approaches to the loyalist and republican ceasefires.\n\nThe decommissioning of paramilitary weapons became the key issue following the ceasefires\n\nThe papers reveal there were serious differences behind the scenes, he told BBC News NI.\n\nHe said Prime Minister John Major was \"talking about the permanency of decommissioning and questioning the permanency which irritated John Hume, Gerry Adams and the Irish government and of course Sinn Féin itself so we are into this whole kind of blame game\".\n\nDr Phoenix said the reports show how difficult \"it was to build trust and peace particularly between republicans and the British government\".\n\nHe added that the documents reveal that building peace \"is difficult and is going to take a very long time to deliver\".\n\nThe reports, released on Friday, also give details of behind-the-scenes meetings over the issue of the decommissioning of paramilitary weapons.\n\nThe documents detail the minutes of the first meeting at Parliament Buildings, Stormont, on 9 December 1994 between a Sinn Féin delegation, led by the late Martin McGuinness, and a team of NIO officials, headed by the Permanent Under-Secretary of the NIO, Quentin Thomas, which run to 34 pages.\n\nOne report from December 1994 quotes the Northern Ireland Secretary Patrick Mayhew saying \"all the paramilitary structures (including armaments) remain in place and we are now in a tricky phase until we establish whether the republican movement and loyalists are definitely committed to democratic politics\".\n\nThe files also reveal Mr Major was worried about the impact of troop reductions in Northern Ireland on Tory backbenchers. The prime minister was reliant on Ulster Unionist votes at Westminster.\n\nDuring the Troubles the border was peppered with unsightly security installations and watchtowers\n\nThe previously confidential documents also show that the Northern Ireland Tourist Board (NITB) suggested asking the European Union to help fund the redesign of border security checkpoints.\n\nThe issue was raised with the British government by the chairman of the NITB, Sir Hugh O'Neill, on 9 May 1990.\n\nWriting to the NIO under-secretary, Richard Needham, Sir Hugh expressed concern at \"the intimidating appearance of the surface entry points into NI from the Republic\".\n\nMr Needham indicated that a refurbishment programme had been agreed costing £50,000 per checkpoint.\n\nNoting that most visitors entered Northern Ireland from the Republic of Ireland, Sir Hugh asked if more could be done on the border \"so as to give a more friendly welcome to the visitor\".\n\nHe also suggested the government should seek European Union funding to assist in the landscaping of the checkpoints.\n\nFormer US Senator George Mitchell chaired the talks that led to the signing of the 1998 Good Friday Agreement\n\nThe documents also show that in 1993 the British government rejected United States President Bill Clinton's plan to appoint an Irish peace envoy.\n\nTwo years later, former US Senator George Mitchell was appointed special envoy. He was later to chair the talks that led to the Good Friday Agreement of 1998.\n\nThe papers also reveal that a plan by a senior NIO official that the Queen might mark the ending of violence in NI after the 1994 ceasefires by sending a message to Irish President Mary Robinson to mark St Patrick's Day was rejected on grounds of unionist sensitivity.\n\nThe fuss over a St Patrick's Day greeting did nothing to sour relations between the Queen and Mary Robinson (seen here at a later meeting)\n\nOne NIO official wrote that a message from the Queen to President Robinson would be \"a gain\" for the British side, but added: \"I doubt if many unionists would see it that way\".\n\nThe final word was left to Mr Mayhew. In a memo on 6 March 1995, he expressed the view that \"it was less sore-making to maintain the practice of silence\" towards the Irish president.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nUS toy maker Hasbro will acquire Peppa Pig owner Entertainment One for around £3.3bn ($4bn), the firms said in a statement.\n\nHasbro said the deal would expand its entertainment and \"family-oriented storytelling\" portfolio.\n\nThe deal is the latest in a string of foreign acquisitions of UK-listed firms including the £4.6bn buyout of pub chain Greene King.\n\nUnder the all-cash transaction, Entertainment One shareholders will receive £5.60 for each common share.\n\n\"Hasbro will leverage Entertainment One immersive entertainment capabilities to bring our portfolio of brands that have appeal to gamers, fans and families to all screens globally,\" the firms said in a statement.\n\nThe American toy giant is behind a diverse range of titles including the My Little Pony and Transformers franchises, as well as the Monopoly board game and Play-Doh.\n\nEntertainment One makes a series of film and television titles including the Peppa Pig cartoon.\n\nThe firm said the top performing preschool programme has been translated into more than 40 languages and broadcast in over 180 territories.\n\nIt is particularly popular in China, where it was first exported in the early 2000s. The cartoon has attracted some 34 billion views on domestic online video platforms.", "A mother has said her teenage daughter is \"terrified\" of the adult men in the secure psychiatric care unit where she is being treated.\n\nGillian, not her real name, told the BBC her 17-year-old daughter felt sexually vulnerable and unsafe in a mixed unit with eight adult men.\n\nA tribunal heard evidence from her psychiatrist that the unit was an \"unsuitable environment\".\n\nHowever, there are no secure in-patient units in Scotland for adolescents.\n\nHealth Secretary Jeane Freeman told BBC Scotland she had recognised the national need for secure child and adolescent mental health inpatient facilities in Scotland and a new unit was planned.\n\nMs Freeman said it was \"very rare\" for a young person to be put in an adult unit but it was for clinicians to decide where it was safest to put them.\n\nGillian's daughter has been in an adult Intensive Psychiatric Care Unit (IPCU) in Edinburgh for a week.\n\nIPCUs are designed to look after patients who cannot be managed on open wards due to the level of risk they pose to themselves or others.\n\nShe was moved there from a Child and Adolescent Mental Health (CAMH) unit after incidents led her psychiatrist to believe she needed more secure care.\n\nBut Gillian said the unit she was placed in was totally unsuitable for a vulnerable young girl.\n\nShe said the men looked at her daughter in sexually inappropriate ways and followed her around the unit.\n\nGillian said she feared for her daughter's safety\n\nGillian said that on her first visit to the unit there was one man in his 50s flicking his tongue \"in a sexually inappropriate manner\" and another who was \"shouting aggressively\".\n\n\"I did not feel safe and I was scared and petrified for my daughter,\" she said.\n\n\"I was shaking like a leaf and I felt I was going to be sick.\"\n\nShe said her young daughter was feeling extremely sexually vulnerable and uncomfortable at having to share communal spaces with older men with serious mental health issues.\n\n\"My daughter told the tribunal judge she is absolutely terrified and scared men will slash her face,\" Gillian said.\n\n\"She's terrified to even eat with them.\"\n\nLast year 14 young people were admitted to adult IPCUs, including five under-16s, according to watchdog the Mental Welfare Commission (MWC).\n\nIt said adult psychiatric wards were unsuitable places to treat young people with mental health issues because they have to be looked after alongside adults who are themselves very unwell or high risk.\n\nHowever, Dr Moira Connolly, from the MWC, said the patient should stay closely linked to the staff who had supported them in the CAMH adolescent unit and a care plan should be in place.\n\nEarlier this week, a Mental Health Tribunal decided that a Compulsory Treatment Order for Gillian's daughter was correct but it heard evidence that even her own psychiatrist considered the IPCU an \"unsuitable environment\".\n\nIn the weeks before her admission to the IPCU, Gillian's daughter had been in an adolescent mental health unit.\n\nGillian said her daughter's generalised anxiety disorder had not been treated and she had entered the first stage of psychosis.\n\nShe was not responding to the anti-psychotic medication and she was moved to a different drug.\n\nAlthough she seemed to respond better, there was an incident in the adolescent unit that led to fears for Gillian's daughter's safety and that of other patients.\n\nThe 17-year-old was held in \"seclusion\" within the adolescent ward, meaning she was not allowed to leave her room and nurses were stationed by her door.\n\nAfter a number of days she was moved to the intensive psychiatric care unit (IPCU).\n\nHer psychiatrist told the tribunal he had been \"very reluctant to admit her to IPCU but it was less restrictive than seclusion\".\n\nHe said that although the patient had responded well to treatment and change in medication, she was still not well enough to return to the CAMH adolescent ward.\n\nGillian believes it is \"appalling\" that there are no intensive psychiatric care units in Scotland to deal with adolescents.\n\nShe said she thought her daughter could have been treated at a unit within the CAMH ward, where she could have been placed until her medication had \"bedded in\".\n\n\"There is no adolescent IPCU in the whole of Scotland, it's diabolical,\" she said.\n\nScotland has only has three specialist units for in-patient treatment for children and adolescents, with 48 beds.\n\nHealth Secretary Jeane Freeman said she understood people's concern and anxiety\n\nHealth Secretary Jeane Freeman told BBC Scotland she understood people's concern and anxiety at where adolescent patients were placed.\n\nShe said: \"We have always said there needs to be an additional provision of secure units for children and adolescents and indeed one is being built in Ayrshire and Arran.\"\n\nThe new national inpatient unit is scheduled to open in 2021.\n\nMs Freeman added: \"We are looking at what more we need to do for child and adolescent mental health across the whole spectrum from counselling to very specialist support.\"\n\nProf Alex McMahon, nurse director at NHS Lothian, said he could not comment on individual patient cases.\n\nHe said: \"In psychiatric services there are occasional circumstances where due to the severity of a patient's illness, they may require a short period of more intensive care and treatment in a more controlled environment.\n\n\"Any decision would be taken following clinical assessment, to ensure the continued safety and welfare of the patient and of other patients and staff.\"\n\nProf McMahon added that any young person who is moved to an IPCU will have one-to-one intensive nursing at all times and is allocated to single bedroom accommodation.\n• None Mother's fury at 'no support' for daughter", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nAn Ed Sheeran fan has travelled \"36 hours in a tin can\" from New Zealand to see the singer end his tour with four homecoming gigs.\n\nUp to 160,000 people are expected to watch the singer-songwriter as he starts the end of his record-breaking Divide tour in Ipswich on Friday.\n\nBy the end of the run Sheeran will have spent 893 days on the road - beating U2's record of 760 days.\n\nHe said it was \"really weird and cool\" to be performing in his home town.\n\n\"I just love being here and I'm so happy to be able to end the tour here,\" he said.\n\nEd Sheeran moved back to Suffolk seven years ago after a spell living in Los Angeles\n\nGary Mills moved to New Zealand in 1979 and has flown his family back to Ipswich for Friday's concert.\n\n\"When Divide came out, especially Castle on the Hill, I was out walking the dog and I must have listened to it on a loop for about 20 minutes,\" he said.\n\n\"It'll be fantastic just to be there, the atmosphere, to listen and enjoy the first homecoming concert with everybody else. It's kind of a dream come true.\"\n\nThe Mills family have travelled from New Zealand for the concert\n\nElizabeth Lara Villacis, 22, and Daniel Fuxa, 29, met through a Sheeran fan group in Majorca five years ago.\n\nThis will be their third time seeing the singer as a couple, but their first in the UK after moving to Cromer, Norfolk.\n\n\"We've moved here now and continue the love story and Ed too,\" said Miss Villacis.\n\nDaniel Fuxa and Elizabeth Lara Villacis now live together after meeting through a fan group\n\nFans queued from 06:00 to bag a prime position at Chantry Park\n\nSheeran was born in Yorkshire but moved to Framlingham in Suffolk at a young age.\n\nMany of his songs reference the county, including his \"love song\" to Suffolk, Castle on the Hill.\n\nFrancesco Pisu, 21, and Mattel Spiga, 20, travelled to Ipswich from Sardinia to celebrate their three-year anniversary.\n\n\"We wanted to come here because we love him,\" said Mr Spiga.\n\nRapper Piers James, who was selected through BBC Introducing to open the show on Friday, said after coming off stage it had been \"the experience of a lifetime\".\n\n\"For me that's a dream come true. It's what I always envisioned myself doing and this is just another stepping stone,\" he said.\n\nRapper Piers James was the first of the BBC Introducing support acts to take to the stage\n\nAn array of guitars were lined up backstage for Sheeran's performance\n\nThe singer gave staff and pupils from his old school, Thomas Mills High School, free tickets for Sunday's show.\n\nHis former music teacher Richard Hanley described it as \"a typically generous act\".\n\nSome pupils from the school will also be performing on stage on Sunday after their band Salvador was chosen to be on the line-up.\n\nEd Sheeran performed in a garden in Ipswich early in his career\n\nOne person who will almost have a front row seat is Tina Cook, who can see the stage from her garden.\n\n\"My daughters bought me a ticket so I am going on Friday. I didn't need to go, I will be able to hear it from here, every night,\" she said.\n\nThe singer-songwriter's tour has surpassed U2's 7.3 million record attendance and has averaged 34,541 people per show over the 255 shows.\n\nIt is the highest grossing and most attended tour ever.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Sophie Christiansen said current systems make her feel she constantly has to rely on someone to get around\n\nA gold medal winning Paralympian was left in tears after she became stuck on a train when there was no guard to help her off.\n\nWheelchair user Sophie Christiansen, who has cerebral palsy, tweeted a video of her ordeal on her London to Godalming journey.\n\nThe footage shows a passenger holding the train doors open for the dressage rider until an exit ramp is provided.\n\nSouth Western Railway (SWR) said it had apologised to Ms Christiansen.\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 31-year-old from Ascot said she was told SWR staff were aware she was travelling on the service but when she arrived at her stop there was no-one waiting with a ramp.\n\n\"It's always the general public helping me; I don't know what I'd do without them,\" she said.\n\n\"Without the help I probably would've ended up in Portsmouth at the end of the line because there is no real way for me to block the door to stop the train from moving.\"\n\nMs Christiansen said she \"went home and cried\" because of the repeated difficulties she faces over accessibility on trains.\n\nThe OBE dressage rider is an eight-time Paralympic gold medallist\n\nShe said she was stranded \"one in 10 times\" and called on the government to lobby rail companies to improve disabled access.\n\nDespite previously speaking to SWR's inclusion manager about introducing automated ramps to make travelling for disabled people smoother, Ms Christiansen claims manual ones are still in place.\n\n\"I literally don't know what it will take for the rail in this country to make the service more accessible,\" she said.\n\n\"There should be a different system to allow me to be independent\".\n\nThe 31-year-old dressage rider wants automated ramps to make travelling smoother\n\nAndy Masters, head of services at disabled rights charity Back Up, said stories like Sophie's were \"all too common\".\n\nHe said wheelchair users routinely needed to consider problems over access at stations and whether they would manage to find a guard to get them on and off trains.\n\n\"An easy journey is not a given, but being able to use public transport is essential to most people's daily lives.\n\n\"It allows us to go to work, socialise and get to where we need to be. Accessible stations allow disabled people to live the lives they want, just like everyone else.''\n\nSWR said it was investigating the incident \"as a priority\" and it was reviewing the process \"to make sure this doesn't happen again\".\n\nRail Delivery Group, which represents UK train operators, said it was working to bring \"thousands of new, more accessible carriages on track and speeding up the process for passengers booking assistance.\"\n• None Back Up is for Everyone Affected by Spinal Cord Injury The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Two boats carrying 30 migrants were picked up by French authorities\n\nMore than 60 migrants have crossed the Channel in six boats.\n\nFive vessels were intercepted by Border Force off the coast of Kent, with a sixth landing on a beach in Sussex.\n\nThe Home Office said 53 migrants - including what it called six \"claimed minors\" - found in the Channel would be interviewed by immigration officers.\n\nA further 11 people, including four children, were detained by police and handed over to Border Force after arriving at Winchelsea Beach by boat.\n\nSussex Police said it was \"very concerned\" for another group, which it described as \"possibly a family including children\", who may have left the beach before authorities arrived.\n\nCh Insp Anita Turner said: \"We want to make sure that these people are safely ashore and that they are okay.\"\n\nMeanwhile, two dinghies carrying a total of 19 adults, 10 children and a baby were picked up by French authorities attempting to cross the Channel.\n\nMore than 900 people, including at least 80 children, have crossed the Channel in small boats this year.\n\nThe Home Office said it was monitoring the \"ongoing situation\" and \"working closely at all levels with French authorities,\" adding Home Secretary Priti Patel was due to \"raise this issue with her French counterpart in the coming days\".\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.", "The boy was on holiday with his family at La Croix du Vieux Pont in the Berny Riviere area, near Paris\n\nA 12-year-old boy from Hull has died at a campsite in France.\n\nThe boy was on a family holiday at La Croix du Vieux Pont in the Berny Riviere area, about 50 miles (80 km) north-east of Paris.\n\nA spokeswoman for site owner the European Camping Group confirmed the boy died on Thursday afternoon.\n\nTour operator Venue Holidays said: \"Our hearts go out to the family concerned at this awful time. We will help the family in whatever way is possible.\"\n\nIt added: \"We would request that their privacy is respected at this difficult time.\"\n\nThe European Camping Group said it had been \"deeply touched\" and shocked by the \"tragedy\".\n\nIt said it was offering psychological support, and was collaborating with investigating authorities.\n\nThe Foreign Office said it was \"supporting the family of a British child who has died in France\".\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.", "Prue Leith will help to set new quality standards\n\nBake Off judge Prue Leith is the latest celebrity chef to be recruited in the quest to improve the food hospital patients eat.\n\nThe government is launching a review of hospital food, first announced in June, to set new quality standards for the 140 million meals served annually.\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson said better food would aid patients' recovery and \"fuel\" carers and family.\n\nLeith said millions was wasted on \"unpalatable\" hospital food.\n\nOther famous chefs have been down this road before. More than 25 years ago Albert Roux was asked to do much the same thing - he was followed by Loyd Grossman and more recently James Martin.\n\nYet in 2013 a report found that more than £50m had been wasted not on poor food - but on failed schemes to improve quality.\n\nThis latest review follows the deaths of six people, linked to a listeria outbreak connected to pre-packaged sandwiches and salads supplied to a number of NHS hospitals.\n\nPhilip Shelley, former head of the Hospital Caterers Association, will chair what he said would be a \"root and branch\" review.\n\nIt will look at increasing the amount of in-house catering, as well as how hospitals can use less frozen food and more local, fresh produce.\n\nMr Johnson said: \"Guaranteeing hospitals serve nutritional, tasty and fresh meals will not only aid patient recovery, but also fuel staff and visitors as they care for loved ones and the vulnerable.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nLeith, who will act as an adviser to the review, said: \"Millions of pounds are wasted in hospitals with food ending up in the bin, unpalatable food being the main complaint.\n\n\"I'm delighted that at long last Downing Street and the Department of Health have decided to do something about it.\n\n\"A hospital meal should be a small highlight, a little pleasure and comfort, and it should help, not hinder, the patient's recovery.\"\n\nRachel Power, chief executive of the Patients Association, said: \"We are pleased to see a full review of hospital food being undertaken and hope it leads to more nutritious and nourishing meals to help patients with their recovery.\n\n\"People should be able to look forward to their meals, particularly when dealing with the pressures and worries that a stay in hospital can bring, even with the best of care.\"\n\nJonathan Ashworth, the shadow health secretary, said: \"Years of austerity mean that some hospitals are only spending close to £3 per patient a day on meals for patients - it's an utter disgrace.\"", "Police were called at about 07:30 BST\n\nA mother has been arrested on suspicion of child neglect after her 10-year-old son was found dead in a caravan in Birmingham, police said.\n\nEmergency services were called to reports of a child unconscious at an address in Blossomville Way, Acocks Green, on Thursday morning.\n\nHe was taken to hospital where \"nothing could be done to save him\" and he was pronounced dead, police said.\n\nThe woman was later \"released on police bail as inquires continue\" police said.\n\nHer son's death is \"unexplained\" and a post-mortem examination is to take place.\n\nWest Midlands Police confirmed the arrested 44-year-old woman is the child's mother.\n\nDet Insp Joe Davenport said he understood the boy \"had some underlying health issues and was admitted to hospital recently\".\n\n\"We've launched an inquiry to understand what happened in the days leading up to his death and to determine if any factors have contributed to his death,\" he added.\n\nThe boy was found unconscious in Blossomville Way, Acocks Green\n\nA spokesman for West Midlands Ambulance Service said it was called to reports of a medical emergency at the address at 07:19 BST.\n\n\"On arrival we discovered one patient, a boy, who was in a critical condition,\" he said.\n\n\"He received specialist trauma care at the scene before being transported to Heartlands Hospital.\n\n\"Sadly, it later became apparent at hospital that nothing could be done to save him and he was confirmed deceased.\"\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. Thames Valley Police led a service at the force's training centre in Sulhamstead\n\nThe family of a police officer killed while investigating a burglary have paid tribute to him as forces across the country held a minute's silence.\n\nPC Andrew Harper, 28, died after he was dragged along the road by a vehicle in Sulhamstead, Berkshire, on 15 August.\n\nThames Valley Police led the silence, which was observed by forces across the country, at 11:00 BST.\n\nPC Harper's mother Debbie said she was moved by the \"outpouring of love\" since her son's death.\n\n\"We are devastated and bereft but as Andrew always lived, with dignity, honour and calmness we intend to grieve in this way,\" she said.\n\n\"A big part of me has gone with you, I cannot imagine our lives going forward but we will do so with Andrew in our hearts.\"\n\nMore than 100 officers and staff fell silent at the Thames Valley Police training centre in Sulhamstead, where flowers had been laid in the grounds.\n\nPC Harper's family and friends stood in remembrance, placing a sunflower and a bouquet among the tributes. A police officer blew a whistle to mark the start of the silence.\n\nChief Constable John Campbell said the occasion was \"not a memorial service\", but a \"time for gathering, a time for pause and a time to reflect\".\n\nHe called PC Harper, who grew up in Wallingford, Oxfordshire, a \"dearly loved and respected colleague, friend and proud police officer\".\n\nForce chaplain Helen Arnold led the remembrance service, praying for \"family and close friends, for whom Andrew's death left such emptiness\".\n\n\"This police family to which he belonged will not forget him,\" she said.\n\nPC Harper's wife Lissie said her husband was \"the kindest, loveliest, most selfless person you will ever meet\"\n\nPC Harper, who got married four weeks before his death, was killed on the A4 Bath Road.\n\nThe roads policing officer, who became a regular officer in 2011 after joining as a special constable a year earlier, had attended a reported break-in with a fellow constable at about 23:30 BST.\n\nA post-mortem examination concluded that he died of multiple injuries.\n\nForces across the country, including West Midlands Police, held a minute's silence for PC Harper\n\nForces in Hampshire, Leicestershire and Kent announced colleagues would join Thames Valley and fall silent to remember PC Harper.\n\nMembers of South Central Ambulance Service and Royal Berkshire Fire and Rescue service also took part.\n\nA fundraising page set up by the Thames Valley Police Federation, which represents rank-and-file officers, had raised more than £260,000 for his family.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Blue ribbons have placed in tribute to PC Harper around his hometown\n\nPC Harper's father, Phil, described his son as a \"hero, if not a superhero\".\n\n\"Although Andrew was the strongest man we knew, he was also a big softy with a huge heart,\" he added.\n\n\"Rest in peace my son, you have made us so proud of you and we will always love and miss you.\"\n\nPC Harper's brother Sean and sister Aimee said their brother was the \"funniest, bravest, most compassionate person\" and was a \"protector at heart\".\n\nPC Harper's wife Lissie, said her husband was the \"kindest, loveliest, most selfless person you will ever meet\".\n\nJed Foster, 20, who has been charged with murdering PC Harper, has been remanded in custody ahead of a potential trial next January.\n\nPC Andrew Harper was married just four weeks before he was killed", "Last updated on .From the section Cricket\n\nMen's Ashes: Third Specsavers Test, Headingley (day two of five)\n\nEngland's hopes of regaining the Ashes look all but over after they were bowled out for 67 by Australia on the second day of the third Test at Headingley.\n\nThe home side were skittled for their lowest Ashes total since 1948 before Australia moved to 171-6, to lead by 283 at the end of a day when 16 wickets fell.\n\nIt amounted to one of England's most dismal home Ashes days in recent memory, where they went from genuine optimism about levelling the series to the brink of being 2-0 down with two Tests to play.\n\nTheir reply to Australia's first-innings 179 was simply awful. The visitors' bowling was magnificent, but flimsy England were blown away in ideal batting conditions.\n\nPace bowler Josh Hazlewood took 5-30, while Joe Denly was the only batsman to reach double figures - his 12 is the lowest top-score in an England Test innings.\n• None 'This was England's chance - it feels like the Ashes are gone'\n• None 'Hope turns to gallows humour as England unravel at Headingley'\n• None England have not prepared properly for Ashes - Vaughan\n\nThere was a glimmer of hope for England when Australia were reduced to 52-3 in their second innings, only for Marnus Labuschagne to take it away with his unbeaten 53 off 139 balls.\n\nHe was dropped twice and caught behind off a no-ball, each miss adding further frustration to England's desperately disappointing day.\n\nAt some point on Saturday or Sunday, Australia look likely to secure at least a series draw, which is all they need to take the urn back down under by virtue of their 4-0 success on home soil in 2017-18.\n\nEngland were hammered by 251 runs in the first Test, but seemed to have reversed the momentum by having the better of the drawn second match at Lord's, not least because of the introduction of the pace of Jofra Archer.\n\nIt was Archer who bowled Australia out on Thursday with 6-45, giving England a golden opportunity to bat themselves into a dominant position in the Friday sunshine.\n\nThat they fell in such a pathetic heap was not only the latest in a long line of batting disappointments, but also effectively ended what was shaping up to be a tremendous battle for the Ashes.\n\nInstead of being level with two to play, England's best hope is to draw the series and end a winless run against Australia which is almost certain to move to nine matches.\n\nAs they do, they will have to consider how they use Archer, who hobbled off the field with cramp without being able to complete his 70th over in the space of nine days.\n\nIt was a sad contrast to the end of the first day, when he was cheered from the ground. It perfectly mirrored the change in mood - from euphoria on Thursday, Headingley was a picture of deflated dejection on Friday.\n\nEven if England supporters are used to seeing the batting fail - this was the third time this year they have been bowled out for less than 100 - this was a particularly inept display.\n\nWhereas Australia were skittled in perfect bowling conditions on Thursday, England were unable to deal with a hint of movement because of weak defence, a lack of patience and loose strokes.\n\nFour were caught driving - Denly, Jason Roy, Jos Buttler and Ben Stokes, to one he could barely reach. Three others perished to short balls.\n\nOnly captain Joe Root can count himself unfortunate to have edged a lovely delivery from Hazlewood, but that does not change the fact that the captain has registered successive ducks and been dismissed twice in three balls.\n\nEngland's miserable day was compounded in the field. Root dropped Labuschagne on 14 off the wholehearted Stokes, who was found to have overstepped during a review that would have seen the same batsman given caught behind and then had the right-hander put down by wicketkeeper Jonny Bairstow on 42.\n\nStokes and Stuart Broad did remove Matthew Wade and Tim Paine respectively in consecutive overs late in the day, strikes that surely came too late to impact the result.\n\nEngland's meekness was matched by the ruthlessness of Australia. The tourists were incisive with the ball, took sharp catches and had clever plans for each batsman. In the evening, they took advantage of their good fortune to move practically out of sight.\n\nPace bowler Hazlewood was excellent. His mode of attack was to hammer a length on and around off stump, examining England's batsmen with slight seam movement. James Pattinson did the same.\n\nWhen they found the edge, David Warner grabbed four smart catches at first slip.\n\nPat Cummins was the aggressor, bowling with hostility to bounce out all of Rory Burns, Chris Woakes and Archer.\n\nAlthough Australia's own top order wobbled, they were steadied by Labuschagne, who made his third successive half-century and added 66 for the fifth wicket with Wade.\n\nAdmittedly, Labuschagne had luck, but he still demonstrated all of the virtues of Test batsmanship that seem beyond many of the England side.\n• None England's 67 is their 12th lowest Test score of all time, their fourth lowest at home and their lowest at Headingley\n• None At 167 balls, it is England's ninth shortest completed Test innings\n• None It is England's lowest Test score against Australia since making 52 at The Oval in 1948\n• None It is the fourth time England have been dismissed for under 100 since the start of 2018 (after 58 v New Zealand, 77 v West Indies, 85 v Ireland) and the third time in 2019\n• None Joe Denly's 12 is the lowest highest score in a Test innings for England\n• None There have been 16 extras in Australia's second innings, more than any England batsman managed\n\nFormer England captain Michael Vaughan on BBC Test Match Special: \"Let's be honest, the Ashes have been retained.\n\n\"If England had batted 70 overs they would have had a lead. They should comfortably be able to face a quality bowling line-up with the talent in their dressing room. It's just not good enough.\"\n\nEngland batting coach Graham Thorpe: \"The cold, hard truth is we weren't good enough today. Test cricket is mentally challenging. You can't hide.\n\n\"It was a golden opportunity for us today. But we've let it slip and we've let it slip badly through a bat batting performance. We collapsed in a heap.\n\n\"We aren't going to say we can't win it, but we have made it a damn sight harder. We will try and knock them over tomorrow and chase whatever they set us.\"\n\nEngland's leading Test run-scorer Alastair Cook: \"Australia were fantastic with the ball. They challenged England and England weren't good enough to handle it.\"\n\nAustralia bowler Josh Hazlewood: \"We didn't do too much, just put the ball in the right areas and we took our chances. We had a bit of luck.\"\n\nBBC cricket correspondent Jonathan Agnew: \"This feels like a watershed moment. It feels like a complete let-down. It can't carry on like this.\"", "Millions of passengers pass through UK airports every year, and those numbers are projected to double by 2050.\n\nNew technology has been developed that uses a combination of facial recognition technology and your mobile phone in a bid to speed up the immigration process.\n\nThe UK Home Office and Border Force are considering using the technology in the future.\n\nThe BBC's Simon Browning has been to test it out.", "A US school is being rebuilt to make it more difficult for gunmen to kill students in potential mass shootings.\n\nFruitport High School in Michigan is the first school in America to be rebuilt with concrete barriers in hallways to hide from bullets.\n\nThe hallways are curved to prevent a shooter from having a clear line of sight during any potential attack.\n\nClassrooms have also been redesigned so students can hide more easily in case of emergency.\n\nWindows that look from corridors into classrooms will have impact-resistant film on them and doors will be controlled by local school leaders who can lock every door across an entire district at the press of a button.\n\nBob Szymoniak, Fruitport High School's superintendent, believes these will become part of the structure of all schools in America.\n\n\"These are design elements that are naturally part of buildings going into the future,\" he told The Washington Post.\n\nHe says the finished school will be \"magnificent.\"\n\nRecent school shootings influenced the plans for the school, which is costing $48 million to rebuild.\n\nStudents walked out of class for 17 minutes in March in support of the 17 people who died at Marjory Douglas High School in February\n\n2018 was the worst year ever for school shootings in America.\n\nGun violence on US campuses left 113 people dead or injured last year.\n\nIn February 2018 a former student of the Marjory Douglas High School in Parkland killed 17 people and injured another 17 with a legally purchased semi-automatic rifle.\n\nIn May last year, a student killed 10 and injured 14 at Santa Fe High School in Texas with weapons including a pump-action shotgun.\n\nFollowing a mass-shooting in El Paso, Texas, on 3 August 2019 President Donald Trump said that he supported better background checks for people buying guns in America.\n\nBut this week, reportedly following conversations with the National Rifle Association, Mr Trump said that the US already has \"very strong\" background checks and that tighter control could lead to a \"slippery slope\" where \"everything gets taken away.\"\n\nListen to Newsbeat live at 12:45 and 17:45 weekdays - or listen back here.", "There has been a surge in older children and teenagers with \"complex needs\" entering care in England.\n\nThe Children's Commissioner has warned they experience more instability, and are often \"at risk of exploitation\".\n\nOne care leaver told the BBC he felt \"vulnerable\" after moving between 20 different foster carers.\n\nA new study found the number of those aged 16 or over in care increased by 25% from 2013/4 to 2017/18, while those over 13 rose by 21% in the same period.\n\nNearly a quarter (23%) of children in care are aged over 16, and 39% are in the 10 and 15 age range, according to the Children's Commissioner's 2019 Stability Index.\n\nAnne Longfield says teens in care are \"at risk\"\n\nAnne Longfield, children's commissioner for England, said the care system was under strain because rising number of teenagers were more likely to have experienced issues that required specialist support.\n\nThe government said it has created a £2m fund to address some of the issues.\n\nTeenagers are entering care due to issues including criminal or sexual exploitation, going missing from home or failing to get protection from their parents, the study found.\n\nIncreasing demand from older children has caused councils to spend more on individuals with acute needs, it suggested.\n\nIt also warned that older children in care experience higher levels of instability, including moving two or more times within a year.\n\nOrion Blake, 22, had more than 20 foster carers and 20 social workers growing up.\n\nHe told the BBC's Victoria Derbyshire programme that the experience had been \"really difficult\".\n\n\"It affects communication, really,\" he said. \"You never know who you can talk to, who's there to support you and who's going to actually stay around.\n\n\"Emotionally, you feel vulnerable because you don't know who you can turn to.\"\n\nHarmony, a 22-year-old care leaver who entered care aged 15, said children in her situation often go through a series of different social workers.\n\n\"If you're coming from an experience where you're having social worker after social worker it does really have an impact on your ability to see your worth to them,\" she said.\n\n\"You might internalise people moving on as something to do with yourself.\"\n\nMaintaining relationships between child and carer are \"key\", according to Libby Thornfield, president of the Fostering Network.\n\n\"It will enable that child to understand how to develop relationships in the future,\" she said.\n\nBut Ms Longfield said older children in care are likely to move between placements because the system has not adapted to provide specialist support for their growing numbers.\n\n\"The profile of children in care has traditionally been much younger children,\" Ms Longfield explained.\n\n\"[Older children] are more likely to have complex needs, need more specialist support, and are much more likely to move between different placements because that support isn't appropriate.\n\n\"That means that those young people who are at very high risk don't have the support and stability that they need to be able to settle and build their future.\"\n\nMs Longfield warned that the current situation was \"unsustainable\", adding that children \"are being denied the chance to put down roots, to feel part of a family and to settle at school\".\n\n\"It is not surprising that they are often the ones most at risk of exploitation,\" she said.\n\nA Department for Education spokesperson said: \"Every young person should have as secure and stable an upbringing as possible - regardless of their circumstances or background.\n\n\"We have established a new national programme, backed by up £2m funding, to help local areas protect young people from being taken advantage of by criminals or 'county lines' gangs.\n\n\"We are also working to reduce the number of 'out of area' placements for children in care and to improve our response for dealing with missing people.\"", "The birth rate in England and Wales - measured as a proportion of the total population - hit a new low in 2018, according to the Office for National Statistics.\n\nIt says the trend could be driven by falling fertility rates and an ageing population.\n\nFertility rates decreased in all age groups except women aged 40 and over.\n\nLast year was the third in a row in which the number of live births has come down.\n\nIn total, 657,076 babies were born in England and Wales in 2018 - down 3.2% on 2017, and nearly 10% on 2012.\n\nThe birth rate decreased to 11.1 live births per 1,000 population in 2018, from a high of 20.5 in 1947, the ONS report shows.\n\nThe average number of children born to women, known as the total fertility rate, is also down, to 1.7 - from 1.76 in 2017.\n\nThis is a good measure of fertility levels and can be affected by changes in the timing of when women have babies, as well as size of families and population structure.\n\nTotal fertility rate is now at its lowest since the 1999 to 2002 period.\n\nIn England and Wales, ONS stats show that the stillbirth rate has reached a record low for the second year in 2018 - of 4.1 stillbirths per 1,000 births.\n\nA stillbirth is a baby born showing no signs of life after 24 or more weeks of pregnancy.\n\nThe government in England has committed to reducing the stillbirth rate to 2.6 per 1,000 by 2025.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "And then there was one. That could be the dawn chorus ringing out the over the hills of Brecon and Radnorshire all the way to Westminster this morning.\n\nIf the Liberal Democrats seize the seat from the Conservatives, then the UK government’s “working majority“ will be reduced to the most single of single figures.\n\nFor a government to have a simple majority, it must have more seats than the rest combined. But when Theresa May did the sums after her ill-fated calling of the 2017 general election, she fell short.\n\nSo she courted the support of Northern Ireland’s Democratic Unionist Party, giving her a working majority of 13. Slowly but surely that’s been whittled down.\n\nA week after moving in to Downing Street there could be a rude awakening for Boris Johnson this morning to the harsh realities of Parliamentary maths.\n\nAt least he doesn’t have to try to steer some highly contentious issues through the Commons over the autumn months. Oh, wait…", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Havelock workers were angry at news of the redundancies\n\nStaff were told the news after being summoned to a meeting at the shop-fitting company's Kirkcaldy HQ.\n\nThe business, which employs about 300 people, has faced problems over reduced demand for its products.\n\nPrior to the redundancy announcement, the GMB union had claimed cash-flow problems were due to non-payment of money from a contractor in Aberdeen.\n\nIt is understood \" a small number\" of employees will be kept on while the company winds down operations.\n\nHavelock has been a major employer in Fife\n\nDavid Baxendale, of administrators PwC, said Havelock International had faced a challenging trading environment for some time.\n\nBut the directors had finally concluded that there was no longer \"any reasonable prospect for the company to continue to trade\".\n\nMr Baxendale said: \"Prior to our appointment, we explored ways that the business might continue to operate whilst a buyer was sought.\n\n\"However, regrettably this has not proved possible and it has therefore been necessary to make 247 employees redundant with immediate effect.\n\n\"Our priority is to ensure that all employees are assisted in processing their redundancy claims as a priority.\n\n\"We will be in further contact with all staff as soon as possible and will outline the support available to complete redundancy payment forms.\"\n\nUnion bosses said there had been an \"angry response\" from workers at the meeting, which was \"entirely justified\".\n\nGMB Scotland's Allison Cairns said: \"There are serious questions to be answered as to how the company was allowed to get to this point without the workforce being warned or consulted.\n\n\"The plain fact is that this factory does not need to close. There is a quality product here for a buyer willing to make this business work.\"\n\nShe added: \"The consequences if a suitable buyer cannot be found will be simply dire for Fife, for what remains of Scottish manufacturing and worst of all for the 250 people employed here, some of whom will have worked here for a lifetime, all of whom are now faced with being left with nothing.\n\n\"GMB Scotland will do everything in our power to support and assist our members at this time.\"\n\nThe business was bought out of administration last year after the High Street slump dented order numbers.\n\nHavelock International makes and fits furniture for shops and public buildings.\n\nThe firm used to be known as Havelock Europa and was sold through a pre-pack administration process last year to Havelock International, a new firm established by turnaround specialist Rcapital.\n\nThe sale came immediately after the appointment of PwC as administrators.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Did the Liberal Democrats play \"dirty\" to win the Brecon and Radnorshire by-election?\n\nThe Liberal Democrats have won the Brecon and Radnorshire by-election, leaving new PM Boris Johnson with a working majority in Parliament of one.\n\nJane Dodds overturned an 8,038 majority to beat Conservative Chris Davies by 1,425 votes.\n\nMr Davies stood again after being unseated by a petition following his conviction for a false expenses claim.\n\nIt was the first electoral test for Mr Johnson just eight days after becoming prime minister.\n\nIt was also the quickest by-election defeat for any new prime minister since World War Two.\n\nNow, with the thinnest majority, he will have to rely heavily on the support of his own MPs and his confidence-and-supply partners the DUP to get any legislation passed in key votes.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Jane Dodds said the voters had chosen \"hope over fear\"\n\nIt was a bad night for Labour, whose vote share dropped by 12.4% as it was beaten into fourth place by the Brexit Party.\n\nThe result means the Lib Dems now have 13 MPs.\n\nMs Dodds, who is the Welsh Liberal Democrat leader, said: \"My very first act as your new MP when I get to Westminster will be to find Mr Boris Johnson, wherever he's hiding, and tell him to stop playing with the future of our community and rule out a no-deal Brexit.\"\n\nMr Davies congratulated Ms Dodds saying \"I wish her well for the future\" and paid tribute to his family saying they had \"a difficult time over the past few months\".\n\nThe turnout was 59.6%, down from 74.6% at the general election, but it is the highest for a by-election since Winchester in 1997.\n\nNeither Plaid Cymru nor the Greens fielded candidates, to try to maximise the Remain vote.\n\nTory party chairman James Cleverly told BBC Radio 4's Today programme it was a \"very close result in a by-election in which the Lib Dems were expected to romp home comfortably\".\n\nIn a message to Conservative MPs concerned about the government's Brexit policy he said the new prime minister had received a \"clear mandate from parliamentarians\" and an \"even more thumping victory in the leadership election\".\n\n\"I do think it's incumbent on all Conservatives to support the prime minister in what has been a long-standing Conservative policy,\" he said.\n\nBut recently-elected Liberal Democrat leader Jo Swinson said: \"Boris Johnson's shrinking majority makes it clear that he has no mandate to crash us out of the EU.\"\n\nShe denied the party had \"played\" the system by striking a deal with Plaid Cymru and the Greens.\n\n\"I want to have a different voting system but we're working within the system that we have,\" she said.\n\nNew Lib Dem MP Jane Dodds (third from left) celebrates her by-election win\n\nCelebrating victory later on Friday morning with party activists, Ms Swinson said the Lib Dems were \"winning again\" and she would \"fight to keep our country in the European Union\".\n\nMs Dodds, 55, lives in the neighbouring mid Wales constituency of Montgomeryshire and is a child-protection social worker.\n\nThe Lib Dems have held the rural seat for all but nine of the last 34 years and lost at the 2015 general election.\n\nPlaid Cymru leader Adam Price said the \"spirit of co-operation\" between the pro-Remain parties had led to Ms Dodds's election, as he called for another EU referendum.\n\n\"But if the prime minister is intent on a general election, he should know that Plaid Cymru and the other pro-Remain parties are committed to cooperating so that we beat Brexit once and for all,\" he said.\n\nWales Green Party leader Anthony Slaughter said its decision to withdraw from the by-election was \"absolutely vindicated\" by the result.\n\n\"The people of Brecon and Radnorshire have taken the opportunity to cut Boris Johnson's majority in Westminster to a highly unstable one, reducing further the risk of a disastrous crash-out Brexit,\" he said.\n\nHe added: \"The Liberal Democrats won it after doing a deal with Plaid Cymru and the Greens.\n\n\"I think that a lot of voters were determined to get rid of the Conservative, and they voted accordingly. So we were squeezed, but it's a place we have not held for a very long time. The area has changed a bit.\"\n\nProf Laura McAllister, from Cardiff University's Wales Governance Centre, said the result should not be read as a \"resounding victory\" for Remain.\n\nShe pointed out that the three Brexit-supporting parties had 2-3,000 votes more than the Remain alliance.\n\nBut she added: \"There are always nuanced undercurrents to this. The reality is Brexit isn't the only issue people were voting on.\n\n\"People were probably voting on rural and local issues. We can never categorically say this was about Brexit.\"\n\nJo Swinson: \"I will fight to keep our country in the European Union\"\n\nSir John Curtice, professor of politics at Strathclyde University, said the Conservatives were enjoying a \"Boris bounce\" and the result was encouraging for the party despite the loss.\n\nBut he added: \"In an early general election, at the moment at least, the Conservatives would be at risk of losing.\"\n\nHe said the Lib Dems could pick up 40 or 50 seats, which would make winning a large overall majority \"rather more difficult for the Conservatives\".\n\nAs the ballots were counted, the candidates looked on - neither the Tories nor the Liberal Democrats dared to claim victory or concede defeat.\n\nOne thing was certain, the result when it came would be close.\n\nBut a win is a win and the Lib Dems will shout this from the rooftops as proof they can cut through with an anti-Brexit message.\n\nThe Remain alliance proved to be a winning formula, as Plaid Cymru and the Green Party stood aside to give the Lib Dems a clear run against the Tories.\n\nIf the Brexit Party hadn't been standing, the Conservatives might have clinched it.\n\nLabour will look hard at its disastrous result and wonder what might have been with a clearer message on Brexit.\n\nAnd for the Tories, the people of Brecon and Radnorshire have delivered an unwelcome verdict on their former MP and the new prime minister.\n\nBoris Johnson's hands were already tied in parliament and the ropes around his wrists have just been pulled a little tighter.\n\nAt one stage Labour feared it might lose its deposit and blamed voters switching tactically to the Lib Dems.\n\nA Welsh Labour spokesman said: \"We always knew this was going to be a difficult night for us, but we're proud of our positive campaign in Brecon and Radnorshire.\"\n\n\"One thing is clear - voters have rejected Boris Johnson and his divisive, out-of-touch UK Tory government.\"\n\nChris Davies said his family had been through a difficult time over the past few months\n\nPolitical analyst Prof Roger Awan-Scully, from Cardiff University, said: \"Labour need to look very closely at this result. Everything points to not just tactical voting for the Lib Dems but also dissatisfaction with Jeremy Corbyn and [First Minister] Mark Drakeford.\"\n\nThe Brexit Party's Des Parkinson, a retired police chief superintendent, who finished third, said: \"If you look at the actual total of the vote, the Brexiteers won.\n\n\"It shows where the votes are but the prime minister has to deliver a clear Brexit... if he doesn't, then his government is in dire trouble.\"\n\nThe Monster Raving Loony Party pushed the UKIP candidate into sixth place.\n\nVoters have also given their thoughts on the result.\n\nFarmer Trevor Walters voted for Mr Davies and said the Tories might have won, had the Brexit Party not stood, but called the speculation over a Brexit no-deal fallout \"scaremongering\".\n\nHe added: \"We're not going to be left in the lurch. I don't think for one second that'll happen. Something will be done to sweeten the blow of all that and get us engaged with a proper trade deal.\"\n\nIndependent book shop owner Emma Corfield-Walters, who backed the Lib Dems, said: \"None of us know what's going to happen in the future.\n\n\"I think we're all entirely confused on the Brexit issue and I think this result shows us.\"", "The Brexit deadlock has undermined efforts to boost the UK economy, the chairman of the government's Industrial Strategy Council has told Newsnight.\n\nThe council holds the government to account over its industrial strategy.\n\nAndy Haldane, who is also chief economist of the Bank of England, said it was \"plausible\" that one of the \"costs of Brexit is that not as much other stuff has happened as might.\"\n\nBut he added that the strategy could still lift the UK's prosperity.\n\nThe industrial strategy, launched by Business Secretary Greg Clark in 2017, aims to create a more balanced economy by investing in certain sectors to create good jobs.\n\n\"In the absence of Brexit, might more have been done? Perhaps,\" Mr Haldane told the BBC.\n\nBut he stressed that the strategy was a long-term project and that skills, infrastructure and investment problems are not solved overnight.\n\n\"In the grand scheme of things, six months missed here, a year missed there, is less important than sticking to a tried and tested plan,\" he said.\n\nAsked how worried he was about a potential no-deal Brexit on 31 October - a prospect that Conservative Party leadership contender Boris Johnson has said he would countenance - Mr Haldane pointed to the Bank's analysis from last year which suggested that, in a worst case scenario, such a rupture could trigger a deep recession.\n\n\"That was the conclusion we reached then. We've done no updating of that since. That's our best guess - my best guess - as an economist,\" he said.\n\nThe Bank of England's former governor, Lord King, has criticised the Bank of England's no-deal analysis, rejecting its assumptions on how long transport disruption would last and saying the central bank had been \"unnecessarily drawn in\" to commenting on the subject.\n\nMr Haldane responded: \"We are in a situation of quite considerable uncertainty right now and therefore reasonable people can reasonably disagree on the future course of the economy and what's right and what's not.\n\n\"Our role - when asked by Parliament - is to put our best analysis in play.\"\n\nThe current governor of the Bank of England, Mark Carney, is due to step down in January 2020 and the Treasury deadline for applications to succeed him closed last week.\n\nMr Haldane, who joined the Bank in 1989, has been spoken of in some quarters as a potential candidate.\n\nAsked whether he was interested in the top job, and had put his hat in the ring, Mr Haldane said: \"I've got a job currently. It's a job I love. It's a job it's a privilege to carry out. I'm very happy focusing on just that job right now.\"\n\nThe final choice of candidate is likely to be made by Theresa May's successor.\n\nSome analysts have suggested Mr Haldane's chances - who has been unusually outspoken in highlighting the negative economic impact of inequality, the dwindling power of unions and the need for more long-termism in businesses in recent years - would be higher under a future Labour administration.\n\nAsked by Newsnight about Labour's plans to re-nationalize utilities such as water and rail services, Mr Haldane said that it was not the job of the council to comment in advance on the merits of individual policies - from either the government or the opposition - but to evaluate them once implemented.\n\nBut he added: \"This is about forming a view on what works and as importantly what doesn't work. There's no shame, by the way, in policies not working provided you are candid about reaching that judgment and you act in response to it.\"\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.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. An RAF Chinook is dropping 400 tonnes of aggregate to shore up the dam and divert water\n\nThousands of people are being evacuated from a town because part of a reservoir wall has collapsed in floods.\n\nEngineers are pumping water from the 300-million-gallon Toddbrook Reservoir amid fears it could burst and swamp Whaley Bridge in Derbyshire.\n\nPolice have told the town's 6,500 residents to gather at a school, taking pets and medication with them.\n\nA severe flood warning, which means a threat to life, has been issued for the River Goyt below the reservoir.\n\nJulie Sharman, chief operating officer of the Canal and River Trust, said: \"The spillway for the dam has broken away.\n\n\"We are trying to lower the level of the water in the dam in order to reduce the risk of further erosion. There's a risk the dam could break.\"\n\nDet Ch Supt Rachel Swann, of Derbyshire Police, said a multi-agency taskforce had drawn up a plan to address damage to the wall.\n\nEngineers would continue to pump water from the reservoir, she said, and a Chinook helicopter would be used to drop 400 tonnes of aggregate on \"surrounding watercourses\".\n\nThis would \"divert water from entering the reservoir,\" she said, so the water could be reduced to a safe level.\n\nOnce this was done, Det Ch Supt Swann said, work on the wall of the dam could begin.\n\n\"With all that said, at this time the future of the dam wall remains in the balance and I would remind people of the very real danger posed to them should the wall collapse,\" she added.\n\nMs Sharman, of the trust, said officials could not say how long the evacuation could last but they could be working on it \"for days\".\n\nTen pumps from fire services across the country are currently pumping out 7,000 litres of water a minute in a bid to bring down the water level.\n\nThe clay under the spillway has been undermined\n\nAssistant Chief Constable Kem Mehmet said police had plans for every scenario including the dam, which holds back 1.3 million tonnes of water, collapsing.\n\nPolice told residents to gather at Chapel High School in the neighbouring town of Chapel-en-le-Frith and to take pets and medication with them as they \"are not sure how long [it] will take\".\n\nThey added it was \"an unprecedented, fast-moving, emergency situation\", and confirmed a small number of houses in the neighbouring villages of Furness Vale and New Mills have also now been evacuated.\n\nThey said evacuated residents should try to arrange their own accommodation as space was limited, but some local pubs and community halls had offered to take in evacuees.\n\nThe town centre is at risk of being swamped\n\nThe Environment Agency has said about 85% of people in Whaley Bridge have left their homes.\n\nArea director Lee Rawlinson said community spirit has been \"fantastic\".\n\n\"A lot of people have gone up to Chapel or to other relatives. Whaley Bridge can be really proud,\" he said.\n\nMeanwhile, trains between Hazel Grove and Buxton have been blocked because of the flooding, affecting Northern train services between Manchester Piccadilly and Buxton.\n\nJennifer, owner of the Goyt Inn, has been evacuated and is currently in the school.\n\nShe said: \"I rang my partner and said, 'Bring the dog. We have to get out'.\n\n\"We've been told if we need accommodation, something will be organised, but at the moment, [the council] are waiting on structural reports from engineers.\n\n\"The dam is a mess. It really looks very unsafe and there's a lot of water in that reservoir.\"\n\nNigel Carson, who lives near the dam, said he felt some people in the area were not taking the problem \"as seriously as they should\".\n\n\"The whole of the village is vulnerable to this,\" he said.\n\n\"They're estimating that without it raining it will take two to three days to get the water level down two metres [but] it's raining heavily again now, and they need to get it down an awful lot more than two metres to make this safe.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nAlmost all the residents of the town have now been evacuated\n\nDuncan Fife lives on top of the reservoir in the old Reservoir Keeper's house, said: \"We have been telling them for years that the spillway has been clogging up with plants trees and weeds. Just now they are starting to clear it. Why don't they maintain it?\"\n\nBut he added the water has now dropped \"a couple of feet\" since last night.\n\nSymon Trelfa, whose home is near the dam, said he is \"worried I may have no home to return to\".\n\nHe said: \"There were rumours going around about the state of the dam yesterday so I decided to move into my sister's house in Chapel-en-le-Frith.\n\n\"There's gridlock on the local roads at the moment - people are abandoning vehicles.\"\n\nRescue teams are trying to pump the water out\n\nFormer Conservative MP Edwina Currie also lives in the town.\n\nShe said: \"Evacuation is absolutely necessary. I don't think they've got any choice. People are being advised not to take pictures. We are really very, very worried.\"\n\nThe dam is quite old - it was built in 1831 and is an earth-filled construction.\n\nThe problem is the damage is high up. The key is to get the water levels down as fast as you can.\n\nYou can divert it out through channels and there is a plug deep down.\n\nThe key will be to see if it holds overnight. If it does, there's a good chance they can repair the dam but it will take months.\n\nCouncillor Martin Thomas, chair of Whaley Bridge town council, told the BBC the clay under the slabs of the spillway had been undermined when they were lost.\n\nHe said: \"The situation is an unfortunate combination of circumstances.\n\n\"We've had a lot of wet weather recently, the ground is saturated, the reservoir was already full.\n\n\"Something we previously looked at as a benign leisure facility suddenly becomes a real mortal danger.\"\n\nThe worst may not be over as water is still flowing in to the reservoir\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Councillor Martin Thomas said the town was \"eerily quiet\"\n\nRuth George, Labour MP for the area, said the town could be evacuated for \"several days\".\n\n\"It's hard to see how they can get the water in the reservoir down quicker than that,\" she said.\n\n\"The dam had some pretty significant structural repairs a few years ago.\n\n\"We were told after that it was safe but we have had an unprecedented amount of water coming down in the past few days.\n\n\"Nobody is looking at laying the blame. What we want to do is make sure the people in the town are safe.\"\n\nThe Canal and River Trust said it is working with \"other agencies\" and had engineers trying to get water out while sandbags are being put on the edge to shore it up and protect the rest of the concrete.\n\nWhen asked if the dam might \"actually break\" a spokesman responded \"there is a risk of that\".\n\nSandbags are being put in to stop further erosion\n\nHundreds of people have arrived at the evacuation centre\n\nResidents are being evacuated to a nearby town\n\nFollow BBC East Midlands on Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram. Send your story ideas to eastmidsnews@bbc.co.uk.", "UK consumer confidence improved in July, according to new data which showed that Britons are feeling more optimistic about their finances.\n\nMarket research firm GfK said people were feeling more upbeat because of low unemployment and wage growth.\n\nIt also found consumers were less pessimistic about the economic outlook despite the ongoing Brexit uncertainty.\n\nBut GfK warned that optimism could be tested as the 31 October deadline for the UK leaving the EU nears.\n\nThe company reported that its consumer confidence gauge rose to minus 11 in July, an improvement on the minus 13 number recorded in June.\n\nThe number calculated remains negative but is in line with the long-term of average of minus 9, which predates the Brexit referendum.\n\nGfK asked people in July how confident they were about a number of areas such as personal finance and the general economic situation\n\n\"Consumers are marginally more bullish this month - with improvements in levels of confidence across most measures,\" said Joe Staton, client strategy director at GfK.\n\nAs well as rising wages, new data also shows that food prices grew at a slower rate of 1.7% in July, compared with 1.8% in June.\n\nPrices for non-food goods also dropped, down 1.2%, according to the British Retail Consortium and data company Nielsen.\n\nBut Mr Staton added: \"The coming months to the 31 October departure date will test the strength of this confidence.\"\n\nCapital Economics added that the GfK survey had been carried out before Boris Johnson became Prime Minister.\n\n\"As a result, confidence in the UK economy could be knocked in August's data due to rising concerns over a no deal Brexit. After all, the economic outlook balance has tended to follow the twists and turns of the Brexit saga closely.\"\n• None Fate of the UK economy in shoppers' hands", "At least 10 people were injured when fireworks were shot from a moving car into a crowd of pro-democracy activists in Hong Kong.\n\nProtesters had gathered to support a small number of activists detained at a police station in Tin Shui Wai district.\n\nIt is not clear who was behind the incident, which was shared on social media platforms including Telegram.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Taxi driver Jahangir Shan filmed the aftermath of the collapse\n\nNobody was trapped under scaffolding which collapsed at an old shopping centre, firefighters have said.\n\nThe structure came down just after 11:15 BST in Garrard Street, Reading.\n\nCrews used thermal imaging equipment to search the site, which used to be the Friars Walk shopping centre, after initial fears there were casualties under the rubble.\n\nThree people - a site worker and a couple who had been passing by - were taken to hospital with minor injuries.\n\nTony Heselton, incident commander for South Central Ambulance Service, said the worker suffered a head injury while the woman had an ankle injury and her partner suffered shock.\n\nWork to clear the debris began on Thursday evening after emergency services were confident that no-one was trapped.\n\nThe structure came down just after 11:15 BST in Garrard Street, Reading\n\nWitness Louis Stead said he saw the corner of the building fall with an \"almighty crash and lots of dust and debris\".\n\n\"It was horrifying, very shocking and very concerning,\" he said.\n\nTaxi driver Jahangir Shan told the BBC he drove past the scaffolding \"five or six seconds\" before it collapsed.\n\n\"The first thing I thought about was my daughter's face, it brought tears to my eyes,\" he said.\n\n\"I was very lucky. It sounded like thunder. A lot of people were running down the road shouting out names hoping to get a response.\"\n\nGarrard Street has been closed in both directions and people are urged to avoid the area\n\nA witness called Amy told the Press Association she was having coffee on the 14th floor of the nearby Thames Tower building when she saw the scaffolding fall.\n\nShe said: \"There was a lady at the end... I saw her being pulled out. She was moving around so I think she was OK.\n\n\"There was a worker in the rubble as it fell but his fall looked like it was broken and he was able to jump out of it.\"\n\nAnother witness, Gearoid Fallon, added: \"The building itself is being torn down so I just assumed it was part of a demolition thing.\n\n\"A few of the work crew looked quite distraught.\"\n\nThames Valley Police said it had temporarily closed the nearby NCP car park to the public, but there were \"no concerns\" about the building's structure.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Louis Stead filmed this video at the scene\n\nWitness Sabina Jeske said she had been chatting to a client when they heard a builder shouting at people to \"run away\".\n\n\"People started running away and when everything collapsed one lady was caught by the scaffolding and cut her hand,\" she added.\n\nA builder, who was working on a scaffolding site across the road from the collapse, said: \"We heard a loud bang. It sounded unusual... so I stuck my head around the corner and saw the aftermath of the scaffolding collapsing across the street.\"\n\nEmergency services have extended the cordon in Garrard Street\n\nGarrard Street has been closed in both directions and people have been urged to avoid the area. Greyfriars Road and Station Hill were both closed, but have now been reopened.\n\nThe derelict shopping centre is being demolished as part of a £500m housing and retail development at Station Hill in Reading.\n\nThe BBC reported in June that property firm Lincoln MGT had snapped up the highly sought-after development site, becoming its third owner in 13 years.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "An RAF helicopter is dropping 400 tonnes of aggregate to try to shore up a damaged slipway at Toddbrook Reservoir\n\nWater is also being pumped out of the 300-million-gallon reservoir to try and prevent it from flooding.\n\nAbout 1,500 people have been evacuated from Whaley Bridge.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. What does the interest rate cut really mean?\n\nThe US central bank has cut interest rates for the first time since 2008 but not won over President Donald Trump.\n\nMr Trump, who had demanded a big rate cut, was unimpressed with the Federal Reserve's 0.25 percentage point cut that took the federal funds target range to 2-2.25%.\n\nIn a tweet, the president scorned Fed chair Jerome Powell, saying: \"As usual, Powell let us down.\"\n\nThe main stock market indexes on Wall Street all closed more than 1% lower.\n\nAnalysts cited uncertainty over how many rate cuts the market should expect.\n\n\"What the market wanted to hear from Jay Powell and the Federal Reserve was that this was the beginning of a lengthy and aggressive rate-cutting cycle which would keep pace with China,\" tweeted Mr Trump.\n\nAt a news conference following the announcement, Mr Powell said the rate cut had been \"well telegraphed\", but he was not committing to \"just one\" cut.\n\nCutting rates makes borrowing money cheaper for businesses and consumers alike. But support for the measure was not unanimous.\n\nThe cut was opposed by two members of the Fed's Open Markets Committee, the body responsible for setting rates. There were eight votes in favour, including Mr Powell and vice-chair John Williams.\n\nMr Powell said the US economy had grown \"at a healthy pace\" over the first six months of the year.\n\nHowever, there had been \"both positive and negative developments\".\n\n\"Manufacturing output has declined for two consecutive quarters,\" he said.\n\nMr Powell said weak global growth had also played a part in the Fed's decision.\n\nHe said it was not the Fed's job to criticise US trade policy, which has been dominated by a trade battle with China as the two nations have imposed tit-for-tat tariff increases on each other's products.\n\nHe added that trade policy tensions had \"nearly boiled over\" during May and June, \"but now they appear to have returned to a simmer\".\n\nMr Powell denied that the Fed was giving in to pressure from President Trump for a rate cut, saying that there was \"no place\" in the central bank's discussions for political concerns.\n\nThe Fed statement said the labour market remained strong and economic activity had been rising at a moderate rate.\n\n\"Job gains have been solid, on average, in recent months, and the unemployment rate has remained low,\" it added.\n\n\"Although growth of household spending has picked up from earlier in the year, growth of business fixed investment has been soft.\n\n\"On a 12-month basis, overall inflation and inflation for items other than food and energy are running below 2%.\"\n\nInflation is lower than US policymakers would like, which was one of the reasons for the rate cut.\n\nAt present, the US economy is creating plenty of jobs. Unemployment hit a 49-year low in May and was at 3.7% last month.\n\nBut many of those jobs are in the service sector and are low-paying with low hours, economists say.", "Only six of this year's 36 Love Island contestants applied to be on the show.\n\nA parliamentary inquiry found that 24 were head-hunted by ITV's casting team, and another six were put forward by professional talent agents.\n\nITV told Radio 1 Newsbeat: \"Everyone who is seen for the show goes through exactly the same process.\"\n\nMPs on the Digital, Culture, Media and Sport Committee have been looking into reality shows, also including The Jeremy Kyle Show and The Undateables.\n\nThe programme will return next year with two series\n\nITV chief executive Dame Carolyn McCall said: \"The production team continuously looks for people who would be right for Love Island in terms of being able to be in the villa and the personality that they are required to have.\"\n\nShe says they receive around 98,000 applications each year and there is a \"very, very rigorous\" casting process.\n\nTommy Fury and Molly Mae came second in this year's final\n\nWhen asked if contestants are often selected from a small pool of people who know each other, Dame Carolyn said: \"I do not think they just look in that pond. I think they keep it quite open.\n\n\"There are some people who go on Love Island who have never achieved any type of contract or agent or anything like that.\"\n\nThe committee decided to investigate Love Island after the deaths of former contestants Sophie Gradon and Mike Thalassitis. The show has faced scrutiny over its aftercare.\n\nITV assured viewers it had improved care for contestants, including better psychological support and bespoke training on social media and financial management.\n\nThe Jeremy Kyle Show was axed earlier this year after the death of a participant who had failed a lie detector test on the show.\n\nListen to Newsbeat live at 12:45 and 17:45 weekdays - or listen back here.", "The US government had offered $1m for information leading to his whereabouts\n\nHamza Bin Laden, the son of al-Qaeda founder Osama Bin Laden, died in an air strike, US media outlets report, citing intelligence officials.\n\nThe place and date of death were unclear. The Pentagon did not comment.\n\nBin Laden, thought to be aged about 30, had released audio and video messages calling for attacks on the US and other countries.\n\nAs recently as February, the US government offered $1m (£825,000) for information leading to his capture.\n\nHis death was widely reported by US media outlets including NBC News, the New York Times and CNN, citing unnamed US intelligence officials.\n\nBin Laden was seen as an emerging leader of al-Qaeda. The reports say he was killed in a military operation in the last two years and the US government was involved, but the exact date and time were unclear.\n\nPresident Donald Trump declined to comment when questioned by reporters on Wednesday, as did the White House national security adviser, John Bolton.\n\nThere was no confirmation from al-Qaeda. Supporters of the Islamist militant group have urged caution over the reports and are awaiting an official announcement from its leaders, according to analysts at BBC Monitoring.\n\nHamza Bin Laden was officially designated by the US as a global terrorist two years ago. He was widely seen as a potential successor to his father.\n\nHe was believed to have been under house arrest in Iran, although other reports suggest he may have been based near the Afghan-Pakistani border.\n\nHe is thought to have been born in Jeddah in Saudi Arabia before spending years with his mother in Iran.\n\nThe US state department says Bin Laden married the daughter of Abdullah Ahmed Abdullah, or Abu Muhammad al-Masri, who was indicted for his alleged involvement in the 1998 bombings of the US embassies in Tanzania and Kenya.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nIn 2011, US special forces killed his father, Osama, in a compound in Abbottabad, Pakistan. He had approved the attacks on the US on 11 September 2001, in which nearly 3,000 people were killed.\n\nThe US state department says documents seized in that raid suggest Hamza Bin Laden was being groomed to take over the leadership of al-Qaeda. A video of his wedding was found among thousands of other documents.\n\nIn 2017, a leaked message from Bin Laden to his family reportedly informed them that his 12-year-old son had been killed. The circumstances of his son's death were unclear.\n\nIn recent years, al-Qaeda released 11 audio messages from Bin Laden in which he threatened the US, called for attacks to avenge his father's death and encouraged jihadist action in Syria.\n\nIn March 2018, in his last known public statement, he called on the people of the Arabian Peninsula to revolt. Saudi Arabia stripped him of his citizenship in March.\n\nAl-Qaeda's status was undermined during the past decade as the Islamic State group rose to prominence.\n\nIt is a sign of how little is known about Hamza Bin Laden that US officials were never able to definitively confirm his age.\n\nIn recent months they had floated suggestions that he might be in Afghanistan, Pakistan or Iran. But they could not even say for sure in which country one of America's \"most wanted\" was hiding.\n\nThe million-dollar price tag for information was a measure not just of the potential danger he posed but also his symbolic importance to al-Qaeda and its propaganda machine.\n\nBin Laden was only a child when his father helped plot the 9/11 attacks but, according to the extremist group's legend, he was by his side at the time.\n\nFor a son brought up to hate America, avenging his killing at the hands of special forces was always going to be an obsession. In recent years he sent online messages calling for attacks against the US and its allies.\n\nBin Laden's death, if officially confirmed, will silence someone who was emerging as a new voice of Al-Qaeda. However it will not end the threat from an organisation that carried out the world's most notorious terror attack.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Major downpours on Wednesday flooded homes and caused road closures and rail delays\n\nFlooding affecting parts of northern England has \"largely subsided\" and the clean-up is continuing, Cheshire Fire and Rescue said.\n\nHeavy rain left people stranded and roads and rail lines blocked in Cheshire and Greater Manchester.\n\nThe Met Office said 19mm of rain fell in the North West in eight hours on Wednesday, on top of heavy rain that hit the region on Sunday and Monday.\n\nSeven flood warnings remain in place, according to the Environment Agency.\n\nThey include rivers in Poynton, Little Bollington, Heatley, Whaley Bridge, Prestbury and Altrincham.\n\nA 13-year-old boy was rescued from Happy Valley Nature Reserve in Hazel Grove, Stockport, after he became stranded by flowing water.\n\nOne of the firefighters involved in the initial rescue fell into the \"fast-flowing\" water and also had to be rescued.\n\nGreater Manchester Fire and Rescue (GMFRS) described the rescue, using an inflatable path, as \"difficult\" and involving \"acts of bravery\".\n\nNorth West Ambulance Service confirmed two patients had been taken to hospital after they were called out at 17:00 BST on Wednesday.\n\nWater is still being pumped from the A555 Manchester Airport link road, which remains shut\n\nConservationists are assessing the damage at Lyme Park in Disley, Cheshire after severe flooding\n\nRoads and paths were completely cut off in areas of Poynton, Cheshire\n\nFirefighters rescued 11 people from flooded properties in Poynton, Cheshire, and 11 people and four dogs in Bramhall, Stockport, Greater Manchester.\n\nJackie Carter, who lives in Bramhall, said: \"I was working from home yesterday and saw the water starting to come over the patio at the back of the house.\n\n\"Within two hours we were being evacuated. It's the second time in three years - the first time we were out of our house for 11 months.\n\n\"I saved as much as I could, photographs and stuff like that, but there's only a certain amount you can do.\"\n\nMartin Ward says his family were \"in limbo\" after their home was flooded\n\nMartin Ward from Poynton was shocked when he returned to his house earlier and saw the flood damage.\n\n\"The sofa is upside, the freezer is on the floor; the power of the water was just incredible.\"\n\nHe said his family was effectively homeless after about 2ft of water burst through the house.\n\n\"We're in limbo; we're a displaced family at the moment,\" he said. \"We've nowhere to go.\n\n\"Hopefully the insurance.... can find us some accommodation but for how long I've no idea.\"\n\nThe power of the water was just incredible, says Mr Ward\n\nFirefighters carried a young child above the rising floodwaters in Poynton\n\nCheshire East Council said it had responded to more than 150 highways-related flooding calls overnight.\n\nConservationists are assessing the damage at Lyme Park in Disley, Cheshire, which remains closed after severe flooding.\n\nLyme's lead ranger Chris Dunkerley said: \"There is widespread and extensive damage to paths and roads around Lyme, especially close to the streams and ponds that overflowed their banks.\"\n\nThe road has been damaged in Bollington, Cheshire\n\nBollington in Cheshire was affected by flooding. Lorna Hale, who lives there, praised the community spirit and said many locals had helped firefighters.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Lorna Hale This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nAled Seago, who is curate of the parish church in Poynton, said the weather was \"very intense, short bursts of rain\".\n\nHe added: \"We just about saved our youth worker's house but it was a close call - the water was about an inch away from his front door. Someone joked that we needed Noah.\"\n\nThe rail line between Manchester Airport and Wilmslow, Cheshire, was blocked due to flooding, but has since reopened, and the A555 in Stockport, which has flooded for a second time in a week, remains shut between the Woodford Oil Terminal and the A34.\n\nQuick-thinking residents used their bags for life to create a road block on Dickens Road in Poynton\n\nThe flooding left damage in Poynton, Cheshire, where a major incident was declared\n\nBramhall, in Stockport, was also badly hit by flooding\n\nRob Lomas, owner of Glebe Farm caravan park, said some of the vehicles were under water at one point\n\nFloodwater was pumped out of Glebe Farm caravan park near Congleton. The water still got into shops and storage areas where dozens of caravans were parked.\n\nRob Lomas, the park owner, said: \"Things were just floating around and some of the caravans were just well under the water - I've never seen it like this before.\"\n\nPolice are warning drivers not to ignore road closure signs or attempt to drive through water.\n\nStockport Council tweeted there had been reports of drivers moving barriers that are in place to close the road at Bramhall Green roundabout.\n\nNorbury Hall Primary School in Stockport, which had been due to act as a polling station for the Hazel Grove by-election, has been flooded. A mobile polling station has been set up at a nearby pub.\n\nPolice in Wilmslow, Cheshire, said officers were \"dealing with flooding\" and had evacuated affected homes, with Oakenclough Children's Centre open as a rest centre.\n\nAre you affected by the flooding? If it is safe to do so please email us at haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk or you can use WhatsApp on +44 7756 165803\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:", "More than 40 hospital trusts were supplied with pre-packed sandwiches and salads by the Good Food Chain\n\nA sixth hospital patient has died after eating pre-packaged sandwiches and salads linked to a listeria outbreak.\n\nThe latest death is one of nine previously confirmed cases linked to Good Food Chain products. There are no new linked cases, Public Heath England said.\n\nThe individual fell ill with listeriosis at Western Sussex Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.\n\nThe trust said it was \"greatly saddened\" by the news.\n\nDr Maggie Davies, chief nurse and director of infection prevention and control, said: \"Patient safety is always our absolute priority and as soon as we were informed we may have received contaminated chicken sandwiches from the Good Food Chain we removed all products from our hospitals.\n\n\"Since then, we have had no further listeriosis infections reported to us and we want to reassure our patients, visitors and staff that the risk remains very low.\"\n\nThe trust, which has sites in Worthing, Chichester, and Shoreham-by-Sea, was one of 43 hospital trusts across England supplied with pre-packed sandwiches and salads by the Good Food Chain, which has since gone into liquidation.\n\nThe other deaths occurred at four different hospital trusts - two at Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust, one at Aintree University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust in Liverpool, one at University Hospitals of Derby and Burton NHS Foundation Trust, and the fifth at University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust.\n\nThere is another case at Western Sussex Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, one case at Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust and one at East Kent Hospitals University NHS Foundation Trust, which have not been fatal.\n\nThe Good Food Chain, based in Stone, Staffordshire, voluntarily ceased manufacturing on 5 June following the deaths of five hospital patients.\n\nThe business was supplied with meat produced by North Country Cooked Meats, which has since tested positive for the outbreak strain of listeria and also stopped production.\n\nIn a statement on Thursday, Public Health England said it was continuing to test all samples of listeria on an ongoing basis to check if they were linked to the outbreak.\n\nIt said it had tested 34 samples and none were linked to the outbreak.\n\n\"Our investigations continue and the public should be reassured that the risk continues to be low,\" it said.\n\nFollow BBC South East on Facebook, on Twitter, and on Instagram. Send your story ideas to southeasttoday@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Last updated on .From the section Cricket\n\nMen's Ashes: First Specsavers Test, Edgbaston (day one of five)\n\nAustralia's Steve Smith made a magnificent 144 on his return to Test cricket after the ball-tampering scandal to halt England's charge on the opening day of the Ashes at Edgbaston.\n\nThe former captain dragged the tourists from 122-8 to 284 all out, with England surviving two overs to close on 10-0 to delight the partisan crowd.\n\nSmith, joining team-mates David Warner and Cameron Bancroft in making his Test comeback, was booed to the crease and witnessed a collapse of five wickets for 23 runs from the non-striker's end.\n\nHe finally found a capable ally in number 10 Peter Siddle, the 34-year-old playing only his third Test in three years.\n\nThey added 88 for the ninth wicket, frustrating England and silencing the crowd until Siddle was caught at short leg off Moeen Ali for 44.\n\nSmith, who was on 85 when he was joined by last man Nathan Lyon, drove Ben Stokes for four to reach his 24th Test century, then cut loose to punish the weary bowlers.\n\nThe last-wicket pair shared 74, taking advantage of an England attack without James Anderson, who is awaiting the results of a scan on a calf injury that restricted him to only four overs.\n\nWhen Smith was eventually bowled to give Stuart Broad his fifth wicket, Rory Burns and Jason Roy negotiated an awkward period in the gloom without alarm.\n• None 'Smith cannot rewrite history but he deserves a second chance'\n• None 'Distraught' Anderson says sorry to England bowlers over injury\n• None I've found my love of cricket again - Smith\n\nIf the usual protracted Ashes build-up was stunted by England's World Cup triumph, the drama, atmosphere and fluctuations of this first day were a perfect reminder of what battles between cricket's oldest rivals are all about.\n\nFor so long, it belonged to England as Broad and Chris Woakes made light of Anderson's absence by exploiting the seam movement offered by a slow surface.\n\nAustralia's collapse delighted those in the Hollies Stand, who waved sandpaper during the national anthems, taunted the visiting fans and told captain Tim Paine he will be \"sacked in the morning\".\n\nThe chaos was added to by umpires Aleem Dar and Joel Wilson, who had four decisions overturned and gave another three that would have been changed if they had been referred.\n\nThrough it all, Smith was unmoved, playing one of the all-time great Ashes innings not only for how he rescued his side, but for doing so while dealing with the emotion and abuse drawn by his return.\n\nBy the end, particularly with pessimism surrounding the fitness of Anderson, he had given Australia the upper hand.\n• None Download the TMS podcast after day one at Edgbaston\n\nEngland were tortured by Smith's 687 runs in their 4-0 defeat down under 18 months ago and here the ex-skipper ominously showed that his obduracy, idiosyncrasies and thirst for runs have not been dimmed by his time out of the game.\n\nWhile the Hollies Stand sang that he will \"cry in a minute\" - a reference to his tearful news conference after the ball-tampering scandal - Smith first absorbed England's pressure then grew into an innings that later saw him flay the ball to all parts.\n\nHe left with flourishes of the bat, chastised himself when he played a false shot and got into awkward positions as he nudged and guided the ball square of the wicket. All the while he fidgeted and adjusted his kit.\n\nHis judgement was impeccable. When he was given out lbw on 34, playing no stroke to Broad, it was umpire Dar who had made the mistake, not Smith.\n\nSmith trusted Siddle with the strike and only when he was joined by Lyon did he emerge from his cocoon to take the attack to England.\n\nBy the end, they were bowling to him with all nine fielders on the boundary, and the torment was only finished when he was bowled aiming a heave at Broad.\n\nThe suspicion before this first day was that this would be a series where two fragile batting line-ups would be dominated by skilful pace bowlers.\n\nEven with Smith's heroics, there was plenty here to prove that theory right, as the rest of Australia's top nine combined faced fewer deliveries than their number four.\n\nWith Broad and Woakes bowling an impeccable length, the tourists collectively got stuck on the crease or played across the line to be pinned on the pads or caught behind the wicket.\n\nWhen Broad served up a rare short ball, Paine obligingly hit it straight to Burns at deep square leg.\n\nIt was encouraging for England that Burns and Roy, with only 10 caps between them, watchfully got through an over apiece from pace bowlers Pat Cummins and James Pattinson.\n\nHowever, a side bowled out for only 85 by Ireland last week have plenty of work to do on Friday if they are to bat themselves back into a position of strength.\n\n'One of the great, great innings' - what they said\n\nAustralia's Steve Smith on BBC Radio 5 Live: \"It hasn't really sunk in yet. I'm really proud of the way I was able to stand up today.\n\n\"We were in a bit of trouble there and we had to dig deep on a wicket that wasn't easy.\"\n\nFormer England captain Michael Vaughan on BBC Test Match Special: \"Sometimes you have to accept greatness is in front of you. Today we saw one of the great, great innings.\n\n\"Where Steve Smith has come back from, after an emotional rollercoaster, for him to deliver this is incredible.\n\n\"This one innings is winning Australia the Test match. Can Joe Root do tomorrow what Steve Smith did today?\n\n\"The greatest format delivers once again, and the greatest cricketing contest, in my eyes, delivered once again.\"\n\nBBC cricket correspondent Jonathan Agnew: \"There is no doubt who today belongs to. Smith was booed whenever he went out to bat and scored not just a hundred but produced a truly outstanding innings.\"\n\nEngland bowler Stuart Broad: \"After losing the toss you take bowling a team out for under 300 every day of the week.\n\n\"Here day two is usually the best time to bat so that is a positive and the way Smith played shows runs can be got on the that pitch. We are pretty happy.\"", "The BBC's iPlayer now has permission to routinely keep shows available for a year rather than just 30 days, after Ofcom said it could expand its service.\n\nSome shows will be available for even longer, the broadcasting watchdog said.\n\nOfcom said \"the BBC's proposed changes to BBC iPlayer could deliver significant public value over time\".\n\nThere is likely to be \"an adverse impact\" on rival services, but that will be outweighed by the public value, the regulator decided.\n\nThe BBC will now have to negotiate with independent programme-makers who make many of its shows to formalise the extension beyond 30 days.\n\nThe corporation said the decision was \"great news\", adding: \"We'll be able offer so much more to the public.\"\n\nThe Bodyguard finale helped drive the BBC iPlayer's biggest day ever with more than 12.6m requests last year\n\nThe regulator added that the change \"could increase choice and availability of public-service broadcast content, and help ensure the BBC remains relevant in the face of changing viewing habits\".\n\nOfcom estimated that \"the increase in BBC iPlayer viewing could be 14%-24% for general content and 6%-9% for children's content, with an overall increase in BBC iPlayer viewing... of 20%-33%\".\n\nClockwise from top left: Gavin & Stacey, Love Island, Victoria and Happy Valley will be on BritBox\n\nThe decision follows last month's announcement that shows like Love Island, Gavin & Stacey, Gentleman Jack and Broadchurch will be on ITV and the BBC's new streaming service BritBox when they fall off the broadcasters' catch-up platforms.\n\nThe BBC and ITV are joining forces to set up the paid-for subscription service in the UK later this year as a rival to the likes of Netflix.\n\nOfcom noted that the iPlayer changes could mean \"there is likely to be an adverse competition impact on potential new UK-focused subscription services such as BritBox\".\n\nBut it added that there is \"unlikely to be substantial harm to audiences\". It also pointed out \"ITV's support for the proposals\", along with ITV's decision to join forces with the BBC for BritBox.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Roads have been closed, rail services cancelled and homes flooded as severe downpours affect large areas of the north of England.\n\nA day of heavy rain has led to 16 flood warnings across the North West, the North East, Yorkshire and the Midlands.\n\nVehicles were left trapped in the town, and a nursery, several homes and a farm were also swamped.\n\nFirefighters said they rescued 11 people from flood water, and warned those in the area against taking to the roads.\n\nMotorists were urged to drive only if \"absolutely necessary\", and Poynton's town clerk said people affected by the flooding were welcome at the town's civic hall.\n\nNeil Griffiths, from Cheshire Fire and Rescue Service, said flood waters were beginning to recede on Thursday night.\n\nA car stranded in flood water in Crossley Road in Manchester\n\nFlood water has also caused disruption to the motorway network, resulting in the closure of the M60 between Stockport and Cheadle.\n\nEleven people and four dogs have been rescued from rising water in Bramhall, Stockport, Greater Manchester Fire and Rescue Service said.\n\nJackie Carter, from Bridge Lane, Bramhall, said she was trying to find somewhere to stay overnight because her house was contaminated by flood water.\n\nThe weather has been horrendous here; we have had torrential rain all day.\n\nAt the main Bramhall roundabout, where three roads meet, there is currently a lake about two feet deep.\n\nTwo men were paddling around in a canoe and were told to get out of the water by angry firefighters.\n\nIf they fell in, the firefighters would have had to rescue them.\n\nDerbyshire Police said a number of properties had been flooded across the High Peak, in particular in and around Buxton, Whaley Bridge and New Mills.\n\nRail passengers were warned that floodwater could affect East Midlands, Northern and TransPennine Express services throughout Wednesday evening.\n\nNorthern said there was severe disruption particularly in Manchester, Liverpool, Lancashire and Cumbria.\n\nIt said it had not been possible to provide rail replacement services for all, due to the poor conditions of the roads and a lack of buses.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Major downpours have led to roads being closed, rail services suspended and homes flooded\n\nAnd workmen have had to pump 800,000 litres (176,000 gallons) of water from the new £290m dual carriageway - the A555 in Stockport, Greater Manchester .\n\nIt is the second time in a week the relief road linking the A6 at Hazel Grove and the M56 has been flooded.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Poynton Town Clerk This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy 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 flooded section of road beneath Hall Moss Lane in Woodford was completed in 1995 and forms part of the government-funded Manchester Airport Relief Road project which opened in October 2018.\n\nFlights at Manchester Airport have also been disrupted.\n\nThe A555 was closed in both directions\n\nVideos posted on social media showed drivers negotiating deep water shortly before the A555 was closed to traffic.\n\nFire crews from Wilmslow posted pictures to social media of cars which had become stranded in water on the road, and urged motorists not to drive through floods.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 2 by Wilmslow Fire Station This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nOn Tuesday, a bridge collapsed as flash flooding hit part of North Yorkshire when a month's rain fell in four hours.\n\nThe Army was drafted in to help with clean-up efforts in Grinton after storms left scores of homes, roads and businesses flooded.\n\nSoldiers helped the clean-up in Grinton, North Yorkshire, on Wednesday\n\nThe Met Office said 19mm of rain fell in the North West between midnight and 08:00 BST on top of heavy rain which deluged the region on Sunday and Monday.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. How the village of Bellerby is coping with the flash flooding\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 3 by Warrington Fire Station This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy 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 re-opened on Tuesday evening before more heavy rain.\n\nCheadle MP Mary Robinson said after Monday's closure that the flooding of the road was an \"emergency\", and called for \"better communication\" between Stockport Council and drivers who used the road.\n\nManchester Airport said passengers were using alternative routes and had not been delayed.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Gary Cohn, Trump's former US chief economic adviser, weighs in on US-China trade war\n\nUS President Donald Trump's trade war with China is backfiring and impacting the US economy, according to his former chief economic adviser.\n\nThe tariff battle has had a \"dramatic impact\" on US manufacturing and capital investment, Gary Cohn told Radio 4's Today programme.\n\nThe trade war was \"a very convenient excuse\" for China to slow down its overheated economy, he added.\n\nMr Cohn, a free trade advocate, resigned from the Trump administration in March 2018.\n\nThe 59-year-old former president of Goldman Sachs bank was an unusual hire for Mr Trump because he was a Democrat in a Republican administration.\n\nHe also focused on economic internationalism, while the president was set on economic nationalism.\n\nMr Cohn served as director of the National Economic Council in the Trump administration from January 2017 to April 2018, announcing he was resigning after Mr Trump decided to impose import tariffs on steel and aluminium.\n\n\"I think the Chinese economy is driven by credit and credit availability,\" Mr Cohn told the BBC's Today programme.\n\n\"Credit and credit availability is determined by the central government. And they can turn it on and they can turn credit off.\"\n\n\"I think the Chinese economy was going to slow down with or without a trade war,\" Mr Cohn said.\n\nThe idea that tariffs would solve trade imbalances between the US and China was a \"long-time view\" of Mr Trump's, Mr Cohn added.\n\nHowever, he said Mr Trump was right to try to tackle China's theft of US intellectual property and blocking of US companies' access to Chinese markets.\n\n\"That has to be fixed,\" he said.\n\nBut he warned: \"I think everyone loses in a trade war. We are an 80% service economy. The service side of the economy is doing very well, because, guess what, it's not being tariffed.\"\n\nMr Cohn said the tariffs had made it expensive to import vital products from China, counteracting the effects of Mr Trump's tax cuts, which were designed to stimulate the US economy.\n\nHe said: \"When you build plant equipment, you're buying steel, you're buying aluminium, you're buying imported products and then we put tariffs on those, so literally the tax incentive we gave you with one hand was taken away with the other hand.\n\n\"So we are not seeing the manufacturing job creation. And I think if we get through this tariff situation, there's a real opportunity to see it here in the United States.\"\n\nMr Cohn is less than flattering about the US president's policies.\n\nHe thinks the trade wars have created geopolitical uncertainty, which is stopping businesses from investing. Strikingly he also thinks that, for all the rhetoric, the trade war with China is hurting the US more than it is the Chinese.\n\nMr Trump won't like reading that. Mr Cohn though delivered for the President on tax cuts and deregulation, one of the things that has given boosters to the US economy - unemployment at record lows, wages rising, consumer confidence increasing.\n\nYes, the tax cuts have disproportionately helped the rich, and handed massive tax windfalls to corporate America - but with a growing economy, and interest rates falling - that doesn't seem to be a big concern.\n\nIn a separate BBC interview, Joseph Hinrichs, president of automotive at US carmaker Ford, said the impact of Mr Trump's tariffs on his business had \"subsided\" since last year.\n\n\"Last year, there was a significant impact to our business because of steel and aluminium tariffs,\" he said.\n\n\"Actually, we're net exporters of vehicles to China, so that the increased tariffs last year were put on in retaliation to the US tariffs, that hurt us last year, but they've come back down to 15%. They were 40% in the second half of last year.\n\n\"Of course, there's more tariffs on parts and autos coming into the US.\n\n\"We're still seeing some impact from that, so on balance, we're still paying for some of the increased tariffs, but they're not as bad as they were last year.\"", "The EU uses its geographical indications scheme to promote iconic products like Scotch whisky\n\nScotch whisky and salmon must get the same protection after Brexit even if the UK leaves with no deal, Scotland's rural economy secretary has said.\n\nFergus Ewing called for \"iconic\" Scottish products to keep their protected status under European rules.\n\nThe EU uses geographical indications (GIs) to protect products including whisky, salmon and Ayrshire earlies potatoes.\n\nThe UK government said it will use its own GIs \"when EU rules cease to apply\".\n\nThe Scottish government said it was worried about guidance from the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra), which it claims contradicts UK government assurances about GIs.\n\nWriting to his newly-appointed UK counterpart, Theresa Villiers, Mr Ewing said her department's \"deeply concerning\" position was \"causing real uncertainty\".\n\nScottish farmed salmon is among the products currently protected\n\nMr Ewing wrote: \"I wish again to put on record that the Scottish government find the approach being adopted by the UK government deeply concerning.\n\n\"It is not enough to simply hope and believe that the EU will not take steps to remove existing UK GIs from their registers, especially if we are not to protect their GI products from day one in the UK scheme.\n\n\"This stance is causing real uncertainty for producers and I implore you to do more to attempt to secure this mutual recognition in negotiations taking place.\"\n\nIn response, a Defra spokeswoman said geographical indicators \"played a crucial role in protecting the provenance and heritage of some of our best-loved food and drink products\".\n\nShe added: \"That is why the UK is ready to launch its own GI schemes at the point at which EU rules cease to apply in the UK.\n\n\"Our amazing food sector will be ready and waiting to continue selling ever more, not just here but around the world once we leave the EU on October 31.\"", "Drivers could face compulsory eye tests once they turn 70 under new plans being considered by the government.\n\nThe Department for Transport (DfT) is researching whether mandatory checks could make Britain's roads safer.\n\nOne proposal would involve drivers over 70 undergoing an eye test every three years to keep their licence.\n\nThe DfT wants to \"find out more\" about whether this could reduce road deaths before deciding whether to introduce the policy.\n\nAs part of the practical driving exam, learner drivers must pass a sight test where they show they are able to read a number plate from 20m (65ft) away.\n\nAfter they pass, they are legally obliged to ensure their sight remains good enough to drive.\n\nMotorists risk prosecution if they need to wear glasses or contact lenses for driving and get behind the wheel without them.\n\nLast year, 4,603 drivers over 70 had their licences revoked because of their eyesight, the DfT said.\n\nIn the past five years, 37 people have been killed and almost 1,100 people injured in crashes where uncorrected or defective eyesight was a contributing factor.\n\n\"The UK has some of the safest roads in the world but we are always looking at ways to make them safer,\" the DfT said.\n\n\"As part of this, we want to find out more about how eyesight testing could play a role in reducing the number of fatalities on our roads.\"\n\nA full public consultation would be held before any decision on eye testing is made, it said.", "Louise Porton was overheard laughing at a funeral parlour after her first daughter died\n\nA mother has been found guilty of murdering her two young children 18 days apart.\n\nLouise Porton killed Lexi Draper, three, and 17-month-old Scarlett Vaughan in Rugby in 2018. The 23-year-old had researched how long it took for body parts to go cold.\n\nThe part-time model denied responsibility for their deaths but was convicted at Birmingham Crown Court.\n\nProsecutors said her daughters \"got in the way\" of Porton's sex life.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nJurors were told Lexi had been dead for some time on 15 January before her mother called for help. When the call handler asked if the girl was breathing, Porton replied \"no\".\n\nFewer than three weeks later on 1 February, her second daughter, Scarlett, was found \"completely lifeless\".\n\nDoctors could not find any natural reason why either Lexi Draper or Scarlett Vaughan died, prosecutors said\n\nPorton, from Beechwood Court, Rugby, had called 111 because her daughter's condition \"did not seem urgent\". The toddler had died by the time paramedics arrived nine minutes later.\n\nBoth Lexi and Scarlett's deaths were consistent with deliberate airway obstruction. Doctors \"could not find any natural reason why either, let alone both, should have died\", prosecutors said.\n\nDuring her trial, jurors heard how Porton did not seem distressed by her daughters' deaths.\n\nShe admitted sending nude photographs to a photographer and offering sex acts in return for money while Lexi was in hospital in early January.\n\nThe girl had been admitted on 4 January with breathing problems. Her symptoms were consistent with deliberate airway obstruction, however doctors at the time were not suspicious and put her condition down to a chest infection.\n\nThe day after Lexi's death, on 16 January, Porton accepted 41 friend requests on the dating app Meet Me and was also messaging men on another app, Badoo.\n\n\"My little girl passed away yesterday,\" she said to a man named Dave, as they chatted about her leg tattoo, before replying \"its alrite [sic]\" to his condolences.\n\nShe also arranged a date with a man named Leon that night and was overheard laughing in a funeral parlour days after Lexi died.\n\nPorton sent nude photos and offered to perform sex acts while Lexi was in hospital\n\nPorton denied that her online searches, including \"can you actually die if you have a blocked nose and cover your mouth with tape\" and \"how long after drowning can someone be resuscitated?\", had anything to do with Lexi and Scarlett's deaths.\n\nShe said she had loved her daughters who were \"always making me laugh\", but conceded to jurors that parenting was \"not one of the easiest things to do\".\n\nThe children \"got in the way of [Porton] doing what she wanted, when she wanted and with whom she wanted,\" Oliver Saxby QC, prosecuting, said.\n\nThe girls' father, Chris Draper, did not have contact with them and had never met Scarlett, something he said made their deaths \"all the more heartbreaking\" for him.\n\n\"The only comfort is that Lexi and Scarlett are together,\" he said.\n\nDet Supt Pete Hill, from Warwickshire Police, said: \"I will never be able to understand why Louise Porton murdered her children.\n\n\"She has lied repeatedly to friends, family and professionals to cover her tracks. At no point throughout the whole investigation has she ever shown any real signs of emotion.\"\n\nPorton will be sentenced on Friday.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The government has announced an extra £2.1bn of funding to prepare for a no-deal Brexit - doubling the amount of money it has set aside this year.\n\nThe plans include more border force officers and upgrades to transport infrastructure at ports.\n\nThere will also be more money to ease traffic congestion in Kent and tackle queues created by delays at the border.\n\nShadow chancellor John McDonnell described the plans as \"an appalling waste of taxpayers' cash\".\n\nThe package also includes money for stockpiling medicines to ensure continued supplies and a national programme to help businesses.\n\n\"With 92 days until the UK leaves the European Union it's vital that we intensify our planning to ensure we are ready,\" said Chancellor Sajid Javid, announcing the move.\n\n\"We want to get a good deal that abolishes the anti-democratic backstop. But if we can't get a good deal, we'll have to leave without one.\n\n\"This additional £2.1bn will ensure we are ready to leave on 31 October - deal or no-deal.\"\n\nThe shadow chancellor said the extra money was \"all for the sake of Boris Johnson's drive towards a totally avoidable no-deal\".\n\nHe added: \"This government could have ruled out no-deal and spent these billions on our schools, hospitals, and people.\n\n\"Labour is a party for the whole of the UK, so we'll do all we can to block a no-deal, crash-out Brexit.\"\n\n\"Turbo-charging\" no-deal preparation is the energetic promise of the new Treasury, which under previous management had been accused by the now prime minister and his Brexiteer allies of dragging its feet on funding for such measures.\n\nSome of this boost, however, is a repeat prescription for vital medicine supply - spending tens of millions again on reserving cross-Channel ferry capacity and for specialist warehousing and stockpiling that was not, in the end, required after the last Brexit deadline.\n\nAll this is designed to mitigate the anticipated freight gridlock around Dover and Calais.\n\nBut that is not entirely in the government's hands. Much depends on whether the French authorities choose to enforce full customs and health checks on freight from the UK.\n\nThe flow across the Channel also depends on the preparedness of many smaller traders, more than half of whom have not signed up to the most basic customs registration that will become mandatory for European trade under no-deal.\n\nAn advertising campaign will target this vital group. It will have to persuade them that no-deal is highly likely, even as the prime minister himself suggests the chances are vanishingly small.\n\nLiberal Democrat treasury spokesman Chuka Umunna said the money was a \"drop in the ocean\".\n\n\"They promised us an extra £350m each week for the NHS, now they are making more money available just to ensure access to medicine.\"\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson has previously said he is willing to take the UK out of the EU on 31 October - whether a Brexit deal has been agreed or not.\n\nFormer Border Force director-general Tony Smith said the extra money was a \"step in the right direction\" but more should have been done earlier.\n\n\"I don't understand why this wasn't implemented three years ago when the government knew we were leaving the European Union,\" he said.\n\nChancellor Sajid Javid said the UK had to \"intensify\" its planning\n\nThere could be a row over the pledge to spend such a vast sum on preparing for no-deal, given Boris Johnson's previous comment that the chances of this happening were a \"million to one\", said the BBC's assistant political editor Norman Smith.\n\nAnother contentious area will be the government's plan to spend around £130m on a huge public information campaign on advice and help for the event of no-deal, he said.\n\nIn comparison, David Cameron's decision to send leaflets to every household in the run-up to the 2016 Brexit referendum had a total cost of £9m.\n\nConservative peer Baroness Altmann, a former pensions minister, said: \"This is huge amounts of taxpayers' money that is being spent on something the government itself has said will be hugely damaging to the British economy and to the British way of life.\"\n\nBut Chief Secretary to the Treasury Rishi Sunak insisted the latest funding was not a waste, even if the UK ended up leaving with a deal.\n\n\"A lot of the money we are spending is going to go on things that we would need to spend anyway because we're leaving the European Union,\" he told BBC Radio 4's Today programme.\n\n\"Investment in things like our ports, our border infrastructure... all of that is money we should be spending anyway for those new arrangements.\"\n\nThe new money consists of £1.1bn which will be provided to departments and devolved administrations immediately, while a further £1bn will be made available if needed.\n\nThis comes on top of £4.2bn, which has been allocated since 2016 for Brexit preparations by the previous chancellor, Philip Hammond.\n\nShadow chancellor John McDonnell described the plans as \"an appalling waste\"\n\nBut not all of that money would have been spent on getting ready for a no-deal scenario.\n\nThe measures announced by Mr Javid include £344m to be spent on new border and customs operations.\n\nThis includes recruiting an extra 500 border force officers, in addition to 500 already announced, while there will also be more money for training customs agents and processing UK passport applications.\n\nAnother £434m will be spent on ensuring continuity of vital medicines and medical products, including freight transport, warehousing and stockpiling.\n\nOf the rest, £108m will go on promoting and supporting businesses \"to ensure they are ready for Brexit\", including a national programme of business readiness and \"helping exporters to prepare for, and capitalise on, new opportunities\".\n\nThere will also be a public information campaign and an increase in consular support for Britons living abroad, at a cost of £138m.\n\nMeg Hillier, chair of the Public Accounts Committee, said she was \"sceptical about how much can be spent with the time available\".\n\nShe said her committee had been told the UK was now past \"the point of no return\" for effective spending to mitigate the effects of no deal, adding: \"My biggest question is how on earth can you spend that amount of money in time, how can you recruit and train border guards in the time available, 91 days, it's just not feasible.\"", "Coverage: Ball-by-ball Test Match Special commentary on BBC Radio 5 Live Sports Extra and BBC Sport website, plus in-play highlights and text commentary\n\nEngland's bid to regain the Ashes from Australia begins with the first Test at Edgbaston on Thursday.\n\nThe home side won the World Cup just over two weeks ago, but were beaten 4-0 on their tour down under in 2017-18.\n\nEngland have not lost a home Ashes series since 2001 and have not lost at Edgbaston to any side in 11 years.\n\nThey have opted against handing a debut to pace bowler Jofra Archer, instead preferring Chris Woakes on his home ground.\n\nAustralia are yet to confirm their team, but batsmen Steve Smith, David Warner and Cameron Bancroft are in line to play Test cricket for the first time since being banned for their part in the ball-tampering scandal on the tour of South Africa in 2018.\n\nThe series, the latest start to an Ashes in the UK, will move on to Lord's, Headingley and Old Trafford before the urn is lifted at The Oval after a fifth Test that begins on 12 September.\n\nEngland captain Joe Root was on his first tour in charge 18 months ago, when England were outplayed on the field and dogged by problems off it.\n\nBen Stokes, this week restored as Test vice-captain, missed the tour after an incident outside a Bristol nightclub, and wicketkeeper Jonny Bairstow was accused of 'headbutting' Bancroft in the same Perth bar where England Lions batsman Ben Duckett would later pour a drink over James Anderson.\n\n\"You look back at an experience like that and take as much out of it as you can,\" said 28-year-old Root. \"I felt absolutely gutted and raw at the end of it.\n\n\"I never want to lose a big series like the Ashes, but it does make you more steely and desperate to turn things around this time.\"\n\nUntil 2005, England went 20 years without lifting the urn on home soil. Since then, each captain - Michael Vaughan, Andrew Strauss and Alastair Cook twice - has got his hands on the tiny trophy at The Oval.\n\nAlthough Root admitted he had \"dreamt\" about joining them, he said his team must focus on playing \"strong cricket\".\n\n\"It's easy to get carried away in a dream world and it is something growing up as a kid you want to be a part of,\" he told BBC Sport.\n\n\"It's an opportunity for this team to put themselves in the bracket with some famous teams, but we have to earn that right. We have to play some good cricket to get there and we're more than capable of doing so.\"\n• None Inside the mind of an Ashes captain\n\n'Our circle is unbreakable' - Paine not intimidated\n\nFor Australia, Thursday sees them return to the ground where they were heavily defeated by England in the World Cup semi-final this month.\n\nEdgbaston is famous for its partisan support of the home team, but Paine claimed he could name 15 more intimidating venues in world cricket.\n\n\"It's great to be out on the ground. It's not as great if you're the person copping the songs, but it's one of those things,\" he said.\n\n\"The guys are looking forward to that. It's part and parcel of coming here and it can sometimes bind the group and make them even better.\n\n\"We've spoken about making sure we're driving our own energy, building our own atmosphere out on the ground. If we can do that we know that our own circle is unbreakable.\"\n\nPaine took over as captain following the sandpaper scandal that saw then captain Smith and deputy Warner banned for a year and opening batsman Bancroft for nine months.\n\nSmith and Warner were booed throughout the World Cup, and wicketkeeper Paine said: \"We spoke about the fact we think it's going to go up a notch.\n\n\"It's got the potential to unsettle anyone,\" he said. \"They're human beings. They've got feelings. They're no different to anyone else.\"\n\nWhere will the Ashes be won and lost?\n\nCuriously, there is a similar look to the strengths and weaknesses of both sides.\n\nWhereas each team is stacked with fast-bowling options, their batting looks vulnerable, especially in English conditions that usually favour the seamers.\n\nEngland have Archer, all-rounder Sam Curran and Mark Wood, who is currently nursing a side injury, waiting in the wings, while Australia have only three places for Pat Cummins, Mitchell Starc, James Pattinson, Peter Siddle and Josh Hazlewood.\n\nHowever, the hosts were bowled out for only 85 in their win over Ireland at Lord's last week, with Root now opting to promote himself from number four to three in a bid to stiffen the top order.\n\nWith Australia similarly fragile, it is a huge boost for the tourists to be able to call on Warner and Smith, who was man of the series in the last Ashes thanks to his 687 runs at an average of 137.\n• None 'I'd be quietly confident bowling to England's top three' - McGrath column\n• None 'It will be carnage' - pundits' Ashes predictions\n\nOn a wet Wednesday at Edgbaston, Root was asked if it will be a pattern of the series for the batsmen to struggle.\n\n\"It will play a massive hand, especially if conditions are how they are today,\" he said. \"It's not like sides have been consistently banging out 500 around the world, never mind in England or Australia. That has been the rhythm of cricket globally in this format.\n\n\"There is a lot of talk about bowlers, but with that comes the opportunity for batters to prove a point.\"\n\nAs interesting as the action with bat and ball will be the interaction between the two sides.\n\nThe last series down under was occasionally bad-tempered, but since then both teams have looked at their conduct - England in the wake of the Stokes incident, Australia after the ball-tampering affair.\n\nNot only that, but England and Australia players have featured in global Twenty20 leagues together. Bairstow and Warner, for example, have opened together with great success in the Indian Premier League.\n\nPaine said: \"We're going to play competitive Test match cricket like any other nation does. Our guys understand what's expected of them. They are role models not just for Australian people but all around the world.\"\n\nAs well as being a battle for cricket's oldest prize, the next five Tests mark the start of the World Test Championship - a new, two-year, competition introduced by the International Cricket Council in the hope that it will give more context to Test cricket.\n\nIn a league of nine teams - India, New Zealand, South Africa, Sri Lanka, Pakistan, West Indies and Bangladesh also feature - each side plays six series, three home and three away over the course of the next two years.\n\nPoints are awarded for the results of every Test, with the top two meeting in a final in the UK in 2021.\n\nThe points earned for a win depends on the length of the series, with the maximum number on offer in each series, 120, divided by the number of Tests. In this five-match series, each win is worth 24 points.\n\nTo coincide with the beginning of the Championship, names and numbers will feature on the back of players' shirts for the first time in Test cricket.\n\nIn another first, concussion substitutes are also being introduced, having being trialled in domestic games in England and Australia. If a player is injured, he must be replaced like-for-like - so a batsman cannot be switched for a fast bowler.\n\nThis series is the last of England coach Trevor Bayliss' reign. The Australian has opted to leave his post when his contract expires at the end of the summer.", "James McArdle (left) and James McAvoy have been less than impressed by Quentin Letts' review of Peter Gynt\n\nActor James McArdle has called theatre reviewer Quentin Letts \"pathetic\" after he made remarks about the \"whining\" accents of Scottish actors.\n\nThe critic was writing about the play Peter Gynt at London's National Theatre, in which Glasgow-born McArdle stars, when he made the comment.\n\nHe said \"the fruity purr\" of Oliver Ford Davies was \" a welcome calm... from the whining Scottish accents\".\n\n\"To go for our accents is something else,\" said McArdle.\n\nThe play is a modernised version of the Ibsen classic Peer Gynt.\n\nIbsen's original 19th Century work is set in Norway and tells the story of the adventures of the titular character from the Norwegian mountains to the North African desert.\n\nDavid Hare's updated version sees McArdle's hero as a 21st Century Scottish soldier, in a work with singing and milkmaids described by Letts as \"dancing Dolly Partons\".\n\nLetts said in the Sunday Times Culture column: \"After so much frenzied movement and whizz-bang theatrics, the fruity purr of veteran thesp Oliver Ford Davies as the button moulder brings a welcome calm to proceedings, and relief at last from the whining Scottish accents.\"\n\nSpeaking to Scottish broadcaster STV, McArdle (who appeared in the TV series Love & Marriage) said he didn't want to give Letts credit as a \"real reviewer\", following the write-up.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by STV 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\n\"To go for our accents is something else. That critic is infamous for saying things like that and I think it's a bit pathetic and I don't want to give him credit as a real reviewer to be honest.\"\n\nHe added: \"This whining Scottish accent is currently playing one of the biggest parts ever written in one of the most famous theatres in the world. I don't really have time for Quentin Letts to be perfectly honest with you.\"\n\nMcArdle's criticism of Letts follows comments made by fellow Scottish actor James McAvoy, who hit out at Letts over his \"derogatory\" comments when the review was first published on 14 July.\n\nMcAvoy - soon to be seen in the BBC's adaptation of His Dark Materials - filmed a reply to Letts, which he shared on social media.\n\n\"Quentin, I would love to have a conversation with you. I'll be doing a play soon in the West End, at the end of the year,\" said McAvoy.\n\n\"Maybe we could have a post-show discussion about why you think it's okay to label the sound of an entire nation in such a derogatory fashion?\n\n\"Where the person with an English accent gets referred to by his name as an individual with fruity superlatives, whereas the people who are whining just get referred to as Scottish. Not as individuals, not as actors, just an entire nation.\"\n\nLetts is known for being controversial in his reviews and last year incited a backlash after he asked in his Daily Mail review whether actor Leo Wringer was cast in a Royal Shakespeare Company production \"because he is black\", leading the RSC to accuse him of having a \"blatantly racist attitude\".\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Jazz artist Bumi Thomas was born in Glasgow in 1983, but now faces deportation after the Home Office said she had no right to remain in the UK.\n\nA law change, six months before Bumi was born, affected the automatic citizenship rights of children born in the UK to parents from the Commonwealth.\n\nHer parents were unaware they had to fill in a naturalisation form and thought Bumi was a citizen like her older sister, who was born before the law was enacted.\n\nBumi has appealed against the decision, with her case set to be heard in October 2019.\n\nShe spoke to the BBC about finding out she wasn't a citizen, and her battle to be British.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Belgian car crash survivor: \"I think I am very lucky\"\n\nA Belgian woman found alive after being trapped in her car for six days during the recent heatwave has spoken out about her ordeal.\n\nCorine Bastide, 45, disappeared near Liège on 23 July, two days before temperatures reached 41.7C.\n\nHer car had swerved into a ditch in a remote area, injuring her spine and leaving her unable to exit the car.\n\nThough severely dehydrated, she remained conscious and survived by drinking rainwater.\n\nShe was found on Monday after her family raised the alarm to police, who issued a missing persons alert.\n\nFrom her hospital bed in the city, she told Belgian broadcaster RBTF she thought no-one would find her in what she describes as a \"terrifying heat.\"\n\n\"The first night, my mobile didn't stop ringing. I tried to answer it but I couldn't because my arm was too sore,\" she recalled.\n\n\"The next day, it stopped ringing.\"\n\nShe remembers losing consciousness every time she moved her arms to try to escape. Eventually, after much effort, she managed to open the car door with her foot.\n\n\"The most difficult thing was lying on pieces of glass. I tried to hoist myself up but I had the impression that my back was being torn.\"\n\nThere was no food or drink in her car before the crash, so when it began to rain following the heatwave, she collected rainwater to drink in an empty chewing gum box.\n\n\"I also used a wet branch to create the sensation of moisture in my mouth. But I didn't feel hungry, \" she added.\n\nWhen a car stopped near the roundabout where she went off the road, she cried out for help.\n\n\"'Corine, is it you?' they asked. They knew my name.\"\n\nAmong the drivers was the mother of her son's friend who had seen the missing persons posters and immediately called the emergency services.\n\nShe spoke of her extreme gratitude towards the woman who had saved her.\n\n\"She told me she had been looking for me everywhere. She stayed with me all the time and that woman, I think she is my guardian angel.\"\n\nDespite her horrific ordeal, Ms Bastide says she feels lucky to be alive. Throughout, she never lost hope because she thought of her children.\n\n\"I wanted to live for my children. I didn't want them to ever think that I had made a mistake...\n\n\"It was imperative that I got out of this situation so I could do all of the things I had planned to do with my children. It was they who gave me the strength to carry on.\"\n\nMs Bastide's son told The Times newspaper that she would have to undergo surgery and stay in hospital for several weeks.\n• None Why Europe's heatwaves may become more frequent", "Mark McKinty was stopped by police in July\n\nA former Ulster Unionist councillor who resigned after being caught drink-driving has been banned from driving for three-and-a-half years.\n\nMark McKinty, of Bankhall Road in Magheramorne, served on the Mid and East Antrim Borough Council.\n\nBallymena Magistrates' Court heard the 31-year-old was stopped on Ballypollard Road in Larne on 5 July at 23:00 BST.\n\nPolice said McKinty's eyes were glazed, he was slow to respond and appeared confused.\n\nHe failed a breath test at the roadside and a further test showed 118 microgrammes of alcohol in 100ml of breath.\n\nThe legal alcohol limit for drivers in Northern Ireland is 35 microgrammes of alcohol in 100ml of breath.\n\nMcKinty stood down from Mid and East Antrim Borough Council on Wednesday.\n\nHis barrister told the court his client had been at a friend's house, had a drink and then made the decision to drive a short distance home.\n\nHe said his client's \"budding political career lies in ruins\" because of that decision.\n\nThe court heard that McKinty had been convicted of a similar drink driving offence in 2013.\n\nThe defence lawyer said McKinty had set up a restaurant in Larne but was not taking a wage from it.\n\nHe added that McKinty would no longer receive £1,100 a month as a councillor after resigning his position.\n\nOutside court, McKinty said he had made \"a grave mistake\".\n\nHe said he wanted to \"issue a heartfelt and sincere apology to residents and anyone else who felt let down\" by his actions.\n\nWhen asked if he would return to politics in the future, he said: \"That's yet to be seen.\"\n\nIn a statement, the UUP said McKinty had told the party his actions were \"unacceptable for a public representative and damaged trust in democracy\".\n\nThe party said it has started a process to fill the vacant council position.\n\nThe judge said there were two highly significant aggravating factors in the case - the high alcohol reading and the fact it was McKinty's second such offence.\n\nHe fined him £400, a £15 offender levy and banned him from driving for three-and-a-half years.", "Strictly's class of 2019 - but Jamie Laing (centre) had to pull out after the red carpet launch\n\nTV and radio presenters, soap stars, sportspeople, a YouTuber and a Viscountess - that's who is taking to the dancefloor for the 17th series of Strictly Come Dancing.\n\nBroadcaster Anneka Rice rose to fame on Channel 4's Bafta-nominated game show Treasure Hunt in the 1980s, before being given her own BBC One show, Challenge Anneka.\n\nShe joked: \"I haven't danced since I was seven and Miss Beer sent me home from my ballet class because I was hopelessly uncoordinated. My family and friends haven't seen me dance since, not at a wedding or round a handbag so it's going to be a challenge for my partner.\n\n\"In fact I've asked for two, one on each side. I can't see myself in a long frilly dress either. But I'm feeling recklessly excited. Strictly has always been my autumn's entertainment and now I'm part of it! My children will probably leave the country.\"\n\nMore recently, the 60-year-old has appeared on Celebrity Mastermind and Come Dine With Me, as well as Celebrity Hunted.\n\nOlympic rower James Cracknell promised to bring some \"dad dancing\" to the show early on. Cracknell was made an OBE in 2005 after winning gold in the coxless fours at the 2000 and 2004 Olympics.\n\nThe 47-year-old oarsman, who rowed for Cambridge in this year's Boat Race, said: \"It's going be really interesting having no confidence in it and then going 'OK, can you do it?'\"\n\nIn the official Strictly press release, Cracknell joked he was looking forward to taking part \"having spent so many years mucking around in a rowing boat with big men in tight lycra,\" and that \"it's time I learned a new skill\".\n\nHe added: \"I need to apologise to my kids in advance for the embarrassment.\"\n\nBBC Radio 1 DJ Dev Griffin - who presents the afternoon weekend show alongside Alice Levine - came second in a dance competition at a Pontins holiday park in 1996, when he danced to MC Hammer's Can't Touch This.\n\nGriffin was a finalist on 2017's Celebrity MasterChef and has appeared on other celebrity programmes, such as Mastermind. He's vowed to improve on those results by winning Strictly.\n\nHe said: \"I am really good at dancing. I never had any formal dance training, but I am pretty good, I have made myself good. All I want is to win. I don't believe in doing things for taking part, if you are going to do something, you do it to win.\"\n\nFormer Arsenal and England footballer Alex Scott said she \"felt like a kid at Christmas\" after her participation was revealed.\n\nScott, who is now one of the country's leading football pundits, won the Strictly Comic Relief special in 2018. \"This is a show that I've always wanted to be a part of,\" Scott admitted. \"When I did [Comic Relief], I was like, 'I want to be part of the main one.'\n\nThe former Lioness out-danced fellow ex footballers Chris Kamara and David Ginola en route to winning the 2018 Comic Relief Strictly special, alongside dance partner Pasha Kovalev.\n\nSeduction singer Michelle Visage - best known for her role as a judge on the US reality TV show RuPaul's Drag race - is also among the contestants.\n\nShe took part in Celebrity Big Brother in 2015, and was recently seen on the West End stage in Everybody's Talking About Jamie.\n\nTable tennis champion Will Bayley took gold for Great Britain at the 2016 Summer Paralympic Games in Brazil.\n\n\"I'm so proud to be on the show, it's my family's favourite show,\" he said. \"I have no dance experience at all, but I hope I can do well. I want to inspire people with a disability - that would mean a lot to me. I want to prove to people I can do this.\"\n\nEmma Thynn, Viscountess Weymouth, is a chef, model and a contributing editor for British Vogue, and also runs Longleat safari park with her family.\n\nThe 33-year-old mother of two - who married Ceawlin Thynn, Viscount Weymouth, in 2013 - said she had never danced professionally but was sure it would be \"such an amazing experience from start to finish\".\n\nCBBC presenter Karim Zeroual is a former child actor who starred in CBBC's The Sparticle Mystery. He said he was \"pinching\" himself after being offered the chance to take part.\n\nHe said: \"I want the lot. The skimpiest of clothes, the widest of flares, the brightest of colours and the tallest Cuban heels a guy can find! The more flamboyant the better... sequins galore please!\"\n\nBBC sports news presenter Mike Bushell said being revealed as a Strictly contestant felt \"like a weird dream\" but he wanted to fly the flag for \"all the dad dancers\".\n\nThe 53-year-old added he \"thought they'd got the wrong person\" when he got the call from the producers, because people frequently confuse him with former BBC colleague and 2009 Strictly winner Chris Hollins.\n\nFormer Coronation Street actress Catherine Tyldesley, 35, played Rovers Return barmaid Eva Price on the ITV Soap from 2011-2018 and said she was \"so excited\" and equally \"terrified\" because she \"literally can't dance\".\n\nShe said: \"I love to dance on a night out if I've had a couple of drinks and me and Alfie [her son] silly dance in the kitchen, but that's it, I'm terrified.\"\n\nTeenage social media star Saffron Barker - whose book Saffron Barker Vs Real Life topped the Sunday Times bestseller list - said she was \"very grateful for the opportunity\".\n\nShe added that she was inspired by the success of another of last year's finalists, fellow YouTuber Joe Sugg. \"I'm excited to follow in his footsteps,\" she declared. \"He did absolutely amazing... I've got a lot to live up to.\"\n\nEastEnders actress Emma Barton, who plays Honey Mitchell, was one of the first names to be announced.\n\nBarton said she was a big fan of Strictly and was therefore \"over the moon\" to be asked to appear in series 17.\n\nFormer England goalkeeper David James said he was persuaded to compete by ex-contestant and former swimmer Mark Foster, who had an \"amazing experience\" on the dancefloor.\n\nJames, 49, who was the oldest player at the 2010 World Cup in South Africa, said he was \"really excited\" to be chosen and had \"some big shoes to fill\" following previous appearances by sports stars.\n\nComedian Chris Ramsey, who starred as Jack Pearson in the BBC Two sitcom Hebburn, said he was \"really buzzing\" but noted that while he is hungry for success, he has never been a natural shoe shuffler.\n\n\"You will not find me on the dancefloor at parties,\" said the 32-year-old. \"You will find me at the buffet table... All night.\n\n\"At my wedding, I danced with my wife; that one song took about six months' practice, and I definitely stood on her feet a couple of times.\"\n\nKelvin Fletcher is best known for playing Andy Sugden on ITV soap Emmerdale between 1996 and 2016.\n\nThe 35-year-old was drafted in as a late replacement after Made In Chelsea's Jamie Laing was forced to pull out after injuring his foot while recording the group dance in the launch show.\n\nFletcher said being on Strictly was \"a dream come true\", but was also \"bittersweet\" because it came about as a result of Laing's withdrawal.\n\nLaing said: \"I'm absolutely devastated that I'm unable to continue in the competition. I was so excited to hit the dance floor.\"\n\nHosts Claudia Winkleman and Tess Daly are clearly excited. Are you?\n\nThis year's series will see the return of judges Shirley Ballas, Craig Revel Horwood and Bruno Tonioli, but Dame Darcey Bussell will be replaced by Motsi Mabuse - sister of Strictly professional Oti.\n\nLatin dancer Nancy Xu, a dancer in West End show Burn the Floor and a finalist on So You Think You Can Dance? in China, will replace the outgoing Pasha Kovalev as a professional dancer.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "CBI chief Carolyn Fairbairn has previously called for a Brexit deal that unlocks confidence\n\nThe Confederation of British Industry (CBI) has warned the government that neither the UK nor the EU is ready for a no-deal Brexit on 31 October.\n\n\"While the UK's preparations to date are welcome, the unprecedented nature of Brexit means some aspects cannot be mitigated,\" said the CBI.\n\nIt has published practical steps it says the UK, EU and firms can take.\n\nA government spokesman said the UK has increased the pace of planning for no-deal.\n\nThe CBI had previously said leaving the EU with a deal was essential to protect the economy and jobs.\n\nNew Prime Minister Boris Johnson has made Michael Gove responsible for planning a no-deal Brexit.\n\nMr Gove has said the UK government is currently \"working on the assumption\" of a no-deal Brexit.\n\nHe said his team still aimed to come to an agreement with Brussels but, writing in the Sunday Times, he added: \"No deal is now a very real prospect.\"\n\nThe CBI's report What Comes Next? The Business Analysis Of No Deal Preparations advises what measures businesses can take to reduce the worst effects.\n\nThe advice is based on a study of existing plans laid out by the UK government, European Commission, member states and firms.\n\n\"And although businesses have already spent billions on contingency planning for no deal, they remain hampered by unclear advice, timelines, cost and complexity,\" the CBI says.\n\n\"Larger companies, particularly those in regulated areas such as financial services, have well-thought-through contingency plans in place, though smaller firms are less well prepared.\"\n\nThe CBI has warned of disruption to UK firms\n\nThe report is based on thousands of interviews with firms of all sizes and sectors, including 50 trade associations, covering all areas of the UK economy.\n\nThe CBI says that in a no-deal Brexit some 24 of 27 areas of the UK economy would experience disruption.\n\nSpeaking to the BBC's Today programme, Josh Hardie, the CBI's deputy director general, said: \"A deal is absolutely essential if we're to manage the economy in the best way that we can.\"\n\nBut he said preparing for a no-deal scenario did not mark a change in tack for the CBI, which campaigned to remain in the EU and then backed Theresa May's proposed deal.\n\n\"If you see a storm coming, you put down the sandbags,\" he said. \"It doesn't mean you're going to stop all the flood water, you'll probably still lose the kitchen but you might save the bedroom and that's where we are right now.\"\n\nHe said meetings between businesses and the government needed to \"scale up - and they have to scale up now\". He said that talks about no-deal preparations had been postponed since an initial March deadline to leave the EU was delayed until 31 October.\n\nThe UK had been due to leave the EU on 29 March, but former Prime Minister Theresa May asked for an extension and the date was pushed back to 31 October.\n\nA UK government spokesperson said: \"This is a constructive contribution from the CBI, acknowledging the importance of all businesses preparing for no deal on the 31 October.\n\n\"While we have done more to prepare than this report implies, since the new prime minister was appointed the government has stepped up the pace of planning for no deal. The chancellor has confirmed all necessary funding will be made available for vital no deal preparations. This includes funding for a major nationwide communications campaign to ensure that people and businesses are ready.\n\n\"Crucially, while there is more to do, the CBI observes that the UK is ahead of the EU in planning for no deal.\"", "Doctors in Northern Ireland have warned health services could be put under extra pressure due to \"punitive, unexpected pension tax bills\".\n\nThe British Medical Association (BMA) said the move has caused doctors to consider cutting working hours and taking early retirement.\n\nPension rules introduced in 2016 mean that consultants are penalised if they breach their pension savings allowance.\n\nThe Department of Health said it is closely monitoring the situation.\n\nAcross the UK the pension changes and the nature of NHS pensions, have meant consultants and others earning more than £110,000 a year risk large, unexpected tax bills when their income increases.\n\n\"Concerns about potential impacts on service provision have been raised with us by trusts and the BMA,\" a spokesperson said.\n\n\"Taxation - including pension taxation - is a reserved matter and decisions on tax relief on pension contributions are taken by the Treasury.\n\n\"Department of Health officials are in close contact with counterparts in England and Wales on this issue.\"\n\nThe BMA is a trade union which represents and negotiates on behalf of doctors and medical students in the UK.\n\nDr Anne Carson says the tax means doctors are essentially working extra for nothing\n\nAnne Carson, chair of BMA Northern Ireland's consultant committee, said matters are \"grim\".\n\nDr Carson, a radiologist, has reduced her clinical hours from about 60 to about 30 per week.\n\nIn an interview with BBC News NI, she said she was now considering retiring if the situation is not resolved within two years.\n\n\"Consultants are reducing hours, they are retiring early, they are unable to do the extra work,\" she said.\n\n\"Waiting lists are increasing and will continue to increase in the next 18 months as understanding of this hits and the bills come.\"\n\nTo combat waiting list backlogs, doctors were relied upon for working additional hours in weekend clinics\n\nDr Carson said it is not about avoiding paying taxes.\n\n\"Consultants are already taxed on their pay,\" she said.\n\n\"This is about the punitive tax there is for taking on additional work, for example covering for colleagues, covering maternity leave, taking on management work or waiting list initiatives.\"\n\nHowever, BMA Northern Ireland said patients are already being affected as waiting lists are not being tackled to the same degree as before.\n\nIn order to tackle the backlog in orthopaedic waiting lists, the Department of Health set up weekend clinics, but they often relied on some doctors working additional hours.\n\nA BMA survey found 45% of consultants intended to reduce their working hours because of the taxation\n\nDr Carson said doctors want to help.\n\n\"We are committed to addressing the issues around waiting lists and transformation in Northern Ireland, but due to the way the tax system is set up it essentially means that we would be doing that additional work for free.\"\n\nA BMA survey of 1,600 consultants was carried out online over June and July.\n\nOf the 214 who responded, 19% had already cut their working hours in order to address the issue.\n\nForty five percent of respondents said they intended to reduce their working hours in the next few years because of the issue.\n\nThe government is consulting on plans to make the system more flexible including allowing doctors to reduce their pension contributions.\n\nWhile doctors are well paid, the work they take on at the weekend is in addition to what can be a stressful week's work.", "Last updated on .From the section Horse Racing\n\nPeckham teenager Khadijah Mellah will ride out at Glorious Goodwood on Thursday and make a little bit of history in front of 25,000 people.\n\nThe 18-year-old student is believed to be the first person in the UK to appear in a competitive horse race while wearing a hijab.\n\nShe will ride in the all-female Magnolia Cup - an amateur jockey's charity race - alongside former Olympian turned jockey Victoria Pendleton, BBC presenter Alexis Green and TV personality Vogue Williams.\n\n\"From a young age, I have wanted to be the person that people look up to,\" Khadijah told BBC Sport.\n\n\"I have already started receiving other messages from Muslim girls and it makes me really happy to hear from all these people that I'm affecting positively.\"\n\nKhadijah got into horse riding seven years go, but had not sat on a racehorse before April this year. She has been training at Newmarket in the build-up to the Goodwood Festival.\n\n\"People have been very welcoming to the prospect of having a new face in the jockey industry,\" she said.\n\n\"I enjoy having conversations about people who are genuinely curious.\n\n\"Sometimes it's hard explaining my background over and over again to lots of different people, but generally I like explaining where I've come from and how I've got to where I have.\"\n\nAccording to the Muslim Women's Sport Foundation, the number of female British Muslim Jockeys - past and present - is in \"single digits\". But in the horse racing world, Khadijah views her identity as a conversation starter.\n\n\"When I ride out in Newmarket I do try to spot any other women of colour and there was only one in over 200 riders,\" she said.\n\n\"But it doesn't faze me; it means that I end up talking to loads of people and making great connections, so I'm happy.\n\n\"It makes me feel sort of blessed because not many people get the opportunity to represent. It adds a little meaning to life.\"\n\nA documentary called Riding A Dream is being made about Khadijah, in which she says: \"There's quite a stereotype around Muslim girls and them not being able to follow their sporting passions and dreams.\"\n\nKhadijah first joined Brixton's Ebony Horse Club, when her mum came across a leaflet in a local mosque.\n\nWhile training to be a jockey, Khadijah has balanced studying for her A-levels and a part-time job, as well as continuing to volunteer and mentor younger riders at Ebony Horse Club every week.\n\nShe has been training extensively for the five-furlong and 110 yards (1,110m) flat race being staged on the third day of the fixture to raise funds for the Wellbeing of Women healthcare charity.\n\n\"My introduction to race horses started off a bit rocky,\" she said. \"They were quite scary at first. I was a nervous wreck before my first gallop. It was quite a shock how fast you go. When you're on a racehorse you feel absolutely everything.\"\n\nKhadijah says she is feeling \"confident\" about the race, mixed with \"nervousness\" about the scale of the event.\n\n\"I'm very competitive so it would mean the world if I did come first, and I feel like a lot of people would be celebrating if I did - the support behind me would be great,\" she said.\n\n\"I never thought I'd have a future in racing at all. But now that I've been introduced to it and I've been riding racehorses for the past couple of weeks, I've fallen in love with it and I'm definitely going to keep at it.\n\n\"And maybe one day get into big races and become an amateur or an apprentice.\"", "Zoe Ball has lost 780,000 weekly listeners from her Radio 2 breakfast show, the latest industry figures show.\n\nThe presenter took over from Chris Evans in January, after he left the station to join Virgin Radio.\n\nIn the second quarter of 2019, Ball's figures fell from 9.05m to 8.27m - but her breakfast show is still the most popular, industry body Rajar said.\n\nElsewhere, new classical music station Scala Radio, whose presenters include Simon Mayo, reached 250,000 listeners.\n\nBut that doesn't seem to have dented the popularity of its main commercial rival Classic FM, which increased from 5.3m in the first quarter of this year to 5.6m in the second.\n\nThe other major new station to launch this year - Country Hits Radio - recorded 208,000 listeners in its first three months on air.\n\nBall's decrease in listeners means Ken Bruce's mid-morning show on Radio 2 becomes the most popular radio programme in the UK, with 8.49m listeners.\n\nBruce said: \"After 34 years as a part of the BBC Radio 2 family, I'm astounded that the allure of my daily grumpy musings, coupled with PopMaster, continue to entertain. Many thanks to the long-suffering listeners.\"\n\nKen Bruce's mid-morning show on Radio 2 is now the most popular radio programme in the UK\n\nBBC Radio 1's Greg James attracted 5.19m listeners this quarter - his highest listening figures since taking over the breakfast show last August.\n\nNick Ferrari's LBC breakfast show also reached a new record audience of 1.4m, while the station as a whole attracted 2.4m weekly listeners - its best ever figures.\n\nEddie Mair, who left the BBC last year, has added 120,000 listeners to LBC's late afternoon show since he began presenting it in September 2018.\n\nAnother station to reach a new record audience was Kisstory - which attracted 2.32m listeners. As BBC 6 Music dropped to 2.29m this quarter, Kisstory is now the most popular digital-only station in the UK.\n\nRoman Kemp increased Capital's breakfast show audience to 3.8m. This was the first quarter where his show has been broadcast across the whole of the UK.\n\nPreviously, each regional Capital station had its own breakfast show, which collectively attracted 3.73m in the previous quarter.\n\nVick Hope and Sonny Jay co-host the Capital breakfast show with Roman Kemp (centre)\n\nChris Evans also went up slightly, boosting his audience on Virgin Radio from 1.04m to 1.11m.\n\nOther national breakfast shows which improved their audience included Tom Green and Daisy Maskell (Kiss), Ronan Keating and Harriet Scott (Magic) and Nicky Campbell and Rachel Burden (BBC Radio 5 Live).\n\nThe latest figures don't fully reflect Heart's new national breakfast show - as Britain's Got Talent judge Amanda Holden didn't join Jamie Theakston as a co-presenter until June.\n\nSimilarly, the recently-launched breakfast show on Hits Radio hosted by Fleur East, Greg and James will post its first listening figures next quarter.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "A high-quality restaurant in prison, where inmates can learn valuable skills in cooking and hospitality, is making a \"significant\" difference in cutting reoffending rates, say researchers.\n\nThe Ministry of Justice study suggests inmates trained in the Clink restaurant are much less likely to be stuck in the revolving door of returning to prison.\n\nClink chief Christopher Moore says it connects inmates with future jobs.\n\nHe says it means the training project \"works on both sides of the walls\".\n\nA Ministry of Justice spokesman said the report shows that the Clink's \"unique opportunity to work in a professional restaurant\" reduces the chance of re-offending.\n\n\"Education and employment are key if we are going to drive down reoffending which costs the taxpayer £18bn each year,\" he said.\n\nThe research, from the ministry's Justice Data Lab, compared the behaviour after release of inmates who had been through the restaurant training project and other prisoners with similar records of offending.\n\nIt found that for those trained in the Clink's flagship restaurant in Brixton Prison, the reoffending rate was 11%, compared with 32% for similar inmates who were not involved in the project.\n\nAcross four of the prisons where the project is running - Cardiff, High Down in Surrey, Brixton and Styal in Cheshire - 15% of those who had worked in the training scheme went on to reoffend within a year, while among the comparison group there was a 22% rate of reoffending.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Debbie: \"I feel really positive because I've got something to look forward to\"\n\nThe analysis says the impact of the Clink project is the equivalent to 16 fewer offences per 100 people leaving prison per year.\n\nAmong the wider prison population, levels of reoffending are even higher.\n\nThe most recent figures show that among adults released from custody, 37% have reoffended within a year, and among those who have been released from sentences of less than a year, the reoffending rate is 62%.\n\nThe restaurants, offering fine dining behind the jail walls, but with plastic cutlery and no alcohol, are open to the public.\n\nDiners are pre-vetted and must under-go security checks at Brixton and High Down, due to the restaurants being located within the prison walls.\n\nFor the past five years, prisoners have been trained in preparing and serving food, while they serve their sentences.\n\nBut the purpose is to get inmates ready to go straight into jobs and to cut the risk of stepping back into crime.\n\nThe Clink project is working with eight prisons, providing the experience and self-discipline of regular, skilled work.\n\nIt also helps prisoners to get City and Guilds vocational qualifications and to link them with employers in restaurants, hotels and the hospitality industry.\n\nJohn Beck, a City and Guilds manager, says this is about giving people a \"second chance\" and overcoming the \"significant stigma associated with hiring ex-offenders\", which means many people leaving prison do not have access to the training they need to work.\n\n\"Educating prisoners is not a reward for committing a crime - it's about preventing further crime from being committed,\" he said.\n\nMr Moore says that too often people leave prison with \"no friends, no jobs and no money\", creating conditions that are ripe for an ex-offender to go back to crime.\n\nThe Clink project works with offenders before and after release and organises the transition into jobs, in a catering industry that faces a shortage of skilled staff.\n\n\"It gets people back on track - so they're highly trained and used to working hard and in a team,\" he says.\n\nMr Moore wants to see more prison education projects that can link practical, vocational skills with the needs of future employers.", "An artificial intelligence system should be recognised as the inventor of two ideas in patents filed on its behalf, a team of academics says.\n\nThe AI has designed interlocking food containers that are easy for robots to grasp and a warning light that flashes in a rhythm that is hard to ignore.\n\nPatents offices insist innovations are attributed to humans - to avoid legal complications that would arise if corporate inventorship were recognised.\n\nThe academics say this is \"outdated\".\n\nAnd it could see patent offices refusing to assign any intellectual property rights for AI-generated creations.\n\nAs a result, two professors from the University of Surrey have teamed up with the Missouri-based inventor of Dabus AI to file patents in the system's name with the relevant authorities in the UK, Europe and US.\n\nUnlike some machine-learning systems, Dabus has not been trained to solve particular problems.\n\nInstead, it seeks to devise and develop new ideas - \"what is traditionally considered the mental part of the inventive act\", according to creator Stephen Thaler\n\nThe first patent describes a food container that uses fractal designs to create pits and bulges in its sides. One benefit is that several containers can be fitted together more tightly to help them be transported safely. Another is that it should be easier for robotic arms to pick them up and grip them.\n\nThis diagram shows how a container's shape could be based on fractals\n\nThe second describes a lamp designed to flicker in a rhythm mimicking patterns of neural activity that accompany the formation of ideas, making it more difficult to ignore.\n\nLaw professor Ryan Abbott told BBC News: \"These days, you commonly have AIs writing books and taking pictures - but if you don't have a traditional author, you cannot get copyright protection in the US.\n\n\"So with patents, a patent office might say, 'If you don't have someone who traditionally meets human-inventorship criteria, there is nothing you can get a patent on.'\n\n\"In which case, if AI is going to be how we're inventing things in the future, the whole intellectual property system will fail to work.\"\n\nInstead, he suggested, an AI should be recognised as being the inventor and whoever the AI belonged to should be the patent's owner, unless they sold it on.\n\nHowever, Prof Abbott acknowledged lawmakers might need to get involved to settle the matter and that it could take until the mid-2020s to resolve the issue.\n\nA spokeswoman for the European Patent Office indicated that it would be a complex matter.\n\n\"It is a global consensus that an inventor can only be a person who makes a contribution to the invention's conception in the form of devising an idea or a plan in the mind,\" she explained.\n\n\"The current state of technological development suggests that, for the foreseeable future, AI is... a tool used by a human inventor.\n\n\"Any change... [would] have implications reaching far beyond patent law, ie to authors' rights under copyright laws, civil liability and data protection.\n\n\"The EPO is, of course, aware of discussions in interested circles and the wider public about whether AI could qualify as inventor.\"\n\nThe UK's Patents Act 1977 currently requires an inventor to be a person, but the Intellectual Property Office is aware of the issue.\n\n\"The government believes that AI technology could increase the UK's GDP by 10% in the next decade, and the IPO is focused on responding to the challenges that come with this growth,\" said a spokeswoman.", "The Sikh Sewa Society, who are known for feeding Manchester's homeless, have been at Whaley Bridge today handing out food and drink to emergency workers.\n\nThis has brought praise from Buxton Mountain Rescue Team, who tweeted: \"The generosity of the public is very humbling.\n\n\"Thank you to the Sikh Sewa Organisation, who kindly travelled from Manchester to donate some tasty dishes.\n\n\"You guys are all helping to keep our volunteers going during their long shifts at Whaley Bridge. It’s greatly appreciated.\"", "Mady Gardner from Austin, Texas, was born without a left arm below her elbow. The 'Hero Arm' assists her with everyday living and tenses the same muscles as a biological hand.", "Rescue workers have been searching around Bracklinn Falls\n\nA 23-year-old woman has died after getting into difficulty at a waterfall in Stirlingshire.\n\nAn air ambulance helicopter along with other emergency services were called to Bracklinn Falls in Callander at about 11:30.\n\nThe Coastguard and rescue teams landed at nearby Callander golf course.\n\nPolice said two women were rescued from the water - one, aged 25, was assessed by paramedics but did not require hospital treatment.\n\nHowever, the other woman was pronounced dead at the scene.\n\nParamedics worked with others from the emergency services\n\nA Police Scotland spokesman said: \"The death is being treated as unexplained, but not suspicious, and a report has been submitted to the procurator fiscal.\n\n\"Our thoughts are with her family and friends at this difficult time.\"\n\nThe Coastguard helicopter is part of the search team\n\nThe helicopters landed at Callander golf course", "Police remain at a block of flats on Canvey Island, Essex\n\nA sixth suspected drug-related death since the weekend has been identified by police investigating the sale of Class A drugs in Essex.\n\nA woman in her 30s found dead in Southend on Sunday is now part of the investigation, Essex Police said.\n\nIt follows the deaths on Monday and Tuesday of two other women and three men, all within a six-mile (10km) radius.\n\nOne has been named as Cian Daly, 20, from Leigh-on-Sea.\n\nMr Daly's relatives said they did not want to comment until they had more information about the police investigation.\n\nA friend, who did not want to be named, described Mr Daly, who was found dead on Monday, as a \"great friend who didn't have a bad bone in his body\".\n\nMore than £2,000 has been raised by friends towards a memorial bench in a local nature reserve, and to support the family.\n\nMP Rebecca Harris said she was impressed at the police's response so far\n\nOn Tuesday, a man and woman in their 40s on Canvey Island, and a man in his 20s in Benfleet, were found dead. A woman in her 30s was found on Monday in Westcliff-on-Sea.\n\nTests are being carried out to identify the substance or substances involved in the deaths.\n\nCh Supt Kevin Baldwin said it was too soon to say if drugs were smoked, injected or taken as pills.\n\n\"All of the deaths occurred in their own homes, which is an unusual element because your own home is normally a safe environment and the circumstances suggest that they weren't able to call for assistance,\" he said.\n\nTwo of the deaths happened on Canvey Island\n\nRebecca Harris, MP for Castle Point, which covers Benfleet and Canvey Island, said police were taking the deaths \"incredibly seriously\".\n\n\"We hope this is an isolated incident and it's not a wider problem,\" she said.\n\n\"We don't want any more families to lose loved ones, because this must be devastating for [those] families in south Essex.\"\n\nThe force has urged anyone with information about the sale of Class A drugs in the county to contact them.\n• None Four deaths linked to drugs in five-mile radius\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Plastic bags sales by the biggest supermarkets in England have halved in the last year, government data shows.\n\nAsda, Marks and Spencer, Morrisons, Sainsbury's, the Co-op, Tesco and Waitrose sold 549 million single-use plastic bags in 2018-19, down from one billion in the previous year.\n\nSince 2015, when a 5p charge was introduced to tackle plastic pollution, the number being used is down by 90%.\n\nCustomers now buy, on average, 10 bags a year compared to 140 bags in 2014.\n\nEnvironment Secretary Theresa Villiers said the figures were \"a powerful demonstration that we are collectively calling time on being a throwaway society.\"\n\nThe big move away from plastic bags after shops started charging for them in 2015 was already well-known - but that downward trend has accelerated again in the past year.\n\nThat could partly be due to more awareness of plastic pollution. TV series Blue Planet II helped to highlight the scale of plastic pollution in the world's oceans and was the most-watched TV show of 2017.\n\nUnder the October 2015 levy in England, only retailers with more than 250 employees have to charge customers for the use of plastic bags.\n\nThis contrasts with the situation in Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales where there is a minimum 5p charge for all retailers.\n\nShops are expected to donate the money to charitable causes - and the charge is estimated to have raised £169 million since 2015.\n\nIn December 2018 the government launched a consultation on raising the minimum charge to 10p.\n\nA plastic bag along a coral reef off the coast of the Red Sea\n\nAccording to government scientists the amount of plastic in the seas is set to treble in a decade.\n\nAcross the world, more than 300 million tonnes of plastic is produced annually - around eight million of which enters the oceans.\n\nThe plastic breaks down in to smaller pieces which can then be mistaken, by birds and fish for food, clogging their digestive tracks.\n\nEach year 100,000 animals in the sea are killed by plastic.", "Metal detectors have been offered to some schools\n\nMPs have called for dedicated police officers to be placed in all schools in areas with a higher risk of violence by April next year in a bid to tackle youth crime.\n\nWhile the scheme is already happening in some areas, 10 out of 33 police forces in England told the Home Affairs Committee they had no safer schools officers.\n\nBut what do these officers do and how do they keep children and staff safe?\n\nPC Nick Stenner is the dedicated police officer for six secondary schools, two colleges and two special educational needs schools in the district of Newark and Sherwood, in Nottinghamshire.\n\nA police officer for 10 years, he began working in schools last September.\n\nAs a safer schools officer, PC Stenner teaches students about a range of issues that might affect them, including online and social media safety.\n\nBut it is the issue of knife crime and its far-reaching effects that often particularly resonates with students.\n\n\"We go through the legal consequences, the practical things that can go wrong, even if they don't intend to use the weapon, and the serious injuries that have been caused,\" PC Stenner says.\n\n\"In Nottinghamshire, we have parents of children who have been victims of knife crime - whether they have died or been badly injured - and they will come in and talk to them about it.\n\n\"What the students relate to more than anything is the personal experience.\n\n\"When they start asking you questions about the cases you've been involved in, the knife offences, the stabbings, the murders that you may have turned up to, it kind of hits home with them.\"\n\nPC Stenner says he works hard to build relationships with students, making them more likely to talk to him about things they are worried about.\n\n\"The children come to me with information, usually after I give a talk or after school.\n\n\"It could be they were down the park and saw someone with a knife, or someone is threatening them, or it could be that their sister is talking to someone older online and their parents don't know about it.\"\n\nPC Stenner - who is one of about 12 safer schools officers in Nottinghamshire - says the main issues he deals with relate to cyber-safety, including youngsters being asked to send inappropriate images of themselves to strangers via social media.\n\nSome students have also been involved in cyber hacking.\n\nA youngster at one of his schools managed to shut down its entire IT network for four months.\n\nIn this instance, the pupil did not get a criminal record and was put onto an intensive cyber-awareness course to teach them about using their abilities in a lawful way.\n\nIt is part of an approach aimed at keeping young people out of the criminal justice system - where possible - and educating them about the consequences of repeat offending.\n\nFor children at risk of anti-social behaviour or county lines drug dealing, they are offered the chance to go on summer boot camps with PC Stenner and the fire brigade, and can learn about their work through physical challenges.\n\nPC Stenner believes that every school in the UK should have a dedicated police officer to look out for the \"victims, witnesses and offenders\" of the future.\n\n\"A dedicated school police officer acts as a buffer and takes the demand off the frontline police, which has been really effective.\n\n\"Having a police presence in every school at every age is so important because they are potentially tomorrow's victims, witnesses - and they might be tomorrow's criminals - but if they are the latter, we know a lot more about them before they get there.\n\n\"One thing we do hope that these children never become victims, witnesses or offenders, but some of them will do, and it's about them knowing about the risks if that does happen to them.\"", "Alana Cutland was studying natural sciences at Robinson College in Cambridge\n\nA Cambridge University student fell to her death in Madagascar after opening the door of a small plane in mid-air, police have said.\n\nAlana Cutland, 19, from Milton Keynes in Buckinghamshire, died last week, the Foreign Office confirmed.\n\nPolice on the African island said it was not yet clear why she opened the door of the light aircraft.\n\nOne theory being investigated is that she may have suffered a severe reaction to anti-malaria drugs.\n\nHer family said they were heartbroken at the death of \"a bright, independent young woman\".\n\nJafisambatra Ravoavy, a police colonel, confirmed to the BBC Ms Cutland had opened the door of the plane soon after it took off from a remote airstrip in northern Madagascar, on 25 July.\n\nShe was studying natural sciences at Robinson College and was on an internship on the island.\n\nThe cause of her death has not been confirmed by UK authorities.\n\nPolice are using a helicopter and ground teams to search for her body.\n\nAlana Cutland was on an internship in Madagascar when she died\n\nIn a statement, her family said she was a talented dancer with a sense of adventure \"who lit up every room she walked in to, and made people smile just by being there\".\n\n\"She was always so kind and supportive to her family and friends, which resulted in her having a very special connection with a wide network of people from all walks of her life, who we know will miss her dearly,\" they said.\n\nDr David Woodman, from Robinson College, said they were \"deeply shocked by the news of Alana's death\" and sent condolences to her family.\n\n\"In her two years here, she made a huge contribution to many different aspects of life in the college - she will be sorely missed by us all,\" he said.\n\nMadagascar is an island off the south-east coast of Africa, famed for its unique wildlife.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Almost a month's rain fell in four hours in parts of North Yorkshire.\n\nThis video has been optimised for mobile viewing on the BBC News app. The BBC News app is available from the Apple App Store for iPhone and Google Play Store for Android.", "Radioisotopes are used in certain scans\n\nSenior doctors have called for ''urgent clarification\" of plans to supply cancer treatments in the event of a no-deal Brexit, BBC Newsnight has learned.\n\nIn a letter to the prime minister, seen by Newsnight, they say a \"dry run\" of emergency deliveries earlier this year revealed problems in the system.\n\nAbout one million patients in the UK receive medical radioisotopes for diagnosis or therapy each year.\n\nThe Department of Health said \"action is being taken to safeguard supplies\".\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson maintains that a no-deal Brexit - where the UK leaves the EU on 31 October with no withdrawal agreement in place - is not his aim.\n\nRadioisotopes are radioactive atoms that can be used against cancer and are a key component of some types of scan.\n\nTheir supply chains operate on tight schedules, as the nuclear materials quickly decay and become unusable. And stockpiling supplies in advance of a potential no deal, as planned for some other medicines, is impossible.\n\nThe UK produced only one type of radioisotope, the Royal College of Radiologists told Newsnight. All other radioactive medical materials are imported - the \"vast majority\" from the EU.\n\nThe letter's authors question whether they will reach hospitals in time if there are delays at the border. Delays could lead to isotope shipments missing the lorries booked for their onward journeys around the UK.\n\nThe Royal College of Radiologists, the British Nuclear Medicine Society and the UK Radiopharmacy Group cite issues that arose during a no-deal trial, when one major supplier struggled to get their material fast-tracked through customs. Other, smaller suppliers have reportedly had problems too.\n\nThe Royal College of Radiologists has previously warned about potential delays to tests and treatment that rely on radioisotopes but dummy runs in April raised fresh concerns.\n\nDr Buscombe, from the British Nuclear Medicine Society, says the system for delivering radioisotopes in the event of a no-deal Brexit is \"fragile\"\n\nIn February, the Department of Health announced that in the event of a no-deal Brexit, the UK's major radioisotope suppliers had committed to six-month air freight contracts.\n\nThis would act as a contingency, allowing them to increase the proportion of products flown in rather than brought in on ferries, where they are more susceptible to delays.\n\nThe groups want reassurances that \"reported customs delays at East Midlands Airport will not happen in future\".\n\nBecause only a small number of lorry drivers are licensed to transport such radioactive materials, any delays can have knock-on effects.\n\n\"This means that any consignment which is late through customs may not make the timed delivery run, and there are no licensed people for a back-up delivery run,\" said John Buscombe, president of British Nuclear Medicine Society (BNMS) and one of the letter's signatories.\n\nAbout 25 years ago, the laws changed so only specially trained people who hold a license can transport radioisotopes. The letter asks if more will be trained to cope with delays and changes to schedules.\n\nThe medical groups say raising these issues is not scaremongering but trying to pre-empt potentially avoidable problems before they harm patient care.\n\nFor example, the BNMS said, at least one patient in Scotland had been unable to receive treatment for liver cancer on the planned day during the delivery trial as the radioisotopes had arrived too late.\n\n\"Any delay could mean too little of a product arrives at a hospital - meaning fewer patients will be able to be scanned or treated, or a radioisotope shipment might not be able to be used at all,\" Dr Buscombe said.\n\nNicola Strickland, president of the Royal College of Radiologists, said despite planning she was \"still concerned.\"\n\n\"Until we hit the start of November, there is no guarantee that air transport contingencies put in place will work to deliver the current level of provision,\" she said.\n\nThe Royal College of Radiologists, the British Nuclear Medicine Society and the UK Radiopharmacy Group say although they are \"very encouraged that radioisotopes are being specifically considered\" in no-deal planning, they are \"apprehensive about supplier readiness\".\n\nAnd while \"encouraged\" the government has committed an additional £2.1bn towards preparing for no deal, they \"look forward to more specific detail\" on the spending.\n\nThey estimate that in the event of leaving with a deal, delivery costs will go up 15% - but this would potentially rise to 30% in the event of no deal, because of extra paperwork. These costs will be passed on to the taxpayer.\n\nThe groups write: \"While we know the NHS routinely absorbs unplanned costs, nuclear medicine teams and finance managers need to know how to manage this at trust/health board and hospital level.\"\n\nA Department of Health and Social Care official said: \"We are working closely with all our partners and our plans should ensure the supply of medicines and medical products remains uninterrupted.\"\n\nThe Scottish government said it will work with NHS Scotland, the UK government and suppliers \"to seek to avoid any disruption to patients\".\n\nScotland's Health Secretary, Jeane Freeman, said: \"It is completely unacceptable that the issue of medicine supply should even arise and the reason it has is entirely the result of the UK government's reckless approach to Brexit.\"\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.", "Sandbags are being dropped to shore up the dam\n\nEmergency work is under way to repair the Toddbrook Reservoir dam in Derbyshire after it was damaged by heavy rain.\n\nAbout 1,500 residents were evacuated from Whaley Bridge on Thursday evening amid fears they were in \"mortal danger\".\n\nEngineers pumped water out of the reservoir in an attempt to stop up to 300 million gallons of water bursting through the damaged dam.\n\nAn RAF Chinook has been flying in repair materials to shore up the dam and has dropped more than 500 tonnes of aggregate.\n\nEfforts are being made to release water from the reservoir while also shoring up the dam\n\nThe operation has been going since Thursday\n\nThe helicopter has come and gone from the scene\n\nPolice, the Environment Agency and the Canal and River Trust have all said there is a \"real risk\" the dam could collapse\n\nBy Saturday morning, sandbags dropped by the helicopter covered most of the collapsed section\n\nPart of the reservoir's spillway broke away on Thursday\n\nEngineers feared Whaley Bridge could be swamped if the Toddbrook Reservoir burst\n\nMost of the residents of Whaley Bridge were evacuated on Thursday\n\nResidents were asked to gather in the neighbouring town of Chapel-en-le-Frith\n\nThe dam was built in 1831\n\nTeams have been working non-stop to try to stop the dam from bursting\n\nWhaley Bridge town centre was said to be like a ghost town after residents and business people left\n\nThe water level has now been reduced significantly\n\nEngineers have built two roads to allow pumps to be moved closer to the site\n\nAbout 20 residents remain in properties despite warnings they are at risk\n\nFollow BBC East Midlands on Facebook, on Twitter, or on Instagram. Send your story ideas to eastmidsnews@bbc.co.uk.", "A nurse shows a patient with acute kidney injury his blood test results on her phone\n\nA mobile phone app has speeded up the detection of a potentially fatal kidney condition in hospital patients.\n\nStaff describe the technology as a \"potential lifesaver\", providing diagnoses in minutes instead of hours.\n\nAcute kidney injury is caused by serious health conditions, including sepsis, and affects one in five people admitted to hospital.\n\nThe condition is more common in older patients and, if not treated quickly, can affect other organs.\n\nIt accounts for around 100,000 deaths every year in the UK.\n\nDuring a trial at London's Royal Free Hospital, doctors and nurses received warning signals via a mobile phone app in an average of 14 minutes, when patients' blood tests indicated the condition.\n\nNormally, this would have taken several hours.\n\nThe new alerting system, known as Streams, developed by the Royal Free with technology firm DeepMind, sends results straight to front-line clinicians in the form of easy-to-read results and graphs.\n\nOne of the blood tests looks for high levels of a waste product called creatinine, which is normally filtered out by the kidneys.\n\nInformation on other blood markers which can help treat patients is also made available quickly to specialists via the app.\n\nThe app alerts doctors to the kidney condition within minutes via their mobile phones\n\nDeepMind is owned by Alphabet and shares the same parent company as Google.\n\nHospital managers said there had been a knock-on reduction in the cost of treatment.\n\nMary Emerson, lead nurse specialist at the Royal Free, told the BBC the system had made a big difference to her job.\n\n\"It's a huge change to be able to receive alerts about patients anywhere in the hospital,\" she said.\n\n\"Healthcare is mobile and real time, and this is the first device that has enabled me to see results in a mobile real-time way.\"\n\nShe said it was the first system that \"fits with the way we work\".\n\nData from around 12,000 alerts on acute kidney injury using the new system was evaluated by University College London.\n\nThe findings, published in the journal Nature Digital Medicine, found there was \"no step change\" in patient recovery rates but there had been \"significant improvement\" in recognising acute kidney injury rapidly.\n\nThe report authors have called for further evaluation of the system across a range of hospitals.\n\nThey note that old technology, such as pagers, is commonly used in the NHS for sharing this type of important data.\n\nThe kidneys are two bean-shaped organs which cleanse toxins from the blood and transform waste into urine\n\nConsultant Dr Sally Hamour, a kidney specialist at the Royal Free, said the project was \"potentially lifesaving.\"\n\n\"We need to gather a lot more information about this technology and we need to look at it over a longer time frame,\" she said.\n\n\"But it is certainly the case that some patients are very unwell, information comes to the correct team very quickly, and then we can put measures in place to try to make that patient safe and reverse the impact on their kidney function.\"\n\nThe Royal Free was rapped over the knuckles over its relationship with DeepMind by the Information Commission (ICO) in 2017, saying it had not done enough to protect patient data.\n\nThe ICO has now given the hospital a clean bill of health after managers said they would tackle shortcomings in handling of data.\n\nThe publication of the new research was timed to coincide with a report on another piece of research involving DeepMind and published in the journal Nature.\n\nRecords of more than 700,000 patients from the US Department of Veterans Affairs were analysed retrospectively by an artificial intelligence system, which goes one step further than the app.\n\nUsing hundreds of thousands of pieces of data, including blood tests and heart rate, it was able to work out whether a patient would develop acute kidney injury up to 48 hours in advance of it actually being diagnosed.\n\nThe company argued that this represented a \"significant change in how medicine is practised\".\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Last updated on .From the section Horse Racing\n\nFour months ago Khadijah Mellah had not even sat on a racehorse, but on Thursday she made history by winning the Magnolia Cup at Glorious Goodwood.\n\nThe 18-year-old student is believed to be the first person in the UK to appear in a competitive horse race while wearing a hijab.\n\nThe amateur rider from Peckham, in south London, won the five-and-a-half-furlong charity race aboard the Charlie Fellowes-trained 25-1 outsider Haverland.\n\nIn the process, she beat the likes of professional event rider Sophie van der Merwe and Olympic cycling champion turned amateur jockey Victoria Pendleton.\n\n\"There are no words to describe this - I'm lost for words,\" Mellah said.\n\n\"She has a smile that lights up our yard every time she comes in\n\n\"When I passed the post I couldn't believe it, and then I saw all my family and friends and started crying. I am quite competitive, so I wanted to win this race, but I never expected to.\n\n\"Horses bring me immeasurable amounts of happiness. I've always loved them and always will and I hope to carry on and keep riding.\"\n\nBBC presenter Alexis Green, former Apprentice star Luisa Zissman and TV personality Vogue Williams also took part in the all-female race.\n\nJockey Frankie Dettori told BBC Sport: \"I watched the race. It's incredible, unbelievable. I met her yesterday and she is such a sweet person.\"\n\nMellah learned to ride at the Ebony Horse Club charity in Brixton - but sat on a racehorse for the first time in April this year, and only galloped properly last week.\n\nAccording to the Muslim Women's Sport Foundation, the number of female British Muslim jockeys - past and present - is in \"single digits\".\n\n\"She is the most wonderful young lady I've had anything to do with,\" said Fellowes.\n\n\"She has a smile that lights up our yard every time she comes in. She has just taken this so incredibly well.\"\n\nWhat an extraordinary story, and what a boost for racing in an area in which all sports are keen to make an impression, among a potential audience with which it is not normally associated - in this case young, non-white and inner city-based.\n\nAlthough Mellah has ridden for some time, race-riding at perhaps 35 miles an hour is a completely different thing, and here she is wowing a vast stage after just a few months. And she was ice-cool under extraordinary media pressure, which bodes well if she does fulfil a declared ambition to qualify for a full amateur jockey's licence.\n• None Goodwood jockey first to race in hijab", "The pound slumped to a low of $1.2085 at one point during the day, its weakest since January 2017, although has pushed back up through $1.21 as London closes.\n\nThe FTSE 100 was little changed on the day as the market was closing, around 7,584 - that's 1.9 points lower.\n\nThe company that owns the London Stock Exchange was the biggest gainer after announcing a deal, mentioned earlier, to buy financial data company Refinitiv, rising 7%.\n\nThe FTSE 250 was 32 points lower at 19,634.\n\nIn the US, the Dow Jones Industrial Index and the S&P 500 were both around 1% higher.", "The delayed ferries are at the centre of a row between Ferguson Marine and the Scottish government's ferry company\n\nAn offer to hand a share of ownership in Ferguson shipyard has been rejected by the Scottish government.\n\nThe latest encounter in their dispute makes it more likely the yard will be fully taken over by ministers.\n\nFinance Secretary Derek Mackay wants to ensure two Cal-Mac ferries are delivered and the yard, which employs 350 workers, is kept open.\n\nThe £97m contract is behind schedule and considerably over budget, and the company's finances are precarious.\n\nThe Port Glasgow yard's owner, Clyde Blowers Capital, controlled by industrial tycoon Jim McColl, tabled the new proposal on Monday.\n\nIt also presented legal advice, commissioned by Clyde Blowers Capital, that the proposed deal would be within European rules on procurement and state aid - the extent to which governments are allowed to intervene in support of businesses.\n\nThat advice has been flatly rejected by the Scottish government, saying it is obliged to seek the lowest cost option.\n\nThe dispute could lead to it using a clause in the £45m of loan agreements between the Scottish government and Ferguson Marine Engineering Limited (FMEL), through which it could take over the yard for only £1.\n\nIt is understood that a separate private lender debt, providing a £25m bond required of FMEL to ensure delivery of the ferries, is secured against ownership of the land, rather than the plant and business on it.\n\nThe two ships being built for Cal-Mac, the Scottish government-owned ferry company, have caused particular difficulties because of their innovative hybrid power systems, using diesel and liquefied natural gas.\n\nFMEL claims numerous design changes have been required by the client, government-owned Caledonian Marine Assets Limited, which leases to Cal-Mac, and that a new design such as this requires repeated certification by the shipping regulator.\n\nAlthough it has been paid most of the £97m for the fixed price contract, the firm faces a uncertain future without an injection of funds.\n\nEstimates of the overspend are now at least £60m. Jim McColl wants the taxpayer to meet some of the extra cost.\n\nHis proposal sought to share the cost, with an offer that would mean the Scottish government taking on a stake in the company.\n\nLegal advice for ministers says this would be open to legal challenge from firms that did not win the ferry contract.\n\nMore significant could be the problem with state aid rules - the European law limiting a government's ability to support a company against its rivals.\n\nIn rejecting the legal advice to Clyde Blowers Capital, the Scottish government claims it is required to keep public expenditure to the lowest level possible.\n\nThat either means more injection of capital from Clyde Blowers, to cover the extra cost of the ferry contract, or the takeover of the business by the Scottish government.\n\nUse of the clause that allows a takeover of the loan conditions are breached, and for only £1, would avoid administration.\n\nJim McColl met Inverclyde councillors this week - both the Labour council leader Steven McCabe and SNP opposition leader Chris McEleny - to explain the proposal. A mass meeting of the workforce on Wednesday also heard about the legal advice supporting it.\n\nIn the official response from the Scottish government - though not conveyed to the company - a spokesman said: \"We share the determination to ensure a strong, long term future for Ferguson's.\n\n\"This proposal has formed part of the discussions with CBC over a number of weeks. However we have been clear that their proposal contained a number of serious risks to the public purse, including risks in propriety, regularity and value for money, and that we are unable to take this forward for those reasons.\n\n\"We remain open to any workable proposals and to any commercial investment CBC wish to make.\"\n\nA spokesman for FMEL said: \"We continue to engage with both the Scottish government and CMAL, and remain fully committed to ensuring the construction of the CMAL vessels, while guaranteeing the ability of the business to continue with its diversification and growth strategy and to maintain and exploit its leading position in the development of hydrogen propulsion technology.\"", "Doctors have warned that Scotland needs to increase spending on the NHS by up to £3bn a year to bring it into line with other similar EU countries.\n\nBMA Scotland has set out 20 proposals aimed at \"shaping the future of safe, sustainable hospital-based healthcare\".\n\nIt blames a lack of investment for missed targets, staff shortages and low morale.\n\nThe Scottish government said it would \"fully consider\" the issues raised in the report.\n\nBMA Scotland said the country must follow others such as Austria and Belgium which spend 10% of GDP on health.\n\nThat compares to 8.4% in Scotland and would have meant an extra £2.6bn in funding for 2017/18 alone.\n\nThe body's consultant committee chairman Simon Barker said current problems across the system could not be allowed to go on indefinitely \"without increasing risk and adverse consequences for patients\".\n\nHe was speaking as the doctors' organisation set out its 20 proposals in three key areas:\n\nMr Barker said: \"Things have become progressively worse for those delivering care.\n\n\"They are being asked to work in services with neither enough staff, nor enough money.\n\n\"Yet they are constantly being harried to deliver care within unrealistic timescales, in the face of growing demand, and in fear of making mistakes for which they will be blamed - rather than the wider shortfalls of the system.\n\n\"The result is morale is pretty much rock bottom - in particular amongst senior doctors. The refrain 'work smarter' is threadbare in a system that struggles to provide basic services from one day to the next.\"\n\nHe added: \"For the future of our hospitals and the people who depend on them, this simply has to change.\n\n\"If it doesn't, we can no longer expect hospitals to provide the kind of comprehensive care we have always relied on the them for.\n\n\"If we can fix the funding, we have then put forward a raft of proposals to secure a brighter future for the care provided in our hospitals.\"\n\nThe Scottish government has defended its record on health spending.\n\nIn a statement it said: \"Like the BMA Scotland, we believe that partnership between the public, health boards, stakeholders and government is the key to quality health care, and particularly in delivering specialist services that meet the physical and mental health needs of patients.\n\n\"This year the Scottish government is investing more than £14bn in health and care services, maintaining our investment in public services despite UK government austerity. This report raises a number of important issues and we will fully consider them as we continue to work to support our NHS and care staff to provide vital care.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. UK shouldn't be afraid of US farm exports, says former Trump adviser\n\nA former top trade adviser to US President Trump has told the BBC \"there is a level of panic\" around Brexit \"that is not justified\".\n\nStephen Vaughn, who served as acting trade representative before becoming general counsel on trade, stressed the UK has \"enormous leverage\" in a potential trade deal with the US.\n\nOn a deal's likelihood, he said the Trump administration is \"ready to go\".\n\nThe UK will be able to strike its own trade deals only after leaving the EU.\n\nAs a member of President Trump's negotiating team, Mr Vaughn had a key role in the talks with Canada and China, before leaving the administration in April.\n\nIn reference to a potential UK deal, he compared the situation with US-Canada negotiations: \"No one would say, 'Canada has to join the US in a union or Canada will get steamrolled by the US'.\"\n\n\"You have an enormous amount of leverage, and we'll see how you use it,\" he added, speaking in his first broadcast interview since leaving the Office of the US Trade Representative.\n\nOn US preparations for a potential deal with the UK, he said that Robert Lighthizer, the current US Trade Representative, had done all the preparations needed.\n\nHowever, he acknowledged that agreeing a deal could take \"months or years\".\n\nThe US Trade Representative, sometimes shortened to USTR, is the president's top adviser on international trade. The team negotiates directly with foreign governments to create trade agreements and participate in global trade policy organisations.\n\nConcerns have been raised over the impact of a deal on life in the UK, including whether US drugmakers would demand the ability to sell to the NHS.\n\nAnother key export for the US is agricultural products, but the fact farming methods in the US don't fall under the EU regulations has led some to worry about food standards.\n\nCould Boris Johnson and Donald Trump agree a trade deal together?\n\nMr Vaughn emphasised that the US would like a deal to involve the expansion of farm exports, saying he doesn't think it's \"something people should be afraid of\".\n\nThe trade expert, who now works in the private sector, also played an active role in the Trump administration's trade war with China.\n\nHe said that a key aspect of those talks was to make sure the two sides comprehended each other: \"You really just want to make sure everybody is understanding the issues and what is at stake.\"\n\nHe added that the talks are very \"serious\" and there is no \"yelling and screaming\".\n\nMr Vaughn stressed that the US is concerned about various Chinese practices and that it wants to see Chinese businesses become more \"market-oriented\".\n\nHe went on to defend the use of tariffs against China: \"You're trying to figure out, how do you get leverage on the other people?\", he explained, adding that Mr Trump is not satisfied with the status quo he inherited.\n\nOn the impact of tariffs, he rejected the idea that the measures may be having a negative effect on US business.\n\n\"When you look at the actual data, we have by far the largest economy in the G7 and our manufacturing sector continues to grow,\" he argued.\n\nUS business groups have called for a rethink on tariffs, including the National Retail Federation, which has complained about the administration \"doubling down on a flawed tariff strategy\".\n\nThe former top adviser to President Trump, Gary Cohn, has also warned that the tariffs are backfiring.\n\nSpeaking in an earlier interview with the BBC, Mr Cohn criticised the approach the Trump administration is taking against China, saying: \"I think everyone loses in a trade war.\"\n\nMr Cohn, who served as director of the National Economic Council in the Trump administration, announcing he was resigning after Mr Trump decided to impose import tariffs on steel and aluminium.\n\nMr Vaughn became the acting USTR on Trump's inauguration day in January 2017, staying on until Mr Lighthizer was confirmed in May 2017. He served as Mr Lighthizer's general counsel until the end of April 2019.\n\nBefore entering the White House, he was a partner at US law firm King & Spalding, a role to which he has returned.\n\nOn his departure, a statement by Mr Lighthizer read: \"Stephen has played a central role in shaping and implementing the President's trade policies.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe EU should show \"common sense\" and agree to make changes to the Brexit withdrawal deal, Boris Johnson has told the BBC.\n\nThe prime minister said there was \"bags of time\" for the EU to compromise on the Irish border backstop plan before the Brexit deadline of 31 October.\n\nHe also warned MPs not to oppose Brexit, and to respect the 2016 referendum result.\n\nThe EU has said repeatedly the backstop arrangements cannot be changed.\n\nMr Johnson said the policy - designed to guarantee there will not be a hard Irish border after Brexit - would turn the UK into a \"satellite state\" of the EU if it came into effect.\n\nSpeaking during a visit to Oxfordshire, he said the arrangements would \"keep us locked in EU regulatory orbit, locked in the EU trading system, unable to control our own laws\".\n\n\"We need change on that, once we get change on that I think we're at the races, and I think there's a good deal to be done.\"\n\nTheresa May's deal has been rejected three times by MPs and as things stand, the UK will leave the EU on 31 October whether it has agreed a new one or not.\n\nMany of those who voted against the deal had concerns over the backstop, which if implemented, would see Northern Ireland staying aligned to some rules of the EU single market.\n\nIt would also see the UK stay in a single customs territory with the EU, and align with current and future EU rules on competition and state aid.\n\nThese arrangements would apply unless and until both the EU and UK agreed they were no longer necessary.\n\nThe prime minister's comments come amid growing speculation that opposition MPs will table a vote of no confidence in the government in a move to try and stop the UK leaving the EU without a deal.\n\nLabour leader Jeremy Corbyn has said Labour will table a no-confidence vote at an \"appropriate\" time, once MPs return from the summer break in September.\n\nAccording to the Sunday Telegraph, Mr Johnson's senior advisor at No 10, Dominic Cummings, has told MPs even losing such a vote could not stop the PM taking the UK out of the EU on 31 October.\n\nHe reportedly said Mr Johnson could call an election for after the deadline, with Brexit taking place in the meantime.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nOn Wednesday, shadow chancellor John McDonnell said he would expect Mr Johnson to step aside if he lost a no-confidence vote.\n\n\"No prime minister can sustain themselves in office when they no longer have a majority in the Commons\", he said, speaking at the Edinburgh Festival.\n\n\"I don't want to drag the Queen into this, but I would be sending Jeremy Corbyn in a cab to Buckingham Palace to say 'we're taking over'.\"\n\nAsked whether he would resign in those circumstances, Mr Johnson said MPs should ensure Brexit takes place by the end of October.\n\n\"What MPs should do and what they've already voted to do, when triggering Article 50 and reconfirmed several times, is honour the mandate of the people\", he said.\n\nOn Tuesday cabinet minister Michael Gove accused the EU of \"refusing to negotiate with the UK\" over a new Brexit deal.\n\nThe European Commission said it was willing to hold further talks, \"should the UK wish to clarify its position\".", "The last bullfight to be staged in Majorca's Coliseo Balear was in 2017\n\nBullfighting is returning to Majorca after a partial ban on the practice was overturned by Spain's top court.\n\nPart of a law adopted by the regional parliament had banned the killing of bulls during fights.\n\nBut Spain's constitutional court ruled against that ban, arguing that it was an essential part of the sport.\n\nThis is the first fight to be held in Majorca in two years. Animal rights activists say the move is \"horrific\" and plan to protest the event.\n\n\"We're convinced that the end of bullfighting is already here and this is the last gasps of a dying spectacle\", Francisco Vasquez Neria of the Anima Naturalis group told the BBC.\n\nMajorca's Coliseo Balear, where the fight will take place on Friday, is celebrating its 90th anniversary this year, Spanish newspaper ABC reports. Four well-known matadors will attend the fight, which will begin at 21:30 local time (22:30 GMT).\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Twenty-five-year-old Conchi Rios is one of only four female matadors fighting bulls in Spain.\n\nThe country's constitution protects bullfighting as a part of Spain's \"national heritage.\"\n\nBullfighting in some form or other has existed in Spain since at least Roman times, and the most typical current format involving a bullfighter with a cape and sword took its definitive shape in the 18th Century. Fighters can be awarded the bull's ears, tail or hooves as a trophy.\n\nHundreds of bullfights are still held every year in Spain, but the numbers are falling. As well as the Canary Islands, Catalonia has also taken steps to ban the tradition.\n\nOpponents describe the blood-soaked pageants as barbaric, while fans say the tradition is deeply rooted in national history.\n\nOutside Spain, it remains popular in southern France, Portugal and some South American countries.", "This is the end of live updates on the power cut across large areas of England and Wales, which affected nearly one million people.\n\nHomes and transport networks were hit, with thousands of passengers finding themselves stranded at major railway stations in London.\n\nBBC News will be updated throughout the night and you can read the latest story here.", "Miriam Rivera wooed six men on Ibiza for the TV show before revealing her secret\n\nMiriam Rivera, the star of 2004 dating show There's Something About Miriam, which revealed she was transgender at the end of the series, has died.\n\nThe Mexican model died in February, but the news has only just emerged. She was 38, according to the Daily Mail.\n\nRivera's husband Daniel Cuervo posted an online tribute to her in February.\n\nHer Sky One series caused controversy at the time, with the male contestants winning compensation after saying the programme had \"a devastating effect\".\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 Daniel 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\nShe went on to appear in Big Brother Australia later that year.\n\nMr Cuervo told the Daily Mail she was found dead, but that she was cremated before an autopsy could be carried out. He said he had received a death threat while organising her funeral.\n\nRemy Blumenfeld, who created There's Something About Miriam, told BBC News: \"She was a very warm and generous person who seemed much more mature than her years.\n\n\"She was very empathetic to other people's feelings, and really wanted to be a trailblazer in her own way, because she grew up at a time where there were no trans role models.\"\n\nMr Blumenfeld spotted Rivera in a girl band and decided to put her in a TV show.\n\nQuestions have been raised about the circumstances of Rivera's death\n\n\"She fought a very hard battle,\" the TV producer added. \"It says something about what a kind of strong and courageous and brave person that she was, that she managed to challenge those agreements that were so prevalent in the world, and especially in Mexico at the time.\"\n\nThere's Something About Miriam caused a stir when she spent the series choosing one of six contestants to be her romantic partner, and winner of a £10,000 prize.\n\nIt was not until the series finale that she told them she was transgender, and the show was pulled from Sky One's schedule after the men sued for emotional distress, claiming Sky One was complicit in a \"conspiracy to commit sexual assault\".\n\nThe reality show was eventually screened after the men were paid compensation.\n\nIn 2017, trans writer and comedian Shon Faye, who watched the show when she was in her teens, told the New Statesman it had simply confirmed \"that I was a joke, that this world wasn't built for people like me [or Miriam] and that society was fine with that\".\n\nMr Blumenfeld told the BBC: \"Yes, there was controversy around the show. What has continued to surprise me is the support that I've had from the trans community online and on social media, despite the fact that the mainstream press continue in their assertion that it was a step back for trans people.\n\n\"We were led in our editorial decisions by her and what she was comfortable with.\"\n\nRivera was also a member of the New York ballroom scene's legendary House of Xtravaganza, which paid tribute on Instagram.\n\nThis Instagram post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Instagram The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip instagram post by houseofxtravaganza This article contains content provided by Instagram. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Meta’s Instagram cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nIn 2007, Rivera was injured after falling from the 4th floor window of her New York apartment. She said she fell trying to escape a burglar, but some reports suggested she had been deliberately attacked.\n\nAfter her death in February, a friend, Susan Nielsen, wrote on Facebook that she had been \"subjected to murder attempts\" before her death.\n\nFollow us on Facebook and on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "PC Stuart Outten is in a serious but stable condition in hospital\n\nThe family of a police officer who was attacked with a machete say they are \"overwhelmed\" by messages of support.\n\nPC Stuart Outten, 28, was stabbed as he tried to stop a van suspected of having no insurance in Leyton, east London, in the early hours of Thursday.\n\nThe Met Police officer Tasered his assailant despite receiving multiple stab wounds to his head and body.\n\nMuhammad Rodwan, 56, of Luton, has appeared at Thames Magistrates' Court charged with attempted murder.\n\nMr Rodwan, who is British and of no fixed address, is also charged with possessing an offensive weapon.\n\nHe has been remanded in custody and will appear at the Old Bailey on 6 September.\n\nThe court heard PC Outten was in a serious but stable condition in hospital.\n\nPC Outten, who has about a decade of police experience, suffered a wound to the side of his head which required stitches and needed an operation to a hand injury caused while trying to fend off the attack.\n\nHis family said they were \"overwhelmed by the amount of support we have received from the public, his colleagues and the wider policing family\".\n\n\"We are incredibly proud of the bravery Stuart showed during the incident,\" they added.\n\n\"His injuries could have been fatal and we are thankful that he is stable and recovering in hospital with his loved ones around him.\"\n\nHis family said PC Outten joined the Met straight from school and \"loves being a police officer and protecting the public\".\n\nThe van stopped by police was taken away for forensic examination\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. Three officers are injured in New Lodge trouble\n\nThree police officers have been injured after trouble flared at the site of an anti-internment bonfire in north Belfast.\n\nMore than 150 officers were deployed after unrest earlier on Thursday.\n\nYoung people tried to push through police lines around the bonfire and fireworks, bottles and wood were also thrown.\n\nPolice later left the bonfire because of the \"risks to innocent bystanders\" posed by their presence.\n\nResidents in nearby tower blocks were told to leave their homes as the Housing Executive \"cannot guarantee their safety\" due to the proximity of the bonfire.\n\nThe bonfire was lit late on Thursday night.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Kelly Bonner This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy 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 PSNI said some of those trying to attack police lines were using women and children as human shields.\n\nAssistant Chief Constable Alan Todd said this posed a dilemma for him as a police commander.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript 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 Simon Byrne This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy 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 press conference on Thursday evening, he said: \"I regrettably have had to take a decision today that the risks of continuing an operation to remove a bonfire were outweighed by the risks that operation would then pose to the wider community, the women and children, and others there present.\"\n\n\"I have an objective to support our partners to clear a bonfire site in support of the local community's wishes, but I also have a legal obligation to minimise any resort to use of force by police and to minimise the risks of so doing to public safety.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 3 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\nThe assistant chief constable said it was \"a matter of regret that we weren't successful in the objective of the operation\", but that it was \"nonetheless a responsible, professional policing decision taken within the law and taken with very little room for other decisions to be made\".\n\nHe said although he did not regard the move \"as a successful outcome\", it was made \"in interests of the wider public safety, rather than continuing with an operation which might be seen to use force merely to prove a point and not achieve an objective\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nSix petrol bombs were recovered in the operation and a 13-year-old boy was arrested on suspicion of riotous and disorderly behaviour.\n\nACC Todd said those carrying out attacks on police were mostly youths who were being manipulated by older people, \"probably related to violent dissident republican groupings\".\n\nHe added: \"We will be reviewing CCTV footage to identify those who have been involved in the disorder, who can expect to be the subject of further police investigation and action.\"\n\nThree police officers were injured during the rioting on Thursday\n\nThe Housing Executive has told residents in the nearby Oisin and Fianna tower blocks to leave their homes.\n\nSinn Féin MLA Gerry Kelly said: \"This is a disgraceful situation because residents include people who are already vulnerable, some of whom have disabilities and other health related problems.\"\n\nHe added that \"the vast majority of the community have told [Sinn Féin] they do not want this bonfire\" and that it had been built \"by anti-social elements who torture this district throughout the year\".\n\nNegotiations had been ongoing to persuade two young people to come down from the top of the bonfire so the removal could proceed.\n\nAfter police left, a number of young people barricaded off Victoria Parade, the main road leading to the bonfire site.\n\nPoliticians from both Sinn Féin and the SDLP have previously raised concerns about the \"unwanted\" anti-internment bonfire.\n\nAnti-internment bonfires are lit in some republican areas to commemorate the introduction of internment without trial of republican suspects, which was brought in by the British government on 9 August 1971.\n\nThe police said they had attended Queens Parade to \"support contractors who have been tasked by the landowner to remove a bonfire from the road\".\n\nVictoria Road has been barricaded off by young people\n\nIn 2017, wood was removed from the bonfire over concerns it was too close to nearby buildings.\n\nOn Wednesday, SDLP councillor Paul McCusker called for the bonfire's removal after it emerged that threatening graffiti had appeared on the wall of a nearby family centre.\n\nThe graffiti warnings, which are being investigated by police, stated \"our wood goes, this centre goes\" and \"contractors beware\".\n\n\"There's serious concerns about the level of threat here, there's serious concerns about the level of criminality,\" Mr McCusker told BBC Radio Ulster's Stephen Nolan 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 4 by Carál Ní Chuilín This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy 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 Twitter, Sinn Féin MLA Carál Ní Chuilín said the \"bonfire isn't wanted\" and that \"all the criminal behaviour needs to be dealt with\" by the police and statutory bodies.\n\n\"I'm not long back after visiting residents again and it's clear the local families of those involved need to sit with the residents who are afraid and intimidated.\"", "A 20-year-old man has spoken of the moment a car ploughed into him and his girlfriend when it crashed at a cruising event.\n\nRhys Hunt and Maya Atkins, 17, were standing in a dual carriageway central reservation in Stevenage, Hertfordshire, when two cars collided and hit a group of bystanders.\n\nMr Hunt, from Hatfield, was left with several broken bones, spent 18 days in hospital and will have to learn to walk again.\n\n\"I think everyone who was involved in the crash feels lucky to be alive,\" said Mr Hunt.\n\nMiss Atkins, from Welwyn Garden City, suffered minor injuries. She said she might not be able to return to college if her boyfriend needed a longer period of care.\n\nA police investigation into the crash is ongoing.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Roman's friend died in the attack: 'I wish the killer had known the real El Paso'\n\nThe suspect accused of killing 22 people at a Walmart in El Paso, Texas, has confessed that he was targeting \"Mexicans\", say US media.\n\nAn arrest report obtained by some news outlets sheds light on his arrest and his interviews while in police custody.\n\nOfficials believe the alleged gunman, Patrick Crusius, is the author of an online post decrying Hispanic migrants.\n\nThe shooting came just hours before another mass shooting in Dayton, Ohio.\n\nThe two incidents have prompted a national debate about gun laws, with Republicans indicating they may be open to tightening background checks on buyers.\n\nFederal officials say they are considering hate crime charges against Mr Crusius, who could face the death penalty if found guilty of the mass murder.\n\nThe Washington Post and Associated Press, which received the arrest report filed by El Paso Detective Adrian Garcia, reported that he document was written last Sunday, one day after the attack on the Walmart shoppers.\n\nThe document describes the suspect getting out of his car with his hands up and saying \"I'm the shooter\" when he was stopped by an officer near the crime scene.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. 'My heart hurts on every level'\n\nAccording to Det Garcia, Mr Crusius waived his right to a lawyer, and told them that he had travelled from the suburbs of Dallas with an assault rifle and multiple magazines containing ammunition.\n\n\"The defendant stated once inside the store he opened fire using his AK-47 shooting multiple innocent victims,\" Det Garcia wrote.\n\nHe surrendered without incident, and has been speaking co-operatively with police since the attack, according to investigators in El Paso.\n\nEl Paso sits on the US-Mexican border, and has a large majority Latino population.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Donald Trump spoke to reporters before visiting El Paso and Dayton\n\nOn Friday, President Donald Trump, who travelled to El Paso earlier this week, pledged to take a \"serious\" look at passing new gun control measures to strengthen the background check system.\n\nThe suspect in El Paso was able to legally purchase the assault rifle used in the attack, and carry it into the Walmart due to the state's \"open carry\" gun laws.\n\nOn Thursday, lawyers for Mr Crusius told US media that his mother had called police weeks before the attack to say she was concerned about him owning a weapon.\n\nThere has also been increased scrutiny - and criticism - of the president's language - he has repeatedly referred to an immigrant \"invasion\".\n\nThe online manifesto being investigated by police used similar words.\n\nOn Friday, the first funeral was held in El Paso, but others have already taken place across the border in Juarez, Mexico.\n\nAccording to Mexican officials, eight of the victims held Mexican citizenship.\n\nRelatives of longtime El Paso resident Angelina Silva Englisbee, 86, described her in the LA Times as \"sassy\" and \"a very strong-willed lady\".\n\nOn Thursday, motorcycle police escorted a black hearse carrying the body of Elsa Mendoza de La Mora, 57, for the seven-mile (11km) journey across the border into Juarez.\n\nThe mother of two had been a teacher and principal of a school in Juarez. Her family say they had been waiting for her in the Walmart car park when she was killed.", "Chris Chadwick-Parnell had his money stolen in Bangor High Street\n\nA man found guilty of stealing from a blind busker was slammed for carrying out \"a despicable act on a vulnerable person\" by a magistrate.\n\nThe 51-year-old, of Love Lane, Bangor, had denied theft but was found guilty by Caernarfon magistrates.\n\nAlan Fothergill, 43, of Plas Mabon, Bangor, admitted theft. Both men will be sentenced at later dates.\n\nWilliams had claimed he had been trying to help the busker on 26 June.\n\nBut magistrate Peter Talbot praised a \"public-spirited passer-by\" who filmed what was happening because they were concerned.\n\nChris Chadwick-Parnell said he didn't \"feel safe working outside\" after the theft\n\nIn a victim impact statement, Mr Chadwick-Parnell described how music helped him and the financial impact of not being able to busk.\n\n\"I don't feel safe to work outside any more,\" he said.\n\nWilliams pleaded guilty to a public order offence, having sworn at a police officer when arrested and having arrived late to court.\n\nHe was told to pay £110 in a fine and costs for these offences.\n\nMagistrates sent the case to crown court, saying their sentencing powers for the theft were \"insufficient\".", "Ipswich Hospital was hit by a power cut that affected the whole site\n\nPower was lost across Ipswich Hospital amid a national power failure after the back-up generator failed to work.\n\nThe site was hit by a 30-minute power cut and staff are looking into why the back-up generators did not kick in.\n\nPeople at the hospital said \"sirens went off\" as power was lost.\n\nA spokeswoman for Ipswich Hospital said it was \"too early\" to say whether there was a fault but assured staff \"helped keep patients safe\" during the power outage.\n\nManagers will be investigating the cause of the power problems at the hospital, she said.\n\nPower failures have been reported across large areas of the UK, affecting homes and transport networks.\n\nOne woman who was at the hospital said there was no panic\n\nVikki Irwin, a journalist with BBC Radio Suffolk, said her mother was at Ipswich Hospital at about 17:00 BST on a hydraulic lift being moved up to a scanner when the power cut happened.\n\n\"My mum was being lifted up and was near the top when all these sirens went off in the hospital and the lift stopped,\" she said.\n\n\"They said the power had gone out across the site. Lots of parts of the hospital were completely dark. We had to get my mum down manually.\"\n\nMs Irwin said the incident lasted at least 20 minutes.\n\nAnother woman at the hospital said she was with her friend in the cardiac unit when \"the power just went off\".\n\n\"It was only about two minutes. Everything came back really quickly,\" she said.\n\n\"People seemed calm. There was no panic.\"\n\nA hospital employee told the BBC the power cut did not last long on the ward she was working on.\n\n\"It was just a few seconds, definitely no more than 10,\" she said.\n\n\"There was never any danger.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Last updated on .From the section Cricket\n\nCoverage: Ball-by-ball Test Match Special commentary on BBC Radio 5 live sports extra, Radio 4 LW, online, tablets, mobiles and BBC Sport app. Live text commentary on the BBC Sport website.\n\nEngland have dropped Moeen Ali and replaced him in the squad with slow left-armer Jack Leach for the second Ashes Test against Australia at Lord's.\n\nOff-spinner Moeen returned match figures of 3-172 and scored only four runs in the 251-run defeat in the first Test at Edgbaston.\n\nJofra Archer is likely to make his Test debut, with pace bowlers James Anderson and Olly Stone missing through injury.\n\nThe second Test of the five-match series begins on 14 August.\n• None 'Defeat was bleak but England can still win Ashes'\n• None Anderson out of second Test with calf injury\n\nLeach, who has played five Tests, was man of the match when England beat Ireland at Lord's in July after making 92 as a nightwatchman.\n\nArcher was named in the squad for the first Test but was left out of the team to give him more time to recover from a side strain.\n\nHe took 6-27 and hit a 99-ball century for Sussex 2nd XI this week.\n\nAnderson bowled only four overs at Edgbaston after aggravating a right calf injury, while Stone will be out for two weeks with a lower back injury.\n\nEngland, who trail the series 1-0, have not lost a home Ashes series since 2001.\n\nBatsman Joe Denly, who made scores of 11 and 18 in the first Test, has kept his place in the 12-man squad, as have Jos Buttler and Jonny Bairstow, who scored a combined 20 runs at Edgbaston.\n\nMoeen has struggled for form throughout the summer and was dropped by England in the decisive stages of their World Cup campaign.\n\nHe has taken 181 wickets in 60 Tests and in the last 12 months he has taken more wickets - 48 in 10 Tests at 25.12 - than any other bowler in Test cricket.\n\nHowever, he has made just two half-centuries in his past 20 innings for England and has particularly struggled against Australian counterpart Nathan Lyon, who has dismissed him nine times in 11 matches.\n\nThe left-hander has made four ducks in nine Test innings in 2019 for a total of only 90 runs, 60 of which came in one innings in Antigua against West Indies.\n\nMoeen was unable to profit from a turning pitch at Edgbaston, while Lyon took 6-49 on the final day to bowl England out for 146.\n\nHe has scored 476 runs at 25.05 in 11 Tests against Australia and taken 20 wickets, with a best of 3-59, at 64.65.\n\nFormer Australia bowler Mitchell Johnson said on Monday that he \"feels\" for the all-rounder, adding: \"His record against Australia isn't that great.\n\n\"I can feel for him a bit but that's part of playing professional sport.\"\n\nLeach has taken 20 wickets in five Tests for England since making his debut against New Zealand in 2018.\n• None Hazlewood & Starc in wickets for Australia in tour match\n\nThe selectors have chosen general tinkering over a mass cull, however tempting that might have been after the disappointment of Edgbaston.\n\nMoeen's form with bat and ball is suffering, to the extent that on the evidence of the first Test, he cannot be trusted as the only spinner.\n\nLeach will be expected to give Root the control that was lacking there while Archer will bring some much needed pace and hostility, which can be channelled towards Steve Smith in particular.\n\nHowever, the batsman that failed last week will be under no illusions that they need to step up, otherwise further changes will be necessary.", "Dorothy Woolmer has been described as a wonderful woman who was full of life\n\nAn 89-year-old woman raped and murdered in her own home was beaten to death, a court has heard.\n\nDorothy Woolmer's body was found in a bedroom at Waltheof Gardens, Tottenham, north London, on Sunday morning.\n\nReece Dempster, 22, has been charged with murder, rape, burglary, and two counts of sexual assault.\n\nThe Old Bailey heard Ms Woolmer's death was the result of \"multiple blunt trauma injuries\".\n\nMr Dempster, who appeared via video link from HMP Belmarsh, did not enter a plea during a short hearing.\n\nProsecutor Timothy Cray said the attack happened at some point between the evening of 3 August and the next day.\n\nMr Dempster was remanded in custody and will next appear in court in October.\n\nHe is charged with one count each of murder, rape and burglary, and two counts of sexual assault.\n\nReece Dempster appeared at the Old Bailey via video link from HMP Belmarsh\n\nIn a statement, Ms Woolmer's family described her as a \"wonderful, beautiful woman who was full of life\".\n\nThey said she \"always had something to talk about\" and remained \"extremely self-sufficient\".\n• None Man charged with rape and murder of elderly woman\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Sum Bora became trapped after trying to retrieve his torch\n\nA Cambodian man has been rescued after being trapped in a cave for four days whilst collecting bat droppings.\n\nSum Bora slipped between two rocks on Sunday while trying to retrieve his torch, police in the north-western province of Battambang said.\n\nThe 28-year-old, left without food or water, was found on Tuesday after his family began looking for him.\n\nHe was retrieved after a 10-hour operation involving 200 rescuers and is being treated at a local hospital.\n\n\"I had lost hope of staying alive and if I had a knife with me I'd have committed suicide,\" Mr Bora said in a video, according to the Khmer Times newspaper.\n\nThe droppings - known as guano - can be used as fertiliser and are a lucrative commodity in Cambodia, one of South East Asia's poorest countries.\n\nMr Bora was trapped inside the cave by Chakrai Mountain and was discovered by a friend who often joined him to collect guano.\n\n\"We're both small-built and can easily fit into narrow passages, so my friend was able to crawl through another passage to reach me inside the cave,\" he said.\n\nAn elite rescue team was called in by Prime Minister Hun Sen to assist with the operation\n\nRescuers later arrived at the scene, but were initially unable to extract him because the cave's entrance was too narrow.\n\nAn elite rescue team was flown in by helicopter to assist with the operation, and Mr Bora was recovered on Wednesday after parts of the cave were destroyed to clear enough space.\n\nMr Bora and his family have received money and food donations after the rescue received national attention\n\nIn a statement, Mr Bora's wife, Koeun Sothea, said he was being treated for head, knee and chest injuries.\n\nMs Sothea also thanked Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen for sending the rescue team and for donating $2,500 (£2,000) to their family.\n\nPolice chief Sareth Viseth told local media that climbing Chakrai Mountain would now be banned to prevent any similar incidents.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Police played the sound of Nora's mother's voice through a loudspeaker in the jungle\n\nPrayers have been said for missing teenager Nora Quoirin and her mother's voice was played over speakers during a search of the Malaysian jungle.\n\nA team of 250 is trying to locate Nora, 15, who has special needs and vanished from the Dusan resort on Sunday.\n\nNora's mother, Meabh, can be heard on the loudspeaker recording saying: \"Nora darling, Nora I love you, mum is here.\"\n\nHer family have said Nora is \"not independent and does not go anywhere alone\".\n\nNearby Kariah Pantai Mosque held special prayers for the teenager on Thursday.\n\nNora's family said she had been born with holoprosencephaly, a disorder which affects brain development, and \"struggles with coordination\".\n\nNora Quoirin, who has special needs, vanished from a holiday resort on Sunday\n\nHer aunt Éadaoin Agnew said Nora had spent a lot of time in hospital \"all her life\", and needed operations after she was born to help her breathing.\n\nHer physical and mental abilities are continually monitored by specialists, Ms Agnew told RTÉ Radio 1.\n\nMs Agnew said her niece enjoyed walking with her family but \"her balance is limited and she struggles with coordination\".\n\nShe said Nora had previously travelled with her family to Asia and Europe and \"never wandered off or got lost\".\n\n\"Nora's very shy and can be quite anxious,\" Ms Agnew said, adding: \"She was just extremely excited to spend time with her family in Malaysia.\"\n\nEarlier, the mosque held special prayers for the teenager.\n\n\"We want to help the search and rescue,\" committee secretary Abu Bakar Othman said.\n\n\"We sympathise and we understand the feelings of parents who have lost their child, and especially for me as I'm also a teacher of children with special needs.\"\n\nI am in Pantai - about five minutes away from where Nora went missing.\n\nPolice are handing out flyers to the local community and there are lots of different search and rescue teams.\n\nDrones are also being flown over the jungle in an attempt to find her.\n\nThis is a 15sq km nature reserve. There are rivers, creeks, all sorts of nasty animals and insects there.\n\nIt's wedged next to this great expansive jungle, this green nothingness.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Howard 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\nNora, her parents - an Irish-French couple from London - and her younger brother and sister, arrived at the resort near Seremban, about 40 miles south of Kuala Lumpur, on Saturday.\n\nHer father raised the alarm the following morning when Nora was missing from her bedroom with the window open.\n\nPolice chief Datuk Mohamad Mat Yusop said it was believed Nora had climbed out of the window.\n\nHe told Malaysian publication The Star they needed to find the teenager urgently.\n\n\"An able-bodied or normal person would be weak by the fifth day, and that is why we need to find the victim as soon as possible,\" he said.\n\nNora's photograph is also being handed out at roadblocks in the area.\n\nNora's family have said they remain hopeful after police leading the investigation refused to rule out a \"criminal element\".\n\nThe family issued an earlier statement welcoming \"the assistance of the French, British and Irish police\".\n\n\"We are completely overwhelmed by the support we have received from all over the world,\" they said.\n\n\"And we ask everyone to keep Nora in their thoughts, and to continue to support the ongoing search for her.\n\n\"Nora is still missing, and she is very vulnerable, and we need to do everything we can to bring her home.\"\n\nMissing persons charity the Lucie Blackman Trust, which is supporting the family, has provided a hotline and email address for information.\n\nPeople can remain anonymous and can call +448000988485 or email ops@lbtrust.org.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The government has announced an extra £2.1bn of funding to prepare for a no-deal Brexit - doubling the amount of money it has set aside this year.\n\nThe plans include more border force officers and upgrades to transport infrastructure at ports.\n\nThere will also be more money to ease traffic congestion in Kent and tackle queues created by delays at the border.\n\nShadow chancellor John McDonnell described the plans as \"an appalling waste of taxpayers' cash\".\n\nThe package also includes money for stockpiling medicines to ensure continued supplies and a national programme to help businesses.\n\n\"With 92 days until the UK leaves the European Union it's vital that we intensify our planning to ensure we are ready,\" said Chancellor Sajid Javid, announcing the move.\n\n\"We want to get a good deal that abolishes the anti-democratic backstop. But if we can't get a good deal, we'll have to leave without one.\n\n\"This additional £2.1bn will ensure we are ready to leave on 31 October - deal or no-deal.\"\n\nThe shadow chancellor said the extra money was \"all for the sake of Boris Johnson's drive towards a totally avoidable no-deal\".\n\nHe added: \"This government could have ruled out no-deal and spent these billions on our schools, hospitals, and people.\n\n\"Labour is a party for the whole of the UK, so we'll do all we can to block a no-deal, crash-out Brexit.\"\n\n\"Turbo-charging\" no-deal preparation is the energetic promise of the new Treasury, which under previous management had been accused by the now prime minister and his Brexiteer allies of dragging its feet on funding for such measures.\n\nSome of this boost, however, is a repeat prescription for vital medicine supply - spending tens of millions again on reserving cross-Channel ferry capacity and for specialist warehousing and stockpiling that was not, in the end, required after the last Brexit deadline.\n\nAll this is designed to mitigate the anticipated freight gridlock around Dover and Calais.\n\nBut that is not entirely in the government's hands. Much depends on whether the French authorities choose to enforce full customs and health checks on freight from the UK.\n\nThe flow across the Channel also depends on the preparedness of many smaller traders, more than half of whom have not signed up to the most basic customs registration that will become mandatory for European trade under no-deal.\n\nAn advertising campaign will target this vital group. It will have to persuade them that no-deal is highly likely, even as the prime minister himself suggests the chances are vanishingly small.\n\nLiberal Democrat treasury spokesman Chuka Umunna said the money was a \"drop in the ocean\".\n\n\"They promised us an extra £350m each week for the NHS, now they are making more money available just to ensure access to medicine.\"\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson has previously said he is willing to take the UK out of the EU on 31 October - whether a Brexit deal has been agreed or not.\n\nFormer Border Force director-general Tony Smith said the extra money was a \"step in the right direction\" but more should have been done earlier.\n\n\"I don't understand why this wasn't implemented three years ago when the government knew we were leaving the European Union,\" he said.\n\nChancellor Sajid Javid said the UK had to \"intensify\" its planning\n\nThere could be a row over the pledge to spend such a vast sum on preparing for no-deal, given Boris Johnson's previous comment that the chances of this happening were a \"million to one\", said the BBC's assistant political editor Norman Smith.\n\nAnother contentious area will be the government's plan to spend around £130m on a huge public information campaign on advice and help for the event of no-deal, he said.\n\nIn comparison, David Cameron's decision to send leaflets to every household in the run-up to the 2016 Brexit referendum had a total cost of £9m.\n\nConservative peer Baroness Altmann, a former pensions minister, said: \"This is huge amounts of taxpayers' money that is being spent on something the government itself has said will be hugely damaging to the British economy and to the British way of life.\"\n\nBut Chief Secretary to the Treasury Rishi Sunak insisted the latest funding was not a waste, even if the UK ended up leaving with a deal.\n\n\"A lot of the money we are spending is going to go on things that we would need to spend anyway because we're leaving the European Union,\" he told BBC Radio 4's Today programme.\n\n\"Investment in things like our ports, our border infrastructure... all of that is money we should be spending anyway for those new arrangements.\"\n\nThe new money consists of £1.1bn which will be provided to departments and devolved administrations immediately, while a further £1bn will be made available if needed.\n\nThis comes on top of £4.2bn, which has been allocated since 2016 for Brexit preparations by the previous chancellor, Philip Hammond.\n\nShadow chancellor John McDonnell described the plans as \"an appalling waste\"\n\nBut not all of that money would have been spent on getting ready for a no-deal scenario.\n\nThe measures announced by Mr Javid include £344m to be spent on new border and customs operations.\n\nThis includes recruiting an extra 500 border force officers, in addition to 500 already announced, while there will also be more money for training customs agents and processing UK passport applications.\n\nAnother £434m will be spent on ensuring continuity of vital medicines and medical products, including freight transport, warehousing and stockpiling.\n\nOf the rest, £108m will go on promoting and supporting businesses \"to ensure they are ready for Brexit\", including a national programme of business readiness and \"helping exporters to prepare for, and capitalise on, new opportunities\".\n\nThere will also be a public information campaign and an increase in consular support for Britons living abroad, at a cost of £138m.\n\nMeg Hillier, chair of the Public Accounts Committee, said she was \"sceptical about how much can be spent with the time available\".\n\nShe said her committee had been told the UK was now past \"the point of no return\" for effective spending to mitigate the effects of no deal, adding: \"My biggest question is how on earth can you spend that amount of money in time, how can you recruit and train border guards in the time available, 91 days, it's just not feasible.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. A video shows a man brandishing a knife in the New Lodge area where police said there had been a number of stabbings\n\nAn 18-year-old man is in a critical condition after being stabbed close to a controversial bonfire in Belfast, police have said.\n\nTwo men, aged 28 and 21, have been arrested following the incidents in the New Lodge area of north Belfast.\n\nThe incidents took place near an anti-internment bonfire on Thursday night.\n\nA 39-year-old man also sustained stab wounds to his arm and hip and is receiving treatment in hospital.\n\nPolice said his injuries are not thought to be life threatening at present.\n\nThe two men were arrested early on Friday morning at an address off the Oldpark Road, in north Belfast, on suspicion of offences including causing grievous bodily harm with intent.\n\nThe bonfire was lit close to flats in the New Lodge area\n\nFootage has emerged online which appears to show alleged stabbing incidents.\n\nIn one video, a man is seen brandishing what appears to be a large knife.\n\nCh Insp Kelly Moore said police are \"aware of footage circulating on social media and this will be examined as part of the wider investigation\".\n\nShe appealed for information into the police investigation.\n\nSinn Féin MLA Gerry Kelly said the incident was \"disgraceful and an example of what this bonfire attracts\".\n\n\"I watched some of the videos and hope the person wielding this knife has been arrested already,\" he said.\n\n\"If the police had moved in when the bonfire was much lower we would have had a better chance to diffuse the situation,\" he claimed.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nOn Thursday, three police officers were injured after trouble flared at the site of the bonfire.\n\nThe PSNI said some of those trying to attack police lines were using women and children as human shields.\n\nIt has been confirmed that the attempted removal was requested by the Department for Infrastructure in conjunction with the Housing Executive.\n\nHowever, the police later left the site and the bonfire was not dismantled.\n\nAssistant Chief Constable Alan Todd told the Nolan Show the PSNI had received a formal request from landowners to remove the bonfire.\n\nHe said the request had \"nothing to do with the politics of the bonfire and everything to do with safety, fire risk and the fears people living in that area\".\n\n\"It had nothing to do with policing different parts of the community differently,\" he said.\n\n\"The vast majority don't want it to be there,\" he added.\n\nVictoria Road was barricaded off by young people\n\nHe said the police had been deployed to secure the area, the nature of which - the tower blocks, the grounds, the alleyways - meant it was a \"tricky operation\".\n\n\"It takes a significant amount of police to do that. Some style that as heavy-handed, I don't. It's just the logistics of the area,\" he said.\n\nThe senior officer said that attempts to remove the bonfire hit a wall initially because there were a number of young people standing on top of it.\n\n\"You can't just collapse it with people on top. That would be irresponsible,\" he said.\n\nThree police officers were injured during the rioting on Thursday\n\nHe said he watched as violence progressed with sporadic attacks on officers and that the situation became worse as the morning progressed.\n\nHe said he saw no early resolution and increasing violence.\n\nACC Todd said that while he could have lawfully deployed additional resources such as water cannon and public order dogs, the consequences and risk to bystanders \"did not stack up\".\n\nIn a statement, the Department for Infrastructure said the request for contractors to dismantle the \"illegal bonfire\" was made in conjunction with the Housing Executive as \"the materials were located either on the public road, or on lands owned\" by the housing body.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Three officers are injured in New Lodge trouble\n\nIt said it was grateful to the \"support of the local community\" and that it \"regretted that the situation deteriorated to such an extent that it was not possible to make the progress they and we wanted\".\n\n\"We can assure the community that we will continue to work with our partners and elected representatives going forward to do all we can to prevent this situation arising in the future,\" it said.\n\nLast month, Belfast City Council requested contractors to intervene at a bonfire at Avoniel Leisure Centre in east Belfast.\n\nIt was not removed, after threats were issued against those involved.", "Last updated on .From the section Premier League\n\nA late flurry of deadline-day signings took Premier League spending for the summer up to £1.41bn, just short of the £1.43bn record set in 2017, according to Deloitte.\n\nDeadline day spending alone by English top-flight clubs was £170m - but on just 18 deals, the joint fewest number of transfers on the last day of the summer window since 2009.\n\nEverton's £34m signing of forward Alex Iwobi from Arsenal was the biggest incoming Premier League deal, while the largest transfer saw Romelu Lukaku leave Manchester United for Inter Milan for £74m - a loss of £1m on the fee they paid Everton.\n\nArsenal were the biggest spenders in England during the window, splashing out £155m. On deadline day, they bought £25m Celtic left-back Kieran Tierney and £8m Chelsea centre-back David Luiz.\n\nTottenham recruited Real Betis midfielder Giovani lo Celso on loan and signed Fulham winger Ryan Sessegnon for £25m. Their pursuit of Juventus forward Paulo Dybala was one of the big stories earlier in the day but the deal fell through.\n\nWatford spent a club record, reported to be £25m, on Rennes winger Ismaila Sarr and Leicester bought Sampdoria's attacking midfielder Dennis Praet for a reported £18m.\n• None How did social media react to deadline day?\n• None What's new this season in the Premier League?\n\nThree former England internationals made moves - Burnley signing Chelsea midfielder Danny Drinkwater and Manchester City bringing in Derby goalkeeper Scott Carson, both on loan, while Newcastle re-signed free agent striker Andy Carroll.\n\nIf you are viewing this page on the BBC News app please click here to vote.\n\nA busy day in the Championship was headlined by West Brom spending £4m on Southampton striker Charlie Austin.\n\nThis was the second year in a row when Premier League clubs could only sign players until the day before the season started, instead of the end of August.\n\nThe deadline has also now passed for Championship clubs, but teams from Scotland, Leagues One and Two and all of Europe's major leagues can bring in players until 2 September.\n\nThe total number of Premier League signings in the summer fell for the sixth year in a row.\n\nWhat deals happened in the summer?\n\nEleven of the 20 Premier League clubs broke their transfer record this summer, with Sheffield United smashing theirs four times. Arsenal, Aston Villa, Leicester (twice), Manchester City, Newcastle, Southampton, Tottenham, Watford - on deadline day - West Ham and Wolves are the other 10.\n\nHarry Maguire's £80m switch from Leicester to Manchester United was the biggest Premier League signing of the summer, followed by Arsenal's £72m purchase of Lille winger Nicolas Pepe.\n\nChampions Manchester City bought Atletico Madrid midfielder Rodri for £62.8m and Juventus right-back Joao Cancelo for £60m.\n\nSpurs spent £53.8m on Lyon midfielder Tanguy Ndombele - their first first-team signing since January 2018.\n\nThe 10 biggest signings by Premier League clubs this summer\n\nVilla spent £125m, the second promoted club to hit nine figures after Fulham, who did so last summer, only to be relegated in April.\n\nThe other biggest transfers were Manchester United right-back Aaron Wan-Bissaka (£50m from Crystal Palace), West Ham striker Sebastien Haller (£45m from Eintracht Frankfurt), Newcastle striker Joelinton (£40m from Hoffenheim) and Leicester midfielder Youri Tielemans (reported £40m from Monaco).\n\nChelsea also spent £40m on Real Madrid midfielder Mateo Kovacic despite having a transfer embargo. The Croat was already there on loan, so Frank Lampard's side were allowed to sign him permanently as he was already registered. Their sale of Eden Hazard to Real for a fee of £89m, which could rise to £150m, was one of the biggest deals in the world.\n\nThis was the second highest total spend since the introduction of the transfer window system in 2003, according to analysis from Deloitte's Sports Business Group. It is the fourth consecutive summer that Premier League clubs have spent over £1bn.\n\nBut Premier League clubs' net expenditure (purchases minus sales) was £625m - the lowest in a summer since 2015, helped by Hazard and Lukaku's big-money moves.\n\nDan Jones, partner in the Sports Business Group at Deloitte, said: \"With this level of net spend, combined with a more modest increase in Premier League broadcast rights values for the coming season than we have seen previously, we would expect wages to increase at a greater rate than revenue, returning to a wages to revenue ratio of over 60%.\n\n\"However, this does not signal major financial concerns as Premier League clubs collectively generated pre-tax profits of £426m in 2017-18, while net spend as a proportion of revenue of 12% is at its lowest since 2012.\"\n\nHere are some of Deloitte's other findings...\n• None La Liga clubs could still overtake the Premier League's total. Spain's top-flight clubs have spent £1.1bn, with Real Madrid, Atletico Madrid and Barcelona accounting for two thirds of that alone. That number will increase with their deadline not until 2 September.\n• None Championship clubs spent £160m on transfers, an increase from the £155m spent last summer.\n• None Chelsea (who had a transfer embargo), Crystal Palace and Liverpool were the three clubs to make a profit on transfers this summer.\n• None Benfica (£170m) and Ajax (£165m) were among the sides to make the most in player sales this summer.\n\nWhat could still happen?\n\nThe deadline for La Liga, Serie A, the Bundesliga, Ligue 1 and other European leagues is on 2 September so their clubs can sign Premier League players until then.\n\nReal Madrid have been linked with United midfielder Paul Pogba all summer, but it seems unlikely United would let the France international go now without being able to bring in a replacement.\n\nSpurs playmaker Christian Eriksen is another who could leave the Premier League. The Denmark international, who has one year left on his contract, is interested in a move abroad. But could their failure to sign Dybala make a move less likely?\n\nManchester City winger Leroy Sane is a long-term Bayern Munich target but the cruciate ligament damage suffered in Sunday's Community Shield could see him stay at Etihad Stadium.\n\nReal Madrid forward Gareth Bale was never really linked to any English clubs before the deadline. He has got three and a half weeks to find a European club, or else face a season out of the team, with the Welshman seemingly not in Zinedine Zidane's plans.\n\nParis St-Germain forward Neymar continues to be linked to Real Madrid and former club Barcelona, while Real attacking midfielder James Rodriguez - like Bale - may have to move away for first-team football.\n\nThe Premier League deadline closing could spark a flurry of signings elsewhere. Some managers in Leagues One and Two have been waiting for this stage, with Premier League and Championship clubs now more likely to know who they will be willing to loan or sell.", "The teenager had been last seen on a section of York's walls at Station Rise\n\nEight people have been arrested in the search for a missing teenage Vietnamese tourist who disappeared three days ago.\n\nLinh Le, 15, who speaks no English, went missing from her tour group in York on Tuesday afternoon.\n\nShe was last seen with an Asian man on the city walls above Station Rise in the city at 16:40 BST on Tuesday.\n\nNorth Yorkshire Police said it was \"increasingly concerned\" for her safety and believe she \"could be anywhere in the country\".\n\nThe man she was last seen with is aged about 20 and was dressed in a dark top and a black baseball-style cap.\n\nShe was wearing a white Ariana Grande jacket and shorts and carrying a white rucksack.\n\nPolice said: \"Following enquiries, eight people have been arrested in connection with her disappearance and remain in custody for questioning.\n\n\"Officers are growing increasingly concerned for Lihn Le's safety and are appealing to the public for information as to her whereabouts.\n\n\"It is believed that she could be anywhere in the country.\"\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.", "People walked in complete darkness at Clapham Junction station in London during a power cut\n\nNearly a million people have been affected by a major power cut across large areas of England and Wales, affecting homes and transport networks.\n\nNational Grid said it was caused by issues with two power generators but the problem was now resolved.\n\nBlackouts were reported across the Midlands, the South East, South West and North East of England, and Wales.\n\nHundreds of people were stranded at King's Cross station as trains were delayed and cancelled.\n\nTraffic lights in some areas also stopped working.\n\nThe Department for Transport, said: \"Today's power outage has had knock on impacts on travel.\n\n\"We're working hard with Network Rail and others to ensure systems are up and running as quickly as possible, so that everyone can complete their journeys safely.\"\n\nA staff member guides train passengers with torch light at Clapham Junction station in London\n\nPassengers on a train near Kentish Town station got off and began walking along the tracks\n\nAt the height of the Friday rush hour, all trains out of King's Cross were suspended and remained so for most of the evening.\n\nPassenger Zoe Hebblethwaite said the situation outside the station was \"absolute mayhem\" and that passengers \"couldn't find an assistant to speak to\".\n\nThe BBC's Emma Petrie said there was an announcement asking passengers to leave the station.\n\nAll services in and out of King's Cross station were suspended\n\nInformation was not showing on Waterloo departure boards\n\nLondon North Eastern Railway staff, pictured here at Peterborough station, was disrupted, with delayed passengers handed bottled water\n\nBy 21:00 BST, more than 1,000 passengers appeared to be stranded at King's Cross, with London North Eastern Railway and National Rail advising customers against all travel for the rest of the day.\n\nLater on, some LNER trains were running southbound into King's Cross, and services to Stevenage and Peterborough from London also resumed, but not further up the East Coast Main Line.\n\nOne passenger told BBC Radio 5 Live her train took nearly 13 hours to reach London King's Cross from Edinburgh - a journey which would normally take less than five hours.\n\n\"By hour seven things were starting to get pretty tense,\" Dayna McAlpine said. \"We were being held in the middle of nowhere. Food ran out about five hours ago... We quite simply had to sit.\"\n\nBoards at Waterloo station showed no trains departing on any platforms.\n\nHarriet Jackson, 26, said there was an \"apocalyptic\" scene on Northcote Road, in Battersea, when traffic lights cut out and cars were not stopping.\n\n\"Given it's a Friday afternoon, it's the last thing you want to encounter,\" she said.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Ais Green This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nPassengers at Newcastle Airport said the power cut out for about 15 minutes, but Heathrow, Gatwick and Luton airports said they had not been affected.\n\nScott McKenzie, 31, from Cardiff, said \"various alarms were going off\" at Newcastle Airport.\n\n\"We were literally plunged into darkness and people were using their phones as torches to see and get around,\" he added.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 2 by Richy Lavender This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nAbout 500,000 people were affected in Western Power Distribution's area - including 44,500 customers in Wales - with power restored to them all shortly after 18:00 BST, the company said.\n\nNorthern Powergrid said 110,000 of its customers lost power between 17:10 BST and 18:00 BST, while Electricity North West said at least 26,000 people were without power in the North West.\n\nUK Power Networks spokesman said 300,000 people were affected in London and the South East.\n\nPassengers disembarked a train near Kentish Town station got off and began walking along the tracks\n\nNetwork Rail said all trains had been stopped after a \"power surge on the National Grid\" but its signalling system had come back online.\n\nIn a statement, National Grid said: \"Even though these events are outside of our control, we have plans in place to respond and the system operated as planned by disconnecting an isolated portion of electricity demand.\"\n\nThe action allowed the system to \"protect itself and limit the fall in frequency\", which allowed for \"power to be quickly restored\", it added.\n\nThe energy watchdog Ofgem said it had asked for \"an urgent detailed report from National Grid so we can understand what went wrong and decide what further steps need to be taken\".\n\nThe enormous impact of this power failure is likely to lead to questions about the strength and robustness of the system.\n\nThe BBC understands that two power supply plants - one a traditional gas and steam-fired power station in Cambridgeshire, the other a huge wind-turbine farm in the North Sea - failed at about 16:00 BST.\n\nNational Grid described it as an \"unexpected, and unusual event\".\n\nThe sudden drop in available power caused protective measures to kick in that immediately cut electricity supply to a section of the National Grid network.\n\nBy 18:30 BST the problems were fixed and the system was described as operating normally by the National Grid.\n\nBut the knock-on effect is likely to be felt for several hours to come.\n\nPassengers have been warned to expect delays.\n\nTrains from Hull were suspended and the operator told customers to wait until Saturday to travel.\n\nThameslink said most of its trains were at a standstill between London and Bedford, and later added it was not running any trains north of London for the rest of the evening.\n\nBritish Transport Police said it had sent officers to \"several\" train stations to provide assistance to travellers.\n\nIt was important that passengers listened to travel advice from National Rail Enquiries and Network Rail, it said, adding: \"For your own safety, do not leave train services not at stations.\"\n\nMerseyrail cancelled several trains from West Kirby to Liverpool and told customers to use the Water Street entrance for James Street station.\n\nA spokeswoman for Transport for London said some traffic lights in the capital were \"not working\" but the scale of the problem was not yet known.\n\nIpswich Hospital said it had been affected by the power cut in that area, because its back-up generator had failed to work, but all issues had been resolved.", "The van stopped by police taken away for forensic examination\n\nA man has been charged with attempted murder and possessing an offensive weapon after a police officer was stabbed in the head in east London.\n\nThe PC was attacked as he tried to stop a van in Leyton early on Thursday. He managed to Taser his assailant while being stabbed in the head and body.\n\nHe suffered multiple injuries but the Met Police says he will recover.\n\nMuhammad Rodwan, 56, from Luton, is due to appear at Thames Magistrates' Court on Friday.\n\nTwo uniformed officers tried to stop the van at the junction of Coopers Lane and Leyton High Road, the Met said.\n\nThe injured PC, 28, is a patrol officer who has been with the force for about 10 years.\n\nSpeaking earlier, Prime Minister Boris Johnson said the attack \"underscores for me the bravery of our police, people who actually go towards danger to keep us safer\".", "Two CalMac ferries have been at the centre of a long-running dispute\n\nThe firm behind the Ferguson shipyard in Port Glasgow has begun the process of going into administration.\n\nFerguson Marine Engineering directors have served notice of their intent to go into administration and to do so by the end of next week.\n\nThe business has been involved in a long-running dispute with the Scottish government over the construction of two ferries for CalMac.\n\nMinisters said they were committed to securing the future of the yard.\n\nThey want to see the vessels under construction completed, and the jobs of the yard's 350 staff safeguarded.\n\nFerguson Marine's chief executive Gerry Marshall said in a statement: \"It is with great regret and disappointment that the directors of Ferguson Marine Engineering Limited have served notice to appoint an administrator to the company.\n\n\"This decision has not been taken lightly, but the directors do not consider there to be any other options in the current circumstances.\n\n\"However, the directors will continue to support the shareholder and the Scottish government to realise a positive outcome for the business and its employees.\"\n\nThe Glen Sannox has been awaiting completion at the yard since its launch\n\nThe ferry order which appears to have triggered the shipbuilder's difficulties is being procured through a public-sector agency CMAL.\n\nThe yard's parent company, Clyde Blowers Capital (CBC), is controlled by industrial tycoon Jim McColl.\n\nCBC tabled a proposal last month for the Scottish government to take a share of ownership. The government rejected that plan.\n\nIn a statement, CBC added: \"We understand that this decision has not been taken lightly and is fundamentally due to CMAL and the Scottish government's inability to find a resolution to the additional costs encountered during the build of the two prototype LNG dual-fuelled ferries.\n\n\"As shareholder we have provided a number of viable proposals to avoid the process of administration and save the jobs of 350 employees, however CMAL and the Scottish government have consistently refused to participate in productive discussions, leaving the directors of Ferguson Marine Engineering Limited with no other options given the circumstances they are faced with.\"\n\nLike a ship at its launch, gathering momentum as it descends the slipway, there's not much that can stop Ferguson Marine Engineering Ltd from plunging into the uncertain waters of government ownership.\n\nHappily, it is unlike yards on the narrower upper Clyde in that launches do not carry the risk of getting a severe dunt on the opposite bank. But there's a lot about these waters that is uncharted.\n\nRead more from BBC Scotland's business and economy editor Douglas Fraser.\n\nThe £97m ferries contract is behind schedule and considerably over budget, and the company's finances are precarious.\n\nThere have been suggestions the government could use a clause in the £45m of loan agreements between it and Ferguson Marine Engineering Limited (FMEL), through which it could take over the yard for only £1.\n\nThe two ships being built for CalMac, the Scottish government-owned ferry company, have caused particular difficulties because of their innovative hybrid power systems, using diesel and liquefied natural gas.\n\nFollowing the news of possible administration for the business, First Minister Nicola Sturgeon said the government was determined to protect jobs and secure the future of the yard.\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 Scottish government spokeswoman added: \"Our priority remains to ensure the completion of the vessels under construction, secure jobs for the workforce and protect the future of shipbuilding at the site.\n\n\"We have been working to secure a future for the shipyard for two years, and it is disappointing that we have not been able to reach a commercial solution with CBC that would have prevented administrators becoming involved.\n\n\"We appreciate that this will be a concerning time for the workforce, their families and the local community, and we would like to reassure them that we are committed to maintaining the jobs on the site and building a secure future for the yard and its workforce.\n\n\"We have been working closely with trades unions representatives throughout this process, and we will continue to do so in the coming days and weeks.\"", "When Ferguson Shipbuilders went bust in the summer of 2014 it seemed the last shipyard on the lower Clyde was heading for oblivion, more than a century after it was founded by the four Ferguson brothers.\n\nBut within weeks, in a deal brokered by then First Minister Alex Salmond, a white knight stepped forward in the shape of Jim McColl.\n\nA self-made billionaire, he was one of the most prominent business figures to support Scottish independence ahead of the referendum in September that year.\n\nJim McColl stepped in to rescue the shipyard in 2014\n\nMcColl, who made his fortune transforming the ailing Clyde Blowers into a portfolio of engineering investment companies, was adamant that Scottish shipbuilding could have a bright future.\n\nInvestment swiftly followed - the old buildings were demolished and replaced by state-of-the-art fabrication and design facilities.\n\nThe workforce at Ferguson Marine Engineering Ltd (FMEL) as it became known, rose from about 70 to 350, including apprenticeships in one of the most socially deprived areas of Scotland.\n\nThe workforce at Ferguson Marine rose five-fold after its takeover by Jim McColl\n\nThe new owner had plenty of ideas for the yard's future - refitting superyachts, fishing vessels, a new generation of hydrogen-powered ships.\n\nFerguson was also part of the consortium which was eventually named preferred bidder to build the Royal Navy's new Type 31e frigates.\n\nEarly work, however, came in the shape of orders for Scotland's publicly-owned ferry firm Caldedonian MacBrayne.\n\nWhen McColl took over the yard it already had an order for a small diesel/electric hybrid ferry to keep it going - but in 2015 it received a major boost when it won a £97m order for two much larger ships.\n\nIronically this apparent lifeline was to have catastrophic consequences for the shipyard, eventually plunging it back into administration.\n\nEarly fabrication work on Glen Sannox which is still not ready seven years since the award of the contract\n\nThe ferries were to be a hybrid design, powered by marine diesel oil and liquefied natural gas - not a particularly new technology in worldwide terms but a first for a UK shipyard.\n\nThe hull of the first ship - Glen Sannox - soon started taking shape - but behind the scenes something was going badly wrong.\n\nThe yard was undergoing major redevelopment, and the original plan to build the two ships concurrently soon foundered.\n\nGlen Sannox - destined for the Arran route - came off the slipway in November 2017 at a launch attended by First Minister Nicola Sturgeon.\n\nBut the ship was far from finished. Despite the fanfare the more eagle-eyed among the cheering crowds might have noticed that the windows of the bridge were filled not with glass but painted boards.\n\nThe ship was expected to enter service in mid-2018 but more than four years after its launch it remains moored beside the yard while work continues.\n\nThe second ferry, currently known as hull 802, earmarked for the Skye, Harris and North Uist route, is still being constructed and won't be ready until summer 2023 at the earliest.\n\nThe cost of the work has risen to about £240m, more than double the original fixed price cost, and despite some controversial loans totalling £45m from the Scottish government the shipyard went bust in the summer of 2019.\n\nScottish ministers had been unwilling to stump up more cash, arguing to do so would break state aid rules.\n\nInstead they ended up nationalising the yard, safeguarding jobs - but landing the public purse with a bill in excess of £100m to finish the ships.\n\nThere's been a lot of finger pointing. Jim McColl has repeatedly laid the blame for the problems at the door of CMAL- the company that owns and manages ferries and other assets on behalf of the Scottish government.\n\nIn a BBC interview he accused CMAL of making repeated specification changes - a claim denied by CMAL. The hybrid propulsion design also required lengthy certification processes from insurers and regulators, he said.\n\nIn its accounts his company FMEL blamed unforeseen costs on \"post contract award, variations, interference, and disruption caused by the customer\".\n\nBut that customer, CMAL, painted a different picture, accusing FMEL of rushing ahead with construction before completing the design work and getting the blueprints signed off.\n\nAfter ministers took over the yard, a government report blamed poor project management while McColl's firm was in charge and a lack of financial controls.\n\nGlen Sannox was launched in November 2017 - but there was still no glass in the windows\n\nMcColl hit back, again insisting the fault lay chiefly with CMAL and suggesting it would have been cheaper to scrap the ferries and start again with a simpler design.\n\nLast year a damning report from a cross-party committee of MSP branded the whole affair a \"catastrophic failure\".\n\nAll of the main protagonists, it said - FMEL, CMAL, Transport Scotland, government ministers - must take some responsibility for what went wrong.\n\nA recent report from Audit Scotland also found multiple failings - but said one key mistake was the government's awarding of the contract to Ferguson, against the advice of CMAL, despite it being unable to provide normal refund guarantees should something go wrong.\n\nNicola Sturgeon has indicated that decision was taken by former transport minister Derek Mackay - who later resigned from government amid a scandal over social media messages to a teenage boy. But the first minister says there was collective responsibility and \"the buck stops with me\".\n\nThe only group consistently absolved of blame are the workers at Ferguson shipyard itself whose morale has been sorely tested by the saga. One of them recently told his local MSP he was embarrassed to work at the yard.\n\nThe latest bill for the ships is more than £250m, and they are now due to be delivered five years late in 2023 - provided more problems aren't encountered.\n\nThe ferry deal was meant to provide a lifeline to a once proud workforce, but it ended up dragging down the Clyde's last commercial shipyard - and the saga isn't over yet.", "Last updated on .From the section American football\n\nFormer Wasps and England winger Christian Wade scored a sensational 65-yard touchdown with his first carry on his Buffalo Bills debut.\n\nWade, 28, ran through a huge hole in the Indianapolis Colts defence to score in a 24-16 pre-season friendly victory.\n\nThe running back quit rugby union in October 2018 to pursue an NFL career, joining the Bills in April.\n\n\"I knew where I was going even before the ball came because they overloaded one side,\" said Wade.\n\n\"Then as soon as I got the ball I was off to the races. I was looking up at the screen to see if any of the linebackers or anyone was coming up behind me.\"\n\nWade was awarded the game ball by the Bills' head coach Sean McDermott.\n\n\"Watching him score that touchdown was one of the coolest experiences of my football career and I wasn't even on the field.\"\n\nWade, who was on the 2013 British and Irish Lions tour, said he was \"lost for words\" when his dream move to the NFL came closer to reality in the spring.\n\nThe International Player Pathway allows Wade to train with the Bills during pre-season and enter their practice squad for 2019 with the hope of making the Bills' 53-man regular season roster for this season, which starts in September.\n\nHe is third in the all-time Premiership try-scorers list with 82 and has one England cap.", "Malaysia has charged 17 former and current Goldman Sachs bankers - including Richard Gnodde, the most senior banker in London - over the corruption investigation at its state development fund 1MDB.\n\nAttorney General Tommy Thomas said custodial sentences and criminal fines would be sought against those charged.\n\nThe bank said it would \"vigorously\" defend the charges.\n\nMr Thomas said in a statement: \"Custodial sentences and criminal fines will be sought against the accused.\"\n\nHe said this was because of the \"severity of the scheme to defraud and fraudulent misappropriation of billions in bond proceeds, the lengthy period over which the offences were planned and executed, the number of Goldman Sachs subsidiaries, officers and employers involved and the relative value of the fees and commissions paid to Goldman Sachs for their multiple roles played in arranging, structuring, underwriting and selling the three bonds\".\n\nIf convicted, those charged could face prison sentences of up to 10 years and fines of at least one million ringgit (£200,000).\n\nIn December last year, Malaysia filed criminal charges against Goldman Sachs and two former employees in connection with the corruption and money-laundering investigation at the fund, which is being investigated in at least six countries.\n\n\"We believe the charges announced today, along with those against three Goldman Sachs entities announced in December last year, are misdirected and will be vigorously defended,\" a spokesperson for Goldman said.\n\nAmong the other individuals named by Malaysia's attorney general are Michael Sherwood, a former co-head of Goldman's European operations, and Michael Evans, a former partner who is now president of Chinese e-commerce company Alibaba.\n\nThe charges related to what is being seen as one of the world's biggest financial scandals.\n\nUS and Malaysian prosecutors have previously said that the money raised by the state fund went to line the pockets of a few powerful individuals and to buy luxury properties, a private jet, Van Gogh and Monet artworks - and to finance a Hollywood blockbuster, The Wolf of Wall Street, starring Leonardo DiCaprio, who has not been accused of any wrongdoing\n\nThese charges have been brought under the under a section of the Malaysian Capital Markets and Services Act that holds certain senior executives responsible for any offences that may have been committed.\n\nIn December, Malaysia filed charges against Goldman Sachs and its former bankers, Tim Leissner and Roger Ng.\n\nMr Leissner was Goldman's South East Asia chairman, and left the bank in 2016. Mr Ng was a managing director at Goldman until his departure in May 2014.\n\nAt the time, charges were also filed against local financier Low Taek Jho, also known as Jho Low who maintains his innocence, and former 1MDB employee Jasmine Loo Ai Swan.\n\nMr Leissner has pleaded guilty in the US to conspiring to launder money and violating anti-bribery laws.\n\nThe 1MDB state fund was set up by former Prime Minister Najib Razak in 2009. He has been accusing of pocketing $681m (£522m) from the sovereign wealth fund and pleaded not guilty in April.", "Demonstrators protest against the passage of cruise ships in parts of Venice\n\nLarge cruise ships are to be banned from entering Venice's historic centre, the Italian government says.\n\nShips weighing more than 1,000 tonnes will be rerouted away from certain waterways from September.\n\nThe move follows an accident in June in which a ship collided with a dock, injuring five people.\n\nBut conservationists say the government's plans are insufficient to prevent underwater erosion and pollution in the lagoon city.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The MSC Opera, its horns blaring, crashes into a boat moored at a wharf in San Basilio-Zattere.\n\nStarting from next month, some liners will be forced to dock at the Fusina and Lombardia terminals away from the city centre, the Financial Times reported. By the end of 2020, a third of all ships will be rerouted.\n\nCritics have long said waves created by cruise ships on the canal erode the foundations of the city, which regularly suffers from flooding. Others have also complained that they detract from the beauty of Venice's historic sites and bring in too many tourists.\n\nBut the June accident, in which the MSC Opera - a 275m (900ft) long ship - collided with a dock and a small tourist boat in the city's Giudecca canal, galvanised protesters to call for a definitive ban.\n\nThe Giudecca, which passes close to the popular St Mark's Square, is one of Venice's major waterways.\n\nIn 2013, the government banned ships weighing more than 96,000 tonnes from the central Giudecca canal, but the legislation was later overturned.\n\nIn 2017, it was announced that larger ships would be diverted from the historic centre, but the plans were expected to take four years to come into force.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Unseasonably wet and windy weather on the way\n\nHeavy rain and strong winds are set to cause more disruption across the UK, with the risk of localised flooding and train delays.\n\nWeather warnings are in place for much of the country on Friday and Saturday.\n\nMotorists have been urged to check conditions before travelling while speed restrictions will be in place on some train lines on Saturday.\n\nThe Met Office forecasts winds of up to 60mph for parts of the Channel coast, south-west England and west Wales.\n\nThere is disruption to cross-Channel ferries and train lines in Scotland, while a number of outdoor events have been cancelled.\n\nAmong the cancellations are Boardmasters music festival in Newquay, Houghton dance festival in Norfolk and the first day of the Blackpool Air Show.\n\nThere is a yellow warning of heavy rain covering most of the UK for the whole of Friday.\n\nThe Met Office said the band of heavy rain that had pushed across the country would be followed by heavy showers or thunderstorms.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Water had come through the roof of Waterstones in Swansea\n\nBetween 21:00 BST on Thursday and 09:00 BST on Friday, Antrim in Northern Ireland saw 39mm of rainfall with the country's August average just 97.4mm, she said.\n\nShap in Cumbria recorded 38.6mm - more than half of England's August 69mm average - with Gwent in Wales reaching 34.8mm - a third of the country's 107mm August rainfall average.\n\nA Waterstones book shop in Swansea was forced to close after rainwater started pouring through the ceiling, damaging scores of books.\n\nYellow weather warnings are in place for Friday (left) and Saturday\n\nThe yellow warning for wind, covering parts of Wales and south-west and southern England, lasts from 15:00 BST until midnight. A similar warning affects most of England and Wales for the whole of Saturday.\n\nThere is a further warning of thunderstorms, which could lead to flooding over the weekend, for Northern Ireland, most of Scotland and northern parts of England.\n\nThere is already some flooding in Wrexham, north Wales\n\nThe Met Office warned the \"unseasonable weather\" had the potential to cause more problems as people were more likely to be outdoors.\n\nRichard Leonard, head of road safety at Highways England, urged drivers to check conditions before they travelled and consider whether their journey was necessary.\n\n\"In high winds, there's a particular risk to lorries, caravans and motorbikes so we'd advise drivers of these vehicles to slow down and avoid using exposed sections of road if possible,\" he said.\n\nThe RNLI has warned people visiting the coast to beware of large waves and storms.\n\nKayakers braved the rough seas off Bournemouth beach in Dorset\n\nNational Rail said high winds could affect coastal routes and speed restrictions would be in place across parts of the Gatwick Express, Southern, Southeastern, Great Northern and Thameslink networks on Saturday.\n\nA 50mph speed restriction is expected to remain in place until Saturday evening between Oxenholme Lake District and Penrith stations due to the weather, it added.\n\nCancellations and delays are also expected between Coventry and Birmingham New Street until the end of the day after damage to overhead wires resulted in all lines being blocked.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nStrong winds and heavy rain continues to cause disruption for rail passengers in Scotland.\n\nDisruption to trains between Glasgow Queen Street and Crianlarich / Oban is expected until the end of Monday and the Highland Sleeper will not run between Edinburgh and Fort William, after the line was damaged by heavy rain.\n\nThe line between Ardlui and Crainlarich will not reopen until 22 August, Network Rail said.\n\nThe line between Fort William and Mallaig is also blocked after a steam train struck a tree, while a fallen tree damaged overhead lines at Bishopton, leading to services being suspended between Glasgow Central and Gourock.\n\nBrittany Ferries has also cancelled its services between Poole and Cherbourg on Friday afternoon and evening and between Portsmouth and Cherbourg on Saturday.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nHundreds of people had arrived in Newquay before Boardmasters festival was called off\n\nThe predicted 60mph winds prompted organisers of the Boardmasters music festival in Newquay to call the event off - just hours before its doors were due to open on Wednesday.\n\nHoughton, a dance music festival in Norfolk, was also cancelled just hours before it was due to start, its \"devastated\" organisers announced on Facebook.\n\nThe Bristol International Balloon Fiesta has been scaled back, while the National Eisteddfod music festival in north Wales said it had \"contingency plans\" in place.\n\nThe Bristol International Balloon Fiesta is one of several events to be scaled back due to forecast strong winds\n\nThe first stage of the maiden Women's Tour of Scotland was abandoned two hours into the race due to \"extreme weather conditions\".\n\nChester's Pride event has also been postponed because of the weather, while all Saturday races at Cowes Week sailing regatta on the Isle of Wight have been cancelled.\n\nThe rain warning covers Whaley Bridge, where residents were recently evacuated after a dam above the town was damaged.\n\nDerbyshire Police said the residents, who were allowed to move home on Wednesday, would be \"the first to know\" if the water in the Toddbrook Reservoir reached a \"level of concern\".\n\nThe weather in Cumbria has been changeable – these two photos of the same spot were taken within five minutes of each other on Friday\n\nHave you been affected by the bad weather? 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You can also contact us in the following ways:\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Last updated on .From the section Arsenal\n\nMesut Ozil and Sead Kolasinac are not in Arsenal's squad for Sunday's Premier League game at Newcastle because of \"further security incidents\".\n\nThe pair were involved in a carjacking attempt by an armed gang in north-west London a fortnight ago.\n\nArsenal say they are liaising with police and \"providing the players and their families with ongoing support\".\n\n\"The welfare of our players and their families is always a top priority,\" the club added.\n\n\"We have taken this decision following discussion with the players and their representatives.\n\n\"We look forward to welcoming the players back to the squad as soon as possible.\"\n\nOzil and Kolasinac were left out of a friendly against Lyon following the attempted carjacking, but both featured in the final pre-season game against Barcelona on Sunday.\n\nThe latest incidents are being investigated by police.\n\nAfter the failed carjacking attempt, Kolasinac posted a picture of himself and Ozil on social media and added: \"Think we're fine.\"\n\nIn a statement, the Metropolitan Police said it was \"in contact with Arsenal and will investigate any offences reported appropriately\".", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nUS President Donald Trump says \"serious discussions\" are taking place between congressional leaders on \"meaningful\" background checks for gun owners following two mass shootings.\n\nOn Twitter, Mr Trump also said he had spoken to the gun lobby group National Rifle Association (NRA) so their views can be \"represented and respected\".\n\nDemocrats want the Senate to be recalled from recess to enact immediate legislation on gun control.\n\nMr Trump - who did not specify which steps he would support - weighed in after days of disagreement on how the US should respond to its latest mass shootings.\n\nAs he prepared to leave the White House on a trip to New York, he said: \"Frankly, we need intelligent background checks. This isn't a question of NRA, Republican, or Democrat.\"\n\nBut he singled out mental health issues, saying: \"We don't want people who are mentally ill, people who are sick - we don't want them having guns.\"\n\nMr Trump earlier tweeted that he was \"the biggest second amendment person there is\" - referring to the part of the US constitution which grants the right to bear arms - but that \"common sense things can be done that are good for everyone!\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or 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\nThere have been more than 250 mass shootings in the US this year. Last weekend, mass shootings in Dayton, Ohio, and El Paso, Texas, left more than 30 people dead.\n\nLate on Thursday, US Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell rejected recalling senators from their August recess. He said the issue would instead be \"front and centre\" when the Senate reconvenes in September.\n\nMr McConnell said that calling the Senate back immediately would only result in \"political point scoring\" and he instead wanted to start discussions during the August break to come back with a coherent plan in September.\n\nFor US gun rights advocates, time is an ally. After every new mass-shooting, politicians on the left call for action. Polls show continued public support new gun regulations, including comprehensive background checks on firearm purchases.\n\nThe media focus on the victims and note how the US is one of the few nations with such an epidemic of violence. And then, at least when it comes to federal legislation - nothing. Time passes, attention shifts elsewhere, and inertia takes over.\n\nIn rebuffing calls to bring the Senate back from its August recess to consider new gun regulations, Mr McConnell - an ardent gun rights supporter - may be counting on this familiar pattern to play out again. With both parties digging in, modest action, perhaps on a red-flag law, may be the only action there is.\n\nThe one wild card is Donald Trump. He has expressed support for background checks in the past, and he is doing so again. If legislation is going to pass, however, it will take more than flitting presidential interest. It will take real political muscle and a willingness to take on allies - including the NRA. After embracing gun rights in 2016, is the president up for such a fight?\n\nMr McConnell seemed to have shifted his tone after speaking with the president, saying that failing to take action would be \"unacceptable\".\n\n\"We've seen entirely too many of these outrageous acts by these mentally deranged people,\" he said.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. One US sheriff campaigned for so-called red flags laws - the other refuses to enforce them\n\nMany gun control advocates believe that the ease with which high-powered firearms can be bought is more important than mental health issues.\n\nSome Democrats expressed doubt that the rhetoric would result in meaningful change.\n\nRepresentative Elijah Cummings said: \"We really need to be careful when listening to politicians talk about what they're going to do,\" to some light laughter at a National Press Club event.\n\nBut striking a serious tone, he added: \"You have a lot of talk… but in the end, nothing happens.\"", "Emiliano Sala had just signed with Cardiff City at the time of the plane crash\n\nTwo people have admitted accessing CCTV footage of the post-mortem examination of footballer Emiliano Sala.\n\nSherry Bray and Christopher Ashford illegally accessed mortuary footage of the Argentine striker's body and Bray took photographs of it, police said.\n\nSala had been travelling from Nantes to Cardiff in January when the plane he was travelling in crashed into the sea.\n\nAt Swindon Crown Court, Bray, 48, and Ashford, 62, pleaded guilty to three counts of computer misuse.\n\nThey were bailed until 20 September and a judge warned them they face jail.\n\nWiltshire Police launched an inquiry after an image purporting to show Sala's remains appeared on social media.\n\nPolice said Bray, of Corsham, was the director of a CCTV company which was contracted to monitor cameras at the mortuary in Bournemouth.\n\nChristopher Ashford and Sherry Bray both admitted three counts of computer misuse\n\nAn investigation of Bray's business found both she and Ashford, of Calne, had accessed CCTV of the post-mortem and Bray had taken photographs of the footage on her mobile phone, the force said.\n\nBray then sent a picture to another person and subsequently attempted to hide evidence by encouraging Ashford to delete pictures he had taken.\n\nBray's phone also revealed she had taken a picture of another body in the same mortuary.\n\nJudge Peter Crabtree said: \"The starting point is custody undoubtedly in this case, it's extremely serious.\"\n\nDet Insp Gemma Vinton, from Wiltshire Police, said: \"The actions of Bray and Ashford caused additional unnecessary distress and heartache, and I hope the families will now be able to concentrate on grieving for their loved ones.\"\n\nBray also admitted perverting the course of justice.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Frank Kerr was killed during a robbery in Newry in November 1994\n\nA 60-year-old man has appeared in court charged with murdering a postal worker in 1994.\n\nFrank Kerr died after being shot during an IRA robbery at a sorting office.\n\nJames Seamus Fox of Carewamean Road in Jonesborough faces charges including the murder of 54-year-old Frank Kerr, the robbery of £131,000, possession of a firearm and membership of a proscribed organisation.\n\nThe judge granted bail to Mr Fox, but this is to be appealed by prosecutors.\n\nMr Kerr died after being shot during the robbery at Newry sorting office that occurred just months after the IRA ceasefire in 1994.\n\nThe IRA later admitted that its members were involved in the incident.\n\nThere were a large number of supporters in the public gallery for the hearing.\n\nA detective inspector said that he could connect Mr Fox to Mr Kerr's murder. This was on the basis of DNA evidence on a Post Office uniform found after the killing.\n\nProsecutors opposed bail, but District Judge Eamonn King granted it - saying that he believed any flight risk or potential for interference with witnesses could be managed.\n\nProsecutors said they would appeal this decision in the High Court - meaning he will remain in custody until that hearing early next week.\n\nThe case will be heard in court in Newry next month.", "Chinese authorities have declared a red alert as a powerful typhoon heads towards the eastern coast.\n\nTyphoon Lekima has battered Taiwan with winds of more than 190km/h (120mph) and is due to make landfall in China on Saturday.\n\nEmergency teams have been deployed to the region to guide relief work, China's emergency ministry said.\n\nThousands of people further up the coast in Shanghai have been warned to prepare to evacuate.\n\nLekima, which is the ninth typhoon so far this year, strengthened into a super typhoon late on Wednesday, but Taiwanese authorities have since downgraded it to a regular typhoon.\n\nFlood warnings have been issued for eastern sections of China's Yangtze River and the Yellow River until Wednesday. The provinces of Jiangsu and Shandong are also on alert.\n\nCruise liners have been told to delay their arrival in Shanghai and some train services have been suspended over the weekend.\n\nBeijing has also cancelled some trains heading to and from the Yangtze delta region.\n\nLekima is one of two typhoons in the western Pacific at the moment. Further east, Typhoon Krosa is spreading heavy rain across the Northern Mariana Islands and Guam. It is moving north-west and could strike Japan some time next week, forecasters said.\n\nLekima passed by Japan's Ryukyu Islands on Thursday and continued northwest on Friday, cutting power to about 14,000 homes, broadcaster NHK reported.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nSome 40,000 homes were left without power in Taiwan, where several schools and offices were also forced to close.\n\nThe island's high speed rail service was suspended north of the city of Taichung, local media reported.\n\nThe huge storm came a day after eastern Taiwan was rattled by a 6.0 magnitude earthquake. Experts said the risks of landslides triggered by the tremor were made more likely by the typhoon dumping up to 900mm (35 inches) of rain on Taiwan's northern mountains.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The 6.0 earthquake in Taiwan was caught on cat cam\n\nChina's weather bureau said Lekima was expected to have weakened further by the time it made landfall. The country has a four-stage colour-coded warning system, with red representing the most severe weather.", "A Scottish sweet manufacturer is seeing sales of its fudge and toffee surge in Iraq. What's feeding that growing popularity?\n\nIn northern Iraq, shops are rushing to fill their shelves with sweets. The Islamic holiday of Eid al-Adha, or Festival of the Sacrifice, is approaching - and it is an important part of the year for confectionery businesses.\n\nIn Iraqi Kurdistan, as elsewhere, the four-day festival which starts on Sunday is a time for celebration and feasting - and sweets are very much on the menu.\n\nThat's good news for Sulaymaniyah-based businessman Farhad Haseb, who sells confectionery to upmarket stores in Erbil and Dohuk, as well as other towns and cities in the region.\n\nSweets are particularly popular during Eid in Iraqi Kurdistan\n\n\"In our culture, everyone buys very sweet things to give to their guests when they are visiting their homes,\" he says.\n\n\"Toffee is a very popular choice for Kurdish people, especially at Ramadan and Eid.\"\n\nAnd families across Iraqi Kurdistan will be tucking into sweets that have been made 2,600 miles away in Scotland.\n\nGreenock-based confectioner Golden Casket, which is probably best known in the UK for its Millions brand, is one of Mr Haseb's main international suppliers.\n\nHe first linked up with the Scottish company several years ago at a confectionery trade show, and has been ordering increasing amounts of its Halal-certified fudge, chocolate eclairs and assorted toffees each year.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nIraq is now Golden Casket's third biggest export market, after America and Ireland.\n\nThe family-owned firm produces about 70 tonnes of toffees, boilings, fudges, chocolates and chews a week.\n\nSo far this year, it has sent more than 60 tonnes of its Buchanan's brand sweets to the region.\n\nSo what's behind the success of Scottish toffee in Iraqi Kurdistan?\n\n\"In our culture, eclairs and butter toffees are very popular,\" says Mr Haseb.\n\n\"We buy them from Belgium and Poland but Scottish toffee is the best - it is more chewy. We are selling more and more each year.\"\n\nMr Haseb, whose company Arak Garden imports more than 200 tonnes of toffee and chocolate a year, expects to place more orders with Golden Casket this year.\n\nThe Scottish company, which is also known in the UK for its \"One Pounders\" bags, has been making adjustments to cater for the growing Iraqi market.\n\nIt recently installed new machinery to boost its chocolate eclair production capacity.\n\nThe company has also been paying close attention to the packaging of products for the Iraqi market.\n\nSales manager Stuart Rae explains: \"Each jar of toffee or fudge has got to be gold wrapped - gold being a sign of quality - and it has to be made in the UK.\n\n\"That's the high-end stuff for the Kurdish market in Iraq.\"\n\nGolden Casket's managing director Crawford Rae, who is also chairman of Greenock Morton Football Club, sees Iraq and the surrounding region as a \"great opportunity\".\n\nHe says: \"We exhibited in Dubai for the first time in November - that's an emerging market and one that we want to break into, and export is certainly a growth potential for us.\"\n\nThe Kurdish link is a welcome one for Golden Casket, especially as the general confectionery market in the UK remains relatively flat at the moment.\n\nHowever, Golden Casket is not the only Scottish food and drink firm to identify Iraq as a potentially lucrative market.\n\nEarlier this year, Tunnock's - which has been exporting to the Middle East for more than 50 years - sent its first shipment of Caramel Wafers and Caramel Logs to the country.\n\nSales director Fergus Loudon said: \"Iraq is a relatively new market for Tunnock's. The initial feedback has been very positive, with the distributor there ready to place the next order.\n\n\"It's obviously an emerging market, but we hope that some day soon Tunnock's biscuits will be as popular in Iraq as they are in other countries across the Middle East.\"", "Colin Dowler might not be alive today if it weren't for a small pocket knife with a two-inch blade and five forestry workers.\n\nThe Canadian man was mountain biking on a logging road in the remote backcountry of British Columbia, roughly 300km (185 miles) north of Vancouver.\n\nHe was exploring potential hiking routes on Mount Doogie Dowler - he and his brother had plans to climb the mountain named after their grandfather.\n\nHe was heading back home after spending the night in the woods when he came around a bend and saw a grizzly bear.\n\nAt the time he didn't know that he would end up in a life-or-death struggle with the animal - and that his luck would turn after the attack.\n\nHe was hoping that like most bears, it would prefer to avoid human contact and head back into the woods.\n\nUnprovoked bear attacks - provincial conservation officers believe this is such a case - are extremely rare.\n\nHe was about 100ft (30 metres) from the bear - \"too close in my opinion\", he told the BBC by phone from his hospital bed.\n\nAs he was considering what to do - ride away, cycle past the bear, or stay still - the animal kept walking towards him at what seemed a natural pace.\n\nMr Dowler took off his backpack and grabbed one of his hiking poles as \"some semblance of a deterrent\" and stepped off his bike to keep it between himself and the grizzly.\n\n\"There was a point - I was scared the whole time - but I thought, 'Man, it would be cool to be catching this on video,'\" he said.\n\nThere are about 15,000 grizzly bears in British Columbia and attacks are rare\n\nThe grizzly kept walking forward - parallel to the bike until its rump had almost passed the rear wheel. Then it \"made a hard turn to the left\" to get behind him.\n\nBut Mr Dowler says at that point he went from \"uncomfortable to wildly uncomfortable\".\n\nKeeping his bike between him and the bear, he gave it a firm poke with the hiking pole, which led to brief a tug-of-war.\n\nHe remembers negotiating with the bear, saying \"I know this is your territory, I'm just passing through - we don't have to do this\".\n\nThe grizzly kept coming at him with \"methodical, heavy swats\" and - as those swats got heavier and stronger - Mr Dowler threw his bike towards it.\n\nThat's when it came for him, biting deep into his abdomen below his ribs.\n\n\"It was so much pain and weirdness, I could feel the hot blood,\" he says. \"I'm being rag-dolled, suspended by my flank by a bear carrying me.\"\n\nIt dropped him near a ditch about 50ft away and began taking deep bites into his thighs. He tried gouging at the bear's eyes, and briefly, playing dead.\n\nHe then reached for a pocket knife in his right pants pocket - it was painful to do so as he could hear the grating of bear teeth on bone - and went for the bear's neck. There was a rush of blood and the bear let go and walked away from him, back towards where it had come from.\n\nMr Dowler used the knife to cut off a shirtsleeve to use as a tourniquet around his wounded leg. He recovered his bike and cycled 7km (4.5 miles) to a logging camp, where he collapsed.\n\nHe said that is where his luck turned. There were five men at the camp and all of them knew first aid.\n\n\"They just went to work, doing their best to save my life,\" he said. \"They're truly the heroes of the story because there's no way I would have made it without [them].\"\n\nThey also called an air ambulance, and emergency workers gave him a likely life-saving blood transfusion before he was flown to a Vancouver hospital, where he is now slowly - and painfully - recovering from the 29 July attack.\n\nProvincial conservation officers tracked the bear in the woods and it was put down. They say they are confident it was the same bear that attacked Mr Dowler, because it had a knife wound in its neck.\n\nBritish Columbia is bear country - there are about 15,000 grizzlies in the province and anywhere from 120,000 to 150,000 black bears.\n\nThe province gets between 14,000 to 25,000 calls in a year about bear sightings or conflicts, and the main cause of conflicts is due to bears who have developed a liking for human food sources like improperly stored garbage or dirty barbeques.\n\nA small percentage of calls end up with the bear being killed because it has become a danger to the public.", "An airport has apologised after rainfall led to water pouring from the roof of the building.\n\nPassengers said they \"couldn't believe\" what was happening as they filmed rain falling inside London Luton Airport.\n\nA spokesman for the airport said: \"Following a period of unprecedented rainfall, we have experienced water damage in a number of locations.\n\n\"We apologise for any disruption to services while we seek to resolve the issue.\"", "A full-size helter-skelter has been constructed inside a cathedral to give visitors a unique view of the building.\n\nThe 16.7m (55ft) vintage fairground ride took four people two days to build in the nave of Norwich Cathedral.\n\nFor the first time it allows people to stand close to its medieval roof bosses, believed to be the largest display of their kind in the world.\n\nThe Very Reverend Jane Hedges, Dean of Norwich Cathedral, said the installation was \"certainly not a gimmick\".\n\nIt will be at the cathedral until 18 August.", "Higher VAT would most likely reduce German shoppers' meat purchases\n\nGreen and Social Democrat (SPD) politicians in Germany say the 7% sales tax (VAT) rate on meat should be raised to 19% to help curb global warming and fund animal welfare improvements.\n\nAccording to UN research, methane from livestock accounts for 14.5% of greenhouse gas emissions - more than the direct emissions from transport.\n\nThe German proposal, if made law, could reduce meat purchases and the supply of cheaper meats from factory farms.\n\nMinister Julia Klöckner, a member of Chancellor Angela Merkel's Christian Democrat (CDU) party, said she welcomed the discussion on improving animal welfare, but argued that raising VAT was not the way to do it, as a drop in meat sales could hurt farmers' incomes.\n\nThe standard VAT rate in Germany is 19%, but most foods, including meat, benefit from the reduced rate of 7%.\n\nThe SPD is in government with the CDU, and the German Greens made big gains in the May European elections.\n\nThe German debate coincided with a UN report from a panel of scientists calling for a determined switch away from livestock farming. They argue that the West's high consumption of meat and dairy produce is fuelling global warming.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Gases produced by livestock are a major factor in global warming\n\nBesides the harm caused by methane emissions from livestock, there is the widespread destruction of forests to make way for pasture, a process that releases CO2 stored in soil and reduces the absorption of CO2 by trees.\n\nThe UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) says the livestock sector produces 14.5% of greenhouse gas emissions, or 7.1 gigatonnes of CO2 equivalent - more than all the direct emissions from cars, aviation, ships and other transport.\n\nSPD agriculture spokesman Rainer Spiering said \"there are discount stores in Germany selling 500 grams of mince for €2.50 (£2.30), and if the VAT rate goes up by 12 percentage points they will charge €2.80 - I think that is acceptable\".\n\nGermany's Die Zeit daily reports that the average German eats about 60kg (132 pounds) of meat annually, but the German Nutrition Society (DGE) recommends only half that amount as a healthy level.\n\nIn the first half of this year, German abattoirs produced 3.9m tonnes of meat. Slaughtered animals - excluding poultry - totalled 29.4m.\n\nUnder EU rules, food generally qualifies for a reduced rate of VAT - as do many other essential goods and services.\n\nBut alcohol, fruit juice and some other types of food and drink are taxed at the standard rate. The minimum standard rate is 15%, and the lowest reduced rate is 5%.\n\nIn Germany, the reduced rate applies to pet food, but not to baby food. And carrots are reduced-rate, but not carrot juice.\n\nIn the UK the VAT rate on food is 0%, which remains legal under EU rules, because it predates the 5% threshold set in 1991.\n\nVAT rates vary widely across the EU, as taxation remains largely a national government responsibility. But the variation makes it harder to crack down on VAT fraud, and the EU has longstanding plans to reform VAT.", "Uber's shares went into reverse on Thursday after the taxi-hailing company unveiled profit figures that failed to live up to expectations.\n\nRevenue growth slowed in face of heavy competition, leading to the company posting its largest quarterly loss.\n\nUber and its rivals are spending heavily to expand, but boss Dara Khosrowshahi said that the competitive pressures are easing.\n\nBut that didn't stop Uber's share price tumbling 13% in after-hours trading.\n\nOn Wednesday, rival Lyft reported figures that were generally welcomed on Wall Street, and there was an expectation that Uber would also post positive numbers.\n\nBut Uber's loss widened to $5.2bn (£4.3bn) in the three months to 30 June, from $878m in the quarter last year. The figures reflected $3.9bn of share-based compensation expenses related to its stock market listing earlier this year.\n\nTotal revenue rose 14.4% to $3.2bn, but fell short of average analysts' estimates of $3.4bn. Uber's costs rose 147% to $8.7bn in the quarter, including a sharp rise in spending for research and development.\n\nMr Khosrowshahi said the competitive environment is starting to rationalise and had been \"progressively improving\" since the first quarter. While the company continues to invest aggressively, it is expected to spend less on promotions and incentives to win market share.\n\nUber and Lyft have historically relied on subsidies to attract riders, and have been spending heavily to expand into areas such as self-driving technology and food delivery.\n\nUber, which admitted ahead of its Wall Street listing that it may never make a profit, is trying to convince investors that growth will come not only from its ride services, but also from other logistics and food delivery services.\n\nGross bookings, a measure of total value of rides before driver costs and other expenses, rose 31% from 2018 to $15.76bn, below analysts' forecasts of about $15.8bn.\n\nThe number of monthly active users rose to 99 million globally, from 93 million at the end of the first quarter and 76 million a year earlier.\n\n\"Uber has turned into the magical money burning machine.\" That's how Publicis Sapient analyst Alyssa Altman described Uber's second quarter results. The damning words go to the heart of the company's challenge: can Uber find a way to be profitable?\n\nIts latest set of results failed to assuage sceptical investors and they gave the stock the cold shoulder. It doesn't help that its rival, Lyft, suggested on Wednesday that it could achieve profitability sooner than expected.\n\nTraditionally Uber and Lyft have spent heavily on promotions to attract riders and win market share. Both companies have said that price pressure is easing. And yet Uber's costs still rose an astonishing 147%.\n\nThe chief executive, Dara Khosrowshahi, is betting that future growth will come not just from ride services, but from other businesses like food delivery. The signs are that he has clearly not yet convinced investors.\n\nFor Wall Street, these numbers on Thursday show this is still a company stuck in traffic.", "Three people were pulled from the water, near Clacton Pier, at about 13:40 BST\n\nA 14-year-old girl has died and an 18-year-old man is in a critical condition after three people were rescued from the sea off the Essex coast.\n\nThe three, who are related, were pulled from the water near Clacton Pier at about 13:40 BST, police said.\n\nAll three were treated on the beach by paramedics before being taken to Colchester General Hospital.\n\nA 15-year-old girl is expected to make a full recovery, police said.\n\nAmbulance crews, the coastguard and police were called to the scene and Clacton RNLI said they were also called out\n\nActing Det Supt Paul Wells said: \"At this early stage, we believe that three teenagers got into difficulty at sea and were recovered from the water, close to Clacton Pier.\n\n\"A teenage boy and a girl were taken to hospital in a critical condition. Of these, a 14-year-old girl has died in hospital, an 18-year old man is stable but remains in a critical condition.\n\n\"The three casualties are related. Immediate family members have been informed and are at hospital. We are continuing to support the family at this unimaginably difficult time.\"\n\nActing Det Supt Paul Wells said police believe the three teenagers got into difficulty at sea\n\nChris Hines, from Sudbury, who has been trained in first aid, ran over to help.\n\n\"My wife said there were three people who was in trouble and I rushed over and started CPR,\" he told the BBC.\n\n\"An ambulance turned up pretty quickly. I just hope I did some good.\"\n\nA beach hut owner, who asked not to be named, said: \"I saw someone being dragged out of the water and people trying to resuscitate them.\n\n\"The beach patrol brought up a defibrillator and was working on them for 10 minutes before other emergency services arrived.\"\n\nAir ambulances were called to the scene\n\n\"It's a tragedy. I've lived here for 26 years. People underestimate the sea and they don't understand the currents and tides. Holidaymakers don't have a clue and there aren't any well-defined swimming areas here,\" he said.\n\nLast year 15-year-old Ben Quartermaine died after getting into difficulty while swimming with a friend near Clacton Pier on 26 July.\n\nAnu Cooray, 37, from Watford, told the BBC: \"We saw the lifeguards running and ambulance paramedics.\n\n\"They were doing chest compressions. Three helicopters came. One of them was really bad. We were so sad to see it.\"\n\nOne witness Becky Bryant, 40, said: \"I saw two people being pulled from the sea and lifeguards trying to do CPR until the paramedics turned up. Everyone tried to take turns doing the CPR while the lifeboat went out again and retrieved the third person who seemed not to be in such a bad way.\"\n\nThe carer, from Wivenhoe, added: \"It was so distressing, everyone was trying to do what they could; lifeguards, air ambulance, they truly worked as a team.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The delayed ferries are at the centre of a row between Ferguson Marine and the Scottish government's ferry company\n\nThe shipbuilder with the contract to build two delayed CalMac new ferries has said it will lose £39.5m on the deal.\n\nThe latest accounts for Ferguson Marine show the Inverclyde yard made a loss of £60.1m in 2016.\n\nFerguson Marine claims \"interference and disruption\" from the Scottish government's ferry company is to blame for the losses.\n\nThe firm also wants to renegotiate the terms of its £45m government loan.\n\nOwner Jim McColl - who rescued the yard from administration in 2014 - put £8.5m into Ferguson Marine from one of his other companies, according to the accounts.\n\nThe two dual-fuel ships - which can be powered by liquefied natural gas as well as diesel - will operate on CalMac's Clyde and Hebridean routes.\n\nThey have been ordered by Caledonian Maritime Assets Ltd (CMAL), which buys and leases the CalMac ships on behalf of the Scottish government.\n\nIn its accounts, which were filed over a year late, Ferguson Marine stated: \"The directors believe that post contract award, variations, interference, and disruption caused by the customer have resulted in additional unforeseen costs.\"\n\nBut CMAL rejects this and has previously insisted Ferguson Marine has to stick to the terms of its £97m fixed-price contract.\n\nThe row is set to go to the courts.\n\nThe Ferguson Marine accounts state the contract row and losses \"may cast doubt on the ability to continue as a going concern\" for the yard, but the report also adds the firm- which employs 300 people - is confident that its diversification efforts will pay off.\n\nFerguson Marine has been given access to a total of £45m in Scottish government loans.\n\nThe firm is trying to renegotiate the terms of these loans and the Scottish government has also said it will enter into discussions over extending how much time the Port Glasgow yard has to repay one of the loans.\n\nFerguson Marine's accounts for 2017 were due to be filed in September.\n\nA spokesman for Ferguson Marine said: \"In our latest published accounts, we have provided for identified cost overruns, in line with accepted accounting standards.\n\n\"These cost overruns are a direct result of the unforeseen complexities of building the two prototype, first in class, dual fuel LNG vessels for our client, CMAL. We fully expect to recover the costs identified and are subsequently in discussions with professional claims experts, with the aim of submitting a formal claim to CMAL within the next few weeks.\n\n\"We firmly believe that following a period of remarkable transformation, which has seen significant investment into the yard's facilities and workforce, Ferguson Marine Engineering Limited is now well placed to embark on an exciting phase of sustained growth.\n\n\"Our diversification strategy has unquestionably led to recent project wins, including securing a contract to build a world-first self-propelled air cushioned barge, but has also created a huge pipeline of exciting opportunities in an array of different sectors which we intend to fully capitalise on.\"", "Preparing for the possibility of a no-deal Brexit should be \"the top priority\" for civil servants, Boris Johnson has told them in a letter.\n\nThe PM said he would prefer to get a deal with the EU, but he said he recognised this \"may not happen\".\n\nEarlier Jeremy Corbyn had urged the UK's top civil servant to intervene to prevent a no-deal Brexit happening during a general election campaign.\n\nIt comes amid speculation MPs could back a no-confidence motion in the PM.\n\nIn his letter to civil servants, Mr Johnson said the UK must be prepared to leave the EU by the latest Brexit deadline of 31 October \"whatever the circumstances\".\n\n\"That is why preparing urgently and rapidly for the possibility of an exit without a deal will be my top priority, and it will be the top priority for the civil service too.\"\n\nIt is understood that government special advisers also received an email last night from the PM's senior adviser Eddie Lister instructing them not to take annual leave until after 31 October.\n\nMr Johnson's message to civil servants follows a similar letter sent by Chancellor Sajid Javid earlier this month to HM Revenue and Customs.\n\nMr Javid also ordered the tax authority to make preparing for no-deal its \"absolute top priority\", including helping the public to prepare for the possibility.\n\nHe said this should include making sure IT systems are ready, helping businesses with a helpline, and contacting traders directly.\n\nIn his letter to Cabinet Secretary Sir Mark Sedwill, Mr Corbyn said it would be an \"anti-democratic abuse of power\" if the PM allowed a no-deal to occur by default during a general election campaign, if the government was defeated in a vote of no confidence.\n\nShadow chancellor John McDonnell has said it is \"almost inevitable\" that Labour would push for such a vote when the Commons returns from its summer recess on 3 September.\n\nIt is thought MPs opposed to no-deal could back the vote in a bid to prevent the UK leaving the EU without an agreement - leading to a general election being called.\n\nElection rules say Parliament should be dissolved 25 working days before polling day - so some people are concerned Mr Johnson could allow a no-deal Brexit to happen while MPs are not sitting.\n\nAccording to the Sunday Telegraph, Mr Johnson's senior adviser at No 10, Dominic Cummings, has told MPs even losing such a vote could not stop the PM taking the UK out of the EU on 31 October.\n\nHe reportedly said Mr Johnson could call an election for after the deadline, with Brexit taking place in the meantime.\n\nTheresa May's Brexit deal was rejected three times by MPs and, as things stand, the UK will leave the EU on 31 October whether it has agreed a new one or not.\n\nMr Johnson has urged the EU to make changes to the deal, but has said the UK must leave by this deadline with or without an agreement.\n\nMany of those who voted against the deal had concerns over the backstop, which if implemented, would see Northern Ireland staying aligned to some rules of the EU single market.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nIt would also see the UK stay in a single customs territory with the EU, and align with current and future EU rules on competition and state aid.\n\nThese arrangements would apply unless and until both the EU and UK agreed they were no longer necessary.\n\nOn Thursday Mr Johnson again urged the EU to compromise on the Irish border backstop plan, designed to guarantee there will not be a hard Irish border after Brexit.\n\nHowever, the EU has continued to insist that the withdrawal deal agreed by Mrs May last year, including the backstop, cannot be renegotiated.\n\nMeanwhile, a transport minister has said he supports the government position of leaving the EU in all circumstances, following comments he made about a no-deal Brexit.\n\nGeorge Freeman told HuffPost UK's Commons People podcast it would be an \"absolute disaster\" for the UK in the long term if it only traded with the EU on WTO [World Trade Organization] terms, without its own free trade deal with the bloc.\n\nBut he later tweeted to say he \"totally supports\" the position that the UK should leave with no deal on 31 October, \"if the EU is unwilling to negotiate\".\n\nIn response, Downing Street told the BBC that Mr Freeman has the \"full support of the prime minister\".", "\"Manipulative and evil\" Ben Field left messages on one of his elderly victim's mirrors and persuaded her they were from God\n\nAs Ben Field sat in the back of a police van after his arrest, he said: \"I think I will get away with most of it.\" He had seduced two lonely neighbours - murdering one and defrauding the other - but now faces life in prison.\n\nOn the surface, 28-year-old Field was a charming, caring and religious young man who gave sermons in his father's Baptist church. But the former churchwarden had a sinister project: to befriend vulnerable individuals and get them to change their wills.\n\nMark Glover, who led the Thames Valley Police investigation into his crimes, summed him up: \"Ben Field is all about Ben Field and nobody else.\"\n\nPeter Farquhar and Ann Moore-Martin were both lonely and vulnerable\n\nField, of Olney, Bucks, has been convicted of murder and fraud after a 10-week trial. He was described by police as a \"cold, calculated, manipulative, controlling, evil man\".\n\nThe court was told he targeted two lonely neighbours who lived a few doors from each other in the village of Maids Moreton, Buckinghamshire.\n\nPeter Farquhar, 69, was a guest lecturer at the University of Buckingham, where Field had studied English literature. Ann Moore-Martin, 83, was a retired head teacher. Both victims were deeply religious, single and had no children.\n\nMr Farquhar had a wide circle of friends and acquaintances and was well-travelled, but he was also lonely. A gay man, he struggled with his sexuality, regarding it as incompatible with his Anglican faith.\n\nMiss Moore-Martin was Catholic and also went to church regularly. She, like her neighbour, had friends aplenty but was fiercely private. She was very close to her niece, so much so, they regarded each other as mother and daughter.\n\nField seduced both his victims and they were besotted with him. Mr Farquhar thought he had found someone to love and grow old with, while Miss Moore-Martin's sister-in-law said she seemed hypnotised by him, like \"a love-struck teenager\".\n\nThe defendant proposed marriage to them both and even held a betrothal ceremony with Mr Farquhar in March 2014.\n\nWhile Mr Farquhar wrote in his journal, \"it is one of the happiest moments of my life. Gone are the fears of dying alone\", the court was told Field's motive was purely financial gain and that he was also seeing other people.\n\nIf he was to inherit Mr Farquhar's house, his victim had to die. And if he was to get away with it, his death needed to look like an accident or suicide.\n\nField drugged Mr Farquhar, secretly spiking his food and drink by feeding him a cocktail of sedatives and hallucinogens bought off the internet. They were covertly administered in various ways - on his toast, in his tea and broken up in chocolate. A video, found in Field's possession, shows the academic looking exhausted and struggling to form a sentence.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Field filmed Mr Farquhar after he had been drugged\n\nBefore his death, Mr Farquhar told friends he was suffering from night terrors, hallucinations and bouts of sleepwalking. Some of his friends thought he had become confused or appeared drunk. He told friends he thought he was losing his mind and compared himself to Shakespeare's King Lear.\n\nField constructed a narrative to explain Mr Farquhar's behaviour. He told friends he was ill, or that he was drinking more than usual. The prosecution said Field was treated as someone shouldering the burden of looking after him.\n\nIn court, Field admitted drugging Mr Farquhar, telling jurors he did it because his partner would often be awake in the middle of night and active in the house, which would disrupt his own sleep.\n\nMr Farquhar would often fall over after being drugged by Field\n\nFor months, Mr Farquhar was tormented by his \"mystery illness\". He saw a number of doctors including a neurologist and had various medical tests. But Field rang NHS 111 and 999 and lied to health workers, telling them the retired lecturer was \"a frequent faller\" who probably had dementia.\n\nThe court heard Field \"gaslighted\" both his victims, manipulating them psychologically so they ended up doubting their memory and sanity.\n\nField moved things around the house so Mr Farquhar would get irritated and confused when he couldn't find them - only for Field to arrive and find the missing items immediately.\n\nThe jury was told how Field publicly humiliated Mr Farquhar at a book launch at Stowe School by slipping him hallucinogenic drugs. He had retired as the public school's head of English in 2004 to concentrate on writing novels and one book launch attracted a large number of friends. Those who attended told a similar story of a frail, confused and apologetic man slumped at a table, visibly struggling to sign books, who at one point thought he was being attacked by shards of light.\n\nIn October 2015, Mr Farquhar died. He was discovered in his living room by his cleaner, a half empty bottle of whisky beside him.\n\nHis friends thought he had drunk himself to death - as did the coroner, who certified his cause of death as acute alcohol intoxication. But, during the trial, the prosecution said Field had \"suffocated him\" when he was too weak to resist.\n\nBefore his death, Mr Farquhar had changed his will, giving Field a life interest in his house. When the house was sold, he split the proceeds with Mr Farquhar's brother.\n\nMr Farquhar lived a few doors away from Miss Moore-Martin\n\nField had been introduced to Miss Moore-Martin by Mr Farquhar and the defendant pursued her in the same way, taking advantage of her loneliness and working his way into her affections.\n\nDespite the 57-year age gap, they developed a sexual relationship. Unbeknown to her, he took a photograph of her performing a sex act on him. During his evidence he said he thought it could be used as something to blackmail her with if he needed to.\n\nHe gave her a number of items so she would feel closer to him. These included a framed picture of him with the words \"I am always with you\" written in capitals beneath his image, which she placed above her dressing table.\n\nHe gave her a hand counter and told her to click it every time she thought of him. In one note, she said she was concerned she had not seen him for several days, and wrote: \"My hand tally counter is being well used!\"\n\nIn another note, the words \"clickety x click!\" appeared next to hand-drawn flowers and the words \"I love you\".\n\nWhen Field wanted money, he lied about needing a new car and Miss Moore-Martin gave him £4,400. He told her his younger brother, Tom Field, was seriously ill with a kidney condition and needed a dialysis machine. It was another lie, but she was taken in and handed over £27,000.\n\nIn a recording of a phone call played in court, Field was heard ringing her bank then handing her the phone so she could speak to the operator about releasing money from bonds.\n\nShe told the bank: \"I'm thinking of withdrawing all the money held in my accounts… I have a very dear friend who is the brother of another dear friend. He's extremely ill, he's got kidney difficulties and is likely to die if he doesn't have his own dialysis machine and I've been thinking of a way in which I can help him.\"\n\nShe ended the call by saying: \"In life, one must not be selfish and keep everything to yourself.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Miss Moore-Martin told her bank \"one must not be selfish\" as she withdrew £27,000 in savings\n\nField's deceit extended to writing messages on his deeply religious victim's mirror, in the hope she would believe they were messages from God.\n\nIn his sketch books he planned the messages - how the writing would look, what the messages would say and what reasons there could be for them appearing. Some of the messages told her to leave her house to Field.\n\nIt worked and she changed her will.\n\nIn February 2017, Miss Moore-Martin became ill and suffered a seizure. It was during her hospital stay she confided in her niece about her relationship with Field and the writing on the mirrors. The police became involved and an investigation started.\n\nMiss Moore-Martin reversed her will and changed it back to benefit her family and in May 2017 she died of natural causes in a care home.\n\nHer niece, Anne-Marie Blake, told the court that before she died her aunt had begun to realise she had been duped and could not believe she had been so stupid as to fall for Field's lies.\n\n\"She was tortured by it and found it very difficult to get her head around the betrayal,\" she said.\n\nField left messages \"from God\" for Miss Moore-Martin as part of his campaign to get her to make him the beneficiary of her will\n\nMrs Blake said when she met Field at her aunt's house after her hospital admission, she thought his manner was \"weird\". She challenged him and asked if he had been taking things from her aunt's home, accepting money from her and trying to change her will. He said he had. She also asked him whether he was in love with her aunt to which he said \"yes\".\n\nDuring her stay in hospital, Field tried to visit her but he was denied access. The court heard he complained to the police and told the call operator: \"A friend of mine was admitted to hospital and when I called the hospital and tried to visit, security have said that I can't see her and for more information I need to contact the police.\n\n\"I was calling to see if I could find out anything or what had been said about me, what the situation was.\"\n\nIn court he admitted he had made the calls to see how much the police knew about him and whether he was in trouble. His barrister, David Jeremy QC, asked him what had been the purpose of the call, and he replied: \"To find out if my fraud was rumbled or not.\"\n\nThe police investigation established the link between Field, Miss Moore-Martin and Mr Farquhar and 19 months after the latter's death a decision was taken to exhume his body. A second post-mortem examination established he had consumed less alcohol than had been thought and there were sedatives in his system.\n\nAnn Moore-Martin was \"like a love-struck teenager\" around Field, according to her niece\n\nDr Brett Lockyer, a consultant forensic pathologist, said Mr Farquhar died as a result of the combined effects of alcohol and flurazepam, which could have affected his breathing. He said he could not rule out that Mr Farquhar might also been smothered with a pillow. The pathologist said a toxicological analysis showed Mr Farquhar had been repeatedly exposed to lorazepam in the two months before he died, as well as other sedatives.\n\nField was arrested and his home was searched, where police found diaries and notebooks containing a list of people's names with the title, 100 Clients. It was described by Field in court as a list of \"people who may be useful to me, either as targets of fraud or in other ways\".\n\nMembers of his own family were listed - and so was Miss Moore-Martin. Books about poisoning people and planning a suicide were also discovered.\n\nPrincipal investigator Mr Glover said: \"[Field] got massive pleasure from other people's misery and pain and it was all about financial gain or gain in some shape or form to Ben Field. [He was] a nasty, cruel man.\"\n\nAlthough he denied planning to kill the two neighbours he did admit to being in fraudulent relationships with them as part of a plot to get them to change their wills. Field also pleaded guilty to defrauding Miss Moore-Martin out of money he said was for a car and a dialysis machine, but was acquitted of conspiring to kill her.\n\nHe stood trial alongside his friend, magician Martyn Smith, 32, from Redruth in Cornwall, who was accused of murder, conspiracy to murder, fraud and burglary. He was acquitted of all the charges.\n\nField's younger brother, Tom Field, 24, from Olney, was also acquitted of one count of fraud.\n\nBen Field is now facing a life sentence, but his early confidence that he would \"get away with most of it\" - secretly recorded while he sat in a police van - was not entirely misplaced.\n\n\"In terms of the death of Peter Farquhar, there's a very good chance that Benjamin Field would have got away with that death had it not been for the suspicions that were raised once Ann Moore-Martin was removed from Benjamin's control,\" said Chris Derrick, of the Crown Prosecution Service.\n\n\"In fact, at that stage he had already gotten away with it - it was only due to the new forensics that came from exhuming the body that we were able to build a case that indicated Benjamin Field had in fact killed Peter.\"", "An earthquake shook west Cornwall with residents reporting a loud bang and shaking homes and windows.\n\nThe British Geological Survey (BGS) said the quake, measuring 2.2 magnitude, happened about three miles (5km) south-west of Falmouth.\n\nResidents in Helston reported feeling tremors at 17:00 BST on Thursday. No structural damage was reported.\n\nThe BGS confirmed the \"seismic event\" and has urged affected people to tell them how they experienced it.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by British Geological Survey This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nStuart MacKenzie, from Leedstown, said he had been upstairs in his house when he heard a sound like \"thunder or a large lorry going by\".\n\n\"I also was aware of the bit of movement because I heard the room creak a bit,\" he said.\n\nRadio Cornwall producer Rebecca Wills, from Helston, added: \"There was a low rumble and there was like a sonic boom.\n\n\"The whole of the house shook and everyone kind of looked at each other and thought 'what on earth was that?'\"\n\nDespite that official earthquake confirmation, there was some gentle mocking of the Cornish quake on social media.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 2 by rob booth This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript 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 Elan Durham This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy 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 Laura 🖤 This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nHolidaymakers in Cornwall pointed out that nature had not exactly been on their side and the earthquake seemed to be the icing on the cake.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 5 by Wendy Joberns This article contains content provided by Twitter. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThere are about 15 seismic events of a similar size or greater every year in the UK and about 700 around the world, the BGS said.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Premier League clubs have been urged to pay all staff above minimum wage rates after spending £1.41bn on players.\n\nMany cleaners, security guards, caterers and other staff do not earn enough money to cover the cost of living, the charity Citizens UK said.\n\nIt said only four out of 20 Premier League clubs are accredited by the Living Wage Foundation.\n\nThe clubs who have not signed up have been accused of losing touch with \"the lives and struggles of workers\".\n\nCompanies accredited by the Living Wage Foundation commit to paying all staff and any third-party contract workers the \"real living wage\" - a voluntary rate of £9 an hour and £10.55 in London that is higher than the statutory UK National Minimum Wage and National Living Wage of £8.21.\n\nEverton, Liverpool, Chelsea and West Ham have all made the pledge - while some football clubs outside the top league, such as Championship side Luton, also pay the voluntary rate.\n\nAnother Premier League side, Brighton & Hove Albion, are not accredited by the Living Wage Foundation but say they have been paying the \"real living wage\" rate for a number of years.\n\n\"I struggle to put food on the table for my family and I often have to have cut-price meals,\" said a cleaner who works at Manchester United's Old Trafford stadium.\n\n\"Considering the amount of money in football, it would be great to see the club paying all their staff a fair and decent wage,\" he said.\n\nPremier League clubs made a record combined revenue of £4.8bn in the 2017-18 season.\n\nBy the end of transfer deadline day on Thursday the top clubs in English football had spent £1.41bn in a summer of signing new players - just short of the £1.43bn record set in 2017.\n\nCitizens UK said a new football season was starting with employees \"left on the breadline\" which was \"not right when clubs are splashing out record fees on players\".\n\nUpdate 9th October 2019: This story has been updated to clarify that Brighton & Hove Albion were also paying staff at the \"real living wage\" rate and in September 2019 were accredited by a scheme administered by Brighton Chamber.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Last updated on .From the section Premier League\n\nLiverpool scored four first-half goals as they started the new Premier League season with a blistering performance to demolish newly-promoted Norwich City at Anfield.\n\nNorwich captain Grant Hanley scored the opening goal of the top-flight season when he sliced Divock Origi's cross into his own net before Mohamed Salah opened his account after a pass by Roberto Firmino.\n\nGerman midfielder Marco Stipermann forced a fine save by Reds keeper Alisson before an unmarked Virgil van Dijk headed the third from Salah's corner, Origi nodding the fourth after a stunning pass by Trent Alexander-Arnold.\n\nTeemu Pukki's composed finish reduced the deficit after Liverpool lost Alisson to injury, the Brazil keeper replaced by new signing Adrian after slipping while taking a first-half goal-kick.\n• None ‘A disjointed pre-season and a lack of signings – but Liverpool make ideal start’\n\nThere was a carnival atmosphere at Anfield for Liverpool's first home game since beating Tottenham in the Champions League final on 1 June and Jurgen Klopp's side responded with a superb display.\n\nThey might have won by a more handsome margin as Tim Krul palmed Origi's attempt onto the bar after making a brilliant save to keep out Firmino's ferocious volley. Krul also did well to keep out Alexander-Arnold's late free-kick.\n\nNo Reds hangover from last season's failed title charge\n\nAny fears Liverpool might be suffering a hangover after missing out to Manchester City by one point in the race for last season's title were quickly dispelled as the Reds started their quest to win a first top-flight title in 30 years in style.\n\nSupporters were looking for evidence Klopp's team can go one step better than last season and, while bigger tests lie ahead, a thumping win against a team fresh out of the Championship is a decent start.\n\nAfter a quiet summer in the transfer market, it was the same familiar faces on show including nine players who started the win over Spurs in Madrid in June.\n\nOrigi, who came off the bench to score in the Champions League final win, helped his side take the lead with a cross which ended in the back of the net after Hanley's misfortune.\n\nSalah doubled the lead with a trademark low angled finish after Firmino's assist before Salah turned provider with the corner for Van Dijk to make it 3-0.\n\nLiverpool were coasting and even after losing Alisson to injury they increased their advantage after Alexander-Arnold's sublime pass allowed Origi to head the fourth goal.\n\nOn a night of positives for the home side, Joe Gomez came through his first league game of 2019 after recovering from a fractured leg.\n• None How will the promoted sides fare?\n\nAlisson gives Klopp cause for concern\n\nKlopp said he was worried about the injury suffered by Alisson, who was a key figure in Liverpool's eye-catching 2018-19 season.\n\nAfter slipping in front of the Kop, the Brazilian received treatment on the pitch before a stretcher was brought on.\n\nAlisson eventually managed to get back to his feet and leave the field with help from a physio, but any prolonged absence would be a blow for Liverpool.\n\n\"With Alisson it is not good, but we will find a solution and move on,\" Klopp told BBC Sport's Match of the Day.\n\n\"He felt his calf. He looked behind him because he thought something hit him.\"\n\nThe German added that the Brazilian would not feature in Wednesday's Uefa Super Cup match against Chelsea.\n\nFormer West Ham keeper Adrian, brought in to replace the departed Simon Mignolet earlier in the week, made one fine save from Moritz Leitner before being beaten by Pukki.\n\nThis was Norwich's first Premier League game since losing 3-0 at Liverpool's neighbours Everton in May 2016, having already been relegated. They fared no better on their return to Merseyside.\n\nIn truth, next week's home game with Newcastle will provide a better gauge of how the Canaries will fare this season.\n\nDespite the scoreline, Norwich caused Liverpool's defence problems and Pukki's lovely finish after Emiliano Buendia's pass at least provoked some gallows humour from Norwich's travelling fans.\n\n\"One-nil in the second half,\" was the defiant song that rang out.\n\nNorwich have been busy in the transfer market and although none of their new recruits started at Anfield, expect that to change when they return to Carrow Road next week.\n\n'I'm totally in love with this team' - reaction\n\nLiverpool boss Jurgen Klopp told Match of the Day: \"For 60 minutes we looked very sharp, then we have to control the game a bit more. Norwich have all my respect - they stayed cheeky, they enjoyed their football.\n\n\"At the start of the second half we could have scored a fifth or sixth goal, then Norwich scored. After that we were never in danger but had to work hard to keep the score what it was.\n\n\"The players had a break (over the summer). For the body it was long enough, nobody asked for longer, so they didn't lose a lot of their physical standards. We have to be a bit smart for the next two games, we have to make a few decisions and try to win both of those games, which will be difficult.\"\n\nNorwich boss Daniel Farke speaking to Match of the Day: \"We're disappointed. We were greedy, we wanted to be the first team in two-and-a-half years to win here.\n\n\"But I'm totally in love with this team. The mentality to win the second half in front of an excited home crowd, we showed great character.\n\n\"No-one wanted to hear it at half-time, but I told them we had the same possession and had created more chances. Liverpool had scored four though.\n\n\"It was tough to take but I felt we were not too far away from a good result.\"\n• None Liverpool have scored 15 goals in their four opening day Premier League matches under manager Jürgen Klopp (W3 D1 L0), netting four times in their first match of the league season in consecutive seasons for the first time in their entire history.\n• None Norwich have won their first match of the league season in just one of the past 17 seasons (W1 D8 L8).\n• None Liverpool are unbeaten in their past 13 Premier League games against Norwich (W11 D2 L0), scoring 43 goals across those games, including at least four goals in five of their last seven meetings.\n• None Salah has scored in Liverpool's first Premier League match in each of the last three seasons (2017-18, 2018-19 and 2019-20).\n• None The first goal of the Premier League season was an own-goal for only the second time - the other occasion was in 2015-16, when Kyle Walker's own-goal was the only goal in Manchester United's 1-0 win over Spurs.\n• None Pukki has scored with his first shot on target in each of the last eight league seasons (across Schalke 04, Celtic, Brondby IF and Norwich careers); a record stretching back to the start of 2012-13.\n• None Liverpool scored three goals in the opening half-hour of a Premier League game for the first time since February 2014, when they were 4-0 up after 20 minutes against Arsenal.\n• None Liverpool defender Alexander-Arnold became the first player to register an assist in five consecutive Premier League appearances since Arsenal's Mesut Ozil in 2015, and is one of only eight players in Premier League history to do so.\n• None Norwich's Onel Hernandez became the first Cuban player in the Premier League, with Cuba the 114th different nationality represented in Premier League history.\n\nLiverpool are off to Istanbul to face Chelsea in the Uefa Super Cup on Wednesday (20:00 BST) while Norwich have a full week to prepare for the visit of Newcastle United to Carrow Road on 17 August (15:00).\n• None Attempt blocked. Onel Hernández (Norwich City) left footed shot from the left side of the box is blocked.\n• None Attempt saved. Ben Godfrey (Norwich City) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the bottom left corner. Assisted by Jamal Lewis.\n• None Offside, Norwich City. Todd Cantwell tries a through ball, but Onel Hernández is caught offside.\n• None Delay over. They are ready to continue.\n• None Attempt saved. Trent Alexander-Arnold (Liverpool) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the top right corner.\n• None Attempt saved. Emiliano Buendía (Norwich 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", "Travellers in Scotland have been given a fresh warning that difficult weather conditions could continue for much of the weekend.\n\nThe Met Office also issued a yellow warning for heavy showers and thunderstorms continuing until Sunday.\n\nFifteen flood alerts have been put in place by the Scottish Environment Protection Agency (Sepa).\n\nMuch of Scotland was already on alert as heavy rain lashed large parts of the country.\n\nMet Office chief meteorologist Neil Armstrong said: \"This low-pressure system will bring challenging conditions, including unseasonably strong winds and heavy rain, from the west during Friday and Saturday.\n\n\"Summer storms - compared with those in autumn and winter - always have the potential to create additional impacts because more people are likely to be outdoors, especially by the coast.\n\n\"Additionally, with trees in full leaf they are more vulnerable to being brought down by strong winds.\"\n\nKatie Archibald prepares to lead her team out in Dundee\n\nOne of the events affected by weather conditions was the Women's Tour of Scotland.\n\nOrganisers of the cycling race, taking place for the first time, said the first stage - from Dundee to Dunfermline - had been abandoned due to \"extreme weather conditions\".\n\nStage two - still scheduled for Saturday - is from Glasgow to Perth.\n\nSurface water caused difficulties for motorists on Friday and ferries were disrupted by high winds.\n\nRail services between Fort William and Mallaig have been replaced by buses after a steam train hit a tree.\n\nAnd trains through Bishopton in Renfrewshire were cancelled for the remainder of the day after a tree fell on overhead wires at about 09:15.\n\nThe loss of power to the overhead lines left about 200 passengers stranded on three trains in the area for about two hours.\n\nThree trains were brought to a halt near Bishopton\n\nA \"rescue train\" was brought in to remove those on board and they disembarked at Bishopton at 11:30.\n\nScotRail said engineers were working to repair the \"significant damage\" affecting services between Glasgow Central and Gourock/Wemyss Bay.\n\nThe disruption was expected to last into the weekend as the rail firm said the repair work would be completed by midday on Saturday.\n\n\"We're sorry to customers who've been affected by this, and share their frustrations,\" a spokesman added.\n\n\"To keep people moving, we're operating a shuttle service between Glasgow and Paisley, and customers can use their train tickets on selected local buses.\"\n\nScotRail said on Friday that services between Dunblane - Edinburgh and Glasgow Queen Street were running as normal after major disruption on Thursday.\n\nHowever, disruption to trains between Glasgow Queen Street and Crianlarich / Oban is expected until the end of Monday and the Highland Sleeper will not run between Edinburgh and Fort William, after the line was damaged by heavy rain.\n\nThe line between Ardlui and Crainlarich will not reopen until 22 August, Network Rail said.\n\nA number of routes in southern Scotland have been affected by fallen trees\n\nIn Dumfries and Galloway a driver had a lucky escape after a tree fell on a car near Castle Douglas.\n\nPolice said the motorist had walked away uninjured but a number of trees were down across the region.\n\nTransport Scotland said the heavy rain means saturated ground and areas already hit by flooding may be affected again.\n\nA spokesman said: \"This will cause challenging conditions for drivers and commuters, and we would again urge the public to check before they travel, follow police advice, and to drive to the conditions, where routes are passable.\n\n\"Planning is under way to prepare for the continued heavy rainfall to allow for early interventions, such as having pumps ready and available in an effort to avoid further closures at known sites. However, the sheer volume of rain does make this challenging.\"", "Benjamin Field (right) has been convicted of the murder of Peter Farquhar\n\nA churchwarden has been found guilty of murdering an author after tricking him into changing his will.\n\nBenjamin Field, 28, manipulated 69-year-old Peter Farquhar for financial gain and tried to make his death look like an accident or suicide.\n\nField was also accused of plotting to kill Mr Farquhar's neighbour Ann Moore-Martin, 83, in the village of Maids Moreton but was found not guilty.\n\nHe was remanded in custody and will be sentenced at a date to be fixed.\n\nAt Oxford Crown Court, Field was also acquitted of the attempted murder of Miss Moore-Martin.\n\nMr Farquhar died in the Buckinghamshire village in October 2015, while Miss Moore-Martin, who lived three doors away, died in May 2017 from natural causes.\n\nField, a Baptist minister's son, admitted duping both Mr Farquhar and Miss Moore-Martin into fake relationships with him as part of a plot to get them to change their wills, but denied any involvement in their deaths.\n\nThe court heard Field had undergone a \"betrothal\" ceremony with Mr Farquhar and was in a sexual relationship with Miss Moore-Martin.\n\nProsecutor Oliver Saxby QC told the trial Field carried out a sustained \"gaslighting\" plot aimed at making Mr Farquhar question his sanity.\n\nMr Farquhar's drinks were topped up with bioethanol and poteen, a high strength Irish alcohol, and his food was laced with drugs, Mr Saxby said.\n\nMr Farquhar, who taught part-time at the University of Buckingham and had three novels published, suffered night terrors and hallucinations which he recorded in a handwritten journal.\n\nHis third novel A Wide Wide Sea, published in 2015, was dedicated to Field, who delivered the eulogy at his funeral.\n\nField said he drugged Mr Farquhar \"purely out of meanness\"\n\nField's co-accused Martyn Smith, 32, of Penhalvean, Redruth, Cornwall, was cleared of murdering Mr Farquhar, plotting to kill Miss Moore-Martin, fraud and burglary.\n\nSpeaking afterwards, he said: \"I am relieved that this ordeal is finally over...The lessons I take from this case are first and foremost to always be your own person and secondly to always choose your friends very carefully.\"\n\nDuring the trial Field admitted drugging Mr Farquhar with benzodiazepines and hallucinogenic legal highs to \"torment\" him.\n\nHe told the jury he did it \"for no other reason other than it was cruel, to upset and torment Peter - purely out of meanness\".\n\nBut prosecutors said Field had a \"profound fascination in controlling and manipulating and humiliating and killing\".\n\nAfter Mr Farquhar changed his will three times in two years to benefit Field, he \"had to die\", Mr Saxby said.\n\nThe court heard Field \"suffocated him\" when he was too weak to resist, and left a half-empty bottle of whisky in Mr Farquhar's room to create the misconception he had drunk himself to death.\n\nIn a statement read by police, Mr Farquhar's brother Ian said: \"[Field's] actions have been unbelievably callous, and he has told lie after lie after lie in order to achieve his goals, deceiving everyone he met.\"\n\nSenior investigating officer Mark Glover described Field as \"cruel, calculating, manipulative, deceitful\", adding: \"I don't think evil is too strong a word for him.\"\n\nChris Derrick, from the Crown Prosecution Service, said: \"He is clearly a very calculating and ruthless man who spent a great deal of time planning what he was going to do.\"\n\nAfter the verdicts, journalist Michael Crick, who was taught by Mr Farquhar at Manchester Grammar School, tweeted: \"It's so dreadful to think my dear friend and teacher Peter Farquhar was murdered in such an awful way by a man he loved and trusted so much.\"\n\nAnother former pupil of the school, David Scheinmann, directed 2013 film Believe and has said a headmaster character, played by Toby Stevens, was in part based on Mr Farquhar.\n\nMr Farquhar would often fall over after being drugged by Field\n\nMiss Moore-Martin's niece Ann-Marie Blake paid tribute to her aunt, who she described as \"a kind, gentle, beautiful soul, who touched so many lives, leaving behind a legacy of wonderful memories\".\n\nJudge Mr Justice Sweeney said it had been a \"challenging case\" for the jury, which took 77 hours to reach its verdict.\n\nHe remanded Field, of Wellingborough Road, Olney, in custody until sentencing at a date to be fixed and ordered a psychiatric report.\n\nField previously admitted four charges of fraud and two of burglary.\n\nHis brother Tom Field, 24, of the same address, was cleared of a single charge of fraud.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The cost of a cremation has risen above the rate of inflation since 2015\n\nFamilies in parts of the UK are paying hundreds of pounds more to cremate loved ones than others, figures show.\n\nCremation costs at council-run sites range from £392 to £960 and have risen by nearly a fifth since 2015.\n\nExperts said it was likely people in areas where charges were higher would have to pay, as grieving people tended not to shop around for a cheaper area.\n\nCouncil fees are mostly reinvested in cemeteries and crematoria, according to the Local Government Association.\n\nThe BBC analysed figures for adult cremations, collected by charity The Cremation Society, and obtained the latest data for 183 council-run crematoria in the UK and Channel Islands for the past five years.\n\nCosts had risen in two thirds of areas since 2018 and, adjusting for inflation, prices were up by 11% on average since 2015.\n\nBetween 2010 and 2015 cremation prices rose by a third across 170 local councils.\n\nThe figures showed the cremation fee plus a medical referee's fee and any environmental surcharge. This represented the minimum cost charged by local authorities for services from 15 to 45 minutes but did not include additional funeral expenses.\n\nKaren Hitchman said she tried to shop around for a good deal, but still had to find financial help to cover funeral costs\n\nKaren Hitchman, 56, from Mossley in Greater Manchester, said when her parents died within six weeks of each other she had no savings to pay for their funerals.\n\n\"I actually felt suicidal, that's how depressed I got with it all and the more people I asked for help, the more I got turned away,\" she said.\n\nMs Hitchman eventually received help from the government and charities but said funeral costs in general were too high for those already struggling to make ends meet.\n\n\"Obviously when you're in a state of shock and you're dealing with a funeral, it's the last thing you think of,\" she said.\n\n\"Afterwards when you sit down and think about it, it [is] extortionate.\n\n\"It's robbery, you can't afford to live, you can't afford to die,\" she said.\n\nThe most expensive council-owned crematorium was in Milton Keynes, which currently charges £960 as a basic fee.\n\nHowever, private sector cremations could cost more, according to the Cremation Society, with a top price of £1,070.\n\nA spokesman for Milton Keynes Council said it set its prices to ensure the recovery of the costs in delivering the service.\n\n\"The charges cover the maintenance costs of the crematorium and 10 cemeteries across Milton Keynes,\" he said.\n\nAccording to the council this ensured the cremators were maintained \"at the standards required to achieve the most effective and efficient processes\".\n\nBarrow Borough Council said up to 2015 its fees were \"lower than many other crematoria\".\n\n\"With the reduction in government funding the borough council increased all fees in comparison with our neighbouring authorities,\" it said.\n\nGlynn Humphries, from Wakefield Council, said it had set its fees to cover the costs of replacing its cremators in recent years.\n\n\"It is important that we are equipped to meet future demand, as the death rate is likely to rise,\" he added.\n\nBelfast currently has the lowest cost for cremation at £364.\n\nA spokeswoman for Belfast City Council said its last detailed review of cremation costs was undertaken \"some years ago\" but current prices were \"subject to change\".\n\nJulie Dunk, chief executive of the Institute of Cemetery and Crematorium Management, said while a cremation \"can seem quite expensive\" when broken down, the costs made sense.\n\n\"There's quite a lot involved when it comes to cremation, not just the actual process itself but all the infrastructure around it,\" she said.\n\n\"So it may be that a crematorium has had to invest quite heavily in new equipment to meet environmental standards or to bring the chapels up to a decent level.\"\n\nShe added many public crematoria were now \"ageing buildings\" that required constant maintenance from local authorities running them.\n\nCommenting on the difference across the country in price, the Good Funeral Guide's Fran Hall said families in high cost areas would often just pay what was asked.\n\n\"It's very unlikely that people will ring three different crematoria to find the cheapest one to take grandma to when it's time for her funeral, that just doesn't happen,\" she said.\n\nShe said there was a \"subliminal assumption\" shopping around for the cheapest deal meant families were not \"doing the right thing\" for the person who died.\n\nCouncillor Simon Blackburn, from the Local Government Association, said council fees generally accounted for \"less than a quarter\" of the overall cost of a cremation.\n\n\"There is no restriction on how surplus revenue is used but it is mostly reinvested in cemetery and crematoria infrastructure, grounds maintenance, staff and energy costs to address demand and provide the services bereaved families want.\"\n\nIn March the Competition and Markets Authority said it would be launching an investigation into the funerals sector.\n\nIt said \"problems\" with the market had led to above inflation price rises \"for well over a decade\" in both the funeral and crematoria services.\n\n\"The scale of these price rises does not currently appear to be justified by cost increases or quality improvements,\" a spokesman said.\n• None Home page for The Cremation Society of Great Britain The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Chancellor Sajid Javid has announced a one-year spending review to give government departments \"financial certainty\" as they prepare for Brexit.\n\nMr Javid said a spending round for 2020-21 would \"clear the ground ahead of Brexit while delivering on people's priorities\".\n\nHe told the BBC that he was confident it would meet the government's priorities for the NHS, police and schools.\n\nIt is not a multi-year spending review.\n\nThose usually happen every two to four years and due to Brexit delays there has not been such a review since 2015.\n\nThe Institute for Fiscal Studies called it \"long-awaited\", while Labour said the Tories were \"playing dangerous games with spending\".\n\nSpending reviews are regularly carried out by the Treasury to fix firm expenditure limits and set out what the public can expect from the government.\n\nMr Javid told the BBC: \"One of things I've done is I want to make sure all departments, including my own, are very focused on our priority which is to make sure we leave the European Union on October 31st.\n\n\"That's why I'm having a one-year spending round so we can just get focused on our priority.\n\n\"But I'm confident that in that spending round that we'll be able to meet all our priorities and that certainly means increased focus on the NHS, on police and on schools.\"\n\nMr Javid was appointed chancellor by incoming Prime Minister Boris Johnson last month, replacing Philip Hammond.\n\nSpeaking after data showed the economy had contracted in the second quarter of the year, he added: \"I'll be a chancellor to make sure that our country continues to live within our means.\"\n\nHe also said the economy remained strong and was forecast to return to growth, meaning the government could \"continue to invest in the priorities of the British people\".\n\nChief Secretary to the Treasury Rishi Sunak said: \"This spending round will give financial certainty to departments' plans for next year.\n\n\"We will invest in the priority areas of schools and policing, while delivering our promises on the NHS, defence and Official Development Assistance [foreign aid].\"\n\nMr McDonnell said the approach \"smacks of pre-election panic\"\n\nUnder Mr Johnson's administration, emergency preparations for a possible no-deal Brexit have been ramped up.\n\nLast week, Mr Javid announced an extra £2.1bn of funding to prepare for such an outcome - doubling the amount of money the government has set aside this year.\n\nLabour's Mr McDonnell said the approach \"smacks of pre-election panic measures by the government\".\n\n\"Boris Johnson is splashing a little bit of cash as a publicity stunt, but keeping the door open for even more austerity if a no-deal Brexit breaks the economy,\" he said.\n\nMr McDonnell said there were \"gaping holes\" in the spending plans, with \"nowhere near enough\" allocated to the NHS, schools or local government.\n\nAbout 50% of government spending is planned on a multi-year basis, when it comes to things like public services, such as the NHS, schools or the police, which are unlikely to alter drastically from year to year.\n\nTypically, these budgets are set three or four years in advance, in order to help government departments plan their spending more effectively.\n\nGovernment departments are likely to have mixed views about this announcement.\n\nOn the one hand, some public services - for example, health and the police - may be offered more money. There may also be extra cash to deal with the potential fallout from a no-deal Brexit.\n\nThe government says this decision is about getting Brexit done and delivering on people's priorities.\n\nBut the decision also makes it harder for public services to plan for the longer term, as they'll now have to wait another year for the real spending review.\n\nThere's also the risk that the spending taps might be turned off as quickly as they're turned on. That's Labour's line of attack - they're accusing the government of playing \"dangerous games\" and \"abandoning any pretence of a long-term economic plan\".\n\n\"If you're a head teacher or head of a police force, if you're trying to work out who to hire or whether to invest in a piece of equipment, it helps to know what your budget is going to be into the future,\" Ben Zaranko, a research economist with the Institute for Fiscal Studies, told the BBC.\n\n\"If you have to plan this on a year-to-year basis, it's quite hard.\"\n\nThis time, the spending review will be published in advance of the Budget, which means the chancellor will be making spending plans before he has updated forecasts for the economy, and before he has set tax policy, Mr Zaranko added.\n\nOne-year spending reviews are not unprecedented. In 2013, the government set the budget for 2015-16, so as to avoid spending decisions going beyond the next election.\n\nChancellor Sajid Javid and Home Secretary Priti Patel were given a tour of Tilbury Docks in early August\n\nThe IFS's Mr Zaranko said it made sense that the chancellor was unwilling to commit to longer spending plans, because \"we don't know what the economy is going to look like six months down the line, let alone three years\".\n\nHowever, it would make it much harder for government departments to plan for the future.\n\nEarlier this year, Her Majesty's Chief Inspector of Constabulary released a report warning that one-year spending reviews would not be good for the police in England.\n\nBut James Jamieson, chairman of the Local Government Association, welcomed the one-year spending round, saying councils \"urgently need some certainty about how local services will be funded next year as they begin their budget-setting process\".", "Three people were pulled from the water near Clacton Pier on Thursday afternoon\n\nA 14-year-old girl who died after getting into difficulty in the sea off the Essex coast has been named by police.\n\nMalika Shamas, from Luton, died after she was rescued from the water near Clacton Pier on Thursday afternoon.\n\nTwo other teenagers, who were relatives of Malika, were also pulled from the water and an 18-year-old man remains in a critical condition.\n\nA 15-year-old girl is expected to make a full recovery, police said.\n\nPolice said all three were treated on the beach by paramedics before being taken to Colchester General Hospital.\n\nFlowers have been left near Clacton Pier\n\nWitnesses said the trio were pulled from the sea by emergency services with CPR being performed by onlookers until ambulances arrived.\n\nOn 26 July last year, Ben Quartermaine, 15, died after getting into difficulty while swimming with a friend near Clacton Pier.\n\nHis mother and stepfather Vicky and Colin Gentry said a lack of signage in Clacton was \"one of the main issues\".\n\nThey have also called for better education for \"all year groups in all schools, whether coastal or not\".\n\nAmbulance crews, the coastguard and police were called to the scene\n\nClacton MP Giles Watling said the tragedy was a warning to people to be aware of the dangers of the sea.\n\nHe said: \"It is extremely tragic and it is just awful this has happened two years running.\n\n\"People should be so careful about water, it is an inherently dangerous place.\n\n\"We have a very safe beach here when you bear in mind tens of thousands of people come every summer quite safely and have great times.\"\n\nAir ambulances were called to the scene\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Boris Johnson: \"We're going to turn the UK into a supercharged magnet, drawing scientists like iron filings from around the world\"\n\nBoris Johnson has instructed government departments to devise a new fast-track visa system to attract leading scientists to work in the UK.\n\nThe PM plans to scrap the cap on \"tier one\" visas for highly skilled migrants - currently the limit is 2,000 a year.\n\nHe also wants to make the system easier for scientists and their families.\n\nScience bodies have welcomed the proposals but warn any benefits to research would be greatly outweighed by the damage caused by a no-deal Brexit.\n\nThe prime minister made the announcement at the Culham science centre in Oxfordshire which undertakes research on fusion power.\n\nThe Home Office and the Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy (Beis) are the departments involved in preparing the new visa process.\n\nSpeaking exclusively to BBC News about the announcement, he said that he wanted to see a greater openness to scientific top talent from around the world.\n\n\"We're going to turn the UK into a kind of supercharged magnet, drawing scientists like iron filings from around the world coming to help push forward projects like this (fusion research in Culham) in which we can not only take a scientific lead but a commercial lead as well,\" he said.\n\nThe Culham facility carries out research into nuclear fusion. It is among the scientific organisations that would benefit from Mr Johnson's proposed visa system for scientists\n\nEU researchers account for half of the total UK scientific workforce of 211,000. Currently, they don't need visas to work in British labs.\n\nThose from outside the UK currently need to go through a rigorous process supervised by the Home Office. The process is time consuming, taking up to 100 days and costly, with a bill of about £8,000.\n\nAfter Brexit, new applicants from EU countries will have to go through the same procedure, prompting fears of a large scientific skills shortage.\n\nIn response, Mr Johnson has asked the Home Office and Beis to develop a system that has no limit on numbers allowed to work in the UK under the tier one exceptional talent visas. He also wants them to expand the pool of UK research institutes and universities able to endorse candidates.\n\nIn addition, he wants officials to come up with criteria that confer automatic endorsement, subject to immigration checks, ensuring dependants are also able to work in the UK and remove the need to hold an offer of employment before arriving.\n\nProf Sir Venki Ramakrishnan, president of the UK's Royal Society, has been calling for such reforms since the result of the referendum on membership of the EU in 2016.\n\nProf Sir Venki Ramakrishnan, president of the UK's Royal Society: \"no-deal\" exit from the EU is the worst option for science.\"\n\n\"We welcome the government's objective of supporting science by facilitating immigration of researchers at all levels, and look forward to discussing the details of a new immigration system,\" he told BBC News.\n\n\"But the fact remains, half of international academic talent in UK universities comes from the European Union and the EU is our single largest research collaborator.\n\n\"Alongside immigration reform, therefore, maintaining close working ties with researchers in Europe and access to EU research funding, are essential. A no-deal exit from the EU is the worst option for science.\"\n\nChi Onwurah MP, the shadow spokesperson on science and industrial strategy, said that a no-deal Brexit would be \"hugely damaging\" for British science.\n\n\"Britain is a science superpower and we need to build an innovation nation but that won't be achieved by a few fast track visas and re-announcing commitments already given, and broken, on replacement funding for EU programmes\" she said.\n\n\"Science is a team activity, we need to promote collaboration at all levels not only the super-elite, and deliver on long-term commitments to be part of EU research programmes.\"\n\nMr Johnson reiterated that he did not want a no-deal Brexit but, were there to be one, he pledged to ensure that the UK would continue to collaborate in great scientific projects \"under any circumstances\".\n\n\"We are not only going to participate in the (EU funded) Horizon schemes, we in the new UK government are determined to finance big science as well,\" he said.\n\n\"So when these people come forward, as they are now, with plans for UK-generated fusion reactors, we are going to be championing those and supporting those as well.\"\n\nThe UK will be unable to participate fully in the EU-funded Horizon programmes once it leaves the EU and British scientists may not be able to be involved at all if the UK leaves without a deal.\n\nParticipation in Europe's programme to develop nuclear fusion, of which the Culham science centre is a part, will also be restricted after Brexit.\n\nUK researchers are as much concerned about the loss of scientific collaborations with EU research institutes as they are about the loss of European funding.\n\nA recent Royal Society study showed more than 33% of UK research papers are co-authored with EU scientists and countries associated to the Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme. This compares with 17.6% that are co-authored with US researchers.\n\nJames Wilsdon, professor of research policy at Sheffield University, described the proposed measures as \"small beer compared to the chaos, disruption and damage to the UK's attractiveness to international collaborators & mobile talent that will result from a no-deal Brexit\".\n\nDr Daniel Rathbone, assistant director of the Campaign for Science and Engineering (Case) welcomed the prime minister's \"powerful message\", but looked forward to seeing the details of his proposals.\n\n\"Any new visa system must be streamlined, easy to use and competitively priced compared to other leading science nations. Currently, UK visas are significantly more expensive than those of other countries.\n\n\"Science is also a collaborative enterprise, so it would be very beneficial if there was a streamlined process for these talented scientists to bring their teams with them to the UK.\"", "The TUC said construction jobs were among the middle-income roles which were squeezed\n\nPay rates have effectively fallen for the UK's lower and middle income earners since 2010, research suggests.\n\nWorkers in jobs paying between £9.56 and £12.73 an hour have seen their \"real\" wage drop 1% since 2010 after inflation is accounted for, analysis by the Trades Union Congress (TUC) found.\n\nHowever, the lowest-paid workers have seen average real pay rates increase 5%, thanks to minimum wage rises.\n\nMinisters say all workers saw income tax cuts and real pay was now rising.\n\nReal wage rates adjust the hourly rate for the effect of inflation, the average increase in the cost of goods and services, which erode the spending power of your money.\n\nThe TUC says lower and middle income earners may have seen their spending money squeezed\n\nThe pay rate analysis identifies middle income earners, those earning near the median wage rate of £12.73 per hour, as having their earning power eroded since 2010.\n\nThis 1% reduction in pay rates compares to a rise of 7% for this group of 7.7 million workers between 2002 and 2010, the TUC analysis argues.\n\nFor workers earning between the median wage rate of £12.73 and £25.45 per hour, pay rates have on average fallen 3% in the period.\n\nThe TUC analysis shows the 1.1 million highest income earners, banking above £25.45 per hour worked, saw average pay rates rise 4% since 2010.\n\nKate Bell from the TUC says median wages still are not where they were before the financial crisis \"so a little bit of pay pick-up in the last couple of months... doesn't mean we're out of the woods yet\".\n\nMs Bell added: \"People in middle earning jobs have seen their pay fall. Jobs like those in construction, the local government in administrative jobs for example you've likely seen your pay go down over this period. That has an impact on your ability to live and ability to pay your bills\".\n\nThe most recent Office for National Statistics data on employment and earnings for the year to 31 May showed a record 32.75 million people in work and average wage growth for the year at 3.8%, the highest since the financial crisis in 2008.\n\nONS data showed wage growth has been outpacing the inflation rate since March 2018, meaning the spending power of salaries is not being eroded by price rises in shops.\n\nThe head of the Recruitment and Employment Confederation, Neil Carberry, said businesses have faced increased costs since 2010 such as the apprenticeship levy and pension auto-enrolment.\n\nMr Carberry said boosting the UK's lagging workplace productivity was key to improving wages and salaries for employees.\n\nShadow chancellor John McDonnell said: \"It's staggering that millions of people have faced cuts to their real pay since 2010 while the highest earners have had their pay skyrocket.\"\n\nHe said a Labour government would introduce a real living wage of at least £10 an hour and give trade unions more power to end the \"scandal\" of low pay.\n\nA Treasury spokesman said: \"Real wages are now rising on a sustainable basis for the first time in a decade.\n\n\"We have given the lowest paid a pay rise of almost 5% by increasing the National Living Wage, cut income tax for 32 million people and taken 1.74 million people out of income tax.\n\n\"We are also helping with the cost of living by freezing fuel duty and doubling free child care for working parents of three and four year olds.\"\n\nConservative deputy chairman Paul Scully added: \"The facts are that under the Conservatives, the unemployment rate - and the proportion of low paid workers - have both fallen to a record low, and our National Living Wage is delivering pay rises for millions of people across the country\".", "Gynaecologists are warning of the potential risks of vaginal steaming after it emerged a Canadian woman burned herself attempting one.\n\nA case study, involving a 62-year-old, was published in the Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology Canada.\n\nThe woman had been suffering from a prolapsed vagina and believed the treatment could help avoid surgery.\n\nVaginal steaming, which involves sitting over a hot water and herb mix, has seen a growth in popularity.\n\nIt and other treatments for intimate areas, including vulva facials, are now available at some salons and spas.\n\nThe LA Times first reported on the steaming trend in 2010, and it later gained widespread attention when Gwyneth Paltrow's Goop brand recommended it.\n\nLast year, US model Chrissy Teigen also shared a photograph of herself undergoing the treatment.\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 chrissyteigen 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\nSpas advertising \"v-steaming\" claim it has been used throughout history in countries in Asia and Africa. They say the practice, which is sometimes called Yoni steaming, acts to \"detox\" the vagina.\n\nExperts, however, warn it can be dangerous and say there is no proven medical evidence for the health claims being made, including that steaming can ease period pains or help with fertility.\n\nDr Vanessa Mackay, a consultant and spokeswoman for the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists, says it is a \"myth\" that the vagina requires extensive cleaning or treatment. She recommends using plain, unperfumed soaps on the external vulva area only.\n\n\"The vagina contains good bacteria, which are there to protect it,\" she said in a statement.\n\n\"Steaming the vagina could affect this healthy balance of bacteria and pH levels and cause irritation, infection (such as bacterial vaginosis or thrush) and inflammation. It could also burn the delicate skin around the vagina (the vulva).\"\n\nA number of doctors have been sharing the injured woman's story in recent days in order to highlight the potential dangers from steaming.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Dr Philippa Kaye This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy 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\nDr Magali Robert, who authored the article, said the injured woman attempted to steam her vagina on the advice of a traditional Chinese doctor.\n\nThe woman, who gave permission for her case to be shared, sat over the boiling water for 20 minutes on two consecutive days before presenting at an emergency department with injuries.\n\nShe sustained second-degree burns and had to delay reconstructive surgery while she healed.\n\nDr Robert, who works in pelvic medicine and reconstructive surgery in Calgary, said word of unconventional therapies like steaming can spread through channels like the internet and word-of-mouth.\n\n\"Health care providers need to be aware of alternative therapies so that they can help women make informed choices and avoid potential harm,\" she says in the article.", "Last updated on .From the section Tennis\n\nAndy Murray will make a return to singles action at the Cincinnati Masters next week - seven months after fearing he might have to retire.\n\nBritain's former world number one has been playing doubles since June as he regains fitness after hip surgery.\n\nMurray, 32, broke down in tears at the Australian Open in January, believing the resurfacing operation he had later that month could end his career.\n\nNow the Scot is pain-free and feels the time is right to return to singles.\n\nMurray has been given a wildcard and plays France's Richard Gasquet in the first round.\n\nIf Murray beats 33-year-old Gasquet, who is ranked 66th in the world after missing the first four months of the season with a groin injury, he will play Austrian world number four Dominic Thiem in the second round.\n\nMurray's last singles match was a five-set loss to Spain's Roberto Bautista Agut in the first round in Melbourne.\n\nBefore the match the three-time Grand Slam champion said he planned to retire after this year's Wimbledon and feared the Australian Open could be the final tournament of his career.\n\nBut he returned to the doubles court in June after a career-saving operation with renowned hip surgeon Sarah Muirhead-Allwood, whose previous patients have included the Queen Mother.\n\nMurray said the resurfacing of his hip, where the femur head is smoothed down and covered with a metal cap, was \"life-changing\" and took away the pain which dogged him for a number of years.\n\nHe has played five doubles tournaments since his return to competitive action, winning Queen's alongside Spain's Feliciano Lopez in a dream comeback.\n\nSpeaking after his quarter-final match at the Rogers Cup in Montreal on Friday, world number two Rafael Nadal said Murray's return was \"good news for the sport\".\n\n\"Especially great news for him. That means that he's healthy,\" he added.\n\nJoining Murray in a star-studded draw at the Masters 1,000 event in Cincinnati are Novak Djokovic, Roger Federer and Rafael Nadal.\n\nSerbia's world number one Djokovic and Swiss great Federer return to action for the first time since their historic Wimbledon final, while Nadal will be back in action for the second week running after starting his North American hard-court campaign at this week's Rogers Cup.\n\nAt Wimbledon, Murray began to get fed up with answering questions about when he would return to the singles court - insisting he did not know himself when his new metal hip would be ready to cope with the added workload.\n\nPatience has been Murray's mantra since his competitive return in the doubles, refusing to commit to a singles event - and therefore not putting himself under the pressure of a timeframe - until he felt completely comfortable.\n\nHitting the weights in the gym to build up his strength was the focus post-Wimbledon before he headed over to the North American hard courts with a dual purpose: improve match sharpness by playing doubles in Washington and Montreal, and upping the workload on the singles court in public practice sessions.\n\nThose solo outings, he says with a smile, did not leave him \"completely embarrassed\" as they might have done earlier in his comeback bid.\n\nSo, after further practices in Cincinnati with fellow Britons Kyle Edmund and Dan Evans this week, he is confident a return now will not be a mistake as he looks to prolong a glittering career which he felt might have already been over.\n\nThe next question is: will he play singles at the US Open? Murray has consistently said he would not want his first tournament back to be over five sets in New York. Playing over three in Cincinnati appears to leave the door ajar for a potential follow-up appearance at Flushing Meadows.\n• None Alerts: Get tennis news sent to your phone", "Work on Glen Sannox has fallen way behind schedule\n\nLike a ship at its launch, gathering momentum as it descends the slipway, there's not much that can stop Ferguson Marine Engineering Ltd from plunging into the uncertain waters of government ownership.\n\nHappily, it is unlike yards on the narrower upper Clyde in that launches do not carry the risk of getting a severe dunt on the opposite bank. But there's a lot about these waters that is uncharted.\n\nBy the end of next week, it seems likely that the financial risk for the shipyard will be on government books, and no longer those of industrialist Jim McColl.\n\nThe Scottish government's agency, Caledonian Maritime Assets Ltd (CMAL), is understood already to have paid almost all the £97m fixed price for the two CalMac ferries at the heart of the Ferguson's dispute, and long before their completion.\n\nIf the future is to be nationalised, it will have to pay for the remaining work to get the Glen Sannox and 'hull number 802' into service on the Brodick-Ardrossan route and between Lochmaddy, Uig and Tarbert.\n\nCMAL has been blamed by Ferguson for making so many changes to the design - particularly of the special requirements for the prototype diesel/liquified natural gas engine - that the cost is now reckoned to have doubled.\n\nJim McColl had offered to meet the Scottish government roughly half way on the overspend - asking for about £40m. A statement from his company says it consistently refused to engage.\n\nThe Scottish government argues, first, that to bail McColl's company out of a fixed price contract would bring legal claims by other bidders, and second, that to fund the overspend would break European state aid rules.\n\nJim McColl had sought a compromise deal with the government\n\nSo if it wasn't willing to meet some of Ferguson's extra costs: it is determined to finish the ferries and keep the yard open, thus protecting jobs: it has £45m in loans outstanding, which have long puzzled opposition MSPs: then state ownership becomes the inevitable consequence.\n\nThat raises big questions about industrial strategy. The SNP administration has been willing to take a stake in BiFab fabrication yards, though their prospects for sustainable orders, and building up to scale of offshore wind farm work, do not look good.\n\nHaving taken over Prestwick Airport, it is subsidising operations there with up to £10m per year (while declaring a climate emergency). And it has taken over Scotland's once world-leading wave power firms in the hope that their technology will one day find a market.\n\nSo is this the state backing new technologies? Or preserving older industries, with the jobs attached, in the belief that state ownership can succeed where Scotland's most successful living engineering entrepreneur could not?\n\nMr McColl will be licking his financial and reputational wounds. It is understood that he sank around £28m in Ferguson Marine, having arrived with a huge fanfare in the closing stages of the independence referendum. As one of the economic advisers to the Scottish government, he'll be wondering if he wants to get that close again.\n\nThe extent of damage to his investment vessel, Clyde Blowers Capital, depends on whether he gets compensation and \"fair value\", or merely the £1 for which the yard could potentially be transferred.\n\nThe plans his management team had worked up, to attract a wide variety of other marine engineering work to the yard, will likely be set back. One of them is a big chunk of the work on the next generation of Royal Navy frigates, in a consortium including Babcock in Rosyth.\n\nSome potential work at Port Glasgow may already have been lost\n\nNow it's merely my hunch, but might the sales force see more of a career future with international business investor Jim McColl than with economy minister Derek Mackay?\n\nI'm told that some potential clients wanting to place work at the Port Glasgow yard have been delayed by the CalMac ferries dispute. At least one contract has gone to the Netherlands, without Ferguson having the capacity at present to bid.\n\nPlans to take over an enormous dry dock, also in Inverclyde, will require government capital, if it is to be the owner, and if Clydeport's owner, Peel Ports, is willing to sell.\n\nInstead of further diversifying, government ownership will likely focus on securing jobs in a yard which looks well placed to reduce the backlog of CalMac ferries by servicing a regular drumbeat of orders.\n\nBut constrained by Scottish government capital funds, that is thought unlikely to sustain the 350-strong workforce currently there, or to grow it beyond 600, which Jim McColl had targeted.\n\nIt's also questionable whether a state-owned yard can assume that government contracts will inevitably fall to it. In or out of the European Union, some state aid rules are surely likely to apply.\n\nSome form of competitive bidding is widely seen as the best way of ensuring value for public procurement pounds. Removing that element is an invitation to run the contracts inefficiently, and to the fiat of ministers.\n\nIn any case, it's not clear that anyone in the Scottish government or CMAL knows what went so badly wrong with the current contract that the cost is coming in at double the price. (And who is to say it won't continue to rise?)\n\nIt should surely be a high priority that someone figures that out soon.\n• None Clyde shipyard set to go into administration", "Senior Tory MP Sir Oliver Letwin has said he does not support Jeremy Corbyn becoming a caretaker prime minister in a bid to avoid a no-deal Brexit.\n\nBut he backed discussions across the Commons to prevent the UK crashing out of the EU without a deal.\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson has pledged that the UK will leave the EU by 31 October \"do or die\".\n\nMr Corbyn said the UK needs a government that is \"prepared to negotiate\" with the EU.\n\nHis current plan is to win a no-confidence vote in the government, become interim prime minister and \"do everything we can\" to stop a no-deal Brexit.\n\nOnce in the role of caretaker prime minister, Mr Corbyn say he intends to delay Brexit, call a snap election, and campaign for another referendum.\n\nSir Oliver, who was among senior Tories who received a letter from Mr Corbyn about the plan, was asked about Mr Corbyn's proposal on BBC Radio 4's Today programme.\n\n\"That appears to be his agenda. I have to say it is not one I personally share,\" he said.\n\n\"I don't think it's at all likely that a majority would be formed for that and I personally wouldn't want to vote for it. I wouldn't be able to support that, no.\"\n\nSir Oliver, a former cabinet minister, has led several attempts in Parliament to break the Brexit impasse and prevent a no-deal Brexit.\n\nBut he said he was \"not very inclined\" to help bring down the government in a no-confidence vote and would \"rule it out\" if it led to Jeremy Corbyn becoming prime minister.\n\nHis comments came amid an ongoing row among MPs who oppose no deal, with Liberal Democrat leader Jo Swinson initially dismissing Mr Corbyn's plan as a \"nonsense\".\n\nMr Corbyn said he assumed everyone who wanted to avoid a no-deal Brexit - including the Liberal Democrats - would vote for the motion of no confidence that Labour intends to launch against the government.\n\n\"What we need is a government that is prepared to negotiate with the European Union so we don't have a crash-out on the 31st,\" he added.\n\nAnna Soubry, leader of the Independent Group, said she would \"not support nor facilitate any government led by Jeremy Corbyn\".\n\nBut the head of the SNP, Nicola Sturgeon, was among those applying pressure to Ms Swinson to change her stance.\n\nThe Liberal Democrat leader suggested Tory grandee Ken Clarke or former Labour deputy leader Harriet Harman could head a temporary government instead of Mr Corbyn.\n\nMr Clarke responded on Friday to say he was willing to lead a government of national unity to avoid a no-deal Brexit.\n\nAsked if Mr Clarke or Ms Harman could lead the country through a political crisis, Mr Corbyn said: \"What we need is a respect for the electoral process that brought about the results from the last general election.\"\n\nSir Oliver suggested the majority of MPs did not want a no-deal Brexit, although he said he was \"not terribly optimistic\" they would reach an agreement.\n\nThe former minister, who has agreed to meet with Mr Corbyn to discuss plans to avoid a no deal, said opponents of the government's Brexit position needed to \"talk a lot\" and \"talk frankly\".\n\nMeanwhile, fellow senior Tory MP Dominic Grieve said there was a \"a considerable head of steam growing to try to make sure that no deal doesn't occur\".\n\nHe also refused to back the Labour leader to be a caretaker prime minister, telling BBC Radio Scotland's Good Morning Scotland programme it was \"absolutely vital\" any interim PM commanded \"high levels of trust\".\n\n\"I simply don't think that Jeremy Corbyn, as leader of the Labour Party - and particularly with his very strong views, which he's entitled to - is the right person,\" he said.\n\nAlthough he said he himself would be willing to be a caretaker prime minister, he said, \"there are others who are rather more suitable for doing it than I am\".\n\nMr Grieve, a former attorney general, said there was a \"growing number\" of Tory MPs who were \"horrified\" by the direction of Mr Johnson's government.\n\n\"His views, and the way he's expressing them, are so removed from what I would describe as proper and traditional conservatism as to cause real disquiet,\" he said.\n\n\"We have a deeply divided country and we are not going to resolve this problem by this type of tub-thumping populism. \"\n\nHe accused the prime minister of \"behaving like a demagogue\". He said Mr Johnson's language had led to members of the public sending death threats to him for his role in trying to prevent a no-deal Brexit.\n\nMr Johnson earlier this week accused MPs \"who think they can block Brexit\" of a \"terrible collaboration\" with the EU.\n\n\"If leading politicians use language - collaborator is an obvious one - or call people a traitor, you immediately start to receive really vile emails and communications,\" Mr Grieve said.\n\nTory MP and Brexiteer Sir John Redwood told Today he was not worried about opposition to the government's Brexit stance.\n\n\"I would be surprised if this parliament developed a majority to thwart the British people because the overwhelming majority of MPs were elected on a clear promise to see us out of the European Union with a deal if there's a good deal on offer and without the deal if there wasn't a good deal on offer,\" he said.", "Indonesians have been taking part in a greasy pole climbing contest - a tradition that dates back to Dutch colonial days.\n\nHundreds of participants climb 174 slippery poles to collect prizes at the top.", "The model railway exhibits were damaged at a school\n\nThe parents of three teenagers who deliberately trashed a model railway exhibition worth £30,000 have been ordered to pay compensation.\n\nThe Market Deeping Model Railway Club display was damaged at Welland Academy in Stamford, Lincolnshire, on 18 May.\n\nThe boys, and a fourth defendant, shared a bottle of vodka as part of a \"pre-exam night out\" before going on a \"rampage\", a court heard.\n\nLincoln Youth Court heard the youths had deliberately pushed tables over.\n\nThe four 16-year-old boys, who cannot be named for legal reasons, admitted criminal damage.\n\nThree of them were handed 12-month referral orders and their parents were also ordered to pay £500 in compensation.\n\nA fourth boy was told he would be sentenced on 2 September.\n\nSome of the exhibits were worth thousands of pounds\n\nThe court heard the teenagers had decided to play football in the gym and continued despite displays being destroyed.\n\nThey also threw parts of displays at the wall.\n\nAfter police were called due to the school's alarm system, the teenagers were found in the toilets and arrested.\n\nMembers of the Market Deeping Model Railway Club said a \"life's work\" had been destroyed with some displays taking years to complete.\n\nMore than £107,000, including a £10,000 donation from model rail enthusiast Sir Rod Stewart, has been raised in a crowdfunding appeal to repair the exhibitions.\n\nSentencing the boys, chairman of the bench of magistrates John Lock said: \"In nearly 20 years on the bench, I cannot recall such a case as this, of mindless, wanton destruction. It beggars belief.\n\n\"You came across the displays and models... and not content with kicking a ball, you then went on a rampage.\"\n\nMore than £107,000 has been pledged for the club\n\nPeter Davies, chairman of the Market Deeping Model Railway club, said he was glad due process had been followed but it was \"right they [the teenagers] make the best use of their future\".\n\n\"We have to allow them to make a second start, although I don't condone the damage, it was horrific,\" he said.\n\nThe \"enormous\" amount of money raised would go to a charitable trust that is in the process of being set up, Mr Davies revealed.\n\nOne of its objectives will be to establish youth projects.\n\n\"By October we could see 60 young people involved in modelling projects they would never have done before,\" he said.\n\nProsecutor Shelley Wilson said the four boys had made admissions in interviews about the damage.\n\nOne model railway enthusiast from St Neots Model Railway Club, John Kneeshaw, who contributed to the exhibition, had suffered £15,000 of damage, the court heard.\n\nOne of the boys' defence solicitors said they were \"in drink\", which may have \"impaired their judgment\".\n\nThe court heard the youths had apologised for their behaviour, while their parents said they were \"ashamed\" and \"disappointed\".\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 BBC has obtained pictures from inside the Grace 1, which was seized in July.\n\nThe ship was raided by Royal Marines off the coast of the British overseas territory, triggering a standoff with Tehran.\n\nJudges in Gibraltar are expected to decide within days whether to extend the detention of the supertanker. and on Tuesday Iran suggested a resolution may come soon.", "Police in the US state of Ohio have arrested a man they believe threatened to carry out a shooting at a Jewish community centre.\n\nJames Reardon, 20, posted a video online of a man firing a gun with a caption identifying the centre in Youngstown, north of Pittsburgh.\n\nA search of his home revealed several weapons, body armour and a gas mask, police said.\n\nA shooting at a synagogue in Pittsburgh last year left 11 people dead.\n\nJames Reardon was arrested in New Middletown, near Youngstown, on Saturday and charged with menacing and harassment.\n\nInvestigators said the alarm was raised when a post appeared on Instagram showing a man firing a gun with the caption: \"Police identified the Youngstown Jewish Family Community shooter as white nationalist Seamus O'Reardon.\"\n\nNew Middletown Police Chief Vince D'Egidio said they believed Seamus O'Reardon was a pseudonym for James Reardon.\n\n\"He was implying that he was going to be identified as the shooter of the Jewish centre. That kicked off a very intensive investigation, a very rapidly evolving investigation,\" he said, quoted by WKBN-TV.\n\nSecurity at local Jewish facilities was increased and the FBI was contacted, Chief D'Egidio added.\n\nThe Tree of Life Synagogue in Pittsburgh was attacked in October last year\n\nAs well as a cache of weapons, the search of the suspect's home also uncovered white nationalist material, police said.\n\nOn Monday, he entered a not guilty plea in court and was ordered held on a $250,000 (£205,000) bail.\n\nIf he can pay the bond, a judge ruled the accused would have to stay at least 500ft (150m) from any Jewish centre, refrain from social media use and abide by other restrictions.\n\nAfter the arrest, the Youngstown Area Jewish Federation issued a statement thanking law enforcement agencies for their swift action.\n\nThe attack on the Tree of Life Synagogue, in Pittsburgh, last October was believed to be the worst anti-Semitic attack in US history.\n\nSuspected gunman Robert Bowers has been charged with the killings and if found guilty faces life in prison without parole.\n\nMr Reardon's alleged plot was one of three apparently prevented by local authorities this weekend, US media report.\n\nTwo more men - one in Florida and another in Connecticut - were arrested after sending messages related to potential mass shootings, CNN report.", "\"If the till or safe was ever incorrect, the staff that were in had to make it correct again using their own money,\" said a former employee\n\nCosta Coffee employees at multiple stores claim they have had costs of £200 deducted from their final payslip for training, the BBC has learned.\n\nThe BBC spoke to 13 current and former Costa employees at stores in Essex who say they have also been subjected to other deductions for till discrepancies and running costs.\n\nCosta said contracts for franchise stores are managed by partners.\n\nIt added some staff contracts did have \"clauses relating to deductions\".\n\n\"Deductions are circumstantial and reviewed on a case by case basis by the partner,\" a Costa Coffee spokeswoman said.\n\nCourtney Morton was formerly a part-time employee at the Costa Coffee store in Upminster - she earned less than £200 in a week.\n\nMs Morton was told the deduction for training would be equivalent to one week of pay, and therefore expected to be charged less than £200.\n\n\"When I was there I was told that it would be your last week's wages to cover training costs but it turned out to be a flat £200,\" Ms Morton told the BBC.\n\nAnd that was not the first deduction she had received.\n\n\"The deductions were really unfair,\" Ms Morton added. \"They deducted everyone if they were late, with the money increasing as the time went on up until an hour.\"\n\nAnother former employee, who wished to remain anonymous, said she had one month's pay deducted from her final salary, as well as paying out of her pocket to balance the tills.\n\nCosta Coffee said there are clauses in employment contracts outlining the deductions for training\n\nOther complaints about the Costa Coffee stores - run by Goldex Investments Essex Ltd - include allegations over contracts.\n\nSix people claim they were never given their written contracts, despite asking for them.\n\nAnd two people said they were given \"promotions\" without contracts, claiming that they were carrying out managerial roles while being underpaid for the work they were doing.\n\nAnother person, who was promoted to a managerial role, said she was not paid properly for the role she carried out for six months.\n\nCosta Coffee said: \"We take complaints such as these very seriously and have shared those we've been made aware of with our partner who operates the franchise business to investigate as a matter of urgency.\"\n\nThe company added: \"Anyone you've heard from should get in touch with the partner directly.\"\n\nGoldex Investments Essex Ltd said it took all the allegations \"extremely seriously\" and urged employees to outline the issues with their line manager.\n\nJon Cruddas, the MP for Dagenham and Rainham, said he was writing to the managing director of Costa Coffee UK and Ireland to ensure complaints of \"poor treatment of staff - particularly young workers\" is dealt with adequately.\n\nHe added: \"A company that employs thousands of workers across the UK and the branch needs to be held to account.\"\n\nA franchise is a type of licence that allows a third-party partner to have access and rights to a larger business's logo, name and model, so that the partner can sell a product or provide a service under the business's name.\n\nClaims of unfair deductions were triggered by a Twitter post suggesting that staff at a Costa store were forced to reimburse money lost to scammers who came in to the store.\n\nThe Costa Coffee franchise partner, Kafeel Khan, denied he had asked staff to reimburse the scam losses and has since apologised for the \"miscommunication\" in a letter to the people affected.\n\nThe letter was sent after Mr Khan and a Costa Coffee representative arranged a meeting on Friday morning with the father of some of the people employed by Mr Khan.\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.", "Rescuers fear it could take days - or even weeks - to reach the cavers\n\nRescue workers are fighting to save two cavers in Poland after a narrow tunnel flooded with water, blocking their exit on Saturday.\n\nMore than two dozen rescuers are attempting to reach the pair inside the Wielka Sniezna cave, the longest and deepest in the Tatra mountains.\n\nContact is yet to be established with the cavers and concern is growing.\n\nPreparations are being made to use explosives to blow open a route into the cave.\n\n\"The only way to get to them is through a series of very complicated pyrotechnic actions,\" Jan Krzysztof, head of the Tatra Volunteer Search and Rescue group, told TVN.\n\n\"We have the necessary materials, but this will take a long time,\" he added.\n\n\"We have to be ready for work that could last days if not weeks.\"\n\nThe two became trapped inside the cave on Saturday and the alarm was raised by others on the excursion.\n• None How the Thai boys were rescued", "A British woman accused of killing a patient by giving her botched buttock-enhancement injections has been extradited to the US to face trial.\n\nKelly Mayhew, 34, died in 2015 after silicone was injected into her buttocks in the basement of a house in New York.\n\nFormer hairdresser Donna Francis, 38, of Loughton, Essex, is charged with criminally negligent homicide and unauthorised practice of a profession.\n\nMs Francis contested her extradition but the High Court rejected her case.\n\nShe was being held at Suffolk County Correctional Facility ahead of her court appearance on 27 September, Queens County Assistant District Attorney John Ryan said.\n\nIf she is convicted, the extradition order stipulates Ms Francis cannot be sentenced to more than one year in a US jail.\n\nMs Francis is accused of causing the death of Ms Mayhew, who went to her for a \"butt enhancement procedure\" in May 2015, Mr Ryan said in a statement on his office website.\n\nHe said the victim \"went into cardiac arrest during botched silicone injections\" and the accused \"allegedly left [the] dying woman in [a] Far Rockaway (New York) basement and fled the country\".\n\nHe said the defendant \"who is not a doctor\" had set up a \"temporary medical practice\" and purchased silicone gel from Ebay.\n\nThe medical examiner determined the victim died from systemic silicone emboli caused when unencapsulated silicone entered the bloodstream and caused an embolism.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The Call Of Duty World Championship 2019 title goes to eUnited.\n\nThe American team won on Black Ops 4 at the Los Angeles final on Sunday - taking home the top prize of $800,000 (£658,000).\n\nThe team, led by James \"Clayster\" Eubanks, fought their way through the competition by beating other big names in the game.\n\neUnited were one of 32 teams competing in the competition and managed to beat 100 Thieves 3-2 in the final.\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 complete squad also included Alec \"Arcitys\" Sanderson, Preston \"Prestinni\" Sanderson and Tyler \"aBeZy\" Pharris.\n\nIt's the same team that won the Pro League Finals last month in Miami - giving eUnited back-to-back tournament titles.\n\nNext year's championships will see a change, with the league becoming franchised in the same way as the Overwatch League.\n\nSo far teams have been set up in Atlanta, Dallas, New York, Paris, Toronto, Los Angeles and Minnesota.\n\nListen to Newsbeat live at 12:45 and 17:45 weekdays - or listen back here.", "Lyra McKee was observing rioting in Londonderry's Creggan estate when she was shot\n\nLyra McKee's partner said she understands why people are afraid to speak out about the 29-year-old's murder.\n\nSara Canning said people must understand the hold some groups have over communities in Northern Ireland.\n\n\"People can be afraid sometimes to speak up, and I understand that,\" she said.\n\nThe New IRA said its members were responsible for the killing.\n\nNine people have since been arrested and released in connection with the murder.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nMs Canning said she is comfortable with the pace of the police investigation, if it means the right person is imprisoned for Ms McKee's murder.\n\n\"We live in Northern Ireland, we have seen how many miscarriages of justice there have been, that's not something I want,\" she told BBC Radio Foyle.\n\n\"I want the right person behind bars for the crime they committed.\"\n\nIn the days after Ms McKee's murder, more than 140 people provided images, footage and other details through the police's dedicated Major Incident Public Portal.\n\nLyra McKee's partner Sara Canning with Snow Patrol singer Gary Lightbody on the final leg of Lyra's Walk into Derry in May\n\nMs Canning said she accepted that fear prevented some from coming forward.\n\n\"A lot of people have criticised why more people haven't come forward, and I have to explain to them, you don't understand the way of life in those communities,\" she said.\n\n\"You don't understand the hold these people have over their communities.\"\n\nShe said her partner's killer must be having difficulties coming to terms with guilt.\n\n\"If that was a young person who murdered Lyra, then that is the rest of his life that he is tarred with that brush of being a murderer. It is the rest of his life that he has to carry it.\n\n\"How do you rationalise that?\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\n\"How do you look someone in the eye knowing you have killed someone belonging to them? I can't imagine being able to rationalise it or having the gall to walk around with your head held high knowing what you have done.\"\n\nPSNI Det Supt Jason Murphy, who is heading up the investigation into Ms McKee's murder, said it has had \"excellent community support\".\n\n\"The family of Lyra McKee are being regularly updated,\" he said.\n\n\"I recognise people living in Creggan may feel it's difficult to come forward to speak to police. I want to provide a personal reassurance that we are able to deal with these concerns sensitively.\"\n\nMs Canning was speaking to BBC Radio Foyle as part of a series marking the 26th year of Foyle Pride.\n\n\"Pride is a protest and this year we are kind of doing it as a protest around the general mood in society,\" Ms Canning said.\n\n\"We are regressing in a lot of ways. Lyra's murder shows that. We have gone back to a dark place but it's reversible, it can be turned around.\"", "The shooting happened on Monday night at a filling station in Waringstown\n\nA man has been shot dead in Waringstown, County Down.\n\nIt happened at a filling station on Main Street in the village shortly after 21:00 BST on Monday evening.\n\nThe incident is not believed to be linked to recent dissident republican activity.\n\nDUP Upper Bann MLA Carla Lockhart said: \"It is shocking at any time for someone to be shot in the constituency, but more so in somewhere like Waringstown.\n\nThe area around the shooting has been closed as police launch an investigation\n\n\"It is a generally quiet village with a thriving population and I would condemn this in the strongest terms.\"\n\nSDLP Upper Bann MLA Dolores Kelly said: \"The local community is in shock this evening after the violent murder of a man in a shooting in Waringstown.\n\n\"This is a quiet, settled village and people are appalled that violence has been brought onto their streets.\"\n\nEóin Tennyson, Alliance councillor for Lagan River, called it \"a shocking and outrageous act of violence\".\n\n\"There can be no place for guns on our streets in Waringstown or anywhere else in Northern Ireland,\" he said.\n\n\"I am absolutely disgusted by this incident and it must be unequivocally condemned by all.\"\n\nThe area around the shooting has been closed to traffic. Diversions are in place.", "The Rock has married his long-term girlfriend Lauren Hashian - in a secret ceremony in Hawaii on Sunday.\n\nThe 47-year-old announced the news on Instagram to his 154 million followers.\n\nThe pair have been dating since 2006, when they reportedly met while he was filming his movie The Game Plan, and have two children together - Jasmine, born in 2015 and Tiana in 2018.\n\nHis photos were liked more than seven million times within three hours of posting.\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 therock 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\nBeing one of the biggest film stars in the world, The Rock (real name Dwayne Johnson) was congratulated by Hollywood A-listers when he posted about the surprise wedding.\n\nRyan Reynolds, Karen Gillan, P Diddy, Jessica Chastain, Nicole Scherzinger, Scooter Braun, Nick Jonas and Naomi Campbell were among the stars who have commented on his photos - so far.\n\nKnow the eighties song, More Than A Feeling by Boston? Lauren's dad was a drummer with that band.\n\nLauren is a musician too, and has a handful of songs online.\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 LaurenHashianVEVO This article contains content provided by Google YouTube. 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YouTube content may contain adverts.\n\nThis is The Rock's second marriage.\n\nHe wed first wife Dany Garcia on 3 May in 1997 and the couple have one child together, Simone, who's 18.\n\nListen to Newsbeat live at 12:45 and 17:45 weekdays - or listen back here.", "The authorities fear the regular theft of sand could have a disproportionate impact on the environment\n\nA French couple who were caught with 40kg (90lb) of Sardinian sand in their car could face up to six years in jail.\n\nThey say they wanted to take the sand home as a \"souvenir\" and did not realise they had committed an offence.\n\nSardinia's famed white sand is considered a public good and it is strictly forbidden to remove it from the island.\n\nFor years, residents have complained about the theft of natural assets including sand.\n\nThe couple face a jail term of between one and six years for the crime of theft with the aggravating circumstance of having stolen an asset of public utility.\n\nUnder a 2017 law, the trade in sand, pebbles and shells is illegal, and usually punishable with fines of up to €3,000 ($3,330; £2,750).\n\nPolice discovered the sand crammed into 14 plastic bottles taken from the beach in Chia, southern Sardinia, in the boot of an SUV belonging to the couple.\n\nThey were about to board a ferry in Porto Torres heading to Toulon, France, reports say.\n\nTourists often bottle sand, pebbles and shells in bottles to take home with them\n\nIn 1994, access to the renowned pink beach on Budelli island to the north-east of Sardinia was banned amid concerns about its future.\n\nThe authorities are concerned as several tonnes of the island's precious sand disappear every year.\n\n\"Sandy beaches are one of the main attractions of Sardinia. There are two threats: one is due to erosion, which is partly natural and partly induced by the increasing sea level due to climate change; the second is sand stealing by tourists,\" Pierluigi Cocco, a resident of the Sardinian capital, Cagliari, and environmental scientist, told the BBC.\n\n\"Only a fraction of the tourists visiting Sardinia spend their time digging up to 40kg of sand each. But if you multiply half that amount times 5% of the one million tourists per year, in a few years that would contribute significantly to the reduction of beaches - the main reason why tourists are attracted by the island of Sardinia.\"\n\nTourists, mainly Europeans and including some Italians, bottle the sand up to then auction on online sites.", "Legal school meal nutrition standards may need to be amended, or discarded, in the event of a no-deal Brexit, according to internal local council planning documents seen by the BBC.\n\nThe standards are designed to make sure school children are fed healthy food.\n\nMany councils say school meal costs will rise and funding for free school meals increase if there is no-deal.\n\nThe government said the food industry was \"well versed at dealing with scenarios that can affect food supply.\"\n\n\"We have a highly-resilient food supply chain and consumers in the UK have access to a range of sources of food. This will continue to be the case when we leave the EU.\"\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson insisted earlier on Monday that no-deal Brexit preparations are on track.\n\nSome councils are anticipating they will not meet nutrition standards because of a rise in food prices and restriction of choice anticipated after a no-deal Brexit, particularly on fresh imports from Europe.\n\nFor example, North Ayrshire Council says it \"might need to amend school nutrition standards\", in its internal Brexit planning document.\n\nLocal councils are legally obliged to provide high standard food to vulnerable users of public services and to manage the food supply challenges of leaving the EU without a deal.\n\nOther councils, such as North Tyneside, report that \"special dietary requirements may be difficult to meet\" and that \"if fresh produce is difficult to come by\" schools should \"increase use of tins and frozen goods\".\n\nMany councils say that prices for school meals will rise, and central government funding for free school meals will have to increase.\n\nSome also mention the possible use of food banks. Slough has contacted food banks in its area to check contingency plans for food shortages, and some Scottish councils have already increased funding for extra provision from food banks.\n\nThe government says that school food standards must continue to be adhered to post Brexit, but that schools have \"significant flexibilities, which they can refer to if certain items are in short supply.\"\n\nBedford Council's planning document from its internal Brexit planning team says care homes are \"advised to hold four to six weeks supply of non-perishable foodstuffs\".\n\nHastings Council's internal Brexit risk document even goes as far as saying: \"There might be the need for rationing. The severity would depend on what was available and particularly the duration of any shortages.\"\n\nInsiders suggest this is a reference to the prevention of stockpiling, more than a return to wartime ration books.\n\nThe documents seen by the BBC date from the end of last year - up until last month - but predate the appointment of Boris Johnson as prime minister.\n\nMost take at face value the government's national assessment for March that there will be no impact of a no-deal Brexit on overall food supply, but there could be an impact on price and choice.\n\nAn October no-deal Brexit would come, however, at a time when the UK is particularly dependent on European imports for its fresh food, and when there is little to no excess warehousing space, unlike in March.\n\nOne catering industry veteran, Andy Jones, the chair of the Public Sector 100 Group of caterers, backed the councils: \"Given a no-deal Brexit, they're being very sensible. They're being very cautious, and rightly so, we're going into something that we don't know about, we're going to the unknown.\n\n\"If a no-deal Brexit happens, I feel that the supply chain long term will absolutely be under pressure. And that will affect the most vulnerable in society.\"\n\nMr Jones said concern about rationing was excessive, unless supply disruptions lasted beyond the current four-to-six week worst case assumption.\n\nBut he confirmed that menus would change and that \"certain nutritional standards will have to be altered or adapted for a short period of time\" for schools and hospitals.\n\nHe said public services such as new hospitals, had been built without food storage, and that caterers were now effectively \"fighting each other for space\" in warehouses.\n\nBidfood, one of the key suppliers to schools, hospitals, care homes and prisons, said it was now preparing for no-deal again having bought up warehouse space and assessed and identified alternatives for 400 key food imports to store.\n\n\"The key areas that we're looking at in terms of making sure we have surety of supply is around those key things that we import, like pasta, tuna, tinned tomatoes, olive oil, chips, french fries, rice. These are not exotic commodities, these are staples of everyday life, and we want to make sure that all of our customers can get those,\" said Andrew Selley, chief executive of Bidfood.\n\nHe said there was only limited scope to replace imports with domestic production. \"Because of our changing tastes, unless we're going to go back to a menu based on the 1700s, we are going to look at imported products and imported tastes and imported flavours.\"\n\nHowever, he said his company would be \"ready\" to take care of key customers and he does not anticipate \"calamitous\" problems.\n\n\"There will be challenges around availability, delays at ports and around currency fluctuations,\" he said.\n\nHe added that the government would have to increase funding for free school meals, and that it would be \"more complicated\" but manageable for suppliers to meet more stringent standards in Scotland based on nutritional values.\n\nThe Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs said it was meeting regularly with industry and retailers \"to make sure we are prepared for all scenarios as we leave the EU.\"\n\n\"The food industry is well versed at dealing with scenarios that can affect food supply, from adverse weather damaging crops in other countries to transport issues abroad. The UK has robust supply chains across a range of countries to provide our food, in addition to the countless domestic food producers across the UK,\" it added.\n\nBedford, Hastings, Slough, North Ayrshire and North Tyneside councils confirmed that the documents seen by the BBC formed part of their no-deal Brexit planning processes.", "Owen Jones was leaving a pub in north London when a group of men assaulted him\n\nPolice in London have appealed for witnesses after Labour activist Owen Jones was attacked by a group of men.\n\nThe Metropolitan Police said officers were looking into whether the \"senseless attack\" was a hate crime.\n\nThe Guardian columnist had been celebrating his birthday with friends at the Lexington pub in north London when the men made a \"direct beeline\" for him in the early hours of Saturday.\n\nMr Jones has said he believes his attackers were far right activists.\n\nHe told the BBC he had left the pub with his friends at about 02:00 BST when a group of men came out of the venue and began kicking and punching him.\n\nPolice appealed for information to help identify four male suspects who hurt Mr Jones - as well as assaulting his friends when they tried to intervene.\n\nMr Jones said the attack was the latest in a series of assaults since he was verbally abused by protesters on College Green in Westminster earlier this year.\n\nDet Sgt Scott Barefoot said: \"This was a completely senseless attack on a man simply enjoying a night out with friends.\"\n\n\"We are looking into the circumstances of this incident, including if it was a hate crime,\" he said.\n\nAlthough Mr Jones only sustained minor injuries to his back, arm and head, Det Sgt Barefoot said: \"The effects of becoming a victim of such an attack can continue when any injuries have healed.\"\n\nHe urged any witnesses to come forward, anonymously or otherwise. No arrests have been made.\n\nLabour leader Jeremy Corbyn led condemnation of the attack on Saturday, saying an attack on a journalist was \"an attack on free speech and our fundamental values\".", "A Facebook appeal was instrumental in tracking down the writer of the 50-year-old letter\n\nAn Alaska man's hunt for firewood ended with the discovery of a different kind after he came across a 50-year-old message in a bottle.\n\nTyler Ivanoff found a letter written in Russian, and posted an appeal for a translation on his Facebook page.\n\nIt transpired the letter had been written by a sailor on board the Russian ship Sulak on 20 June 1969.\n\nThe story was picked up by Russian media, which tracked down the letter-writer, Captain Anatoly Botsanenko.\n\nMr Ivanoff said he had been searching for firewood some 20 miles (32 km) west of his home village of Shishmaref when he came upon the bottle, with a plastic cork stopper.\n\n\"I had to pull really hard. I used my teeth to really work it out,\" he told The Nome Nugget newspaper.\n\n\"It was still dry on the inside and still smelled like wine or whatever, old alcohol. The note was dry.\"\n\nHis appeal on Facebook prompted a translation of the still legible note:\n\n\"Sincere greetings! From the Russian Far East Fleet mother ship VRXF Sulak. I greet you who finds the bottle and request that you respond to the address Vladivostok -43 BRXF Sulak to the whole crew. We wish you good health and long years of life and happy sailing. 20 June 1969.\"\n\nWhen Cpt Botsanenko, now 86 years old, was told of the note he reportedly burst into tears of joy.\n\nHe told the Russian TV channel Rossiya 1: \"That doesn't look like my handwriting. Oh yes, look! East industry fishing fleet! E-I-F-F!\"\n\nCpt Botsanenko was reported to have overseen the construction of the Sulak in 1966 and sailed on it until 1970.\n\nMr Ivanoff noted on Facebook that it was \"pretty cool how a small photo grew into a story\", and has said he may consider launching his own message in a bottle one day.\n\n\"That's something I could probably do with my kids in the future,\" he was quoted by the Associated Press as saying. \"Just send a message in a bottle out there and see where it goes.\"", "The US central bank should consider cutting interest rates by one percentage point and introduce \"some quantitative easing\" stimulus measures, president Donald Trump has said.\n\nIn a Twitter post he again complained about a strong dollar, which \"is sadly hurting other parts of the world\".\n\nThe remarks came hours after the president said the US economy is not falling into a recession.\n\nThe economy is doing \"tremendously well\", he said.\n\nMr Trump has posted a series of critical tweets in recent months aimed at the Federal Reserve and its chief Jerome Powell. Last week the president called him \"clueless\" for not cutting rates sooner.\n\nA US-China trade war, gloomy economic data from Germany, and uncertainties over the UK's exit from the European Union have unsettled share markets.\n\nThere are also worries that the bond markets are flashing recession signals. It is now cheaper for the US government to borrow for 10 years rather than two - an indication that lenders fear short-term economic risks have increased.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or 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\nMr Trump's suggestion on Monday that the Fed should consider a return to its crisis-era money-printing programme comes despite him insisting a day earlier that the US economy was in good health.\n\n\"I don't think we're having a recession,\" the president said. \"We're doing tremendously well, our consumers are rich, I gave a tremendous tax cut, and they're loaded up with money\".\n\nHe pointed to last week's healthy profits from Walmart, the US retailer often described as the world's biggest, and pointed to a strong performance from US consumers.\n\n\"Most economists actually say we are not going to have a recession. Most of them are saying we will not have a recession, but the rest of the world is not doing well like we are doing.\"\n\nWhite House economic adviser Larry Kudlow also said on Sunday there was \"no recession in sight\", telling Fox News Sunday: \"Consumers are working. Their wages are rising. They are spending and they are saving.\"\n\nFed member Eric Rosengren, president of the Boston Federal Reserve Bank, warned that any lowering of interest rates could encourage a build up of debt as consumers borrow more.\n\n\"And is this the right stage in the cycle for us to encourage people to be taking on more debt?\" he said in an interview broadcast on Bloomberg Television. Mr Rosengren was one of two dissenting votes at the US central bank on its decision last month to cut borrowing costs for the first time since 2008.\n\nHe also warned against more stimulus, saying that just because other countries are weak does not means the US should be easing.\n\nMarkets around the world were rattled last week by the movement in the bond markets, which also knocked stock markets.\n\nOn Wednesday last week, US stock markets fell by about 3% when the yield curve inverted, although they had recovered lost ground by the end of the week.\n\nLast month, the US Federal Reserve cut interest rates for the first time since 2008, and more cuts are expected. Janus Henderson's Laura Foll told the BBC's Today Programme that the US central bank was \"responding to global events\" such as the contraction in both the UK and German economies during the second quarter.\n\nThe Bundesbank says the main reason for Germany's slowing economy is the manufacturing sector\n\nThe German economy contracted by 0.1% in the second quarter of the year, according to figures released last week, and its central bank said on Monday that it could shrink again in the third quarter - indicating a recession.\n\n\"Overall economic performance could again decline slightly,\" the Bundesbank said in a monthly report. \"The main reason for this is the continuing downturn in industry.\"\n\nThe US economy also slowed in the last quarter, growing at an annualised pace of 2.1%.\n\nThe US president has published about 40 tweets either criticising Fed chairman Jerome Powell or pushing for a rate cut.\n\n\"Of course, it is really hard to know how much of an effect Trump is having,\" Ms Foll said.\n\n\"I don't think you can rule out the extreme pressure the Fed is under from Trump, but it is really hard to know how much of a direct knock-on effect that is having on policy.\"", "Ferguson was involved in a dispute with the Scottish government over the CalMac ferries\n\nThe Scottish government has set a deadline for a new delivery schedule for two ferries being built at the now publicly-owned Ferguson shipyard.\n\nIt took control of the base in Port Glasgow last week after bosses at the yard served notice of intent to put the business into administration.\n\nThis would have left 300 jobs at risk.\n\nEconomy Secretary Derek Mackay has now said details of a \"robust delivery schedule\" for the CalMac ferries must be announced by the end of October.\n\nFerguson was involved in a dispute with the Scottish government over the construction of the two ferries.\n\nThe yard was owned by industrialist Jim McColl, who could not persuade ministers to pay more than the £97m contract price for the disputed vessels.\n\nThe Scottish government will now buy the yard if no private buyer is found within four weeks.\n\nMr Mackay announced on Friday that a new review board had been set up to deal with the completion of the two ferries.\n\nSpeaking after meeting board members at the shipyard on Monday, Mr Mackay said: \"We have always been clear that we want to complete the vessels, secure jobs and give the yard a future.\n\n\"On Friday, I met with the excellent workforce and stressed the Scottish government's commitment to achieving the best possible outcome for the yard.\n\n\"Today, I convened the first meeting of the newly-established programme review board and tasked them with establishing a new delivery schedule for both vessels and a revised cost window.\n\n\"This group will help assess the current situation and ensure the effective and efficient delivery schedule of the CMAL ferry contracts as quickly as possible.\"\n\nTransport Scotland's director of major projects Michelle Rennie has been appointed to chair the board on an interim basis.\n\nThe Scottish government and Scottish Enterprise each have a member on the board.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nAbout 9,000 people have been evacuated as wildfires rip through Gran Canaria in the Canary Islands.\n\nThe fires, which started on Saturday, are advancing on two fronts in a mountainous area of the island.\n\nIn a press conference on Monday, authorities called the incident \"an unprecedented environmental tragedy\".\n\nEfforts to tackle the fires are being hampered by high temperatures, strong winds and low humidity, officials said.\n\nAbout 14 planes and helicopters, as well as about 700 firefighters on the ground including 200 from the military, have been deployed.\n\nThe blaze has so far spared residential areas and tourist hotspots, but has spread into the island's Tamadaba natural park, home to some of the island's oldest pine forests.\n\n\"The fire is not contained nor stabilised or controlled,\" Canary Islands regional president Angel Victor Torres told a news conference on Sunday.\n\nPlanes and helicopters have been deployed to tackle the blazes\n\nThe fires are threatening old areas of pine forest\n\nIn some areas, the flames were so high that water-dropping planes were unable to operate.\n\nThe fires started near the town of Tejeda. Overnight, the affected area increased from 3400 to 6000 hectares and flames as high as 50 metres (164 ft) were reported.\n\nRequests for assistance had been made to the Spanish central government, Mr Torres added.\n\nHundreds of people were evacuated due to separate wildfires on the holiday island last week.\n\nAre you in the area? Have you been evacuated? 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:", "More than £100,000 has been donated to a crowdfunding page set up to support the family of a police officer who was killed in Berkshire.\n\nPC Andrew Harper, 28, died on Thursday in Sulhamstead when he was dragged along the road by a vehicle.\n\nA fundraising page set up by the Thames Valley Police Federation passed the £100,000 mark on Sunday.\n\nTen males aged between 13 and 30 have been held on suspicion of murder and remain in custody.\n\nThames Valley Police said on Saturday it had been granted an extra 36 hours to question the suspects.\n\nPC Harper was killed after responding to a burglary at the A4 Bath Road from Lambdens Hill and Ufton Lane.\n\nSince his death, people have been laying tributes in the grass near to where he died.\n\nA box at the scene has PC Harper's shoulder number and a photo of his wife Lissie, who he married last month.\n\nReading and Cardiff City's players stood for a minute's silence in remembrance of PC Andrew Harper\n\nThe fundraising page says: \"We confront danger on a daily basis. We know there is a risk when we put on the uniform but we do so as we are proud to protect the public.\n\n\"Sadly on very rare and horrendous occasions a colleague makes the ultimate sacrifice. We will ensure that heroism is never forgotten.\"\n\nOne tribute from his family read: \"We will never recover our darling Andrew.\n\n\"You will never feel the pain of growing old or a broken heart.\n\n\"I feel your presence warming me in my darkest hours and minutes and know there's enough to share with all those who love and need you right now.\n\nFloral tributes have been left at the scene near the A4 Bath Road\n\n\"Sleep tight sweetheart, see you one day.\"\n\nForensic officers have spent most of the weekend searching the grass and surrounding area.\n\nOn Saturday Thames Valley Police's Det Supt Ailsa Kent told a press conference PC Harper's cause of death has been recorded as multiple injuries.\n\n\"[That] is consistent with our current belief that Andrew was caught between a vehicle and the road and then dragged for a distance,\" she said.\n\nDet Supt Kent said it remained unclear how PC Harper \"came to be out of his vehicle and then caught under the suspect vehicle\".\n\nShe said the 10 boys and men had been arrested at council-run caravan and mobile home site, Four Houses Corner, about three miles from where PC Harper died.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. \"We are shocked and saddened by the death of our colleague\"\n\nRelatives of PC Harper have also paid tribute on social media to the \"loveliest person that you will ever meet\".\n\nHis grandmother Maureen Shrimpton wrote: \"Just a really horrible day. Our grandson Andrew was killed last night while doing his police work.\n\n\"So proud of him. Our love goes to his lovely wife, mum and dad, brother and all of his family and friends.\"\n\nPC Harper got married to his fiancée Lissie just four weeks ago\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. \"I didn't know there was a ticking clock above my head\"\n\nFailure to identify and treat a little-known spinal condition probably costs the NHS hundreds of millions a year, according to a leading consultant.\n\nCauda equina syndrome requires surgery within hours to avoid damage to the bowel, bladder, sexual organs and legs.\n\nAnd it can be triggered by the most seemingly innocuous of body movements.\n\nThe Royal College of GPs says the condition is rare but every doctor should be on alert for it because of how serious it can be.\n\nRed flag signs, include nerve pain down both legs as well as pins and needles or numbness around the bottom and inner thighs.\n\nCatrina Farnell, of Skipton, Yorkshire, was 23 and a talented dancer with dreams of becoming a choreographer, when it happened to her.\n\nBefore the accident, Catrina was a dancer with ambitions in choreography\n\nShe was in London, for an American football game, when she bent to pick up a bag.\n\n\"Something happened to my back,\" she says.\n\n\"It was excruciatingly painful. I didn't know what to do. I'd never even heard of cauda equina syndrome, so I didn't know there was a ticking clock above my head. I woke up a couple of hours later unable to move my legs, with numbness and pins and needles, and eventually unable to urinate.\"\n\nNow 31 and reliant on crutches and a wheelchair, Catrina's legs, bowel, bladder and sexual organs are all severely damaged.\n\nHer frail mother Margaret, 74, has become her carer.\n\nCatrina says: \"I want to have children and I want to meet someone to be with but it feels now that they'd be more of a carer, you know because being with me, people instinctively take on the role of looking after me.\n\n\"So, it just completely took that element of my life away.\"\n\nCauda equina means \"horse's tail\" in Latin and describes the spray of nerves that come off the bottom of the spinal cord and activate the bladder, bowel, sexual organs and legs.\n\nIf a slipped disc hits these nerves, urgent medical treatment to remove the pressure is critical.\n\n\"Ideally you want to catch this condition in a matter of hours, do an MRI scan and do decompressive surgery,\" says John Reynard, a consultant urological surgeon at Oxford University Hospitals NHS Trust.\n\nBut there is a widespread belief that a shortage of resources and a lack of awareness among medical professionals is exacerbating the problem.\n\n\"CES requires a clinical and radiological diagnosis, so it is critical that patients get an MRI scan, which is the only way to confirm the condition,\" says Nisaharan Srikandarajah, a trainee neurosurgeon with a PhD in cauda equina syndrome.\n\n\"Sadly there is a shortage of MRI radiographers working out of hours, which causes delays in getting the critical diagnosis.\"\n\nAfter 24 hours, the damage to the cauda equina is such that outcomes for patients become significantly worse.\n\nMartin Brown says living with cauda equina is \"demoralising and dehumanising\"\n\nMartin Brown, a former champion weightlifter, injured his cauda equina in the gym.\n\n\"They don't see me at home crying every night, or struggling trying to get the energy to get up, put my brave face on and pretend that everything's all right,\" he says.\n\n\"My masculinity went with having trouble with sexual dysfunction.\n\n\"I still have to have a strict regime to manage my bowels, my bladder.\n\n\"It's demoralising and dehumanising. It really knocked my self-confidence.\"\n\nCatrina and Martin are supported by the Cauda Equina Syndrome Association, set up by Claire Thornber, who also has the condition, and based at Broughton Hall, in Skipton, where it offers emotional and psychological rehabilitation.\n\nAssessing how many people have the condition is difficult as some hospitals do not log case numbers.\n\nHowever, the last NHS figures available, for 2010-11, show 981 surgical decompressions for CES in England alone.\n\nAnd the NHS projects the cost of CES compensation claims for the period 2014-16 to be £68m, with two-thirds of this for delay or failure of diagnosis or treatment.\n\nThese figures do not include claims against GPs - and John Reynard believes the true cost is far higher.\n\n\"It's difficult to get a precise figure from all the various information sources about the frequency of delays in diagnosis of cauda equina syndrome,\" he says.\n\n\"I would estimate that it is something in the order of £150m to £200m a year in terms of compensation payments, covering legal costs.\"\n\nProf Helen Stokes-Lampard, chairwoman of the Royal College of GPs, compared the condition to meningitis.\n\n\"Cauda equina syndrome is a rare condition but, like meningitis, one that every doctor will be on alert for because of how serious it can be if not detected and managed swiftly,\" she said.\n\n\"The vast majority of acute back pain and back problems will not be serious and can be safely managed through careful exercises or over-the-counter painkillers, but if a patient experiences any of the red-flag symptoms for cauda equina syndrome, they should seek medical attention as soon as they can.\"\n\nSurgeon John Reynard says compensation claims for CES could be up to £200m a year\n\nSpecialist lawyers have little doubt that medical professionals too often act too slowly or fail to recognise the key signs of the syndrome.\n\nSally Leonards, a partner at JMW Solicitors, said: \"My concern as a lawyer, having done this work for over 20 years, is that I'm still seeing the same cases coming through. I'm still seeing the same themes arising and the NHS don't seem to be learning from the mistakes.\"\n\nThey are high partly because many of those who get cauda equina syndrome are young, may not be able to work again and need lifetime care.\n\nNHS Resolution, formerly the NHS Litigation Authority, said it was \"committed to sharing information with our NHS trust members to highlight some of the red flags related to cauda equina syndrome\".\n\n\"We are working closely with trusts and the wider NHS system to reduce avoidable harm to patients,\" it said.", "Police have been given an extra 24 hours to question 10 people arrested on suspicion of murdering PC Andrew Harper.\n\nThe 28-year-old died on Thursday in Sulhamstead, Berkshire, when he was dragged along the road by a vehicle.\n\nThe Thames Valley Police officer, who got married four weeks ago, was responding to reports of a burglary.\n\nTen males, half of whom are under 18 years old, were arrested on suspicion of murder.\n\nPolice officers pay their respects in front of tributes at Ufton Lane\n\nThames Valley Police said officers were granted the extension on Sunday night at Reading Magistrates' Court.\n\nPC Harper attended the reported break-in at about 23:30 BST with a fellow officer.\n\nA post-mortem examination concluded that he died of multiple injuries.\n\nForensics officers have been seen investigating at the Four Houses Corner Caravan Site, three miles from the scene on the A4 Bath Road.\n\nFloral tributes have been left at the scene near the A4 Bath Road\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson said he was \"shocked and appalled\" by the death.\n\nA fundraising page, set up by the Thames Valley Police Federation to support PC Harper's family, passed the £150,000 mark.\n\nThe fundraising page says: \"We confront danger on a daily basis.\n\n\"We know there is a risk when we put on the uniform but we do so as we are proud to protect the public.\n\n\"Sadly, on very rare and horrendous occasions, a colleague makes the ultimate sacrifice. We will ensure that heroism is never forgotten.\"\n\nPC Harper's fundraising page for a 20-mile obstacle course he planned to do to raise money for children with cancer has made £19,000, far above his £500 target.\n\nWest Midlands police officer Gareth Phillips, who is in hospital after being run over, said his \"thoughts and prayers\" were with the family and friends of PC Harper.\n\nThe suspects in custody are:\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. Speaking to the BBC's Quentin Sommerville in October 2018, Jack Letts said he had been an \"enemy of Britain\"\n\nThe parents of a UK-Canadian man who joined the Islamic State group have said former Home Secretary Sajid Javid is a \"coward\" for revoking his British citizenship.\n\nJack Letts - dubbed Jihadi Jack - was 18 when he left his Oxfordshire school in 2014 to join IS fighters in Syria.\n\nSally Lane said her son had not been contacted ahead of the move, which his father likened to a \"kick in the gut\".\n\nThe Home Office said it would not comment on individual cases.\n\nThe Canadian government said it was \"disappointed\" the UK had \"off-loaded\" its responsibilities.\n\nMr Letts, who is a dual UK-Canadian national, was jailed after being captured by Kurdish YPG forces while trying to flee to Turkey in May 2017.\n\nHis parents, John Letts, 58, and Sally Lane, 57, were convicted in June this year of funding terrorism after sending their son £223.\n\nThey both told Channel 4 News they were \"shocked\" their son's citizenship had been revoked.\n\n\"It's kind of like you're [being] kicked in the gut,\" Mr Letts said.\n\nHe said it was a \"really disappointing\" move by the British government that was \"just shirking responsibility and passing the buck off to the Canadians\".\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 decision is thought to be one of the last made by Theresa May's government - when now-chancellor Sajid Javid was home secretary.\n\n\"I think it's maybe Sajid that's a bit of a coward and in denial and naive, and obviously it's his last act [as home secretary] and he can move on and not have to even justify it,\" Mr Letts's father said.\n\nHe added he would \"love to have a debate\" with Mr Javid about the decision.\n\nMrs Lane said it was a \"real shock\" the government did it without \"any form of redress or discussion\" with her son.\n\n\"He's being held incommunicado and has no access to a lawyer,\" she said.\n\nJohn Letts and Sally Lane were given suspended prison sentences in June\n\nCanada have also expressed disappointment in the government's decision.\n\nA statement on behalf of Canada's public safety minister Ralph Goodale's office said: \"Terrorism knows no borders, so countries need to work together to keep each other safe.\n\n\"Canada is disappointed that the United Kingdom has taken this unilateral action to off-load their responsibilities.\"\n\nCanada added that it was aware some Canadian citizens were being detained in Syria, but there was \"no legal obligation to facilitate their return\".\n\n\"We will not expose our consular officials to undue risk in this dangerous part of the world.\"\n\nFormer defence minister Tobias Ellwood said removing the radicalised fighter's citizenship \"shunts the responsibility elsewhere\" when many fighters were \"radicalised here in the UK\".\n\nHe added that Britain \"should be leading calls\" on how \"foreign fighters face justice and who is ultimately responsible for bringing them to justice\".\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\nWhile the Home Office would not comment on the issue, a spokesman said: \"Decisions on depriving a dual national of citizenship are based on substantial advice from officials, lawyers and the intelligence agencies and all available information.\n\n\"This power is one way we can counter the terrorist threat posed by some of the most dangerous individuals and keep our country safe.\"\n\nMr Letts, who converted to Islam when he was 16, dropped out of studying for his A-levels at a school in Oxford in 2014 before moving to Syria to join the so-called Islamic State.\n\nThe jihadist terror group became known worldwide for its brutal mass killings and beheadings.\n\nIn an interview with the BBC's Quentin Sommerville, Mr Letts said: \"I know I was definitely an enemy of Britain.\"\n\nAfter being pressed on why he left the UK to join the jihadist group, he said: \"I thought I was leaving something behind and going to something better.\"\n\nJack Letts was dubbed \"Jihadi Jack\" after he travelled to Syria in 2014\n\nHe told ITV News earlier this year that he wanted to return to the UK as he felt British - but understood it was unlikely he would be able to.\n\n\"I'm not going to say I'm innocent. I'm not innocent. I deserve what comes to me. But I just want it to be... appropriate... not just haphazard, freestyle punishment in Syria,\" he said, at the time. .\n\nFollowing an Old Bailey trial, his parents were sentenced to 15 months' imprisonment, suspended for 12 months, for funding terrorism.\n\nUnder international law, a person can only be stripped of their citizenship by a government if it does not leave them stateless.\n\nMr Javid stripped Shamima Begum of her UK citizenship earlier this year.\n\nShe was one of three girls from east London who left the UK in February 2015 and travelled to Syria, where she married an Islamic State group fighter.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Speaking to the BBC in February 2019, Shamima Begum told the BBC she never sought to be an IS \"poster girl\"\n\nMr Javid said Ms Begum could claim Bangladeshi citizenship because of her family background.\n\nBut Bangladesh has said she is not a citizen and would not be allowed into the country.", "A 17-year-old boy has appeared in court charged with murdering a solicitor who was stabbed to death with a screwdriver.\n\nPeter Duncan, 52, was attacked on 14 August in Newcastle city centre.\n\nThe teenager, who cannot be named, appeared at North Tyneside Magistrates' Court charged with murder, possession of a weapon and theft of \"a quantity of screwdrivers\" from Poundland.\n\nHe was remanded in custody and will attend crown court on Wednesday.\n\nShortly after the attack, officers arrested seven males, a 14 year-old, two 15-year-olds and four 17-year-olds on suspicion of murder.\n\nAnother 15-year-old male was arrested on Friday on suspicion of affray.\n\nThree boys, aged 14, 15 and 17, have since been released under investigation.\n\nTwo 15-year-olds and two 17-year-olds have been released with no further action.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Pop star Sir Elton John is friends with the Duke and Duchess of Sussex\n\nSir Elton John has defended the Duke and Duchess of Sussex's use of private jets - and said he paid to carbon offset their trip to his French home.\n\nThe singer said he provided Prince Harry, Meghan and their son Archie with his private plane to \"maintain a high level of much-needed protection\".\n\nThe royal couple have faced criticism after newspapers claimed they took four private jet journeys in 11 days, including to Sir Elton's home in Nice.\n\nPrivate jets usually carry fewer passengers than commercial planes, meaning they burn much more fuel per person per hour.\n\nIn a message posted on social media, Sir Elton said: \"I am deeply distressed by today's distorted and malicious account in the press surrounding the Duke and Duchess of Sussex's private stay at my home in Nice last week.\n\n\"Prince Harry's mother, Diana Princess of Wales was one of my dearest friends. I feel a profound sense of obligation to protect Harry and his family from the unnecessary press intrusion that contributed to Diana's untimely death.\n\n\"After a hectic year continuing their hard work and dedication to charity, David and I wanted the young family to have a private holiday inside the safety and tranquillity of our home.\n\n\"To maintain a high level of much-needed protection, we provided them with a private jet flight.\"\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 eltonjohn 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\nPrince Harry has previously spoken about the importance of tackling climate change.\n\nIn September's edition of Vogue - edited by Meghan - the prince spoke about environmental issues and his love for nature, saying: \"We are the one species on this planet that seems to think that this place belongs to us, and only us.\"\n\nAnd in a post on the @SussexRoyal Instagram page last month, he wrote: \"Environmental damage has been treated as a necessary by-product of economic growth.\n\n\"Only now are we starting to notice and understand the damage that we've been causing. With nearly 7.7 billion people inhabiting this Earth, every choice, every footprint, every action makes a difference.\"\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\nSir Elton said he paid for the flight to be carbon offset \"to support Prince Harry's commitment to the environment\".\n\nCarbon offsetting allows passengers to pay extra to help compensate for the carbon emissions produced from their flight.\n\nThe money is then invested in environmental projects - such as planting trees or installing solar panels - which reduce carbon dioxide in the air by the same amount.\n\nSir Elton urged the press to stop the \"relentless and untrue assassinations on their character that are spuriously crafted on an almost daily basis\".\n\nComedian Ellen DeGeneres tweeted that the couple were \"the most down-to-earth, compassionate people\".\n\n\"Imagine being attacked for everything you do, when all you're trying to do is make the world better,\" she said.\n\nOn Saturday, the Sun reported that the \"eco-warrior\" royals \"flew into the new hypocrisy row\" after taking a second European trip on a private plane in a month.\n\nThe paper quoted Labour MP Teresa Pearce calling for the couple to \"lead by example\" on environmental issues.\n\nLabour MP David Lammy tweeted his support for Sir Elton, adding: \"The hounding of Harry and Meghan is becoming a witch-hunt replete with nasty racial and xenophobic overtones\".\n\nFigures from accounts published in June show the Royal Household's carbon emissions due to business travel almost doubled last year.\n\nThe increase was put down to the use of chartered flights for more overseas visits, which are planned by the Foreign Office.\n\nHowever, emissions savings from greener heating and lighting meant the household's overall carbon footprint stayed around the same as the previous year.\n\nA tacit understanding has long existed between the House of Windsor and Fleet Street, even as the power of the latter has waned. In return for access and regular stories, the newspapers would present an image of the monarchy to the public that maintained popular affection for them.\n\nLike all relationships, this one has highs and lows. This is a low.\n\nSenior executives across Britain's newspapers and PR industry say the current negative coverage of the Windsors is rooted in events.\n\nIn recent weeks, the Duke of Sussex reportedly attended a Google summit in Sicily, where climate change was discussed. Many of the attendees arrived by private jet. This annoyed some editors and observers, especially coming soon after he and his wife said one reason they may not have more than two children is concern about over-population.\n\nIt was reported in April that Prince Harry's family would move to Frogmore Cottage, around 20 miles from the goldfish bowl of Kensington Palace and other royals.\n\nOn Monday, the Duke of York issued a strong statement deploring the allegations against Jeffrey Epstein, with whom he once associated.\n\nAll this adds up to ammunition for journalists who, even though they work for royalist publications, like to criticise Britain's first family.\n\nAnd yet a recent torrent of negative headlines is also rooted in deeper problems: William and Harry's long-held disdain for parts of the press; the feeling that Meghan Markle doesn't conform to what is expected of a British royal (more power to her, some would say); and a PR operation across the family that has experienced considerable upheaval in recent years.", "Stephen the hedgehog was left blind after being sprayed with chemicals\n\nA couple whose much-loved blind hedgehog was stolen in a vehicle theft said it would be \"a miracle\" if the animal turned up alive.\n\nThe hedgehog, named Stephen, was inside the van when it was taken from Albion Place in Leeds on Saturday morning.\n\nFrank Tett, who runs Andrew's Hedgehog Hospital near Scunthorpe, said: \"We're absolutely devastated here.\n\n\"He'll probably last four or five days without food or water. After that he'll just die.\"\n\nWest Yorkshire Police said it was investigating the theft.\n\nMr Tett, 80, and his wife Veronica, from Appleby, have been caring for the animal since June when he was brought to them after being sprayed with chemicals.\n\nHe said Stephen was in a light grey-coloured cat carrier, that was inside the van at the time of the theft at about 08:15 BST.\n\nThe couple appealed for motorists to be vigilant as they think the carry box might have been thrown out of the vehicle and on to the roadside.\n\nThe charity is named after another blind hedgehog the couple once looked after\n\nHowever, they are \"not very hopeful he will turn up\".\n\n\"The material things you can replace, but you can't replace a hedgehog,\" said Mr Tett.\n\n\"It'll be a miracle if he turns up.\n\n\"We'll travel to the ends of the earth to pick him up.\"\n\nMr Tett said he parked his white Vauxhall van outside Barclays Bank and was loading stock for his market stall when it was stolen.\n\nHe said the couple had received \"a lot of messages of support and concern\" from the public and thanked them \"for their good wishes\".\n\nMr and Mrs Tett hand-rear and care for hundreds of hedgehogs at their home in North Lincolnshire.\n\nThe couple have turned their home into a hedgehog hospital\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.", "Lucas Dobson fell into the River Stour in Sandwich on Saturday\n\nHundreds of volunteers from \"far and wide\" are continuing to search for a six-year-old boy who fell into a river while fishing with his family.\n\nLucas Dobson has been missing since Saturday when he slipped into the River Stour in Sandwich, Kent.\n\nKent Police, fire crews, the Coastguard and divers have been scouring the river and surrounding areas.\n\nSupt Amanda Tillotson said as time went on it became increasingly unlikely the boy would be found alive.\n\n\"It is really sad for the family, my heart goes out to them. It is an awful, tragic incident,\" she added.\n\nKent Police officers from the search and marine unit have been scouring the river\n\nHundreds of people joined a series of hope vigils across Kent on Monday evening, lighting candles in an attempt to \"light up the coast for Lucas\".\n\nMany of those attending wore red, which is said to be Lucas' favourite colour.\n\nGatherings were planned for Sandwich, Ramsgate, Deal, Folkestone, Margate and Canterbury.\n\nVolunteer search teams have been told a \"working theory\" was that Lucas may have \"self-saved, found himself in the middle of a field, lost and disorientated\".\n\nBut Supt Tillotson said it was a \"best case scenario\" and \"as the time goes on, it becomes more unlikely\".\n\nLucas went into the river at about 13:30 BST on Saturday. His father jumped in to save him but was unable to catch his son.\n\nSupt Tillotson said: \"The river the flow is very, very quick. It is so sad.\"\n\nShe added: \"There has been an overwhelming response to the incident, with people coming to help from far and wide - including outside of our county.\n\n\"For this, we are extremely grateful and we continue to use all resources available to us.\"\n\nSearch teams in canoes have been combing the dense vegetation on the riverbank\n\nVolunteers have been gathering at Sandwich Fire Station to be briefed on the search operation\n\nRescue teams in canoes have searched the riverbanks, while police officers have also used sonar equipment.\n\nLucas's aunt, Maciee Stanford, thanked people for their support and said Lucas had slipped and fallen between a jetty and a boat while out fishing with his family.\n\nThree adults - including his father - jumped into the river to try to save him, but the child was swept away by the strong current, according to Ms Stanford.\n\n\"It's so overwhelming to see our community come together and help us - we could not thank you all enough for everything,\" she said.\n\nLucas fell into the River Stour at Sandwich on Saturday afternoon\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "A woman was left critically injured after the crash on Monday morning\n\nFour people have been hurt after a vehicle hit them while they were in their tents at a campsite.\n\nA woman was critically injured and remains in hospital in the incident at Rhyd y Galen campsite, near Caernarfon, in the early hours of Monday\n\nTwo men are in custody after they were arrested on suspicion of dangerous driving and drink-driving.\n\nNorth Wales Police said: \"This was a terrifying event for people who should have felt safe in their tents.\"\n\nThe critically injured woman was left trapped after the car was driven into two tents, North Wales Fire and Rescue Service said.\n\nShe was freed by police and taken to Ysbyty Gwynedd hospital in Bangor.\n\nAnother woman and two men were also hurt but have since been released from hospital.\n\nDet Ch Insp Sion Williams said: \"We are continuing to support those involved and we are asking anyone with any information relating to the incident to contact us.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Last updated on .From the section Snooker\n\nSnooker legend Jimmy White has finally won a world title at the Crucible - the world seniors event.\n\n'The Whirlwind' - now aged 57 - famously finished runner-up six times in the World Snooker Championship.\n\nBut the Englishman was celebrating on Sunday evening after beating Darren Morgan 5-3 in the the final and picking up £25,000 for winning a seniors event that was being held at the Crucible for the first time.\n\n\"It sounds strange to be world champion at the Crucible,\" said White. \"I have been playing really well, I lost the form on Thursday coming here and today I managed to get my game together and I felt very strong.\"\n\nFind out how to get into snooker, pool and billiards with our fully inclusive guide.\n\nVictory came 38 years after White made his debut at the Sheffield venue.\n\nWelshman Morgan, 53, had beaten seven-time world snooker champion Stephen Hendry, 50, in the quarter-finals.\n\nWhite's last Crucible final defeat came at the hands of Hendry 25 years ago.\n\nHe suffered an agonising 18-17 loss - his fifth world final reverse in succession, four of them to Hendry.\n\nSign up to My Sport to follow snooker news on the BBC app.", "Prime Minister Boris Johnson is ordering urgent action to ensure that children and young people in Britain are protected against measles.\n\nThe disease can be stopped through two doses of the MMR vaccine, but immunisation rates have been falling for a number of reasons.\n\nAnd the UK has lost its measles-free status, three years after the virus was eliminated in the country.\n\nIn the first quarter of 2019, there were 231 confirmed cases in the UK.\n\nMany of the UK cases were acquired abroad with some onward spread in under-vaccinated communities.\n\nJust 87% of children in England are receiving their second dose, which is below the 95% target for measles elimination.\n\nThe first dose of the MMR vaccine is offered to all one-year-olds. Children are given a second dose of MMR before they start school.\n\nBut estimates suggest that in England, one in seven five-year-olds has yet to be fully immunised. Uptake in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland has been higher than in England. Scotland and Northern Ireland exceeded the 95% target for coverage in five-year-olds in the first quarter of 2019.\n\nExperts say the drop in uptake may be partly because of complacency - people perceiving the threat of infection as too low to matter. Anti-vaccination messaging may also have contributed.\n\nMr Johnson said: \"There's a number of reasons why people don't get themselves or their children the vaccines they need, but we need decisive action across our health service and society to make sure communities are properly immunised.\n\n\"From reassuring parents about the safety of vaccines, to making sure people are attending follow-up appointments, we can and must do more to halt the spread of infectious, treatable diseases in modern-day Britain.\"\n\nProf Helen Stokes-Lampard, Chair of the Royal College of GPs, said: \"We are still suffering from the now entirely debunked MMR scandal of the nineties, and it is potentially disastrous that as a result so many young people are now susceptible to serious, often life-threatening infectious diseases, such as measles, that we could have completely eradicated in this country if this had never happened.\n\n\"People who were not vaccinated as children need to understand that it is not too late to have their MMR jab and we would urge them to do so.\"\n\nHealth Secretary Matt Hancock said: \"It's easy to forget how devastating measles can be, precisely because vaccines are so effective at preventing it in the first place.\n\n\"With this strategy, the whole health system will come together to renew focus on vaccinations - especially for our children - and this time we will eliminate measles for good.\"\n\nMeasles is a highly contagious and dangerous infection. Anyone who has not received two doses of MMR vaccine will be at risk.\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\nMeasles is now endemic in countries including France, Germany and Italy.\n\nMeasles cases nearly tripled globally during the first seven months of the year compared to the same period in 2018, the World Health Organization has confirmed.\n\nSo far this year there have been 364,808 measles cases reported around the world.\n\nCorrection 2 September 2019: This story has been amended to reflect that MMR uptake in Scotland and Northern Ireland exceeded the 95% target in 2019.\n• None Why vaccination is safe and important - NHS The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Jess Thom, a comedian with Tourette's, is one of several people calling out Olaf Falafel for his award-winning joke\n\nA charity for people with Tourette's syndrome has asked a comedian to apologise for his award-winning joke made at the Edinburgh Fringe festival.\n\nTourettes Action said it was \"so disappointed\" by Swedish comedian Olaf Falafel's gag, which won Dave's \"Funniest Joke of The Fringe\" prize.\n\nIt said the fact the public voted for the joke showed \"how we as a nation deal with people who are different\".\n\nA comedian said she was \"tired\" of her condition being used as a punchline.\n\nFalafel won the award with the gag: \"I keep randomly shouting out 'Broccoli' and 'Cauliflower' - I think I might have florets\".\n\nTV channel Dave asked panellists - comprising the UK's leading comedy critics - to submit their six favourite jokes made at the festival.\n\nIt then put the shortlist to 2,000 members of the public, 41% of whom voted for Falafel's joke.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nOne of the panellists who shortlisted the joke, Kate Stone, told BBC Radio 1 Newsbeat: \"It's a good one, it's a pun, everyone kind of recognises it as... it's intended to be a joke and I think that's one of the things that matters the most for this.\"\n\nBut the chief executive of the UK's Tourettes Action charity said the \"rubbish\" joke had brought \"shame on Dave\".\n\nSuzanne Dobson said her charity had been about to launch a campaign to stop using Tourette's as a punchline - \"which unfortunately has come about a week too late\".\n\n\"Humour is a great way of educating people - but not only is it not funny to poke fun at people with Tourette's, it's not even that funny a joke, is it?\" she said.\n\nMs Dobson said the charity's helpline had several calls on Monday from parents of children with the syndrome who were angered and upset by the joke.\n\nSuzanne Dobson said she found it difficult to understand what the general public found \"so funny\" about the joke\n\nThe charity is now calling on Dave and Falafel to apologise.\n\n\"I would ask them to walk in the shoes of somebody with Tourette's for a day, and then come back and tell me if they find it quite so amusing,\" Ms Dobson said.\n\nOlaf Falafel and Dave have been contacted for comment.\n\nJess Thom, a comedian who has Tourette's, said she was \"not surprised\" by the insensitive gag.\n\n\"It's just exhausting. I woke up this morning and I looked at that, and it just made me feel sad and tired,\" she said.\n\n\"I work hard to try and make good comedy, and to make it accessible to a broad range of people... and it feels frustrating when non-accessible, stereotyped work is rewarded,\" she said.\n\nTourette's syndrome is a neurological condition that causes people to make involuntary sounds and movements, known as tics.\n\nTics are not normally harmful to a person's health.\n\nHowever, physical tics - such as jerking of the head or limbs - can cause pain, discomfort, and mobility problems.\n\nPeople often associate the condition with swearing or saying socially inappropriate things - but that only affects about 10% of those with the syndrome.\n\nAn estimated 300,000 adults and children in the UK live with the neurological condition.\n\nMs Thom also pointed out that neither of Falafel's shows at the festival this year were \"relaxed performances\" aimed at encouraging people with Tourette's or autism to feel comfortable in the audience.\n\nOlaf Falafel, who claims to be \"Sweden's 8th funniest\" comedian, said it was a \"fantastic honour\" to win Dave's prize.\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 sense that things are becoming more entrenched' : Police on bomb attack\n\nA senior police officer has appealed for political progress in Northern Ireland after bombers tried to lure officers to their deaths.\n\nPolice said dissident republicans were behind the explosion near Wattlebridge, close to the Irish border, on Monday.\n\nPSNI Deputy Chief Constable Stephen Martin called the Fermanagh attack a \"reckless and indiscriminate\" attempt to kill police officers.\n\nNorthern Ireland has been without a devolved government since January 2017.\n\nPower sharing collapsed in a row between Sinn Féin and the DUP over a flawed green-energy scheme. Attempts to restore it have so far failed.\n\nDCC Martin said the bomb attack may have been carried out by either the Continuity IRA or the New IRA.\n\nThere have been five attempts to murder police officers so far this year, he said, adding that there was a sense that the situation in Northern Ireland is becoming \"more entrenched\".\n\nAt about 10:35 BST on Monday, police officers reported an explosion at Cavan Road close to its junction with the Wattlebridge Road.\n\nInitially, a report received by police suggested that a device had been left on the Wattlebridge Road.\n\nPolice believe that a hoax device was used to lure police and soldiers into the area in order to catch them by surprise with a real bomb.\n\nLast month, dissident republicans tried to murder police officers in Craigavon, County Armagh.\n\nA police officer at the scene of the bomb at Cavan Road, Fermanagh\n\nDCC Martin said those behind the attack \"bring nothing to society\".\n\n\"I am of a firm belief this was a deliberate attempt to lure police and the Army disposal unit into the area,\" he said.\n\n\"The damage caused by the explosion is of a nature that we are of the view, if a person had been standing convenient to it, they would have been very badly injured or possibly killed.\"\n\nThe area around the scene will remain closed for some time\n\n\"We need a society led by our politicians to absolutely set out, not just condemn, but to work collectively together,\" he said.\n\n\"Police play their part, but police on their own are not sufficient to say 'you do not represent the society we want to live in'.\n\n\"Many of us, and many have reflected to me, that things are becoming more entrenched and progress that has been made is maybe slipping back a bit.\"\n\nPolice have found the seat of the blast, but have said nothing about the device itself or how it was detonated.\n\nThey are certain, however, that they were lured into a trap involving a telephone warning and a hoax device discovered close to where the actual bomb went off during a follow-up security operation.\n\nAlthough police are not being specific about which group they believe are responsible, the PSNI is considering links to a Continuity IRA attack in Craigavon three weeks ago.\n\nThis also involved setting up officers using a hoax device and a live booby trap nearby.\n\nPolice at the scene of the explosion near Fermanagh\n\nWattlebridge is a small rural border community of farms, houses and an Orange Hall next to a stone bridge across the Finn River.\n\nThe busy Cavan Road criss-crosses the border four times in six miles between Clones and Belturbet.\n\nJournalists have gathered at a police cordon about a half a mile from the road junction where the device exploded.\n\nOn the southern side, gardaí are directing traffic away from the scene.\n\nSeveral police cars have been coming and going while a PSNI helicopter and a surveillance aircraft have patrolled the skies overhead.\n\nWattlebridge has been the scene of many alerts. In June, a hoax device was found near the Orange hall.\n\nLocal residents heard the bang of the explosion as far as a mile away.\n\nTaoiseach (Irish Prime Minister) Leo Varadkar said he condemned the \"cowardly actions\" of the bombers.\n\nNorthern Ireland Secretary Julian Smith tweeted that he was following events closely.\n\n\"I commend the bravery of police and others working to keep us safe,\" he said.\n\nSinn Féin MP for Fermanagh and South Tyrone Michelle Gildernew said the attack was \"totally wrong\".\n\n\"Those responsible for this incident have nothing to offer society and need to end these actions immediately,\" she said.\n\nDUP leader Arlene Foster said this was \"a clear attempt to kill\"\n\nDUP leader Arlene Foster tweeted: \"My thoughts are with the police officers/ATOs who escaped injury in Wattle Bridge.\n\n\"A reminder of the bravery of our security forces. The threat from republican terrorists still exists. It's time they left the stage & allowed everyone to move on.\n\n\"This was a clear attempt to kill.\"\n\nThe roads close to the scene of the bombing were re-opened by police on Monday night.", "Greene King said CKA shared many of its business philosophies\n\nPub giant and brewer Greene King has agreed to be bought by Hong Kong operator CKA, the latest deal in a wave of consolidation in the sector.\n\nSuffolk-based Greene King owns roughly 2,700 pubs, restaurants and hotels in total across the UK.\n\nThe move comes just months after Fuller's, the brewer whose beers include London Pride, sold its entire drinks business to Japan's biggest brewer Asahi.\n\nAnd last month, pub group Stonegate Pub, which owns the Slug and Lettuce chain, announced it was buying rival Ei Group - once known as Enterprise Inns - for £1.3bn.\n\nGreene King chief executive Nick Mackenzie said CKA shared \"many of Greene King's business philosophies\".\n\n\"They understand the strengths of our business and we welcome their commitment to working with the existing management team, evolving the strategy and investing in the business to ensure its continued long-term growth,\" he added.\n\nGreene King's directors said the terms of the deal were \"fair and reasonable\" and that they would unanimously recommend it to shareholders who will get the final vote on the tie-up.\n\nShares in Greene King surged more than 50% after the deal was announced.\n\nNeil Wilson, analyst at Markets.com, said while the deal was good news for shareholders, it was likely to be bad news for Greene King's customers.\n\n\"I think we can comfortably expect more pub closures. It's a whopping [price] that implies CKA sees significant value in the property portfolio,\" he said.\n\nIn its statement, Greene King said CKA had no plans to make \"material changes\" to group and management staff numbers and did not intend to \"initiate any material headcount reductions within the Greene King organisation as a result of the acquisition.\"\n\nA combination of rising cost pressures and people spending less on going out has led to a wave of pub closures. Last year nearly 1,000 UK pubs shut, according to property firm Altus Group.\n\nIndustry group the Campaign for Real Ale (Camra) has said more people are drinking at home to save money, while younger people are consuming less alcohol in general.\n\nMeanwhile, pubs have faced a \"triple whammy\" of taxes in the form of high Beer Duty, VAT and business rates.\n\nMr Wilson said the properties that pubs owned was making the sector attractive to investors.\n\n\"Greene King owns the freehold or long leasehold on 81% of its properties. The company recently carried out a revaluation of its property estate that indicated a market value of £4.5bn against the £3.5bn book value,\" he said.\n\nCKA was founded by Hong Kong's richest man Li Ka-Shing, whose business empire spans retail, telecoms and power firms.\n\nMr Li retired from leading the firm last year. He was ranked 28th in this year's Forbes rich list.\n\nHe started work sweeping factory floors as a young boy, but subsequently became one of the first Hong Kong tycoons to invest in mainland China, with property playing a big part in his wealth.", "The attack took place outside the Home Office in Marsham Street, Westminster\n\nA man has been charged after a government employee was stabbed outside the Home Office in central London.\n\nThe victim, who is in his 60s, suffered non-life threatening injuries on Marsham Street, near the Houses of Parliament, on Thursday.\n\nDominic Hornberger, 29, from Birmingham, was charged with grievous bodily harm with intent and possession of a knife in a public place.\n\nHe was remanded in custody to appear at Southwark Crown Court on 13 September.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Tariffs on food such as beef and milk can be high\n\nLidl's Irish business has reminded British suppliers they are expected to pay any EU import tariffs imposed on goods crossing borders after Brexit.\n\nCurrently, as both countries are member states, no tariffs are paid.\n\nBut Lidl's current contracts with suppliers contain a clause saying goods must be delivered with tariffs paid.\n\nThe supermarket said it had held workshops with British suppliers to make sure they had the necessary information to \"avoid any disruption\".\n\n\"We have been working closely for over two years with external consultants, not only to get our business Brexit ready, but also to ensure our valued suppliers are as prepared as possible.\n\n\"All existing Lidl contracts contain a DDP ('delivered duty paid') clause. In an effort to understand the level of preparedness of key UK suppliers we are communicating proactively with them and working together to resolve any potential barriers to supply,\" the supermarket said in a statement.\n\nThe delivered duty paid clause means that the cost of transporting goods, including tariffs on EU exports, are the responsibility of the supplier.\n\nIn the event of a no-deal Brexit, tariffs on EU exports would come into force automatically, according to World Trade Organization (WTO) rules.\n\nEU tariffs on food can be both high and complex.\n\nOn some types of beef it is 12.8% plus 265 euros per 100kg for meat from outside the EU. The average for dairy products is more than 35%.\n\nSuppliers told the Times newspaper that other supermarkets are also likely to enforce deals similar to Lidl's agreement.\n\nA supermarket source told the newspaper that the potential costs were too high for all suppliers to be able to cover them.\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson has said that the UK will leave the EU with or without a deal on 31 October.\n\nWhile he has committed to cutting most tariffs on foreign goods being imported into the UK, tariffs for goods exported from the UK to the EU are outside of his control.\n\nDr Peter Holmes, fellow of the UK Trade Policy Observatory, told the BBC: \"The UK suppliers will pay tariffs going into the EU, and EU suppliers will pay tariffs going into the UK [if there are any].\n\n\"You can avoid this if you sign a free trade agreement, and the UK can unilaterally remove all trade tariffs but it has to do so for all trading partners and this would not remove the tariffs on UK exports to the EU.\"\n\nHe said that suddenly implementing WTO rules would be a \"serious shock\" to the economy.\n\n\"The point to make is that, tariffs are in general passed on from the supplier to the consumer, so it doesn't really make any difference who actually directly pays them. If Lidl lines up suppliers to cover no-deal costs, as soon as they can suppliers will pass those costs on, or withdraw from the market.\"", "A herd of cows is living on a floating farm in the middle of Europe's busiest port of Rotterdam.\n\nThe animals are part of an experiment to produce food more sustainably, and closer to people.\n\nPeter van Wingerden, founder of Beladon, told BBC Radio 5 Live: \"No matter how much rain falls, no matter how high sea level goes, we can always produce our life-essential, healthy food.\"\n\nFor more Focus on Farming content, visit www.bbc.co.uk/focusonfarming", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Michael Gove was questioned about what had actually changed since the document was produced\n\nA leaked cross-government study warning of the impact of a no-deal Brexit outlines a \"worst-case scenario\", cabinet minister Michael Gove has said.\n\nDetails from the dossier warn of food and medicine shortages if the UK leaves the EU without a deal.\n\nMr Gove, who is responsible for no-deal preparation, said the document was old and Brexit planning had accelerated since Boris Johnson became PM.\n\nBut he acknowledged no deal would bring disruption, or \"bumps in the road\".\n\nThe leak comes as Mr Johnson is to meet European leaders later this week.\n\nThe prime minister will insist there must be a new Brexit deal when he holds talks with German Chancellor Angela Merkel and French President Emmanuel Macron.\n\nAccording to Operation Yellowhammer, the dossier leaked to the Sunday Times, the UK could face months of disruption at its ports after a no-deal Brexit.\n\nAnd plans to avoid a hard border between Northern Ireland and the Irish Republic are unlikely to prove sustainable, it adds.\n\nThe dossier says leaving the EU without a deal could lead to:\n\nThe dossier warns of disruption at ports, along with food, fuel and medicine shortages\n\nA No 10 source told the BBC the dossier had been leaked by a former minister in an attempt to influence discussions with EU leaders.\n\nThey added that the document \"is from when ministers were blocking what needed to be done to get ready to leave and the funds were not available\".\n\nResponding to the leak, Mr Gove said some of the concerns about a no-deal Brexit had been \"exaggerated\".\n\nHe said: \"It's certainly the case that there will be bumps in the road, some element of disruption in the event of no-deal.\n\n\"But the document that has appeared in the Sunday Times was an attempt, in the past, to work out what the very, very worst situation would be so that we could take steps to mitigate that.\n\n\"And we have taken steps.\"\n\nMr Gove also claimed some MPs were \"frustrating\" the government's chances of securing a new deal with the EU.\n\nHe said: \"Sadly, there are some in the House of Commons who think they can try to prevent us leaving on October 31st. And as long as they continue to try to make that argument, then that actually gives some heart to some in the European Union that we won't leave on October 31st.\n\n\"The sooner that everyone recognises that we will leave on that day, the quicker we can move towards a good deal in everyone's interests.\"\n\nBusiness minister Kwasi Kwarteng told Sky News' Sophy Ridge on Sunday: \"I think there's a lot of scaremongering around and a lot of people are playing into project fear.\"\n\nBut a former head of the civil service, Lord Kerslake - who described the document as \"credible\" - said the dossier \"lays bare the scale of the risks we are facing with a no-deal Brexit in almost every area\".\n\n\"These risks are completely insane for this country to be taking and we have to explore every avenue to avoid them,\" he told BBC Radio 4's Broadcasting House.\n\nIrish Deputy Prime Minister Simon Coveney said, in a tweet, that Dublin had \"always been clear\" a hard border in Ireland \"must be avoided\".\n\nThe Irish backstop - the provision in former prime minister Theresa May's withdrawal agreement that could see Northern Ireland continue to follow some of the same trade rules as the Republic of Ireland and the rest of the EU, thus preventing a hard border - was an \"insurance policy\" designed to protect the peace process, he said.\n\nMichelle O'Neill, Sinn Fein's deputy leader, accused Mr Johnson of treating the Northern Ireland peace process as a \"commodity\" in Brexit negotiations.\n\nShe said Ireland as a whole had been voicing concerns about a no-deal Brexit for months.\n\nThe SNP's Stephen Gethins said the documents lay bare the \"sheer havoc Scotland and the UK are hurtling towards\".\n\nLiberal Democrat MP Tom Brake said they showed the effects of a no-deal Brexit should be taken more seriously.\n\n\"The government has simply, I think, pretended that this wasn't an issue,\" he said\n\nMinisters were in \"a real pickle\" since \"the US has said that if that border is jeopardised, we're not going to get a trade deal with them\", he added.\n\nSpeaker of the US House of Representatives Nancy Pelosi said on Wednesday that a US-UK trade deal would not get through Congress if Brexit undermined the Good Friday Agreement.\n\nThe leak comes as the prime minister prepares to travel to Berlin to meet German Chancellor Angela Merkel on Wednesday, before going to Paris to see French President Emmanuel Macron on Thursday.\n\nMr Johnson is expected to say Parliament cannot and will not change the outcome of the 2016 EU referendum and will insist there must be a new deal to replace Mrs May's withdrawal agreement - defeated three times by MPs - if the UK is to leave the EU with a deal.\n\nHowever, it is thought their discussions will chiefly focus on issues such as foreign policy, security, trade and the environment, ahead of the G7 summit next weekend.\n\nMeanwhile, a cross-party group of more than 100 MPs has urged the prime minister to recall Parliament and let it sit permanently until the UK leaves the EU.\n\nIn a letter, MPs say the country is \"on the brink of an economic crisis\".\n\nLabour leader Jeremy Corbyn also reiterated his call for MPs to work together to stop a no-deal Brexit.\n\nElsewhere, anti-Brexit campaigner Gina Miller said the government had \"unequivocally\" accepted it could not shut down Parliament to clear the way for a no-deal Brexit.\n\nShe told Sky's Sophy Ridge On Sunday: \"What they have said is, unequivocally, they accept that to close down Parliament, to bypass them in terms of Brexit - stopping a no-deal Brexit, in particular - is illegal.\"\n\nMs Miller said she would continue to seek further reassurances that MPs would be able to pass legislation to stop a no-deal Brexit.\n\nAnti-Brexit campaigner Gina Miller said the government had accepted it could not shut down Parliament to clear the way for a no-deal Brexit", "Lucas Dobson's aunt Maciee Stanford said \"not knowing is the hardest bit\"\n\nA six-year-old boy who fell into a river in Kent while fishing is \"unlikely\" to be found alive, police have said.\n\nLucas Dobson slipped into the River Stour in Sandwich at about 13:30 BST on Saturday and has not been seen since.\n\nSupt Amanda Tillotson said more than 100 emergency services workers and 200 volunteers had taken part in a \"massive\" search for Lucas.\n\nBut there was \"unlikely\" to be a positive outcome, she added.\n\nRescuers, including specialist police divers, resumed their efforts early on Sunday after a hunt involving the coastguard helicopter on Saturday.\n\nAsked how likely it was Lucas would be found alive, Supt Tillotson said: \"Obviously as time has gone on...I think it is unlikely, unfortunately.\n\n\"But, we will continue to search and obviously I would like to have a positive outcome - I would like to find Lucas.\n\n\"We are getting increasingly concerned with the amount of time that has gone on.\"\n\nRescue teams resumed their search for Lucas on the River Stour early on Sunday\n\nRescue teams in canoes have been combing through dense vegetation on the riverbanks, while police officers have also been using sonar equipment.\n\nLucas's aunt Maciee Stanford thanked people for their support earlier and said \"we just need to find Lucas\".\n\nShe said he had slipped and fallen between a jetty and a boat while out fishing with his family.\n\nThree adults - including his father - jumped into the river to try to save him, but Lucas was swept away by the strong current, according to Ms Stanford.\n\n\"We appreciate everything everyone has done,\" she said.\n\n\"It's so overwhelming to see our community come together and help us - we could not thank you all enough for everything.\"\n\nMs Stanford added: \"Not knowing is the hardest bit.\"\n\nVolunteers searching for Lucas Dobson have been attending briefings from the fire service\n\nA mile-long exclusion zone has been set up along the river, around the scrapyard at Richborough Road.\n\nRescuers said this was to prevent any public vessels entering the search zone.\n\nThe fire service's assistant director Chris Colgan said: \"We're all incredibly grateful to everyone who has given everything to try and locate this little boy.\n\n\"Our thoughts are with him and his family at this very difficult and emotional time.\"\n\nSupt Amanda Tillotson, of Kent Police, said: \"This is understandably a very difficult and upsetting time for Lucas' family and our officers are continuing to support them.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Some kayakers got wetter than expected when they paddled near a glacier in Alaska.\n\nHuge chunks fell off, causing a massive wave that came straight at them.", "Lord Holmes of Richmond (centre) broke 35 world records during his swimming career\n\nA peer, who is one of Britain's most successful Paralympians, has denied sexually assaulting a woman in a five-star hotel.\n\nLord Holmes of Richmond is accused of touching the alleged victim in a central London hotel on 7 March.\n\nThe 47-year-old, who is blind, pleaded not guilty to the charge during a hearing at Southwark Crown Court.\n\nChampion swimmer Lord Holmes won nine gold medals and broke 35 world records during his sporting career.\n\nHe later worked as a director of Paralympic integration for the London 2012 Games and took his seat as a Conservative peer in the House of Lords in 2013.\n\nHe is currently non-affiliated and does not belong to any parliamentary group.\n\nDuring the hearing, he spoke to confirm his name as Christopher Holmes, stated his date of birth and said his nationality was British.\n\nHis unconditional bail was renewed by the judge. A trial date has not yet been set.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "British Transport Police said the accident happened close to Ashgill Road in the Milton area of Glasgow\n\nA 12-year-old boy is critically ill after an accident involving overhead railway power lines in Glasgow.\n\nBritish Transport Police were called to the tracks close to Ashgill Road, Milton, after the alarm was raised at about 18:30 on Sunday.\n\nThe schoolboy was taken to the Royal Hospital for Children, where he is receiving treatment for life-threatening injuries.\n\nDet Insp Brian McAleese described it as \"a catastrophic incident\".\n\n\"His condition is believed to be life threatening and we have specially trained officers supporting his family during this incredibly difficult time,\" he said.\n\nThe officer said inquiries were under way to establish the full circumstances of events which led to the boy coming into contact with the overhead power lines.\n\n\"While we have no reason to suspect there are any suspicious circumstances, we would ask anyone who witnessed what happened to get in touch,\" he added.\n\nOfficers will be conducting a number of additional patrols in the local area over the coming days to help reassure the community.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Neil and Katya Jones celebrated their sixth wedding anniversary earlier this month\n\nStrictly Come Dancing professionals Neil and Katya Jones have separated after six years of marriage.\n\nThe dancers were the focus of a media storm during the 2018 edition of the TV show, after Jones was photographed kissing her celebrity partner, comedian Seann Walsh, on a night out.\n\nJones and Jones stayed together following the scandal and said it was not the cause of their split.\n\nBoth dancers are expected to continue to work on Strictly.\n\nIn a joint statement the pair said their 11-year relationship had become more of a friendship than a romance.\n\n\"We wish one another every happiness and we will remain the best of friends,\" they said.\n\n\"We are really looking forward to getting back to the ballroom and can't wait to keep on dancing.\"\n\nThe 17th edition of the BBC show returns this September.\n\nA spokeswoman for the pair said their decision to split was not influenced by the controversy surrounding Walsh.\n\nSeann Walsh and Katya Jones were voted off the show three weeks after images were published of them kissing\n\n\"It would be incorrect and unfair to attribute their separation to one isolated incident,\" the spokeswoman said.\n\nRussian choreographer Jones and her partner Walsh were voted off the show in October 2018, three weeks after pictures of them kissing were published in the Sun on Sunday.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe revelation led to the end of his relationship with actress Rebecca Humphries.\n\nWalsh said at the time that \"bar the last few weeks\" it had been the \"best experience of my life\".\n\nThe 2018 series was eventually won by Kevin Clifton and his celebrity partner Stacey Dooley. The pair have since revealed they are dating.", "Greenpeace says limited checks are made on new-builds\n\nBuilding standards in Scotland should be enforced by a national agency, according to environment group Greenpeace.\n\nIt criticised the current system for policing building regulations which relies on builders to certify much of their work, with limited checks by council officials.\n\nIt is argued that a consistent, tougher approach would help new home buyers, ensuring quality, where some find housebuilders are slow to rectify construction problems.\n\nThe green lobby group also argues that building energy standards should be significantly stepped up, to help reduce greenhouse gas emissions.\n\nHowever, the Convention of Scottish Local Authorities (Cosla) believed that a national buildings standards agency was not necessarily the way forward.\n\nThe call for change comes as part of a series of reports on BBC Scotland about the implications of reducing emissions associated with climate change to net zero by 2045.\n\nHousebuilders and the Scottish government pointed to a significant increase in the energy efficiency of new homes, with emissions down by 70% in the past three decades.\n\nHomes for Scotland called for more action to retrofit existing homes.\n\nDoug Parr, head of policy with Greenpeace UK, told BBC Scotland the pledge to reduce carbon emissions meant that proper inspection and enforcement of regulations had become more important.\n\n\"We need to have a proper inspection and enforcement regime for new-build housing, to make sure that housebuilders who do build shoddy houses are penalised,\" he said.\n\n\"More than that, they ought to go in and change them back to how they're supposed to be, according to building standards.\n\n\"That whole regime needs to change from being a bit of a loose end that local authorities have to pick up at some point, to being a properly nationally-co-ordinated programme.\"\n\nHe added: \"In order to deliver the new-build houses we need for the 21st Century and net zero challenge, we need an agency that's going to have the expertise and capability to support local authorities in making sure these buildings are as good as they need to be.\n\n\"If we don't, we're going to have higher cost and higher emissions, and we're going to have cheated people. We're building ourselves a problem we're going to have to solve further down the line.\"\n\nHomes for Scotland, representing the major housebuilders, declined to comment on the Greenpeace call, but a spokeswoman said: \"We firmly believe that local authorities should be properly resourced to carry out their statutory duties and facilitate the delivery of much-needed homes.\n\n\"We work closely with the Scottish government building standards division and other industry bodies on how to move the whole system forward to ensure it works both effectively and efficiently.\"\n\nThe builders' representative added that \"new homes are already highly energy-efficient\". He said: \"The focus on improvements in housing needs to be placed on existing stock - something we have been calling on for some time\".\n\nAsked about the call for a national agency to enforce building regulations, a Scottish government spokesman emphasised that responsibility lay with local authorities.\n\nHe said: \"They are responsible for the operation of the building standards system. In line with legislation, when a warrant is required for new work, we expect them to undertake independent checks at design stage, and carry out reasonable inquiry prior to accepting a completion certificate before a building is occupied\".\n\nLooking to the raising of building standards in future, the St Andrew's House spokesman said they were reviewed and updated on a regular basis:\n\n\"A review considering where the greatest opportunities lie for further, cost-effective and practical improvements is currently under way and is expected to be completed in 2021,\" he added.\n\n\"From a climate-change perspective, building regulations have improved performance and reduced emissions from new homes by over 70% compared to the standards in force in 1990, the baseline year for climate change reporting.\"\n\nLocal government umbrella body Cosla said that it recognised that implications of achieving a net zero target by 2045 were \"profound\" and \"would impact on all aspects of society and the economy\",\n\nHowever, it was not convinced by Greenpeace's suggestion of an agency for building standards.\n\nA spokesman explained: \"If anything the long term solution to meeting the net zero target seem more likely to involve increasing decentralisation of power to local authorities and communities. A strong, fully empowered local government will be critical to our future success in tackling the climate emergency.\"\n\nBBC Scotland News is running a season of climate change coverage across radio, TV, online and social media.\n• None Cladding law changes two years after Grenfell", "Mark Jordon said he was \"looking forward to getting back to\" his career and engagement to Laura Norton\n\nAn Emmerdale actor who bit a man's face after an argument outside a pub has been cleared of assault.\n\nMark Jordon, 54, who plays Daz Spencer in the soap, was accused of attacking Andrew Potts in July 2018 outside the Farrars Arms in Oldham.\n\nA jury at Manchester's Minshull Street Crown Court found him not guilty of affray, unlawful wounding and assault by beating.\n\nMr Jordon had denied the charges and said he acted in self-defence.\n\nSpeaking outside court, the actor said he was \"grateful to the jury for proving my innocence\" and pleased his \"awful ordeal\" had come to an end.\n\nThe court previously heard Mr Jordon, of Tamewater Court, Dobcross, Oldham, bit 68-year-old Mr Potts in \"sheer panic and fear\" after being attacked.\n\nJurors heard the row started in a beer garden on 1 July, where Mr Jordon was celebrating his engagement to Laura Norton, who plays Kerry Wyatt in the soap.\n\nMr Jordon claimed Mr Potts had made \"vile comments\" about his daughter and had a video of her which he would post on YouTube.\n\nCCTV footage showed Mr Jordon having to be held back from Mr Potts, who threw some punches at him.\n\nMr Jordon's Emmerdale character Daz Spencer was last seen on the soap in January\n\nFormer Heartbeat actor Mr Jordon said the footage showed him trying to grab Mr Potts' phone, not trying to be violent.\n\nThe court heard Mr Potts and his partner left the pub and walked down the road, but were later confronted by Mr Jordon, who got out of a taxi.\n\nJurors were told Mr Jordon bit Mr Potts' thumb and the palm of his hand and the pair fell to the ground, where the actor bit his eyebrow.\n\nThey heard Mr Jordon, who had been due on the set of Emmerdale the day after his arrest, suffered a fractured wrist when he was kicked by Mr Potts.\n\nMr Jordon told the jury he bit Mr Potts in self-defence, adding it \"was not planned, regretful and in the moment\".\n\nMs Norton broke down in tears in the public gallery as the verdicts were delivered.\n\nOutside court, Mr Jordon said he was \"looking forward to getting back to our engagement and my career, which has been on hold\".\n\nHis character was last seen on the soap in January, when he moved away from the village to begin a new life in London.\n\nA spokesman for the soap said there were \"no current plans\" for the character to return.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Brexit secretary Stephen Barclay has called for the EU to find common ground with the UK\n\nEU leaders must give their chief negotiator the mandate to revise the UK's withdrawal agreement, otherwise a no-deal Brexit is \"coming down the tracks\", the Brexit secretary has said.\n\nWriting in the Mail on Sunday, Stephen Barclay said \"political realities\" had changed after May's European elections.\n\nNew MEPs were elected in 61% of seats, he said, marking a \"fundamental shift\".\n\nHe called on EU leaders to allow Michel Barnier to negotiate in a way that finds \"common ground\" with the UK.\n\nBrussels has consistently insisted that the withdrawal agreement - one of two main elements of Theresa May's Brexit deal, which was resoundingly rejected by MPs - cannot be renegotiated.\n\nMr Barclay said Mr Barnier had told him in their discussion last week that he is bound by the instructions given to him by the European Commission and leaders of member states.\n\nBut the change in the EU Parliament means there is a need for the EU to alter its approach, Mr Barclay said.\n\n\"Mr Barnier needs to urge EU leaders to consider this if they too want an agreement, to enable him to negotiate in a way that finds common ground with the UK. Otherwise, no deal is coming down the tracks,\" he said.\n\nBy contrast, Boris Johnson's appointment as prime minister strengthened the UK's mandate to leave on 31 October, he said.\n\nMichel Barnier has said demands to eliminate the backstop are \"unacceptable\"\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson has ramped up his rhetoric over his desire to take the UK out of the EU by 31 October, as part of his \"do or die\" commitment.\n\nHe has clashed with EU leaders over his demands to remove the Irish backstop - which prevents a hard border if the UK and EU fail to agree a long-term trade deal - from the withdrawal agreement.\n\nIrish Taoiseach Leo Varadkar told Mr Johnson this week \"the backstop was necessary as a consequence of decisions taken in the UK\".\n\nBut Mr Barclay said the backstop could mean people in Northern Ireland having EU rules \"foisted on them\" indefinitely to preserve the open border.\n\nHe rejected the UK staying in the customs union and the single market as a solution, saying the border issue should be resolved in future talks on the long-term trading agreement with the EU.\n\n\"There is simply no chance of any deal being passed that includes the anti-democratic backstop. This is the reality that the EU has to face,\" he said.\n\nSpeaking last month, Mr Barnier said demands to eliminate the backstop were \"unacceptable\" and Mr Johnson's approach to Brexit was \"rather combative\".", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. 'Co-housing let people have something they couldn't otherwise afford'\n\nYou may share a cup of sugar with your neighbours, or take a parcel for them.\n\nBut what about cooking with them regularly or sharing your garden?\n\nCo-housing is where private homes cluster around communal facilities such as a kitchen, dining room or garden.\n\nIt is popular in Denmark and Sweden, but accounts for less than 0.5% of Welsh homes. But this could soon change as Powys council and the Wales Co-Operative Centre have hired the country's first cohousing officer\n\nRachael Marshall lives in a co-house in Llanidloes, Powys, called Dol-llys, with her two sons and nine other people.\n\nShe said: \"I knew it had a huge amount of land which we all share as part of living there, so that was a big draw.\n\n\"Everybody who lives here is incredible and we get on so well... I can't imagine living without them now.\n\n\"Obviously people come and go but there's a sense of community here you don't always get living on an average street.\"\n\nCo-houses are owned by cooperative groups, with members buying shares rather than individual properties, which they can then sell if they want to move on.\n\nTreasurer of Dol-llys's co-operative Phil Callaghan said: \"We're pretty much close to owner occupation.\n\n\"The difference is we are also a management company so we look after the insurance, the maintenance and take decisions on the building.\n\n\"In practice we all have our own front door and go about our private business as you would in any other situation.\n\n\"But at least once a month we have a meeting and we'll talk about what needs to be done and where we are with the finances.\"\n\nRachael Marshall lives in a co-house with her two sons and nine other people\n\nWhile co-housing can offer a practical alternative to private home ownership or social housing, for others it can be about living with like-minded people.\n\nSiobhan Riordan and Francesca Casini set up Silver Cohousing earlier this year, with the intention of building a sustainable community in Powys which will be about 50% women over 50.\n\n\"Most of us are single women without family we can rely on, so the best way to secure the kind of housing and care we want in the future was to form a housing co-operative,\" Ms Riordan said.\n\n\"That's the legal structure that enables us to buy land, to buy houses and to realise the vision that we have about how we want to live as a community that is sustainable.\"\n\nMs Casini added: \"To be in a community with like-hearted people who are similar age and with a similar ethos will be a treasure.\"\n\nMal Shears - who moved moved into Dol-llys with his wife Cath Boswell two years ago - said it \"doesn't work if you always want your own way\"\n\nAccording to research by the Wales Co-Operative Centre, people who live in community-led housing said they felt happier, less isolated and had learned new skills.\n\nPowys's new cohousing officer Allan Shepherd said: \"It's about changing mindsets and thinking how we might live in a different way.\n\n\"I live in a co-operative - I used to own my own house but I lived alone and I felt socially isolated.\n\n\"I've got a lot of wellbeing from living in a housing co-operative but people don't necessarily understand that these other types of housing are available.\"\n\nMal Shears moved into Dol-lys with his wife, Cath Boswell, two years ago.\n\nHe said: \"You have to be able to negotiate with other people and provided you can do that there there are benefits that come with it.\"\n\nMs Boswell added: \"The whole is more than the sum of the parts. You have more space and a better quality of surroundings and life than living on your own.\"", "R. Kelly walking to court in New York earlier this month\n\nR. Kelly is facing prostitution charges by prosecutors in Minnesota, who have alleged he solicited a teenager who asked him for an autograph in 2001.\n\nAccording to county attorney Mike Freeman, Kelly invited the 17-year-old to his hotel room and offered her $200 (£164) to undress and dance with him.\n\nAfter money was exchanged they had sexual contact but not intercourse, Freeman claimed.\n\nKelly's lawyer Steve Greenberg said the charges were \"beyond absurd\".\n\nHis colleague Doug Anton said it was not clear that R. Kelly had ever met his alleged victim and that the charges might be a case of \"revisionist history\".\n\nThe R&B singer is now facing criminal proceedings in three US states.\n\nThe 52-year-old is currently being held without bail awaiting trial on charges of sexual assault, child pornography and obstruction of justice in Chicago and New York.\n\nHe has pleaded not guilty to all of the charges.\n\nThe singer, whose full name is Robert Sylvester Kelly, has been dogged by allegations of sexual abuse for years.\n\nHe previously faced trial on child pornography charges in 2008, but was acquitted when his alleged victim and her parents refused to testify.\n\nSince the broadcast of the six-part documentary Surviving R. Kelly in January, several accusers have come forward to press charges.\n\nCook County State's Attorney Kim Foxx made a public call for witnesses after watching the series, setting up a tip line in Kelly's home state of Illinois.\n\nOne of the people who called the number was the woman who claims she was assaulted by Kelly in Minnesota 18 years ago.\n\nR. Kelly's lawyers have characterised his accusers as \"disgruntled groupies\" and criticised Ms Foxx's methods.\n\n\"When a top law-enforcement figure makes a public cry for the world to come and be famous by telling their sordid story, true or not, it inherently invites people to create revisionist history and put a different label on simple fan-rock star encounters,\" said Doug Anton.\n\nAt Monday's news conference in Minneapolis, prosecutor Mike Freeman dismissed these claims.\n\n\"Frankly, Minnesota victims deserve their day in court, and that's one of the reasons we're here,\" he said.", "Harland and Wolff has entered administration, with accountancy firm BDO formally appointed to oversee the Belfast shipyard.\n\nHaving employed more than 30,000 at its peak, the move could now put 120 jobs at risk and spell the end of the iconic firm, best known for building the Titanic.\n\nUnions representing workers have called for the shipyard to be renationalised.\n\nThey argue it would be cheaper for the government to keep the shipyard open.\n\nHowever, the government has said the crisis is \"ultimately a commercial issue\".\n\nThe Northern Ireland Office said NI Secretary Julian Smith \"understands the impact\" uncertainty over the shipyard will have for workers and their families.\n\nIt said Mr Smith \"had made it clear that he will continue to do everything he can to secure the future of this historic site and ensure workers' interests are protected\".\n\nA spokesperson for BDO said: \"The team at BDO have engaged immediately with Harland and Wolff employees and other stakeholders to take all necessary steps to ensure they are supported throughout the administration process.\"\n\nA week ago, workers took control of the site and established a rota to ensure their protest continued around the clock.\n\nOn Monday, union sources said staff were given redundancy notices saying the business would cease trading in the evening.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The history of the Belfast shipyard\n\nThe workers, though, said they would continue their protest.\n\n\"These workers are saying 'we're staying in until we win'. This occupation will continue,\" said Susan Fitzgerald of trade union Unite.\n\n\"There's huge interest in this yard, but the real interest needs to be coming from Boris Johnson.\"\n\nSpeaking to BBC's Good Morning Ulster, Michael Mulholland from GMB Union outlined a plan for the yard's survival.\n\nIt involves administrators giving the workers and unions a period of time to find a buyer for the shipyard that will protect jobs.\n\nAsked if the proposal had a precedent, Mr Mulholland said: \"I'm not aware of any precedent but we are in dire times.\n\n\"If it needs a creative outlook, the trade unions are prepared to do that and we only hope that government and administrators will come along on that journey with us.\"\n\nAfter the administration announcement, Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) leader Arlene Foster said she and the party's East Belfast MP Gavin Robinson had met GMB and Unite.\n\nShe said they had a \"shared vision\" for the yard.\n\nShadow Chancellor John McDonnell said Labour would have nationalised the shipyard and he accused the government of betraying the workers.\n\nMr McDonnell, who visited Harland and Wolff staff in Belfast on Monday, said the shipyard has the potential for future work.\n\nHarland and Wolff's best known vessel is the Titanic, which was built at the yard between 1909 and 1911.\n\nThe Titanic in dry dock at Harland and Wolff in February 1912\n\nThe firm had been up for sale amid serious financial problems at its Norwegian owner.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Joanne Kay and her son Josh were on board the Airbus A321 and have described what happened\n\nA British Airways flight was evacuated after smoke filled the cabin shortly before landing.\n\nThe airline confirmed an \"incident\" on flight BA422 which departed London Heathrow at 15:10 BST on Monday and landed in Valencia.\n\nPassengers had to slide down emergency chutes to the runway, with one describing the \"terrifying\" experience as \"like a horror film\".\n\nBA has apologised to the 175 passengers on board the aircraft, an Airbus A321.\n\nA statement from the airline said the flight had \"experienced a technical issue\" as it approached Valencia.\n\nThree passengers were taken to hospital and have since been discharged, BA added. It said staff members had assisted customers in the airport terminal after the evacuation.\n\nBA said there were two pilots and six cabin crew members on the flight.\n\nPassenger Gayle Fitzpatrick, who was on holiday with her husband, said: \"There were no communications from the crew, some of which started to wear full oxygen masks and protective fire wear.\"\n\n\"People were crying and hyperventilating. It was genuinely scary,\" Mrs Fitzpatrick, from Glasgow, added.\n\nRachel Jupp, who was on the flight with her children, told BBC News smoke filled the cabin \"very quickly\" about 10 minutes before its scheduled landing.\n\nMs Jupp, the editor of BBC Panorama, said there had been no official announcement about what was happening as white smoke appeared to come through the air conditioning system into the cabin.\n\n\"Very quickly, you couldn't see the passengers two seats down from you,\" she said.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Lucy Brown This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nAs the plane began to descend quickly Ms Jupp said she heard calls to \"get down\" in order to breathe the cleaner air near the floor of the aircraft.\n\nShe said the pilot did a \"really good job\" to make a \"pretty smooth landing\".\n\n\"We later found out the cockpit was full of smoke and he had a gas mask on,\" she added.\n\nMs Jupp said the cabin crew was unable to open the emergency exits for \"three or four minutes\" after the plane landed.\n\nMark Kay, who was travelling with his 13-year-old son, said they felt \"trapped and helpless\" while staff tried to open the doors.\n\nPassengers then slid down the emergency chutes to the runway.\n\nAs members of the emergency services ran towards the plane, Ms Jupp said: \"We were just told to run and get as far away as we could from the plane.\"\n\nMrs Fitzpatrick said fire crews were waiting on the runway when the plane landed and passengers were directed to the terminal.\n\nAnother passenger at Valencia airport told the BBC a member of staff on the ground had said there had been a \"fire in the motor\" of the aircraft.\n\nDaniel Kietzmann, who was on the plane with his wife, said the situation was \"poorly handled\" by staff and there was a lack of communication about what was happening.\n\n\"Nobody was on hand when we went down the slide so my wife hit the tarmac very hard,\" he said, adding that he and his wife were bruised.\n\n\"We were left for hours in the terminal with ground crew that had no idea what was happening and nobody spoke English.\"\n\nBA said all passengers were evacuated safely by its crew and met by the airport's emergency services.\n\n\"In addition to our team on site, other British Airways team members have arrived in Valencia to help our customers and our local airport partners with anything they need,\" the airline said in a statement.\n\nPassengers queuing to get a hotel booking at Valencia Airport\n\nIn an email to affected passengers BA said it was \"sourcing an alternative aircraft\" to operate flights back to London.\n\nTravellers who were delayed overnight were given free accommodation at a local hotel, BBC News was told.", "The two British pilots said they were nervous and excited about the journey\n\nTwo pilots have begun a challenge to fly a newly restored Spitfire around the world.\n\nThe pilots took off from Goodwood aerodrome in West Sussex - the home of the first school for Spitfire pilots - on Monday.\n\nThey will stop off at 100 locations in 30 countries during the five-month, 27,000-mile journey.\n\nThe route goes via Scotland, then westbound to the US, Canada, Japan, Russia and India and back to Britain.\n\nThe project, named Silver Spitfire - The Longest Flight, is the first such trip of its kind.\n\nMatt Jones, 45, from Exeter, Devon and Steve Brooks, 58, from Burford, Oxfordshire, are flying a single-seater Mk IX Spitfire, which was originally built in 1943 in Castle Bromwich, West Midlands.\n\nThey hope the trip will \"showcase\" an aircraft which changed the course of history and \"reunite the Spitfire with the many countries that owe their freedom, at least in part, to this iconic aircraft\".\n\nMatt Jones (left) and Steve Brooks will take turns to fly the Spitfire\n\nWhen not at the controls the other pilot will be in a chase plane following the Spitfire.\n\nThe two aviation enthusiasts travel to Scotland, then Iceland, Greenland, Canada, the United States, Russia and Asia.\n\nMr Jones said; \"I'm a bit nervous but excited to get going.\n\n\"The weather is going to be the biggest part of it but also getting fuel to the right places, Avgas is very common here and in the US, but in other countries we are having it supplied for us.\"\n\nSilver Spitfire will fly over famous landmarks such as Grand Canyon and Mount Fuji\n\nA chase plane will have a full-time captain, an engineer, as well as a camera crew to film the journey for a documentary.\n\nMr Brooks said: \"It has taken us two-and-a-half years and the time has come to stop making excuses and to get going.\n\n\"The longest flight will be Hong Kong to Vietnam which is 500 miles.\n\n\"The Spitfire was built as an interceptor which had a range of 300 miles, so the question now is can we nurse it around.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Scotrail has scrapped plans to remove the fee for using toilets at four of its railway stations.\n\nNetwork Rail pledged free toilets at Glasgow Central and Edinburgh Waverley last year.\n\nIt prompted ScotRail to investigate free access at Glasgow Queen Street, Aberdeen, Inverness and Fort William - but now ScotRail says the move is not viable based on police advice.\n\nThe price has also risen from 30p to 50p at Aberdeen due to operating costs.\n\nAccording to ScotRail, British Transport Police (BTP) raised concerns that free toilet access could increase anti-social behaviour.\n\nBTP confirmed they had given advice on the matter, however it is understood the decision to keep the toilets paid was a business decision by Scotrail to fund upkeep.\n\nPolice also supplied anti-social behaviour figures for Glasgow Queen Street, where the average number of annual passengers is 8.2million.\n\nThe number of recorded incidents decreased from 49 in 2016/17 to 40 in 2017/18 and again 40 in 2018/19.\n\nWhen asked about the new 50p fee at Aberdeen station toilets, ScotRail pointed to rising operating costs.\n\nThe body also said costs for cleaning supplies and staffing had increased.\n\nA ScotRail spokesman said: \"After carrying out full safety assessments, gaining feedback from industry partners and assessing the long-term costs, it was established that removing charges was not a viable option.\"\n\nEarlier this year London Liverpool Street, London King's Cross and Edinburgh Waverley became the last of Network Rail's 20 stations to make their toilets free.\n\nThe public sector body said it wanted to put \"passengers first\" and help make their journeys \"a bit more hassle-free\".\n\nIn 2017 it was revealed that Network Rail had made £41m in 10 years from toilet charges.\n• None Where have all the public toilets gone?", "Recruiters are still using social media to find people to write fake reviews, says Which?\n\nFacebook is failing to shut down groups on its site where fake Amazon reviews are sold, consumer group Which? claims.\n\nFacebook was urged in June by the Competition and Markets Authority to probe the sale of fake reviews via these groups.\n\nWhich? claimed to have uncovered several active groups that recruited people to write fake testimonies.\n\nFacebook said it had removed almost all the groups reported to it and was still investigating the issue.\n\nFor its investigation, Which? said it joined 10 separate Facebook groups looking for recruits.\n\nIn a 30-day period, it said, recruiters added more than 55,000 posts to the groups that offered free products to people who wrote highly-rated reviews on Amazon.\n\n\"It is deeply concerning that [Facebook] continues to leave customers exposed to poor quality or unsafe products boosted by misleading and disingenuous reviews,\" said Natalie Hitchins, head of products at Which?\n\nMs Hitchins said Facebook had to take more action against any group it was told about and be more \"proactive\" about finding other groups and closing them down.\n\nIt said the CMA should consider \"enforcement action\" to make Facebook act.\n\nThe June call to action by the CMA was also issued to eBay, but Which? said it only found one advert offering five-star reviews for sale on the auction site in its latest probe.\n\nCMA senior director George Lusty said it was \"unacceptable\" that Facebook groups promoting fake reviews were reappearing.\n\n\"Facebook must take effective steps to deal with this problem by quickly removing the material and stop it from resurfacing,\" he said. \"This is just the start - we'll be doing more to tackle fake and misleading online reviews.\"\n\nA spokesman for Facebook said: \"We don't allow people to use Facebook to facilitate or encourage false reviews.\"\n\nIt said it had removed nine of the 10 groups Which? reported to it and was investigating the remaining one, it said.\n\nThe social network added that it was improving the tools and technologies it used to find the groups.", "The ruling said McDonald's had not proved genuine use of the \"Mc\" prefix as a burger or a restaurant name\n\nMcDonald's has lost its exclusive claim to the \"Mc\" trademark on some of its food products within the EU after a dispute with an Irish fast food chain.\n\nSupermac's, which owns more than 100 fast food restaurants in Ireland, complained to the European Union Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO).\n\nThe EUIPO ruled McDonald's had not proved genuine use of the \"Mc\" prefix on some of the products it trademarked.\n\nIt is Supermac's second partial victory this year in the EU branding dispute.\n\nHowever, the EUIPO upheld McDonald's right to own the \"Mc\" trademark on chicken nuggets and some of its sandwich products.\n\nThe ruling also stated that as both firms had succeeded in some parts of the case and failed on others, each party must pay its own costs.\n\nSupermac's was founded by Galway businessman Pat McDonagh in 1978 and is now the largest Irish-owned fast food restaurant firm in the Republic of Ireland.\n\nPat McDonagh is the founder and managing director of Supermac's\n\nMr McDonagh, who previously referred to his global fast food rival as \"McBully,\" said the latest ruling was a \"victory for small businesses\".\n\n\"The Mc is back,\" he declared in a company statement.\n\n\"McDonald's tried to argue that because they had some products that started with Mc, that the term Mc was so synonymous with them, that they had the right to own and trademark Mc,\" he added.\n\n\"We are delighted that the EUIPO found in our favour and that we can now say that we have rid Europe of the McDonald's self-styled monopoly of the term Mc.\"\n\nHowever, a statement from McDonald's pointed out that the EUIPO ruling had reinforced its ownership of the Mc trademark on a selection of its fast food products.\n\n\"The EUIPO upheld McDonald's EU registration for the trademark \"Mc\" standing alone for certain core menu items which McDonald's uses in connection with its famous family of Mc-prefixed trademarks,\" the US firm's statement said.\n\n\"This decision does not impact McDonald's ability to use its Mc-prefixed trademarks or other trademarks throughout Europe and the world, and McDonald's will continue to enforce its rights.\"\n\nSupermac's took the case after a branding dispute halted the Irish company's attempts to expand its restaurant chain into the UK and Europe.\n\nMcDonald's had won an earlier battle over the similarity between the name Supermac's and the Big Mac.\n\nSupermac's then asked the EUIPO to rule on the issue and the Irish firm won a partial victory in January 2019.\n\nThe Galway-based firm runs more than 100 fast food restaurants in Ireland\n\nAt that time, the EUIPO ruled that McDonald's had not proved genuine use of the trademarked term \"Big Mac\" as a burger or restaurant name.\n\nThe latest EUIPO ruling revokes McDonald's automatic trademark rights to the use of the term \"Mc\" on a long list of food products, drinks and restaurant services within the EU.\n\nHowever, the EU body upheld the US firm's right to own the \"Mc\" trademark on chicken nuggets and a range of its sandwich products including meat, fish, pork and chicken sandwiches.\n\nMcDonald's had argued that due to its long and continuous use of the 'Mc' term, the trademark had become widely and exclusively associated with McDonald's by EU consumers.\n\nThe US firm also pointed to several earlier decisions in its favour issued by courts and trade mark offices throughout Europe.\n\nBut Supermac's argued that 'Mc' was a \"very common prefix for surnames throughout Ireland, the United Kingdom and elsewhere throughout the European Union\".\n\nIt pointed out that there were a huge number of pubs, hotels, restaurants, and food products which contain the prefix 'Mc' as part of a surname.\n\nThe Irish firm claimed that McDonald's had never used the prefix 'Mc' in a standalone sense, but only in combination with other words to brand their products.\n\n\"It is not a 'Mc' chicken sandwich, it is a 'McChicken' sandwich,\" the document states.\n\nThe EUIPO agreed with Supermac's that there was no evidence of use of the contested trademark 'Mc' alone, but \"only accompanied by further elements\".", "Karen Millen is being sold by its current owner\n\nMore than 1,000 jobs could be at risk after fashion firm Boohoo bought the online business of UK brands Karen Millen and Coast for £18.2m.\n\nBoohoo, an online-only retailer, said acquiring the website operations of the two brands \"would represent highly complementary additions\".\n\nThe firms' 32 UK High Street stores and 177 concessions, employing 1,100 people, now appear set to close.\n\nAdministrators Deloitte said the stores would trade for a \"short time\".\n\nIt is understood they will continue to trade for months, as opposed to a matter of days.\n\nThere will be 62 immediate redundancies, and the future of the remaining workforce remains in doubt while the stores' future is clarified. Administrators Deloitte said they could not put a date on how long the stores would remain open.\n\nHigh Street brand Karen Millen had been put up for sale by its Icelandic owners, Kaupthing bank, in June. Both brands were placed into administration on Tuesday and then immediately sold to the online fashion group in a process known as a pre-pack sale.\n\nJoint administrator Rob Harding said: \"As we continue to see, the retail trading environment in the UK remains extremely challenging.\n\n\"Karen Millen has been seeking to address the financial challenges that it faced by pursuing a sale of the business and, whilst a sale of the whole business has not been deliverable, the Boohoo transaction facilitates the survival of these iconic British brands through an online platform.\"\n\nKaren Millen lost £5.7m in 2018 and £11.9m a year before.\n\nBoohoo chief executive John Lyttle said: \"The acquisition of the online business of two great and renowned British brands in Karen Millen and Coast represents another milestone in the group's growth story as it continues to invest in its scalable multi-brand platform and gain further share in the global fashion e-commerce market.\"\n\nThe firm was founded 14 years ago in Manchester, and has grown rapidly by selling own-brand clothing, shoes, accessories and beauty products. It listed its shares in 2014 and bought the Pretty Little Thing and Nasty Gal brands in 2017.\n\nIt has around 13 million active customer accounts globally across its existing brands. It late morning trade in London its shares were up 3% at 237 pence.\n\nBoohoo and Karen Millen are in very different parts of the fashion market\n\nRichard Lim, chief executive of Retail Economics, said: \"It is well known Karen Millen has been struggling in the past few years. But Boohoo will look at it and see another potential revenue stream.\n\n\"Karen Millen is a different customer segmentation for them, but one that I think could flourish as an online-only proposition. Boohoo will use all the expertise they have acquired in recent years using social media, and bring the brand to a newer audience.\"", "The latest series of Line of Duty was a ratings hit\n\nWatching programmes on a TV set is still the most popular way for UK audiences to watch television - but streaming is catching up.\n\nTraditional viewing - including catch-up within 28 days - still accounts for most TV watching, with an average of three hours and 12 minutes per day.\n\nBut according to Ofcom's latest Media Nations report, this marks a drop of 11 minutes since 2017.\n\nAverage daily viewing of streaming services rose last year to 26 minutes.\n\nThe number of UK households signed up to the most popular streaming platforms - Netflix, Amazon Prime Video, Now TV and Disney Life - increased from 11.2m (39%) in 2018 to 13.3m (47%) in 2019.\n\nThe total number of UK streaming subscriptions rose by a quarter in 2018 - from 15.6m to 19.1m - with many homes signing up to more than one service.\n\nThe report found that two in five of UK adults now consider online video services to be their main way of watching TV and film.\n\nDespite traditional TV viewing declining, the five main public service broadcasters - BBC One, BBC Two, Channel 4, ITV/STV and Channel 5 - held their share of viewing, at 52%.\n\nBut viewers now watch 50 minutes less traditional TV each day than in 2010 - and those in the younger age bracket (16 to 24) have halved the time they spend watching TV that way during the same period.\n\nThis is the second Media Nations report to be published by Ofcom.\n\nFriends is still the most streamed show on paid-for services in the UK\n\nThe first, which came out in 2018, found that Friends topped a list of the UK's most popular shows on paid-for streaming services.\n\nIt was the same again this year, with Friends at number one and accounting for around 2% of total streams.\n\nThe US sitcom, which first aired in 1994, was added to Netflix early last year.\n\nAmazon's car show Grand Tour was the second most streamed, followed by You, The Good Place and Brooklyn Nine-Nine, which are all on Netflix.\n\nBBC One's Line of Duty is the most-watched programme overall this year so far with 12.1 million tuning in to the final episode.\n\nThe channel's Bodyguard was the most-watched drama in 2018, with 14.3 million viewers for its final outing.\n\nYih-Choung Teh, strategy and research group director at Ofcom, said: \"The way we watch TV is changing faster than ever before. In the space of seven years, streaming services have grown from nothing to reach nearly half of British homes.\n\n\"But traditional broadcasters still have a vital role to play, producing the kind of brilliant UK programmes that overseas tech giants struggle to match.\n\n\"We want to sustain that content for future generations, so we're leading a nationwide debate on the future of public service broadcasting.\"\n\nFollow us on Facebook, on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Texas police have apologised after an image of two white officers on horseback leading a handcuffed black man by a rope caused an outcry online.\n\nGalveston Police Chief Vernon Hale said on Monday the technique was acceptable in some scenarios, but that \"officers showed poor judgment in this instance\".\n\nHe said there was no \"malicious intent\" and has changed department policy to \"prevent the use of this technique\".\n\nMany people on social media said the photo evoked images of the slavery era.\n\nAccording to a news release from the Galveston Police Department, the two mounted officers, named only as P Brosch and A Smith, arrested Donald Neely for criminal trespass.\n\nThe officers were taking Mr Neely to a police staging area. Police clarified that he was not tied with the rope, but \"was handcuffed and a line was clipped to the handcuffs\".\n\nThe department added: \"We understand the negative perception of this action and believe it is most appropriate to cease the use of this technique.\"\n\nEtching depicting a group of slaves marched while they are bound together, led by white men on horses who carry guns and whips\n\nMr Hale apologised to Mr Neely for the \"unnecessary embarrassment\".\n\nHe added the officers \"could have waited for a transport unit at the location of the arrest\".\n\n\"We have immediately changed the policy to prevent the use of this technique and will review all mounted training and procedures for more appropriate methods,\" the police chief said.\n\nMr Neely is free on bond but could not be reached for comment, the Houston Chronicle reported.\n\nLeon Phillips, director of the Galveston County Coalition for Justice, told the BBC the image that went viral on social media was taken by an individual who wished to remain anonymous.\n\nMr Phillips said the incident is \"difficult to talk about\" as a Galveston resident.\n\n\"This was a stupid mistake,\" he said. \"What I do know is that if it was a white man, there's no way they would have done that to him.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Her ancestors enslaved mine. Now we're friends\n\nHe noted that Mr Neely is a mentally ill individual, and officers should have waited regardless of how long it took a vehicle to arrive, since \"it's not as if they're getting paid by the arrest\".\n\nMr Phillips said he plans to file an open records request at city hall this morning to look at law enforcement policies.\n\n\"The police chief says they didn't break any policy, but what is the policy on transporting a prisoner?\n\n\"How do I know that the policy wasn't written in 1875? There are a lot of unanswered questions.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. A look inside the operation to save the town of Whaley Bridge\n\nEmergency crews pumping water from a reservoir above Whaley Bridge have reached their target.\n\nThe Canal and River Trust said it needed to drop the water level by eight metres and confirmed it was down 8.4m.\n\nMore than 1,500 people were evacuated from their homes on Thursday amid fears a damaged dam could lead the 300-million-gallon Toddbrook Reservoir to flood the town.\n\nThey hope to find out later when they can return.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe trust said: \"The water has been pumped out at a controlled rate and good progress is being made.\"\n\nIt said \"all safety implications will be assessed\" before a decision is made with police about what happens next..\n\nThe reservoir is at 25% of its holding capacity.\n\nAuthorities are expected to carry out more inspections ahead of a public meeting at 17:00 BST.\n\nRosie Marshall-Shield is one of the residents hoping to be allowed back home after being evacuated on Thursday.\n\nShe went back briefly on Saturday morning after residents were allowed 15 minutes to go back in and grab essentials.\n\n\"It was heart-breaking, 15 minutes just to run into your house, just throwing stuff in like a few pairs of underpants and socks,\" she said.\n\n\"I did take a video of the house at the front, just in case it was the last time we were going to come to the house.\"\n\nFire crews and engineers have been working round-the-clock to pump water from the reservoir\n\nEngineers are pumping foam between the sandbags that have been dropped on to the spillway\n\nFire crews have been using 23 high-volume pumps to remove the reservoir's water since part of its spillway collapsed on Thursday following heavy rainfall.\n\nThe dam wall has been packed with 530 tonnes of aggregate, which is being cemented into place to reinforce the spillway.\n\nFire crews said they had used miles and miles of pipe work to pump out the water\n\nThe water is being taken out of the Toddbrook Reservoir and is being pumped into the River Goyt\n\nEarlier, Derbyshire's Deputy Chief Fire Officer, Gavin Tomlinson, said they hoped to have \"some good news\" for residents once water levels were down by 8m.\n\n\"That will allow the specialists to come in to assess the damage and they will provide the advice for somebody to make the decision with regards to the residents,\" he said.\n\n\"Fingers crossed for them because they have been ever so patient, and hopefully we can give them some good news later. But we will have to wait and see.\"\n\nThe fire service said it had used miles of pipes to remove the water and engineers had built two roads to allow the pumps to be moved closer to the site.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nMore than 500 tonnes of aggregate has been packed into the damaged part of the spillway\n\nThe Environment Agency is monitoring the River Goyt, where the water removed from the reservoir is being taken.\n\nPolice have criticised about 20 residents who stayed in their homes within the evacuation zone, saying they were \"taking their lives into their own hands\" and jeopardising the safety of the emergency services.\n\nDeputy Chief Constable Rachel Swann said: \"We will repeatedly visit these people to remind them of the risks they are posing to themselves and emergency responders, however there is no specific legislation under which we can force these people to leave.\"\n\nResidents have been placing signs on roadsides to thank the emergency services\n\nWing Cdr Gary Lane, from the RAF, said a Chinook helicopter was back on Tuesday to drop more aggregate on the advice of civil engineers. Crews are expected to drop a further 200 tonnes on to the spillway.\n\nThe Canal and River Trust, which owns the dam, said it carried out an annual inspection of the structure in November and it was \"absolutely fine\".\n\nThe government has said it is considering a national review into the structural safety of dams across the country.\n\nThe water level in the reservoir has been significantly reduced since Thursday\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.", "Nora Quoirin's disappearance has been described as \"completely out of character\"\n\nThe family of a vulnerable 15-year-old London girl who vanished in Malaysia on a \"holiday of a lifetime\" believe she has been abducted.\n\nNora Quoirin's parents woke on Sunday to find her missing from her bedroom at the Dusun resort.\n\nIn a statement they said Nora \"never goes anywhere by herself\" and there was \"no reason to believe she wandered off and is lost\".\n\nMalaysian police are treating it as a missing persons case.\n\nNora's family appealed for anyone in the area to \"get out and join the search\"\n\nNora, the daughter of an Irish-French couple who have lived in London for about 20 years, arrived at the resort in a nature reserve near Seremban - 39 miles south of the capital Kuala Lumpur - on Saturday for a two-week stay.\n\nHer father raised the alarm at 08:00 local time on Sunday after she was discovered missing with the window in her bedroom open.\n\nIn their statement, the family said the teenager was \"not like other 15 year olds\".\n\n\"She looks younger, she is not capable of taking care of herself, and she won't understand what is going on,\" they said.\n\nPolice, fire and rescue services, and civil defence officers have joined the search\n\nMalaysian police have extended their search to areas of tropical forest surrounding the resort and along a nearby river, and are questioning villagers to try to find witnesses.\n\nSearch teams are also being assisted by local Orang Asli people, who have knowledge of the dense jungle terrain, with about 180 people taking part in the operation.\n\n\"We've got a platoon from the general operations force as well as a police canine team to look for Nora,\" state deputy police chief Che Zakaria Othman told Malaysia's The Star paper.\n\nHe said Nora's passport and other belongings were still in her family's possession but the CCTV system at the resort only covered a limited area.\n\nThe BBC's South East Asia correspondent Jonathan Head said police were working on the assumption Nora had got lost, and had probably not travelled very far.\n\nBali anak Akau, a villager who is taking part in the search, said he was worried for the teenager as outsiders \"don't know how to navigate\" around the area.\n\n\"Natives like me, we are used to this jungle,\" he said.\n\nPolice said they were treating the disappearance as a missing persons case\n\nA spokeswoman for the Dunsun said hotel bosses were confused by Nora's disappearance.\n\n\"Our resort has been operating for 10 years and we have never even been robbed,\" Haanim Bamadhaj said.\n\nAccording to its website, the resort is a 12-acre orchard complex in the foothills of the Titiwangsa mountains and sits next to the 4,000-acre Berembun Forest Reserve.\n\nIt has a maximum capacity of 20 adults split across seven houses.\n\nThe resort's \"nearest neighbours\" are two Temuan villages where most of its staff are from.\n\nThe Dusun resort has seven houses with a maximum capacity for 20 adults\n\nNora, whose mother Meabh is originally from Belfast and whose father is French, is understood to have been travelling on an Irish passport.\n\nA spokesman for Ireland's Department of Foreign Affairs said they were \"aware of the case and providing consular assistance\".\n\nThe French Ministry for Europe and Foreign Affairs said the French consul in Malaysia had \"travelled to the area to lend her support to the family and coordinate with the local authorities\".\n\n\"We remain committed to doing everything possible to help find our compatriot,\" they said.\n\nThe Dusun resort is next to a large forest\n\nChuka Umunna, MP for Streatham where the family live, said he was \"deeply concerned\" by the teenager's disappearance and was \"doing all I can to ensure the foreign office gives all possible assistance\".\n\nSt Bede's Church in Clapham Park, where Nora and her family were parishioners, called on people to \"pray for her safety and for her family who are distressed at this time\".\n\nOn an online fundraising page set up by Nora's aunt, the family appealed for anyone living in the area to \"get out and join the search\".\n\nThe page has raised more than £25,000 and has been set up \"to cover any unforeseen expenses or charges\" as more family members travel to Malaysia.\n\nRoyal Malaysian Police helicopters are also taking part in the search\n\nMissing persons charity the Lucie Blackman Trust, which is supporting the family, has provided a hotline and email address for information.\n\nPeople can remain anonymous and can call +448000988485 or email ops@lbtrust.org.", "Victoria Smith died last July, before a tribunal overturned the decision to stop her benefit\n\nBenefit-assessment company Capita is going to court to try to reverse the \"reputational damage\" it says it suffered after a claimant died.\n\nVictoria Smith died months after her personal independence payments were stopped following a Capita assessment.\n\nThe outsourcing company was ordered to pay £10,000 in damages over its handling of her disability claim.\n\nIt was found to have made incorrect statements but wants the county court verdict set aside and the case reheard.\n\nThe company conducts health assessments for personal independence payments (PIP), the main disability benefit, on behalf of the Department for Work and Pensions.\n\nWhile the decision over whether someone receives the benefit is made by a DWP official, Capita's assessment of how a person's disability affects their life is a crucial part of the process.\n\nA Capita healthcare assistant came to assess Ms Smith in March 2018.\n\nThe 33-year-old, from Market Drayton, in Shropshire, suffered from agoraphobia and fibromyalgia, which left her body in constant pain.\n\nThe Capita employee found Ms Smith did not score a single point in the test - and the DWP stopped her benefit.\n\nIn February 2019, her mother, Susan Kemlo, told BBC News the decision had \"destroyed her\".\n\n\"When they took away her ability to look after herself, to have a way of life, she gave up,\" she said.\n\nMs Smith died of a brain haemorrhage in July 2018 but doctors told the family her underlying conditions, particularly the fibromyalgia, had deteriorated as well.\n\nThe week after her death, a social security tribunal decided she had been eligible for PIP.\n\nFurious with the conclusions the Capita employee had reached, Mrs Kemlo took legal action against the company for maladministration - in essence making inaccurate statements - and was awarded £10,000.\n\n\"I didn't do it for the money,\" said Mrs Kemlo.\n\n\"I did it for them to admit they were wrong, to get some justice for my daughter, because [it's] only ever been about justice for Victoria.\"\n\nBut Capita is now going to court later this month to try to set aside the judgement.\n\nAt a hearing scheduled for Telford County Court, the company will argue it never had a chance to defend the case because of problems in its own internal mail system.\n\nIn court papers, Capita \"acknowledges that it has not been able to explain the default and therefore cannot provide a good reason for it\" but says its failure to respond to the court was \"entirely innocent and inadvertent\".\n\nCapita also stands by its employee's assessment of Ms Smith, describing it as \"fit for purpose, accurate and medically justified\" and says the family's claim is therefore \"without merit\".\n\nIf the court refuses to set aside the judgement, the company says, \"the prejudice to Capita… is extremely significant\".\n\n\"Capita has been on the receiving end of significant negative press which suggests that it has been held liable following a successful claim by the claimant,\" it says.\n\n\"This causes significant reputational damage to Capita's business.\"\n\nThe court action by Capita has been condemned by Duncan Walker, a welfare rights adviser with Unite the Union, who has been supporting Mrs Kemlo since her daughter's death.\n\n\"In the tragic case of Victoria, this was just one more example of shocking maladministration by Capita at public expense.\n\n\"Every Pip case undertaken by Unite members in Stoke-on-Trent with the specific health care professional in Victoria's case has been overturned by the social security tribunals.\n\n\"It is an abuse of public funds and plainly wrong that such... reports are presented as fact and a shameful indictment of the government welfare reform ideology clearly persecuting disabled and vulnerable people.\" said Mr Walker.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Michael Gove says it is \"wrong\" of the EU to refuse to re-open talks\n\nCabinet minister Michael Gove says the EU \"seem to be refusing to negotiate with the UK\" over a new Brexit deal.\n\nMr Gove, who is responsible for no-deal planning, said he was \"deeply saddened\" that Brussels was, in his words, saying \"no, we don't want to talk\".\n\nIt comes after the EU said UK demands to remove the Irish backstop from Theresa May's deal were unacceptable.\n\nIrish PM Leo Varadkar has reiterated that the withdrawal deal, including the backstop, cannot be renegotiated.\n\nThe European Commission said it was willing to hold further talks, \"should the UK wish to clarify its position\".\n\nMeanwhile, a group of politicians has started a legal action aimed at preventing Boris Johnson shutting down Parliament to force through a no-deal Brexit.\n\nTheresa May's deal has been rejected three times by MPs and as things stand, the UK will leave the EU on 31 October whether it has agreed a new one or not.\n\nOn Monday, EU negotiators told European diplomats there was currently no basis for \"meaningful discussions\" and talks were back where they were three years ago.\n\nA senior EU diplomat reportedly said a no-deal Brexit appeared to be the UK government's \"central scenario\".\n\nAddressing those suggestions, Mr Gove said: \"At the moment, it's the EU that seems to be saying they're not interested, they are simply saying 'no, we don't want to talk'.\n\n\"I think that's wrong and sad, it's not in Europe's interests\", he added.\n\nForeign Secretary Dominic Raab denied ministers were now aiming for a no-deal exit, insisting the UK would \"strain every sinew to get the changes we need\".\n\nSpeaking to the BBC during a trip to Canada on Tuesday, he said the EU had so far shown \"no movement, no compromise, no flexibility\" over changing the agreement rejected by Parliament.\n\n\"Of course, if the EU don't move, if they're stubbornly intransigent, then we will leave on WTO [World Trade Organization] rules,\" he added.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nMonday's EU meeting followed discussion last week between the EU and the PM's European envoy, David Frost, where he reiterated Mr Johnson's stance that the backstop plan must be removed from Mrs May's deal.\n\nHe also raised concerns about the UK's \"divorce bill\" and the proposed role of the European Court of Justice, the EU's top court, after Brexit.\n\nMany opponents of Mrs May's deal cite concerns over the backstop - an insurance policy to prevent a hard border returning on the island of Ireland - which if implemented, would see Northern Ireland staying aligned to some rules of the EU single market.\n\nIt would also involve a temporary single customs territory, effectively keeping the whole of the UK in the EU customs union. These arrangements would apply unless and until both the EU and UK agreed they were no longer necessary.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nSpeaking on Tuesday in Belfast, Mr Varadkar told reporters he did not accept that a no-deal Brexit was unavoidable, adding there were \"a number of ways\" in which it could be avoided.\n\nHe said these options included ratifying Mrs May's deal, further extending the UK's EU membership, or the UK cancelling Brexit by revoking Article 50.\n\nMr Varadkar said he had invited Mr Johnson to Dublin for talks on Brexit, and other issues, with \"no preconditions\".\n\nThe BBC's Brussels reporter Adam Fleming said the EU was grappling with how to deal with a prime minister in Boris Johnson who was demanding things they were not prepared to give.\n\nHe said the EU had not given up yet, and all eyes would be on the G7 summit in France at the end of August, which many believe could be the moment of truth - the point at which a no-deal Brexit may become inevitable.\n\nEarlier, Mr Johnson met his first foreign leader since entering Downing Street - Estonian Prime Minister Juri Ratas.\n\nThe country's Foreign Minister, Urmas Reinsalu, said earlier that while the \"reality\" was the withdrawal agreement - including the backstop - had been jointly agreed by EU member states, there was still a need for continued dialogue in the coming weeks to avoid a no-deal Brexit.\n\nHe told BBC Radio 4's Today programme alternatives to the backstop could be discussed after the ratification of the withdrawal deal.\n\nLast week the government announced an extra £2.1bn of funding to prepare for a no-deal Brexit - doubling the amount of money it has set aside this year.\n\nThe plans include more Border Force officers and upgrades to transport infrastructure at ports, as well as more money to tackle queues in Kent created by delays at the Channel.\n\nMr Gove said the government's preparations for no deal had been stepped up and \"the days of drift that we have had in the past have ended\".\n\nHe said the plan to take the UK out of the EU by 31 October was a \"firm deadline\", and \"we will be ready to leave come what may\".\n\nNot for the first time the Brexit process appears to be deadlocked. Both sides say they're willing to talk and both sides want to avoid leaving without a deal.\n\nBut the UK and the EU are not negotiating because each has a position which the other says it can't accept.\n\nFor the time being expect more tough talk from government ministers and similar from the EU.\n\nBut sooner or later, if both sides really do want to avoid leaving without an agreement, someone or something will have to give.\n\nCome September when MPs return from their summer break there may be more attempts to prevent no deal, a move to force a general election - perhaps a subtle shift in the government's position.\n\nThere's nothing like a deadline to focus minds and if this one sticks, things could begin to happen very fast.\n\nThis summer stand-off can only last so long.", "Cesar Sayoc admitted posting the crude devices to prominent Democrats and members of the media\n\nA Trump supporter who admitted sending mail bombs to critics of the US president has been jailed for 20 years.\n\nCesar Sayoc, a 57-year-old ex-pizza delivery man from Florida, posted 16 pipe bombs to 13 targets last October.\n\nProsecutors called for a life sentence for Sayoc, who they said was motivated by a \"hate-filled ideology\".\n\nHis targets included well-known media figures and Democrats, including former president Barack Obama and 2016 election nominee Hillary Clinton.\n\nSayoc also posted the packages - stuffed with explosives, wires and alarm clocks - to former vice-president Joe Biden, former CIA director John Brennan, senators Cory Booker and Kamala Harris, and actor Robert De Niro.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. From last October: Sayoc's former boss says he \"spewed a lot of hatred\"\n\nAll of the devices were intercepted and none detonated. A report by investigators found that they had no mechanism to set them off, meaning that they wouldn't have gone off.\n\nBut the incidents caused a national scare just weeks before the US mid-term elections.\n\nSayoc initially pleaded not guilty to the 65 charges against him, which included using weapons of mass destruction and mailing explosives with intent to kill. But he reversed his plea in March.\n\nAt his sentencing, Sayoc told a court in New York that he was \"beyond so very sorry\".\n\n\"Now that I am a sober man, I know that I was a sick man. I should have listened to my mother, the love of my life,\" he was quoted as saying by the Washington Post.\n\nThe package that was sent to CNN's offices in New York, addressed to John Brennan\n\nSayoc's lawyers argued their client suffered from severe learning disabilities, childhood abuse and steroid abuse that caused him to be paranoid and isolated.\n\nAt the time he was arrested, last year, they said, he was living in his van and was fixated on conspiracy theories he read about on social media.\n\nHis lawyers said: \"In this darkness, Mr Sayoc found light in Donald J Trump. The combination of his cognitive deficiencies, steroid-induced delusional thinking, political naivete and his isolation resulted in Mr Sayoc being unable to critically evaluate these claims [he saw online].\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Why does the Strait of Hormuz matter?\n\nThe Royal Navy will join a US-led taskforce to protect merchant ships travelling in the Gulf.\n\nThe move comes amid growing tensions between the two western powers and Iran over the shipping route in the Strait of Hormuz.\n\nIranian forces seized British-flagged vessel Stena Impero last month, while the US has tightened sanctions on Iran.\n\nForeign Secretary Dominic Raab said the new maritime taskforce would give \"reassurance for shipping\".\n\nBut it goes against plans laid out by his predecessor, Jeremy Hunt, for a European-led mission in the area.\n\nThe UK government confirmed last month that it would provide a Royal Navy escort, from warships HMS Duncan and HMS Montrose, for British-flagged ships passing through the strait.\n\nThe Ministry of Defence said the new mission would involve the same warships.\n\nThe US has also committed two warships to the mission, as well as aerial surveillance.\n\nHMS Montrose, centre, escorts the British-flagged Stena Important (front) and Sea Ploeg oil tanker through the Strait of Hormuz, through which a fifth of the world's oil travels\n\nWashington has re-imposed - and latterly tightened - its own sanctions on Iran, after withdrawing from a 2015 deal to limit the country's nuclear activities.\n\nThe UK and other European countries remain committed to the plan, but diplomatic tensions have been strained in recent months - increasing after the seizure of the Stena Impero.\n\nMr Raab said the UK's decision to join the US-led mission did not change its commitment to the nuclear deal and that the government was working to \"de-escalate the situation\" in the Gulf.\n\nBritish attempts to create a European-led coalition to provide maritime security in the Gulf - and to deter Iran - have clearly not born fruit, at least yet.\n\nHence the UK decision to \"join an international maritime security mission\", which will be led by the US.\n\nSo far, the UK is the only other member.\n\nThe apparent change of heart has been made easier by the recent changes in Downing Street.\n\nThe UK government still says it hopes the taskforce can transition to a European-led mission - though so far no other European countries have said they're willing to commit warships to protect merchant shipping as part of an international maritime force.\n\nThe government also insists that its policy to Iran has not changed.\n\nBritain says it remains committed, along with EU allies, to maintaining the Iran nuclear deal - unlike the US.\n\nBut Iran may view this latest move differently.\n\nAnnouncing the new mission, Defence Secretary Ben Wallace said the UK was \"determined to ensure shipping is protected from unlawful threats\".\n\nHe added: \"Upholding international maritime law and freedom of passage is in all our interests.\n\n\"We are seeing, across our seas and oceans, too many incidents that seek to challenge such freedoms.\"\n\n4 July: Royal Marines help authorities in Gibraltar seize a tanker carrying Iranian oil because of evidence it was heading to Syria in breach of EU sanctions\n\n9 July: The UK raises the threat to British shipping in Iranian waters in the Gulf to \"critical\"\n\n10 July: A Royal Navy ship warns off Iranian boats attempting to impede a British oil tanker in the region\n\n28 July: The Royal Navy sends a second warship to the Gulf to protect British ships", "Jaclene Paolucci, pictured with her husband, John, says she does not know why complete strangers feel they have the right to advise her on her pregnancy\n\nSix months into her pregnancy, Jaclene Paolucci has had enough of strangers offering unsolicited advice and thinking it's fine to touch her without permission.\n\nThe last straw was a stranger interrupting her as she ordered her regular latte at a Starbucks in New York - to suggest she switched to decaf.\n\nJaclene, 36, took to Twitter to tell her more than 3,000 followers what had happened and that her response - telling the woman: \"I'm not pregnant,\" - had led to a spluttered apology.\n\nAnd she was shocked by how many people could relate to her experience.\n\nSo far, her tweet has received nearly 5,000 responses, 78,000 retweets and close to 700,000 \"likes\".\n\nJaclene Paolucci's tweet resonated with hundreds of thousands of people\n\n\"I've discovered that if you want unsolicited advice, then you should get pregnant,\" Jaclene told BBC News.\n\n\"It feels like the moment you do get pregnant, then you lose your body's autonomy.\n\n\"People start touching you and everybody has an opinion on how you should act, what you should wear - everything.\n\n\"The only people who should be able to do that should be you and your doctor.\"\n\nJaclene said she limited herself to one coffee a day and had taken medical advice about it.\n\nShe said: \"What if I hadn't been pregnant?\n\n\"And there are many postpartum women who find it hard to get rid of their bellies.\n\n\"Comments like this can be hurtful so unless someone is having a baby in front of you, you shouldn't get involved.\n\nJaclene is tired of people having a say about her pregnancy\n\nShe added: \"People feel entitled and your body becomes a community body.\n\n\"We're in an exciting but scary time and there's so much information out there which can often be contradictory. However, I trust my body and I will make the best decisions for it.\n\n\"What I did find interesting, though, was after I tweeted, many of those who disagreed with my stance were men.\"\n\nDr Tara Chettiar says even with her expertise, she was not immune to unsolicited advice during her two pregnancies\n\nAmong the thousands of women who responded is Dr Tara Chettiar, of Kansas City, a specialist in obstetrics and gynaecology.\n\n\"I was in the hospital doing my patient rounds about six years ago, I was heavily pregnant and I was wearing my scrubs and white coat,\" she said.\n\n\"As I stopped to get a coffee, one staff member told me that I shouldn't be drinking coffee at all.\n\n\"I was astounded that anyone would say that - let alone to an expert in the field.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\n\"I had to pause and say that a small amount of caffeine had been shown to be safe outside of the first trimester.\n\n\"In fact, it's fine in the first trimester, although I was visibly beyond that point.\"\n\n\"I have so many patients who have told me about their experiences around unsolicited advice and as someone who has gone through this myself twice now, I loved seeing how Jaclene had called it out.\"\n\nShe added: \"A lot of pregnant women find they are constantly being told what to do by others but let's be clear: pregnancy is not a disability.\"\n\nThe advice is largely well intentioned, says Dr Chettiar, because it's about an issue everyone feels they can connect with.\n\n\"Family, babies are so much at the heart of the human experience. So many people want to become part of the journey. It's the same reason that people also feel they can ask, 'When will you have children?'\n\n\"Because in their minds, this is something that connects us all. But in reality, those questions and 'advice' make women feel separate, different, and as though something is wrong with them.\"\n\n@ethereumgirl also responded to the thread, highlighting the constant touching she had experienced during her pregnancies.\n\nAsked why she had wanted to share her experiences on Twitter, she told BBC News: \"I think what pulled me in is this unwanted expectation when you become pregnant that you belong to 'the collective society', that some others feel more comfortable responding to you in ways that would be otherwise socially unacceptable.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 2 by Ethereum Girl This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy 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 this is something Jaclene clearly understood. In one her tweets, she wrote about the constant touching: \"It is totally invasive. It's strange enough you have a foreign being inside of you using you as a punching bag and playroom, then everyone else is touching you from the outside.\"", "Matt Hancock says he has changed his mind because \"the facts have changed\"\n\nParliament can no longer block a no-deal Brexit, the health secretary has said.\n\nDuring his bid for the Tory leadership, Matt Hancock said no deal was \"not an available choice\" to the next PM, as MPs \"will never allow it to happen\".\n\nHe told the BBC he had now changed his mind because they had a chance to block it in a series of votes last month, but failed to muster the numbers.\n\nJeremy Corbyn said Labour would do all it could to stop no deal.\n\nBut Downing Street insisted the UK would be leaving on 31 October \"whatever the circumstances\", whether a deal had been agreed with the EU or not.\n\n\"Politicians cannot choose which votes to respect. They promised to respect the referendum result and we must do,\" No 10 said.\n\nAsked whether Mr Johnson would respect the outcome of votes in Parliament - including a vote of no confidence in his government - the spokesman refused to be drawn, calling it a \"hypothetical\" question.\n\nMPs have repeatedly rejected the agreement Theresa May reached with Brussels, but have so far failed to coalesce around an alternative.\n\nIn a no-deal scenario, the UK would immediately leave the EU with no agreement about the \"divorce\" process, overnight exiting the single market and customs union - arrangements designed to help facilitate trade.\n\nOpponents say it would damage the economy and lead to border posts between Northern Ireland and the Republic - but other politicians argue any disruption could be quickly overcome.\n\nOn 12 June, the Commons rejected a motion tabled by Jeremy Corbyn, which would have allowed MPs to take control of the parliamentary timetable in the autumn to stop no deal going through.\n\nMr Hancock told BBC Radio 4's Today programme it was that vote which prompted him to change his mind.\n\n\"I thought that would go through and in fact, the government won by 11,\" he said.\n\n\"I now don't think it can (stop no-deal). I thought that it could and the votes went differently to what I anticipated. When the facts change, sometimes even as a politician you have to change your mind.\"\n\nMr Hancock's comments echo a warning reportedly made by the prime minister's senior adviser, Dominic Cummings, that MPs have left it too late to stop no deal.\n\nBut Dominic Grieve, one of the most prominent pro-European Conservative MPs, told the BBC Mr Cummings was a \"master of misinformation\", and there were a number of options still left for MPs wanting to block no deal.\n\nThey include bringing down the government, via a vote of no confidence, and setting up a new government in its place, he said.\n\nIf Mr Johnson loses a vote of no confidence and it becomes clear that another potential prime minister could command the confidence of the Commons, the convention is that he would be obliged to resign.\n\nHowever, Catherine Haddon, from the Institute for Government think tank, said this was \"untested territory\", adding: \"He could say: 'No, I'm staying as prime minister and we're having a general election.'\"\n\nThe date of an election is set by royal proclamation on the advice of the prime minister, so he could choose a date after 31 October and press on with Brexit in the meantime.\n\nSpeaking on a visit to Whaley Bridge to see efforts being made to shore up a damaged dam, Mr Corbyn said Labour would \"do everything to stop no deal, including a no confidence vote at the appropriate, very early, time to do it\".\n\nHe said Mr Johnson appeared to be \"trying to slip no deal through, slip past Parliament and slip past the British people\", and that was \"not acceptable\".", "Strictly's class of 2019 - but Jamie Laing (centre) had to pull out after the red carpet launch\n\nTV and radio presenters, soap stars, sportspeople, a YouTuber and a Viscountess - that's who is taking to the dancefloor for the 17th series of Strictly Come Dancing.\n\nBroadcaster Anneka Rice rose to fame on Channel 4's Bafta-nominated game show Treasure Hunt in the 1980s, before being given her own BBC One show, Challenge Anneka.\n\nShe joked: \"I haven't danced since I was seven and Miss Beer sent me home from my ballet class because I was hopelessly uncoordinated. My family and friends haven't seen me dance since, not at a wedding or round a handbag so it's going to be a challenge for my partner.\n\n\"In fact I've asked for two, one on each side. I can't see myself in a long frilly dress either. But I'm feeling recklessly excited. Strictly has always been my autumn's entertainment and now I'm part of it! My children will probably leave the country.\"\n\nMore recently, the 60-year-old has appeared on Celebrity Mastermind and Come Dine With Me, as well as Celebrity Hunted.\n\nOlympic rower James Cracknell promised to bring some \"dad dancing\" to the show early on. Cracknell was made an OBE in 2005 after winning gold in the coxless fours at the 2000 and 2004 Olympics.\n\nThe 47-year-old oarsman, who rowed for Cambridge in this year's Boat Race, said: \"It's going be really interesting having no confidence in it and then going 'OK, can you do it?'\"\n\nIn the official Strictly press release, Cracknell joked he was looking forward to taking part \"having spent so many years mucking around in a rowing boat with big men in tight lycra,\" and that \"it's time I learned a new skill\".\n\nHe added: \"I need to apologise to my kids in advance for the embarrassment.\"\n\nBBC Radio 1 DJ Dev Griffin - who presents the afternoon weekend show alongside Alice Levine - came second in a dance competition at a Pontins holiday park in 1996, when he danced to MC Hammer's Can't Touch This.\n\nGriffin was a finalist on 2017's Celebrity MasterChef and has appeared on other celebrity programmes, such as Mastermind. He's vowed to improve on those results by winning Strictly.\n\nHe said: \"I am really good at dancing. I never had any formal dance training, but I am pretty good, I have made myself good. All I want is to win. I don't believe in doing things for taking part, if you are going to do something, you do it to win.\"\n\nFormer Arsenal and England footballer Alex Scott said she \"felt like a kid at Christmas\" after her participation was revealed.\n\nScott, who is now one of the country's leading football pundits, won the Strictly Comic Relief special in 2018. \"This is a show that I've always wanted to be a part of,\" Scott admitted. \"When I did [Comic Relief], I was like, 'I want to be part of the main one.'\n\nThe former Lioness out-danced fellow ex footballers Chris Kamara and David Ginola en route to winning the 2018 Comic Relief Strictly special, alongside dance partner Pasha Kovalev.\n\nSeduction singer Michelle Visage - best known for her role as a judge on the US reality TV show RuPaul's Drag race - is also among the contestants.\n\nShe took part in Celebrity Big Brother in 2015, and was recently seen on the West End stage in Everybody's Talking About Jamie.\n\nTable tennis champion Will Bayley took gold for Great Britain at the 2016 Summer Paralympic Games in Brazil.\n\n\"I'm so proud to be on the show, it's my family's favourite show,\" he said. \"I have no dance experience at all, but I hope I can do well. I want to inspire people with a disability - that would mean a lot to me. I want to prove to people I can do this.\"\n\nEmma Thynn, Viscountess Weymouth, is a chef, model and a contributing editor for British Vogue, and also runs Longleat safari park with her family.\n\nThe 33-year-old mother of two - who married Ceawlin Thynn, Viscount Weymouth, in 2013 - said she had never danced professionally but was sure it would be \"such an amazing experience from start to finish\".\n\nCBBC presenter Karim Zeroual is a former child actor who starred in CBBC's The Sparticle Mystery. He said he was \"pinching\" himself after being offered the chance to take part.\n\nHe said: \"I want the lot. The skimpiest of clothes, the widest of flares, the brightest of colours and the tallest Cuban heels a guy can find! The more flamboyant the better... sequins galore please!\"\n\nBBC sports news presenter Mike Bushell said being revealed as a Strictly contestant felt \"like a weird dream\" but he wanted to fly the flag for \"all the dad dancers\".\n\nThe 53-year-old added he \"thought they'd got the wrong person\" when he got the call from the producers, because people frequently confuse him with former BBC colleague and 2009 Strictly winner Chris Hollins.\n\nFormer Coronation Street actress Catherine Tyldesley, 35, played Rovers Return barmaid Eva Price on the ITV Soap from 2011-2018 and said she was \"so excited\" and equally \"terrified\" because she \"literally can't dance\".\n\nShe said: \"I love to dance on a night out if I've had a couple of drinks and me and Alfie [her son] silly dance in the kitchen, but that's it, I'm terrified.\"\n\nTeenage social media star Saffron Barker - whose book Saffron Barker Vs Real Life topped the Sunday Times bestseller list - said she was \"very grateful for the opportunity\".\n\nShe added that she was inspired by the success of another of last year's finalists, fellow YouTuber Joe Sugg. \"I'm excited to follow in his footsteps,\" she declared. \"He did absolutely amazing... I've got a lot to live up to.\"\n\nEastEnders actress Emma Barton, who plays Honey Mitchell, was one of the first names to be announced.\n\nBarton said she was a big fan of Strictly and was therefore \"over the moon\" to be asked to appear in series 17.\n\nFormer England goalkeeper David James said he was persuaded to compete by ex-contestant and former swimmer Mark Foster, who had an \"amazing experience\" on the dancefloor.\n\nJames, 49, who was the oldest player at the 2010 World Cup in South Africa, said he was \"really excited\" to be chosen and had \"some big shoes to fill\" following previous appearances by sports stars.\n\nComedian Chris Ramsey, who starred as Jack Pearson in the BBC Two sitcom Hebburn, said he was \"really buzzing\" but noted that while he is hungry for success, he has never been a natural shoe shuffler.\n\n\"You will not find me on the dancefloor at parties,\" said the 32-year-old. \"You will find me at the buffet table... All night.\n\n\"At my wedding, I danced with my wife; that one song took about six months' practice, and I definitely stood on her feet a couple of times.\"\n\nKelvin Fletcher is best known for playing Andy Sugden on ITV soap Emmerdale between 1996 and 2016.\n\nThe 35-year-old was drafted in as a late replacement after Made In Chelsea's Jamie Laing was forced to pull out after injuring his foot while recording the group dance in the launch show.\n\nFletcher said being on Strictly was \"a dream come true\", but was also \"bittersweet\" because it came about as a result of Laing's withdrawal.\n\nLaing said: \"I'm absolutely devastated that I'm unable to continue in the competition. I was so excited to hit the dance floor.\"\n\nHosts Claudia Winkleman and Tess Daly are clearly excited. Are you?\n\nThis year's series will see the return of judges Shirley Ballas, Craig Revel Horwood and Bruno Tonioli, but Dame Darcey Bussell will be replaced by Motsi Mabuse - sister of Strictly professional Oti.\n\nLatin dancer Nancy Xu, a dancer in West End show Burn the Floor and a finalist on So You Think You Can Dance? in China, will replace the outgoing Pasha Kovalev as a professional dancer.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Mark Welte was on the observation deck when the incident happened\n\nA six-year-old boy who was \"thrown\" from the 10th floor of the Tate Modern art gallery was a French national visiting London with his family.\n\nThe child was found on a fifth-floor roof after he fell from the viewing platform on Sunday and is in a critical but stable condition, the Met said.\n\nA witness said they heard a \"loud bang\", before seeing a woman scream: \"Where's my son, where's my son?\"\n\nA 17-year-old boy arrested on suspicion of attempted murder remains in custody.\n\nThe Met Police said it was treating the \"truly shocking incident\" as an \"isolated event with no distinct or apparent motive\".\n\nWriter Mark Welte was on the observation deck with a friend when he heard a commotion and what he described as a loud \"primal scream\".\n\n\"Someone said someone had thrown a child over. I leapt up and looked over the rail and I did indeed see a child down below there,\" he said.\n\n\"The child's mother then tried to climb the rail. I restrained her and pulled her back.\"\n\nThe emergency services were called to the Tate Modern on Sunday afternoon\n\nEmergency services were called to the gallery, based in Bankside near London Bridge Station, at about 14:40 BST.\n\n\"We treated a person at the scene and took them to hospital,\" a London Ambulance Service (LAS) spokesman said.\n\n\"There is no link between the victim and male arrested,\" Det Ch Insp John Massey said.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. BBC journalist Olga Malchevska was at the gallery with her son\n\nThe force said the child was \"no longer in a life-threatening situation\" but his family was waiting for more news about his condition.\n\nDet Ch Insp Massey added that officers were keen to speak to anybody who \"witnessed a male whose behaviour seemed out of place, suspicious or worrying, in the hour or two before the incident in or near the gallery\".\n\nThe boy was flown to hospital \"as a priority\", London Ambulance Service said\n\nThe Tate said it was \"working closely with the police\" and \"all our thoughts are with the child and his family\".\n\nA spokeswoman for the gallery added the Tate was open on Monday but the viewing platform would remain shut throughout the day.\n\nThe Tate said it was working closely with police\n\nAdmin worker Nancy Barnfield, 47, of Rochdale, was at the 10th floor viewing gallery with a friend and their children when her friend heard a \"loud bang\".\n\nMs Barnfield said she turned around and saw a woman screaming: \"Where's my son, where's my son?\"\n\nMembers of the public quickly gathered around a man who was nearby, she said.\n\nMs Barnfield said: \"We did not notice the mum before, we noticed her after because she was hysterical by then.\"\n\nShe said the person who was restrained by members of the public before the police arrived \"just stood there and was quite calm\".\n\nPeople were locked inside the gallery as emergency services helped the six-year-old boy\n\nBBC journalist Olga Malchevska, who was on the balcony with her son, said she heard a scream then saw some pushing.\n\n\"I just felt like something is going on, I should take my child out of there immediately and we tried to go towards the exit,\" she said.\n\nShe added: \"We got to the packed lift. People there were saying that one boy threw another one from the balcony. We were all shocked.\"\n\nStuart Haggas said he saw emergency crews moving along the roof between the gallery's Turbine Hall and its recent extension.\n\n\"They were carrying a stretcher with someone on it, plus a second stretcher was waiting by the door,\" he said.\n\nThe Tate Modern's viewing gallery has remained closed for the day\n\nBBC correspondent Jonny Dymond, who was also there, said visitors were \"funnelled towards the main Turbine Hall and the exits were all closed\".\n\n\"There were quite a lot of families with children, and security guards told us we couldn't leave,\" he said.\n\n\"There were at least two fire engines, 10 police cars and an incident control unit. Parts of the exterior of the building were taped off.\"\n\nThe Tate Modern opened in the disused power station on the River Thames in 2000, while the extension with the viewing platform was opened in 2016.\n\nIt was the UK's most popular tourist attraction in 2018 with 5.9 million visitors, according to the Association of Leading Visitor Attractions.\n\nThe viewing platform is part of an extension at the gallery which opened in 2016\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Last updated on .From the section Cricket\n\nEngland bowler James Anderson will miss next week's second Ashes Test at Lord's due to the calf injury that curtailed his involvement in the series opener.\n\nThe 37-year-old was passed fit for the Edgbaston Test despite hurting the same calf playing for Lancashire last month.\n\nBut Anderson managed just four overs on the opening morning before aggravating his right calf and did not bowl again as Australia won by 251 runs.\n\nEngland's record Test wicket-taker will be \"reassessed on an ongoing basis\".\n• None 'Defeat was bleak but England can still win the Ashes'\n\nHis absence in the second game against Australia could see pace bowler Jofra Archer, who was left out of the opener in Birmingham, make his Test debut in the match that starts on 14 August.\n\nA statement from the England and Wales Cricket Board said Anderson had undergone a MRI scan after \"tightness to his right calf\".\n\n\"As a result of the injury, he will commence a rehabilitation programme working with the England and Lancashire medical teams,\" added the ECB.\n• None 'Australia thrashing England? It was like being back in the 1990s'\n\nAnderson's injury is confirming what we knew but to be ruled out of next week's Test so early suggests he is some way from returning.\n\nAll the more important, then, that Archer comes through his fitness test playing for Sussex second XI this week.\n\nHe needs to prove categorically that he is fit enough to stand the rigours of a five-day Test. If so, he will add some welcome pace to England's attack.\n\nThe selectors have a lot to think about before the weekend - Jason Roy, Joe Denly, Moeen Ali, Jonny Bairstow. It seems too early to make sweeping changes, but England must carefully consider their options.", "Scotland has replaced London as the fastest place for a seller to find a buyer for their home, figures suggest.\n\nIn 2014, it took 36 days in London on average to secure a buyer, but this rose to 60 days by last year, according to property portal Rightmove.\n\nIn contrast, the average time to secure a buyer fell from 66 days to 41 days over the same period in Scotland.\n\nThe figures, compiled for the BBC, show that the market for flats has slowed amid debate over leasehold rules.\n\nVarious surveys have shown that the property market has slowed in London and the South East of England in recent years, with prices falling particularly in London.\n\nHouse prices on average across the UK are still rising slightly, but there has been a significant drop in London.\n\nThe latest figures, based on Rightmove data, show that the time taken between initially marketing a home and an estate agent finding a buyer has been rising in the region, returning to the 60-day average in London last seen in 2011.\n\n\"Whilst it would be easy to link that with the Brexit vote, there are other factors at play, especially increasingly stretched buyer affordability,\" said Miles Shipside, Rightmove's housing market analyst.\n\nOne of those factors is the increasing amount of time taken by the sellers of flats to find a buyer in England and Wales.\n\nChanges in taxation have led to a drop in the demand from buy-to-let investors, many of whom had built up a portfolio of apartments.\n\nAnother theory is that the Bank of Mum and Dad has helped some first-time buyers to move straight into houses, instead of flats, with the added attraction of some outside space and their own front door.\n\nThe debate over leaseholds, which are more common among flats, may also be significant. It may also explain the difference with Scotland, where so-called hidden costs are far less of an issue and where the time to find a buyer of any type of property has been falling.\n\nKate Faulkner, housing analyst and managing director of Propertychecklists.co.uk, said that sellers needed to be well prepared if they wanted a swift sale of a flat.\n\nSellers of older flats were also in competition with a host of new-build developments, which might include access to restaurants and gyms, she added.\n\nShe suggested being realistic when setting a price, considering throwing the property open to offers over a certain price, and showing off the space available inside the flat.\n\n\"De-clutter and de-personalise as much as possible. Show off the space and give people a blank canvas to imagine living there,\" she said.\n\nOnce a buyer has been secured, the legal process and the checks required by mortgage lenders have become stricter and taken longer since the financial crisis. Greater regulation has slowed these down for many people.\n\nAs a result, Mr Shipside, of Rightmove, said that buyers looking for a property now might be over-optimistic if they expected to celebrate Christmas in their new home in England or Wales.\n\n\"This is most noticeable for those buying flats, where conveyancing times have increased from 100 days in 2011 to 123 days in 2018 in England and Wales,\" he said.\n\n\"That means those buyers who have an offer accepted on a flat this month may not complete until the end of the year, especially if they'll be getting a mortgage.\"\n\nWhere can you afford to live? Try our housing calculator to see where you could rent or buy This interactive content requires an internet connection and a modern browser. Do you want to buy or rent? Use the buttons to increase or decrease the number of bedrooms: minimum one, maximum four. Alternatively, enter a number into the text input How much is your deposit? Enter your deposit below or adjust the deposit amount using the slider Return to 'How much is your deposit?' This calculator assumes you need a deposit of at least 5% of the value of the property to get a mortgage. The average deposit for UK first-time buyers is . How much can you pay monthly? Enter your monthly payment below or adjust the payment amount using the slider Return to 'How much can you pay monthly?' Your monthly payments are what you can afford to pay each month. Think about your monthly income and take off bills, council tax and living expenses. The average rent figure is for England and Wales. Amount of the that has housing you can Explore the map in detail below Search the UK for more details about a local area What does affordable mean? You have a big enough deposit and your monthly payments are high enough. The prices are based on the local market. If there are 100 properties of the right size in an area and they are placed in price order with the cheapest first, the “low-end” of the market will be the 25th property, \"mid-priced\" is the 50th and \"high-end” will be the 75th.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nFirefighters have put out a blaze at an ammunition dump in Siberia and munitions are no longer exploding there, the Russian military says.\n\nTen massive Il-76 cargo planes and five Mi-8 helicopters are water-bombing the area, near the town of Achinsk in the Krasnoyarsk region.\n\nA defence ministry statement said \"there are no more fires\" at the site, an old dump due for closure housing some 55,000 artillery shells.\n\nMore than 9,500 people were evacuated.\n\nSix injured people are in hospital, but they are not critically ill.\n\nFlying munitions damaged a school and a kindergarten in the village of Kamenka. But Deputy Defence Minister Gen Dmitry Bulgakov said that besides smashed windows there was little structural damage in the area.\n\nLocal residents were evacuated from inside a 20km (12 miles) radius around the arms dump.\n\nWitnesses posted videos of balls of flame and black smoke, starting during the day and continuing after dark.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Sarah Rainsford This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nKrasnoyarsk region is one of those affected by huge wildfires that engulfed parts of Siberia in recent weeks, due to unusually hot weather and strong winds.\n\nThe worst of the fires, however, were many miles away to the north-east.\n\nMilitary sources told the government newspaper Rossiiskaya Gazeta they believe the explosions were triggered by an old shell blowing up in an army truck.\n\nThunderous detonations continued for hours at the arms dump", "Young Chelsea players were targeted for years by a \"prolific and manipulative sexual abuser\" who was able to operate \"unchallenged\", says a damning report.\n\nEvidence from 23 witnesses details how ex-chief scout Eddie Heath, who died in 1983, groomed and abused young boys aged between 10 and 17 in the 1970s.\n\nAn external review said some adults at Chelsea must have been aware of Heath's abuse but \"turned a blind eye\".\n\nThe report - led by barrister Charles Geekie QC - is also heavily critical of former assistant manager Dario Gradi, who is accused of failing to tell more senior club staff about an allegation regarding the sexual conduct of Heath, brought to him by the parent of a young player.\n\nGradi's alleged failure to report the claim \"was a lost opportunity to expose Heath and prevent further abuse\".\n\nThe BBC has approached 78-year-old Gradi for comment. In his evidence to the review, he denied trying to \"smooth over\" the matter in a meeting with the boy's father. He also said he reported the allegations to the club's assistant manager.\n\nMeanwhile, a separate review into allegations of racial abuse from 1982 up until the late 1990s conducted by charity Barnado's concluded that \"black players were subjected to a daily tirade of racial abuse\".\n\nHeath was employed by Chelsea from 1968 until he was sacked in 1979 and, as far as the review was able to establish, was not investigated nor charged with any offences before his death.\n\nThe reports details how most of the witnesses recalled Heath being \"inappropriate\" and using \"sexual innuendo\" in the changing room, but that he \"took care that his most serious sexual assaults took place in private\".\n\nOf the 23 witnesses, 15 reported \"serious and unambiguous sexual assaults\", including rape by Heath when he was alone with a boy, while three witnesses detailed abuse in the presence of other young players.\n\nOne witness recalls Heath being regarded as \"nightmare Eddie\" by youth players and that the boys were intimidated by his physical presence and fearful of him because of the influence he had over their careers.\n\nGeekie concludes that Heath targeted vulnerable children in particular, manipulated their families, used pornography to \"sexualise\" boys and abused his role at the club to secure \"compliance\" and \"silence\" through fear.\n\nMost of the witnesses told the report that the abuse can still affect their \"day-to-day\" lives and many stopped playing football as a result.\n\nThe report states there is not enough evidence to \"provide ground for concluding that any adult related to Chelsea had actual knowledge of the serious acts of abuse described by the 15 witnesses as having taken place in private\".\n\nIt also said \"there is no evidence to support a conclusion that the Chelsea board knew of Heath's conduct\".\n\nHowever, Geekie adds that adults at Chelsea \"were aware of and observed Heath's lewd...behaviour\" and that \"the unhappy reality is that some must have seen things and turned a blind eye to what they saw\".\n\nGradi was suspended by the Football Association from his role as a director at Crewe Alexandra in 2016 pending an investigation into claims he \"smoothed over\" a complaint of sexual assault against Heath.\n\nHe has always denied having any knowledge of the crimes of convicted paedophile Barry Bennell, who is serving a 31-year sentence for abusing boys while a coach at Crewe in the 1980s, when Gradi was manager of the club.\n\nIn the Geekie report, one witness said Heath had \"grabbed and caressed\" him at the training ground, and Gradi subsequently visited them at their home after the boy's father had contacted Chelsea to complain.\n\nIn his interview for the report, Gradi repeatedly claims the boy's father said he \"did not want to get Heath into trouble\" and that \"took the pressure off me as far as I was concerned\". Geekie said the boy's father was \"shocked\" when told of Gradi's claim he did not want the matter to go further.\n\nGradi said he thought the allegation related to sexual touching of the boy's \"privates\" but he \"hadn't been raped or anything like that\".\n\nAccording to the report, Gradi also said he had not recognised the boy on his visit, suggesting to him that the youth player was not an outstanding prospect and \"he is blaming the sexual stuff going against him becoming a footballer\".\n\nThe witness told the review Gradi had said he would \"have a word\" with Heath, but Gradi denied telling the chief scout of the complaint. Instead, Gradi claimed he decided on the drive home to report the complaint and, on hearing on the radio that the Chelsea manager had been sacked, told an assistant manager, who died in 2015.\n\nThe witness said the next time he saw Heath after meeting with Gradi, the chief scout said \"do you still love me\" and \"publicly tore into\" him during training, which led the witness to feel \"humiliated\" and he \"stopped enjoying football\".\n\nThe report concluded that Gradi spoke to Heath and not the assistant manager, and that \"by telling Heath alone, Gradi exposed the victim to bullying and intimidating behaviour by Heath\".\n\n\"Gradi should have reported the matter to more senior staff,\" said the report. \"It was a lost opportunity to expose Heath and prevent further abuse.\"\n\nGradi said reporting the allegation to the assistant manager was \"the end of my involvement in the matter\".\n\nHe added: \"I completely deny that I ever attempted at any stage to 'smooth over' the matter as has been reported in the press.\"\n\nWhat about the separate bullying & racism claims?\n\nChelsea began an investigation in January 2018 into allegations by three former youth players that former youth team coaches Graham Rix and Gwyn Williams racially abused them during the 1980s and 1990s, before seven more players made further claims.\n\nRix joined the club in 1993 and left in 2000, a year after being jailed for having sex with an underage girl. Williams joined Chelsea in 1979 as youth development officer and worked as assistant manager under former boss Claudio Ranieri before leaving the club in 2006.\n\nThe review by children's charity Barnardo's interviewed 22 people, during which process the culture at the club was described as a \"dog-eat-dog environment\".\n\nFormer players who were interviewed gave examples of bullying between players including throwing excrement, deep heat rubbed in genitalia and beatings - carried out irrespective of race.\n\nThe report stated that this \"bullying\" helped create a culture \"in which racially abusive behaviour also could take place\".\n\nThe review received numerous claims of Williams \"humiliating and ridiculing black players by making racially derogatory remarks\" including specific allegations he made monkey noises and called black players \"shoe shine\" and \"darkie\".\n\nSome former players said Williams would claim he was preparing young players for abuse they would receive if they went on to represent the first team.\n\nFormer staff told the report that Williams and Rix were \"quite aggressive\" but that Williams was \"on a par with what football was like in those days\", while a former first team manager said Rix had \"a great ability to deal with young players and had a good emotional empathy\".\n\nThe review said there was \"much less information\" available on allegations against Rix and that the three former youth players who initially spoke to the Guardian did not come forward to be interviewed by Barnardo's.\n\nIn conclusion the report found, despite \"clearly conflicting accounts\", the evidence \"strongly indicates\" that there was \"racially abusive behaviour towards black young people at Chelsea during the 1980s and 1990s and that based on information from those spoken to, that Gwyn Williams was the instigator of such abuse\".\n\nIt added that while Rix \"could be aggressive and bullying\", on the evidence presented to the report, \"he was not racially abusive\" but \"the same cannot be said about Williams\".\n\nIn response, Williams wrote to the review, saying he \"denies any and all allegations\" and that \"he did not act in a racist way towards any youth or other player\" at Chelsea.\n\nHe claimed the extracts of the report shown to him were \"biased, untrue, unfair and artificial and part of a concerted effort to scapegoat him\".\n\nRix also gave a statement to the review through his solicitor, saying he \"denies he was bullying or aggressive. He denies he was (or is) a racist\".\n\nWhat did Chelsea say?\n• None In a statement, Chelsea apologised for the \"terrible past experiences of some of our former players\" and said their own \"exhaustive investigation\" would \"ensure that abhorrent abuse like this can never happen again\".\n• None Chelsea also committed to assessing compensation claims for victims.\n• None A Barnardo's report said Chelsea now had a \"healthy culture where young people are encouraged to speak up and are heard\" and that their safeguarding culture and measures \"bear no resemblance\" to that of the past.\n• None Barnardo's has given the club made a number of recommendations for further improvement, all of which are being implemented.\n• None On Heath, Chelsea said: \"It is evident from the review that Heath was a dangerous and prolific child abuser. His conduct was beyond reprehensible.\"\n• None Chelsea acknowledged the \"overwhelming information\" that a member of staff during the 1980s and 1990s subjected young players to bullying and racially abusive behaviour.\n• None The club apologised to all players who experienced this deeply shocking behaviour.\n\nIf you, or someone you know, have been affected by any of the issues in this article, information and support is available via BBC Action Line.", "An estimated 240,000 UK businesses trade with the EU\n\nGovernment funding to help UK companies cope with a possible no-deal Brexit customs system has had a \"concerningly low\" take-up, BBC News has learned.\n\nIn December, the Treasury and Revenue & Customs unveiled an £8m training fund companies and trade intermediaries such as freight forwarders could apply to.\n\nBBC Newsnight has learned that just 741 companies have applied for the grants.\n\nHMRC says it is doing \"everything we can to help businesses get ready for leaving the EU\".\n\nAn estimated 240,000 UK businesses currently trade with the EU. Many of these would be expected to need training if the customs system changed.\n\nThe government funding aims to support employee training and IT improvements to complete customs declarations, in a no-deal scenario.\n\nAs the UK is in the EU single market and customs union - which help trade between EU members by eliminating checks and tariffs (taxes on imports) - these businesses currently face no customs barriers at all.\n\nBut in a no-deal scenario, the UK would immediately leave the EU with no withdrawal agreement.\n\nAnd that would include leaving the single market and customs union, so the way in which companies trade with the EU would change.\n\nThe application period for the grants closed in May 2019.\n\nOf the £8m, an HMRC employee told Newsnight, £3m earmarked specifically for training customs brokers had been completely allocated.\n\nThey did not say how much of the remaining £5m had been allocated.\n\nBritish Chambers of Commerce director of policy Mike Spicer said: \"Such a low number of firms applying for grant-funding is concerning and signals the need for much greater levels of awareness among affected firms to ensure they are prepared.\n\n\"Ultimately this is another example of why avoiding a messy and disorderly exit in October is so important.\"\n\nNicole Sykes, head of EU Negotiations at the Confederation of British Industry (CBI), said the government had failed to adequately publicise the scheme.\n\n\"Many small firms would bite the government's hand off to access funds to support no-deal preparation,\" she said.\n\n\"But if information about those funds is buried in a corner of a website, then take-up is going to be low.\"\n\nHMRC, however, says the scheme was widely promoted through social media, emails to stakeholders and articles in bulletins for customs agents.\n\nIn June, Newsnight revealed less than a third of relevant companies had so far applied for an economic operator and registration identification (EORI) number from HMRC.\n\nThis is the most basic official authorisation that companies would need to continue trading with the EU in the event of a no-deal Brexit.\n\nBoris Johnson's new government is reported to be planning a £100m public information campaign to prepare the country for a no-deal outcome.\n\nDuring the Conservative leadership campaign, Mr Johnson said a no-deal Brexit would be \"vanishingly inexpensive, if we prepare\".\n\nWhen the grant scheme was unveiled, the then Financial Secretary to the Treasury, Mel Stride, said: \"I'm really pleased we are investing £8m to support the sector and help them expand their capacity as we prepare to leave the EU.\"\n\nIn a statement, HMRC said: \"HMRC has been preparing energetically for Brexit every day since the referendum.\n\n\"We will continue to remind and support businesses to prepare to leave the EU on 31 October 2019.\"\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 Derby\n\nFormer England captain Wayne Rooney will join Championship club Derby County as a player-coach in January from MLS side DC United.\n\nThe 33-year-old forward, who is Manchester United and England's all-time record goalscorer, will join the Rams on an initial 18-month contract.\n\nHe signed for Washington-based DC from Everton in July 2018 and has scored 23 goals in 41 league games.\n\n\"I'm sure I can make a big contribution,\" said Rooney.\n\nRooney has agreed to join Derby despite having more than two seasons left on his deal with DC United.\n\n\"While the decision to move home was a tough one, family is everything to us and we make this change to be closer to the ones we love back in England,\" he added.\n\n\"I am very excited about the opportunity Derby County have provided me with. I am looking forward to joining [Derby manager] Phillip Cocu, his coaching staff and the first-team squad from the start of January.\n\n\"I am equally excited to begin my coaching career at Derby County, working with both the first team and academy.\"\n• None Move 'not just about coming home' - Rooney\n\nDerby, who started their season with a 2-1 win at Huddersfield on Monday, are under the management of former Netherlands midfielder Cocu after Rooney's former England team-mate Frank Lampard left for Chelsea last month.\n\nCocu described Rooney's arrival as an \"exciting prospect\" and has \"no doubt he will have a positive impact right across the club\".\n\n\"The inspiration and motivation this can generate is massive for all of our players from the first team right through to the youngsters in the academy,\" said Cocu.\n\n\"To have a player with his leadership, skill, experience, character and work ethic will be huge for us.\"\n\nAs they announced the deal, Derby said Rooney would \"continue to develop his coaching credentials in preparation for a potential managerial career\".\n\nHowever, Rams chairman Mel Morris insisted the England legend would \"first and foremost\" be joining the club as a player.\n\n\"To have Wayne Rooney as a player, and equally as an aspiring coach, is incredible and I can only imagine the buzz this will generate amongst our supporters,\" he said.\n\n\"This is clearly an exciting signing for us. On the back of Wayne joining, we have just been offered a record-breaking sponsorship deal with our principal shirt sponsor.\"\n\nRooney suggested recently he was thinking about moving into coaching.\n\nSpeaking about his managerial aspirations at last week's MLS All-Stars match, he said: \"It's something I want to stay involved in; [my coaching badges] are going well.\n\n\"I'm obviously still a player and I want to continue to play. When the time is right I can go into coaching or management.\"\n\nHis move to Derby, albeit alongside continuing his playing career, means he is the sixth member of England's Euro 2004 squad to take their first steps in coaching or management in the past 15 months.\n\nSteven Gerrard has made a good start as a manager with Rangers, while his former midfield partner Lampard took the Rams to the play-off final last season before taking over at Chelsea last month.\n\nSol Campbell saved Macclesfield Town from relegation to the National League but Paul Scholes' spell at hometown club Oldham Athletic lasted just 31 days.\n\nJohn Terry moved into coaching with Aston Villa in October 2018 and helped the club back to the Premier League with victory over Lampard's Rams at Wembley.\n\nThe life and times of Rooney\n\nRooney made his professional debut for boyhood club Everton in August 2002 aged just 16 and became the Premier League's youngest scorer with a superb long-range goal against Arsenal before his 17th birthday.\n\nAfter a strong Euro 2004 he moved to Manchester United for £27m, then a world-record fee for a teenager.\n\nDuring 13 years with United he won the Premier League five times, the Champions League, the FA Cup and three League Cups.\n\nHis time with England was relatively less successful, although he did break Sir Bobby Charlton's long-standing record record of 49 goals before retiring from international football in August 2017.\n\nHe made a farewell appearance for the Three Lions against the United States in a friendly in November 2018 to finish with 53 goals in 120 appearances.\n\nRooney left Old Trafford in July 2017 to return to the Toffees on a two-year deal but moved to America after just one season.\n\nHe is the second-highest goalscorer in Premier League history, with 208 goals.\n\nFind all the latest football transfers on our dedicated page.", "Germany's Fiona Kolbinger has beaten more than 200 men to become the first woman to win the Transcontinental Race, cycling more than 2,485 miles across Europe in just over 10 days.\n\nThe cancer researcher, 24, endured thunderstorms, scorching heat and icy rain in the solo race, which took her from Burgas, Bulgaria to Brest in north west France via five other countries.\n\nAfter finishing in a time of 10 days, two hours and 48 minutes, Kolbinger says she could have \"gone harder\", adding: \"I could have slept less.\"\n\nBritain's Ben Davies took second place, reaching the finish more than 10 hours behind Kolbinger, in 10 days, 13 hours and 10 minutes.⁠\n\n\"I am so, so, surprised to win,\" said Kolbinger, who was one of 265 riders taking part, of which 40 were women. \"When I was coming into the race I thought that maybe I could go for the women's podium, but I never thought I could win the whole race.\"\n\nTranscontinental was launched in 2013, beginning in London and finishing in Istanbul, with Belgium's Kristof Allegaert winning the opening two events before Josh Ibett became the first British rider to win the endurance race in 2015.\n\nHow does the race work?\n\nCompetitors must follow strict rules throughout the route, which guides them through seven or more countries, including Austria, Bulgaria, Bosnia, Croatia, France, Italy, Kosovo, Serbia, Slovenia and Switzerland.\n\nRacers can choose their own route but must pass through four control points, taking them over varied terrain that includes gravel tracks and tough climbs, such as the zigzag road of the Timmelsjoch pass at an altitude of 2,474m in the South Tyrol at the border between Italy and Austria.\n\nThe cyclists are not allowed to ask anybody the way or receive technical support from anyone else, and must find their own food and accommodation.", "Fiona Onasanya had worked in commercial property law before being elected as an MP\n\nA former MP who was jailed for lying about a speeding offence has been struck off as a solicitor.\n\nFiona Onasanya was sentenced to three months in prison in January after being convicted of perverting the course of justice. She served 28 days.\n\nThe 35-year-old, who subsequently lost her seat as Peterborough MP, had worked in commercial property law.\n\nShe was struck off at a disciplinary tribunal which found she had \"failed to act with integrity\".\n\nThe panel of three people said she failed to \"uphold the rule of law and proper administration of justice\" and \"acted dishonestly\".\n\nShe also \"failed to behave in a way that maintains the trust the public places in her\", they added.\n\nMs Onasanya - the first sitting MP since 1991 to be jailed - continued to sit as an MP before she was removed by a recall petition.\n\nShe lost an appeal against her conviction in March, but at the Solicitors Disciplinary Tribunal panel she said: \"I maintain that I did not do an act tending or intending to pervert the course of public justice.\"\n\nThe MP's Nissan Micra was caught by a speed camera in Thorney\n\nPanel chairman Edward Nally said: \"That conviction, we are aware, has led to disastrous consequences for Ms Onasanya both personally and professionally.\n\n\"As a solicitor there are professional consequences that follow from a proven act of dishonesty that has been found by a jury after trial.\"\n\nShe was ordered to pay £6,562 costs to the Solicitors Regulation Authority.\n\nThe University of Hertfordshire graduate qualified as a solicitor in 2015 and stopped practising in 2017 when she was elected for Labour in Peterborough in 2017.\n\nHer Old Bailey trial had heard she had denied being behind the wheel when her car was spotted being driven at 41mph in a 30mph zone shortly after her election.\n\nHer brother Festus Onasanya was jailed for 10 months for perverting the course of justice after he falsely filled out her Notice of Intended Prosecution.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Much of the town lies beneath the reservoir's water level\n\nHundreds of residents evacuated last week amid fears the damaged Whaley Bridge dam could collapse are hoping to learn they can return to their homes.\n\nPeople living in about 50 homes in Horwich End, Derbyshire, were told on Tuesday that they could go home.\n\nBut most of the 1,500 evacuated residents are waiting for a further inspection to be carried out later.\n\nCrews pumping water from Toddbrook Reservoir have reduced water levels by more than nine metres.\n\nAt a public meeting police said a safe water level at the reservoir had been reached and engineers would further assess the damage to the wall before deciding whether to allow more people to return.\n\nWhaley Bridge residents have been told they must wait until experts confirm the site is \"absolutely safe\" before they can go home, and a decision will not be made until after noon.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nDeputy Chief Constable Rachel Swann said she was confident of \"good news\" to come for residents who are still displaced.\n\n\"We have obviously been pumping the water out and it has gone down at a fast speed,\" she said.\n\n\"We will keep draining the water until it is safe to stop.\"\n\nThe water is being taken out of Toddbrook Reservoir and being pumped into the River Goyt\n\nReturning resident Melissa Broxup said the last few days have been \"an absolute nightmare\", but said it was \"great\" to be allowed to go home.\n\n\"I can finally get some sleep,\" she said.\n\n\"I'm happy but on the other side I'm gutted for those who can't come back.\"\n\nMelissa Broxup said everyone in Whaley Bridge \"has been amazing\" since the evacuation\n\nRuth Ashton and her family, who were evacuated from Whaley Bridge on Thursday, are not among the first swathe of residents able to return home, but hope to get the green light.\n\n\"We don't know when we're going to go back,\" she said.\n\nFire crews said they had used miles of pipe work to pump out the water\n\nFire crews have been using 23 high-volume pumps to remove the reservoir's water since part of its spillway collapsed on Thursday following heavy rainfall.\n\nThe Canal and River Trust said the reservoir was at about 17% of its capacity.\n\nFirefighters used miles of pipes to remove water and engineers had built two roads to allow the pumps to be moved closer to the site.\n\nThe dam wall has been packed with 530 tonnes of aggregate, which is being cemented into place to reinforce the spillway.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. A look inside the operation to save the town of Whaley Bridge\n\nDaniel Greenhalgh, from the trust, said the dam would eventually be rebuilt, but told residents it would be \"a long-term construction project\".\n\n\"We are very much in the emergency phase now and we are currently repairing and carrying out construction work,\" he said.\n\n\"It could take 18 months, two years, three years, who knows?\"\n\nThe Met Office has issued a yellow weather warning for the area for Friday and Saturday.\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 man was pulled from the water off the coast of Borth y Gest in Gwynedd\n\nA man has died after getting into difficulty in the sea while reportedly trying to rescue his children.\n\nEyewitnesses said the man, 45, had been trying to save his daughter, 12, and son, aged six, at Borth y Gest near Porthmadog, Gwynedd on Monday.\n\nWitnesses say the man and his son had got into trouble, and that the boy clung on to his unconscious dad as they were pulled from the sea.\n\nOnlookers had tried to revive the man, who was from Manchester, on the beach.\n\nHe was then flown by coastguard helicopter to Ysbyty Gwynedd in Bangor, but he died later that night.\n\nThe Maritime and Coastguard Agency said multiple 999 calls were made to the coastguard.\n\nA spokesman added: \"The coastguard rescue team and the RNLI inshore lifeboat from Criccieth were sent, along with the HM Coastguard search and rescue helicopter from Caernarfon, North Wales Police and ambulance service.\n\n\"The man was recovered from the water by members of the public before being transferred by helicopter to Ysbyty Gwynedd.\"", "Terry Brazier had gone into Leicester Royal Infirmary for a routine botox injection in his bladder\n\nA man who was mistakenly circumcised when he went to hospital for a routine bladder procedure has been awarded £20,000 in compensation.\n\nTerry Brazier was meant to be having botox injected in his bladder when he went in for treatment at the Leicester Royal Infirmary last summer.\n\nHowever, there was a mix-up and afterwards Mr Brazier said he was told \"sorry, but we've circumcised you\".\n\nThe hospital said it was \"deeply and genuinely sorry\".\n\nThe 70-year-old said after the procedure he was left waiting for two hours until they broke the news and he just replied \"Oh, have you?\"\n\n\"What else could I say? I was stunned, I couldn't believe what they were telling me,\" he said.\n\nThe error was recorded as a \"never event\", which is a serious, largely preventable safety incident that should not occur if the available preventative measures are implemented.\n\nIt was one of eight made by Leicester's Hospitals in 2018, reported the Local Democracy Reporting Service.\n\nThe grandfather of two said he decided to take legal action after Leicester's Hospitals admitted in a letter the necessary checks had not been carried out.\n\nMr Brazier, of Hinckley, said: \"There's been the jokes but there is a serious side to all of this.\n\n\"It could have been even worse for someone else, someone could end up having the wrong body part amputated.\n\n\"This shouldn't have happened and more importantly I don't want it to happen again.\n\n\"You go into hospital and put your trust in these people, you don't expect mistakes to be made, especially not one like this.\"\n\nAndrew Furlong, medical director at University Hospitals of Leicester, said: \"We take events like this very seriously and carried out a thorough investigation at the time to ensure that we learnt from this incident and do all we can to avoid it happening again.\n\n\"Whilst money can never undo what happened, we hope this payment provides some compensation.\"\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.", "An artificial \"tongue\" which can taste subtle differences between whiskies could help tackle the counterfeit alcohol trade, according to engineers.\n\nThey have built a tiny taster which exploits the properties of gold and aluminium to test differences between the spirits.\n\nThe technology can pick up on the subtler distinctions between the same whisky aged in different barrels.\n\nIt can tell the the difference between whiskies aged for 12, 15 and 18 years.\n\nEngineers say the tongue \"tasted\" the differences with greater than 99% accuracy.\n\nAlasdair Clark, of the University of Glasgow's school of engineering, said: \"We call this an artificial tongue because it acts similarly to a human tongue - like us, it can't identify the individual chemicals which make coffee taste different to apple juice but it can easily tell the difference between these complex chemical mixtures.\n\n\"We're not the first researchers to make an artificial tongue, but we're the first to make a single artificial tongue that uses two different types of nanoscale metal 'tastebuds', which provides more information about the 'taste' of each sample and allows a faster and more accurate response.\"\n\nHe said the tongue could be used to \"taste\" virtually any liquid - not just whisky.\n\nDr Alasdair Clark with a scaled-up version of the materials that make up the \"tongue\", which are usually too small to see with the naked eye\n\nDr Clark added: \"In addition to its obvious potential for use in identifying counterfeit alcohols, it could be used in food safety testing, quality control, security - really any area where a portable, reusable method of tasting would be useful.\"\n\nWhisky was poured over a chequerboard pattern of the two metals - which act as \"tastebuds\" - and researchers then measured how they absorbed light while submerged.\n\nSubtle differences which were highlighted on the artificial tongue allowed the team to identify different types of the spirit.\n\nThe team used the tongue to sample a selection of whiskies from Glenfiddich, Glen Marnoch and Laphroaig.\n\nResearch was conducted by engineers and chemists from the universities of Glasgow and Strathclyde.\n\nTheir paper, titled 'Whisky tasting using a bimetallic nanoplasmonic tongue', is published in Nanoscale.", "The project to build a new children's hospital in Edinburgh will cost a further £90m.\n\nA new Audit Scotland report shows that £80m has been spent on \"enabling and equipment works\" at the site - beyond the deal with consortium IHSL.\n\nA further £11.6m was given to IHSL to end a contract dispute over construction standards at the hospital.\n\nThe extra costs mean the lifetime price tag of the new hospital could be more than £520m.\n\nNHS Lothian pulled the plug on the opening of the hospital in July and fears have been raised over its future.\n\nThe annual audit report for NHS Lothian - finished before the hospital's opening was indefinitely delayed - also reveals that the health board is facing a \"financial gap\" of £25.9m this year with a shortfall in excess of £80m projected by 2021/22, according to figures supplied by NHS Lothian.\n\nHealth secretary Jeane Freeman has said work to establish the extent of problems with ventilation and drainage at the unused hospital is \"on track\" and has ordered a number of inquiries into the situation.\n\nThe Royal Hospital for Sick Children had been due to open in autumn 2017\n\nBut Scottish Labour health spokeswoman Monica Lennon said: \"The government has clearly known for some time about the serious issues around governance and problems with the progress of the contract for the new Sick Kids hospital Edinburgh.\n\n\"With the publication of today's report, it begs the questions of why the health secretary hasn't previously mentioned it and how the situation has been allowed to progress to this stage.\n\n\"Concerns raised by trade union officials that the new Edinburgh Sick Kids could be ripped down before it even opens are unthinkable, and a public inquiry must get under way.\"\n\nMiles Briggs, the Scottish Conservatives health spokesman, said it was a \"jaw-dropping report which reinforces the SNP government's responsibility for the shambolic mess that has become the new Sick Kids hospital\".\n\nHe added: \"Both the SNP and Lothian Health Board signed off the contract that led to the failed dispute resolution and another £11.6m cost to the taxpayer.\n\n\"Beyond the financial mismanagement, the health board must reassure the public that its significant concerns about public, patient and staff safety have been resolved.\n\n\"The fact is that the SNP has made a series of astonishingly-expensive mistakes and children are still being treated in a facility that is well past its sell by date.\"\n\nThe corridors of the new hospital will remain empty for some time\n\nThe new children's hospital cost about £150m to build, but its full price tag over the next 25 years, including maintenance and facilities management fees, will be £432m.\n\nIn 2017, a dispute between NHS Lothian and IHSL began over standards of construction in relation to drainage, heater batteries, and void fire detectors.\n\nThe Audit Scotland report states that the health board felt \"the issues experienced were materially non-compliant with the original specifications\" but a planned legal challenge against the construction consortium was dropped in favour of paying IHSL £11.6m to settle the outstanding issues - a move approved by the Scottish government.\n\nNHS Lothian then took possession of the site from IHSL in February after it was signed off by an independent certifier and the monthly repayments - which would average about £1.4m a month - began in February under the Non-Profit Distributing (NPD) system, the Scottish government's version of controversial private financing models such as PFI.\n\nLast month, a full safety review into the delayed Sick Children's Hospital was ordered by the Scottish government. It also announced private consultants KPMG had been hired to establish the factors that led to the last-minute delay.\n\nCaroline Gardner, Auditor General for Scotland, said: \"We have continued to monitor events since the annual audit report was issued and will be taking a close interest in the NHS safety review's findings and KPMG's report on the governance of the project.\"\n\nNHS Lothian's 2019/20 operational plan, drawn up before the latest delay to the new children's hospital, outlines a financial gap of £25.9m but projections for subsequent years predict a shortfall of more than three times as much.\n\nAudit Scotland points out that the gap is \"largely in line\" with the three previous years where the board has reached a break-even position, but it points out this was \"thanks to an increasing reliance on one-off savings\".\n\nThe report concludes that \"at this stage, there are no clear plans to close the financial gap on a recurring basis\".\n\nSusan Goldsmith, finance director at NHS Lothian, said the board welcomed the report.\n\n\"It [the report] reviewed the settlement agreement between NHSL and IHSL and considered the project governance and value for money,\" she said.\n\n\"The report highlights that NHS Lothian provided evidence of detailed evaluation of the qualitative and quantitative options available to it before proceeding with the settlement.\n\n\"It also shows that the board sought technical advice and expertise throughout the project to ensure the safety of patients, staff and visitors remained the priority throughout.\"\n\nThe Scottish government has been approached for comment.", "The boy was flown to hospital \"as a priority\", London Ambulance Service said\n\nA six-year-old boy who fell from the 10th floor of the Tate Modern fractured his spine, a court has heard.\n\nThe French national, who was visiting London with his family, was found on a fifth-floor roof after he fell from the gallery's viewing platform on Sunday.\n\nProsecutors told Bromley Youth Court he also suffered a \"deep\" bleed to the brain and leg and arm fractures.\n\nA 17-year-old boy charged with attempted murder was remanded in custody.\n\nThe youth, who cannot be named because of his age, is due to appear at the Old Bailey on Thursday.\n\nProsecutor Sian Morgan said the boy had suffered the \"deep\" brain bleed as she gave details of his injuries during the short hearing.\n\nThe Met Police have said he is in a critical but stable condition.\n\nThere is no link between the suspect and the victim who was visiting London with his family, the force have said.\n\nEmergency services were called to the gallery, in Bankside near London Bridge Station, at 14:40 BST on Sunday.\n\nEmergency services were called to the Tate Modern on Sunday afternoon\n\nThe Tate Modern opened in the disused power station on the River Thames in 2000, while the extension with the viewing platform was opened in 2016.\n\nIt was the UK's most popular tourist attraction in 2018 with 5.9 million visitors, according to the Association of Leading Visitor Attractions.", "Dean Weymes said a deposit for a home of his own was also high on the priority list\n\nA man who has won £10,000 a month for the next 30 years has quit his job to pursue his dream career as a scriptwriter.\n\nDean Weymes, 24, said it felt \"unreal\" to have won the top prize on the National Lottery's Set For Life draw on 29 July.\n\nHe is the fourth person to win the top prize since the game launched in March, and the first of them to go public.\n\nMr Weymes, a film fan, said: \"I am 24 and I am now literally set for life.\"\n\nHe was playing for the first time online when his Lucky Dip ticket matched five main numbers and one Life Ball.\n\n\"Getting £10,000 every month allows me to start working through my bucket list,\" he said.\n\n\"I have always wanted to fulfil my dream to become a scriptwriter and this now allows me the freedom to do it.\"\n\nMr Weymes is the fourth person to win the top prize since the game launched in March\n\nMr Weymes, who worked shifts and weekends in the transport team at Amazon before the win, continued: \"I studied screen writing at university as this has always been a passion of mine but I have never been able to do anything with this.\n\n\"I can turn my passion into a job - something I never thought I could do.\"\n\nMr Weymes currently lives with his sister Sarah, who introduced him to Set For Life, in Peterborough.\n\nHe said a deposit for a home of his own was also high on the priority list, together with a family trip to Disney.\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. James Hodder says the London Bridge terror attack inquest was 'torture' for families\n\nThe families of victims killed in terror attacks should get legal aid for representation at inquests, says the partner of a London Bridge victim.\n\nKirsty Boden was stabbed when she went to help restaurant waiter Alexandre Pigeard in the June 2017 attack.\n\nHer partner, James Hodder, is petitioning for legal aid for families ahead of the start of the inquests into the Manchester Arena bombing.\n\nThe government has said representation was \"not necessary in all cases\".\n\nA Ministry of Justice spokesman said the process was a fact-finding, not adversarial, exercise.\n\nBut Mr Hodder, 32, told the BBC's Victoria Derbyshire programme it was in the public interest for families to have help with paying for legal representation at inquests that cover such large scale attacks.\n\n\"You have to relive the worst night of your life in extreme detail in a public forum, repeatedly,\" he said. \"It is literally torture for anyone that's been through that.\n\n\"At the end of that process, the government has then turned around to me and all the families of London Bridge and said you should pay... for all the legal fees you've racked up.\"\n\nMr Hodder launched his petition after the conclusion of the London Bridge attack inquests and ahead of the start of the inquest into the 2017 Manchester Arena bombing, which killed 22 people.\n\nHe said his family spent \"hundreds of thousands of pounds\" on legal representation for the inquest and he would have been left bankrupt had his lawyers not decided to waive some of their fees.\n\nBut he said it was those lawyers that raised important questions about the attack - including why vehicle-proof barriers were not in place on London Bridge.\n\nMr Hodder said: \"Can you imagine me, with no legal training, going to the Old Bailey, court number one - a very intimidating place - and standing up for two months arguing complex legal arguments and being able to do that by myself?\n\n\"It is through your barrister, your QC that the right questions are asked. It's in the public interest that you are given legal representation so you can engage with the process.\"\n\nKirsty Boden, an off-duty nurse, was dubbed the \"angel of London Bridge\" in the aftermath of the attack\n\nA Ministry of Justice spokesman said the government had reviewed the inquest process earlier this year.\n\nThey concluded inquests were not about apportioning blame, but establishing the truth and learning lessons, so representation was not always needed.\n\nThe department also said families were given a special status during inquests, meaning they did not have to make legal arguments, but could question witnesses themselves or request that coroners did so on their behalf.\n\nThe spokesman said the government was improving awareness of the availability of legal aid to support families.\n\nBut Mr Hodder called the government's position \"a pathetic excuse\" - arguing other parties involved had legal representation.\n\n\"The home secretary had three QCs representing himself and his office,\" he said.\n\n\"At least one of the killer's families also got legal aid.\n\nMr Hodder has now called for a meeting with the new Justice Secretary Robert Buckland.\n\n\"I want him to explain to me why he thinks it's not necessary to give state-funded aid to victims like us,\" he said.\n\n\"I'm going to explain to him why I think he's wrong so we can get this changed before the Manchester inquest starts.\"\n\nA petition calling on the government to provide legal aid to all families at inquests into terror attacks had gained more than 250,000 signatures as of Tuesday.\n\nThe Law Society - which represents solicitors in England and Wales - has criticised the assumption that families do not need representation at inquests, while state bodies do.\n\nLegal aid is the money provided by the government to pay the legal costs of people who cannot afford them.\n\nApplications to the Legal Aid Agency (LAA) - which is funded by the Ministry of Justice - are usually made via a solicitor who has a contract with the organisation, according to the Law Society said.\n\nThe body's head of justice, Richard Miller, said to get legal aid for an inquest, bereaved people must prove:\n\nBut he said it was a \"lengthy and inaccessible\" process, full of \"hurdles\".\n\nMr Miller added: \"We believe legal aid should be much more widely available for inquests, particularly where the state has legal representation.\"", "Leo Varadkar debated with a number of other politicians in west Belfast\n\nThe taoiseach (Irish PM) has said a vote on Irish unity in the wake of a no-deal Brexit would be \"divisive\" and \"not the right way forward\".\n\nLeo Varadkar was speaking during a debate at west Belfast festival Féile An Phobail.\n\nEarlier, he said he still believed a no-deal Brexit could be avoided.\n\nBut he said a border poll following a no-deal could result in some of the mistakes made during the partition of Ireland being repeated.\n\n\"I think it would result in some of the mistakes made 100 years ago, when partition happened, being repeated but just the other way around - a huge number of people, those from a unionist, British, Ulster background, being brought into a united Ireland against their will.\"\n\nHe added that without the necessary preparation, it would \"break down on sectarian lines\" and \"there's a chance it would be defeated\".\n\nMr Varadkar said if his government prepared for a border poll, it would be \"counter productive\" as he has made efforts to persuade unionists that the EU withdrawal agreement - including the backstop - has been about protecting the status quo and not an attempt to bring about constitutional change.\n\nAlthough she suggested something to the contrary in an interview a year ago, in recent months Sinn Féin president Mary Lou McDonald has been consistent that a no-deal Brexit should trigger a border poll.\n\nIt's no surprise that the taoiseach disagrees. He argues that Northern Ireland cannot be simply grafted on to the Irish Republic in the way that East Germany was assimilated into West Germany.\n\nInstead, Leo Varadkar says an entirely new state with a new constitution would be required, which takes into account the British identity of a sizeable section of its potential future population.\n\nAll this would require careful and lengthy preparation.\n\nMs McDonald turned this argument on its head at the leader's debate, insisting that if the Irish government isn't prepared for the prospect of a United Ireland, then it needs to get prepared.\n\nMr Varadkar was welcomed to Hillsborough Castle by Sir Jeffrey Donaldson and Niall Gibbons of Tourism Ireland\n\nEarlier on Tuesday, Mr Varadkar met business leaders to discuss Brexit as he visited Northern Ireland for the second time in four days following his participation in Belfast's Pride parade on Saturday.\n\nAt Hillsborough Castle he was greeted by DUP MP Sir Jeffrey Donaldson, as well as business and tourism officials.\n\nAsked during a press conference if he accepted a no-deal Brexit was now likely since the new UK prime minister had taken office, Mr Varadkar replied that a no-deal outcome could still be avoided.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. 'No deal can be avoided' - Taoiseach Leo Varadkar\n\nHe said this could happen by ratifying the current withdrawal agreement, agreeing a further extension to the deadline, or revoking Article 50: the mechanism that triggered the Brexit process.\n\nBoris Johnson has ruled out any of those options, however Number 10 has denied it is unwilling to negotiate with the EU and wants talks to fail.\n\nSpeaking later at Féile An Phobail, Mr Varadkar said it was \"not true\" that the EU was unwilling to talk to the UK government.\n\nHe added that while the EU said the withdrawal agreement was not open for renegotiation, it was prepared to discuss the political declaration with the UK.\n\nThe political declaration sets out the future relationship between Britain and the EU after Brexit.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe taoiseach also said on Tuesday that he understood some people had become \"weary\" of Brexit and feel the UK should leave the EU by 31 October \"come what may\".\n\nBut he added that, even if a no-deal outcome happens, negotiations would need to begin at some stage anyway to try to resolve the Irish border issue.\n\n\"Brexit is not a storm we weather or prepare for, it is a permanent change and that needs to be borne in mind,\" he said.\n\nMr Varadkar addressing the audience during a visit to the 174 Trust Interface Project in north Belfast\n\nHe also said it was \"not true\" that the EU was unwilling to talk to the UK government, contrary to what Michael Gove said.\n\nDUP deputy leader Nigel Dodds said his party wanted to see a \"sensible deal\" between the UK and the EU, but that this could only happen if \"Dublin and Brussels are in deal-making mode\".\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\nIreland's Finance Minister Paschal Donohoe also met Chancellor Sajid Javid in London for Brexit talks.\n\nHis visit came with continuing uncertainty over the status of UK-EU negotiations over Brexit.\n\nSpeaking on the BBC's Newsnight programme, Mr Donohoe said \"the prospect of a no-deal Brexit has grown\" since Boris Johnson became prime minister.\n\n\"I believe no deal is a very credible and material risk now and I believe Prime Minister Johnson feels differently about the relationship between the UK and EU and the future trust of that relationship [compared to] how Prime Minister May would have,\" he said.", "The US has officially named China as a \"currency manipulator\", a statement which will intensify tensions between the world's two largest economies.\n\nThe announcement by the US Treasury follows a sharp fall in the value of the Chinese yuan against the dollar.\n\nThe drop caught markets off-guard as Beijing usually supports the currency.\n\nLast week, China pledged to retaliate after US President Donald Trump vowed to impose 10% tariffs on $300bn (£246.7bn) of Chinese imports.\n\nOn Monday, the yuan passed the seven-per-dollar level for the first time since 2008, prompting Mr Trump to accuse China on Twitter of manipulating its currency.\n\nThe US Treasury department defines currency manipulation as when countries deliberately influence the exchange rate between their currency and the US dollar to gain \"unfair competitive advantage in international trade\".\n\nA weaker yuan makes Chinese exports more competitive, or cheaper to buy with foreign currencies.\n\nOn Monday, the People's Bank of China (PBOC) said the slump in the yuan was driven by \"unilateralism and trade protectionism measures and the imposition of tariff increases on China\".\n\nThe US government said Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin will now engage with the International Monetary Fund (IMF) \"to eliminate the unfair competitive advantage created by China's latest actions\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe move is largely symbolic because the US is already engaged in trade discussions with China and has implemented tariffs on the country's imports.\n\nHowever, it fulfils a presidential campaign promise by Mr Trump who pledged to name China a currency manipulator on his first day in office.\n\nThe decision rattled investors, with Wall Street's main stock market indexes recording their worst trading day for 2019. Asia markets extended losses on Tuesday, with the Shanghai Composite down 1.3% in afternoon trading.\n\nThe move doesn't change much. Not legally speaking.\n\nBut it is a big deal, accentuating just how fast things have gone south between the world's two largest economies.\n\nWhen the US Treasury labels a country a currency manipulator - as it has done here with China - the next step would normally be for negotiations to begin between the two countries. In this case, trade negotiations have already been going on for more than a year.\n\nThe process also opens the path for America to introduce tariffs. Again, that's already happening as part of Mr Trump's 'America First' approach to trade.\n\nUnder the designation, Mr Mnuchin is also expected to work with the IMF to address its concerns. It's not clear yet what that will yield.\n\nStill it's worth remembering that while the decision may not change much technically, it will have significant political ramifications.\n\nNobody thinks this will increase the odds of a compromise by the Chinese side when it comes to trade.\n\nSo don't be surprised if the prospect of a currency war further rattles investors' already frayed nerves.\n\nNo country has officially been named a currency manipulator by the US since Bill Clinton's administration did so to China in 1994.\n\nIn its announcement, the US Treasury said: \"China has a long history of facilitating an undervalued currency through protracted, large-scale intervention in the foreign exchange market.\n\n\"In recent days, China has taken concrete steps to devalue its currency, while maintaining substantial foreign exchange reserves despite active use of such tools in the past.\"", "Maria Stubbings was described by her brother Manuel Fernandez as \"a fabulous human being\"\n\nA man who sued police over the \"emotional impact\" of his sister's murder has won a fraction of the £900,000 damages he sought.\n\nManuel Fernandez, 52, claimed the death of Maria Stubbings led to his redundancy and caused \"depression, feelings of injustice and anger\".\n\nMs Stubbings, 50, was strangled with a dog lead in 2008 by Marc Chivers, who had killed a previous girlfriend.\n\nEssex Police has been ordered to pay £20,000 of \"non-pecuniary damages\".\n\nSpeaking after the ruling, Mr Fernandez said it \"brings closure to an 11-year battle to extract the truth\".\n\nThe businessman took Essex Police to court after they were found to have made \"serious\" failures leading to his sister's death.\n\nThe force had originally offered £50,000 to settle.\n\nManuel Fernandez, pictured in an earlier BBC interview, was not in court to hear the judgement\n\nMs Stubbings, from Chelmsford, was killed in December 2008 by her ex-partner Chivers who met her after his release from a 15-year prison sentence in Germany for killing another woman in 1992.\n\nA report published in 2013 by the Independent Police Complaints Commission - now the IOPC - said the force \"should have been far more proactive\" to protect her.\n\nJudge Alper Riza QC, speaking at Central London County Court, ruled out awarding Mr Fernandez for loss of earnings, saying he lost his job \"in consequence of a perceived need\" by his employer, technology firm FICO.\n\nHe rejected \"as naive\" Mr Fernandez's claim his \"only interest is justice, not money\".\n\nMr Fernandez said he was \"not surprised\" by the judgement, adding that he \"disagreed with a lot of the findings\".\n\n\"In one respect, I think there's a major victory in that we paved the way for other victims of failures of the state to claim for non-pecuniary damages,\" he said.\n\nNon-pecuniary damages are compensation for losses that cannot be calculated in monetary value - such as pain or grief.\n\nMarc Chivers was given a whole life sentence in 2009 for Ms Stubbings murder\n\nThe judge agreed the police's \"failure to protect life was serious\" and that \"caused him even to say that he holds them more responsible than the murderer\".\n\nIn total, Mr Fernandez was awarded £20,000, plus £850 for therapy for his depression.\n\nThe force had accepted Mr Fernandez was an \"indirect victim\" of its failure to protect Ms Stubbings, and said it had since increased the size of specialist teams working on domestic abuse cases.\n\nAn Essex Police spokeswoman said: \"We are acutely aware and sympathetic to the effects losing a loved one in such tragic circumstances can have on their relatives.\n\n\"Since Maria's tragic death Essex Police has made strides to improve it's safeguarding of people subject to domestic abuse and learn from the circumstances leading up to her murder.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Burundi has contributed little to rising temperatures, but will be hit hard by some of the effects\n\nThe impoverished African nation of Burundi comes top of a list of the world's most food-insecure countries says Christian Aid.\n\nThe charity argues that Burundi and others are now keenly feeling the impacts of climate change on their food production systems.\n\nBut Burundi's contribution to rising temperatures is marginal, say experts.\n\nIn fact, the annual carbon emissions of one Briton is equal to the CO2 produced by over 200 Burundians.\n\nScientists and government officials from all over the world are meeting in Geneva this week to consider how climate change impacts the land and how the lands and forests impact the climate.\n\nTheir detailed report will be released on Thursday.\n\nHowever, researchers at development charity Christian Aid have put together a study showing how that climate change is now having a disproportionate impact on the food systems of the countries that have done least to produce the carbon emissions that are driving up temperatures.\n\nTheir study says that the top 10 most food insecure countries all generate less than half a tonne of CO2 per person, and in total just 0.08% of global emissions.\n\nAs well as Burundi, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Madagascar, Yemen and Sierra Leone make up the top five countries.\n\nThe rest of the top 10 includes Chad, Malawi, Haiti, Niger and Zambia.\n\nBurundians produce 0.027 tonnes of CO2 per person per year. Someone living in Saudi Arabia produces the same as 718 people in Burundi. The equivalent number for the US would be 581 and for Russia 454.\n\nThe report's authors draw a clear link between rising global temperatures and increasing food security issues.\n\n\"Our research shows that rising concentrations of CO2 in the atmosphere are reducing the nutritional quality of the food we eat and that the most vulnerable people to these impacts are those least responsible for rising global CO2 concentrations,\" said Dr Samuel Myers, principal research scientist at Harvard University's department of environmental health.\n\n\"From this, and other research, what is quite clear is that climate change is not only a global health crisis, it is a moral crisis.\"\n\nOther researchers say that the report on food insecurity is a warning for rich and poor alike, that climate change is having profound effects on our ability to feed the planet.\n\n\"These are warning signals that all of us ignore at our peril, for agriculture ultimately is one of the most threatened of our economic sectors and most fundamental for the healthy functioning of our societies and our communities,\" said Dr Doreen Stabinsky, professor of global environmental politics at the College of the Atlantic in Maine, US, who was not involved with the study.\n\n\"Both the Christian Aid report and the upcoming IPCC Special Report on Climate Change and Land begin to make clear how serious a threat this is, and how urgently we need to act.\"", "Alana Cutland was studying natural sciences at Robinson College in Cambridge\n\nThe body of a Cambridge University student who fell from a light aircraft in Madagascar has been found.\n\nAlana Cutland, 19, from Milton Keynes in Buckinghamshire, fell from the plane on 25 July.\n\nLocal police chief Sinola Nomenjahary confirmed Ms Cutland's body had been found in a rural area on Tuesday.\n\nMs Cutland was studying natural sciences at Robinson College and was on an internship on the African island at the time of her death.\n\nEarlier this week Colonel D'y La Paix Ralaivaonary said Ms Cutland had been frustrated and \"disappointed\" with her research project.\n\nHe said within days of arriving she had seemed to conclude that the project would not be a success.\n\nMs Cutland was on an internship in Madagascar when she died\n\nMs Cutland had contacted her supervisor on her second day in Madagascar and at least twice more after that, the colonel said.\n\nPolice previously said Ms Cutland fell to her death after opening a plane door, but the reason why she did so remains unclear.\n\nThey ruled out a possible adverse reaction to anti-malaria medication she was taking, but have since said the theory is \"still on the table\".\n\nIn a statement released through the Foreign Office last week, Ms Cutland's family said they were heartbroken at the death of \"a bright, independent young woman\".\n\n\"She was always so kind and supportive to her family and friends, which resulted in her having a very special connection with a wide network of people from all walks of her life, who we know will miss her dearly,\" her family said.\n\nDr David Woodman, from Robinson College, said they were \"deeply shocked by the news of Alana's death\".\n\n\"In her two years here, she made a huge contribution to many different aspects of life in the college - she will be sorely missed by us all,\" he said.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Dame Barbara Windsor has met Boris Johnson several times, including when he appeared on EastEnders in 2009\n\nDame Barbara Windsor has called on Prime Minister Boris Johnson to \"sort out\" care for people who have dementia.\n\nThe former EastEnders star, who has Alzheimer's, launched an open letter with her husband Scott Mitchell to coincide with their appointment as ambassadors for Alzheimer's Society.\n\nMinisters in England have been promising to publish plans on social care reforms since 2017.\n\nThe government said Mr Johnson was \"committed to fixing\" the care system.\n\nAlzheimer's Society said since March 2017 people in the UK with dementia have spent more than one million unnecessary days in hospital \"despite being well enough to go home\" - at a cost to the NHS of more than £400m.\n\nDame Barbara, who turned 82 on Tuesday, urged others to join her in signing the open letter calling for a \"long-term funding solution to end the social care crisis\".\n\n\"[Me and my husband are] lucky to have amazing support but my heart goes out to the many, many people who are really struggling to get the care they so desperately need,\" Dame Barbara wrote.\n\nSorry, we're having trouble displaying this content. View original content on YouTube The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. YouTube content may contain adverts.\n\nMr Mitchell added: \"Seeing the true state of our social care system has shown me how people, who aren't as fortunate to be in the same position as myself and Barbara financially, are facing a constant battle to get what they need. I want to do everything I can to help them.\"\n\nThe open letter will be delivered to Downing Street in September, the charity said.\n\nA spokesperson from the Department of Health and Social Care said it was working to make the UK the \"best country in the world\" in which to live with dementia.\n\nThey added local authorities had been given nearly £4bn in extra funding for adult social care this year.\n\n\"The prime minister has been clear he is committed to fixing the social care system and will outline proposals as soon as possible,\" the spokesperson said.\n\nIn England and Wales, one in eight death certificates cite dementia. Alzheimer's disease is the most common of the diseases that cause the condition.\n\nGlobally about 50 million people are currently living with dementia - but cases are predicted to soar to 130 million by 2050 as populations age.\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. MPs talk about the level of abuse and threats they receive both online and offline\n\nMPs have told the BBC about the threats and abuse they face, including being sent pictures of decapitated bodies, being surreptitiously filmed and having dog mess smeared on their door.\n\nSNP MP Dr Lisa Cameron said she had put in place extra security so her children could play safely in her garden.\n\nConservative Scott Mann said someone threatened to nail bomb his office.\n\nThe Commons Deputy Speaker said some MPs had told him they would not run for office again because of safety fears.\n\nThe BBC carried out a survey of MPs in writing and by phone between May and July this year. Out of a total of 650, 172 responded.\n\nOf those, 139 said either they or their staff had faced abuse in the past year.\n\nMore than 60% (108) of those who replied said they had been in contact with the police about threats in the last 12 months.\n\nSeparate analysis carried out by academics at the University of Sheffield for BBC News looked at levels of abuse directed at MPs on Twitter.\n\nMPs from across the House of Commons and with differing views on issues like Brexit told the BBC about threats they had experienced.\n\nDr Cameron said as soon as she was elected in 2015 she started to receive death threats and pictures of decapitated bodies.\n\nOn the advice of police, she cordoned off part of her garden so that her children had somewhere safe to play with increased security.\n\n\"It makes you wonder whether you've put your family inadvertently at risk as a result of your choices,\" she said.\n\nEarlier this year, she secured a four-year non-harassment order against a constituent who branded her a child abuser on Twitter.\n\nSpeaking about a nail bomb threat made to his office, Mr Mann told the BBC: \"In any other profession, an HR team would be in complete meltdown with some of this stuff.\"\n\nLiberal Democrat Tom Brake said he had to have people removed from his constituency office.\n\nAnother Conservative, Bob Blackman, whose constituency office was the target of arson, said he had enhanced security around his home because of attacks on his car.\n\nOthers reported being surreptitiously filmed in the supermarket and having dog mess left on their door.\n\nThe SNP's Lisa Cameron said she feared for her children's safety\n\nIn May, 23-year-old Jack Renshaw was jailed for life for planning to murder Labour MP Rosie Cooper.\n\nThe judge at the Old Bailey said the neo-Nazi had wanted to \"replicate\" the murder of MP Jo Cox, who was stabbed to death in June 2016.\n\nMany MPs told the BBC they expected to receive abuse but were concerned about its impact on their staff and family.\n\n\"I've had staff members resign because of the pressure of such threats,\" the Labour MP John Mann said. He said his wife and daughter had both been threatened with rape.\n\n\"The systems are not coherent, police coordination is not coherent. It should be one specialised unit who deals with it, not multiple police forces across the country,\" he added.\n\nJack Renshaw was jailed for life earlier this year for planning to murder an MP\n\nIn May, Metropolitan Police Commissioner Cressida Dick told a Commons committee threats to MPs were at \"unprecedented levels\", with the number of crimes reported more than doubling in 2018 - from 151 to 342.\n\nMet Police Commander Adrian Usher, who leads policing at the Palace of Westminster, called it a \"dramatic rise\" and said there was \"no doubt\" that since the middle of 2018 \"we have seen a more febrile atmosphere in political debate\".\n\nLord Evans, who chairs of the Committee on Standards in Public Life, said the survey demonstrated there was \"an urgent and serious problem with intimidation and abuse... and it's getting worse\".\n\nAlthough the police response had improved, he said, it was \"patchy\" and needed to be \"centrally co-ordinated as a national threat\".\n\nLabour MP Yasmin Qureshi said: \"When all they say is 'you're a traitor and you shouldn't have a British passport,' or 'you're an ISIS sympathiser and you should be sent back to whichever Muslim country so you can be raped and abused,' I do think that you can't then engage with these people.\"\n\nShe called on social media companies to spend more on monitoring as the University of Sheffield researchers said abuse appeared to be reaching new levels of intensity.\n\nThe team from the Department of Computer Science studied the replies MPs received to their tweets in the first half of this year.\n\nThey found the proportion of abusive replies increased significantly month on month, and by June, just under 4% of all replies were abusive in nature.\n\n\"We've not seen that kind of figure before,\" said Prof Kalina Bontcheva, who led the team. She added that the top 10 most targeted MPs received almost half of all abuse.\n\nDavid Lammy told BBC News: \"I will not compromise what I say in public life and let the bullies win.\n\n\"But it saddens me greatly that this is a growing stain on our national democracy. It needs to be challenged and it needs to be dealt with.\"\n\nDeputy Speaker of the House of Commons Sir Lindsay Hoyle said the BBC's findings were the \"tip of the iceberg\".\n\nHe said complaints he received from MPs in his capacity as chair of the Consultative Panel on Parliament Security reached the same level in the first six weeks of 2019 as they used to see in a year.\n\n\"When MPs turn around to me and say 'I'm not going to stand again, I don't feel safe, I don't need this,' we're in danger of losing democracy in this country,\" he added.", "Sadie Davies became the first woman and fourth person to complete the nine-hour swim\n\nA teacher has become the first woman to complete the 15-mile swim from Hartland to Lundy island.\n\nSadie Davies, 45, completed the feat in just under nine hours, making her just the fourth person to do so.\n\nMrs Davies, from Bideford, Devon, undertook the \"tough\" challenge on Friday to raise money for environmental charity Surfers Against Sewage.\n\nShe began the swim at 05:00 BST, describing the \"hardest part\" as the initial plunge into the frigid water.\n\n\"The moon was in the sky, first light was just coming through. It was a beautiful moment, but also quite a tough moment.\"\n\nThe extreme tides and swell that characterise the stretch of water posed significant challenges throughout the swim.\n\nMrs Davies began the swim in partial darkness, describing the scene as \"eerie\"\n\nA support boat was in charge of keeping track of her in the waves, as well as feeding her to keep her energy and body temperature up throughout.\n\nSea sickness caused by the swells meant she was forced to consume energy gels, after being unable to \"keep [her] banana down\".\n\nThe island is a \"very important\" place for Mrs Davies, spending large parts of her childhood there with her father, a local scuba diver.\n\nThe family scattered their father's ashes on the island after he died.\n\n\"It felt like I was swimming out there to him today,\" she said.\n\nMrs Davies has become the fourth person to be named on the Cyril Webber Cup\n\nAfter completing the swim she was presented with the Cyril Webber Cup, named after the first person to attempt the swim in 1952.\n\nMr Webber was unable to make it, due to seasickness, although his companion, Egyptian army Captain Hassan Abdel Rahim, was able to finish.", "About 30 animals have been evacuated from a pet shop during a major fire in Perth.\n\nMore than 50 firefighters are tackling the blaze at the St Catherine's Retail Park.\n\nThey were initially called to a fire alarm at the Pets at Home store at 02:13 but they discovered a \"large, well developed fire\".\n\nA B&M store and a vacant shop were also damaged and photographs of the scene show a roof has caved in.\n\nPolice said there were no casualties and a veterinary practice located in the pet shop confirmed on social media that no animals were hurt.\n\nThe Scottish Fire and Rescue Service said their teams remained at the scene.\n\nIt is not clear where the fire started.\n\nPolice Scotland said it was working with the fire service to establish the \"full circumstances\" of the fire.\n\nDet Insp Jennifer Reid said: \"Around 30 animals have now been evacuated from Pets at Home and the majority of the retail park has now reopened.\n\n\"I would urge anyone who has information to contact us and would like to thank the businesses at St Catherine's for their support.\"\n\nA post by Vets4Pets Perth on social media - which has a veterinary practice within the Pets at Home store - said that no animals have been hurt \"due to having their own individual housing and fans\".\n\nB&M said: \"Following an incident last night in our Perth store the store is currently closed.\"\n\nThe fire also caused temporary disruption to train services. ScotRail tweeted earlier on Saturday to say some lines were closed due to the fire.\n\nHowever, at about 08:00 they were informed that it was safe to reopen the line and said that services were returning to normal.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by ScotRail This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Inpe said it had detected more than 72,000 fires so far this year\n\nSwathes of the Amazon rainforest in Brazil are on fire.\n\nThe sky in São Paulo turned black due to smoke drifting from the fires 2,700 km (1,700 miles) away. Politicians and environmental activists are taking a stand against Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro, blaming the fires on his policies.\n\nBut it's a complex story, and online discussion of it has been riddled with misinformation, misleading photos and errors. We asked you to send us your questions on the Amazon fires, so we could fill in the gaps and clear up some common myths.\n\nWe chose a sample of the many questions we received and where we didn't know the answer, we enrolled the experts.\n\n1) Why are there fires? Is it Bolsonaro's men doing it to clear rainforest for mining/farming etc? - Alex\n\nBrazilian journalist Silio Boccanera argues that some fires at this time of year - the dry season in Brazil - are to be expected. But many of the fires burning through the Amazon are believed to have been started deliberately.\n\nPresident Bolsonaro has not condemned deforestation and supports clearing the Amazon for agriculture and mining.\n\n\"So it's a combination of natural phenomena with locals feeling comfortable enough to do it because the government has not made any effort to prevent it,\" Mr Boccanera says.\n\nHe thinks that smaller groups of people are more responsible for starting the fires than big corporations selling beef and soy, which could run the risk of being boycotted.\n\nAlthough the big corporations are not innocent, they are better informed, he says.\n\nBut smaller groups - who benefit from destroying areas of the forest for farming - have gone ahead because they have not been stopped by authorities, Mr Boccanera explains.\n\nAlthough deliberate fire-starting has always been a problem, it has never been seen to this extent. Mr Boccanera says perpetrators now know that if they are caught, they won't be punished.\n\n2) The number of fires seems like a bad metric, because the size of fires varies. Is there year-on-year data on the total area affected? - Peter\n\nThis is a fair point. On 20 August, Brazil's satellite agency said there had been an 84% increase in the number of fires compared with the same period in 2018. It's the highest number since 2010, but significantly less than in 2005 during the same period, when the number of fires was at its highest.\n\nThis year, the satellite agency detected more than 74,000 fires in Brazil between January and 20 August. Most of those were in the Amazon, and the New York Times reports most of those fires were on land already cleared for agricultural use.\n\nBut does this mean more land is being burned than ever before? After all, we could be looking at tens of thousands of tiny fires.\n\nThe truth is we don't know yet, but the evidence points towards more land being consumed by fire.\n\nWe don't have the full picture at the moment, partly because many fires are still burning. We asked Copernicus, the European Union's earth observation programme, and they said the best way to assess how destructive these fires are is to look at how much carbon dioxide is being released.\n\nSo far this year, the equivalent of 228 megatonnes has been released, according to the Copernicus Atmosphere Monitoring Service. This is the highest level since 2010.\n\nAt some point in the future, there should be more detailed satellite information about how much land had been burned, but that information isn't available yet.\n\n3) What's being done to stop the fires? - Paul\n\nPresident Bolsonaro is coming under growing political pressure to end the burning of the Amazon - France's President Emmanuel Macron even threatened to scrap a huge trade deal between the European Union and South America as a result.\n\nBut warnings by themselves don't put out fires, and a few days after the satellite data was revealed, Brazil's government stepped up its response.\n\nMr Bolsonaro has called in the armed forces, who have more resources to tackle the fires, including the use of helicopters and aeroplanes to drop water.\n\nHowever, journalist Silio Boccanera believes the attitude at the top of government needs to change. Before, people believed deforestation needed to be prevented. But now \"people are burning without fear\", he says.\n\n4) The coverage on this subject has only come to light recently because of the #PrayforAmazonas and #PrayforAmazonia hashtag. Why have you not reported it? - Jake\n\nBut the extent of the fires has only recently become clear. It was not even being reported very widely in Brazil.\n\nThe first real sign vast burning was taking place came when a daytime blackout, caused by smoke from the Amazon, hit Sao Paulo on Monday, 19 August.\n\nWe first published an article a day later, just a few hours after our colleagues at BBC Brasil, and we've kept updating it ever since.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe #PrayforAmazonas hashtag was first used in the early hours of Wednesday, UK time. This, and others such as #prayforrondonia have become trending topics around the world.\n\n5) Is this a natural, healthy way the forest self-clears for new growth? - Lucy\n\nAs Lucy suggests, there is a case to be made that some fire-adapted forests benefit from fires - they can help clear the forest and allow trees space to grow stronger.\n\nBut this is not the situation right now in the Amazon, says Yadvinder Malhi, Professor of Ecosystem Science at the University of Oxford. \"These are fires that we are concerned about,\" he says. The humid forests of the Amazon have no adaptation to fire and suffer immense damage. Almost all fires in humid forests are started by people.\n\nHe believes the driving force behind the fire is human rather than natural.\n\nWhile statistics show that 2016 also saw a significant number of fires in the Amazon, this was considered a \"drought year\"- when there is naturally less rain so the forest is drier and therefore more fire-prone.\n\nBut 2019 has not been a drought year. Professor Malhi says there is such a large number of fires because people have lit them.\n\n6) How quickly does the Amazon rainforest regenerate after a fire? - Emily\n\n\"The forest takes around 20-40 years if it's allowed to regenerate,\" says Prof Malhi.\n\nBut any fires that are currently burning will leave the surviving trees more vulnerable to drought and repeated fires.\n\nProf Malhi is worried that if the Amazon is hit by fires every few years large parts of it will shift to a degraded shrubby state.\n\n\"Once you've had multiple fires there's the chance of permanent damage,\" he says.\n\n7) If this current trend were to continue at its present rate, how long would the Amazon rainforest area survive? - Christopher\n\n\"We are at an early stage where we can still do lots to save the forest,\" says Prof Malhi. About 80% of the Amazon is still intact.\n\nBut he says that climate change and deforestation are a dangerous combination. A reduction in rainfall would create dry conditions for fires to spread.\n\nIf 30-40% of the Amazon was cleared, then there would be a danger of changing the forest's entire climate, he says.\n\nIn the years before 2005, Brazil had an extremely high rate of deforestation.\n\n\"If Brazil were to return to that, it would take around 50-60 years to deforest 40% of the Amazon,\" Prof Malhi says. \"But in eastern and southern Amazonia it would take only 20-30 years to reach that threshold.\"\n\n8) What percentage of oxygen does the Amazon supply? - Tom\n\nOur colleagues from BBC Reality Check spent a whole day getting to the bottom of this.\n\nMany claim on social media that the Amazon produces about 20% of the world's oxygen. It's widely quoted - by campaign groups and well-known figures, including Emmanuel Macron and footballer Cristiano Ronaldo.\n\nBut academics say this is a very common misconception, and that the figure is less than 10%.\n\nOxygen is released by plants during the process of photosynthesis, where carbon dioxide and water are converted into energy in the form of carbohydrates using sunlight.\n\nA large proportion of the world's oxygen is produced by plankton, explains Professor Malhi. He says of the oxygen produced by land-based plants, about 16% comes from the Amazon.\n\nBut this isn't the whole story. In the long run, the Amazon absorbs about the same amount of oxygen as it produces, effectively making the total produced net zero.\n\nProfessor Jon Lloyd from Imperial College London says although the Amazon produces a lot of oxygen during the day through photosynthesis, it absorbs about half of it back through the process of respiration to grow. Further oxygen is used up by the forest's soil, animals and microbes.\n\nThe fires are also emitting carbon monoxide - a gas released when wood is burned and does not have much access to oxygen.\n\n9) Will the smoke from these fires have an effect on global weather in future months? - David\n\nProf Malhi says the immediate effect of the fires will be on the climate of South America. Reduced rain fall is likely, leading to a more intensive dry season.\n\n\"The carbon emission could contribute to global warming,\" he adds, but the longer term global impact is \"more difficult to pin down\".\n\nIn the long-term, scientists have told the BBC the fires could make the Paris climate target more difficult to achieve. The global treaty aims to limit average temperature rise to well below two degrees Celsius to avoid dangerous climate change.\n\n10) How are these fires affecting the indigenous people? - Samantha\n\nIn just one week in mid-August, 68 fires were registered in indigenous territories and conservation areas, the majority in the Amazon, according to Jonathan Mozower from Survival International, which campaigns for indigenous rights.\n\n\"It's hard to overstate the importance of these forests for indigenous peoples,\" he says. \"They depend on them for food, medicines, clothing and a sense of identity and belonging.\n\nBut the incentives to steal these resources are high and \"sadly it's not a question of one or two rogue actors\", Mr Mazower says. He says this could be the \"worst moment for the indigenous people of the Amazon\" since the military dictatorship, which ended in the 1980s.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Members of Brazil's indigenous Mura tribe vow to defend their land\n\nThis article initially stated there was a record number of fires in Brazil this year. After more satellite data was made accessible, it has been updated to reflect the fact the fires are instead the worst since 2010.\n• None Amazon fires: How bad have they got?", "Mr Johnson will meet Mr Trump for one-on-one talks on Sunday\n\nThe UK will not \"retreat\" from the international community as it leaves the EU, Boris Johnson has said.\n\nThe prime minister was speaking ahead of this weekend's G7 in France, his first international summit as leader.\n\nThere Mr Johnson will discuss his plans for Brexit with European Council President Donald Tusk and hold trade talks with US President Donald Trump.\n\nOn Friday, he and Mr Trump spoke by phone and discussed \"foreign policy issues and global trade\".\n\nThe G7 meeting in Biarritz - a get together of most of the leaders of the world's largest economies - comes with just over two months until the UK is scheduled to leave the EU on 31 October.\n\nMr Johnson will meet Mr Tusk on Sunday in their first face-to-face meeting and spell out his absolute commitment to getting the UK out of the EU by that date.\n\nAhead of the summit he insisted the UK would be an \"energetic partner\" on the world stage after Brexit.\n\nMr Johnson said: \"Some people question the democratic decision this country has made, fearing that we will retreat from the world. Some think Britain's best days are behind us.\n\n\"To those people I say: you are gravely mistaken.\"\n\nHis comments come after French President Emmanuel Macron suggested a post-Brexit trade deal with the US could see Britain as a \"junior partner\" in a position of \"historic vassalisation\".\n\nMr Trump, who has consistently praised Mr Johnson, has predicted a speedy US-UK trade deal after Brexit.\n\nBut the British side is adamant it wants to secure the right deal rather than a quick agreement.\n\nIn any future trade deal, the UK wants protections for the NHS and animal welfare standards, but also wants to cover issues such as opening up agricultural markets, services and public procurement.\n\nA UK government spokesman said: \"Of course we want to move quickly, but we want to get the right deal that works for both sides.\"\n\nA No 10 spokesman said Mr Johnson and Mr Trump \"looked forward to speaking further\" during one-on-one talks on the sidelines of the summit on Sunday morning.\n\nMr Johnson met with Mr Macron at the Elysee Presidential Palace this week\n\nThe G7 summit follows a hectic week of diplomacy for Mr Johnson, who visited Paris and Berlin in an effort to persuade the EU to amend the withdrawal agreement it reached with his predecessor Theresa May.\n\nThe prime minister wants to renegotiate the Irish backstop - a key Brexit sticking point which is part of the agreement and aims to prevent a hard border on the island of Ireland after Brexit. The EU has consistently ruled this out.\n\nIf implemented, the backstop would see Northern Ireland staying aligned to some rules of the EU single market, should the UK and the EU not agree a trade deal after Brexit.\n\nMr Johnson previously said that would mean \"signing away\" the UK's \"economic independence\".\n\nAt a news conference on Wednesday with Mr Johnson, German Chancellor Angela Merkel suggested an alternative to the backstop might be achievable, adding that the onus was on the UK to find a workable plan.\n\nBut the next day Mr Macron said it was \"indispensable\" to preserving political stability and the single market.\n\nAfter visiting his counterparts, Mr Johnson said there was \"new mood music\", but reaching a new deal would not be \"a cinch\".\n\nHe has insisted the UK will leave the EU by the end of October, whether or not a new deal is reached.\n\nMeanwhile, Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn accused the prime minister of putting the UK at \"the mercy\" of a US administration that \"threatens peace, prosperity and the future of our planet\".\n\nHe also accused G7 governments of being key drivers of global inequality and called for them to do more to tackle climate change and reduce inequality.\n\n\"The UK should use its position in the G7, on the UN Security Council and the international financial institutions to promote policies to tackle the climate emergency and that are proven to reduce inequality and improve lives around the world, including universal healthcare, education and social security,\" he said.\n\n\"Instead, this weekend we'll see the ugly spectacle of our prime minister pursuing his Trump-first policy, putting us at the mercy of a US administration that threatens peace, prosperity and the future of our planet.\"\n\nThe G7 summit, which comprises the UK, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan and the United States, runs from Saturday to Monday.\n\nIssues on the agenda include the global economy, tackling inequality and responding to the challenges of the digital age and the rise of artificial intelligence.\n\nOn Friday, Mr Macron - who is hosting the summit - and Mrs Merkel said the ongoing fires in Brazil's Amazon rainforest must be discussed among the G7 leaders this weekend.", "Students in NI received their GCSE results on Thursday 22 August\n\nGCSE maths candidates in Northern Ireland needed very high marks to get a top grade this year.\n\nIn the maths qualification set by the CCEA - the NI exams board - the uniform grade boundary for an A* was 397 marks out of 400.\n\nIt is the highest grade boundary for the top grade among all GCSE subjects set by CCEA in 2019.\n\nThere was an overall fall in the proportion of A* grades awarded in Northern Ireland at GCSE this year.\n\nAlmost one-in-10 GCSE entries in 2018 got the top grade, but that fell to 7.7% of entries this year.\n\nThat was mainly due to a change in the grading system in Northern Ireland to align it to changes in English grades.\n\nA new grading scale to include a C* grade was also introduced in Northern Ireland this year.\n\nThe introduction of new grades in England has meant the NI A* grade boundary has moved higher\n\nThe Council for the Curriculum, Examinations and Assessment (CCEA) previously said the number of A* star grades it awarded would be reduced in 2019.\n\nThis is because the A* has been aligned to the new top grade nine in the new GCSE marks system in England.\n\nChief executive of CCEA, Justin Edwards, said that had also led to a change in how grade boundaries were set.\n\n\"The method of setting the A* grade boundary has changed from 90% of the available marks to a formula based on the number of candidates achieving a grade A and above,\" he said.\n\n\"For the GCSE mathematics, as with all GCSE subjects, CCEA set the A* grade boundary according to the requirements of the new formula.\n\n\"The A* boundary has, as expected, moved higher and the number of learners achieving an A* has declined as a result.\"\n\n\"The changed GCSE mathematics A* boundary differentiates the very highest-performing candidates and aligns to the grade nine.\"\n\nMr Edwards also said it was difficult to compare grade boundaries this year with those set at GCSE in 2018 because of the changes.\n\nGrade boundaries are weighted and may not reflect the actual number of raw marks needed to get a particular grade.\n\nFor example, the A* grade boundary for English language was 358 marks out of 400, while it was 357 for physics, 358 for biology and 373 for chemistry.\n\nIt was 366 out of 400 in Irish and 363 out of 400 in learning for life and work.\n\nIn English literature the A* grade boundary was 181 out of 200, while in further maths it was 182 out of 200.\n\nIn business studies it was 270 out of 300, in geography 273 out of 300 and 279 out of 300 in journalism.", "Amitpal Singh Bajaj and his wife Bandhna had been staying at the five-star Centara Grand Hotel\n\nA British man died in a fight at a Thai hotel after telling another guest to keep the noise down as his wife and son tried to sleep, his family said.\n\nAmitpal Singh Bajaj, 34, from London, complained about noise from the next room at the five-star Centara Grand Hotel in Phuket.\n\nHis family claims a man forced his way into their room via the balcony early on Wednesday and strangled Mr Bajaj.\n\nHis wife said her husband \"sacrificed his life\" to save her and their son.\n\nThe Foreign Office confirmed it was assisting a family in the area.\n\nIn a statement Mr Bajaj's wife Bandhna Kaur Bajaj said: \"My husband sacrificed his life to save my son's life and mine. He will always be our hero.\"\n\nMrs Bajaj, also 34, told how the attacker \"barged\" into their room naked and \"just started charging at my husband\".\n\n\"My husband tried to block the man and move me and my son away. As the man was kicking, punching and just, beating him up, my husband told me to please leave and save our son,\" she said.\n\nMrs Bajaj, from Southall, said she grabbed the couple's two-year-old son Veer Singh and fled the hotel room to look for help.\n\nShe ran down a staircase and hid under a tree with her son in her arms while calling the reception from her mobile to tell them what had happened.\n\nShe said: \"I asked the reception to please make sure someone attends to my husband - 'please give him some medical help, I'm very scared, I've escaped'.\n\n\"I could still hear [the attacker] screaming. I didn't want to be attacked.\"\n\nAn ambulance and police then arrived at the hotel, in the Karon part of the city, and took Mr Amitpal to Patong Hospital where he was confirmed dead.\n\nThe Norwegian Foreign Ministry confirmed that a Norwegian citizen has been arrested in Thailand and is being provided consular assistance.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Hundreds of thousands of mainly Muslim refugees are living in camps in Bangladesh\n\nBangladesh has said it will harden its stance towards Rohingya refugees currently in the country.\n\nHundreds of thousands of people, mainly Muslims, are living in refugee camps after fleeing violent persecution in neighbouring Myanmar.\n\nForeign Minister Abdul Momen told the BBC that Bangladesh was unable to keep bearing the economic burden but did not say exactly how policy would change.\n\nOn Thursday, officials arranged for buses to start repatriating refugees.\n\nHowever, the scheme failed as it depended on people returning to Myanmar voluntarily. When it was time for the buses to leave, not a single person turned up.\n\nMr Momen accused some non-government groups of persuading refugees not to leave.\n\nMore than 740,000 Rohingya refugees in Bangladeshi camps fled Myanmar's Rakhine state in August 2017, after a military offensive against the Muslim minority there.\n\nUN investigators have said the violence would justify the prosecution of top generals in Myanmar for \"genocide\".\n\nMyanmar continues to deny its troops carried out ethnic cleansing and genocide.\n\nAbdul Momen, pictured earlier this year, said the government would toughen its stance\n\nMr Momen's comments came as two Rohingya men were shot dead by police during a gunfight at a refugee camp in Bangladesh's Cox's Bazar district.\n\nOfficials told AFP news agency that the two refugees were accused of killing Omar Faruk, an official from the ruling Awami League party, on Thursday.\n\n\"Both men died as they were rushed to a hospital\" from Jadimura refugee camp, local police inspector Rasel Ahmad said.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.", "When US couples want to adopt a baby they often post ads online and search social media for women pregnant with a child they aren't planning to keep. Sometimes it works - but there are dangers. One young scammer has tricked countless couples, just for fun, by stealing the identity of a pregnant woman.\n\nIt's early February 2019, half way through one of the coldest Michigan winters in recent history. The grey sky threatens snow.\n\nThirty-three-year-old Samantha Stewart is in her pyjamas at home in Wixom, just outside Detroit, doing Sunday morning chores. There's a full washing basket, a house to be cleaned and dogs to walk. It's just after 11:00 when she receives a direct message request on Instagram from @ashleymamabear2019.\n\nIt's not anyone she knows - but she accepts the message and starts reading.\n\n\"Are you looking to adopt still?\" are the opening words.\n\nIt's six years since Sam had a hysterectomy. Throughout her 20s she underwent a series of operations in an attempt to control her endometriosis, a condition that causes the womb lining to grow in other parts of the body and can lead to crippling pain. They didn't work. By the time she was 27 it had become clear she would have to lose her womb - and the chance of carrying a child.\n\nIt took time for Sam to recover from the stress and the heartache. Though she longed for a family, it was only at the end of last year that she and her husband, Dave, felt ready to contact an adoption agency and begin the laborious process of adopting a child. They passed their home study, an assessment of their suitability to be parents, and underwent training. Then they set up an Instagram account, @findingbabystewart, posting requests for birth parents to contact them, illustrated by an empty cot in a freshly painted nursery.\n\nSam examines @ashleymamabear2019's Instagram feed. Ashley is 16, from a small town outside Atlanta, Georgia.\n\nShe posts mirror photos, love notes to her boyfriend Chris, and selfies with Snapchat filters. Her hair is straight and honey-blonde and a backwards cap usually covers his. But there is one thing that sets them apart from thousands of other American teen couples - the occasional shots of Ashley's figure, her face beaming as Chris places his hand against her swollen, round belly. This is the baby Ashley is offering to Sam and Dave.\n\nThe women begin messaging, but not before Sam has excitedly called Dave, her parents and Dave's parents. She doesn't spend much time wondering why they look so happy about the pregnancy, bearing in mind that it is unwanted. They're young, she thinks.\n\n\"Are you guys talking to any other adoptive families?\" ventures Sam. \"I'm just scared of being hurt. I want to be a mom so badly.\"\n\nAshley's life had been harrowing. Her parents were abusive, her mother killed herself. She was raped by her brother at the age of 14, resulting in a premature baby, a little girl who was placed for adoption. The adoptive parents shut Ashley out, preventing her from seeing her child. It would be hard to write a bleaker story.\n\nThe contact is constant. Sometimes Chris takes over texting because Ashley is feeling sick. When they talk on the phone, Sam finds Ashley's conversation immature, makes her excuses and hangs up after half an hour. They text about adoption plans late into the evening.\n\nThe temperature has now dropped to -5C, and a light snow is falling. Sam is exhausted from messaging. She explains that she's heading out for dinner, and so won't be on her phone for a few hours. She passes on her adoption agency's details.\n\nBut then, suddenly, Ashley becomes abusive. She tells Sam she would be a bad parent. Shocked and hurt, Sam stops replying. The adrenaline that has kept her going all day suddenly drains away, and she crashes on to the sofa.\n\n\"It's just - it's devastating. There's no other way to describe it,\" she says later, remembering this moment.\n\nSam assumes she will never hear from Ashley again. She and Dave consider deleting their Instagram posts appealing for pregnant women to contact them. Sam begins to feel that adopting a baby will take a long, long time.\n\nThen, exactly a month later, as icy patches of ground are beginning to thaw, a message arrives. Ashley tells Sam the baby has been born early, at 31 weeks. Exasperated, Sam tells Ashley to contact her adoption agency, or leave her family alone: \"Have a nice life and don't contact me.\"\n\nIt only takes 14 messages, though, for Ashley to persuade Sam that there really is a premature baby waiting for adoption. She names the medical centre where she gave birth and Sam and Dave get ready to fly there. Ashley sends a photograph of her cuddling a premature baby, wrapped in a white towel, wires trailing from the small body. It's captioned, \"She's yours.\"\n\n\"Omg I'm literally losing it. I can't wait to meet her,\" Sam replies. \"I can't wait to spoil that pretty little baby!\"\n\nThere are three days of non-stop talking. Then Ashley blocks Sam on Instagram. When Sam calls, Ashley doesn't pick up.\n\nThere is no explanation, just silence.\n\nDistressed, frantic, but already sensing that Ashley has been getting a thrill out of tormenting her, Sam posts a drawing of a broken heart on Instagram.\n\n\"They don't ask for money, they don't ask for material things like a lot of scams do. They want your time, emotional investment and quite frankly someone to talk to while promising you what you are desperate to find: your future child,\" she writes in the caption.\n\n\"We need to talk about this.\"\n\nThe comments start coming in. Sam is not the only one whom Ashley has tricked.\n\nIn many countries, social media would be the last place anyone would look for a baby to adopt. In the US, though, most states allow something called private adoption, where couples hoping to adopt and birth mothers find each other independently. The arrangement is then formalised by an attorney or an adoption agency.\n\nWhen Sam and Dave first signed up at their adoption agency, they were number 21 on the list of prospective adoptive parents. The agency warned them to expect a long wait and said they might get quicker results advertising themselves on the internet.\n\nPregnant women who don't intend to keep their child have the same choice - to approach adoption agencies, or search for adoptive parents online. Apparently, many feel that by making contact with parents directly they have more control.\n\nAt the time of writing, #hopingtoadopt is hashtagged 44,892 times on Instagram; #waitingtoadopt is mentioned 18,844 times and #hopefuladoptiveparents 10,758. Images of letter boards jostle for the attention of birth mothers: No Bump, Still Pumped, We're Adopting; Share This Photo and Help Our Family Grow; We are Officially a Waiting Family.\n\nThere aren't enough babies to go round, though, so many of these thousands of hopeful parents will be disappointed. The problem has got worse since countries that once provided large numbers of babies for adoption, such as Russia, China and Guatemala, clamped down.\n\n\"Most countries have ceased to allow the adoption of their children internationally, so the raw numbers have plummeted over the last 10 to 15 years by huge margins,\" says Adam Pertman, president of the National Centre on Adoption and Permanency.\n\nUnplanned pregnancies have also become less common in the US - and the reduced stigma around single parenthood means that, when they do occur, the mothers are more likely to keep the child. The National Council for Adoption's last survey estimates that less than 0.5% of babies are placed for adoption.\n\nCouples hoping to adopt may already have spent years trying to conceive, and even if they haven't, the long wait for a baby to become available for adoption can be frustrating and lead to impatience.\n\n\"Urgency creates desperation, and desperation creates sometimes decisions not being made with enough thought,\" says adoption specialist Dawn Smith Pleiner.\n\n\"Even though in the back of your head you know that it's probably not real, there's that glimmer, that feeling that there's a 1% chance it could be,\" says Sam. \"And you go with it anyway.\"\n\nThe comments stack up under Sam's broken-heart Instagram post. In Utah, Kristen and Michael Johnson have also been contacted by Ashley and Chris, though this time the teenagers from Georgia have used a different account. In Kentucky, Ashley Middleton and her husband Brian have received messages from this second account. Another woman says she has been contacted by both Instagram accounts. (It is most often women who are approached - two couples say that Ashley refused to speak to their male partner.) The photos all feature the same pregnant blonde-haired young woman from Georgia, offering up her child.\n\nKristen starts getting messages from Ashley on 14 March, the day after - unbeknown to her - Ashley has ghosted Sam.\n\nOver rambling, intense phone-calls, Ashley urges Kristen to visit her 31-week-old prematurely born baby. \"One time, I talked to her for four hours. It's a long time. I don't even talk to my own mother for that long, ever,\" says Kristen.\n\nAshley hits the Johnsons at a particularly vulnerable moment.\n\nThey've been waiting two-and-a-half years to adopt one more child. \"We were so tired and sick of trying to adopt, and wanting it to be done,\" Kristen says. \"We got highly emotional about it instead of thinking more rationally.\"\n\nKristen books flights to Atlanta for $500. In the frantic scrum to find a babysitter, she realises that Ashley hasn't sent any documents from the hospital. She rings to double check. It's a brief phone call: the charge nurse tells her there is no 15-year-old called Ashley, no father called Chris - and no baby.\n\n\"My stomach just dropped and I was literally sick. We cried a lot. My husband cried,\" she says.\n\n\"We couldn't believe, after everything we had been through, that we still fell for it.\"\n\nThere was a Facebook group where couples shared stories like this - the internet has made it easier to carry out a scam, but also harder to sustain one. The names used by many scammers all over the country are shared and circulated quickly.\n\nAshley, it turns out, uses a number of names and accounts: Alyssa and Josh, Ciara and Daniel, Mackenzie and Matt. Each couple's story has familiar elements, either the same abusive parents, the mum lost to suicide or the connection to Georgia. Usually, it's all three. Messages are incessant, phone calls come at strange times, and conversations drag out over hours. Sometimes the ruse lasts for a day, sometimes a few. It typically ends in tears.\n\nSam thinks the scammer's real name is Melissa, because a couple of the fake Instagram accounts have tagged someone with this name. Melissa has square-framed glasses, tangled red hair, and looks as though she's in her late 20s.\n\nKristen isn't convinced. She has a hunch the scammer is a spiteful middle-aged woman. Both agree, though, that the perpetrator is probably based somewhere not far from Atlanta, because she knows the area so well.\n\nOther victims have different theories. Some wonder if the scammer is in fact a group of people, because of the amount of time it must take to send so many messages - perhaps a group of anti-adoption activists, whose aim is to keep hopeful parents busy, to demoralise them and to hinder their search for real birth mothers.\n\nThe same image of Ashley, posted to a different Instagram account\n\nJuli Wisotsky, an adoption attorney based in Athens, Georgia, says she too has had her time wasted.\n\nIn March, an adoption agency from another state asked her to talk to a pregnant girl who had matched with one of their couples. Although Juli was about to go on a platinum wedding anniversary trip with her husband, she delayed it to talk. She and the 15-year-old exchanged messages through the night, as the girl claimed she was being admitted to hospital.\n\nDespite her 23 years' experience in the job, it took Juli nearly 24 hours to realise she was being conned. The final giveaway was an ultrasound image, stripped of all identifying details.\n\n\"It's partly my fault as I'm a very nurturing person. So I'm trying to nurture her and help her,\" Juli says.\n\nAnd the same scammer has remained active.\n\nSince March, Juli says, she and her colleagues have been called by families from Georgia, Colorado, Texas, Alaska, New York, Minnesota, Alabama, Illinois and Utah. All of the families were approached on Instagram by a young woman from Georgia.\n\n\"The emotional scams took me - when I was younger - completely off-guard,\" says Dawn Smith Pleiner, who has run the Vermont-based Friends in Adoption agency for nearly four decades.\n\nLong before the arrival of the internet, women would call for \"hour-long-talking-with-your-best-friend conversations\", she says, and it was \"never ever to do with money - never\".\n\n\"Then you realise that the due date is long gone, and you're still talking.\n\n\"There are so many lonely people out in this world today that just want some attention.\"\n\nIt's a scam that's hard to prosecute. Most states still don't have the legal tools.\n\nSince September 2018 there have been laws in place in Georgia to stop financial adoption fraud, but not the emotional kind. \"It's very frustrating,\" says Juli Wisotsky.\n\nOne option could be to raise a civil case for intentional infliction of emotional distress. \"But, does somebody want to get involved in a lawsuit for that?\" she asks. \"Or do they just want to let it go and try to heal and grieve what is a loss to them? Even though there was no baby there, they thought there was a baby. It's a grief.\"\n\nTraumatised couples regularly report this scam to the FBI's Internet Crime Complaint Centre. In a statement, the FBI told the BBC that although they were aware of emotional adoption scams, these were still uncommon. None of the parents have received a follow-up call.\n\nBut it's not only the potential parents who have been hurt, there's another person too. Because Ashley isn't just a fake Instagram profile, cobbled together from some images and an active imagination. Ashley is a real 22-year-old, who lives in Georgia. Her name is Ashley King - and her identity has been stolen.\n\nSam, playing detective, finds Ashley's profile easily - the pictures are all public. She messages her to warn her that her photographs are being used to trick people. And she points out that whoever runs the fake Instagram accounts knows intimate details about her life, her husband and her baby.\n\nAshley's voice lowers as she describes the shock of seeing photos of her newborn child on another person's Instagram account.\n\n\"The woman had loads of people thinking that they were going to adopt my daughter,\" she says. \"It's a really scary thought. Why would someone do that?\"\n\nShe immediately files a report with Gwinnett County Police. What the scammer says about Ashley's childhood is completely false, she explains, but when it comes to her daughter the impostor even knows what hospital she was born in.\n\n\"King stated the only information that was incorrect on her daughter was that she was listed as being born premature at 2lb 8oz when in reality she was born at 2lb 12oz,\" reads the police report.\n\n\"All other information was correct.\"\n\nSam thinks it's likely that the fake Ashley knows the real one.\n\n\"I don't live in a very big town but if you picked a random woman out of my town and expected me to know her life story, I wouldn't know it,\" she says. \"You would only know those details if you actually knew someone.\"\n\nBut Ashley has no idea who it might be, and this makes her nervous.\n\n\"Now I have to look over my shoulder making sure this woman isn't watching my kid, because she knows about where I lived,\" she says. \"It's really scary.\" (Ashley and her family have since moved house.)\n\nGeorgia has a law on identity theft, but it's debatable whether it is applicable in this case. A few states have already passed legislation to tackle online impersonation, but prosecutions may not succeed if no money has changed hands. Who can put a value on a broken heart?\n\nGwinnett County Police say they are not currently investigating.\n\nIt must be hard for the scammer to remember exactly what she has said to different couples. When Sam is first contacted it's by someone pretending to be 16 years old. But a month later, Ashley says she will get her dad to call the adoption attorney \"since I am only 15\".\n\nThe scammer tells another couple that her middle name is Lorraine. Later, they suggest Olivia Lorraine as a potential name for the baby. She then replies, \"Olivia is my middle name! Sounds perfect to us!\"\n\nBut these are not her biggest mistakes.\n\nTo call or text hopeful parents, the scammer uses non-fixed Voice over IP (VoIP) telephone numbers, the technical name for calls that go over the internet, created through companies such as Google or Skype. These numbers require very little information on sign-up, making them difficult to trace.\n\nBut just occasionally she gets careless. One of the numbers used to contact Juli and Kristen isn't an internet number. It's a real mobile number, from Georgia, and registered to someone called Harry.\n\nType the number into Google and it immediately pops up - on a very pink website selling homemade slime. Thick, gluey and intensely squishable, slime was the toy of 2017 (the same year the site was last updated). The shop sells slime for $5, shipping is the same again. It also, inexplicably, sells six cupcakes for $18. And there is an email address with a name - Gabby.\n\nThe homepage of the slime website\n\nWhen I call the number, it doesn't go well. After my first question Gabby goes silent. Then she hangs up.\n\nJessica Simmons, a mother of two adopted children, both of whom she found on Facebook, knows the name Gabby, and that telephone number, all too well.\n\nIn August 2016, a young woman contacted her on Facebook, saying she was pregnant. She began to fill in forms with Jessica's adoption agency, giving her name and address: a small town outside Atlanta. Her age: 23.\n\n\"After about a month of talking to her every day, I reached out to one of her family members by private message,\" says Jessica. The family member told her this was not the first time Gabby had pretended to be pregnant, and not to trust her. There was \"nothing anybody could do to stop her\" Jessica was told.\n\nThree years later, a pregnant 16-year-old from Georgia called a Google Voice number on a Minnesotan couple's adoption page. As they talked with her for hours, they inadvertently recorded part of a conversation.\n\nListening back to the recording, the young woman's nasal voice still gets to the wife, making her anxious. \"She spoke very low and quiet,\" she remembers. \"She was very needy and demanding and it made me very uncomfortable.\"\n\nAs well as the fake Instagram accounts, Gabby also has a personal one. Photos of a curly-haired girl with glasses sit alongside slime-making videos, in which her voice can be heard - it's the same as in the recording, and it's the one I heard on the telephone.\n\nNothing has been posted on this Instagram account since June 2018. There is no mention of babies, adoption or pregnancy. The list of people she is following is revealing, however. It includes Ashley King.\n\nBy the time I speak to Ashley a second time, she herself has come to suspect Gabby may be the woman impersonating her, after stumbling across a bizarre series of messages from her on Facebook, most of which she doesn't remember having received.\n\nA small selection of the images sent to Ashley King\n\nThe first message congratulates Ashley on the birth of her daughter. Then they keep coming, asking for baby pictures and updates on the child's health, month after month. At one point Gabby says:\n\n\"Can you send me a video of yourself saying, 'Hey'? Then I'll leave you alone.\n\nAlthough that request goes unanswered, Ashley does occasionally send short, polite replies. And once or twice she even responds to Gabby's strange demands - for example by sending a photo of her post-baby stomach. A photo which, of course, ends up on Instagram.\n\nAt the time, Ashley points out, she had a newly born premature baby and passed much of her time in a sleep-deprived haze. It was only later that she realised just how many messages she'd received from this random Facebook friend, whom her husband had known vaguely when they were younger.\n\n\"When I was going through them, I was like, 'Oh my goodness, I should've seen this a long time ago, when it first started happening,'\" says Ashley. \"I was very angry at myself. How I could not have caught it before?\"\n\nJuli Wisotsky can't quite believe it when she ends up on the phone with Gabby again on 31 July, four months after their first conversation. From her law office, she takes a call from a 15-year-old named Mackenzie on behalf of a couple in New York, with a story she feels like she's heard before. After one minute 20 seconds the girl hangs up and blocks her number.\n\nThis call comes more than two weeks after I started messaging Gabby and asking questions about her conversations with couples hoping to adopt.\n\nA number of fake accounts Gabby used were reported to Instagram by her victims, but they remained online for months, until the BBC started asking Instagram why. Then they were deleted. An Instagram spokesman said: \"Keeping people safe on Instagram is one of our biggest priorities. We're aware of this issue and will disable any further accounts in violation of our policies. We encourage anyone to report content they think is against our guidelines using our in-app tools.\"\n\n\"It is breaking people's hearts,\" says Juli. \"It's just wrong and it's evil. And that's a strong word to use. But I believe it is.\"\n\n\"The more I think about her and who she probably is - she probably has a very sad existence,\" says Sam. \"Part of me thinks that she might not even realise what she's doing is wrong.\"\n\nSam just wishes she would stop.\n\nIt is another rainy Sunday in Wixom, this time in May. An Instagram message from a private account comes through to Samantha Stewart's phone. \"Here we go again,\" she thinks.\n\n\"I was super suspicious. But it was much different on the phone with her,\" remembers Sam. The woman \"asked all the right questions. She wanted to know about me and my husband. About our house.\"\n\nThe next day, the sun comes out. Sam and Dave drive for three-quarters of an hour to meet the young woman with their adoption agency worker.\n\nTwelve days later the couple are at home with their new baby, Parker.\n\n\"The instant he took his first breath everything was healed,\" Sam sobs.\n\n\"Every bit of heartache and worry, it all disappears. I wouldn't want this type of scam or anything like this to deter people. Because even though it's horrible, you won't regret it. It won't matter.\n\n\"You bring your baby home and none of it matters.\"\n\nSam changes their Instagram handle to @wefoundbabystewart.\n\nListen to her report We were promised a baby on Instagram on BBC World Service's Trending.\n\nAnd find out what happened next: Can this adoption hoaxer be stopped?", "The man was found in St Mary's Avenue South in Southall\n\nA man in his 60s has been stabbed to death in west London.\n\nEmergency services were called at 18:40 BST on Saturday to St Mary's Avenue South in Southall, where the man was pronounced dead, the Met Police said.\n\nA man in his 30s has been arrested on suspicion of murder and is in hospital under police guard being treated for minor injuries.\n\nAccording to a witness who gave the injured man first aid, he was stabbed after leaving a pub.\n\nA man in his 30s has been arrested on suspicion of murder\n\nRaj Grover, who lives near the victim, said he was getting ready to go to his own birthday party when the man knocked on his front door.\n\n\"He was ringing our doorbell,\" he told the Press Association. \"He rang the bell and I went out, my son was there, he was shouting 'Dad, come out'.\n\n\"I went downstairs and saw he was full of blood, and then I was running to pick up a towel.\n\n\"I put the towel on and I was pressing to stop the blood, then my wife came out, we called the ambulance and the police.\"\n\nMr Grover, who runs a local business, said the victim asked him to call his wife, who then arrived at the house.\n\n\"His wife, she mentioned he went to the pub, I don't know what happened in the pub just around the corner, he came back, was on his way back and somebody stabbed him twice, stabbed him two times with a knife on the stomach and on his side,\" he said.\n\nThe Reverend Dave Bookless, the vicar of St Mary's church which is opposite the street, said the killing had come as \"a huge shock\" as the area has \"quite a village feeling\".\n\n\"A lot of people are saying this is not the kind of area this happens,\" he said.\n\nScotland Yard said a crime scene remained in place but some local roads had reopened.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Police attempting to control another weekend of protests in Hong Kong use tear gas and charge demonstrators who had constructed barricades across the city's streets.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Jay Powell or Xi Jinping: Which chairman is Trump's enemy?\n\nPresident Donald Trump says he has \"hereby ordered\" American companies to leave China, after Beijing announced plans to slap new tariffs on US goods.\n\nThe White House did not immediately say what authority the president had to compel private firms to quit a country.\n\nPresident Trump announced a 5% increase on tariffs on Chinese imports, after China unveiled plans for duties of 10% on $75bn (£61bn) of US goods.\n\nThe latest salvos in the trade war sent global financial markets tumbling.\n\nThe Dow Jones Industrial Average lost more than 620 points, or 2.4%, while London's FTSE 100 and the German DAX also turned negative.\n\n\"In the spirit of achieving Fair Trade, we must Balance this very unfair Trading Relationship,\" President Trump tweeted.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\n\"Our great American companies are hereby ordered to immediately start looking for an alternative to China,\" Mr Trump tweeted earlier on Friday.\n\nChina's new tariffs will range between 5% and 10% and apply to more than 5,000 goods coming from the US.\n\nAgricultural goods, crude oil and small aircraft are among the targeted items.\n\nMr Trump hit back, tweeting that $250bn of Chinese imports, currently taxed at 25%, would from now on be taxed at 30%.\n\nBeijing also said it would revive a 25% tariff on US car imports that it lifted earlier in 2019 in a goodwill gesture as the two countries tried to negotiate a trade agreement.\n\nCarmakers warned that the tax would put US jobs at risk.\n\n\"When these tariffs were initially imposed by China in 2017, American exports of finished vehicles dropped by 50%,\" said John Bozzella, who represents car manufacturers. \"We can't let that happen to American workers again.\"\n\nOn 1 August, President Trump unveiled a further 10% tariff on $300bn of Chinese goods, blaming China for not following through on promises to buy more American agricultural products.\n\nThat tariff was expected to be introduced on 1 September, but less than two weeks later Mr Trump delayed that date to 15 December, partly due to concerns it might hit Christmas shoppers.\n\nChina said it planned to impose its new tariffs in two stages on 1 September and 15 December.\n\nMr Trump also turned his fire on Friday against the head of the US central bank after he spoke out about the economic risks of a trade war with China.\n\nThe president questioned whether Federal Reserve chairman Jerome Powell was a greater \"enemy\" than China's leader Xi Jinping.\n\nAt a symposium of central bankers in Jackson Hole, Wyoming, on Friday Mr Powell warned that trade tensions were hitting the global economy.\n\nHe also said the Fed - the world's most powerful central bank - didn't have a \"rulebook\" to deal with the fallout.\n\nDonald Trump said the US economy was \"strong and good\"\n\nThe White House moved to play down the new tariffs. President Trump's trade adviser, Peter Navarro, told CNN that the Chinese duties were \"well signalled,\" adding: \"This isn't breaking news.\"\n\nHe said that talks between the two countries were on schedule and argued that the tariffs were not hurting Americans. \"Consumers aren't feeling the pain [of the trade war] and we are focused on making sure they [China] feel the pain not us.\"\n\nHe added that the economic slowdown was the fault of the US Federal Reserve, which has drawn criticism from Mr Trump for not making bigger cuts in interest rates.\n\nMr Navarro said the central bank should lower the benchmark interest rate further to stimulate growth.\n\nUS bond markets have recently sent warning signals of an impending recession. However, equities are trading at near record highs and employment is at its highest level in almost 50 years.\n\nMr Trump also said on Twitter on Friday that the economy was \"strong and good\", while \"the rest of the world is not doing so well\".\n\nStock markets in the US fell following news of China's tariffs, but then recovered, only to fall again in response to Mr Trump's tweets.\n\nThe Dow Jones Industrial Average closed down 2.4% at 25,629. The S&P 500 dropped 2.6% while the Nasdaq was 3% lower.", "Jared O'Mara has been an independent MP since resigning from Labour in 2018\n\nMP Jared O'Mara has been arrested on suspicion of fraud, according to multiple sources.\n\nThe independent MP for Sheffield Hallam was arrested at the same time as his chief of staff Gareth Arnold, the BBC's Next Episode Podcast found.\n\nElectronic equipment was confiscated in the South Yorkshire Police inquiry, the BBC also understands.\n\nMr O'Mara did not respond to requests for comment while Mr Arnold said he had \"no comment\".\n\nBoth have been released under investigation.\n\nSouth Yorkshire Police would not confirm details of either man's arrest.\n\nThe Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority said it was a \"matter for the police\".\n\nMr O'Mara said he was \"taking time out for mental health treatment\" in July and promised to resign at the end of summer recess after allegations of sexual misconduct towards staff.\n\nConstituents have complained that case work has not been dealt with in the MP's absence, allegations Mr Arnold denies.\n\nResponding to the latest news, Sinead Parkinson, a member of the Hallam Constituents Facebook group, told the BBC: \"We are pleased that an investigation is under way but we are still a constituency unrepresented and action needs to be taken to correct that.\"\n\nDuring its investigation, the BBC uncovered staff running the MP's office without the proper security clearance required by Parliamentary authorities.\n\nAfter the investigation was published, the constituency office was closed and staff formally given four weeks' notice.\n\nThe Treasury confirmed Mr O'Mara had, in recent weeks, given formal notice of his intent to resign in September.\n\nWhen the BBC has visited the constituency offices, on a number of occasions, they were found to be empty.\n\nYou can listen to The BBC's Next Episode Podcast on BBC Sounds here.", "PC Andrew Harper was married just four weeks before he was killed while on duty\n\nA top police chief has urged the most senior officers in England, Scotland and Wales to come together to find ways to make frontline policing safer.\n\nMartin Hewitt, the chair of the National Police Chiefs' Council (NPCC), called an urgent meeting for all chief constables to discuss officer safety.\n\n\"If we can't protect our people, how can we protect the public?\" he said.\n\nIt comes after recent violent attacks on officers and the death of PC Andrew Harper while investigating a burglary.\n\nThe summit, which will be held in early September, will be the first time the chief constables have ever come together outside of their usual quarterly meetings.\n\nThe top officers will share lessons from the recent attacks on their frontline officers as part of a discussion \"to see if there is anything more we can do to tangibly improve their safety\", Mr Hewitt said.\n\nThe Police Federation, which represents rank and file officers, has also been asked to give its input.\n\nAll frontline officers in one force have been offered Tasers after violence against emergency services\n\nAlthough Mr Hewitt said it was important not to have \"knee-jerk\" reactions to events, he said: \"Levels of violence are an increasing concern across the country and attacks on our officers have gone up.\"\n\n\"It is the responsibility of each chief constable to do all they can to keep their officers as safe as possible,\" he added.\n\nLast week, Northamptonshire Police announced it planned to arm all of its frontline officers with Tasers.\n\nDays later it was joined by Durham Constabulary, which said every frontline officer who wanted one would undergo training to use the stun guns.\n\nEarlier in the year, Kent Police announced it was quadrupling the number of officers carrying Tasers to around 1,500.\n\nSome studies have linked the increased use or presence of Tasers with an increase in hostility between police and the public.\n\nCh Con Giles York - vice chair of the NPCC - told BBC Breakfast: \"There is always a balance to be struck around how we equip our officers and still maintain that British piece of policing that is policing by consent.\"\n\nEarlier this month, a police officer was stabbed in Leyton, east London, and two officers in Merseyside were attacked in separate incidents.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Last updated on .From the section Bury\n\nBury are waiting to hear if a last-ditch offer to buy the League One club will save them from being expelled from the English Football League.\n\nOwner Steve Dale told BBC Radio Manchester he had agreed a deal with analytics company C&N Sporting Risk, led by Henry Newman and Rory Campbell.\n\nThe EFL said it had been notified of an offer being accepted by Dale.\n\nBury had been given until 23:59 BST on Friday to prove their financial viability.\n\nThe EFL is now considering an extension to the deadline.\n\n\"We are currently in discussions with the potential purchaser and await information to allow the board to consider a request for an extension to Friday's deadline,\" said an EFL spokesperson.\n\nBury needed to show they could pay off creditors and had funding to complete the season, or risk expulsion from the EFL.\n\nThe EFL's previous update, issued at 17:00 BST on Friday, said \"limited progress\" had been made by Dale in either providing the evidence they required or finding a new owner, but it would \"keep working to find a resolution\".\n\n'Bury ought to have a viable long-term future'\n\nIn a statement given to PA Media, Newman and Campbell said: \"We can confirm that over the past 10 weeks we have been in discussions with Bury FC, the EFL and others with a view to putting forward a proposal to buy the club.\n\n\"It is a very complicated scenario and there remain a number of outstanding legal and other issues that have to be addressed.\n\n\"Our background is in football and data analytics and it should therefore not be surprising that we are taking a very detailed forensic look at the realities of Bury FC's finances.\n\n\"A club like Bury ought to have a viable long-term future even if the short-term future is clearly very challenging. To that end we have been in discussions with the EFL about an extension so that we can continue to explore the prospects for a purchase.\"\n\nDale told the BBC earlier on Friday that he had found a \"prospective buyer\" who was \"waiting for the EFL to come back to him on a few points\".\n\nHe carried out numerous media interviews throughout the day and had earlier asked members of the public to pledge money to help \"save a football club\".\n\nEFL chief executive Debbie Jevans said earlier this week that a short extension to the deadline may be granted if a buyer could be found.\n\nAnd Bury North MP James Frith, who had earlier claimed a bidder he had been liaising with was going to submit the relevant documentation to the EFL on Friday, said Dale's announcement was a \"massive step forward\".\n\nHe told BBC Radio 5 Live: \"This is not over the line fully, there are a lot of questions to be answered about the complexity of the financial situation, but it is their (Newman and Campbell) bid that Dale is referencing.\n\n\"I don't think the EFL have any reason now not to extend the deadline.\n\n\"It is a time to breathe a sigh of relief, but it's not 100% due diligence watertight.\"\n\nThe Shakers have had their first five league games of the season suspended by the EFL and they were also withdrawn from the Carabao Cup.\n\nNo club has been removed from the EFL since Maidstone were liquidated in 1992.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The G7 leaders and some of their spouses posed for a \"family photo\" after a day of talks\n\nPresident Trump has promised a \"very big trade deal\" with the UK, saying its departure from the EU will be like losing \"an anchor round the ankle\".\n\nMr Trump was speaking after a breakfast meeting with Mr Johnson at the G7 summit in Biarritz in France.\n\nBut Mr Johnson said the US must open up its markets if a post-Brexit trade deal is to be agreed.\n\n\"I don't think we sell a single joint of British lamb in the United States, we don't sell any beef,\" the PM said.\n\nMr Johnson's breakfast meeting came before a day of discussions with other world leaders at the summit.\n\nThe PM also met European Council President Donald Tusk, a day after the two men clashed over who would be held responsible for a no-deal Brexit.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. President Trump said Boris Johnson was the \"right man\" to deliver Brexit\n\nSpeaking to reporters after the working breakfast, Mr Trump said a deal with the UK would happen \"quickly\".\n\n\"We're going to do a very big trade deal, bigger than we've ever had with the UK,\" he said.\n\n\"And now at some point they won't have the obstacle, they won't have the anchor around their ankle, because that's what they have.\"\n\nMr Johnson told Mr Trump: \"Talking of the anchor, Donald, what we want is for our ships to take freight, say, from New York to Boston, which for the moment they're not able to do.\"\n\nIn a later interview with the BBC, Mr Johnson said agreeing any trade deals with the US within a year \"would be tight\".\n\n\"My own experience of the way Americans work, the size and complexity of the deal we want to do probably means we won't be able to do within a year.\n\nWhen asked if it could take five years, he replied: \"No, we'll do it faster than that.\n\n\"We need to do it fast, but to get the whole thing done from soup to nuts within a year is going to be a big ask.\"\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson met with leaders at the annual G7 summit on Sunday\n\nBefore his talks with the US President, Mr Johnson spoke about \"massive opportunities for the UK to prise open the American market\".\n\nAs a member of the European Union, the UK cannot make its own trade deals with other countries - and the EU does not have a free trade deal with the US.\n\nThe UK has already agreed 13 \"continuity\" deals with 38 countries that will apply post-Brexit.\n\nOffering an example of an American trade restriction, Mr Johnson said: \"Melton Mowbray pork pies, which are sold in Thailand and in Iceland, are currently unable to enter the US market because of, I don't know, some sort of food and drug administration restriction.\"\n\nHe continued: \"UK bell peppers cannot get into the US market at all.\n\n\"Wine shipments are heavily restricted. If you want to export wine made in England to the US you have to go through a US distributor.\n\n\"There is a tax on British micro-breweries in the US that doesn't apply to US micro-breweries in the UK.\"\n\nThe government added that tariffs on some UK goods in the US can reach up to 28% for fashion, 15% for machinery and 35% for food and drink.\n\nDonald and Melania Trump arrived in France for the G7 summit on Saturday\n\nDavid Henig, the UK director of the European Centre For International Political Economy, said the US \"would be loathe\" to get rid of the barriers intended to protect US producers.\n\nHe added: \"The US is quite protectionist - the US have never done a trade deal the likes of which Mr Johnson is describing.\n\n\"The question is whether the US is prepared to give the UK something and what we would have to give them in return.\n\n\"It is less clear what Trump wants in terms of trade altogether.\"\n\nAt the G7 summit Mr Johnson was asked if he had made it clear the NHS was not on the table.\n\nHe replied: \"Not only have I made clear of that, the president has made that very, very clear. There is complete unanimity on that point.\"\n\nTrade deals involve two or more countries agreeing a set of terms by which they buy and sell goods and services from each other.\n\nDeals are designed to increase trade by eliminating or reducing trade barriers. These barriers might include import or export taxes (tariffs), quotas, or differing regulations on things such as safety or labelling.\n\nLast month, President Trump said talks about a \"very substantial\" trade deal with the UK were already under way.\n\nHe said a bilateral post-Brexit deal could lead to a \"three to four, five times\" increase in current trade - but provided no details about how that would be achieved.\n\nHowever, the Speaker of the US House of Representatives, Nancy Pelosi, said a UK-US trade deal would not get through Congress if Brexit undermined the Good Friday Agreement.\n\nMs Pelosi said the UK's exit from the EU could not be allowed to endanger the 1998 Irish peace deal, which the US helped facilitate.", "Last updated on .From the section Cricket\n\nMen's Ashes: Third Specsavers Test, Headingley (day three of five) England need further 203 to win\n\nEngland's batsmen showed some much-needed fight on day three of the third Test, but Australia still look set to retain the Ashes at Headingley.\n\nSet 359 - an England record - to win, the home side battled to 156-3 thanks to 75 not out from Joe Root and Joe Denly's 50.\n\nThey repelled the constant threat of the Australia attack with bravery, solid defence and patience - all of the things England were missing when they were bowled out for 67 on Friday.\n\nRoot and Denly's partnership of 126 dragged England from 15-2, when they were in danger of subsiding once more on a glorious day in Leeds.\n• None TMS podcast: England's batsmen show resolve, but is it too late?\n\nAustralia earlier moved their overnight 171-6 to 246 all out, with Marnus Labuschagne run out for 80.\n\nThe tourists' bowling was excellent, yet largely unrewarded and, even though England are in a position from where they could pull off an incredible victory, history is on Australia's side.\n\nHowever, Headingley is the ground where Australia once successfully pursued 404 and, only two years ago, West Indies knocked off 322.\n\nIf England were to pull off the chase and level the series, it would rank alongside Sir Ian Botham's heroics here in 1981 as one of their greatest Ashes wins.\n\nIf the frustration of the first-innings capitulation was over a golden opportunity to square the series apparently going begging, it was compounded by England showing they are capable of proper Test batting.\n\nSaturday was everything Friday should have been: England defying the Australia bowling, making steady progress on a good batting pitch in warm sunshine.\n\nThe Headingley crowd lapped it up, perhaps even keener to see England bat well because of the awful showing on day two.\n\nForward defensive strokes were applauded, edges through the slips were roared and England reaching 100 was given a standing ovation.\n\nJust as Australia were starting to show signs of desperation, their persistence was rewarded by Denly gloving a Josh Hazlewood bouncer behind.\n\nBen Stokes, who survived 50 balls for his two not out, calmly helped Root to the close and England do have batting to come, but any bid for history will first have to overcome the second new ball, which is due eight overs into Sunday morning.\n\nWhen Rory Burns edged Hazlewood to slip and Jason Roy was bowled by a wonderful delivery from Pat Cummins, England were two down just after lunch and in danger of losing in three days.\n\nThat they did not was down to Root and Denly, who responded to the pressure on their shoulders - Root over his position as captain, Denly for his place in the side - by restoring some pride into the England batting line-up.\n\nAt first, the progress was painstaking. Every delivery was full of danger. There were edges and play-and-misses. Denly was struck on the head, arm and twice almost gloved short balls to fielders.\n\nGradually, batting became easier. Root scored square of the wicket on both sides, while Denly played attractive pushes down the ground.\n\nRoot was given out lbw to Hazlewood on 59, only for a review to show a clear inside edge.\n\nHowever, when the same bowler produced a brute of a bouncer directed at Denly's chin, he could only punch it to wicketkeeper Tim Paine.\n\nGiven how meekly England surrendered on Friday, Australia would have been forgiven for thinking that another capitulation was in the offing on Saturday.\n\nTheir failure to wrap up victory was no slight on the bowling attack, in particular the three pace bowlers - Hazlewood, Cummins and James Pattinson - who examined England's defensive technique with line and length or tested their mettle with hostile bouncers.\n\nThe push for victory came after they added 75 runs in the morning, Labuschagne moving his seventh-wicket partnership with Pattinson to 51.\n\nLabuschagne was dropped by a diving Jonny Bairstow on 60 - his fourth reprieve - before he was peppered with short balls from Jofra Archer, fit following a bout of cramp on Friday evening.\n\nIt was Archer who had Pattinson caught at first slip and last man Nathan Lyon chop on. In between, the tireless Stokes got Cummins to fend to gully and Labuschagne failed to beat Denly's throw from deep point when coming back for a second run.\n\nThe last four wickets fell for 31 runs in 7.3 overs, a contrast to the and absorbing battle that would follow.\n\nHow much of a chance do England have?\n\nEngland's Joe Denly on BBC Test Match Special: \"The 67 wasn't good enough but it's about showing character and fight in this second innings.\n\n\"We believe. If we get one or two more partnerships tomorrow, we're in with a real shout. I rate our chances very highly - there are not too many demons in the pitch.\"\n\nEngland's record Test run-scorer Alastair Cook: \"The frustration has been that that collapse happens too often with England and it has cost them dearly in the past.\n\n\"There is the chance that they might get away with it in this game. That partnership was gutsy, it was brave and it has given England a sniff of a chance.\"\n\nFormer England captain Michael Vaughan: \"Why didn't England do that in the first innings? If it needs criticism to fire them up to play the right way, I'll criticise them all the time.\n\n\"You've got to put the hard yards in and England did that today. But I feel yesterday's batting will still cost them this Test.\"\n\nAustralia batsman Marnus Labuschagne: \"We have got to stick to our process, shut that scoreboard down and challenge both edges of the bat - ball in, ball out. If we do that I've no doubt we will win the match.\"\n\nFormer Australia pace bowler Glenn McGrath: \"England have a chance. This is the partnership - Ben Stokes and Joe Root - who have to do the bulk of the work.\n\n\"But Australia know all it takes is a couple of early wickets tomorrow and it can all change quickly. It takes a long time to tick the scoreboard over.\"", "Simon Dobbin is unable to walk or talk\n\nThe family of a football fan who suffered horrific injuries at the hands of hooligan opposition fans are campaigning for a change in the law.\n\nCambridge United fan Simon Dobbin, 47, from Suffolk, was attacked after a match in Southend, Essex, in 2015.\n\nTwelve men were jailed over the assault, which left him brain damaged.\n\nHis wife Nicole wants \"Simon's Law\" introduced, to force lifelong payments to the NHS by people convicted of violent disorder.\n\nThe law would also increase sentencing powers in such cases.\n\nSome of Mr Dobbin's attackers stamped on his head for 90 seconds and as a result he cannot walk or talk.\n\nThe family home was transformed on DIY:SOS\n\nMrs Dobbin, from Mildenhall, told the BBC: \"We have a lifelong sentence - this [Simon's Law] would be a constant reminder for them of what they did and a deterrent for others.\"\n\nShe was spurred to start a petition campaigning for a change to the law after being told another of Mr Dobbin's attackers had been released from prison.\n\nIt has been signed over 4,000 times in less than 48 hours.\n\nAll of Mr Dobbin's equipment, medication and care is funded by the NHS, which his wife estimates has cost hundreds of thousands of pounds.\n\nShe said: \"If someone is found guilty and sentenced to violent disorder causing harm, especially like what happened to Simon, then part of their wages or benefits should be paid back to the NHS.\"\n\nMr Dobbin spent a year in hospital after the attack", "The boss of British Airways-owner IAG has said a pay deal being offered to its pilots is \"fair\", adding that he is hopeful strikes can be averted this summer.\n\nBritish Airways will re-enter talks with the British Airline Pilots' Association (Balpa) on Friday.\n\nMembers of Balpa have rejected an offer of an 11.5% wage rise over three years.\n\nBut IAG boss Willie Walsh told the BBC: \"I think the pay deal that has been offered is a fair deal.\"\n\nEarlier this week, BA lost a legal battle at the Court of Appeal to stop strike action after it filed an injunction.\n\nThe ruling cleared the way for Balpa members to walk out, potentially over the busy August period.\n\nMr Walsh told the BBC's Today programme that he was hopeful a deal could be reached with union representatives.\n\n\"Clearly this is an issue for British Airways to deal with. Nobody wants the uncertainty that strike action delivers to the business,\" he said.\n\n\"We're working closely with the pilots union\".\n\nRepresentatives of British Airways and Balpa met on Thursday and Friday and both sides have agreed to resume talks next week, the union said on Friday evening.\n\nHowever, he indicated that the current pay offer - which has been accepted by unions Unite and GMB - was unlikely to change.\n\n\"British Airways has a responsibility to all of its employees in BA, I have a responsibility to all the employees right across the group, and I think the pay deal that has been offered is a fair deal.\"\n\nIn results published on Friday, IAG said BA would \"vigorously defend itself\" against a record £183m fine imposed by the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) following a major data breach last year.\n\nBA was penalised after it emerged that users of its website were diverted to a fraudulent site where data from around 500,000 customers were harvested by hackers.\n\nHowever, IAG denied British Airways failed to comply with its obligations under General Data Protection Regulation and the UK Data Protection Act and would therefore use \"all available appeal routes\" against the ICO fine.\n\nFor the first half of the year, IAG reported a 7.2% rise in sales to €12bn (£10.9bn) while pre-tax profits dropped to €1bn from €1.6bn.", "Catherine Cohen won best newcomer and Jordan Brookes was given the top award\n\nComedian Jordan Brookes has scooped the top comedy award at the Edinburgh Fringe.\n\nThe \"utterly unique\" comic's show, I've Got Nothing, was named the best comedy show at the Edinburgh Comedy Awards.\n\nMeanwhile, New York-based Catherine Cohen won the best newcomer award for her show The Twist...? She's Gorgeous.\n\nOnce known as the Perrier award, previous winners include Al Murray the Pub Landlord, Jenny Eclair and Russell Kane.\n\nThey received their prizes from last year's winner, Rose Matafeo, and Stephen Fry, who was part of the Cambridge Footlights which won the first ever Perrier in 1981.\n\n\"The Fringe means everything to me. I wouldn't be here without it,\" he told them.\n\nRose Matafeo and Stephen Fry presented Jordan Brookes with his award\n\nBrookes was one of 10 comedians nominated for the best comedy show. He wins £10,000.\n\nThe shortlist included Mock the Week regular Ivo Graham and London Hughes, the first black British woman to be nominated in that category.\n\nAwards director Nica Burns said: \"With a very close list of nominees and a nail-biting debate, the judging panel chose Jordan Brookes as the 2019 winner for his originality, his playfulness with the audience, his timing and his sheer laughter count.\n\n\"Utterly unique, dubbed by some critics as the comic coup of the fringe, there is literally no one like him.\"\n\nCohen - who has a regular set at Alan Cumming's cult cabaret night in New York - won rave reviews for her show about \"living, laughing, loving as a young woman in today's world\".\n\nCatherine Cohen was given the award for best newcomer\n\nAs best newcomer, she scoops a £5,000 prize.\n\nNica Burns said she was \"hugely talented with a wonderful voice and charismatic personality, an instinctual comedian, very funny\".\n\nMeanwhile a project which aims to make the festival more accessible to performances and audiences of colour has been awarded the panel prize.\n\nDominic Maxwell, the chairman of the judging panel, said Jessica Brough and Fringe of Colour began in 2018 with no funding and no staff.\n\n\"Despite that they have managed to build on it in 2019 with the help of some of the venues with 19 shows each giving them 25 tickets to give away to the audiences of colour they are developing,\" he said.\n\n\"We hope that, through the panel prize more people will find out about their work and that the £5,000 cash prize means they will have some funding to connect more performers and audiences with each other, expand the scheme and inspire young, diverse people.\"", "Thousands of people held hands to form a human chain of peaceful protest against a suspended extradition bill.\n\nDemonstrators believe the bill could undermine Hong Kong's legal freedoms and might be used to intimidate or silence dissidents.\n\nThere have been nearly three months of pro-democracy protests.\n\nClashes between police and demonstrators have led to claims that some police have used brute force.", "Police were called to reports of disorder in Wilton Road, Sparkhill\n\nA man has been stabbed to death and four others have been injured in Birmingham.\n\nPolice were called to reports of disorder at an address in Wilton Road, Sparkhill, at 22:40 BST on Friday.\n\nA man, 37, was discovered injured in the street and pronounced dead at the scene. Another man, 35, was found in the property with stab wounds and is in a critical condition.\n\nA 32-year-old man has been arrested on suspicion of murder.\n\nA man, 37, was pronounced dead at the scene\n\nA 32-year-old man has been arrested on suspicion of murder\n\nThree men, two in their 30s and one in his 40s, suffered minor injuries.\n\nThe men involved are understood to be known to one other.\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 need to be doing more as a country\"\n\nFree heart screening is set to be provided in memory of a runner who died during the Cardiff Half Marathon.\n\nThe Ben McDonald Heart Screening Fund, set up after the 25-year-old went into cardiac arrest at the finish line last year, is funding a sold out event at Cardiff Gate on 31 August.\n\nThe service offers the tests to those aged between eight and 45.\n\nBen's mother, Ruth McDonald, said heart screening was something the family had \"never even thought of\" previously.\n\n\"Ben didn't have his heart screened - we didn't even think of it as an option,\" she said.\n\nRuth McDonald (right, next to Welsh Hearts founder Sharon Owen) said heart screening was something she \"never even thought of\" previously\n\nThe free tests are being offered in Ben's name\n\n\"We've had a post-mortem result that tells us that they can't find a reason why he's died, there's no history of heart disease,\" said Ms McDonald, from the Vale of Glamorgan.\n\n\"If he had his heart screened, we would have a test result to look back on to maybe find something that would give us a clue as to why he died.\"\n\nThe fund was set up by charity Welsh Hearts and the screening will be provided by the Independent General Practice.\n\nThe charity launched a petition in January, calling on the Welsh Government to make heart screening free for those aged between 10 and 35.\n\nMeanwhile, it is aiming to raise £1m to continue to offer its service.\n\nBut the Welsh Government said population screening programmes \"should only be offered where there is clear evidence that screening will do more good than harm\".\n\n\"The UK National Screening Committee does not recommend screening to prevent Sudden Cardiac Death and is therefore not provided in the UK,\" it added.\n\n\"Should more accurate tests become available, whole population asymptomatic cardiac screening will be fully considered.\n\n\"Although whole-population screening is not beneficial, families of individuals who have suffered Sudden Cardiac Death should be offered individual clinical assessments to assess risk.\"\n\nBut Sharon Owen, Welsh Hearts founder, said that through screening some \"extremely serious\" cases have been picked up.\n\nThe non-invasive procedures take between 10 and 15 minutes, and involve an electrocardiogram.\n\nThe week after Ben died, the charity took about 3,000 calls asking about heart screenings, and put extra sessions on.\n\n\"It kind of highlighted that we need to be doing more as a country,\" said Ms Owen.\n\n\"You've got bowel screening, you've got prostate screening, you've got breast screening... we need to have heart screening available in Wales.\"\n\nA special screening day will also be held in Ben's memory on 5 October, the day before the Cardiff Half Marathon, at St Cyres School in Penarth, which he attended.\n\nWelsh Hearts encourages young people to have their hearts tested\n\nMs McDonald and Ms Owen will also walk the course together in Ben's memory.\n\nNaming the service after her son was important because \"everything becomes more real when you start talking about a person\", said Ms McDonald.\n\n\"Ben is a wonderful example of a really fit and healthy active young person.\"\n\nSports-loving Ben had trained as a teacher, but \"just wasn't ready to settle down yet\", instead travelling around the world seeking adventure.\n\nMs McDonald explained that his story makes people see that heart problems \"could happen to anybody\".\n\n\"After Ben died, obviously we were in shock and it's been a really difficult time,\" she said.\n\n\"And suddenly we became aware of the fact that hearts could stop suddenly without any warning.\n\n\"We decided that we wanted to do as much as we could in Ben's memory, partly to keep his memory alive, but partly we were really really convicted of the need to open this up to other young people.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Brazil's President Bolsonaro has responded to criticism about his previous comments, suggesting non-governmental organisations could be to blame for starting the fires in the Amazon.\n\nDuring his post on Facebook Live, he said that NGOs were \"the biggest suspects\" because of their lost funding, but still failed to offer any evidence to support his claim.\n\nThe president also suggested lack of funding was to blame for the crisis.\n\n\"There aren't the resources. The chaos has arrived\", he said.", "Carolyn Mercer had gender reassignment surgery after decades of feeling uncomfortable in a man's body\n\nOn a dull autumn day in 1964, two NHS doctors strapped a 17-year-old boy into a wooden chair in a dark, windowless room and covered him in electrodes. During hours of so-called therapy, they repeatedly electrocuted him while showing him images of women's clothing.\n\nIn a coffee shop in Soho, Carolyn Mercer, now 72, smiles as she looks at a photograph of the boy. \"That person has grown and developed,\" she said.\n\nCarolyn - who prefers not to mention the male name she used to go by - remembers the first time she realised she was different. As a three-year-old boy playing in the backstreets of Preston, Lancashire, she persuaded her younger sister to switch clothes with her. The pair swapped their pre-school uniforms and Carolyn stood on the front step of her mother's shop, hoping people would see a little girl standing there.\n\n\"It was never about clothes... It was about something deep inside,\" Carolyn said. \"I was a boy, and I didn't want to be.\"\n\nCarolyn Mercer (left) growing up in the 1950s, with her younger sister\n\nWhen Carolyn was born in 1947, society's attitude to gay and transgender people was far from accepting. England and Wales was still 20 years from legalising homosexual relationships - or using the word \"transgender\".\n\nAs a little Lancashire lad in his sister's school skirt, Carolyn had no words to describe her feelings. But she now knows she was a trans girl with gender dysphoria - distressed because her biological sex did not match her gender identity.\n\n\"I went to sleep hoping someone would invent a brain transplant to put my brain in a more appropriate body,\" she said.\n\nThroughout boyhood, Carolyn's secret desire to live as a woman morphed into an all-consuming self-loathing.\n\n\"I knew what I wanted to be, and that dissonance and dysphoria [was] accentuated from the age of three onwards,\" Carolyn says\n\n\"That self-hatred was because I wanted something so absurd.\"\n\nCarolyn said she felt \"dirty\" because society viewed transgender people as \"wrong\" and \"evil\". \"If it was wrong and it was evil, that must be because I am wrong, and I am evil,\" she mused.\n\nAs Carolyn grew into a strongly-built teenager, she threw herself into trying to be \"good bloke\" - playing \"masculine\" sports like rugby and boxing. But she could not shake the deeply uncomfortable feeling of pretending to be someone she was not.\n\nCarolyn began to feel depressed and suicidal. She thought it \"would be easier\" for her friends and family if she died than if she told anybody how she felt.\n\nThen, aged 17, she shared her secret with a local vicar. He took her to see a doctor at a psychiatric hospital. \"Five or six\" sessions of aversion therapy at a hospital in Blackburn were arranged.\n\n\"I asked for that, I wanted to be cured,\" Carolyn said.\n\nElectric shock therapies of various kinds have been used in medicine since the 1930s (file image)\n\nCarolyn was strapped to a wooden chair in a dark room as doctors dipped electrodes in brine and attached them to her arm. They projected image after image of women's clothing on to the wall in front of her.\n\nAs each photograph snapped into view, a current was passed through the electrodes to give her a painful electric shock. Carolyn vividly remembers the surging shock wrenching her hand painfully upwards as her arm remained pinned to the chair.\n\nDespite her tears of agony, the doctors pressed on. They were convinced that if she \"learned\" to associate thoughts about her gender with memories of pain, she would stop thinking she was a woman.\n\nAfter a few months of treatment, Carolyn opted out of more. But the trauma was so great, she went on to experience physical shaking and flashbacks for the next 40 years.\n\nIn 2017 there were widespread protests in Sao Paulo, Brazil, after a judge overruled an old law forbidding \"cure\" therapy for LGBT+ people\n\nSo-called \"gay-cure\" conversion therapies claim to help change someone's sexuality or gender identity. Methods include hypnosis, exorcisms and aversion treatments such as patients receiving electric shocks or vomit-inducing drugs.\n\nThe therapies were available on the NHS until the 1970s. Both the NHS and the government said there was no record of how many people were treated or died as a result of the treatment.\n\nVarious forms of conversion therapy continue to be carried out across the world on LGBT people despite scientific evidence it is harmful and ineffective.\n\nIn 2018, a survey suggested 2% of the LGBT community in the UK had undergone conversion therapy - prompting the government to promise it would ban the treatment.\n\nWork is under way to see how a ban would be implemented. But the complex and deeply entrenched beliefs that fostered the spread of the therapy mean it will still be some time before it is brought to an end.\n\nFor a while, Carolyn thought the therapy had worked.\n\nShe led as \"manly\" a life as possible. By the age of 19, she had a wife and a baby daughter. She became a maths teacher and was promoted quickly, soon becoming one of the youngest head teachers in Lancashire. But her dysphoria had not been stifled.\n\nA 19-year-old Carolyn on her first day of teaching college, two years after having aversion therapy\n\nHer depression worsened as she was gripped by uncontrollable shaking whenever she thought about the treatment she had received.\n\n\"Did [the therapy] work in that it affected my body? Yes,\" Carolyn said. \"Did it work in affecting my mind? Only in terms of making me hate myself even more.\"\n\nAfter years of struggling to cope with the all-consuming dysphoria, Carolyn eventually began taking hormones to develop breasts in the early 1990s.\n\nThis was the beginning of a process described by many in the transgender community as \"transition\" or, as Carolyn prefers, to \"align my gender expression with my gender identity\". It's \"a bit of a mouthful\", she says, \"but it suits me\".\n\nAlthough her family had been \"incredible\", they did not actively support her decision. \"They actually liked the person they saw - a different person to the one that I was looking at,\" she said.\n\nAt work, Carolyn bound her developing breasts to hide the effects of her treatment. But in 1994, a journalist learned she was taking hormones, and Carolyn's personal life was plastered across tabloids claiming it was in the \"public interest\" to report the secret of a high-profile head teacher.\n\nThe episode forced Carolyn to rethink taking hormones. The following summer, she had her breasts surgically removed - an operation normally reserved for cancer patients.\n\nOnce again, an impassable void had lodged itself between who Carolyn was, and who she wanted to be. But after several more difficult years - though with the support of her staff, students, friends and family - Carolyn, aged 55, retired early to finally undergo the surgery she had been dreaming of for decades.\n\nCarolyn's road trip in the US at the age of 67 was the first holiday she had been on where she felt she could enjoy herself\n\n\"Life is so, so much better. I don't have that dark secret hidden away all of the time.\"\n\nSome members of the trans community say the person they were before surgery is dead. But for Carolyn, who has lived most of her life as that person, the little boy wearing his sister's pre-school uniform is very much alive.\n\n\"I'm still the same person with the same experiences,\" she said.\n\nShe continues to struggle with being happy. Following conversion therapy, she became so used to burying her innermost desires that she finds it difficult to let herself be happy.\n\n\"You show me a menu in a restaurant and you say 'which would you prefer?', I don't know,\" she said.\n\n\"Some will find it sad, but it's something I've come to terms with... I don't have a light anymore, or emotion like that, because I suppressed it for so long.\"\n\nIf you are struggling with gender dysphoria, these organisations may be able to help.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Footage appears to shows Prince Andrew inside Jeffrey Epstein's New York residence in 2010\n\nPrince Andrew has given an unprecedented interview to the BBC about his relationship with US financier and convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.\n\nThe friendship between the 59-year-old member of the Royal Family and Epstein has come under close scrutiny since the American killed himself in August while awaiting trial on sex trafficking charges.\n\nPrince Andrew said it was wrong of him to visit and stay at Epstein's house in 2010 after the financier's conviction but that he did not regret their entire friendship.\n\nHe also categorically denied having sex with Virginia Roberts, who alleges she was forced to have sex with the prince when she was 17 years old.\n\nHere's what we know about the links between Prince Andrew and Jeffrey Epstein.\n\nPrince Andrew said he first met Epstein, a wealthy hedge fund manager, in 1999 through Ghislaine Maxwell, Epstein's British girlfriend and a woman the prince said he had known since she was at university. That year was the first time the prince and the businessman were linked in press reports in the UK and US.\n\nPrince Andrew reportedly flew with Epstein on his private Gulfstream jet in February 1999, according to a log book seen by the Daily Mirror in 2015.\n\nThe destination was said to have been Epstein's private island, Little St James in the US Virgin Islands.\n\nThe Daily Mail also reported that 10 months earlier Epstein's logbook showed he had flown to the same location to meet the prince's ex-wife, Sarah Ferguson. The couple had divorced in 1996.\n\nEpstein and Ms Maxwell were among a star-studded guest list at a party hosted by the Queen in June 2000.\n\nThe Dance of the Decades event, which saw more than 600 guests descend on Windsor Castle, marked four royal birthdays including Prince Andrew's 40th. Prince Andrew, the Queen's third child, told the BBC that Epstein was there at his invitation, not the Royal Family's, but was to some extent Ms Maxwell's \"plus one\".\n\nThe duke at the time appeared to be part of the social circle of Ms Maxwell, whom Epstein later described as his best friend.\n\nPrince Andrew was pictured accompanying Ms Maxwell - daughter of the late newspaper tycoon Robert Maxwell - at private parties and celebrity functions both in the UK and in the US that year.\n\nThey were photographed together at the wedding of the prince's former girlfriend, Aurelia Cecil, near Salisbury in Wiltshire in September 2000.\n\nThe Duke of York and Ghislaine Maxwell leaving the wedding of his former girlfriend Aurelia Cecil in September 2000\n\nThe Duke of York and Ghislaine Maxwell were pictured at the event in Wiltshire\n\nPrince Andrew and Ms Maxwell were again photographed together at a Halloween party thrown by model Heidi Klum in Manhattan.\n\nMs Maxwell was pictured dressed in gold lame and wearing a blonde wig for the Hookers and Pimps-themed party.\n\nJust over a month later, in December 2000, the then 40-year-old prince threw Ms Maxwell a surprise birthday party at Sandringham, the Queen's estate in Norfolk, with Epstein among the guests.\n\nHe described it in the BBC interview as a \"straightforward shooting weekend\".\n\nJeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell at Sandringham in December 2000\n\nMs Maxwell and Epstein were photographed on a pheasant shoot at the estate around that time.\n\nPrince Andrew and Ms Maxwell went on a number of trips together including to Florida and Thailand, according to an Evening Standard report from January 2001, which claimed Epstein had joined them on five such occasions over the previous 12 months.\n\nPrince Andrew told the BBC that he used to see Epstein a maximum of three times a year but confirmed he had been on his private plane, stayed at his private island, and stayed at his homes in Palm Beach, Florida and New York.\n\nAllegations against Jeffrey Epstein started surfacing in 2005 when the parents of a 14-year-old girl told police in Florida that Epstein had molested their daughter at his Palm Beach home.\n\nThe financier was accused of paying girls under the age of 18 to perform sex acts at his Manhattan and Florida mansions between 2002 and 2005.\n\nHowever, a controversial secret plea deal in 2008 saw him plead guilty to a lesser charge of soliciting a minor for prostitution.\n\nHe received an 18-month prison sentence and was released on probation after 13 months.\n\nIn July 2019 he was charged in New York with further allegations of sex trafficking and conspiracy and was due to face trial next year.\n\nHe pleaded not guilty to all the charges but was facing up to 45 years in prison if convicted.\n\nIn July 2006, Jeffrey Epstein was invited to a masked ball at Windsor Castle to celebrate the 18th birthday of Princess Beatrice, Prince Andrew's elder daughter.\n\nThe theme of the evening was 1888, and the 500 guests donned period costumes.\n\nThe previous month, Epstein was charged with one count of solicitation of prostitution.\n\nPrince Andrew said Epstein had been invited via Ms Maxwell but that he wasn't aware at the time the invitation was sent out \"what was going on in the United States\".\n\nHe said Epstein never mentioned that he was under investigation.\n\nThe duke was photographed with Epstein in New York's Central Park in December 2010 - after the tycoon had served his sentence.\n\nPrince Andrew said he had travelled across the Atlantic to end his friendship with Epstein and was having that conversation with him when they were photographed in the park.\n\nPrince Andrew with Jeffrey Epstein in New York's Central Park in 2010\n\nThe prince told the BBC: \"I said, 'Look, because of what has happened, I don't think it is appropriate that we should remain in contact.'\"\n\nPrince Andrew said he attended a small dinner party while he was there but denied it was to celebrate Epstein's release.\n\nFootage released by the Mail on Sunday in August showed Prince Andrew inside the financier's Manhattan mansion around the same time.\n\nThe prince told the BBC that he regretted staying at Epstein's house during the visit, saying he \"let the side down\" by doing so. Pressed on reports that many young girls were coming and going from the house at the time, he said: \"I never saw them.\"\n\nEpstein's house was like a \"railway station\" with \"people coming in and out of that house all the time\", he added.\n\nPrince Andrew's connection to the convicted sex offender did attract criticism at the time.\n\nAfter several days of newspaper reports on the Epstein connection in spring of 2011, Prince Andrew was hit with a further blow when Sarah Ferguson admitted having accepted £15,000 from Epstein, to help pay off her debts.\n\nPrince Andrew's ex-wife Sarah Ferguson in 2011 - she is said to have accepted £15,000 from Epstein that year\n\nThe fallout saw him quit his role as a UK trade envoy in July 2011. Prince Andrew later acknowledged his friendship with Epstein had been a mistake.\n\nIn 2015 the duke was named in court papers as part of a US civil case against Epstein.\n\nPrince Andrew was not party to the proceedings but was identified when a motion was filed in the court, as part of the evidence.\n\nAccording to the Guardian, one of Epstein's accusers, Virginia Roberts - now Virginia Giuffre - said she was ordered to give the prince \"whatever he required\".\n\nPrince Andrew with Virginia Roberts in early 2001, said to have been taken at the home of Ghislaine Maxwell, who is standing behind the pair\n\nMs Giuffre claimed in court papers in Florida she was forced to have sex with the prince on three occasions - in London, New York and on a private Caribbean island owned by Epstein - between 2001 and 2002, including when she was underage under Florida law.\n\nThe details were later officially struck from the court records when a judge ruled they were unnecessary to the case, saying they were \"immaterial and impertinent\" to the \"central claim\".\n\nSeparately, an allegation by a woman called Johanna Sjoberg that Prince Andrew touched her breast while they sat on a couch in Epstein's Manhattan apartment in 2001 was contained in documents from a defamation case. These documents were made public when they were released by a judge in August 2019.\n\nMs Giuffre had brought the defamation case against Ms Maxwell. She was alleged to have procured underage girls for Epstein and his friends, but she has always denied the allegations.\n\nPrince Andrew said he had \"no recollection\" of ever meeting Ms Giuffre. He said he was looking after his children on the day in March 2001 that she alleges they went to a nightclub in London and later had sex in Ms Maxwell's house in the Belgravia area.\n\nThe prince said he had taken his daughter Beatrice to a Pizza Express restaurant in the town of Woking that afternoon for a party.\n\nHe said he remembered it \"because going to Pizza Express in Woking is an unusual thing for me to do, a very unusual thing for me to do\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Prince Andrew: \"I would like to reiterate and reaffirm the statements that have been issued on my behalf by the palace\"\n\nPrince Andrew said he had no recollection of a photo being taken, reportedly by Jeffrey Epstein, of him and Virginia Giuffre together in Ms Maxwell's house where his arm is around her waist.\n\n\"Nobody can prove whether or not that photograph has been doctored but I don't recollect that photograph ever being taken,\" he said, adding that \"hug[s] and public displays of affection are not something that I do\".\n\nAsked whether he had sex with her in a bedroom in that house, he said: \"I can absolutely categorically tell you it never happened.\"\n\nBuckingham Palace has issued outright denials of all allegations against Prince Andrew.", "Last updated on .From the section Football\n\nPeople who post racist abuse on social media \"hide behind fake identities\", said Manchester United manager Ole Gunnar Solskjaer after striker Marcus Rashford was targeted.\n\nThe England forward, 21, was abused after missing a penalty in Saturday's shock 2-1 home loss to Crystal Palace.\n\nUnited's Paul Pogba was also targeted after a spot-kick miss on Monday.\n\nAnti-discrimination body Kick It Out called the abuse \"vile\" and said \"decisive action\" needs to be taken.\n\nEarlier this week, Twitter said it will meet any stakeholders to show the \"proactive work\" being done to tackle abuse after 26-year-old France midfielder Pogba was targeted following a missed penalty in a 1-1 draw at Wolves.\n\nSeveral of Pogba's team-mates - including Rashford - criticised the abuse, while England women's manager Phil Neville called for footballers to \"boycott\" social media.\n\nRashford joins a growing list of footballers who have suffered racist abuse after penalty misses, with Chelsea's Tammy Abraham and Yakou Meite of Reading also targeted this week.\n\nIn a statement on Saturday, Kick It Out said: \"The vile racist abuse on social media continued today.\n\n\"This problem will not go away and needs decisive action - that is what we will be making clear to Twitter when we meet.\"\n\nSpeaking before United's Premier League defeat by Palace at Old Trafford, Solskjaer called for \"authorities to do something\" about the problem.\n\nIn a news conference after the game, he said: \"It's unheard of and we need it to stop.\n\n\"I'm just lost for words if it keeps going. We keep having all these campaigns 'No to Racism' and it keeps hiding behind fake identities. It's just crazy that we talk about this in 2019.\"", "Up to 160,000 people are expected to watch the singer-songwriter over four nights in Ipswich\n\nEd Sheeran kicked off the final stop on his record-breaking world tour in front of his home fans.\n\nThe singer-songwriter told the crowd of 40,000 on Friday he was \"so happy\" to be ending his Divide tour over four nights in Ipswich.\n\nHe was supported by fellow Suffolk rockers The Darkness and a local act chosen through BBC Introducing.\n\nBy the end of the tour the 28-year-old will have spent 893 days on the road, eclipsing U2's previous 760-day mark.\n\nSuffolk boy Ed grew up in Framlingham, about 20 miles from Ipswich, and still resides close by - when he is not on the road\n\nFans began queuing at dawn to get their spots at the front, with some having travelled thousands of miles to be there.\n\n\"This feels really, really weird and cool for me to be able to stand on stage in the place that I was brought up and that I live,\" said Sheeran.\n\n\"I did do the typical musician thing where you think that you have to move to LA, so I moved to LA and hated everything about it.\n\n\"But I've lived back here for sort of, like, seven years and I just love being here and I'm so happy to be able to end the tour here.\"\n\nFans began queuing outside the gates hours before the show. Daniel Fuxa and Elizabeth Lara Villacis met through an Ed Sheeran fan group - and now live together.\n\nThe huge stage was constructed over a number of days inside Ipswich's Chantry Park\n\nLocal rapper Piers James took to the stage during the early evening\n\nFans flooded in early to get their spots at the front in the evening sunshine\n\nJustin Hawkins and The Darkness, hailing from Lowestoft, tore through a set of rock numbers\n\nEd played a number of his greatest hits, including Shape of You\n\nDuring the night Ed emerged in a specially-designed Ipswich Town football shirt\n\nHe thanked his fans who had travelled from all over the world, including New Zealand\n\nA loud applause erupted as his show came to a climax\n\nThe performance went down well with the 40,000 fans at Chantry Park\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Complaints about school funding shortages in England are expected to be addressed soon by the government.\n\nThere are suggestions that about £4bn in extra funding, as a one-off, one-year cash injection, could be announced as early as next week.\n\nIn his Tory leadership campaign, Boris Johnson promised to reverse cuts in school funding.\n\nHeads' and teachers' organisations have been warning of a worsening budget crisis for schools.\n\nAfter making spending promises for the NHS and policing, the prime minister is next expected to turn his attention to improving funding for schools and colleges.\n\nPutting more money into cash-strapped schools is likely to be seen as a popular grassroots measure ahead of a possible autumn general election.\n\nThis could still be delayed by Brexit wrangling, but there is an expectation that the government is imminently preparing to grasp the nettle on school budget shortages.\n\nThere has been a long-running campaign by school leaders protesting about inadequate funding.\n\nThis was backed by analysis from the Institute for Fiscal Studies that suggested schools had suffered budget reductions of 8% since 2010.\n\nThe Department for Education had rejected such accusations - saying that schools were receiving record levels of funding.\n\nBut teachers' unions and head teachers' campaign groups have maintained a constant challenge - writing directly to millions of parents about the financial difficulties facing schools.\n\nIt's a problem that has dogged the government's efforts to look effective in education.\n\nFurther protests by head teachers are expected in the autumn term - and school leaders will want to check the detail of any promises.\n\nWill this really be extra money? Will it be available for this year?\n\nWill it be targeted at the lowest-funded areas and financial pressure points such as special needs and sixth forms?\n\nWill it do more than keep pace with rising costs?\n\nWill it be separate from a spending boost for further-education colleges?\n\nThere have been various claims about the size of the funding gap - from about £4bn-£6bn to a forecast that it will grow to £12.6bn in the next few years.\n\nThe government will hope that the funding announcement will be enough to draw the sting from protests - as a short-term holding offer, until a longer-term, multi-year approach might be negotiated in the future.\n\nMuch of the groundwork for a funding announcement would already have been in place - as plans for a cash injection were under way in the final days of Theresa May's premiership.\n\nThe new education secretary, Gavin Williamson, will get the chance to deliver the extra money that has been demanded by schools.\n\nThe spending taps are now apparently open - and Boris Johnson's administration is understood to have been examining where extra funding would be most popular.\n\nAlong with health and a more visible police presence, extra funding for schools has been seen as a measure with widespread public support.\n\nThere are also said to be concerns about behaviour in schools - so there could be more focus on discipline, linked to wider concerns about youth violence and petty crime.\n\nThere is also said to be support for more investment in vocational skills and training - and the further-education sector is anticipating its own significant increase in funding this autumn.\n\nGeoff Barton, leader of the ASCL head teachers' union, said: \"We would very much welcome any additional investment in education as this is desperately needed.\n\n\"It must be the start of a long-term phased uplift in funding to reverse education cuts and repair the damage that they have caused.\n\n\"We have worked with other education organisations to calculate that £12.6bn is needed by 2022-23 across early years, primary and secondary schools, 16-19 education and high needs.\"", "Great Britain celebrate after winning the Women's Hockey final against the Netherlands in 2016\n\nElite athletes have bad teeth despite putting more effort into looking after them than other people, a study shows.\n\nUCL scientists interviewed 352 British athletes, including those preparing to compete at the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio, Brazil.\n\nIt showed they were far more likely to brush twice a day and floss between their teeth, but still struggled.\n\nResearchers said athletes need to take more steps to look after their teeth, such as high fluoride toothpastes.\n\nMany previous studies have shown athletes from footballers to London 2012 competitors have problems with their oral health.\n\nAround half of elite athletes in the UK have signs of tooth decay compared with around a third of similarly aged adults.\n\nThe latest study, published in the British Dental Journal, attempted to explore why.\n\nAcademics interviewed competitors from 11 sports, including cycling, swimming, rowing, hockey, sailing, athletics as well as rugby and football.\n\nSmoking rates and overall diets were also much better in the elite athletes.\n\n\"However, they use sports drinks, energy gels and bars frequently during training and competition,\" said Dr Julie Gallagher, one of the UCL researchers.\n\nShe added: \"The sugar in these products increases the risk of tooth decay and the acidity of them increases the risk of erosion.\n\n\"This could be contributing to the high levels of tooth decay and acid erosion we saw during the dental check-ups.\"\n\nOther explanations include the mouth becoming dry due to breathing heavily during exercise so there is less protection from saliva in the mouth.\n\nThere are some suggestions poor oral health could have an impact on performance for reasons including less time spent in training.\n\nAt the pinnacle of elite sport, the difference between winning and losing is tiny, so even marginal improvements can make a crucial difference.\n\nThe report says athletes may need extra help with their teeth which could include very high fluoride toothpastes.\n\n\"Athletes were willing to consider behaviour changes such as additional fluoride use from mouthwash, more frequent dental visits, and reducing their intake of sports drinks, to improve oral health,\" Dr Gallagher said.\n\nPilot studies testing this have already been conducted, but the results are not yet known.", "Last updated on .From the section Golf\n\nSix people have been injured after two lightning strikes at the season-ending Tour Championship in Atlanta.\n\nPlay was suspended at 4.17pm local time because of thunderstorms in the area and at 4.45pm there were two lightning strikes close to the 15th green at East Lake Golf Club.\n\nA tree was hit and debris from that strike injured six people, the PGA Tour said.\n\nA statement added the injuries \"do not appear to be life-threatening\".\n\nOrganisers said paramedics tended to six fans on the course, with five being taken to hospital by ambulance.\n\nThe third round was suspended with play to resume on Sunday at 8am local time (13:00 BST).\n\nAmerican Justin Thomas was leading by one shot from Northern Ireland's Rory McIlroy and world number one Brooks Koepka when play was suspended.", "Last updated on .From the section Premier League\n\nCrystal Palace manager Roy Hodgson hailed a \"heroic victory\" after his side stunned Manchester United with an injury-time winner to record their first victory at Old Trafford since 1989.\n\nFull-back Patrick van Aanholt netted in the 93rd minute, thumping in as the ball broke loose following Wilfried Zaha's burst forward.\n\nDaniel James thought he had rescued a point for United when he curled in a delightful equaliser in the 89th minute following neat build-up from Marcus Rashford and Anthony Martial.\n\nBut Rashford will rue striking the post from the penalty spot earlier in the second period - the second spot-kick the Red Devils have missed this week after Paul Pogba had one saved in the 1-1 draw at Wolves on Monday.\n\nJordan Ayew had scored the opener in the first half against the run of play, latching on to Jeffrey Schlupp's flick-on and coolly converting Palace's first goal of the campaign, before the late drama.\n\nHodgson said: \"It was hard work and the players showed incredible concentration on the tactics they were trying to employ. We kept Manchester United in front of us for very long periods.\n\n\"It was a long, hot afternoon and we had to accept our talented opponents would have more of the ball than us. We had to make certain that they did not play the passes to get the balls into the areas where they would punish us too severely. It was a heroic victory.\"\n• None See the rest of Saturday's Premier League action\n\nPogba received racist abuse on social media after his miss from the spot at Molineux.\n\nUnited released a statement condemning the abuse, while fans brought an anti-racism flag into the stadium and sang \"there's only one Paul Pogba\" to show they were behind the France midfielder.\n\nHowever, the tweets that followed Rashford's miss showed the issue remains, if from a nasty minority.\n\nThe England striker's failure from the spot formed part of a bad day for United manager Ole Gunnar Solskjaer.\n\nThe club paid a collective £130m this summer for defenders Harry Maguire and Aaron Wan-Bissaka - but neither covered round the back of centre-back Victor Lindelof in the lead-up to Palace's opener, so when the Swede lost out to Schlupp as the pair challenged for goalkeeper Vicente Guaita's clearance, Ayew was able to race clear of the United defence and finish.\n\nJames was Solskjaer's third summer signing. The Welshman is having an impact and his curling shot to equalise was a brilliant effort.\n\nHowever, for the second game running, the winger was booked for diving - even if the decision from referee Paul Tierney looked harsh.\n\nHodgson added: \"United are not stupid, they have a very experienced group of people looking after them and they will be aware of that.\n\n\"They will be surprised if teams are going to be coming here playing gung-ho football and flying at them and giving them the chance to counter-attack, because they have such pace and skill on the ball that would be a recipe for disaster for most teams.\n\n\"They have to come to terms with the fact that teams in the lower half of the league, if they are organised and disciplined and if they put up the fight like we did today they will be hard to breakdown.\n\n\"And if they are lucky with players on the field that can hurt them on the counter-attack, that is what they have to prepare for at Old Trafford for a long part of the season.\"\n\nIt was a sweet day for Crystal Palace's veteran defender Gary Cahill.\n\nPlaying at Old Trafford in the Premier League for his fourth different club, Cahill was celebrating his first win.\n\nHe made only two league appearances for Chelsea last season, so the 33-year-old could be forgiven an element of rustiness, although it was pure pace from Martial that caused the centre-back to drag the forward down as the hosts searched for a quick equaliser.\n\nCahill could easily have been sent off. Instead, he remained on the pitch and used his experience to steer Palace to an unexpected victory.\n\nEagles manager Hodgson is too experienced to get carried away by one game - but given his side were yet to score this season and had lost five of their past six visits to Old Trafford, the former England boss surely cannot have travelled with much confidence.\n\nBut they now sit level with United on points, and with Cahill easing himself in after his summer move from Chelsea, Hodgson could have one of the season's best free transfers at their disposal.\n• None Manchester United have won only one of their past nine matches, scoring just eight goals and conceding 16.\n• None Palace's Van Aanholt became only the second player to score a 90th-minute winner against United in the Premier League after Thierry Henry for Arsenal in January 2007, and the first to do so at Old Trafford.\n• None Palace earned their first win over United in the Premier League in their 21st meeting in the competition, and their first in the league since May 1991 (3-0 at Selhurst Park).\n• None United are only the second team to win a penalty in each of their first three matches of a Premier League season, after Chelsea in 2012-13. However, the Blues scored all three of theirs while the Red Devils have missed two.\n• None Since the start of last season, Palace have earned 60% of their points in the league in away games (32 out of 53), more than any other side.\n• None James is the seventh United player to score in his first two Premier League appearances at Old Trafford for the club.\n• None Ayew's opener for Palace came from their first shot and first touch in the opposition's box.\n• None Rashford's long-range effort in the 58th minute was the latest United have attempted their first shot on target of a Premier League game at Old Trafford since April 2017 against West Brom (67th minute).\n• None Goal! Manchester United 1, Crystal Palace 2. Patrick van Aanholt (Crystal Palace) left footed shot from the left side of the box to the bottom left corner.\n• None Attempt missed. Wilfried Zaha (Crystal Palace) right footed shot from the left side of the box is close, but misses to the left. Assisted by Luka Milivojevic following a fast break.\n• None Goal! Manchester United 1, Crystal Palace 1. Daniel James (Manchester United) right footed shot from the centre of the box to the top right corner. Assisted by Anthony Martial.\n• None Delay over. They are ready to continue.\n• None Attempt missed. Paul Pogba (Manchester United) header from the centre of the box is too high. Assisted by Ashley Young with a cross following a set piece situation.\n• None Wilfried Zaha (Crystal Palace) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page", "British Airways pilots are to strike on 9, 10 and 27 September in a dispute over pay, the British Airline Pilots Association (Balpa) has said.\n\nThe three-day strike - the first by BA pilots - could cause severe disruption, as Balpa represents about 90% of the airline's pilots.\n\nThe union said strikes were a \"last resort\" born out of \"enormous frustration\" with airline management.\n\nBA called it \"unjustifiable\" and said Balpa was \"destroying\" travel plans.\n\nThe union said BA rejected a \"number of packages\" that were proposed to resolve the pay dispute, and that there remains a gap of around £5m between the two sides' positions.\n\nThe industrial action comes after 93% of Balpa's members voted in favour of striking.\n\n\"Over recent years BA pilots have made sacrifice after sacrifice to assist the company such as taking a pay cut, productivity increases, closing the final salary pension scheme, giving up annual leave days, a new rostering system, and reducing flying pay,\" Balpa said.\n\nPilots have rejected a pay increase worth 11.5% over three years, which the airline put forward in July.\n\nBA's chairman and CEO, Alex Cruz, said it was a \"fair deal\" and called the move by Balpa \"disappointing\".\n\nBA said it is making changes to its flight schedule, adding that it will \"do everything [it] can to get as many people away on their journeys as possible\".\n\n\"However, it is likely that many of our customers will not be able to travel and we will be offering refunds and rebookings for passengers booked on cancelled flights,\" it said.\n\nSpeaking to BBC News, Mr Cruz said it remains unclear how much disruption the strikes may cause.\n\n\"We are focused on minimising disruption to those who may be affected,\" he said.\n\nBA lost an appeal aimed at halting the strikes last month.\n\nIts owner, International Airlines Group (IAG), had sought an injunction to prevent the strike in the High Court, but it was overturned.\n\nIt was then rejected by the Court of Appeal on 31 July.\n\nIAG, which also owns Spanish carrier Iberia and Ireland's Aer Lingus, reported a pre-tax profit of €3bn (£2.7bn) last year, up almost 9.8% on the previous year.\n\nBritish Airways contributed £1.96bn to that, up 8.7% on 2017.", "Norrie Hunter has completed his first Ironman triathlon after recovering from life-saving heart surgery\n\nAn Ayrshire man has gone from heart surgery to a long-distance triathlon in just 16 months.\n\nNorrie Hunter, from Symington, completed his first Ironman race after being inspired by a book about a cancer patient who took up the sport.\n\nHe read the story while recovering from life-saving heart surgery at the Golden Jubilee National Hospital in Clydebank and started training six weeks later.\n\nThe 36-year-old found out he may have had a congenital heart condition while tending to his unwell mother.\n\nMr Hunter said: \"My mum was on her deathbed and she said she believed there was a history of heart problems in the family and she wanted me to get checked out, so I promised her I would.\"\n\nThen Norrie, a seasoned marathon runner, experienced breathing difficulties during a competition. Although he finished the race he decided he needed a check-up.\n\nThrough this process he discovered that he had been born with a Bicuspid Aortic Valve (BAV) leading to an enlarged left ventricle.\n\nNorrie Hunter had heart surgery 16 months ago but is now competing successfully in Ironman triathlons\n\nA (BAV) is an inherited form of heart disease in which two of the leaflets of the aortic valve fuse during development in the womb resulting in a two-leaflet valve (bicuspid valve) instead of the normal three-leaflet valve (tricuspid).\n\nThe condition is commonly not diagnosed until adulthood because the defective valve can function for years without causing any symptoms.\n\nHe was booked into the Scottish Adult Congenital Cardiac Service (SACCS) at the Golden Jubilee hospital for heart surgery in March 2018.\n\nAfter just six weeks' recuperation, Norrie decided to start training again and downloaded a fitness app to get going.\n\nJust 16 months later Norrie was able to compete in his first Ironman.\n\nNorrie added: \"It was while recovering in my hospital bed that I was given a book called Operation Ironman.\n\nNorrie Hunter after the swimming part of his triathlon in Bolton\n\n\"Written by George Mahood, it describes the authors' journey from the discovery of a cancerous growth wrapped round his spine to competing, four months later, in the Ironman triathlon. It was inspiring.\n\n\"I feel like I've been given my life back. I'm not quite back to the strength that I was before the operation but I'm still running and I refuse to be defined by a scratch on my chest.\"\n\nNHS Golden Jubilee nurse practitioner Jim Mearns said: \"I am delighted to hear about Norrie's achievements. Regaining his fitness and strength so quickly after heart surgery is not only testament to his own strength and determination, but also to the great skill of our own dedicated and caring staff.\n\n\"It's wonderful to hear that once our patients leave the NHS Golden Jubilee National Hospital, they continue to grow in strength.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The seal ring is thought to date to 1350\n\nA retired man has found a 14th Century gold ring in his garage, nearly 40 years after he first discovered it.\n\nTom Clark, 81, located the seal ring in a tin at his Buckinghamshire home among items which had come from his late mother's house.\n\nThe Aylesbury metal detectorist had first discovered it on farmland between 1979 and 1982, but had not realised the significance of the find.\n\nIt could now fetch up to £10,000 at auction.\n\nThe ring has an engraving of the god Mars holding a spear. It bears a Latin inscription and contains what is thought to be a semi-precious carved gem.\n\nSuch rings would be used to leave a mark in wax to show that a document was legitimate and unopened.\n\nTom Clark found the ring sometime between 1979 and 1982\n\nMr Clark said: \"I had completely forgotten about it. I found it... on farmland just outside Aylesbury. There's a big housing estate on the land now.\n\n\"At the time I'd only been metal detecting for 10 years and didn't realise the ring was anything special. It was all twisted and broken when I dug it up.\"\n\nMr Clark, a retired leather craftsman, said he had taken the ring, along with others, to a museum to be recorded but was told they were \"fairly modern\" so he had put them in a tin at his mother's house and forgotten about them.\n\nMark Becher, historica expert at Hansons auctioneers, said: \"The ring bears a Latin inscription - NVNCIE.VERA.TEGO - which may translate as 'I hide the true message'.\n\n\"This could relate to the role of a seal ring in securing correspondence.\"", "The BBC has spoken to 26 employees of Costa Coffee franchise stores managed by Goldex Essex Investments Ltd and Bristal Investments Ltd.\n\nComplaints include managers' alleged refusal to pay for sickness or annual leave, working outside of contracted hours and the retention of tips.\n\nA Costa Coffee spokeswoman said an independent audit has been launched.\n\n\"Given the serious nature of the allegations, we have today informed all of our Individual Franchise Partners that we will be launching an independent audit into the legal and ethical compliance of their operations, including employment matters,\" she said on Thursday.\n\nThe latest allegations surfaced after the BBC reported that staff at Costa stores, managed by Kafeel Khan's Goldex Essex Investments Ltd, were being charged a minimum of £200 for their own training.\n\nA previous complaint against the Costa franchise partner by ex-employee Daniel Gyori, for withholding wages, was upheld in court in the claimant's favour.\n\nAn anonymous former employee at a store under Goldex Essex Investments Ltd claims they had almost £1,000 of their holiday pay deducted from their salary, despite being contracted to work 48 hours a week.\n\nThe employee claimed they worked, on average, 60 hours per week because of the expectation to arrive at the store at 05:30 in the morning.\n\nThe employee says they had accrued the necessary days to claim annual leave - as stated in the contract seen by the BBC - but still had pay deducted.\n\nThe complainant outlined a number of other working conditions that they found distressing. They say they found it \"impossible\" to find time to see their children due to the \"long hours\", and suffered a severe amount of emotional distress as a result.\n\nA franchise is a type of licence that allows a third-party partner to have access and rights to a larger business's logo, name and model, so that the partner can sell a product or provide a service under the business's name.\n\nThree Bristal Investments Ltd employees working under Emilio Aleo alleged they regularly worked 13-hour shifts with 20-minute breaks.\n\nMr Aleo says: \"We do not obligate staff to work more than 44 hours per week without their agreement.\n\nHe added that breaks \"are given in accordance with the hours worked\" and that the franchisee \"fully [complies] with [his] statutory obligations\".\n\nAnother former employee at a Costa store managed by Mr Aleo's Bristal Investments Ltd claimed that gratuity money earned by staff for good customer service was used to purchase presents for Mr Aleo and his wife and co-Director Kerry Morgan.\n\nMr Aleo says he is unaware of how tip money is spent.\n\n\"This is left to the store manager and his/her team of staff to administer. We are not aware of the quantum of any tips/gratuities enjoyed by the staff in each store,\" he said.\n\nA second employee at Mr Aleo's Costa Coffee store claimed that employees \"were not treated like human beings\" and complained of a \"complete lack of empathy and consideration of our feelings\".\n\nIn an email, leaked to the BBC by a third employee, a staff member asked if she could keep her mobile phone with her to keep in contact with her father who had been diagnosed with terminal cancer.\n\nThe manager refused to let the employee keep her phone, and suggested she give the Costa Coffee store number to the hospital instead.\n\nThe person who leaked the emails said the affected employee was \"very upset\" and \"shocked\" because she had worked there for seven years.\n\nMr Aleo said: \"We reject the suggestion of a lack of empathy towards staff, and could cite numerous examples of granting compassionate leave when appropriate.\"\n\nBaristas and employees at managerial level have complained about the numerous deductions outlined in Costa Coffee contracts written by franchise partners.\n\nOne former manager at Goldex Essex Investments lost \"£150 from [her] wages because [she] was five minutes late to opening the store\", she said.\n\nOther fines outlined in the contracts were for used uniform that was damaged when returned to the employer, excessive waste and till discrepancies.\n\nContracts issued by Costa Coffee Bristal Investments Ltd include an appendix outlining deductions\n\nSeema Gill, a consultant employment solicitor at My Business Counsel says the deductions may be legally contentious.\n\nDeductions for \"maintenance and cleanliness of store equipment\" led one anonymous employee at Goldex Essex Investments Ltd to \"clean concrete posts and pull weeds out by fences next to the store\".\n\nWhen the BBC approached Mr Khan for comment, he said he found it \"extremely upsetting to hear the allegations about unhappy team members\".\n\nHe said: \"There would be no repercussions for any employee who wanted to question their pay, holiday days etc and if a mistake had occurred we would rectify it immediately. We have recently re-communicated to staff all the ways they can contact us or raise any questions.\"\n\nBut he added that he could not address the problems without reviewing the evidence.\n\nIn response to all of the allegations, a Costa Coffee spokeswoman added: \"We take any allegations of this nature very seriously and would like to reassure team members and customers that we will not tolerate illegal and unethical behaviour in any circumstances under the Costa Coffee brand.\"", "Liverpool manager Jurgen Klopp says his side \"do not need to excite everyone in every second\" after a comfortable victory over Arsenal maintained their place at the top of the Premier League.\n\nThe Reds also preserved their 100% start to the Premier League season as Mohamed Salah scored twice to add to Joel Matip's first-half header in a dominant performance at Anfield.\n\n\"It was a performance full of power, energy, greed and passion, which I think you need against a team like Arsenal.\" Klopp told Sky Sports.\n\n\"The last 10 minutes I saw the possession - 53 to 47% or something like that - but over 80 minutes it must have been completely different. We were completely in charge of the game.\n\n\"We are not Disneyland, we do not need to excite everyone in every second.\"\n\nThe Gunners, the only other side in the top flight to win their first two games, had opportunities to shock Liverpool in a tight first half, especially when record £72m signing Nicolas Pepe shot straight at keeper Adrian after running clear.\n\nLiverpool took control when Matip put them ahead with a powerful header from Trent Alexander-Arnold's corner four minutes before the interval.\n\nAnd any hopes manager Unai Emery had of watching his side mount a recovery were snuffed out in the 49th minute after a moment of madness from new signing David Luiz, who needlessly dragged Salah back in the area.\n\nLiverpool's Egyptian attacker drilled home the penalty and then embarrassed Luiz again out on the touchline at the start of a dazzling run that ended with a low, curling finish into the bottom corner just before the hour.\n\nArsenal substitute Lucas Torreira pulled one back late on, but nothing was getting in the way of Liverpool's 12th successive league victory, equalling their best sequence in the top flight under Kenny Dalglish between April and October 1990.\n\nLiverpool back in the old routine\n\nLiverpool had moments when they stuttered against Southampton and their defence has looked unusually fallible - but this was a movie we have seen many times before at Anfield under Jurgen Klopp.\n\nArsenal have suffered badly here in recent seasons, losing 5-1 last season and 4-0 in Arsene Wenger's final season. Once again, despite taking their time to hit top gear, Liverpool's ruthlessness and intensity simply proved too much for Arsenal.\n\nTrue, they gratefully accepted Luiz's gifts but once Matip put Liverpool ahead the pressure and intensity applied to Arsenal was simply too much for the Gunners to resist.\n\nAnd, as Arsenal discovered, when you fail to take chances to punish Liverpool, the inevitable outcome is that you will be punished yourselves.\n\nLiverpool do not simply have a prodigious work ethic that makes life permanently uncomfortable for opponents; they also have world-class attacking options as illustrated by Salah's brilliant weaving run and slide-rule finish for their third.\n\nKlopp's side missed out on the title by a single point despite only one loss, to champions Manchester City, last season - and three wins from three has quickly put the marker down that they intend to go one better and claim that first title in 30 years.\n\nLuiz has a track record of success that suggests he may be able to bring moments of quality to Arsenal's defence after his surprise £8m move from Chelsea - but there is no escaping he has the enduring capability to be a complete liability.\n\nThe Brazilian, at 32, is not going to change and so it proved as he delivered a moment of crass stupidity that killed stone dead Arsenal's hopes of taking anything away from Anfield.\n\nIt is a stretch to say Arsenal had Liverpool on the ropes but, despite the overall domination of the European champions, the Gunners certainly had moments of threat through the pace and menace of Pepe and Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang. They would have started the second half with hope.\n\nLuiz made it all count for nothing when he felt his best method of dealing with Salah's 49th-minute raid into the penalty area was to blatantly drag him back by the shirt in a red-mist moment that did not even seriously require the intervention of the video assistant referee.\n\nSalah, despite some ludicrous protests from Luiz, drilled home the penalty before taking him to cleaners when scoring Liverpool's brilliant third.\n\nToo much of the Arsenal's playing out from the back was asking for trouble against this Liverpool side. Throw in the act of stupidity from Luiz and ultimately they got what they deserved, despite some areas for Emery to admire.\n\n\"We were doing some transitions very good and we had some chances but, in the second half, the penalty was very soft,\" Emery told BBC Match of the Day.\n\n\"After 2-0 our reaction was good. We needed to attack and take a different moment in the match. We are disappointed we lost 3-1 but watching some players we can be optimistic.\n\n\"We need to improve in possession and countering the pressure but Liverpool is the best team with this. We have to be realistic but we can fight closer to them.\"\n• None Since Jurgen Klopp took over in October 2015, Liverpool have scored 26 goals in eight Premier League games against Arsenal - the most one side has netted against another in the competition in that period.\n• None Only Everton at Arsenal (64) have conceded more away goals against a single opponent in the Premier League than Arsenal at Liverpool (62).\n• None Arsenal have now failed to win any of their past 23 away league games against fellow 'Big six' sides (D8 L15) - during this run they have conceded 53 goals while keeping just one clean sheet.\n• None Since the start of last season, Arsenal have given away eight Premier League penalties - only Brighton (10) have faced more.\n• None Liverpool have scored 22 headed goals in the Premier League since the start of last season; seven more than any other side. The Reds have scored three in this campaign already, while no other side has scored more than one.\n• None Liverpool manager Jurgen Klopp has faced Arsenal eight times without defeat in the Premier League (W5 D3).\n• None Mohamed Salah has been directly involved in more Premier League goals against Arsenal than against any other side (eight; six goals and two assists). He has scored in all four of his home games against them.\n• None Trent Alexander-Arnold has assisted nine goals in his past 10 appearances at Anfield for Liverpool in all competitions, including assisting once in each of his past five competitive home games.\n• None Nicolas Pepe has become the first player to successfully dribble past Virgil van Dijk in the Dutch defender's past 50 appearances in the Premier League, since Mikel Merino in March 2018 for Newcastle.\n\nLiverpool travel to Burnley in their next Premier League fixture on Saturday, 31 August (17:30 BST). Arsenal resume league action when they host Tottenham in the first north London derby of the season, on Sunday, 1 September (16:30 BST).\n• None Attempt missed. David Luiz (Arsenal) right footed shot from outside the box is high and wide to the left from a direct free kick.\n• None Fabinho (Liverpool) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.\n• None Offside, Arsenal. Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang tries a through ball, but Henrikh Mkhitaryan is caught offside.\n• None Alexandre Lacazette (Arsenal) wins a free kick on the right wing.\n• None Offside, Arsenal. Granit Xhaka tries a through ball, but Alexandre Lacazette is caught offside.\n• None Goal! Liverpool 3, Arsenal 1. Lucas Torreira (Arsenal) right footed shot from the centre of the box to the bottom right corner. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page", "British officials saw the 1994 meeting between Gerry Adams, Albert Reynolds and John Hume (L-R) as an example of \"indecent haste\"\n\nDeclassified government papers show there were serious tensions between the British and Irish governments over their responses to the paramilitary ceasefires of the 1990s.\n\nThe detail is contained in previously confidential documents released by the Public Record Office in Belfast.\n\nThey show how the then Tánaiste (Irish deputy prime minister) Dick Spring felt the British government was too slow with the process of demilitarisation.\n\nSpeaking in 1995 at an Anglo-Irish conference, Mr Spring stressed the Irish government's view on the need for a \"rapid and visible response\" by the security forces to the new situation.\n\nThe Irish government felt the withdrawal of troops from the streets of Northern Ireland was proceeding too slowly\n\nHe welcomed recent moves, including the ending of military patrolling and troop withdrawals.\n\nHowever, he spoke of \"a growing sense among the nationalist community that [the British government's] response was unduly cautious\".\n\nThe then Royal Ulster Constabulary (RUC) Chief Constable Sir Hugh Annesley was \"taken aback\" by Mr Spring's view that demilitarisation should proceed more rapidly.\n\nThe files also reveal that a senior civil servant in the Northern Ireland Office (NIO) was critical of the then Taoiseach (Irish Prime Minister) Albert Reynolds' famous public hand-clasp with the Sinn Féin president, Gerry Adams, SDLP leader John Hume at Government Buildings in Dublin on 6 September 1994.\n\nThe official wrote that the meeting was \"widely believed to reflect indecent haste although clearly designed to tie Adams into a process from which he personally would not be able to escape\".\n\nHistorian Dr Eamon Phoenix, who has examined the documents, said decommissioning was the key issue of the time.\n\nHe said the Irish and the British governments took different approaches to the loyalist and republican ceasefires.\n\nThe decommissioning of paramilitary weapons became the key issue following the ceasefires\n\nThe papers reveal there were serious differences behind the scenes, he told BBC News NI.\n\nHe said Prime Minister John Major was \"talking about the permanency of decommissioning and questioning the permanency which irritated John Hume, Gerry Adams and the Irish government and of course Sinn Féin itself so we are into this whole kind of blame game\".\n\nDr Phoenix said the reports show how difficult \"it was to build trust and peace particularly between republicans and the British government\".\n\nHe added that the documents reveal that building peace \"is difficult and is going to take a very long time to deliver\".\n\nThe reports, released on Friday, also give details of behind-the-scenes meetings over the issue of the decommissioning of paramilitary weapons.\n\nThe documents detail the minutes of the first meeting at Parliament Buildings, Stormont, on 9 December 1994 between a Sinn Féin delegation, led by the late Martin McGuinness, and a team of NIO officials, headed by the Permanent Under-Secretary of the NIO, Quentin Thomas, which run to 34 pages.\n\nOne report from December 1994 quotes the Northern Ireland Secretary Patrick Mayhew saying \"all the paramilitary structures (including armaments) remain in place and we are now in a tricky phase until we establish whether the republican movement and loyalists are definitely committed to democratic politics\".\n\nThe files also reveal Mr Major was worried about the impact of troop reductions in Northern Ireland on Tory backbenchers. The prime minister was reliant on Ulster Unionist votes at Westminster.\n\nDuring the Troubles the border was peppered with unsightly security installations and watchtowers\n\nThe previously confidential documents also show that the Northern Ireland Tourist Board (NITB) suggested asking the European Union to help fund the redesign of border security checkpoints.\n\nThe issue was raised with the British government by the chairman of the NITB, Sir Hugh O'Neill, on 9 May 1990.\n\nWriting to the NIO under-secretary, Richard Needham, Sir Hugh expressed concern at \"the intimidating appearance of the surface entry points into NI from the Republic\".\n\nMr Needham indicated that a refurbishment programme had been agreed costing £50,000 per checkpoint.\n\nNoting that most visitors entered Northern Ireland from the Republic of Ireland, Sir Hugh asked if more could be done on the border \"so as to give a more friendly welcome to the visitor\".\n\nHe also suggested the government should seek European Union funding to assist in the landscaping of the checkpoints.\n\nFormer US Senator George Mitchell chaired the talks that led to the signing of the 1998 Good Friday Agreement\n\nThe documents also show that in 1993 the British government rejected United States President Bill Clinton's plan to appoint an Irish peace envoy.\n\nTwo years later, former US Senator George Mitchell was appointed special envoy. He was later to chair the talks that led to the Good Friday Agreement of 1998.\n\nThe papers also reveal that a plan by a senior NIO official that the Queen might mark the ending of violence in NI after the 1994 ceasefires by sending a message to Irish President Mary Robinson to mark St Patrick's Day was rejected on grounds of unionist sensitivity.\n\nThe fuss over a St Patrick's Day greeting did nothing to sour relations between the Queen and Mary Robinson (seen here at a later meeting)\n\nOne NIO official wrote that a message from the Queen to President Robinson would be \"a gain\" for the British side, but added: \"I doubt if many unionists would see it that way\".\n\nThe final word was left to Mr Mayhew. In a memo on 6 March 1995, he expressed the view that \"it was less sore-making to maintain the practice of silence\" towards the Irish president.", "Katy Bourne is the police and crime commissioner for Sussex\n\nHarsher sentences for people who attack police officers \"would be very welcome\", the head of the national body for police bosses has said.\n\nKaty Bourne, the new chair of the Association of Police and Crime Commissioners (APCC), said anyone who hurts an officer should go to prison, \"no ifs, no buts\".\n\nShe made the remarks after the death of PC Andrew Harper in the line of duty.\n\nIt comes as all chief constables were called to a summit on officer safety.\n\nThe urgent meeting - the first time the chief constables have ever come together outside of their usual quarterly meetings - will discuss how frontline policing can be made safer.\n\nCurrently, people guilty of common assault against emergency services staff can be fined or sent to prison. Last year the maximum jail term was doubled from six to 12 months.\n\nIn her first interview since beginning her new role earlier this year, Mrs Bourne said: \"If you attack a police officer, you need to know you will go to prison.\"\n\nMrs Bourne - who also sits on the prime minister's recently formed National Policing Board - added: \"When we do catch people I think the sentencing needs to be reflective of the seriousness of the crime.\"\n\nOver the last four years, the number of Sussex officers injured in attacks has risen by 16% to an average of three a day, she said.\n\nMrs Bourne, who is the police and crime commissioner for Sussex Police, branded the increase in her \"relatively safe, peaceful\" county as \"unacceptable\".\n\nOn Saturday, Martin Hewitt, the chair of the National Police Chiefs' Council (NPCC), called an urgent meeting for all chief constables, saying: \"If we can't protect our people, how can we protect the public?\"\n\nThe summit, which will be held in early September, will see the top officers share lessons from the recent attacks on their frontline officers as part of a discussion \"to see if there is anything more we can do to tangibly improve their safety\", Mr Hewitt said.\n\nThe Police Federation, which represents rank and file officers, has also been asked to give its input.\n\nAll frontline officers in one force have been offered Tasers after violence against emergency services\n\nAlthough Mr Hewitt said it was important not to have \"knee-jerk\" reactions to events, he added: \"Levels of violence are an increasing concern across the country and attacks on our officers have gone up,\" he said in a statement.\n\n\"It is the responsibility of each chief constable to do all they can to keep their officers as safe as possible,\" he added.\n\nMrs Bourne also said she would ask Home Secretary Priti Patel to consider using Sussex Police's knife crime pilot prevention programme to help to tackle the issue across a wider area.\n\nKnown as Reboot, the early youth intervention programme involves police, health professionals and charities joining forces to encourage children to develop interests and hobbies to help deter them from anti-social behaviour.\n\nMeanwhile, earlier this week, Northamptonshire Police announced it would be the first force in the country to arm all of its frontline officers with Tasers.\n\nDays later it was joined by a second force, Durham Constabulary, which said every frontline officer who wanted one would undergo training to use the stun guns.\n\nSome studies have linked the increased use or presence of Tasers with an increase in hostility between police and the public.\n\nCh Con Giles York - vice chair of the NPCC - told BBC Breakfast: \"There is always a balance to be struck around how we equip our officers and still maintain that British piece of policing that is policing by consent.\"\n\nEarlier this month, a police officer was stabbed in Leyton, east London, and two officers in Merseyside were attacked in separate incidents.\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. Donald Tusk at the G7: I hope Boris Johnson will not want to go down in history as Mr No Deal\n\nEuropean Council President Donald Tusk and Prime Minister Boris Johnson have clashed over who would be to blame in the case of a no-deal Brexit.\n\nMr Tusk said Mr Johnson risked being remembered as \"Mr No Deal\" - but the PM responded by saying it was Mr Tusk who would become \"Mr No-Deal Brexit\".\n\nThe pair are due to meet for talks at the G7 summit in France on Sunday.\n\nMr Tusk added the EU was \"willing to listen\" to the PM's ideas for Brexit - as long as they are \"realistic\".\n\nBut speaking at his press conference in Biarritz, Mr Tusk said he would \"not co-operate on [a] no-deal\".\n\nSince becoming PM, Mr Johnson has said the UK will leave the EU on 31 October.\n\nMr Johnson has repeatedly stated he would prefer to leave the EU with a deal, but insists the backstop - the insurance policy designed to avoid a hard border on the island of Ireland - must be removed from the withdrawal agreement.\n\n\"I've made it absolutely clear I don't want no deal and that we've got to get rid of the backstop from the treaty and if Mr Tusk doesn't want to go down as Mr No-Deal Brexit I hope that point will be borne in mind too,\" he said.\n\nEarlier in the day, Mr Tusk had used the same moniker when talking about Mr Johnson.\n\n\"I still hope Prime Minister Johnson will not like to go down in history as Mr No Deal,\" he said.\n\n\"The EU has always been open to co-operation. One thing I will not co-operate on is a no deal.\n\n\"We are willing to listen to ideas that are operational, realistic and acceptable to all EU member states.\"\n\nWhen Boris Johnson met President Emmanuel Macron and Chancellor Angela Merkel this week, he got a relatively positive response.\n\nBoth leaders indicated they were willing to listen to any ideas the prime minister may have to avoid a no-deal Brexit.\n\nBut Mr Johnson's meeting with Donald Tusk at the G7 summit on Sunday may now prove more problematic.\n\nThe spat between both men - both of them warning they could go down in history as Mr No Deal - shows that both sides are engaged in a blame game.\n\nNeither side wishes to be seen as the intransigent partner in a negotiation that leads to no deal.\n\nMr Macron and Ms Merkel were implicit in this, while Mr Tusk was explicit, prompting an equally blunt response from Mr Johnson.\n\nIt is, of course, still possible that some political space may be carved out to allow for a compromise at the last minute. But all the signs still point towards a no-deal Brexit at the end of October.\n\nThe G7 summit - a get-together of most of the leaders of the world's largest economies - comes with just over two months until the UK is scheduled to leave the EU at the end of October.\n\nMr Johnson wants to renegotiate the Irish backstop - a key Brexit sticking point - but the EU has consistently ruled this out.\n\nSpeaking on Saturday, Mr Johnson said: \"We've made it very clear we won't be instituting any kind of checks or controls at the Northern Irish border. We don't think such controls are necessary.\n\n\"There are a large range of alternative arrangements - these we will be discussing in the coming weeks.\"\n\nIf implemented, the backstop - a last resort should the UK and the EU not agree a trade deal after Brexit - would see Northern Ireland staying aligned to some rules of the EU single market.\n\nIt would also see the UK stay in a single customs territory with the EU, and align with current and future EU rules on competition and state aid.\n\nAt a news conference on Wednesday with Mr Johnson, German Chancellor Merkel suggested an alternative to the backstop might be achievable, adding that the onus was on the UK.\n\nBoris Johnson met with French President Emmanuel Macron at the Elysee Presidential Palace this week\n\nBut the next day French President Macron said the backstop was \"indispensable\" to preserving political stability and the single market.\n\nAfter visiting his counterparts in Paris and Berlin this week, Mr Johnson said there was \"new mood music\", but reaching a new deal would not be \"a cinch\".\n\nHe has insisted the UK will leave the EU on 31 October, whether or not a new deal is reached.\n\nMr Johnson will also meet with US President Donald Trump, who arrived in France around Saturday lunchtime.\n\nAsked if he would be telling Mr Trump not to escalate the US-China trade war, Mr Johnson said: \"You bet.\"\n\nHe added one of his priorities for the summit was \"the state of global trade\".\n• None Johnson: UK will not retreat from global community", "The boy was on holiday with his family at La Croix du Vieux Pont in the Berny Riviere area, near Paris\n\nA 12-year-old boy from Hull has died at a campsite in France.\n\nThe boy was on a family holiday at La Croix du Vieux Pont in the Berny Riviere area, about 50 miles (80 km) north-east of Paris.\n\nA spokeswoman for site owner the European Camping Group confirmed the boy died on Thursday afternoon.\n\nTour operator Venue Holidays said: \"Our hearts go out to the family concerned at this awful time. We will help the family in whatever way is possible.\"\n\nIt added: \"We would request that their privacy is respected at this difficult time.\"\n\nThe European Camping Group said it had been \"deeply touched\" and shocked by the \"tragedy\".\n\nIt said it was offering psychological support, and was collaborating with investigating authorities.\n\nThe Foreign Office said it was \"supporting the family of a British child who has died in France\".\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 can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Geoffrey Berman: \"If you believe you are a victim of this man... we want to hear from you.\"\n\n\"I'm not a sexual predator, I'm an 'offender,'\" Jeffrey Epstein told the New York Post in 2011. \"It's the difference between a murderer and a person who steals a bagel.\"\n\nEpstein died in a New York prison cell on 10 August as he awaited, without the chance of bail, his trial on sex trafficking charges.\n\nIt came more than a decade after his conviction for soliciting prostitution from a minor, for which he was registered as a sex offender.\n\nThis time, he was accused of running a \"vast network\" of underage girls for sex. He pleaded not guilty.\n\nThe 66-year-old in the past socialised with Prince Andrew and former presidents Donald Trump and Bill Clinton.\n\nBut who was Jeffrey Epstein?\n\nBorn and raised in New York, Epstein taught maths and physics in the city at the private Dalton School in the mid 1970s. He had studied physics and maths himself at university, although he never graduated.\n\nA father of one of his students is said to have been so impressed that he put Epstein in touch with a senior partner at the Wall Street investment bank Bear Stearns.\n\nHe was a partner there within four years. By 1982, he had created his own firm - J Epstein and Co.\n\nThe company managed assets of clients worth more than $1bn (£800m) and was an instant success. Epstein soon began spending his fortune - including on a mansion in Florida, a ranch in New Mexico, and reputedly the largest private home in New York - and socialising with celebrities, artists and politicians.\n\n\"I've known Jeff for 15 years. Terrific guy,\" Donald Trump told New York magazine for a profile on Epstein in 2002. \"He's a lot of fun to be with. It is even said that he likes beautiful women as much as I do, and many of them are on the younger side.\n\n\"No doubt about it - Jeffrey enjoys his social life.\"\n\nJeffrey Epstein, left, with Donald Trump at the former president's Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida in 1997\n\nIn 2002, Epstein flew former President Bill Clinton and the actors Kevin Spacey and Chris Tucker to Africa on a customised private jet. He made an unsuccessful bid to buy New York magazine with then film producer Harvey Weinstein in 2003 - the same year he made a $30m donation to Harvard University.\n\nBut he also strove to keep his life private, reportedly shunning society events and dinners in restaurants.\n\nHe dated women like Miss Sweden winner Eva Andersson Dubin and Ghislaine Maxwell, daughter of publisher Robert Maxwell, although he never married.\n\nRosa Monckton, the former CEO of Tiffany & Co, told Vanity Fair for a 2003 article that Epstein was \"very enigmatic\" and \"a classic iceberg\".\n\n\"You think you know him and then you peel off another ring of the onion skin and there's something else extraordinary underneath,\" she said. \"What you see is not what you get.\"\n\nIn 2005, the parents of a 14-year-old girl told police in Florida that Epstein had molested their daughter at his Palm Beach home. A police search of the property found photos of girls throughout the house.\n\nThe Miami Herald reports that his abuse of underage girls dated back years.\n\n\"This was not a 'he said, she said' situation,\" Palm Beach Police Chief Michael Reiter told the newspaper. \"This was 50-something 'shes' and one 'he' - and the 'shes' all basically told the same story.\"\n\n\"He has never been secretive about the girls,\" columnist Michael Wolff told New York magazine for a 2007 profile piece, as the case against Epstein moved through the courts.\n\n\"At one point, when his troubles began, he was talking to me and said, 'What can I say, I like young girls.' I said, 'Maybe you should say, 'I like young women.'\"\n\nHowever, prosecutors forged a deal with the hedge fund manager in 2008.\n\nHe avoided federal charges - which could have seen him face life in prison - and instead received an 18-month prison sentence, during which he was able to go on \"work release\" to his office for 12 hours a day, six days a week. He was released on probation after 13 months.\n\nPrince Andrew, left, has been criticised for his association with Jeffrey Epstein\n\nThe Miami Herald says that the federal prosecutor Alexander Acosta - who was Secretary of Labour in the Trump administration - struck a plea agreement hiding the extent of his crimes and ending an FBI investigation into whether there were more victims or more powerful people who took part. The paper described it as the \"deal of the century\".\n\nMr Acosta resigned in July 2019 over the scandal, though he defended his actions as guaranteeing at last some jail time for Epstein.\n\nSince 2008 Epstein had been listed as a level three on the New York sex offenders register. It is a lifelong designation meaning he was at a high risk of reoffending.\n\nBut Epstein maintained his properties and his assets after his conviction.\n\nIn December 2010, Prince Andrew, the third child of the Queen, was pictured in New York's Central Park with Epstein, drawing controversy.\n\nIn a BBC interview in November 2019, the prince, who had known Epstein since 1999, said he had gone to New York to break off their friendship. He said he regretted staying at the financier's house while he was there, and that he had \"let the side down\" by doing so.\n\nAn Epstein accuser, Virginia Roberts - now Virginia Giuffre - would later allege that she was made to have sex with Prince Andrew in the early 2000s when she was 17.\n\nPrince Andrew categorically denied having sex with her and said he has no recollection of a photo of the pair being taken together in London.\n\nEpstein was arrested in New York on 6 July 2019 after flying back from Paris on his private jet.\n\nProsecutors were reportedly seeking the forfeiture of his New York mansion, where some of his alleged crimes occurred.\n\nEpstein always denied any wrongdoing, and pleaded not guilty to the charges against him.\n\nAfter being denied bail by the court, he was being held in New York's Metropolitan Correctional Center. He was taken to hospital briefly in July for what was widely reported to be injuries to his neck - which neither prison officials or his lawyers would officially comment on.\n\nAt his last court appearance on 31 July, it became clear that he would spend a year in prison, with a trial no earlier than summer 2020. Prosecutors said they wanted no delay, and bringing the trial quickly was in the public interest.\n\nNow, Epstein will never face the trial at all.\n\nAfter Epstein's death, his former girlfriend, Ghislaine Maxwell, came into the spotlight.\n\nShe was arrested in July 2020 at her secluded mansion in the US state of New Hampshire on suspicion of having assisted Epstein's abuse of minors by helping to recruit and groom victims known to be underage.\n\nIn December 2021, a jury in New York City found her guilty on five out of six counts, including the most serious charge - that of sex trafficking of a minor.\n\nThis carries a possible 40-year sentence, which means the 60-year-old could spend the rest of her life behind bars.\n\nThe Oxford-educated Ms Maxwell is said to have introduced Epstein to many of her wealthy and powerful friends, including Bill Clinton and the Duke of York.\n\nFriends said that although Ms Maxwell and Epstein's romantic relationship lasted only a few years, she continued to work with him long afterward.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: The secret lives of Maxwell and Epstein\n\nIn court documents, former employees at the Epstein mansion in Palm Beach describe her as the house manager, who oversaw the staff, handled finances and served as social co-ordinator.\n\nIn a Vanity Fair profile published in 2003, Epstein said Ms Maxwell was not a paid employee, but rather his \"best friend\".\n\nDuring the trial, prosecutors alleged Ms Maxwell preyed on and groomed young girls for Epstein to abuse. Her defence claimed she is being used as a scapegoat for Epstein's crimes following his death.", "A cordon is in place near the scene\n\nA man has been taken to hospital following reports of two armed robberies in Swansea.\n\nArmed police were deployed to Oxford Street and Norfolk Street at about 09:10 BST to \"ensure the safety\" of the public and other officers.\n\nSouth Wales Police said a man was threatened by another man who left with a cashbox on Oxford Street.\n\nThe second incident took place in Norfolk Street, a few minutes later, and the suspect then fled the scene.\n\nBoth areas have been cordoned off.\n\nAnyone who witnessed suspicious activity in the area is asked to contact police.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Ed Sheeran has been accused of being a \"clout chaser\" and a \"culture vulture\" by Wiley.\n\nIn a series of tweets, the rapper joked about using a guitar and foot pedal and said: \"I'm sick of people using grime to look good for two minutes.\"\n\nWiley's messages come after Ed and Stormzy unveiled a remix of their song Take Me Back To London.\n\nStormzy has defended Ed Sheeran, describing the music star as genuine.\n\nHe replied: \"No Wiley you know Ed been doing this from early, been a real one from early, can't question that, you know I love you and respect you brother but nah don't do that.\"\n\nWiley accused Ed Sheeran of being a clout chaser - for hanging around with certain people to gain popularity.\n\nWiley and Ed Sheeran have worked together in the past\n\nWiley, who is seen as the \"Godfather of grime\", has worked with Ed himself in the past on the track You from Ed's EP No.5 Collaborations Project in 2011.\n\nBut he seems to be unhappy with Ed's latest music.\n\nUsing the laughing emoji, Wiley tweeted, \"shall I get my guitar and foot pedal out?\", referring to Sheeran's live performances where he uses a guitar and foot pedal for his music to play on a loop.\n\nHe continued: \"Anyone who uses us and our sounds are culture vultures... I'm getting my guitar and foot pedal out and I don't wanna hear nobody moaning about nothing.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Wiley This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nStormzy featured on Ed's remix of the Shape Of You.\n\nThey've done it again, this time for Stormzy's album - the remix of Take Me Back To London features grime artists Jaykae and Aitch.\n\nJaykae also defended Ed, tweeting: \"Wiley's so sour and amped up about Ed making a grime song that he hasn't even clocked I spun his head off in my verse.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript 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 Jaykae This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nWiley replied: \"Bro you just sit down and bask in the tinie bit of glory you think your getting. You couldn't spin me not on a song with Ed nor on power.\"\n\nIt's not the first time Wiley has criticised some grime music being as being \"watered down\" to achieve chart success.\n\nIn 2017 he told Radio 1 Newsbeat: \"No-one's had a grime number one. Any number one that anyone's had, it's pop music. England is built on pop music, that's why the show was called Top of the Pops. It's a strong pop market.\"\n\nOn Ed's latest album, No.6 Collaborations Project, he's worked with the likes of Eminem, 50 Cent, Bruno Mars, Khalid and Dave. The record is currently top of the charts in the UK.\n\nNewsbeat has contacted Ed Sheeran and Wiley for a comment and are awaiting a response.\n\nListen to Newsbeat live at 12:45 and 17:45 weekdays - or listen back here.", "The increases will affect about $550bn of Chinese imports\n\nPresident Donald Trump has hit back at China by announcing new higher tariffs on imports - escalating a mounting trade war between the two nations.\n\nIn a series of tweets on Friday, Mr Trump announced an additional tariff increase of 5% on imports from China.\n\nThe move came hours after the president hit out at Chinese plans to hit $75bn (£61bn) of US goods with duties.\n\nMr Trump described their action as \"politically motivated\" and has accused them of \"taking advantage\" of the US.\n\n\"Sadly, past administrations have allowed China to get so far ahead of fair and balanced trade that it has become a great burden to the American taxpayer,\" Mr Trump tweeted. \"As president, I can no longer allow this to happen!\"\n\nMr Trump has also said he had \"hereby ordered\" American companies to look for alternatives to China and suggested they make products in the US instead.\n\nEarlier, China unveiled plans to increase duties between 5% and 10% on more than 5,000 US products including agricultural goods, aircraft and crude oil.\n\nIt will also re-impose a suspended 25% duty on US car imports.\n\nThe new tariffs, set to affect about $75bn of US goods, will be imposed in two stages on 1 September and 15 December.\n\nIn a series of Friday evening tweets, Mr Trump said the US would raise its tariffs on $250bn of Chinese imports from 25% to 30% starting on 1 October.\n\nHe also said planned tariffs on $300bn of other Chinese goods will now be 15% instead of 10%.\n\nPresident Trump unveiled the 10% tariff plan on 1 August - blaming China for not following through on promises to buy more American agricultural products.\n\nThose tariffs, imposed on items like electronics and clothing, were expected to be introduced at the beginning of September but some have been delayed until mid-December to avoid hitting US Christmas shoppers.\n\nThe latest developments in the trade war have sent global financial markets tumbling.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Jay Powell or Xi Jinping: Which chairman is Trump's enemy?\n\nThe Dow Jones Industrial Average lost more than 620 points, or 2.4%, on Friday while London's FTSE 100 and the German DAX also turned negative.\n\nOn Friday Mr Trump turned his fire against the head of the US central bank, Jerome Powell, after he spoke out about the economic risks of a trade war.\n\nIn a tweet, the president went as far to question whether Federal Reserve chairman was a greater \"enemy\" than China's leader Xi Jinping.", "Police tweeted a warning on Friday about some drugs on the site\n\nA 17-year-old girl has died of a suspected drugs overdose at Leeds Festival.\n\nThe teenager, who was from Oldham, died shortly after 03:40 BST at the Bramham Park Site, West Yorkshire Police said.\n\nA 17-year-old boy, also from the Oldham area, has been arrested on suspicion of supplying controlled drugs and is in police custody.\n\nSupt Matt Davison said: \"Our thoughts are with the family of the girl who has died.\"\n\nThe Leeds Festival's police commander said the exact cause of the death was yet to be established, but it appeared the girl had \"taken a combination of drugs\".\n\nMelvin Benn, from organisers Festival Republic, said: \"To say we are deeply saddened about this tragedy is an understatement.\n\n\"West Yorkshire Police have taken action against those that may have supplied the drugs, and we will continue to work with them as usual.\n\n\"I would like to take this opportunity to remind anyone attending Reading and Leeds Festival that there is no safe way to take prohibited drugs and there are no safe prohibited drugs.\"\n\nThe Leeds Festival Police twitter account had tweeted a warning on Friday about some drugs on the site carrying \"three times the normal average adult dose\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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Send your story ideas to yorkslincs.news@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The developer behind a 67-acre site in the King's Cross area of central London has defended its use of facial recognition technology.\n\nUnder data protection laws, firms must provide clear evidence that there is a need to record and use people's images.\n\nA spokeswoman said the tool was used to \"ensure public safety\" and was one of \"a number of detection and tracking methods\".\n\nThe local council said it was unaware that the system was in place.\n\nIt was first reported by the Financial Times.\n\nIn a statement, developer Argent said it used cameras \"in the interest of public safety\" and likened the area to other public spaces.\n\n\"These cameras use a number of detection and tracking methods, including facial recognition, but also have sophisticated systems in place to protect the privacy of the general public,\" it said.\n\nA spokeswoman declined to say what those systems were, how long the facial recognition had been in operation or what the legal basis was for its use, as is required under European data protection law.\n\nIn addition to the National Rail, London Underground and Eurostar stations, King's Cross is home to a number of restaurants, shops and cafes, as well as offices occupied by Google and Central Saint Martins college.\n\nThe college told the BBC it had \"not been made specifically aware\" that the tech was in use in the area and added that it does not use it inside its own buildings.\n\nAccording to the King's Cross website, planning permission for new additions to the site, granted in 2006, included:\n\nThe BBC has confirmed that London's Canary Wharf is also seeking to trial facial recognition tools, as reported in the Financial Times.\n\nThe Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) said it had general concerns about the potential for inappropriate use of the technology.\n\n\"Organisations wishing to automatically capture and use images of individuals going about their business in public spaces need to provide clear evidence to demonstrate it is strictly necessary and proportionate for the circumstances, and that there is a legal basis for that use,\" it said in a statement.\n\n\"The ICO is currently looking at the use of facial recognition technology by law enforcement in public spaces and by private sector organisations, including where they are partnering with police forces.\n\n\"We'll consider taking action where we find non-compliance with the law.\"\n\nSouth Wales Police faced a legal challenge to its use of facial recognition in 2018.\n\nDespite this it is currently undergoing a three-month trial of a new app.\n\nChancellor Sajid Javid gave his backing to the police in their trials of facial recognition cameras last month, while he was home secretary.\n\nHowever, privacy groups have also voiced concerns about the implications of facial recognition on privacy rights.\n\n\"Facial recognition is nothing like CCTV - it's not an accurate comparison,\" said Stephanie Hare, an independent researcher and tech commentator.\n\n\"It allows us to be identified and tracked in real time, without our knowledge or our informed consent.\n\n\"We recognise the power of DNA and fingerprints as biometrics and their use is governed very strictly under UK law. We do not apply the same protections and restrictions to face, yet it is arguably even more powerful precisely because it can be taken without our knowledge.\"", "Nigel Farage praised the Queen and said he hoped she lived a \"very long time\"\n\nBrexit Party leader Nigel Farage has criticised members of the Royal Family and claimed the Duke of Sussex's popularity has \"fallen off a cliff\" since he met his wife, Meghan.\n\nMr Farage also said he hoped Prince Charles would not become king because of his views on climate change.\n\nBut the ex-UKIP leader told the right-wing conference in Australia the Queen was an \"amazing, awe-inspiring woman\".\n\nHis spokesman said the comments were not part of a speech at the event.\n\nThe comments were first reported by the Guardian, which said media had been banned from the Conservative Political Action Conference in Sydney but that it had heard a recording of Mr Farage comments on Saturday.\n\nIt reported Mr Farage had said Prince Harry had been \"the most popular royal of a younger generation that we've seen for 100 years\" before he met Meghan.\n\n\"Here was Harry, here he was this young, brave, boisterous, all-male, getting into trouble, turning up at stag parties inappropriately dressed, drinking too much and causing all sorts of mayhem,\" he said.\n\n\"And then he met Meghan Markle, and it's fallen off a cliff.\"\n\nHe went on to discuss the prince's remarks last month that he and Meghan plan to have no more than two children to help fight against climate change.\n\nMr Farage said the move was \"irrelevant\" because the \"population of the globe is exploding\" in areas including China and India.\n\nHe said he hoped the Queen would live a \"very, very long time\" to prevent the Prince of Wales becoming king.\n\n\"When it comes to her son, when it comes to Charlie Boy and climate change, oh dear, oh dear, oh dear,\" he said.\n\n\"Her mother, Her Royal Highness the Queen's mother was a slightly overweight, chain-smoking gin drinker who lived to 101 years old.\n\n\"All I can say is Charlie Boy is now in his 70s... may the Queen live a very, very long time.\"\n\nMr Farage's comments have been criticised on social media, with Labour MP David Lammy urging Mr Farage to \"lay off Meghan\".\n\nAnd BBC political correspondent Mark Lobel said Number 10 was refusing to give the remarks any more oxygen by commenting on them.\n\nBut one Brexit Party MEP dismissed the criticism saying Mr Farage's comments were \"wholly irrelevant to our goal of delivering Brexit\".\n\nAnother MEP said: \"Sounds like he was having fun with the Australians. He said the Queen was an amazing woman.\"\n\nNigel Farage has come a long way since leaving UKIP.\n\nHe's very successfully focused the message of the Brexit Party, which he leads, on a clear, single issue, that of delivering Brexit by the end of October.\n\nHe's assembled a diverse and popular army of MEPs and general election candidates for which voters have already rewarded him, in last May's European elections.\n\nHe also has the Conservative Party rattled.\n\nAny offence felt by voters could, in theory, affect the Brexit Party's political fortunes.\n\nIt could leave Nigel Farage with some embarrassing baggage in the future if he were to ever meet the Royals.\n\nBut we live in a world where opinions can be revised more easily these days.\n\nDonald Trump and Boris Johnson are both on record as having said many controversial things about people in public life and nonetheless end up getting on with them later on. Boris Johnson once spoke of Donald Trump's \"stupefying ignorance\" but they seem to be working together nicely now.\n\nAbove all, Nigel Farage, a regular talk radio presenter as well as politician, is already, unashamedly a marmite figure in British Politics. So these comments may just further entrench people's views of him, whether they already like him or not.", "The owner of Ladbrokes Coral has been fined £5.9m for not protecting vulnerable customers and for failings in its anti-money laundering measures.\n\nThe Gambling Commission says that over a three-year period, Ladbrokes and Coral failed to put effective safeguards in place to \"prevent consumers suffering gambling harm\".\n\nOne customer lost £98,000 and had asked the company to stop sending promotions.\n\nBut the firm failed to carry out \"social responsibility interactions\".\n\nThe Gambling Commission said the problems occurred between November 2014 and October 2017, after which GVC Holdings bought Ladbrokes Coral in March 2018.\n\nGVC Holdings will pay £4.8m and divest £1.1m \"gained from customers as a result of its failings\".\n\nIn one instance, a Ladbrokes customer had 460 attempted deposits into their gambling account declined. However, they were still able to lose £98,000 over two and a half years.\n\nThe commission also highlighted a Coral customer who spent £1.5m over nearly three years, during which time they logged onto their account an average 10 times a day for one month and lost £64,000 in one four week period.\n\nIt said Coral \"did not ask the customer to evidence their source of funds and could not provide evidence of any social responsibility interactions being carried out\".\n\nRichard Watson, executive director of the Gambling Commission, said: \"These were systemic failings at a large operator which resulted in consumers being harmed and stolen money flowing though the business and this is unacceptable.\"\n\nGVC said it \"acknowledges and regrets\" that certain legacy systems and processes in place at Ladbrokes and Coral \"did not adequately meet the regulatory requirements\".\n\n\"These historical failings were unacceptable and since the acquisition, I have overseen a systematic review of the enlarged group's player protection procedures and the individuals responsible for these problems have exited the business,\" added GVC chief executive Kenneth Alexander.\n\n\"I am confident that we now have in place a robust and industry-leading approach to player protection.\"\n\nAs well as the Ladbrokes and Coral brands GVC also owns gambling outlets bwin, Crystalbet, Eurobet, Neds and Sportingbet.\n\nThe penalty for Ladbrokes Coral Group is one of the biggest imposed by the gambling watchdog.\n\nUK gambling firm 888 had to pay a record £7.8m in August 2017 as a result of serious failings in its handling of vulnerable customers.\n\nOnline gambling business Daub Alderney received a £7.1m penalty in November 2018 for failing to follow rules aimed at preventing money laundering and protecting vulnerable consumers.\n\nWilliam Hill had to pay around £6m for systemic senior management failure to protect consumers and prevent money laundering in a penalty package in February 2018", "The UK's biggest gambling firms have agreed to contribute more money to fund treatment for problem gamblers.\n\nThe owners of William Hill, Ladbrokes Coral, Paddy Power Betfair, Skybet and Bet 365 will increase their voluntary levy on gambling profits from 0.1% to 1% up to 2023 - a contribution of £60m.\n\nIt will be \"a step change\" in how they tackle addiction, the firms claimed.\n\nIt comes amid criticism of the industry on how little it spends to help addicts compared with its marketing budget.\n\nEarlier this month, NHS England chief executive Simon Stevens warned betting firms could be taxed to pay for addiction treatment.\n\nMr Stevens condemned the \"fraction\" spent by industry on helping those struggling with addiction, compared with the amount spent on advertising and marketing.\n\nThe companies said cumulatively they would spend £100m on treatment over the next four years.\n\nLast month, when the BBC broke the news of the plans, a source said the industry had to act: \"The industry is on a precipice - if we don't get ahead of this, we will end up where the alcohol industry was 10 years ago, and tobacco 30 years ago.\n\n\"The fear is that we face a ban on touchline advertising or football shirt sponsorship.\"\n\nPeter Jackson, chief executive of Flutter Entertainment - the holding company name for Paddy Power Betfair - said the agreement marked \"an unprecedented level of commitment and collaboration by the leading companies in the British betting and gaming sector to address gambling-related harm\".\n\nHe told the BBC's Today programme: \"We think that is an important step to make.\n\n\"We do think we need to increase the amount of money that is available to protect the young and vulnerable.\"\n\nMarc Etches, chief executive of charity GambleAware, told the BBC: \"We welcome this initiative by the leading operators as it's essential there is sufficient funding to provide for treatment and support for both problem gamblers and for those who are 'at risk' - particularly the young and vulnerable.\n\n\"Customers should be able to gamble in a safe environment, where help and advice is readily available at the point of need.\n\n\"It is vital that we work closely with the commission, government and other organisations to ensure that operators continue to focus on making gambling products safer, and that treatment and support is properly funded alongside other initiatives including the Safer Gambling campaign, Bet Regret.\"\n\nThe five firms have also agreed to increase safer gambling messages in their adverts and review the \"tone and content\" of their marketing and sponsorship material.\n\nThe Gambling Commission estimates there are 430,000 people with a serious gambling addiction in the UK. If you include those they deem at risk of addiction, the number rises to more than two million.\n\nOf these, around 55,000 are children and young people aged 11 to 16.\n\nJeremy Wright, Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, said the gambling industry had a responsibility to tackle problem gambling and contribute to the cost of treatment to rebuild the lives of those affected.\n\n\"We will monitor closely the progress of these new measures and encourage the wider industry to step up. The government will not hesitate to take further action to protect people from gambling related harm.\"", "England ended Wales' 14-match winning run as Eddie Jones' relatively inexperienced side beat the world number two team in their first World Cup warm-up match at Twickenham.\n\nAn energetic start from England saw Billy Vunipola and Joe Cokanasiga score from close range, before a solo effort from Wales scrum-half Gareth Davies got the visitors back in the game.\n\nLuke Cowan-Dickie then scored his first England try to give his side a 14-point lead before half-time.\n\nGeorge North and Wyn Jones kicked off a second-half comeback for Wales with a try each, but it was not enough to earn them a first win at Twickenham since 2015.\n• None Jones to name England World Cup squad on Monday\n\nWales travelled to south-west London as favourites, bidding to become world number ones after New Zealand's loss to Australia on Saturday.\n\nBut Warren Gatland's side looked as if they might have been working too hard in their training camps in Cardiff and Switzerland, crouching down and looking breathless whenever there was a break in play.\n\nThe visitors brought a strong side to Twickenham, but were undone by an England team which looked eager to impress before head coach Jones names his 31-man World Cup squad on Monday.\n\nWhile many of those starting for Wales will almost certainly be on the plane, England's players had to prove their worth to get to Japan.\n\nEngland flanker Tom Curry and winger Anthony Watson made their presence known early, making breaks to get inside Wales' 22, and Vunipola managed to wrestle the ball down with Wales defenders hanging off him after just three minutes.\n\nIt was not just World Cup spots being played for, though. Any questions about whether this warm-up would have the usual intensity of an England v Wales game were soon settled when a fight broke out at the scrum shortly after the hosts' score.\n\nEngland debutant Willi Heinz then had a dart to within a metre of the try-line, but it was Cokanasiga who picked up the ball from the back of the ruck and drove over.\n\nBut the hosts' level began to drop and Wales suddenly picked up as Davies shot round a scrum and left Elliot Daly lying on the floor, side-stepping the full-back to score at the same end where he went over for a crucial try against England in the 2015 World Cup.\n\nA mistake from experienced forward Ken Owens allowed England to turn the tables again, though. Owens threw his line-out long and England hooker Cowan-Dickie was on the end of it, diving over before half-time.\n\nWales continued to build pressure in the second half as North grabbed the ball off the floor after a maul and darted through defenders to score.\n\nCentre Hadleigh Parkes then cut an impressive line and Wales built through the phases inside the five-metre line, allowing Jones to cut the deficit to five points.\n\nBut three penalties from fly-half George Ford, who did not miss a kick all afternoon, and a Daly drop-goal gave England the 14-point lead with which they finished the game.\n\nEngland head coach Jones had already been forced into three changes the day before the match, with flanker Sam Underhill, centre Henry Slade and wing Ruaridh McConnochie withdrawing from the starting XV because of injury.\n\nAnd England's back-row issues worsened when Curry, originally selected at blind-side flanker but who started in place of Underhill on the open-side, left the field injured after 28 minutes with an injury to his right arm.\n\nBut flanker Lewis Ludlam, who has made only 25 Premiership appearances for Northampton, made an impressive England debut and may have earned himself an unexpected place in the squad.\n\nShortly after Curry's departure, Wales were also dealt a blow as fly-half Gareth Anscombe was helped off the pitch supported by two physios after going down with a knee injury.\n\nThe number 10 was replaced by Dan Biggar, but Warren Gatland will want to take both players to Japan and will not have been happy to see Anscombe return to the bench on crutches.\n\n'All you have to do is worry about yourself' - What they said\n\nEngland coach Eddie Jones: \"We had a good team out there, a good mix of young guys, guys who haven't played for a while, and I knew their attitude would be right. I was pleased for the young guys playing today - it's a special moment for those guys.\n\n\"Wales had a lot of expectation to cope with. I thought that would weigh them down and in the end it probably did.\n\n\"These are tough games, we don't know what sort of work Wales have been doing - we might be at different stages of our preparation. All you have to do is worry about yourself.\"\n\nWales coach Warren Gatland: \"It's all about what happens in the middle of September, it's what we are building for.\n\n\"Everyone's writing off the All Blacks, but you do so at your peril. England probably have a few more headaches than we do. It looked like a pre-season game for us and we will definitely be better next week.\"\n\nThe prospect of the number one ranking was probably a bit of a distraction for Wales. They have been lung-busting in training and you could see that in the opening 15 minutes.\n\nYou got the feeling England slightly tapered towards the game as Eddie Jones saw it as a last chance to tweak his 31-man squad. I can see these two playing a heavyweight quarter-final out in Japan.\n\nReplacements: Tuilagi for Francis (74), Youngs for Heinz (50), H Williams for Cole (53), Singleton for Launchbury (79), Kruis for Ludlam (69), Lawes for T Curry (29), Marchant for Jospeh (79). Not Used: Marler.\n\nReplacements: Watkin for Parkes (68), Biggar for Anscombe (34), A. Davies for G. Davies (53), W. Jones for Smith (50), Dee for Owens (52), Lewis for Francis (50), Ball for Beard (68), Shingler for Tipuric (62).", "Last updated on .From the section Rugby Union\n\nNorthampton flanker Lewis Ludlam and uncapped Bath wing Ruaridh McConnochie have earned shock call-ups to England's Rugby World Cup squad, with centre Ben Te'o a glaring omission.\n\nThe inexperienced pair are included in coach Eddie Jones' 31-man group, along with another Test rookie in Gloucester scrum-half Willi Heinz.\n\nTe'o was involved in an off-field incident at the training camp in Italy.\n\nVersatile back Piers Francis is included at his expense.\n\nThe World Cup in Japan runs from 20 September to 2 November, with Jones naming his squad weeks in advance of the World Rugby deadline of 8 September.\n\n\"We have taken the decision to go early because of what we learned from previous campaigns,\" he said.\n\n\"We want the squad to know early and now we can get on and be the best prepared England side there has ever been, ready to win the World Cup.\"\n\nLudlam's rise to the World Cup squad has been meteoric. He was included in a training squad for the first time in June, and has impressed enough to make the plane to Japan, with Brad Shields missing out.\n\nWorld Cup-winning scrum-half Matt Dawson said the 23-year-old \"just looks like an international player\" during his impressive debut against Wales on Sunday.\n\nA lot of good players have missed out. We feel for them. I feel for them personally.\n\nMcConnochie's elevation has been even more dramatic. The former sevens player only switched to the XV-a-side game a year ago, but enjoyed a breakthrough season at The Rec.\n\nJones' decision to select only two tighthead props in Kyle Sinckler and Dan Cole and two scrum-halves in Heinz and Ben Youngs has freed up a place.\n\nMcConnochie, 27, is included as one of six back-three players, along with Joe Cokanasiga, Elliot Daly, Anthony Watson, Jonny May and Jack Nowell, although Nowell is struggling with injury.\n\nLike McConnochie and Heinz, hooker Jack Singleton is named just 24 hours after winning his first cap.\n\nConversely, Te'o's fall from grace has been drastic. The cross-code star has long been a favourite of Jones, having been fast-tracked into the set-up for the tour of Australia in 2016 before he had played club rugby in England.\n\nEven when injury restricted his involvement at Worcester, Te'o was still regularly drafted into England camps by Jones.\n\nBut he was not involved in the build-up to the game against Wales, with Jones telling the BBC on Saturday that Te'o \"was not in the best 31\".\n\nWhile Jones has refused to confirm or deny whether Te'o was involved in an altercation in Treviso, it is understood the player was the aggressor in an incident involving Mike Brown.\n\nBrad Shields' absence is also notable. The former New Zealand Under-20 flanker was fast-tracked into the side in the summer of 2018 by Jones, but is currently sidelined with a foot problem.\n\nJones had already omitted a string of experienced players, with former captains Dylan Hartley and Chris Robshaw missing out, along with Brown, Danny Care, Nathan Hughes and Danny Cipriani.\n\n\"A lot of good players have missed out. We feel for them. I feel for them personally,\" Jones said.\n\n\"But the World Cup is an incredible tournament where opportunities can present themselves, and all those players who have missed out have been told they have to be ready.\"\n\nLudlam has watched, sat behind some good players. He is 23, physically mature, and when the door opens you have got to be ready.\n\nWhen you get the chance, you have to step up and he has done that. He showed tenacity and an understanding of the team dynamic [against Wales].\n\nHe carried the ball in attack, made plenty of tackles in defence, and showed the physical resilience when he got that stinger to the shoulder. He got off the ground, got away from the physio, got back into the defensive line even, to paint the picture that there is no gap.", "As BBC Wales delves into the world of the gangs bringing drugs on to Welsh streets, we look at what the so-called County Lines phenomenon is.", "Last updated on .From the section Tennis\n\nFormer world number one Andy Murray says he will not play singles at the US Open later this month.\n\nOn Monday Murray played his first singles match since career-saving hip surgery in January - a 6-4 6-4 loss to France's Richard Gasquet in Cincinnati.\n\nHowever, he had been asked to make a decision on accepting a wildcard for the US Open prior to facing Gasquet.\n\n\"I didn't feel I was able to make that decision before today's match,\" said Murray, 32.\n\nThe Briton says he intends to play doubles and mixed doubles at the Grand Slam in New York, which starts on 26 August.\n\nThe three-time Grand Slam winner broke down in tears at January's Australian Open, fearing his career might be over. He believed surgery on his long-standing hip injury may end his chances of playing singles but has instead left him pain free and able to resume his career.\n• None 'I'm not going backwards from here'\n\nMurray consistently said he would not want his first tournament back to be over five sets at the US Open and playing over three in Cincinnati first left the door ajar for a potential follow-up appearance at Flushing Meadows.\n\nThe 2012 US Open champion, now ranked 324th in the world, could have used his injury-projected ranking to enter the Grand Slam but instead decided to wait until nearer the time to assess his fitness.\n\nHe had been offered a wildcard by the United States Tennis Association, but Murray said: \"We were hoping to hold a wildcard until nearer the time and see how it feels.\n\n\"But the US Open were announcing their wildcards today and I didn't feel I was able to make that decision before today's match.\n\n\"I didn't want to take the wildcard today because didn't know how I would feel after the match.\n\n\"I also wanted to maybe wait and see how I felt after maybe playing a couple of matches and how I recover the next day.\"\n\nMurray said he might play singles at the Winston-Salem Open next week.\n\nHe has already confirmed he will play two tournaments in China - the inaugural Zhuhai Championships and the Beijing Open, which he won in 2016 - in late September.\n\nMurray returned to competitive action in the Queen's doubles in June - going on to win the tournament alongside Spain's Feliciano Lopez - and has played in four more doubles events.\n\nBut his ultimate goal was always returning to singles action after having an operation with former Royal surgeon Sarah Muirhead-Allwood which he described as \"life-changing\".\n\nThe Scot feared having the operation - where the femur head is smoothed down and covered with a metal cap - would leave him having to call time on an illustrious career which has also seen him win 45 ATP singles titles and two Olympic gold medals.\n\nNo player had ever had the operation and then resumed their singles career.\n\nFrom the moment Murray emerged onto the centre court in Cincinnati, smiling broadly and holding his mobile phone - presumably filming footage which he will use on his social media accounts - it was clear how much it meant to him.\n\nDespite all the Grand Slam finals and title-defining matches, including many against the game's greats in Roger Federer, Rafael Nadal and Novak Djokovic, nerves were still there as he made a slow start.\n\nStarting with a double fault, he went on to lose his serve in the opening game and fought off another break point as former world number seven Gasquet threatened to move 3-0 ahead.\n\nInstead the Briton levelled at 2-2 after breaking back in the next game, only to trail again when Gasquet tested Murray's ability to change direction quickly on the deuce side of the court - with it being his right hip operated on - with a fizzing forehand winner for a 4-3 lead.\n\nGasquet, 33, served out the set with little problem, then broke again in the first game of the second set.\n\nMurray continued to struggle to land first serves, although he did manage to stretch out Gasquet's service games without managing to break back, as the Frenchman went on to seal victory in one hour and 36 minutes.\n\nGasquet, who missed the first four months of the season after groin surgery, will play Austrian world number four Dominic Thiem in the second round.\n\nHard though he tried, Murray was unable to recover from poor service games at the start of both sets.\n\nBut he moved through the gears nicely after a very edgy start, and was able to put a lot of pressure on Gasquet's serve.\n\nWith his movement improving, there was one game in the middle of the second set in particular which pointed to a brighter future.\n\nMurray covered a lot of ground to produce a flurry of winners, but the battle-hardened Gasquet still hung on to his serve.\n\nThe crowd were very subdued. They were respectful of Gasquet's superiority, but perhaps had unrealistic aspirations for the returning Murray.", "Labour has called for a review of grouse shooting, saying it damages important natural habitats.\n\nThe four-month grouse shooting season begins on Monday - the Glorious Twelfth - and sees shooters head to moors in Scotland and northern England.\n\nLabour said there were \"viable alternatives\", like simulated shooting.\n\nThe government said protecting the rare moorland environment and also hen harriers, a critically endangered bird of prey, were priorities.\n\nGrouse moors cover about 550,000 acres of land in England and Scotland - an area bigger than Greater London.\n\nDuring a shoot, the wild grouse are driven - meaning flushed into the open by a line of beaters - and fly over a line of people who shoot them.\n\nAccording to the RSPB, the sport is both economically important and popular in the shooting community - but a lack of effective regulation has led to \"unacceptable\" consequences for the environment.\n\nThese consequences include gamekeepers illegally killing birds of prey which are predators of grouse, in order to keep grouse numbers high, as well as burning vegetation.\n\nLabour said the process of draining the land in preparation for the shooting season destroyed \"huge swathes\" of plant life and also killed large numbers of animals.\n\nAnd the party highlighted that bird of prey species such as hen harriers - which feed on grouse chicks - and mountain hares were often illegally culled.\n\n\"The costs of grouse shooting on our environment and wildlife needs to be to properly weighed up against the benefit of land owners profiting from shooting parties,\" said Sue Hayman, the shadow environment secretary.\n\n\"For too long the Tories have bent the knee to land owners and it's our environment and our people who pay the price.\n\n\"There are viable alternatives to grouse shooting such as simulated shooting and wildlife tourism. The time has come for a proper review into the practice.\"\n\nLabour's comments are likely to anger landowners, who say shooting creates employment opportunities and helps protect the environment.\n\nA separate, Scottish government review of grouse moor management practices, including illegal hare and eagle culls, is expected to be published later this year.\n\nBut Labour says it wants to \"go further\" to assess how the industry affects all wildlife and climate change.\n\nDuncan Thomas, a regional director at the British Association for Shooting and Conservation, said he was confident any review would demonstrate the benefits of a well-run grouse moor.\n\n\"Grouse moors are bio-diverse and the shoots they support create vital employment in isolated rural areas supporting communities,\" he told the Daily Telegraph.\n\n\"Effective heather management including burning and cutting creates amazing habitat and of course reduces the fuel load and risk of wildfire.\"\n\nAccording to the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, hen harriers are protected from illegal killing and there are strong penalties for offences against birds of prey.\n\nOfficials said they will continue to work closely on progress with landowners, tenant farmers and sporting interests to sign up to voluntary commitments, including a commitment to stop the rotational burning of heather on blanket bog.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. \"If I hadn’t gone online for a day, they were quickly on the phone or sending me an email\"\n\nThe number of gamblers complaining about British betting firms has risen almost 5,000% in the past five years.\n\nThere were a record 8,266 complaints last year, according to Gambling Commission figures obtained by BBC Panorama.\n\nThat compares to just 169 in 2013.\n\nMost of them were about firms refusing to pay out on winning bets or failing to operate in a socially responsible way.\n\nThe rise follows a sharp increase in UK gambling over the past decade.\n\nThe big betting firms have already promised £60m a year to help problem gamblers and say they are working on a plan to reduce gambling-related harm.\n\nNeil McArthur, chief executive of the Gambling Commission, said there were complex reasons for the rise in complaints.\n\nNeil McArthur says the industry must know its customers\n\n\"We are pushing the industry to know its customers, and part of this is actually, possibly, a good sign because it's suggesting that consumers are demanding more of the gambling operators. And I would encourage them to continue to do that,\" he said.\n\nThe industry has expanded rapidly since the government relaxed restrictions on betting and advertising in 2007.\n\nGamblers are now losing almost twice as much to the betting companies as they were a decade ago. Last year, punters lost a record £14.5bn.\n\nThe biggest rise has been in online gambling, where new games and products have attracted new customers.\n\nAmanda, not her real name, doesn't want to be identified. She was in her 50s when she started betting on an online site called Jackpotjoy.\n\nShe gambled away all her money from the sale of her home. When her father died, she inherited a share of his house, and she lost that on Jackpotjoy as well.\n\nIn total, Amanda lost £633,000. She made her last bet on the day she was made bankrupt.\n\n\"I was in a complete sort of lost bubble world,\" she said. \"To me it was just escapism and I would just sit online and I would just be pressing the button on my computer.\n\nJackpotjoy says it always acts in accordance with the relevant regulatory requirements\n\n\"It's horrific what I've done to myself really. Everything that I had worked for. My children looked up to me and now I have blown their inheritance.\"\n\nJackpotjoy said it always acted in accordance with the relevant regulatory requirements and that it had encouraged Amanda to use responsible gambling tools.\n\n\"This included the use of deposit limits, cooling-off periods and alternative withdrawal methods; tools which Amanda was aware of and used during the time she played with us,\" the company said.\n\nHigh stakes betting machines have been banned from the High Street, but there are no legal limits for online games. That means customers can lose thousands of pounds in just a few minutes.\n\nCampaigners say that the government needs to do more to protect the most vulnerable gamblers.\n\nDaniel Clinkscales took his own life at the age of 35 after struggling with a gambling addiction for years.\n\nHe was a well-paid sales manager, but he took on two extra jobs just to fund his betting habit.\n\nHis mother, Jo Holloway, said Daniel hid his gambling for many years.\n\nShe said: \"I think he found it so hard to really come to terms with the fact that there he was - clever, intelligent, largely successful at almost everything he turned his hand to - and he'd got this one problem. Gambling.\"\n\nJo Holloway says gambling has been normalised\n\nShe thinks that the burden of responsibility should be placed on the betting companies, because some gamblers simply don't know how to stop.\n\n\"Gambling has been normalised. It has been made to look like something that everybody does innocently. It's not. You can lose your house in an afternoon. How serious does it have to be before people will act?\"\n\nThe Gambling Commission said it had no plans to introduce maximum stakes online because operators already have enough information to keep players safe and to ensure they are playing with money they can afford to lose.\n\nThe major betting companies have already agreed to increase safer gambling messages and to review the tone of their promotional material.\n\nWatch BBC Panorama: Addicted to Gambling on 12 August at 8.30pm on BBC One and on the BBC iPlayer afterwards\n\nAction Line: If you or someone you know has a gambling problem visit: https://www.bbc.co.uk/actionline/", "BTS is one of the world's biggest K-pop acts\n\nK-pop superstars BTS have announced that they will be taking an \"extended\" break from performing following a concert in Seoul on Sunday.\n\nTheir agency Big Hit Entertainment said the seven members would be undergoing a \"period of rest and relaxation\".\n\nIt added that the break would \"provide them with a chance to enjoy the ordinary lives of young people in their 20s, albeit briefly\".\n\nThis is the first time BTS will have taken time off since their 2013 debut.\n\nIt is not clear how long the break will last but they are scheduled to perform in Saudi Arabia in October as part of their world tour \"Love Yourself: Speak Yourself\".\n\nIt's possible their break is necessary because South Korean males still have to complete two years of compulsory military service between the ages of 18 and 28.\n\nAll of the BTS band members fit this age bracket.\n\nExemptions are occasionally granted - Tottenham forward Son Heung-min avoided military service for South Korea last year after helping his country beat Japan 2-1 in the Asian Games football final.\n\nA gold medal at the event, along with an Olympic podium finish, is the only automatic way for a South Korean footballer to be excused a call-up.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by BigHit Entertainment This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nBTS is one of the world's biggest boy bands, and boasts a huge and devoted fanbase.\n\nKnown for their meticulously choreographed dance style and boyish good looks, they were the first K-pop group to reach number one on the US album charts.\n\nOn Twitter, many BTS fans - who call themselves ARMY - said the boys deserved the hard-earned break.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript 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 Mai 🥺 Winter Bear 🌨️❄️🧸 & BTS enthusiast 😭 This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 3 by Yoonmin City This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy 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 sei ♡ bts This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy 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 band has been performing since 2013. In 2017, their album Love Yourself: Her was the first K-Pop album to crack the top 10 US album charts, rising to number seven.\n\nIt also hit the number one spot on iTunes in more than 70 countries.\n\nK-pop was conceived in South Korea in the 1990s as a Western-Asian hybrid and is now a multi-million dollar industry with many bands winning audiences around the globe.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. BTS open up about their \"struggles and tears\" at press conference in Seoul", "The fire happened at a house in Heckmondwike, Kirklees\n\nA 17-year-old boy is in a serious condition in hospital after an arson attack in West Yorkshire.\n\nEmergency services were called to a house on Stonedene Court, Heckmondwike, Kirklees, at about 04:10 BST.\n\nFour people in the house managed to escape the fire by jumping from upstairs windows, with the teenage boy suffering burns and an injury from jumping.\n\nWest Yorkshire Police said the attack was being treated as attempted murder.\n\nThe 17-year-old's condition is described as serious but stable.\n\nA woman and two girls, aged 16 and 11, needed treatment for the effects of breathing in smoke.\n\nPolice said the attack was \"very serious\" and could easily have been fatal for the family.\n\nPolice said the occupants escaped by jumping from upstairs windows\n\nDet Supt Mark Swift said: \"This is clearly a very serious incident in which a male has suffered burn injuries and three females have also suffered smoke inhalation.\n\n\"It took place at a time of night when a family were at home sleeping and could quite easily have had fatal consequences for those inside.\n\n\"We are treating this incident as an attempted murder and I am appealing to members of the public for information.\"\n\nDet Supt Swift said it was likely the attackers were also injured and anyone with information - particularly about men or boys buying petrol in cans from garages - should call 101.\n\n\"It is quite possible the suspects will have suffered some injuries as a result of lighting the fire and I would like to speak to anyone who has information about males having turned up at home this morning with burns,\" he said.\n\nPolice also want to hear from anyone who saw suspicious behaviour, or who has CCTV images of the area.\n\nPolice investigators have been collecting material from the scene of the 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.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Why Caroline Lucas wants an all-female \"emergency cabinet\"\n\nCaroline Lucas has asked 10 female politicians from all parties to join her in forming an \"emergency cabinet\" in a bid to stop a no-deal Brexit.\n\nWriting in the Guardian, the Green Party MP said the all-women cabinet could \"bring a different perspective\".\n\nMs Lucas, whose party wants another Brexit referendum, said the aim would be to force a no-confidence vote in Prime Minister Boris Johnson.\n\nShe would then hope to form a \"national unity government\".\n\nThis arrangement - when a group of MPs of multiple parties choose to work together and form a government - has not been seen since the Second World War.\n\nIn her Guardian article, Ms Lucas - a former Green Party leader - said the national unity government would \"press the pause button\" and organise another referendum offering a choice between staying in the EU or the government's Brexit plan, whether that is an agreed deal or no deal.\n\n\"In my experience, women tend to be less tribal, they tend to find it easier to establish trust more quickly,\" she told BBC Radio 4's Today programme.\n\nShe also added that her proposed unity government would have to be led by a female Labour MP, as they would be representing the largest opposition party.\n\nBut her idea was criticised by International Trade Secretary Liz Truss, who tweeted: \"Is there anything more sexist than claiming your gender determines your worldview/behaviour/attitude?\"\n\nAmong the women Ms Lucas has invited to join her are Labour's shadow foreign secretary Emily Thornberry, Liberal Democrat leader Jo Swinson, Scotland's First Minister Nicola Sturgeon, Conservative MP Justine Greening, and Plaid Cymru Westminster leader Liz Saville Roberts.\n\nThe others are: Heidi Allen, Kirsty Blackman, Yvette Cooper, Sylvia Hermon, and Anna Soubry. She has asked to meet the 10 women in the coming days.\n\nOn Monday, Ms Lucas told the BBC she had received responses from five of the women she has written to, expressing differing levels of interest.\n\nShe added she wasn't completely against involving men - for instance accepting that a key anti-Brexit campaigner like Dominic Grieve could be given a cabinet seat.\n\nMs Thornberry tweeted a reply to say she would not be able to take part in the planned talks because she is currently on holiday.\n\nShe added that returning the issue of Brexit \"to the people\" was the \"best route to go down at this point\".\n\n\"My fear with the other suggested route - imposing some alternative coalition government without any reference to the public - would risk worsening the feelings of anger and resentment towards 'Westminster' that have led us into this Brexit mess,\" she added.\n\nMs Saville Roberts welcomed Ms Lucas's bid to break the deadlock over Brexit, but said she was \"not entirely comfortable\" that only women would be involved.\n\nMs Lucas's suggestion has also attracted widespread discussion on social media, with many people expressing criticism.\n\nLabour's shadow home secretary Diane Abbott tweeted it \"won't work... whatever the gender of the participants\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Diane Abbott This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nLabour MP Clive Lewis called it a \"very interesting proposal\", but asked: \"Where are the BAME women politicians?\"\n\nMs Lucas replied to him, saying she agreed that the list should be opened out further and she would love Ms Abbott to be involved.", "Greta Thunberg is one of 2019's most sought after voices - but big artists didn't want to work with her, according to the 1975's manager.\n\nThe climate activist features on the first track of the band's new album.\n\nLead singer Matty Healy and manager Jamie Oborne said Greta is \"the most important person in the world to give a platform to\".\n\n\"Other artists didn't want to do it - it's madness. Bigger artists than The 1975.\"\n\nThe 16-year-old Swedish activist spoke at an Extinction Rebellion rally in April\n\nThe five-minute track opens the new album, Notes on a Conditional Form, set for release in 2020.\n\nBut the track itself was released in July. Its proceeds will go to environmental campaign group Extinction Rebellion.\n\nJamie Oborne, who founded the label Dirty Hit, said: \"We weren't even going to release it until the album came out, that was never the plan.\n\n\"After we met her in Stockholm and recorded it, we agreed it just wasn't a statement that could wait six months to come out. It felt like that would've made it a vanity exercise.\"\n\nJamie Oborne says the essay released by The 1975 with Greta Thunberg isn't your traditional opening album track\n\nGreta Thunberg became one of the leading voices on climate change last year when she started skipping school to protest for change.\n\nIt led to a worldwide movement of school strikes.\n\n\"Greta represents an a priori truth,\" Jamie said. \"That the world has to change its basic construct and how it operates.\"\n\nOn the track, titled The 1975, the 16-year-old says it's \"time to rebel\" and calls for \"civil disobedience\".\n\n\"We have to acknowledge that the older generations have failed, all political movements in their current form have failed, but Homo sapiens have not yet failed,\" she adds.\n\n\"Now is not the time for speaking politely. Now is the time to speak clearly.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Environmental activist Greta Thunberg says climate change is 'an existential crisis'\n\nJamie tried to contact Greta on Instagram, but it was an unsuccessful attempt.\n\nHe later ended up being introduced to her dad, Svante Thunberg, who he described as an \"amazing human being\".\n\n\"Svante and I connected quite easily - I feel like we are going to be really good friends,\" he said.\n\nThe 1975 aren't yet completely carbon efficient as a band, but Jamie told the Guardian Dirty Hit has eliminated single-use plastics and says the band is working on other areas, like pollution created from vinyl production.\n\n\"We're not going to have touring worked out in six weeks because everything's working against you, but we are going to have it sorted out in a period of time, and 50% is better than nothing.\"\n\nJamie Oborne was speaking to Rob Adcock on a new BBC Introducing podcast launching in September.\n\nListen to Newsbeat live at 12:45 and 17:45 weekdays - or listen back here.", "The changes will come into force in September\n\nA university is banning the sale of burgers to try to fight global warming.\n\nGoldsmiths, University of London, is removing all beef products from sale - and charging a 10p levy on bottled water and single-use plastic cups.\n\nIt plans to install more solar panels across its New Cross campus, in south-east London, and switch to a 100% clean energy supplier as soon as possible.\n\nIt will spend money on its allotment and identify other areas where planting could help to absorb carbon dioxide.\n\nThe university emits about 3.7 million kg of carbon each year but is hoping to become carbon neutral by 2025.\n\nAnd it will try to increase the number of students studying climate change.\n\nScientists say beef is more damaging to the environment as cows produce more methane and require more land and water than other livestock.\n\nThe college's new head, Prof Frances Corner, said: \"The growing global call for organisations to take seriously their responsibilities for halting climate change is impossible to ignore.\n\n\"Though I have only just arrived at Goldsmiths, it is immediately obvious that our staff and students care passionately about the future of our environment and that they are determined to help deliver the step change we need to cut our carbon footprint drastically and as quickly as possible.\n\n\"I truly believe we face a defining moment in global history and Goldsmiths now stands shoulder to shoulder with other organisations willing to call the alarm and take urgent action to cut carbon use.\"\n\nGoldsmiths Students' Union president Joe Leam said: \"Our house is on fire,\" invoking the words of teenage climate activist Greta Thunberg.\n\n\"I believe Frances Corner and the university management are realising this and making these changes to put their part of the house fire out.\n\n\"The SU will be a part of this process every step of the way to make sure this stays true, seeking to speed the process up wherever possible, and will keep the college community updated throughout.\"\n\nRosie Rogers, of Greenpeace UK, said: \"It's encouraging to see an institution like Goldsmiths not simply declaring a climate emergency but acting on it.\n\n\"From energy use, to food sales and plastic pollution - all universities and organisations with campus sites can make changes across their facilities that are better for our planet.\n\n\"We call on others to urgently follow suit and to include cutting all ties from fossil fuel funding in their climate-emergency response.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The UK Labour Party deputy leader Tom Watson has spoken out against a second Scottish independence referendum.\n\nIt follows comments by shadow chancellor John McDonnell that a future Labour government would not block another vote.\n\nMr Watson said another referendum \"is not the answer\" to Tory austerity and Brexit.\n\nHe added that he fully endorsed the position of Scottish Labour leader Richard Leonard.\n\nHis intervention comes after Mr McDonnell told an audience in Edinburgh last week that any decision about holding an independence vote would be up to the Scottish Parliament.\n\nAnd it follows a warning by ex-Labour prime minister Gordon Brown, who said unionism \"appears to be sleepwalking into oblivion\".\n\nIn a video released on Sunday, Mr Watson said: \"We can see the mess caused by the prospect of the UK leaving the four decade-long union with Europe - imagine how much more disruptive it would be to break our three centuries-long Union of Scotland within the UK.\"\n\nHe pointed out that the party's Scottish leader Richard Leonard had already made it \"absolutely clear\" that there was no case for a second independence referendum.\n\nMr Watson added: \"As we said in our 2017 manifesto, Labour opposes another referendum and the turbo-charged austerity in Scotland that leaving the UK would cause, with the inevitable threat to thousands of jobs and livelihoods.\n\n\"That is not because our society doesn't need to change. It does, and badly.\n\n\"But another independence referendum isn't the answer. More nationalism, more uncertainty, and more division isn't the answer.\"\n\nSNP deputy leader Keith Brown said: \"People across the UK overwhelmingly believe that independence should be a matter for the Scottish Parliament and the Scottish people - not Westminster.\n\n\"UK voters believe it should be up to people of Scotland to decide how they are governed - not a Tory party which has no mandate in Scotland, putting our economy at risk to suit their own political ends.\"", "Prisons in England and Wales are to receive £100m to improve security and cut crime, the government has said.\n\nAirport-style security - such as X-ray scanners and metal detectors - would be introduced in more prisons, it added.\n\nPM Boris Johnson said stopping weapons, drugs and phones getting into jails would prevent them becoming \"factories for making bad people worse\".\n\nBut Labour accused him of \"tinkering\", adding cuts had led to \"unprecedented levels of violence in our prisons\".\n\nIt also follows government initiatives for the NHS and immigration, which have sparked speculation about an early general election - although Mr Johnson has ruled one out before the Brexit deadline of 31 October.\n\nWhilst on a visit to HMP Leeds, the prime minister said the government needed to help prevent young people getting sucked into crime by \"wrapping their arms\" around struggling families.\n\n\"I don't want to see prisons just be factories to turn bad people worse. We need to be making sure that they are educated and there's not a culture of gangsterism and drugs in the prison system,\" he said.\n\nThere also needed to be a \"proper plan to resettle\" people when they came out, he added.\n\nAlthough most prisons already have some \"airport-style\" security controls, Mr Johnson said the extra money would be invested in struggling prisons - to help prevent drug smugglers from \"fuelling a rise in violence and self-harm\".\n\nJanuary saw the number of assaults in prisons in England and Wales reach a record high. This number includes attacks by inmates on other inmates and those which target staff.\n\nThe Ministry of Justice said the £100m funding was newly-released by the Treasury and would be made available immediately.\n\nIt will fund an increase in \"cutting-edge technology\" to detect and \"block mobile phones\", which criminals use to \"organise drug supplies\" or harass victims from their cells.\n\nAndrea Albutt, president of the Prison Governor's Association, welcomed the plans but warned continuous funding was needed to reduce drug-fuelled violence in prisons.\n\nShe said: \"This [£100m funding] can't be one-off. We do need to have recurring money because it isn't just around the staff to run the kit.\n\n\"It is around the technology that will give us a rich source of security, so we need to beef up our security departments in prisons, so we can identify who the key players are in prisons.\"\n\nMs Albutt added that \"wrap-around services\" were needed to combat the \"instability\" caused by drugs flowing into prisons, and help inmates stem their addictions.\n\n\"[Drugs] are an absolute driver of violence in our prisons,\" she said. \"It causes debt, it causes bullying, and intimidation.\n\n\"If you look at the prison safety statistics over recent years, month-on-month they hit record highs [for] prisoner on prisoner violence, prisoner on staff violence. We have got high levels of suicides, very high levels of self-harm, and this is all linked to drugs.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The BBC tried out the new body scanner, which caught an inmate smuggling drugs on its first day in use\n\nJustice Secretary Robert Buckland said there was a direct link between crime inside of prison and \"crime on our streets\".\n\n\"This funding will have a transformative effect on prisons and give our hard-working officers the advantage as they tackle this scourge head-on,\" he said.\n\nBut shadow justice secretary Richard Burgon said the announcement fell \"woefully short\" of what was needed.\n\nThe Labour MP said Mr Johnson is \"timidly tinkering at the edges\" and blamed \"reckless Tory cuts to staffing and budgets\" for the \"unprecedented levels of violence in our prisons\".\n\nAnd Frances Crook, chief executive of The Howard League for Penal Reform, said: \"It is shameful that prisons have deteriorated so badly that they have become centres of crime and violence and drugs.\n\n\"Now the government has to pour good money after bad to try and solve a problem that they have created.\"\n\nFrances Crook, the chief executive of The Howard League for Penal Reform.\n\nMeanwhile, Liberal Democrat justice spokeswoman Wera Hobhouse said it was a \"hollow move\" and that more money should be spent on rehabilitation to stop people committing crimes.\n\n\"Boris Johnson can lock people up for longer or search people on their way in and out of prison, but none of this bravado will actually make our streets safer,\" she added.\n\nIn August last year, under former prisons minister Rory Stewart, the government promised to invest £10m to improve security and conditions in some of the worst prisons in England and Wales,\n\nAt the time, Mr Stewart pledged to improve conditions in 10 prisons which the Ministry of Justice said had \"acute problems\" with high drug use, violence and building issues.", "Last updated on .From the section Derby\n\nWayne Rooney's move to Derby County has reopened the discussion about football's links with gambling - is it more than just an astute piece of football business?\n\nThe Rams have openly said that \"on the back of\" the former England captain joining, they have secured \"a record-breaking sponsorship\" deal with their shirt sponsor, online casino 32Red.\n\nWhile no direct link was confirmed, Rooney's squad number at Pride Park will be 32 when he joins Derby in January.\n\nRooney himself said the number he wears is \"not a big deal\" when asked about the sponsorship link at a news conference on Tuesday.\n\nBut Derby owner Morris was more bullish, telling BBC Radio 5 Live: \"We looked at the commercial opportunities this could create for us, and we realised this could be very smart business.\n\n\"So, in some ways, we're seeing this as an opportunity to actually create money off the back of this deal, as opposed to net spend.\"\n\nMorris told in-house channel RamsTV that the deal had \"sparked keen interest with our sponsors, who want to leverage more of that\".\n\nHe also cited Rooney's \"fantastic reputation\" for his charity and community work and said the player would play a \"big part\" in helping with community projects, which Morris described as a \"fundamental\" part of the club's relationship with fans.\n\n'This is no coincidence' - what are the concerns?\n\nFootball finance expert Dr Dan Plumley told BBC Sport that football's reliance on betting companies as sponsors is \"one of the big issues\" faced by the sport.\n\n\"There is a big moral issue with gambling at the minute,\" said Plumley. \"This is no coincidence. And it is right to be pointed out.\"\n\nPlumley, a senior lecturer in sport business management at Sheffield Hallam University, added: \"The ethical issues, especially with the wider societal problems with gambling, has led to a lot of talk about it,\" he said.\n\n\"What clubs will come back and say is that this is a business and they need a sponsor for that business.\n\n\"There are a lot of providers in the gambling market and, if they are the best sponsorship package on the table, is it the club's responsibility to really turn that down?\n\n\"It is an issue that is on everyone's agenda. People want to see money put back into players and the club, and this revenue needs to be generated.\"\n\n\"It's certainly unique. Already they have hashtags trending which link them [Rooney and 32Red].\"\n• None Derby move 'not just about coming home'\n• None 'You need picking up?' - How the world reacted to Rooney joining Derby\n\nFormer Arsenal and England captain Tony Adams has previously said such sponsorship deals should be stopped.\n\nIn a statement, the Gambling Commission said \"sponsorship arrangements must be undertaken in a socially responsible manner\", with its rules adding that deals should not \"be likely to be of particular appeal to under-18s\" or \"associated with youth culture\".\n\nDerby are one of 16 clubs in England's second division whose primary sponsor is a betting firm, 15 of which are displayed on the front of their shirts.\n\nThe general manager at 32Red, Neil Banbury, said the arrangement with Derby \"shows a new model for football club sponsorship is possible\".\n\nHe also added that their involvement with the club includes investing in a community project that deals with mental heath in the area.\n\nWith reports that Rooney will earn between £80,000 and £100,000 a week, the sponsorship tie-up was key in bringing England and Manchester United's all-time record goalscorer back to the English game.\n\nRooney's entire wages will count towards the club's Financial Fair Play (FFP) calculations despite him moving to Pride Park as a player-coach, as there is no 50% split on wages for such dual roles at that level - unlike in League One and League Two.\n\nPlumley said Rooney's wages would make the former Everton forward one of the biggest earners to ever play in the second tier.\n\n\"That would be very crazy money in the Championship if true,\" he said. \"You are also looking at one of the most talented players of a generation, a true legend of English football, and Derby have managed to get him in the Championship.\n\n\"It's one of the biggest moves at that level. You can argue that this is a bit of a masterstroke.\"\n\nHow can Derby afford to bring in Rooney under FFP?\n\nDerby selling their Pride Park stadium home to owner Morris for £80m has also helped make the deal for Rooney possible.\n\nThe sale and lease back of the ground meant the club reported a pre-tax profit of £14.6m for the 2017-18 season, ensuring the club met the English Football League spending rules.\n\nIn the past week, they have gone on to break their transfer record on midfielder Krystian Bielik for about £10m and recruit Rooney - a five-time Premier League champion, who also collected Champions League, FA Cup, League Cup, Europa League and Club World Cup winner's medals with Manchester United.\n\n\"That stadium sale brought them a room with FFP,\" said Plumley.\n\n\"To go from being really under the cosh, to selling the stadium, to breaking your transfer record and then having Wayne Rooney come in from January is a remarkable turnaround.\"\n\nWhile selling a stadium is \"a one-time fix\", having Rooney at Derby's disposal as they chase promotion to the Premier League is a \"roll of the dice\" worth more than £170m.\n\n\"You get to the Premier League and your financial troubles almost disappear overnight,\" said Plumley.\n\n\"This is a gamble in that respect. Obviously Derby are looking at Wayne Rooney on the pitch first and foremost and this is absolutely about another tilt at promotion.\"", "WK050 lay wrecked at the bottom of a tree after the crash\n\nA £6m military drone crashed after it landed beyond its planned touchdown point and hit a tree, a Ministry of Defence (MoD) report has revealed.\n\nThe Watchkeeper WK050 came down on 13 June, 2018, less than a mile from Penparc school, Aberporth, where pupils were taking part in a sports day.\n\nFive drones - almost 10% of a 54-strong fleet bought from French firm Thales - have been wrecked in mid Wales crashes.\n\nThe MoD said action had been taken to address problems.\n\nIts report, revealed following a Freedom of Information request, said the drone \"landed long\" of its touchdown point, before veering to the right.\n\nThe system computer failed to register it had landed so \"auto-aborted as it approached the end of the runway\".\n\nIts engine then powered up and the drone \"climbed away\".\n\nWhen it was 40ft (12m) above the ground, the pilot cut the engine.\n\nThe report concluded \"the pressing of the engine cut was the cause of the accident\".\n\nThe Ministry of Defence ordered 54 Watchkeepers in 2005 as part of an £847m deal\n\nAfter that it \"glided over the road and crashed into a tree, approximately 900m beyond\" the landing point.\n\n\"Had no action been taken by the crew the AV (aerial vehicle) would have completed its automatic go-around, from which it could have been commanded to conduct a further approach,\" the report said.\n\nThe drone was being tested at West Wales Airport at Aberporth, Ceredigion.\n\nAn MoD spokesman said action had been taken to address identified problems and it was \"considering all of the recommendations\".\n\nThe drone crashed near Aberporth, Ceredigion in June 2018\n\nA Thales spokesman said it had \"already addressed the vast majority of the recommendations\".\n\n\"Unmanned aircraft systems like Watchkeeper are designed to keep our service people out of hostile environments,\" he said.\n\n\"Our ability to rigorously test their capabilities and meet the highest standards of testing and certification demanded of the UK's military aviation authorities means that we are ultimately able to deliver a safe system when deployed in operational situations.\"", "Carol and Scott Dawson carried out a brutal attack on Gary Dean, prosecutors said\n\nA mother and son who murdered a runner in a dispute over the use of a footpath have been jailed for life.\n\nCarol Dawson, 72, and Scott Dawson, 41, targeted Gary Dean because he took a route across their land to go running, Sheffield Crown Court heard.\n\nHis body was found in a ditch near his home in Barnsley in September 2018. He had been shot in the back with an air rifle and beaten with rocks.\n\nJudge Jeremy Richardson told them they \"fed off the venom within each other\".\n\nSentencing the son to a minimum of 31 years and the mother to at least 26 years, he said it was \"a toxic mixture [that] led to murder\".\n\nThe judge said the pair had carried out the killing in \"wicked and cruel\" fashion.\n\nGary Dean was found dead on farmland near his home\n\nHe said the murder was worsened by 48-year-old Mr Dean's autism, which made him a vulnerable target.\n\nDuring a five-week trial, jurors heard the Dawsons, both from Barnsley, were involved in a long-running and bitter feud with Mr Dean, who regularly used the route across their land.\n\nHe tried to escape by crawling along a ditch during the attack on 6 September, the court heard.\n\nScott Dawson, of Allotts Court, and Carol Dawson, of Stonewood Grove, had intended to dispose of his body by using a digger but were prevented from doing so when Mr Dean's body was discovered by a walker.\n\nHis wife, Caroline, a head teacher, described him as being obsessive about running and trains and was \"quite autistic in his nature\".\n\nShe explained to jurors how she and her husband were regularly followed and threatened, describing how four youths burst into their home on Silkstone Common, injuring both of them.\n\nThe school where she worked once received a letter claiming she should not be allowed to work with children as Mr Dean had attempted to lure youngsters into the woods with him.\n\nBut a local authority safeguarding inquiry found nothing to support the allegation and her husband was never arrested, the court heard.\n\nAmid the dispute, the Dawsons tried to secure a restraining order against Mr Dean after complaining to police about him, saying he was damaging their property, and a \"stay away\" sign had been erected, jurors heard.\n\nIn a statement, Mrs Dean previously said she had had to \"come to terms with the fact that my husband suffered a painful and violent death and that he died alone in a ditch\".\n\n\"The brutal nature of Gary's death haunts us all,\" she said.\n\n\"I cannot begin to imagine the pain and terror he felt as he was beaten to death.\"\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.", "Violence erupted in at least two underground train stations in Hong Kong, as the city saw its 10th weekend of protests.", "The shipyard in Port Glasgow is expected to be in administration by the end of the week\n\nThe Scottish government is \"ready and willing\" to take Ferguson shipyard into public ownership, Economy Secretary Derek Mackay has announced.\n\nHe said this was to avert the yard's closure with the loss of 350 jobs, and to complete two ferries being built there for Cal Mac west coast services.\n\nThe move follows legal notice being served that the business faces administration by the end of this week.\n\nMr Mackay said the government remained open to other investors.\n\nBut in a statement, he added that it was essential to act without delay, to secure the yard, its workforce and the unfinished ships.\n\nA letter has been sent to Ferguson Marine, and its sole shareholder, industrialist Jim McColl, saying the Scottish government is hopeful that directors and creditors \"recognise the importance of completing that transfer as quickly and smoothly as possible\".\n\nOn Sunday Mr McColl was strongly critical of the move towards public ownership, saying it made no economic sense.\n\nHowever, on Friday, Ferguson's chief executive, Gerry Marshall, said directors would support Mr McColl and the Scottish government in trying to reach a positive outcome for the business and its employees.\n\nSince then 60 workers have stopped working there, due to the withdrawal of contract agencies, in a bid to protect their financial position. That has taken the workforce below 300.\n\nMr Mackay said: \"The Scottish government has been working for over two years to find a resolution to the difficulties at Ferguson Marine Engineering Ltd.\n\n\"Throughout that time, our preference has been to identify viable commercial options to keep the yard going and to finish the vessels. No such solutions have come forward.\n\n\"The Scottish government has now indicated to all relevant parties that we are ready and willing to take Ferguson Marine into public ownership and deliver the ferries to secure the continued employment of the workforce in the yard.\"\n\nAn order for CalMac ferries has been at the centre of a very public dispute\n\nHe added: \"There remains a process to go through to secure the transfer of the yard to the Scottish government, and we are hopeful that all parties recognise the importance of completing that transfer as quickly and as smoothly as possible.\n\n\"While we are open to engaging with any parties with a serious interest in investing in and securing a future for the shipyard, it is essential the government acts now to secure the completion of the ferries and continuity of employment at Ferguson's.\"\n\nMr Mackay told BBC Radio's Good Morning Scotland programme the government was unwilling to \"hand over a cheque\" to complete the ferries because it would be \"illegal\" and would flout state aid rules.\n\nUnder European Union rules it is illegal for countries to give financial help to some companies in a way that would give them unfair advantage over others.\n\nMr Mackay said: \"The £97m has already been spent on vessels that are not complete. Once we conduct due diligence and if we're in public ownership we'll have sight as to what is required to complete those vessels.\n\n\"The alternative is for the government to walk away, the company goes into administration, the jobs are lost, the vessels are not complete.\"\n\nThe government's takeover of the yard follows Mr McColl's rescue of the yard from administration five years ago. The shipyard's main contract since then has been for two ferries, due to serve Arran and the Outer Hebrides.\n\nTo support it, the Scottish government loaned it £45m, in two tranches. That gives it priority over other creditors in taking control of the yard - except for the issuer of a £25m bond, which Ferguson required to secure the Cal Mac ferries contract.\n\nThe fixed price contract was for £97m. However, Ferguson now estimates the cost has risen to double that, and the ships are behind schedule. That is being blamed on numerous changes to the design, many of them linked to an innovative dual-fuel engine, using both diesel and liquefied natural gas.\n\nUnwilling to fund the difference from his investment firm, Clyde Blowers Capital, Mr McColl sought a deal to share the overrun costs with the Scottish government, but that was rejected.\n\nGeneral secretary of the GMB Union in Scotland Gary Smith told BBC Scotland the yard did have a future.\n\n\"There has been a problem with two contracts but the truth is we are going to have to renew the fleet of CalMac ferries because frankly they're clapped out,\" he said.\n\n\"We know there are other commercial opportunities out there and we know that Ferguson's is at the cutting edge of hydrogen technology and above all, the greatest asset at the yard that we've got is the workforce.\n\n\"It's got a huge future, this company is not a basket case by any stretch of the imagination.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Director of public prosecutions Max Hill QC: \"The £85m will allow us to do more for those affected by crime\".\n\nThe Crown Prosecution Service will receive an extra £85m over the next two years, to help deal with a rise in violent crime in England and Wales.\n\nIt comes as Boris Johnson launches a review of sentencing of some dangerous and prolific offenders.\n\nHe said dangerous criminals must be taken off the streets and punishments \"fit the crime\" if the public was to have confidence in the justice system.\n\nLawyers said the new money did not make up for 10 years of \"relentless cuts\".\n\nThe news fuels speculation ministers are preparing for a general election with a series of spending commitments and new initiatives.\n\nOn Sunday the prime minister promised to create an extra 10,000 new prison places and expand stop-and-search powers.\n\nBut Downing Street said it is not planning an early election.\n\nAnnouncing the sentencing review, Mr Johnson said: \"We have all seen examples of rapists and murderers let out too soon or people offending again as soon as they're released.\n\n\"This ends now. We want them caught, locked up, punished and properly rehabilitated.\"\n\nThe review, which will begin immediately, will look at whether violent and sexual offenders are serving sentences that reflect the severity of their crimes.\n\nIt will report back in the autumn.\n\nUnder the current system, criminals sentenced to 12 months or more generally serve the first half of their time in prison and the second half \"on licence\" in the community, where they may be subject to recall.\n\nDangerous offenders can be given extended sentences, which mean they must serve two-thirds before being eligible for parole.\n\nJustice secretary Robert Buckland said the review will focus on those violent, sexual and prolific offenders who are not currently given these extended sentences.\n\nHe told BBC Radio 4's Today programme that Mr Johnson \"wants to see prison being used appropriately to protect the public\".\n\nBut sentencing decisions should still be based on individual circumstances not \"targets or numbers\", Mr Buckland said.\n\nOpposition parties warned there was no easy fix for the current rise in violent crime.\n\nLiberal Democrat justice spokeswoman Wera Hobhouse said increasing prison sentences would merely \"overcrowd prisons and waste millions of pounds\".\n\nShe said: \"For years, Labour and Tory ministers have made sentences longer and longer, without any evidence that they prevent crime.\n\n\"It may sound tough, but it hasn't made our communities any safer.\"\n\nThe incentive of early release is seen by many as critical for keeping order in prisons.\n\nSir David Latham, a former judge and chairman of the Parole Board for England and Wales, told BBC Radio 5 Live: \"Prisons are significantly overcrowded and the risks of violence in prisons have increased very substantially over the last few years.\"\n\nBoris Johnson and Home Secretary Priti Patel last month announced more police officers will be hired\n\nLast year saw record levels of assaults on prison staff as well as a rise in self-harm by inmates.\n\nSir David said the way to ensure the safety of the public was by monitoring offenders after release with effective probation services. \"The essence of early release is that there should be proper control over that prisoner,\" he said.\n\nBut he denied that sentencing needed to be tougher. \"Sentencing has in fact increased over the last 20 to 30 years quite substantially,\" Sir David said.\n\nDowning Street said the extra £85m for the CPS - which prosecutes criminal cases in England and Wales - will help staff respond to the rise in violent crime and an \"explosion of digital evidence\".\n\nDirector of public prosecutions Max Hill QC said the money came at a \"crucial time\" for criminal justice.\n\nMr Hill said: \"Our work is changing, and this new funding will provide the increased capacity to enable us to respond effectively to challenging trends we currently face.\"\n\nA spokesman from the CPS said the money would also help deal with the higher caseload they were anticipating as a result of Mr Johnson's plan to recruit 20,000 more police officers.\n\nIn 2018-19 the CPS received £528m in government funding, but lawyers said the additional funding over two years was only a \"modest first step\".\n\nChris Henley, chair of the Criminal Bar Association, said: \"The criminal justice system is severely underfunded, as a result of relentless cuts over the last 10 years.\"\n\nHe said more money was needed for the prosecution system and the courts to \"restore public faith\", as increasingly \"those who commit crime walk free and the innocent risk being convicted\".\n\nLabour's shadow home secretary, Diane Abbott, accused the prime minister of \"clearing the ground\" for a general election rather than creating real solutions for the criminal justice system.\n\nShe said: \"Anyone can promise tens of thousands of police officers, if you're not saying exactly how you're going to fund it. There's been a whole series of these promises and Boris doesn't explain how he will pay for it.\"\n• None The return of stop and search?", "The traffic officer was seriously injured in Moorcroft Road, Moseley on Saturday afternoon\n\nA man has been charged with attempted murder after a police officer was run over in Birmingham.\n\nThe traffic officer had attempted to pull over a suspected stolen car in Moorcroft Road, Moseley, on Saturday when he was assaulted, police said.\n\nHe was then run over by a man who got behind the wheel of the officer's marked patrol car.\n\nMubashar Hussain, 29, will appear at Birmingham Magistrates' Court on Monday.\n\nThe PC - who has worked with West Midlands Police for almost 20 years - was taken to hospital in critical condition and while his injuries are no longer life-threatening, the force said they could be life-changing.\n\nThe 42-year-old suffered a broken pelvis as well as head, abdominal and internal injuries and underwent surgery on Saturday and Sunday.\n\nMr Hussain, formerly of Sherwood Road in Hall Green, is also charged with causing serious injury by dangerous driving, a separate count of dangerous driving, wounding another officer who suffered a cut arm, four counts of assaulting other PCs, driving while disqualified, motoring offences and two car thefts.\n\nA second man, 24-year-old Ahsan Ghafoor, of Fulham Road in Sparkhill, has been charged with the same two car thefts, plus dangerous driving and other motoring offences. He will also appear in court on Monday.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The swimmers were pulled from the sea near Clacton Pier on Thursday\n\nAn 18-year-old man who got into difficulty in the sea off the Essex coast has died, days after his teenage sister was killed in the same incident.\n\nHaider Shamas and his 14-year-old sibling Malika, both from Luton, were rescued from the water near Clacton Pier on Thursday.\n\nMalika died hours later while Haider died on Saturday.\n\nPolice said a 15-year-old girl, who is a relative and was pulled from the sea with the pair, is expected to recover.\n\nA witness said the teenagers had been with a group of up to 30 people at the beach.\n\nOnlookers tried to help the siblings after they were pulled from the water, with some performing CPR on the beach until ambulances arrived.\n\nAll three were treated at Colchester General Hospital, police said.\n\nFlowers have been left near Clacton Pier\n\nVolunteers from the Clacton RNLI Lifeboat attended the scene, along with the police, ambulance and coastguard.\n\nIn a post on Facebook, the RNLI said it had been \"praying for a more positive outcome\".\n\n\"Our hearts and thoughts go out to the family at this heartbreaking time,\" it added.\n\nLast July, Ben Quartermaine, 15, died after getting into difficulty while swimming with a friend near Clacton Pier.\n\nHis mother and stepfather Vicky and Colin Gentry said a lack of warning signs in Clacton was \"one of the main issues\".\n\nThey also called for better education for \"all year groups in all schools, whether coastal or not\".\n\nClacton's beach patrol said several people had been swimming close to the pier on Sunday, despite red flags warning against going in the sea due to strong winds.\n\nLifeguard Sian Rowlen said: \"We don't feel it's safe enough for people to go out. They have to be very conscious of the fact they're going out when we've advised them not to.\n\n\"If we do have to go out after them, it might be not only their lives at risk but ours as well.\"\n\nAir ambulances were called to the scene\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Water was above rail level in Winchburgh tunnel meaning trains could only travel through at 5mph, causing significant delays\n\nTransport issues are easing off after heavy rain and flooding caused delays across Scotland.\n\nStorms on Saturday and Sunday left many areas waterlogged and made the return to work on Monday morning problematic for many.\n\nFlooding at the Winchburgh tunnel near Linlithgow disrupted travel between Glasgow and Edinburgh and from Edinburgh to Dunblane.\n\nA speed restriction put in place on the line has now been lifted.\n\nFlooding also caused a signalling fault which has been fixed and passengers have been advised that bus replacement services are no longer in place.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by ScotRail This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy 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 problems at Winchburgh came after the same tunnel was flooded a week ago.\n\nEarlier ScotRail operations director David Simpson told BBC Radio's Good Morning Scotland programme: \"We had a report of more flood water at Winchburgh at the start of service this morning.\n\n\"We sent some engineers to site and they reported the water just above the rail level there.\n\n\"We are having to send trains at slower speed through that area, reduce the number of trains and those trains are seeing delays as they pass through the tunnel at a lower speed.\"\n\nFrustrated passengers took to social media complaining that the ground had been lowered in the tunnel to accommodate new electric train tracks.\n\nMr Simpson said monitoring of the tunnel had taken place across the weekend and pumps were used to remove water.\n\nBut he admitted more work was needed to rectify whatever was causing the regular flooding.\n\nHe said: \"The volume of rain that fell yesterday on top of saturated land over the last few days has caused this.\n\n\"We have to look at why we have seen more flooding there and work with our Network Rail colleagues to make that area more resilient.\n\n\"The last thing people want on Monday morning is delays and cancellations.\"\n\nFlooding closed part of the West Coast mainline on Sunday\n\nHe said that as part of an extra £160m investment in weather resilience across Scotland over the next five years, ScotRail would be working with Network Rail to look at targeted problems areas such as Winchburgh.\n\nThe West Highland line remains affected by landslips north of Helensburgh.\n\nRoutes re-opened to Oban on Monday but south of Crainlarich, several locations required major work.\n\nTrains were again affected after the West Coast mainline between England and Scotland was closed temporarily due to flooding.\n\nIn Ayrshire, warnings were sent out that two of the region's rivers were in danger of breaching their banks.\n\nEast Ayrshire Council distributed more than 7,000 sandbags to protect households in the areas around Kilmarnock Water and River Irvine.\n\nThe Odeon Cinema in Kilmarnock evacuated dozens of customers mid-film when the River Irvine's banks burst in Queen's Drive.\n\nThe town's Asda supermarket was also closed early.\n\nPrestwick Airport car park was flooded when holidaymakers returned to pick up their cars\n\nHolidaymakers returning to Prestwick Airport arrived from their flights to find their cars partly submerged in the car park.\n\nDavid Shearer returned from a weekend in Barcelona at about 23:30 on Sunday and told the BBC news website: \"Car park three was closed. It has flooded at about 14:00 and a lot of cars were not drivable. I was lucky , my car was drivable but did have a lot of water in it.\n\nA spokesman for Prestwick Airport said: \"It happened very quickly. The burn behind the car park filled up and took us all by surprise.\n\n\"We towed out the cars which needed it and the water is gone now.\"\n\nIn Dumfries and Galloway, the A7 was shut by a landslide south of Langholm on Saturday - one lane has since reopened and traffic lights are in place at Skippers Bridge.\n\nCentral Fife was also experiencing flooding on Monday morning, with Haugh Road in Burntisland closed.\n\nThe weather forecast was drier and brighter for Monday, with lighter showers overnight.", "Argentine stock markets and its currency have both plunged after conservative Argentine President Mauricio Macri suffered a shock defeat in primary elections on Sunday.\n\nThe peso fell 15% against the dollar on Monday after earlier plunging around 30% to a record low.\n\nSome of the country's most traded stocks have also lost around half of their value in one day.\n\nMr Macri, in response, has pledged to \"reverse\" Sunday's election result.\n\nAt a news conference on Monday, the president also said that the drop suggested the market lacked confidence in an opposition government.\n\n\"This [market meltdown] is just a small demonstration of what can happen,\" said Mr Macri.\n\n\"We have much to do still. Every election is a message and we understood it.\"\n\nAt end of trading on Monday, Argentina's main Merval index closed down 31% as some of the country's largest companies saw their market values plummet.\n\nCement producer Loma Negra was among those worst affected, with its share price down around 55%. Financial services firm Galicia Financial also saw a 46% drop in its stock value.\n\nThe embattled president was defeated by his centre-left rival, Alberto Fernández, who is now seen as the frontrunner for October's presidential race.\n\nHis running mate is former President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner, who presided over an administration remembered for a high degree of protectionism and heavy state intervention in the economy.\n\nArgentina is a country that has suffered with all sorts of economic problems that are taught in textbooks.\n\nBut even by its standards, this market meltdown is unprecedented.\n\nIn just two hours, a third of the Merval index (which accounts for the most traded stocks in the country) was wiped out in value.\n\nInvestors are now pushing the \"sell\" button, as many believe it will be impossible for President Mauricio Macri to win the upcoming election in October.\n\nIf he loses, this will be the end of a pro-business agenda to save Argentina's economy that has been implemented since Mr Macri came to power in 2015, which includes IMF loans, austerity measures and the end of capital controls.\n\nSunday's primaries were seen as vindication for \"Kirchnerismo\" which have for years denounced Mr Macri's plan as ineffective. The country is in recession and still suffering with inflation and poverty.\n\nThere are still two more months to go until the election - but few believe there will be surprises as big as this one coming up again.\n\nEdward Glossop, from the London-based consultancy Capital Economics, said Mr Macri's government could pull out all the stops to try to shore up popular support.\n\nThis could include easing budget curbs imposed as part of Argentina's agreement with the International Monetary Fund.\n\n\"An outright loosening of the purse strings is possible. The IMF would probably turn a blind eye to this, since it is in its interest for President Macri to secure re-election,\" he said, but added: \"We doubt that these efforts would be enough to change voter perception.\"\n\nPresident Macri was elected in 2015 on promises to boost Argentina's economy with a sweep of liberal economic reforms.\n\nBut his promised recovery has yet to materialise - Argentina is currently in a recession and posted 22% inflation for the first half of the year, one of the highest rates globally.\n\nMore than a third of the country's population is currently living in poverty, according to official figures.", "Children from middle-class backgrounds are in danger of being groomed by criminal gangs to sell drugs, a new report has found. One mother says her son turned from \"an angel into a monster\".\n\n\"I was going out there looking for him myself,\" Claire - not her real name - explains to the BBC's Victoria Derbyshire programme. \"I was a nervous wreck.\"\n\nIn 2012, her son was exploited by a criminal gang to sell Class A drugs in his early teens, which led to him going missing for long periods of time - in one instance for three months.\n\n\"There was one occasion when he came home, and I heard a rustling at my door.\n\n\"To my horror, he was actually dealing from my home.\n\n\"He was getting calls on his mobile phone and asking whoever it was who was willing to purchase to come to my gate.\n\n\"Then it progressed to him being out on the streets most of the time - nowhere to be heard, nowhere to be seen.\"\n\nClaire describes her son as being a high achiever at school, who \"never had any problems with his behaviour\".\n\n\"He was actually featured in the local newspaper for very good work,\" she adds.\n\nHer story comes as a report by the All Party Parliamentary Group on Runaway and Missing Children and Adults warns that children and young people from \"stable and economically better-off backgrounds\" are being drawn in, coerced and exploited by criminal gangs.\n\n\"Any child can be groomed for criminal exploitation,\" according to the report\n\nLabour MP Ann Coffey, who chairs the group, told the programme: \"People think it's children from a particular group that are vulnerable to this and of course they are vulnerable, but we also forget that it is all children and we have a duty to protect all children, including children from better-off backgrounds who we may not think are vulnerable to this kind of exploitation and may go unnoticed.\"\n\nThe report says children are being used in so-called \"county lines\" operations - supplying Class A drugs from urban areas to county towns.\n\nIt says such grooming of missing children is \"very similar\" to sexual exploitation, but that those drawn in are effectively being blamed for their own participation in criminal activity, rather than being considered a victim.\n\nExploited children can be perceived as having \"made a choice\" and be seen as criminals rather than victims of the gangs controlling them.\n\nThe report calls for the risks of grooming and exploitation to be taught in both primary and secondary schools.\n\n\"Any child can be groomed for criminal exploitation. It affects boys and girls,\" it adds.\n\nThe National Crime Agency says the issue has spread out from London gangs to the rest of the country, including Liverpool and Greater Manchester.\n\nClaire believes her son was coerced into selling drugs.\n\n\"It could be that one of his peers, who had family members who were into criminal activity, asked their brother or sister to recruit within their mates,\" she says.\n\n\"There's the other side, where [he could have been] approached outside the school.\n\n\"I think personally he has gone through all of those stages.\"\n\nClaire says she \"screamed and shouted\" for support\n\nAsked if she received any help from social services, she says: \"Unfortunately with every service I was always told my son would have to have worse problems to have the support that I needed.\n\n\"I have screamed, I have shouted, I have done everything possible to try and prevent my son from getting deeper.\n\n\"Every way I turned I was backed up in a corner.\"\n\nReferring to Claire's case, Ann Coffey says: \"Her son's missing episodes were perhaps not seen in the way that they should have been because maybe the agencies didn't connect the risk to him in the way they might have done to another child from another different kind of background.\"\n\nThe cross-party report also called for a new national database for missing people, noting a lack of information-sharing that Claire also experienced.\n\n\"There has to be a response team that's working together, because I had to be dealing with so many services just for one child,\" she says.\n\n\"There was never anybody who could see what the other person was doing.\"\n\nThe government made tackling county lines one of its priorities in 2016 for ending gang violence and exploitation, saying: \"It is essential that police forces and their partners develop an understanding of what this means locally.\"\n\nA Home Office spokeswoman said: \"There is more that all partners can do, which is why we are tackling county lines through a national action plan and reviewing our cross-government strategy on missing children and adults and developing a clear implementation plan for delivery.\"\n\nClaire says she just feels \"fortunate\" that her son is still alive.\n\n\"He nearly passed away after being stabbed,\" she explains.\n\n\"He's alive and he's in a hospital bed, but when I saw him I broke down.\n\n\"His words to me were: 'I'm all right, Mum, I'm OK - it could have been worse.'\"\n\nAsked for her advice for any parents in similar situations, she says: \"Reach out - reach out for any help you can get.\"\n\nWatch the Victoria Derbyshire programme on weekdays between 09:00 and 11:00 on BBC Two and the BBC News channel.", "The government is considering giving powers to fine video-sharing apps and websites to the UK's media regulator.\n\nThe proposal would see Ofcom able to impose multi-million pound fines if it judges the platforms have failed to prevent youngsters seeing pornography, violence and other harmful material.\n\nThe regulator would take charge of the matter from 19 September 2020.\n\nThe move is designed to meet the UK's obligations to the EU but may not be required if Brexit occurs in October.\n\nEven then, it would only be an interim measure until a separate online harms regulator was appointed at a later date.\n\n\"The implementation of the AVMSD [Audiovisual Media Services Directive] is required as part of the United Kingdom's obligations arising from its membership of the European Union and until the UK formally leaves the European Union all of its obligations remain in force,\" said a spokesman for the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport.\n\n\"If the UK leaves the European Union without a deal, we will not be bound to transpose the AVMSD into UK law.\"\n\nThe Telegraph newspaper was first to report the scheme.\n\nIt said that the proposal was \"quietly\" agreed before Parliament's summer break and would give Ofcom the power to fine tech firms up to 5% of their revenues and/or block them in the UK if they failed to comply with its rulings.\n\nThe watchdog has said that it is ready to adopt the powers.\n\n\"These new rules are an important first step in regulating video-sharing online, and we'll work closely with the government to implement them,\" a spokeswoman told the BBC.\n\n\"We also support plans to go further and legislate for a wider set of protections, including a duty of care for online companies towards their users.\"\n\nFacebook, YouTube, Twitter and Snapchat have not commented.\n\nBut TechUK - the industry group that represents the sector - said it hoped that ministers would take a \"balanced and proportionate approach\" to the issue.\n\n\"Key to achieving this will be clear and precise definitions across the board, and a proportionate sanctions and compliance regime,\" said its deputy chief executive Antony Walker.\n\nThe Internet Association added that it hoped any intervention would be proportionate.\n\n\"Any new regulation should be targeted at specific harms, and be technically possible to implement in practice - taking into account that resources available vary between companies,\" said Daniel Dyball, the association's executive director.\n\n\"The immediacy of livestreaming can make children more vulnerable to being coerced by abusers, who may capture the footage, share it and use it as blackmail,\" commented Andy Burrows, head of the organisation's child safety online policy.\n\n\"The directive gives the UK a chance to introduce tough measures on tech firms that have their European headquarters here.\n\n\"Crucially, this is a real chance to bring in legislative protections ahead of the forthcoming Online Harms Bill and to finally hold sites to account if they put children at risk.\"", "The UK is \"first in line\" for a trade deal with the US, President Trump's national security adviser has said.\n\nJohn Bolton said the US supported a no-deal Brexit and added Washington would propose an accelerated series of trade deals.\n\nMr Bolton claimed deals could be done on a \"sector-by-sector\" basis, with an agreement on manufacturing made first.\n\nHowever, critics warned the UK would have to give in to some US demands in return for any trade agreement.\n\nHis comments came after meeting Prime Minister Boris Johnson at No 10.\n\nAccording to Mr Bolton, a bilateral agreement or \"series of agreements\" could be carved out \"very quickly, very straight-forwardly\".\n\nA trade deal for financial services and agriculture would not be the first to be agreed, he added.\n\nMr Bolton said \"doing it in pieces\" was not unprecedented and the US understood the importance of doing as much as possible as rapidly as possible before the 31 October exit date.\n\nHe said there would be enthusiastic bipartisan support in Congress for speedy ratification at each stage.\n\nMr Johnson said there \"all sorts\" of opportunities for UK business in the US, particularly service companies, but the negotiations will be a \"tough old haggle\".\n\n\"The single biggest deal we need to do is a free trade deal agreement with our friends and partners over the Channel,\" he said.\n\nBut Nancy Pelosi, who leads the Democrats in the US House of Representatives, said in April that a US-UK trade deal would not be \"on the cards\" if Brexit damaged the Good Friday peace agreement in Northern Ireland.\n\nAsked whether his proposed plan would follow World Trade Organisation rules, Mr Bolton said \"our trade negotiators seem to think it is\".\n\nAnd he insisted the UK was \"constantly at the front of the trade queue\" for the Trump administration.\n\nThere is a problem with sector-by-sector trade agreements. They are not compatible with WTO rules, which say free trade agreements for goods should cover \"substantially all the trade\".\n\nThere is no formal definition of that term but a figure of 90% has often been suggested.\n\nIt is unlikely a deal covering a few sectors would qualify. Other WTO members could start a dispute and would, on the face of it, have every chance of winning.\n\nHowever, it does not mean it would be impossible. WTO rules are not enforceable in national courts so if the UK and the US wanted to go ahead they probably could.\n\nBut it would be a strange move for any country committed to the rules-based global trade system that has the WTO at its heart.\n\nThere is another problem for any trade agreement: whether it meets the \"substantially all the trade\" criterion or not, it would need to be ratified by the US Congress.\n\nThere is a substantial body of American legislators who would be likely to vote against it if they thought that Brexit had taken place in a way that posed a danger to the peace process and the open border on the island of Ireland.\n\nMr Bolton also referenced Mr Johnson's willingness to participate in Operation Sentinel, which aims to beef up the military presence in the Gulf in the face of tensions between the West and Iran, saying he was \"pleased\" as this \"reflects a change\" from Theresa May's government.\n\nMeanwhile, former Labour foreign secretary Jack Straw described Mr Bolton as \"dangerously bellicose\", and suggested the UK would have to agree to some US demands, for example allowing imports of US chlorine-washed chicken.\n\n\"This is a highly transactional administration… you don't get something for nothing,\" he told BBC Radio 4's Today programme.\n\nThe EU currently bans chlorine-washed chicken products on welfare grounds\n\nLewis Lukens, a former deputy chief of mission at the US Embassy in London and former acting US ambassador, said Mr Bolton was aligned to President Trump's \"America first agenda\" and would be making \"strong demands\" on the UK to back the US position on issues like Huawei, China and Iran.\n\nMr Johnson is expected to have his first face-to-face meeting as prime minister with Mr Trump later this month at the G7 summit in France.\n\nIt would be hard to find a more enthusiastic champion of Brexit than John Bolton: a thoughtful, intellectual, highly combative and controversial champion of the nation state.\n\nHe caused havoc as US ambassador to the United Nations between 2005 and 2006 with his open rejection of the UN's usefulness except where it served the direct interests of the US.\n\nSo it should be no surprise that he told us at a briefing during his London visit: \"Britain's success in successfully exiting the European Union is a statement about democratic rule and constitutional government that's important for Britain, but it's important for the United States too.\"\n\nHe stressed it was very much in the US interest and there was no \"quid pro quo\" with any other issues. By that, he was denying all suggestions that Britain would be expected to fall into line with Washington's Iran policy - although he clearly hoped that it might.\n\nLikewise, he welcomed Mr Johnson's position on Huawei and 5G technology, calling it \"Britain going back to square one\" and re-examining the issue.\n\nFor now, Mr Bolton said, Britain was entirely focused on Brexit. The US is willing to wait. But that does leave open many questions about future relations and possible political trade-offs with the United States.\n\nIf Mr Bolton's major intervention in trade negotiations has raised some eyebrows, the National Security Advisor had a forthright answer to that.\n\nHe pointed us to the National Security Act of 1947 and told us firmly that his remit includes economic security, because the security of a nation depends fundamentally on its prosperity.", "Cathay Pacific has warned staff they could be fired if they \"support or participate in illegal protests\" in Hong Kong, as pressure from Beijing intensifies.\n\nThe warning was emailed to staff by chief executive Rupert Hogg on Monday.\n\nOn Friday, China ordered the airline to suspend workers who support pro-democracy protests in the territory.\n\nCathay fired two employees and suspended one pilot over the weekend in response to the order.\n\nAlso on Monday, Hong Kong International Airport cancelled more than 100 departing flights, as anti-government protests in its main terminal continued for a fourth day.\n\nCathay Pacific is now subject to new regulations announced last week by Beijing's aviation regulator, the Civil Aviation Administration of China (CAAC), which came into effect on Sunday.\n\nThese require it to submit lists of staff working on flights going to the mainland or through its airspace.\n\nAny staff member accused of involvement in \"illegal protests\" is banned from working on those flights. Authorities have warned planes could be prevented from landing if they do not comply.\n\nThe regulator has also demanded a report from Cathay by 15 August on planned measures to \"strengthen internal control and improve flight safety and security\".\n\nIn his email to staff, seen by the BBC, Mr Hogg wrote: \"Cathay Pacific Group's operations in mainland China are key to our business.\n\n\"We are therefore legally required to follow CAAC regulations and, as is the case with any notices issued by any regulatory authority having jurisdiction over us, we must and will comply.\"\n\nCathay Pacific, Hong Kong's flagship carrier, has found itself in a difficult position over the long-running pro-democracy demonstrations in the territory, which have angered Beijing.\n\nThe email from Mr Hogg followed more violent clashes in Hong Kong on Sunday.\n\n\"Cathay Pacific Group has a zero-tolerance approach to illegal activities. Specifically, in the current context, there will be disciplinary consequences for employees who support or participate in illegal protests,\" Mr Hogg wrote.\n\n\"These consequences could be serious and may include termination of employment.\"\n\nShares in the Hong-Kong based airline fell more than 4% on Monday.\n\nThe statement represents an about-face for Cathay Pacific, which said last week that it would not stop staff joining demonstrations.\n\nHowever, the airline has come under increasing pressure to change its stance, both from the Chinese government and from a wider backlash on the mainland.\n\nFuelled by China's state-run press, a boycott campaign on social media using the hashtag #BoycottCathayPacific has attracted more than 17 million views.\n\nCathay Pacific cabin crew have also taken to social media to communicate with each other about the authorities' crackdown, using closed WhatsApp and Facebook groups to share information.\n\nOne message seen by the BBC said crews flying into China were now liable to have their phones checked and data read by \"safety officers\" and advised crew members to leave their usual devices at home.\n\nProtests have been running for days at Hong Kong's main airport\n\nLast week, the airline said it had seen a fall in bookings for travel to Hong Kong \"in the realm of double digits\" amid signs that the anti-government protests were discouraging people from travelling to the territory.\n\nProtests in Hong Kong began about nine weeks ago over a proposed extradition bill between the territory and mainland China, and have evolved into demands for greater freedoms.\n\nHong Kong is part of China, but its citizens have more autonomy than those on the mainland.\n\nIt has a free press and judicial independence under the so-called \"one country, two systems\" approach - freedoms that activists fear are being increasingly eroded.\n\nCathay Pacific suspended a pilot who has been accused of rioting after allegedly participating in the Hong Kong protests, following a directive from China's aviation regulator last week.\n\nIn a statement, Cathay Pacific said it \"wishes to make it clear that we express no view whatsoever on the subject matter of any proceedings to which he may be subject\".\n\nIt also terminated two airport ground staff for \"misconduct\". No further details were given.", "The woman was taken to hospital with possible life-changing injuries after becoming trapped between two cars\n\nA woman was badly injured when she was crushed between two cars in a possible road-rage attack in central London.\n\nThe Met said officers were looking into claims a Land Rover was driven at the woman, trapping her against a Mercedes, near Hyde Park Corner on Sunday night.\n\nThe woman, in her 40s, was taken to hospital where her injuries were described as possibly life-changing.\n\nA 23-year-old man was Tasered and arrested at the scene on suspicion of affray.\n\nHe has subsequently also been arrested on suspicion of grievous bodily harm and driving while disqualified in connection with the incident at about 20:15 BST, the police force said.\n\nTourist Deepak Anand, 40, from Vancouver, Canada, was on a bus with his wife and son and filmed what happened at the junction of Grosvenor Place.\n\nThe woman was eventually freed after the Land Rover was reversed away from her\n\nMr Anand said he saw a man trying to pull a driver out of a Land Rover, which then \"accelerated on to oncoming traffic\" before lodging the woman between the car and a black Mercedes-Benz.\n\nThe Mercedes also hit a stationary bus but there were no reports any passengers were injured.\n\nMr Anand said police officers arrived shortly after and Tasered a man.\n\nWitnesses said the woman could be heard screaming and fell to the ground after the cars were separated.\n\nPolice said the woman had been taken to a central London hospital for treatment.\n\nA Metropolitan Police spokesman said: \"At this early stage it is believed she was the occupant of a car who became involved in a dispute with another car.\n\n\"She had got out of her car before being struck by the other car as it attempted to drive away.\"\n\nA second man, who complained of feeling unwell at the scene, was taken to hospital and has since been discharged.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Twitch has apologised to former streamer Ninja after pornography was hosted on his page.\n\nTwitch replaced the content on the page - which has 14.7 million followers - to show a list of other streamers after he left the platform for Mixer this month.\n\nBut Ninja said he was \"disgusted\" after the top-listed streamer on his page featured pornographic videos.\n\nTwitch chief executive Emmett Shear said he \"wanted to apologise directly to Ninja\" and had removed the account.\n\n\"The lewd content that appeared on the Ninja offline channel page grossly violates our terms of service,\" he said. \"We've permanently suspended the account in question.\n\n\"We have also suspended [recommending other channels on Ninja's page] while we investigate how this content came to be promoted.\"\n\nThis is what visitors to Ninja's Twitch channel saw, before it reverted back to a normal offline channel - though we added the pixelation\n\nThe incident occurred after the Amazon-owned games streaming platform decided to list the most popular streams in the Fortnite category on Ninja's page.\n\nBecause they were sorted by popularity, with the videos with the most viewers appearing first, a pornographic channel shot to the top of the listings as people clicked to see what was happening.\n\nThis caused pornography to be the first thing visitors to Ninja's old channel saw, complete with his branding at the top of the page.\n\nIn a video which has been viewed more than four million times, Ninja said he was \"disgusted and so sorry\".\n\n\"As you guys know I'm streaming on Mixer now,\" he said. \"There was a porn account which was number one being recommended on my channel. And I have no say in any of this stuff.\n\n\"We're trying to get the whole channel taken down to begin with, or at least not promote other streamers and other channels on my brand, on my profile.\n\n\"So for anyone who saw that, for anyone whose kids saw that, I apologise, and I'm sorry.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Russian President Vladimir Putin attended a gathering organised by a right-wing bikers' group in the contested area of Crimea\n\nUkraine has protested to Russia after a leather-clad President Vladimir Putin visited the annexed Crimean peninsula to attend a bikers' festival.\n\nIts foreign ministry described Saturday's visit as a \"blatant violation of Ukraine's sovereignty\".\n\nUkraine said attempts by Moscow and its media to present such visits as routine were \"pathetic\".\n\nCrimea was annexed from the Ukraine in 2014, triggering a wave of ultra-patriotism in Russia.\n\nThe Night Wolves, a right-wing nationalist bikers' group close to President Putin, were prominent supporters of the annexation.\n\nThis year, they held their annual show in Sevastopol, the peninsula's largest city.\n\nMr Putin - who arrived at the event astride a motorbike - appeared to be the guest of honour, with bikers thronging around the Russian leader, hoping to get a selfie.\n\nBut the visit comes as Mr Putin faces growing disquiet at home.\n\nUp to 60,000 people thronged the streets of the Russian capital on Saturday in an authorised demonstration to demand \"fair\" municipal elections in September.\n\nSome tried to reach the presidential administration building in a later unsanctioned protest and hundreds were arrested.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Protesters were urged to join an unauthorised \"stroll\" after the rally", "Most of the artefacts would have belonged to women - possibly slaves or servants\n\nArchaeologists working in the buried Roman city of Pompeii say they have uncovered a \"sorcerer's treasure trove\" of artefacts, including good-luck charms, mirrors and glass beads.\n\nMost of the items would have belonged to women, said Massimo Osanna, director of the Archaeological Park of Pompeii.\n\nA room with the bodies of 10 victims, including women and children, was excavated in the same house.\n\nPompeii was engulfed by a volcanic eruption from Mt Vesuvius in AD 79.\n\nThe fatal eruption froze the city and its residents in time, making it a rich source for archaeologists.\n\nThe trove was found in what remained of a wooden box. The wood itself had decomposed and only the bronze hinges remained, preserved by the volcanic material which hardened over it.\n\nIn it were crystals, ceramic, amethysts and amber. Scarabs (beetle-shaped amulets) from the Middle East were identified, along with various gems, including a carnelian with a craftsman figure and a glass bead engraved with the head of Dionysus, the Roman god of wine, fertility and ritual madness.\n\nThe chest contained many valuable items, but no gold\n\nThe objects in the trunk were for use in rituals, archaeologists think\n\nIt was more likely the objects belonged to a servant or a slave, rather than the owner of the house, Mr Osanna told the Italian news agency Ansa. None of the artefacts was made of gold, much favoured by the wealthy of Pompeii.\n\n\"They are objects of everyday life in the female world and are extraordinary because they tell micro-stories, biographies of the inhabitants of the city who tried to escape the eruption,\" Mr Osanna said.\n\nArchaeologists are now trying to establish kinship ties between the bodies found in the house via DNA analysis.\n\n\"Perhaps the precious box belonged to one of these victims,\" Mr Osanna speculated. The items in the box may have been worn during rituals as charms against bad luck, rather than as ornamentation, he said.\n\nThe chest was uncovered in the House of the Garden in Region V of the archaeological park - the same area where an inscription was discovered last year, indicating that the eruption may have taken place in October 79, two months later than previously thought.\n\nThe house itself would have belonged to a man of high status, confirmed by the quality of the amber and glass beads found in the trove, archaeologists say.\n\nMost people in Pompeii were not killed by slow-moving molten lava, but by a vast cloud of hot gas and fragments, called a pyroclastic flow. The cloud surged over the city, killing its residents wherever they were, and burying them in ash, preserving their final moments.", "The number of empty shops in town centres is at its highest for four years, industry figures show.\n\nThe vacancy rate was 10.3% in July, its highest level since January 2015, according to the British Retail Consortium and Springboard survey.\n\nFootfall also fell by 1.9% in July, the worst July performance for seven years.\n\nDiane Wehrle, Springboard insights director, said July had been \"much more challenging\" for shopping centres and High Streets than out of town stores.\n\nThe survey showed that High Street footfall declined by 2.7% in July, and shopping centre footfall declined by 3.1%.\n\nIn contrast, footfall in retail parks increased by 1.2%.\n\nMs Wehrle added: \"Consumer demand is ever-more polarised between convenience and experience, and the stronger performance of out of town destinations where footfall rose by 1.2% in July reflects the fact that retail parks are successfully bridging the convenience-experience gap.\n\n\"They not only offer consumers accessible shopping environments with free parking and easy click and collect opportunities for online purchases, but many also combine this with an enhanced experience that includes coffee shops and casual dining restaurants, and some also have leisure facilities.\"\n\nChris Vallance, BBC's The World At One\n\nStockton-on-Tees has invested in its town centre, but still shops keep closing\n\nIn a shopping arcade in Stockton-on-Tees, the loudspeakers are playing Empire State of Mind. \"Bright lights will inspire you,\" goes the chorus, but the canned music isn't inspiring all the shoppers.\n\n\"It's getting like a ghost town really,\" one says. \"They've made it nice, the area, but the shops are going one by one.\"\n\nIn 2018, data from the Centre for Retail Research found more than 2,500 mostly medium or large retail businesses failed, and the organisation's Joshua Bamfield now expects 2019 to be worse.\n\n\"Marks & Spencer, they closed and now Debenhams is going to close,\" Labour's Nigel Cooke, the borough council cabinet member for regeneration and housing, told Radio 4's World At One.\n\nStockton's response to High Street closures has been to try to \"reinvent\" the High Street.\n\nThe BRC said there was concern about the rise in empty store fronts.\n\n\"If the government wishes to avoid seeing more empty shops in our town centres then they must act to relieve some of the pressure bearing down on the High Street,\" said BRC chief executive Helen Dickinson.\n\n\"Currently, retail accounts for 5% of the economy, yet pays 10% of all business costs and 25% of all business taxes. The rising vacancy figures show this is simply not sustainable.\n\n\"We need an immediate freeze in rates, as well as fixing the transitional relief, which leads to corner shops in Redcar subsidising banks in central London.\"", "Drug crime is increasing in many small towns and villages even as it falls significantly in city centres, the BBC has found.\n\nPolice data shows drug crimes in England and Wales have fallen by more than 50,000 in the past five years.\n\nBut national averages hide a major shift in where drug crimes are being committed.\n\nIt comes as the government pledged an extra £85m to prosecutors to help deal with a rise in violent crime.\n\nIn London, 30 out of 36 areas saw either a decrease or no significant change in recorded drug crime over the past five years.\n\nBut moving outside of the capital, in the South East and East of England, there were 74 small towns and villages that bucked the trend and saw increases in drug crime.\n\nSorry, your browser cannot display this map\n\nThe map above used a statistical model to classify areas that have experienced a significant change in drug crime. Weight is given to areas with a strong overall trend of increasing or decreasing crime across several years. Where there is no strong overall pattern in a particular location, those areas have been labelled as having \"no change\". 'Drug crime' refers to drug-related incidents reported to or identified by the police that an officer classes as criminal, whether or not the crime results in a charge.\n\nTap here if you can't see the interactive map above\n\nIn Liverpool drug crime has fallen by nearly 20%, but 15 miles away in Chester it increased by 40%.\n\nThe push from drug gangs to find new markets within easy commuting distance of their home cities where competition for market share may be lower than in their base is sometimes called county lines.\n\nCounty lines often involves the use of teenagers to ferry drugs between cities and towns, and to set up drug-dealing operations in the homes of addicts in a process known as \"cuckooing\".\n\nThe National Crime Agency says more and more children and young people are being referred to the \"National Referral Mechanism\", a system designed to identify human-trafficking victims, as a result of county lines.\n\n\"The county lines model is linked to violence and relies on the exploitation of vulnerable people to make a criminal profit, with organised crime networks bringing terror to the communities they operate in,\" NCA spokesman Nikki Holland said.\n\n\"We're working with partners to gather vital intelligence to help us dismantle these networks piece by piece and ultimately protect those at risk of harm.\"\n\nLondon, the West Midlands and Liverpool are the biggest exporters of county lines drug crime, according to NCA analysis, with increasingly diverse areas targeted by the gangs, from large towns to rural communities.\n\nThe BBC counted the number of drug crimes in \"built-up areas\" - the villages, towns and cities where people live, according to boundaries drawn up by the Office for National Statistics - using recorded crime data from the police data archive. It then measured how much recorded crime went up or down in each area in the five years from 2013 to 2018.\n\nHowever, the volume of crimes recorded can be affected by police activities and how the police focus on their different priorities.\n\nMost of the smaller areas in the data have seen falls in recorded drug crime, defined as offences involving either the possession or supply of illegal drugs, broadly in line with the national picture of reducing drug crime overall.\n\nBut of the 200 areas where drug crime has increased the most since 2013, almost three quarters have a population which is lower than the average for all built-up areas. In contrast, of the 200 areas where drug crime has decreased the most, nine in 10 have an above-average population.\n\nAs well as towns on the peripheries of cities seeing increases, another pattern can be seen along the south coast of England. Bournemouth and Weymouth both saw rises of at least 50%, and Swanage, Bridport, Lyme Regis, Exeter and Redruth in Cornwall all saw significant increases in drug crime.\n\n\"As a society, as law enforcement, as people who work in the public sector, as the public, we all need to come together and we all need to understand that this is happening on our streets right across the country. And we need to work together, as we are, to do something about it,\" Assistant Chief Constable Chris Green, the head of the North-West Regional Organised Crime Unit, told the BBC.\n\n\"There are conservative estimates of 10,000 children. Ten thousand children across the United Kingdom who have been dragged into county lines.\n\n\"If you have someone who is criminally exploiting a child, a young person for the purposes of criminality, they are ruining their lives by exposing them to risk that they shouldn't be exposed to. They're dragging them into criminality, and once they're dragged into that criminality it has huge consequences for their life chances.\n\n\"Are they abusing that child? Absolutely they are. \"\n\nCorrection 12 September 2019: This article originally referred to the village of Westhumble in Surrey, where figures show there's been an increase in drugs offences in the past year. Surrey police subsequently confirmed these cases were related to drugs possession in the surrounding area and on the 13 August we updated our article to reflect that. We have now removed all references to Westhumble from the article entirely. The village is not a centre for county lines dealing and we accept it should not have featured in reports about how drugs gangs are moving away from cities and into less densely populated areas.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.", "This police photograph of Jermaine Taylor has been shared more than 15,000 times on Facebook since 7 August\n\nPolice in south Wales have warned people who have mocked the hairstyle of a wanted drug dealer that they could find themselves facing prosecution.\n\nA mugshot of Jermaine Taylor, 21, from Newport, was published by police on Facebook after he breached his licence conditions.\n\nIt prompted hundreds of jokes, puns and memes among the nearly 90,000 comments left on the Gwent Police Facebook post.\n\nPolice later said offensive comments could leave people facing action.\n\nPeople can be prosecuted for posting offensive messages online.\n\nOne contributor joked that police should look in Edinburgh, which hosts the fringe festival, while another said officers were \"combing the area\".\n\nOn Monday, Gwent Police said: \"We're really grateful to everyone who is assisting us in locating Jermaine Taylor, and we must admit a few of these comments have made us laugh.\n\n\"However, when the line is crossed from being funny to abusive, we do have to make sure we are responsible and remind people to be careful about what they write on social media.\"\n\nPolice said Taylor had breached his licence conditions following his release from prison in December 2018.\n\nHe was given a three-year sentence at Cardiff Crown Court in September 2017 for being concerned in supplying controlled drugs.\n• None Fugitive unhappy with police mugshot posts his own\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The bear was probably attracted by the smell of rubbish\n\nA black bear broke into a house in the US before escaping by smashing through a wall.\n\nPolice in Colorado said the break-in happened on Friday evening when the house was vacant. Nobody was injured.\n\nThe smell of rubbish probably attracted the bear, Estes Park police said.\n\n\"Upon officer's arrival, said bear forcibly breached a hole in the wall like the 'Kool-Aid Man' and made its escape,\" the police department wrote on Facebook.\n\nThe mascot for the soft drink Kool-Aid is typically featured in adverts smashing through walls.\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 Estes Park Police Department 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\n\"Please do your part to keep bears wild. Bears are extremely smart, which means we all have to be too,\" it added.\n\nColorado Parks and Wildlife reported that bears broke into more than 35 vehicles and nine houses in the Estes Park area in the 10 days before 3 August.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.", "The shipyard in Port Glasgow is expected to be in administration by the end of next week\n\nThe owner of Ferguson Marine has clashed with the Scottish government over plans to nationalise the shipyard.\n\nJim McColl said there was \"no economic sense\" in the idea, and that it would \"damage the economy\".\n\nSpeaking to the Mail on Sunday, he also accused ministers of \"abusing their power\" in the way they have handled their long-running dispute.\n\nThe Scottish government responded that Mr McColl's own rescue plan \"had a number of serious risks\".\n\nThe Port Glasgow site, which employs about 350 staff, is due to enter administration.\n\nFinance Secretary Derek Mackay has said taking the beleaguered yard into public ownership was an option.\n\nIt comes amid a very public row between Mr McColl and the Scottish government over a contract to build two ferries.\n\nThe £97m deal for CalMac is behind schedule and considerably over budget.\n\nAn order for CalMac ferries have been at the centre of a very public dispute\n\nFerguson has said it expects to lose nearly £40m on the ferry deal, which is being procured through the public-sector agency CMAL.\n\nThe Scottish government said Mr McColl's proposal to salvage the contract would not have put any of his firm's money into the yard.\n\nA government spokesman said: \"It offered no certainty on the overall final cost of both vessels and saw no money from Clyde Blowers Capital themselves being invested.\"\n\nThe spokesman added the proposal - understood to have involved the Scottish government taking an equity stake in the business - could have been unlawful.\n\nThe public fall-out is between ministers and a businessman who was close to the SNP administration.\n\nMr McColl is reputed to be a billionaire, and is one of First Minister Nicola Sturgeon's council of economic advisers.\n\nFive years ago, he helped the government politically, with a deal to take the Ferguson shipyard out of administration, averting closure in the days before the independence referendum.\n\nOn Friday Mr McColl, along with fellow directors of Ferguson Marine Engineering Ltd, served notice of intent to put the company into administration by next Friday.\n\nThe £97m fixed price contract for the two CalMac ferries is understood to have doubled in cost, at least partly due to the complexity of designing and installing an innovative hybrid, dual-fuel engine.\n\nThe Scottish government has been working over the weekend on its response to the administration warning. A letter was to be sent by Monday morning setting out how ministers intended to proceed.\n\nTalks are expected from Monday between lawyers and advisers and a solution is expected by midweek.\n\nLast night, the Scottish government repeated its pledge to safeguard jobs for the 350 people who work at the Inverclyde yard, and to complete the ships.\n\nIt said that it had been working on the basis of no additional funding going into the business from Ferguson or Jim McColl's investment firm Clyde Blowers Capital.\n\nA spokesman said: \"We have been actively considering other options, including public ownership and remain keen to reach a conclusion on this matter.\n\n\"We also remain open to considering viable alternative options and will continue to work with all partners to reach a constructive solution that can deliver both the vessels and safeguard jobs for those who work in the yard.\"", "A man has appeared in court charged with child abduction over the disappearance of a 15-year-old Vietnamese girl in York.\n\nHo Quang Ngoc, 25, is accused of taking a child and facilitating a breach of immigration laws.\n\nThe girl, who speaks no English, went missing from her tour group in York on 6 August and has not been seen since.\n\nMr Ngoc, who is Vietnamese, appeared at York Magistrates' Court where he was remanded in custody.\n\nHe is due to appear at York Crown Court on 16 September.\n\nNorth Yorkshire Police are appealing for information over the missing girl.\n\nSeven other people arrested last week have been released under investigation.\n\nAnother man and woman were separately arrested in Staffordshire and are in police custody.\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.", "Christian Thornton died at the scene of the stabbing\n\nA landlord has been stabbed to death outside his pub.\n\nChristian Thornton, who was 49, was found with stab wounds and died at the scene on Liverpool Road in Widnes, Cheshire, police said.\n\nThe married father of three had worked at the Hammer and Pincers pub for 20 years, a friend told the BBC, first as a barman and then as its landlord.\n\nA 35-year-old man has been arrested on suspicion of murder in connection with the attack at 15:20 BST on Sunday.\n\nA 39-year-old woman has been arrested on suspicion of assisting an offender.\n\nCleaner Paul Whitfield, 50, said he was \"devastated\" and had known Mr Thornton for more than 20 years.\n\n\"I feel so sorry for his children - they are only young, about five or six,\" he added.\n\n\"He was a brilliant landlord - he knew what drink you had and it would be on the bar waiting for you.\"\n\nA 35-year-old man and 39-year-old woman have been arrested\n\nWitness Rick Slater, 33, said he heard \"shouting and screaming\" and Mr Thornton's body was found near the beer garden.\n\nHe said: \"There were kids going down the slide when I went into the pub to get a pint.\n\n\"I came out a few minutes later and someone said they'd seen a flash of a knife and Chris was stabbed. It's terrible he's been taken like this.\"\n\nRomeo Lopez, 32, said: \"[Mr Thornton] was the life and soul.\"\n\nHe added: \"His nickname was Tigger as he was always jumping around.\"\n\nFloral tributes have been placed by a police cordon near the entrance to the pub.\n\nCh Insp Simon Parsonage, of Cheshire Police, said: \"I would like to reassure those living locally that we are doing everything we can to establish the circumstances of what has happened and extra officers will be patrolling the area.\"\n\nTributes have been left at the scene near the pub\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Last updated on .From the section Tennis\n\nAndy Murray will return to singles competition for the first time since January when he faces Richard Gasquet at the Cincinnati Masters on Monday.\n\nThe Briton, 32, lost in the first round of the Australian Open in January and broke down in tears amid fears a hip injury may end his career.\n\nHe underwent hip resurfacing surgery and has since played in doubles events.\n\nMurray - now ranked 325 in the world - is expected on court around 19:00 BST against world-number-66 Gasquet.\n\nMurray gained a wildcard entry and speaking on the eve of the tournament the three-time Grand Slam winner said he has had \"good\" results against top players on the practice court.\n\n\"But at some stage you have to take the step to try and play,\" he added. \"The quickest way to get up to speed is by being on the practice and match court with top players.\n\n\"I'm not expecting to move as well I used to, but I think I can move better than I am now,\" he said. \"That will take some time since I only started playing singles a couple of weeks ago.\n\n\"When you're playing at the highest level against the best players, they hit the ball big and that takes some time to get used to.\"\n\nNovak Djokovic - who won the Cincinnati Open in 2018 - is part of the field for the tournament, as is world number three Roger Federer,\n\nMeanwhile, Murray has added tournaments in China in September and October to his schedule but has not committed to playing singles at the US Open.\n\nThe final major of 2019 starts on 26 August in New York.", "Luxury brand Versace has apologised after an image on one of its T-shirts appeared to imply Hong Kong and Macau were independent territories.\n\nAfter fierce criticism on social media in China, Versace said it had made a mistake and had stopped selling the tops.\n\nIt said it \"respects the sovereignty of China's territorial state\".\n\nFashion brands Givenchy and Coach are also facing a backlash for not adhering to China's territorial claims.\n\nThe Versace T-shirts, images of which were shared on social media, featured city-country pairs such as Milan-Italy and London-UK.\n\nThese also included Hong Kong-Hong Kong and Macau-Macau.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by VERSACE This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nChina has been increasingly strict in policing how foreign firms describe Hong Kong, which is part of China but has a special status, offering its people more autonomy than those on the mainland.\n\nIn a post on Weibo, the Italian fashion label said it had stopped selling and had destroyed the T-shirts as of 24 July.\n\n\"We apologise for the dispute. We love China and respect the sovereignty of China's territorial state,\" a translation of Versace's statement said.\n\n\"Never have I wanted to disrespect China's National Sovereignty and this is why I wanted to personally apologise for such inaccuracy and for any distress that it might have caused,\" she said on her Instagram account.\n\nThe incident also led to Versace's China brand ambassador Yang Mi, a popular actress in the country, cutting ties with the brand.\n\n\"China's territorial integrity and sovereignty are sacred and inviolable at all times,\" a statement from her studio, Jiaxing Media, said.\n\nThe hashtag #YangMiStopsWorkingWithVersace had 860 million views on Weibo on Monday morning\n\nVersace is the latest foreign company to have drawn ire from consumers in mainland China over sovereignty sensitivities. The issue has gained further prominence in light of months of pro-democracy demonstrations in Hong Kong.\n\nThe company also misspelled the Belgian city of Brussels, instead printing 'Brusells' on the t-shirt.\n\nOn Monday, fashion brands Coach and Givenchy also faced a backlash over garments they had produced.\n\nCoach's China ambassador Liu Wen, a model, said on China's Weibo social media website that she had ended her contract with the company over a T-shirt which listed Taiwan as a country.\n\n\"I apologize to everyone for the damage that I have caused as a result of my less-careful choice of brand!\" she said in a Weibo post that was liked hundreds of thousands of times.\n\nCoach said it corrected the error last year and apologised.\n\nSeparately, Chinese boy band member Jackson Yee said he had quit as a Givenchy spokesman after pictures emerged of one of its shirts listing Hong Kong and Taiwan in a similar way. Givenchy also apologised.\n\nLast year, US retailer Gap apologised for selling T-shirts which it said showed an \"incorrect map\" of China.\n\nThe design featured just the mainland and not territories that China also claims, such as Taiwan. Beijing considers self-ruling Taiwan to be a breakaway province.\n\nSeveral other companies including Marriott and Delta Airlines issued similar apologies in 2018 after information on their websites appeared to conflict with China's territorial claims.\n\nBeijing had earlier demanded a group of foreign airlines respect China's sovereignty claims and change the way they refer to Taiwan, Hong Kong and Macau.", "More than 600 people were arrested in raids targeting \"county lines\"\n\nChildren as young as 11 are being exploited by gangs running \"county lines\" drug networks, MPs have heard.\n\nThe National Crime Agency (NCA) said there had been a rapid rise of \"county lines\", where city-based gangs exploit people to sell drugs in smaller towns.\n\nIt told the Commons Home Affairs Committee that more than 2,000 phone lines are being operated by gangs across the UK - up from 720 a year ago.\n\nTwenty-three police force areas were now involved, the NCA said.\n\nMost of the vulnerable people exploited were children aged 15-17.\n\n\"County lines\" is a tactic whereby gangs in places such as London, Liverpool and Birmingham introduce untraceable phones to a different area to sell drugs at street level. Local runners - often teenagers - are used to transport the drugs.\n\nNikki Holland, director of investigations at the NCA, told MPs that the latest assessment showed law enforcement agencies had \"greater awareness\" of the problem.\n\nBut she warned that the issue had spread from London, the West Midlands and Merseyside to involve more than half of the UK's police force areas.\n\nIn an annual report on the issue, the NCA said that data from last year showed that victims were younger than previously identified, with ages ranging between 11 and 56.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nGangs establish contact and build relationships before the exploitation takes place, so some may have been approached at an even younger age, the NCA said.\n\nThey targeted children with backgrounds of poverty, family breakdown, exclusion from school or behavioural and developmental disorders, the agency said, but children of \"seemingly stable backgrounds\" were also exploited.\n\nProfits of more than £800,000 can be generated from an individual phone number, known as a \"deal line\", according to the NCA.\n\nMass marketing text messages are used to advertise drugs along with two-for-one deals and free samples offered in exchange for the contact details of potential customers, the report said.\n\nThe NCA also identified an \"emerging trend\" of using app-based taxi services to transport gang members and potential victims of exploitation.\n\nAfter a week of raids, police said that 600 people have been arrested and over 140 weapons seized, including 12 firearms, swords, machetes, axes and knives.\n\nPolice referred 40 people as potential victims of human trafficking or modern slavery and discovered 400 vulnerable adults and 600 children in need of support.\n\nIn a statement, Ms Holland said: \"We know that criminal networks use high levels of violence, exploitation and abuse to ensure compliance from the vulnerable people they employ to do the day-to-day drug supply activity.\"\n\nShe said law enforcement agencies aimed \"disrupt their activity and take away their assets\" to block the cash flow of organised crime groups.\n\nChildren aged between 15 and 17 were the majority of those exploited in county lines, with both boys and girls involved, the NCA said.\n\nIt said the \"grooming techniques\" were similar to \"child sexual exploitation and abuse\", with gifts and attention as well as threats of violence.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Dr Nigel Ruddell, NIAS medical director, said measures were being put in place to deal with the shortages\n\nOver the weekend, it was down by about 20 crews - roughly a quarter of its normal workforce - but management say there was no major incident.\n\nTwo ambulance crews were drafted in from the Republic of Ireland over the weekend.\n\nThe NIAS was short of 12 crews on Monday, according to chief executive Michael Bloomfield.\n\nMr Bloomfield told the BBC that over the summer period, many shifts will not be covered.\n\n\"We rely on staff overtime and our partners in the voluntary and private ambulance services\", he said.\n\nHowever, he added that there will be \"intensive work going on\" to improve the situation.\n\nThere have been staff shortages for the past four nights, with 20 crews unavailable on Sunday night.\n\nThe crews from the Republic of Ireland were based at Altnagelvin Hospital in Londonderry on Saturday and Newry ambulance station on Friday.\n\nDr Nigel Ruddell, NIAS medical director said voluntary ambulance services were being drafted in and NIAS had been working with private services.\n\nNorthern Ireland does not have enough paramedics.\n\nBetween 2014 and 2018, practically no new paramedics were trained.\n\nThere was no forward planning to allow for those retiring or the high numbers off on sick leave.\n\nThis is a familiar story throughout the health service - all front-line services are reporting gaps.\n\nThe Royal College of Nursing is reporting 2,600 unfilled nursing posts. General practice is also reporting too few doctors.\n\nIt is a problem across the system and across the UK.\n\nAccording to sources, wards, surgeries and - as we have known for some time - the ambulance and fire services are often being run on a wing and prayer.\n\nThe service had appealed for staff to come to work at the weekend because of difficulties filling rotas.\n\n\"We are doing everything we can to provide as high a level of cover as we can,\" said Dr Ruddell.\n\n\"We are going to prioritise those calls which have the most critical need.\n\n\"Unfortunately, those people who have a less critical need are the ones who wait longer and we apologise for that.\"\n\nHe also thanked staff for \"stepping up to the plate\" and volunteering to take on extra shifts.\n\nThe medical director said NIAS received about 600 emergency calls to its control room every day.\n\n\"We have 46 extra paramedics due to qualify in November and around 48 extra technicians who qualified in May,\" he said.\n\n\"We are training and recruiting people as quickly as we can.\"\n\nJohn Compton, the former head of the Health and Social Care Board, told BBC Radio Ulster's Good Morning Ulster programme that it is not unusual for the trust to be under pressure with annual leave.\n\n\"While under staff pressure they [the NIAS] have maintained a reasonable service for the population,\" he said.\n\n\"But if the disruption persists for more than six to eight weeks there needs to be other things we look at.\"", "The new technique means a patient's bandages do not have to be removed to see what is happening with the wound\n\nA new technique is being developed to help heal wounds by listening to them.\n\nResearchers at Heriot-Watt University are creating tiny electronic sensors that can hear what is going on below the bandages.\n\nWhile some types of specialist wound dressings are available, the principal method of finding out how well a wound is healing has been to remove the bandages and take a look.\n\nThe team is led by Dr Michael Crichton, assistant professor in biomedical engineering at Heriot-Watt.\n\n3D images of the injury can be created\n\nHe says he wants to bring data into the process. \"If we can put a sensor on the surface of the tissue, around a wound or across a wound, can we actually measure what's happening?\n\n\"If we can do that, that will tell us if a wound is likely to be going in one way or another.\n\n\"And if we can measure it over time, then we don't need to keep on opening up a wound and saying, 'is it getting better or is it getting worse?'.\"\n\nBut what does a healthy wound sound like? Before they can know that, the researchers must investigate how skin behaves when it is cut.\n\nWhich is why doctoral student Sara Medina Lombardero is carefully shaving a layer of fat from a skin sample.\n\nStudying tiny shavings of skin shows how the tissues are reacting\n\nIt is freshly-sourced pigskin, a suitable analogue for human tissue.\n\n\"My part of the project...is to know how each layer of skin contributes to its mechanical properties,\" she says.\n\nShe cuts the skin into carefully measured strips, then makes a tiny incision in one of them.\n\nShe places the sample under the gaze of a sophisticated imaging device - an optical coherence tomography system - which produces detailed 3D images of the skin's structure below the surface.\n\nThe research team has been able to see how a wound is healing\n\nWill we be able to see the tiny cut?\n\n\"I can tell from this image that it is actually going through all the layers.\"\n\nThere are so many different kinds of wounds to be healed.\n\nAccidents, surgery, bedsores all present different challenges. Some wounds become chronic.\n\nEven a tiny cut on the fragile skin of an older person can become infected and in some cases can require a limb to be amputated.\n\nListening to the body's tissues on a microscopic level could yield new approaches. But that requires sensors operating on the same scale.\n\nTo give us an idea, Dr Crichton uses tweezers to hold up a speck not much larger than a grain of sugar.\n\nThe tiny sensor tracks how sound moves through the tissue\n\nA sensor this size must be able to transmit sound as well as receive it.\n\n\"What we want to do is basically take little components that are going to vibrate and transmit little waves,\" he says.\n\n\"Ultimately it's a case of...allowing that sound to transfer through the tissue.\n\n\"We'll get an indication of how quickly the sound is transmitted, and that will give us an idea of the strength of the tissue underneath.\"\n\nThe two-year project is being supported by the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council.\n\nDr Crichton wants to bring data into the healing process\n\nThe team's multidisciplinary approach involves Dr Jenna Cash, a specialist in wound healing immunology at Edinburgh University.\n\n\"Our work on the immunological response during healing is reflected in mechanical changes,\" she says.\n\n\"Anything that combines these has the potential for new therapies.\"\n\nThis may be true of more than wounds.\n\nThe treatment of damaged organs and cancers may one day also be helped by science's ability to eavesdrop on our bodies.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nAbout 2.2 million fewer single-use cups were used by public bodies in Wales in the last year - a drop of nearly 19%.\n\nHospitals, emergency services, councils and government organisations have said they are trying to reduce the amount of waste produced by the cups.\n\nEight out of the 43 bodies asked said they did not buy single-use cups in 2018-19, and seven of those have also withdrawn plastic straws and cutlery.\n\nCampaigners welcomed the fall but said 9.6 million cups ordered was too many.\n\nThe details, given to BBC Wales following a Freedom of Information request, also showed a £71,000 fall in the amount spent on single-use cups between 2017-18 and 2018-19.\n\n\"Two million is a big decrease,\" said Rebecca Colley-Jones, a trustee of the Chartered Institute of Waste Management.\n\n\"It's very positive. These things don't happen overnight. You take it a step at a time.\"\n\nShe said single-use plastics were a convenience for most, but added: \"Perhaps what's happened over the last year or so is that people realise the consequences of it.\n\n\"Everyone will now have been getting used to a little inconvenience.\"\n\nCardiff University is one of the bodies that has gone plastic-free.\n\nA spokesman said: \"The phasing out of single-use plastics across the university is one of a number of measures that we've put in place to help build an inclusive, sustainable and resilient future for our community and to bring about environmental benefits not only to Cardiff and Wales but to the wider world.\n\n\"We are extremely pleased with the progress we've made over the past year, however we are not complacent and will continue to look at ways in which we can reduce our campus footprint.\"\n\nMany of the organisations that still buy single-use plastics said they were committed to making changes.\n\nMonmouthshire council said it had stopped using plastics since 2018-19, while others are investing in biodegradable cups or encouraging staff to have re-useable cups and plastics.\n\nBettina Gilbert, programme manager at charity Wrap Cymru, said: \"It's great news that Wales' public bodies are reducing the number of single-use plastic cups they're using and tackling 'problem plastics' such as straws and plastic cutlery, to be eliminated by the end of 2020 under WRAP's UK Plastics Pact.\n\n\"But these figures show there's still work to be done.\n\n\"Which is why Wrap Cymru will shortly publish single-use plastics procurement guidance for Wales' public sector and launch hands-on support for public sector bodies so that sustainable procurement lies at the heart of their work.\"", "David Bowie (left) playing with other musicians at the Beckenham bandstand in 1969\n\nA bandstand where David Bowie played soon after the release of his first hit single Space Oddity has been protected with a Grade II listing.\n\nThe singer performed from the stand to a small audience in Croydon Road Recreation Ground on 16 August 1969.\n\nThe star, who died in 2016, is thought to have penned the lyrics to Life On Mars from its steps in London.\n\nThe 1905 bandstand is in Beckenham, where Bowie lived with Mary Finnigan, his landlady-turned-lover.\n\nSoon after Space Oddity, Bowie and his friends organised the Growth Summer Festival.\n\nThis photo was issued for a flyer for the Strawbs Free Festival in 1969\n\nThe bandstand was the centrepiece of the one-day festival, which Bowie helped to organise, compere and perform at exactly 50 years ago.\n\nThe event was designed to raise money for a permanent base for his and Finnigan's Beckenham Arts Lab project, which began life as a folk club in the backroom of the nearby Three Tuns pub.\n\nIt later inspired Bowie to write the seven-minute song, Memory Of A Free Festival.\n\nHistoric England's chief executive Duncan Wilson said: \"It is a rare survival from an historic iron foundry in its own right.\n\n\"But its significance as a site that inspired David Bowie shows us how powerful our historic places can be and how important it is that we protect them so they will continue to inspire people for years to come.\"\n\nBeckenham Bandstand in Bromley is also known as the Bowie bandstand\n\nThe first bandstands in England were built in the Royal Horticultural Society Gardens in Kensington, west London, which opened in 1861.\n\nThe Beckenham bandstand, owned by Bromley Council, has been Grade II listed by the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport on the advice of Historic England.\n\nIt is thought to be the only surviving example from the McCallum and Hope Iron Foundry in the country.\n\nThe festival, now in its 50th year and known as Bowie's Beckenham Oddity, takes place on Saturday.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Fuller carried out the attack the day after 51 Muslims were killed in Christchurch, New Zealand\n\nA knifeman who slashed a 19-year-old Bulgarian in a Tesco car park after praising the Christchurch terror attacker has admitted attempted murder.\n\nVincent Fuller, 50, thrust a blade through Dimitar Mihaylov's car window in Stanwell, Surrey, on 16 March.\n\nProsecutors said the attack, a day after 51 Muslims were gunned down in New Zealand, was an act of far-right terrorism.\n\nFuller denies this, but accepts the stabbing was racially motivated.\n\nBefore the attack, Fuller declared support for Christchurch shooting suspect Brenton Tarrant in a Facebook post.\n\n\"I am English, no matter what the government say kill all the non English and get them all out of our of England,\" he wrote.\n\nHe later approached Mr Mihaylov's car and shouted \"you are going to die\" as he swiped at him through the open window, prosecutors said.\n\nHis victim sustained wounds to his hands and neck.\n\nBefore the car park stabbing, Fuller had approached the home of a neighbour - who is of south Asian descent - armed with a baseball bat.\n\nHe went on to indiscriminately attack occupied vehicles, and was reportedly heard shouting \"white supremacy\" and \"I'm going to kill Muslims\".\n\nThe attack took place in a Tesco car park in Stanwell, Surrey\n\nHis earlier guilty pleas to attempted murder and possession of a bladed article, can be reported after he admitted further charges at Kingston Crown Court.\n\nHe admitted affray and causing racially aggravated intentional harassment, alarm or distress.\n\nFuller, of Viola Avenue, Stanwell, will be sentenced on 5 September.\n\nA judge will decide whether his actions amounted to terrorism.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The hashtag #BoycottMulan began gaining traction on Twitter after Liu Yifei's post\n\nDisney's live-action remake of the animated film Mulan is facing calls for a boycott, after its star voiced support for Hong Kong's police force.\n\nThe territory has been convulsed by sometimes violent pro-democracy protests over the past 10 weeks.\n\nRights groups and the UN have accused the police of a heavy handed response.\n\nMs Liu had shared a Weibo post from the government-run Beijing newspaper People's Daily that read (in Chinese): \"I also support Hong Kong police. You can beat me up now.\"\n\nThe post adds in English: \"What a shame for Hong Kong.\"\n\nThe film is a remake of the 1998 animation\n\nThe quote referred to what are said to be the words of a reporter for the state newspaper Global Times, who was attacked by protesters at Hong Kong's airport earlier this week after being accused of being an undercover police agent.\n\nMs Liu shared the post and echoed the comment by saying: \"I also support Hong Kong police.\"\n\nShe received widespread support on the platform, which is subject to censorship.\n\nBut on Twitter, which is banned in China, the hashtag #BoycottMulan began gaining traction.\n\nTwitter users accused the actress of supporting police brutality, and also pointed to the freedoms she enjoys as an American citizen.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Nardia Huang🇹🇼 This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 2 by Tom S. Foolery This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy 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 protests in Hong Kong began over a draft bill that would have allowed extraditions from Hong Kong to mainland China.\n\nThe bill has since been shelved, but the protests have now broadened into a wider pro-democracy movement and demands for an inquiry into alleged police brutality.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. A police officer draws his gun and aims at protesters in the airport building", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Footage shows the wreckage of the plane that burst into flames on the runway\n\nA retired racing driver and his family have survived a plane crash in the US state of Tennessee.\n\nFormer Nascar driver Dale Earnhardt Jr, his wife and daughter escaped without serious injury, officials said.\n\nThe plane ran off the runaway and caught fire after landing at Elizabethton Municipal Airport at 15:40 local time (19:40 GMT) on Thursday.\n\nTwo pilots were flying the plane, the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) said.\n\nThe plane careened off the runway and caught fire after landing, officials said\n\nVideo from the airport shows firefighters attempting to quell a blaze ripping through the plane, a Cessna Citation, as black smoke billows into the air.\n\nIn a tweet, Mr Earnhardt's sister said everyone on board the plane was safe.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Kelley Earnhardt This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy 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 Earnhardt, 44, was the only passenger taken to hospital, where he was treated for minor cuts and abrasions, ABC News reported.\n\nThe FAA and The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) have launched an investigation into the crash.\n\nMr Earnhardt, a two-time Daytona 500 winner, retired from racing in 2017. He is now a Nascar commentator for NBC Sports.", "Prime Minister Boris Johnson has paid tribute to PC Andrew Harper who was killed while attending a reported burglary.\n\nPC Harper, of Thames Valley Police, died at about 23.30 BST on Thursday in Berkshire.\n\nTen people have been arrested on suspicion of murdering the police officer. The force said the males were aged between 13 and 30.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. 'He's taken her and her children's lives'\n\nPolice failed to adequately protect a woman who was later killed by her ex-partner, an investigation has found.\n\nLaura Stuart, 33, was subjected to two years of \"distress, isolation and humiliation\" before being killed by Jason Cooper as she left a Denbigh pub.\n\nAn Independent Office for Police Conduct (IOPC) investigation probed the 18 contacts made with North Wales Police before her murder in 2017.\n\nThe force said it had now changed how it deals with domestic abuse calls.\n\nOne officer has also been found guilty of misconduct.\n\n\"Reports made to police included allegations that Mr Cooper had used violence, made threats, had financial influence over Laura, attempted to remove her from the house following arguments and had threatened to distribute intimate photographs of her,\" said Mel Palmer, of the IOPC.\n\nJason Cooper was sentenced to 31 years in prison after being found guilty of murder\n\n\"These behaviours were likely to cause Laura distress, isolation and humiliation and escalated over the two years leading up to the tragic events of 12 August 2017.\"\n\nWelsh Women's Aid said the case was a \"stark reminder\" of the \"devastating impact\" of domestic abuse and called for more effective training for officers.\n\nThe attack happened as Ms Stuart walked home from a night out and she suffered stab wounds to her back, head and chest, internal bleeding, and a fractured nose and cheek bone.\n\nA friend who tried to help was also stabbed.\n\nLaura Stuart was killed by Jason Cooper as she left a pub in Denbigh town centre\n\nAfter Cooper was found guilty of murder and sentenced to 31 years in prison, Ms Stuart's family said she had been \"let down\".\n\nHer mother Liz Griffiths said: \"They could have done more for her.\"\n\nDuring the trial, jurors heard Ms Stuart was told to \"run\" because Cooper was \"going to kill her\" and \"erase\" her.\n\nShe was also falsely accused of having a relationship with another man, and Cooper threatened to post naked photographs of her online.\n\nThe IOPC investigation followed a mandatory referral by North Wales Police to look at how the calls were handled\n\nBetween August 2015 and August 2017, 18 reports were made to police, including allegations of assault and verbal altercations.\n\nThe IOPC investigation looked at why Cooper was not arrested or his phone seized to investigate allegations of harassment, stalking or malicious communications.\n\nHowever, it did find police made \"numerous, unsuccessful attempts\" to get accounts from Ms Stuart of two allegations of assault.\n\nBut officers did not pursue safeguarding measures despite referring her to other agencies.\n\nFollowing the report's publication, Ms Palmer said the \"range of characteristics and dynamics\" of domestic abuse mean police officers need to be \"vigilant\".\n\n\"Incidents that may be perceived as low risk need to be viewed as part of a bigger picture so that forces view risk holistically to better safeguard women like Laura,\" she said.\n\nLaura Stuart and Jason Cooper were together for two years before the relationship deteriorated - he once texted her 421 times in a day\n\nSince the murder the force has made changes, including making it best practice for officers to activate body-worn video equipment when attending domestic abuse incidents.\n\nIt has also employed a trainer and staff will be educated in dealing with different situations.\n\nSupt Nick Evans said the force accepted the findings of the IOPC.\n\n\"This has led to improvements in our policy and how we deal with domestic abuse incidents, more training for front line officers and investment in more domestic abuse specialists,\" he said.\n\nA spokeswoman for Welsh Women's Aid said: \"It is vital police forces across Wales have effective training to identify and effectively investigate all incidents of domestic abuse, including coercive controlling behaviour and stalking and harassment which is at the centre of many survivors' experiences of abuse.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The BBC has obtained pictures from inside the Grace 1, which was seized in July.\n\nThe ship was raided by Royal Marines off the coast of the British overseas territory, triggering a standoff with Tehran.\n\nJudges in Gibraltar are expected to decide within days whether to extend the detention of the supertanker. and on Tuesday Iran suggested a resolution may come soon.", "PC Andrew Harper was killed while attending a burglary on Thursday - the third serious attack against an officer on the job in recent weeks.\n\nEarlier this month, a Met police constable was stabbed in the head just days before a West Midlands Police officer was run over with his own vehicle.\n\nBut are police officers facing more violence? The BBC's Ella Wills spoke to one serving officer, who asked not to be named, about life on the frontline.\n\nI've been spat on, I've been bitten, I've been punched and kicked. I know officers who have been stabbed. Any one of us could be attacked on any one day.\n\nI have 15 years' experience as an officer including armed response and the Roads Policing Unit. In that time I've noticed an increasing propensity for violence against police by criminals.\n\nIt's absolutely rife in the UK and it can make cops scared to do their job.\n\nThe last 10 years have been a nightmare. We have lost around 22,000 staff and criminals know that we are spread more thinly, with officers often out alone and back up further away.\n\nPC Andrew Harper was killed on duty on Thursday\n\nI've been in some nasty fights with suspects. A few years ago I was out with my colleague when he was strangled.\n\nWe were called to a maze-like inner city area at 02:00, following reports of a bloke banging outside a window. When we arrived he was throwing stuff around and it quickly descended into a battle.\n\nMy mate tried to take hold of him but the suspect just threw him straight off.\n\nWe ended up in a heap on the floor with my friend on the bottom. The suspect got his hand round his throat and was squeezing.\n\nI pressed the emergency button on my radio for urgent assistance. However, it was a few minutes before other officers managed to find us and we arrested the suspect.\n\nWe still talk about it now when we go for coffee. He suffered bruising on his neck, but it had more of a mental impact on him.\n\nOther colleagues who have been badly attacked have either had to step back from a front-facing role, or leave work entirely.\n\nYou can forget how vulnerable you are in the job. I don't want to lose anybody at work, and I want to go home to my family.\n\nSituations like that leave you thinking it could be you.\n\nIn the Roads Policing Unit, I will patrol by myself and often chase highly dangerous individuals. I have to wait for back up if I come across an incident.\n\nI aim to dominate suspects from the outset, either verbally or physically.\n\nThey have to know that I am in control because they will be willing to take a chance against me if they sniff out weakness.\n\nDo I feel scared sometimes? Of course I do, but I use bravado and subterfuge while waiting for my colleagues to arrive as back up. If the suspect resists they will be dealt with robustly.\n\nI sometimes let them think they are going to be let go and say it's just a routine check, to pass time until my mates have arrived.\n\nI don't want to get into a fight, but if it has to go that way I'm prepared to do so.\n\nI've noticed a huge increase in weapon carrying since I joined. People used to attack us, but they would use their fists.\n\nNow we are confiscating machetes, baseball bats, crowbars, knives and firearms.\n\nThe increased violence can make officers risk averse. You are left with those that are prepared to get stuck in and those who stand aside and let the suspect go.\n\nIf we don't get stuck in, we are not doing what we get paid to do.\n\nMore police officers would help because forces would be able to send officers out in pairs. There would also be greater resources to investigate crime thoroughly.\n\nIt's not possible to offer the same service on the frontline after losing so many officers.\n\nWhen it takes us up to four days to respond to a house burglary, it's clear that we do not have the staff to do our job.", "Porthcawl Town Council has submitted plans for the new facility to the local authority\n\nPublic toilets planned for a seaside town will include design features aimed at deterring vandalism, rough sleepers and sexual activity.\n\nPlans for the facilities in Porthcawl's Griffin Park include weight-sensitive floors to ensure one user at a time.\n\nViolent movement would activate a water jet to soak users, automatically open the doors and sound an alarm.\n\nResponsibility for Porthcawl's public toilets has been transferred from Bridgend council to the town council.\n\nPlans say people would be able to use the cubicles for a set time to deter rough sleepers, dousing equipment would be installed to prevent smoking and drug-taking and walls and floors would be graffiti-resistant.\n\nPlanning documents state: \"Every effort has been made to make sure that the new toilet facility will enhance this location and be safe for the community at all times.\"\n\nPeople will have to pay to use the toilets but the town council has yet to decide how much to charge.\n\nThe town council is paying £135,000 towards the £170,000 project and Bridgend council is providing £35,000.\n\nTown councillor Mike Clarke told the Local Democracy Reporting Service: \"Rebuilding the public toilets is an important element of Porthcawl Town Council's ambition to ensure that Porthcawl is a great place to live, work and to visit.\"\n\nThe existing facilities are due to close in October while the demolition and construction of the new building takes place - temporary toilets will be provided nearby.\n\nResidents of Porthcawl have campaigned to keep their public toilets open", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nAlmost half a million homes in Northern Ireland will see their electricity bills rise by 6% from October.\n\nPower NI, which has 458,000 domestic customers across Northern Ireland, is increasing prices in a move that will add about £35 a year to the average household electricity bill.\n\nThis is the third year in a row that Power NI has hiked its prices.\n\nThe company said the change, which has been agreed with the Utility Regulator, was due to increased costs.\n\nIt said these had come from the electricity network provider and the market operator.\n\n\"Unfortunately, like all suppliers, we have no alternative but to pay these increased network and market charges, which have a knock-on effect on our prices,\" said Stephen McCully, managing director of Power NI.\n\n\"Having been through a rigorous process with the Utility Regulator, our customers can be sure that although unwelcome, this increase is as low as possible.\"\n\nThe Consumer Council advises people to shop around for a better deal\n\nThe Consumer Council described the increase as disappointing.\n\nPaulino Garcia, head of energy policy, said the council is concerned about the impact on vulnerable consumers on low incomes.\n\nHe said the fall in wholesale energy prices over the last three months had not materialised in prices.\n\nMr Garcia added that Power NI and the Utility Regulator assured the council that if wholesale prices continue to fall, the savings will be passed on.\n\nThe Consumer Council advises bill payers to use their independent comparison tool to check if they can make savings. It also pointed out that bills can be cut without switching your supplier by setting up a direct debit.\n\nPower NI has 35,000 farm and business customers who will also see a rise in their bills, but as many have personalised contracts with either a market tracker or a fixed-price deal, the increase will vary depending on contract type and tariff.\n\nPower NI is regulated by the Utility Regulator in Northern Ireland.\n\n\"Approving any increase to electricity bills is not a decision we take lightly,\" said Utility Regulator chief executive Jenny Pyper.\n\n\"It is disappointing that, due to a number of rising costs, Power NI need to increase their domestic tariff.\"\n\n\"Despite this increase, Power NI's standard domestic electricity tariff continues to be lower than the Great Britain and Republic of Ireland average,\" she added.\n• None Energy prices to fall for millions this winter", "Turkey's military pension fund has reached a tentative deal to buy British Steel out of insolvency.\n\nThe Turkish Armed Forces Assistance Fund (known as Oyak) says it plans to take over British Steel, which employs 5,000 people, by the end of the year.\n\nBritish Steel owns the Scunthorpe steel works where 3,000 people work and it employs another 800 on Teesside.\n\nBut the firm was put into compulsory liquidation in May after rescue talks with the government broke down.\n\nAnother 20,000 jobs in the supply chain were put at risk by the collapse of the talks between the government and British Steel's owner, Greybull, prompting a parliamentary inquiry.\n\nThe company was transferred to the Official Receiver because British Steel, its shareholders and the government were not able to, or would not, support the business.\n\nBritish Steel employs 3,000 people at its plant in Scunthorpe\n\nThe news was welcomed by trade association UK Steel.\n\n\"British Steel's production facilities in Scunthorpe and elsewhere in the North East represent one third of the UK's steel production and are a major strategic asset to our country,\" the body's general secretary, Gareth Stace, said.\n\n\"Their loss would leave our manufacturing, construction and infrastructure capability in a considerably poorer state.\"\n\nBut he called on the government to partner with the steel industry \"to help deliver a level playing field\" by subsidising energy prices and lowering business rates.\n\nThe Business Secretary, Andrea Leadsom, described the news as an \"important step\" to secure the future of British Steel.\n\n\"The UK has a long and proud history of steel manufacturing and I am committed to a modern and sustainable future for the industry,\" she said.\n\nBut Ross Murdoch from the GMB union said: \"Our members are staring redundancy in the face as uncertainty continues to hang over the company.\n\n\"This dedicated and loyal workforce must not be an afterthought amidst all of the speculation,\" he said, adding that they were put in the position \"through no fault of their own\".\n\nSteelworkers' union Community said the deal was \"hugely encouraging\" and an \"important milestone\".\n\n\"As we have said from the outset, we believe the business must be kept together and the future of steelmaking at Scunthorpe secured,\" said the union's general secretary, Roy Rickhuss.\n\n\"We will want to be assured that Ataer has a long-term strategy to invest in the assets and develop the business going forward.\"\n\nThe Official Receiver said it had received \"several\" bids for the firm, but described Ataer, Oyak's investment arm, as its \"preferred buyer\".\n\nAtaer's accountants have exclusive rights to the insolvent firm's books, so that they can examine the state of its finances.\n\n\"Following discussions with a number of potential purchasers for the British Steel group over the past few weeks, I am pleased to say I have now received an acceptable offer from Ataer,\" the Official Receiver said, adding that the focus was now on finalising the sale.\n\n\"I will be looking to conclude this process in the coming weeks, during which time British Steel continues to trade and supply its customers as normal.\"\n\nAtaer owns nearly 50% of Erdemir, Turkey's biggest steel producer, which employs 11,530 people.\n\nTogether, Ataer-owned companies make about a quarter of Turkey's steel, making it the third-largest producer in Europe, according to the firm's site.", "Hundreds of people in the UK are turning to private clinics for medical cannabis, BBC News has been told.\n\nSince its legalisation in November 2018, there have been very few, if any, prescriptions for medical cannabis containing THC on the NHS.\n\nAnd this has led some patients, with conditions such as epilepsy and MS, to pay up to £800 a month privately.\n\nThe government said it sympathised with families \"dealing so courageously with challenging conditions\".\n\nCheryl Keen says it is \"disgusting\" some patients have to seek private help\n\nCheryl Keen has been trying to get medical cannabis on the NHS for her daughter Charlotte - who has brain damage and epilepsy - but has been refused twice.\n\nAnd she had been told it was too expensive and she had not yet tried all the other available options, she said.\n\n\"Nothing has happened, nothing has changed [since the legalisation],\" Ms Keen told BBC Two's Victoria Derbyshire programme.\n\n\"It's absolutely disgusting that anyone is having to pay to go private,\" she added - something she cannot afford to do.\n\nCharlotte has twice been refused medical cannabis on the NHS\n\nCampaign groups say by not prescribing cannabis medicines with THC, the NHS is limiting treatment options for patients.\n\nA review earlier this month by NHS England, however, highlighted a lack of evidence about the long-term safety and effectiveness of medical cannabis.\n\nNICE said it was unable to make a recommendation about the use of cannabis-based medicines for severe treatment-resistant epilepsy \"because there was a lack of clear evidence that these treatments provide any benefits\".\n\nAnd this has led to the introduction of private clinics.\n\nGrow Biotech, which handles about three-quarters of all medical cannabis imported into the UK, said as of July it had received more than 100 requests for private prescriptions - of which about 60 had been fulfilled.\n\nThe new London branch of The Medical Cannabis Clinics has not yet opened but said it had 162 patients on its waiting list - with conditions such as epilepsy, Parkinson's, post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and fibromyalgia.\n\nProf Mike Barnes says private clinics can be a \"lifeline for patients\"\n\n\"Everyone can get an appointment to come here but not everyone leaves with a prescription for cannabis,\" its director, Prof Mike Barnes, said.\n\n\"There are some conditions for which there is good evidence for cannabis to be useful, so you'd have to have one of those conditions - like pain, anxiety, or nausea and sickness in chemotherapy or epilepsy.\"\n\nThe clinic says consultations are carried out to ensure prospective patients have tried all reasonable licensed medication for their conditions and reached \"the end of the road for treatment\".\n\nProf Barnes described the service as a \"lifeline for patients in need\".\n\nPrescriptions cost between £600 and £800 a month but Prof Mike Barnes rejected any suggestion the clinic was exploiting patients.\n\n\"This is the only way patients who are in significant need can get access to this medicine,\" he said.\n\nA report last month by the Health and Social Care Committee said the hopes of patients and families had been unfairly raised when doctors were allowed to prescribe cannabis.\n\nLabour MP Ben Bradshaw, who sits on the committee, told BBC News the government was \"failing patients\".\n\n\"If anything [since its legalisation], it's become more difficult for people to obtain it,\" he said.\n\n\"[The government] now has to put this right, by delivering on the promises that it's made to the patients.\"\n\nThe Department of Health said in a statement: \"To support doctors prescribing these products, we have asked the National Institute of Health and Care Excellence (NICE) to develop additional clinical guidelines and are working with Health Education England to provide additional training.\n\n\"The decision to prescribe unlicensed cannabis-based products for medicinal use is a clinical decision for specialist hospital doctors, made with patients and their families, taking into account clinical guidance.\"\n\nFollow the BBC's Victoria Derbyshire programme on Facebook and Twitter - and see more of our stories here.", "Ruby Wax has been a regular at the Fringe for 30 years\n\nRuby Wax has been forced to cancel her Edinburgh Fringe shows after falling from a horse and injuring her back.\n\nThe comedian and broadcaster was on holiday when the accident happened.\n\nMs Wax, 66, had been due to perform her show, How To Be Human, at The Pleasance Grand from 18 to 24 August.\n\nShe said: \"I am hugely disappointed and so sorry to everyone who has bought tickets. My injuries are quite serious and I do need to take the time to heal and recover.\"\n\nThe actress and mental health campaigner added: \"I've been coming to the Edinburgh Fringe with my shows for over 30 years and always had the most amazing time.\"\n\nA spokeswoman said refunds would be available from point of ticket purchase, and ticket holders would be contacted directly.", "Peter Duncan died in hospital shortly after being attacked\n\nA 52-year-old lawyer who was stabbed to death with a screwdriver in a busy shopping centre was a devoted father, his family has said.\n\nPeter Duncan was attacked after what police said was a chance \"coming together\" with a group of youths near Old Eldon Square in Newcastle.\n\nHe was attacked at about 18:20 BST on Wednesday and died later in hospital.\n\nSeven teenage boys have been arrested on suspicion of his murder.\n\nThe boys, a 14 year-old, two 15-year-olds and four 17-year-olds, remain in custody.\n\nNorthumbria Police said it believed Mr Duncan was attacked after a \"chance encounter\" outside a branch of Greggs.\n\nA cordon was put in place in Eldon Square\n\nMr Duncan, from Newcastle, was described by his family as a \"devoted father and husband\".\n\n\"Peter was a kind and caring man who was always first to help others,\" they added.\n\n\"He was a devoted father, husband, son, brother, uncle and friend and loved by all who knew him.\n\n\"His death will leave such a huge hole in our lives and he'll be deeply missed by us all.\"\n\nAccording to his profile on LinkedIn, Mr Duncan trained as an electrical engineer before graduating from Northumbria University with a law degree in 2003.\n\nHe was working as legal counsel in the Newcastle office of Royal IHC Limited, and previously as a solicitor and legal advisor with other companies in Darlington and Newcastle.\n\nCh Supt Ged Noble said it appeared there had been a \"coming together\" at the entrance to the shopping centre, which led to Mr Duncan receiving a single puncture wound to the chest.\n\nHe added: \"This was a tragic incident and our thoughts go out to Peter's family and friends at this incredibly difficult time.\n\n\"Peter's family have requested that their privacy is respected during this difficult time.\n\n\"We will be continuing extra patrols in the area and I would urge anyone with concerns to speak to an officer.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Liu Xiaoming, China's ambassador to the UK, made the remarks during a press conference\n\nChina's ambassador to the UK has warned British politicians against interfering in Hong Kong's affairs, amid clashes between protesters and police.\n\nLiu Xiaoming said the UK should \"refrain from saying or doing anything that interferes or undermines the rule of law in Hong Kong\".\n\nSome British politicians think \"their hands are still in the colonial days\", he told a press conference in London.\n\nThe UK has called for \"calm from all sides\".\n\nMillions of Hong Kong citizens have taken part in 10 weeks of anti-government protests, demanding democratic reform and an investigation into alleged police brutality.\n\nWhile many of the demonstrations were peaceful, an increasing number have ended in violent clashes with police.\n\nMr Liu's warning comes days after the Chinese foreign ministry told Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab to stop interfering in Hong Kong's affairs.\n\nHe accused some British politicians of viewing Hong Kong as \"part of the British empire\".\n\nHe made the comment in response to a question about a proposal by Commons Foreign Affairs Select Committee chairman Tom Tugendhat to extend UK citizenship rights to Hong Kong Chinese.\n\n\"I think some of them still regard Hong Kong as part of British empire and they treat Hong Kong as part of the UK,\" Mr Liu said.\n\n\"They are going to have to change their mindset, put them in the proper position and regard Hong Kong as a part of China, not as a part of the UK,\" he added.\n\nChina's Ambassador in London was forthright and uncompromising.\n\nLiu Xiaoming can be relied on by Beijing to deliver strong messages in the clearest of English.\n\nHe is proud of having served in London for almost 10 years, since Gordon Brown was prime minister.\n\nNow he is warning that Beijing is ready to intervene in Hong Kong with its own security forces if China judges that necessary \"to quell the unrest swiftly\".\n\nHe is broadening complaints of foreign interference - talking of unnamed \"foreign forces\" and accusing Britain in particular of interference in what he regards as purely a Chinese internal matter.\n\nBritish government pressure for substantial dialogue in Hong Kong is simply rejected.\n\nBritish politicians are dismissed as continuing to live in their imperial past.\n\nBut any deployment of Chinese military police or other security forces over the border and into Hong Kong would be a huge and risky step - posing its own threat to the strictly limited autonomy of Hong Kong, which foreign investors and traders still clearly value highly.\n\nSo, for now, the warning remains just that.\n\nHong Kong, which was a British colony until 1997, is a special administrative region of China, giving it greater independence.\n\nThe Sino-British Joint Declaration signed in 1984 said Hong Kong would enjoy a \"high degree of autonomy, except in foreign and defence affairs\" and be \"vested with executive, legislative and independent judicial power\".\n\nMr Liu questioned whether the government would allow protesters to commit \"crimes\" in the UK.\n\n\"Would the UK allow extremists to storm the Palace of Westminster and damage its facilities and get away with it?\" he said.\n\n\"Would the UK give permission for attacking police officers with lethal weapons or set fire to police stations without any punishment?\n\n\"Would the UK allow so-called pro-democracy rioters to occupy the airport, obstruct traffic, disturb social order or threaten the safety and people's life and property?\n\n\"Aren't all these regarded as crimes in the UK?\"\n\nIn recent weeks protesters have stormed the Chinese government office in Hong Kong and defaced the national emblem, and also laid siege to police stations.\n\nSome protesters argue they have been forced to resort to more confrontational tactics, as peaceful protests have not worked.\n\nMr Liu also condemned unnamed \"Western politicians and organisations\" for lending \"support to violent radicals\" and trying to \"obstruct Hong Kong's police from bringing the violent offenders to justice\".\n\n\"Foreign forces must stop interfering in Hong Kong's affairs,\" he said.\n\n\"Evidence shows that the situation in Hong Kong would not have deteriorated so much if it had not been for the interference and incitement of foreign forces.\"\n\nActivists in Hong Kong have denied that foreign governments are involved in the movement, while observers say the protests have largely appeared leaderless and unpredictable.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Comedian Bill Bailey witnesses \"chaos\" at Hong Kong airport during the protests on 13 August\n\nThe protests initially started after Hong Kong introduced a bill in April that would allow those accused of crimes against mainland China to be extradited there.\n\nThe bill's critics said the move could endanger activists and journalists, and result in those accused facing unfair trials and violent treatment.\n\nThe bill was suspended in June after hundreds of people took to the streets in protest.\n\nThe protesters have since called for the complete withdrawal of the extradition bill and for other democratic reforms, including amnesty for all arrested activists.\n• None How could China intervene in Hong Kong protests?", "Iman Barlow and Stan Stannard confronted two robbers on a motorbike in Mallorca\n\nA professional boxing couple from Leicestershire successfully stopped a thief while on holiday in Majorca.\n\nDouble world Thai boxing champion Iman Barlow, and her middleweight boxer boyfriend Stan Stannard, stopped a man from having his watch stolen.\n\nThe pair said two people on a motorbike repeatedly hit the victim on the head.\n\nMr Stannard, from Melton Mowbray, said: \"Fortunately we were in the right place at the right time and the robbers weren't.\"\n\nThe couple were on the Spanish island with friends when they saw what appeared to be a fight outside the Don Bigote Hotel in Palma Nova on Saturday.\n\nMs Barlow, 26, said: \"It appeared that there were two people on a motorcycle, and another person that was being robbed.\n\n\"We worked out that the robbers were trying to nick the man's watch.\"\n\nMs Barlow and Mr Stannard were enjoying a holiday in Mallorca with friends before the incident\n\nMs Barlow, a Muay Thai boxer, added: \"[One guy] ran straight past me and I thought, 'should I do something?'\n\n\"I took the opportunity and front kicked him, he went flying and made a strange noise.\"\n\nThe man continued running, which led 23-year-old Mr Stannard to run after him.\n\n\"Stan left hooked him when we caught up with him, and he fell to the floor,\" Ms Barlow said.\n\nThe pair then sat on one of the assailants until police arrived.\n\nMs Barlow said: \"The family were just really grateful and happy. They offered us money but we refused. That's not why we did it.\n\n\"But the lady persisted and gave us 50 Euros, so it bought our group some burgers for the afternoon.\"\n\nMr Stannard, who makes his professional boxing debut later this month, said: \"I think instinct kicked in, and we saw that there was a distressed family and someone getting hurt.\n\n\"When he decided to run away with the watch we just leapt into action.\"\n\nFollow BBC East Midlands on Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram. Send your story ideas to eastmidsnews@bbc.co.uk.", "The facial-recognition system at King's Cross is to be investigated by the UK's data-protection watchdog.\n\nMedia exposure of live facial recognition at the site prompted the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) to look into how it was being used.\n\nThe ICO will inspect the technology in place and how it is operated to ensure it does not break data protection laws.\n\nThe regulator said it was \"deeply concerned\" about the growing use of facial-recognition technology.\n\nThe Financial Times was the first to report a live face-scanning system was being used across the 67-acre (0.3-sq-km) site around King's Cross station in London.\n\nDeveloper Argent said it used the technology to \"ensure public safety\" and it was just one of \"a number of detection and tracking methods\" in place at the site.\n\nBut the use of cameras and databases to work out who is passing through and using the site has proved controversial.\n\nSo far, Argent has not said how long it has been using facial-recognition cameras, what is the legal basis for their use, or what systems it has in place to protect the data it collects.\n\nIn its statement, the ICO said: \"Scanning people's faces as they lawfully go about their daily lives, in order to identify them, is a potential threat to privacy that should concern us all.\"\n\nThe regulator said it was keen to ensure that King's Cross developer was using the technology in accordance with UK laws governing the use of data.\n\n\"Put simply, any organisations wanting to use facial recognition technology must comply with the law - and they must do so in a fair, transparent and accountable way,\" said the ICO.\n\nIt must have documented how and why it believed its use of the technology was legal, proportionate and justified, it added.\n\nArgent has not yet responded to a request for comment by BBC News.\n\nThe mayor of London is also quizzing developer Argent about its use of facial-recognition systems.\n\nSadiq Khan wrote to the company and said there was \"serious and widespread concern\" about the legality of facial recognition.", "The deception was uncovered before the wedding was organised\n\nA woman who said she was dying from cancer so a charity would organise a £15,000 wedding has avoided jail.\n\nCarla Evans, 29, claimed she had bladder cancer, thyroid cancer, liver and kidney failure.\n\nHer story unravelled when the Wish For a Wedding charity asked for proof and she forged an NHS letter.\n\nEvans admitted fraud by false representation and had a one-year sentence suspended for 15 months at Newport Crown Court.\n\nThe judge branded her \"the lowest of the low\", saying she inflicted a \"cruel and calculated fraud\" on the charity.\n\nShe must also carry out 120 hours community service and pay a £340 fine.\n\nWhile the charity planned to organise the £15,000 wedding for her, the deception was uncovered before any money was paid.\n\nEvans was sentenced to Newport Crown Court after admitting the charge at the city's magistrates' court\n\nEvans had posted on social media that she was dying and asked for help.\n\nA volunteer from the Manchester-based charity - which gives people with terminal illnesses a chance to have a memorable family event - then contacted her.\n\nShe described being \"terminally ill\", saying she wanted to renew her vows with her husband of 10 years, but was not sure she would make it.\n\nOutlining the diagnosis in her application in November 2018, she wrote that she had been \"given a time scale of six months maximum\".\n\nAfter being taken in by her lies, the charity offered to help organise a vow renewal ceremony worth £15,000, with Evans only asked to pay £500 towards the cost.\n\nRachael Kirkwood, who runs the charity, said the scam was quite quickly exposed after staff contacted a hospital to verify her story.\n\n\"They said 'we don't know who this lady is. This signature [of the consultant] is forged',\" she added.\n\n\"The next thing we heard was from the NHS fraud service.\"\n\nMs Kirkwood described how her charity gives couples facing a terminal illness \"one last wish\" and helps them get married.\n\nEvans avoided jail but must carry out 120 hours of community service\n\nThey help arrange up to ten weddings a year by asking wedding suppliers such as florists to donate to the couples asking for help.\n\n\"She clearly didn't think we would check. I just don't understand how people can have the nerve to do such a thing,\" she added.\n\nIn a victim statement read to the court, Karen Hobbs from the charity said: \"I don't think I can trust anyone again.\n\n\"I became very close with Carla. I confided in her.\n\n\"I was helping make memories for her family so I wanted to make it memorable. She was so convincing.\"\n\nEvans said she was \"deeply sorry\" and had received numerous abusive messages since the deception.\n\nJudge Jeremy Jenkins condemned Evans for inflicting a \"cruel and calculated\" fraud on the charity, adding: \"This was a despicable act.\n\n\"It took a particularly devious and wicked type of person to do this. You are that devious and wicked person.\n\n\"You should be utterly ashamed of yourself. Your behaviour beggars belief.\"\n\nHe said he would have given her 18 months in prison if she did not have two children who depended on her care.\n\nLisa Bennett from the Crown Prosecution Service said: \"Carla Evans callously took advantage of the sympathy afforded to a dying lady to try and con a very small charity out of money.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "A cyber-attack on the UK's biggest forensic services provider led to a backlog of 20,000 samples, the BBC has learned.\n\nEurofins Scientific was targeted by a \"highly-sophisticated\" ransomware virus in June, which led British police to suspend work with the company.\n\nThe National Police Chiefs' Council (NPCC) is now clearing the backlog, which includes blood and DNA specimens.\n\nIt warned of delays to police investigations and court cases.\n\nThe NPCC said it decided three weeks ago that it was safe for police forces to use the firm again.\n\nSince then, it has managed to reduce the backlog to 15,000.\n\nThe \"overwhelming majority\" of cases - which include specimens from suspects and evidence from crime scenes - will be cleared within two months, the police body added.\n\nThe NPCC lead for the forensic marketplace, Assistant Chief Constable Paul Gibson, said: \"The security and integrity of the criminal justice system is of the highest possible priority, which meant we had to take stringent steps to ensure that police data had, firstly, not been manipulated or changed and, secondly, was suitably protected for the future.\"\n\nEurofins carries out DNA testing, toxicology analysis, firearms testing and computer forensics for police forces across the UK.\n\nIt deals with more than 70,000 criminal cases in the UK each year.\n\nLast month, the BBC was told the global testing firm paid a ransom to the perpetrators of the cyber-attack to restore access to its computer network.\n\nThe ransomware attack hit the company, which accounts for more than half of forensic science provision in the UK, on the first weekend in June.\n\nRansomware is a computer virus that prevents users from accessing their system or personal files.\n\nMessages sent by the perpetrators demand a payment in order to unlock the frozen accounts.\n\nThe use of private firms and police laboratories to carry out forensic science work was stepped up after the closure of the state-owned Forensic Science Service in 2012.\n\nThe National Crime Agency is still investigating the attack.", "Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn has announced proposals to help Britain's \"struggling\" high streets.\n\nHe said he wanted to give councils the power to reopen shops in premises left vacant for more than a year.\n\nMr Corbyn also said empty shops should be given to start-up business and community projects in an effort to reverse a \"retail apocalypse\".\n\nThe government responded: \"Jeremy Corbyn would wreck the economy, meaning more boarded-up shops and fewer jobs.\"\n\nMr Corbyn would \"tax small businesses and scare off the investment needed to help our high streets\", local growth minister Jake Berry said.\n\nThe number of retail units which have been vacant for more than 12 months is currently estimated at 29,000.\n\nLarge retailers, including Debenhams and House of Fraser, have closed stores across the UK and the shop vacancy rate is now at its highest level since January 2015.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. John Healey: Councils should have \"back-up powers\" to manage vacant shops\n\nShadow housing secretary John Healey said Labour wanted councils to be given back-up powers to manage shops that have been vacant for more than a year.\n\nHe said it was about \"stopping that downward spiral we often see of boarded-up shops and premises in the town centre\".\n\nShops are facing pressure from a variety of sources, including the rise of online shopping and increasing costs.\n\nMr Corbyn, who will be visiting Bolton on Saturday, described his proposals as a \"radical plan\" to turn \"the blight of empty shops into the heart of the high street.\"\n\nHe said: \"Boarded-up shops are a symptom of economic decay under the Conservatives and a sorry symbol of the malign neglect so many communities have suffered.\n\n\"Once thriving high streets are becoming ghost streets.\"\n\nAndrew Gwynne, Labour's shadow local government secretary, said: \"High street closures are at a historic high, leaving too many of our once thriving towns abandoned and awash with boarded-up shop fronts.\"\n\nBut Mr Berry said the government would \"deliver Brexit by 31 October, so that we can get on with levelling up opportunities across our country and breathe new life into high streets and town centres\".\n\nIn October 2018, the government announced the creation of the Future High Streets Fund - with £675m allocated to investing in infrastructure and regeneration.", "Patients who cannot eat have told BBC News they are petrified and fear for their lives after problems making their replacement nutrition.\n\nThey are completely dependent on bags filled with a liquid that contains everything their body needs and is infused directly into the bloodstream.\n\nThe NHS in England has described the issue as a national emergency.\n\n\"My life is in a lot of danger right now,\" Lauren Mitchell, 21, from Stansted, Essex, told BBC News.\n\nShe was born with chronic intestinal pseudo-obstruction.\n\nIt means the muscles that should push food round her digestive system do not work and her meals would just sit on her stomach.\n\nKeith Millen, from Bridgend, is completely dependent on bags of total parenteral nutrition - but supplies have been disrupted\n\nLauren has been kept alive by total parenteral nutrition (TPN) since she was seven years old.\n\nIt was manufactured by the company Calea and is tailored to the needs of her body so it contains precise quantities of vitamins, minerals, sugars, fats and proteins.\n\nFive nights a week, she connects a 2.7-litre (4.7-pint) bag to a tube that slowly releases the contents into blood at her heart. It takes between 12 and 16 hours.\n\nShe used to have a weekly supply of TPN delivered on Thursday mornings - but six weeks ago her deliveries were late and then there was none at all.\n\nTwo weeks ago, she said, her account with Calea had been suspended.\n\nThe reason goes back to an inspection of Calea's manufacturing site in Runcorn, Cheshire, in June.\n\nThe medicines safety body - the Medicines and Healthcare Regulatory Agency - found bacterial contamination in the production area and said the facility's manufacturing processes did not meet guidelines the MHRA had set out in 2015.\n\nNo contaminated bags were discovered but the MHRA said there was a potential risk to patients.\n\nThe MHRA said: \"When our inspectors identified this issue, we requested that Calea take immediate action to change their manufacturing process to ensure compliance with the MHRA's published standards.\n\n\"This has led to a reduction in output while they consider longer term changes to their processes.\"\n\nCalea sources said it had stopped supplying 511 of its patients, chosen based on their medical need in consultation with the NHS.\n\nNormal service would not resume until \"towards the end of the year\", they added.\n\nLauren is no longer receiving the TPN bags tailored for her. Instead, she is being supplied with an \"off the shelf\" alternative.\n\n\"The consequence of that is it has made me very ill,\" she told the BBC's Victoria Derbyshire programme.\n\nShe now regularly feels tired, nauseous and dizzy.\n\n\"This is a national crisis,\" she said.\n\nShe told the BBC News website: \"If diabetics' insulin was taken away, then there would be uproar - but because no-one knows what TPN is, no-one's bothered and no-one knows how serious this is.\n\n\"This is our lives on the line here and we need answers and something to be done about it.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Michelle Collingwood has had intestinal failure since August 2014\n\nKeith Millen, 48 from Bridgend, is also dependent on TPN, because of a fistula that means food \"pours straight out\" of his digestive system.\n\nHe has also been hit by the supply problems since the MHRA inspection.\n\n\"For 10 days I had nothing, all I had to go on were litre bags of saline [salt water],\" he told BBC News.\n\n\"There was nothing, no explanation.\"\n\nIt left him \"knackered\" and, Keith said, all he could do was sleep.\n\n\"You are that dependent on these bags - if they don't come in, then it's hospital, that's it.\n\n\"It's petrifying, it's so scary... I'll die, I know it sounds dramatic but they're playing around with what I need to survive.\"\n\nKeith's doctors eventually managed to get him on the limited list of patients Calea is still manufacturing the nutrition replacement bags for.\n\nLetters, seen by the Health Service Journal, show NHS England has declared a national emergency over the issue.\n\n\"We realise that the disruption presents a clinical risk and have been careful to try and balance the risk of contamination and sepsis against the risk of supply disruption, which we know has already had a significant impact,\" Dr Aidan Fowler, national patient safety director, wrote.\n\n\"This is a difficult balance but we are of the view that the manufacturing changes are necessary to ensure safe supply now and in the long term.\"\n\nA Calea representative said: \"Supplying patients is Calea's number one priority and we apologise to patients and their families for the distress caused.\n\n\"We are fully committed to... return to usual and reliable supply levels as quickly as possible during this challenging period.\"", "Things didn't quite go to plan when a hungry raccoon tried to pilfer a snack from a vending machine at a Florida high school.", "Jake and Chloe Ford died at a house in Margate, Kent on 26 December last year\n\nA mother who drowned her twins in the bath as an act of \"revenge\" against her estranged husband has been given a 10-year sentence.\n\nSamantha Ford, 38, killed 23-month-old Jake and Chloe on 26 December after their father Steven Ford left her.\n\nFord denied murder and prosecutors at the Old Bailey accepted her earlier guilty plea to manslaughter by diminished responsibility.\n\nMr Justice Edis said Ford would begin her sentence in a psychiatric hospital.\n\nShe will complete her sentence in jail after receiving treatment, he said.\n\nSamantha Ford became angry over leaving her affluent lifestyle in Qatar, the Old Bailey heard\n\nThe judge told Ford: \"The horror of what happened does not need any explanation by me.\n\n\"Anyone with any imagination can envisage for themselves what must have happened in that bathroom.\n\n\"It is unlikely that they died simultaneously and it must have taken some time and required some determination,\" he said.\n\nHe said Ford was \"preoccupied\" with her husband and her anger was a \"significant contributory factor\".\n\n\"You knew it would devastate him and I'm sure that is a reason why you did it.\"\n\nThe twins' bodies were found in a house in Margate, Kent, after Ford had tried to take her own life.\n\nShe drove without a seatbelt at about 100mph into the back of a lorry.\n\nThe court heard she told police: \"I've killed my babies. Please let me die.\"\n\nToys were left outside the twins' house after their deaths\n\nFord had been angry about leaving her affluent lifestyle in Qatar for Charing, Kent, last year, prosecutors said.\n\nIn November, the couple split and Ford moved to a rented house in Castle Drive, Margate.\n\n\"She was very upset that the relationship had broken down and didn't like the idea of becoming a single mother,\" prosecutor Tom Kark QC said.\n\nA psychiatrist told the court Ford had killed her children in an act of \"retaliation and punishment\" against Mr Ford.\n\nIn a victim impact statement read out a previous hearing, Steven Ford called the killings \"the most heinous, spiteful act on two innocent children\".\n\n\"I have no doubt [she] did this with the intention of taking her own life and punishing me in the process,\" he said.\n\nIn a tweet from an account which appears to have been set up by Mr Ford, he wrote he was \"devastated, disgusted and appalled\" by the 10-year sentence, and called on Boris Johnson to \"step up and get a handle on tougher sentencing\".\n\nFollow BBC South East on Facebook, on Twitter, and on Instagram. Send your story ideas to southeasttoday@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "When Ferguson Shipbuilders went bust in the summer of 2014 it seemed the last shipyard on the lower Clyde was heading for oblivion, more than a century after it was founded by the four Ferguson brothers.\n\nBut within weeks, in a deal brokered by then First Minister Alex Salmond, a white knight stepped forward in the shape of Jim McColl.\n\nA self-made billionaire, he was one of the most prominent business figures to support Scottish independence ahead of the referendum in September that year.\n\nJim McColl stepped in to rescue the shipyard in 2014\n\nMcColl, who made his fortune transforming the ailing Clyde Blowers into a portfolio of engineering investment companies, was adamant that Scottish shipbuilding could have a bright future.\n\nInvestment swiftly followed - the old buildings were demolished and replaced by state-of-the-art fabrication and design facilities.\n\nThe workforce at Ferguson Marine Engineering Ltd (FMEL) as it became known, rose from about 70 to 350, including apprenticeships in one of the most socially deprived areas of Scotland.\n\nThe workforce at Ferguson Marine rose five-fold after its takeover by Jim McColl\n\nThe new owner had plenty of ideas for the yard's future - refitting superyachts, fishing vessels, a new generation of hydrogen-powered ships.\n\nFerguson was also part of the consortium which was eventually named preferred bidder to build the Royal Navy's new Type 31e frigates.\n\nEarly work, however, came in the shape of orders for Scotland's publicly-owned ferry firm Caldedonian MacBrayne.\n\nWhen McColl took over the yard it already had an order for a small diesel/electric hybrid ferry to keep it going - but in 2015 it received a major boost when it won a £97m order for two much larger ships.\n\nIronically this apparent lifeline was to have catastrophic consequences for the shipyard, eventually plunging it back into administration.\n\nEarly fabrication work on Glen Sannox which is still not ready seven years since the award of the contract\n\nThe ferries were to be a hybrid design, powered by marine diesel oil and liquefied natural gas - not a particularly new technology in worldwide terms but a first for a UK shipyard.\n\nThe hull of the first ship - Glen Sannox - soon started taking shape - but behind the scenes something was going badly wrong.\n\nThe yard was undergoing major redevelopment, and the original plan to build the two ships concurrently soon foundered.\n\nGlen Sannox - destined for the Arran route - came off the slipway in November 2017 at a launch attended by First Minister Nicola Sturgeon.\n\nBut the ship was far from finished. Despite the fanfare the more eagle-eyed among the cheering crowds might have noticed that the windows of the bridge were filled not with glass but painted boards.\n\nThe ship was expected to enter service in mid-2018 but more than four years after its launch it remains moored beside the yard while work continues.\n\nThe second ferry, currently known as hull 802, earmarked for the Skye, Harris and North Uist route, is still being constructed and won't be ready until summer 2023 at the earliest.\n\nThe cost of the work has risen to about £240m, more than double the original fixed price cost, and despite some controversial loans totalling £45m from the Scottish government the shipyard went bust in the summer of 2019.\n\nScottish ministers had been unwilling to stump up more cash, arguing to do so would break state aid rules.\n\nInstead they ended up nationalising the yard, safeguarding jobs - but landing the public purse with a bill in excess of £100m to finish the ships.\n\nThere's been a lot of finger pointing. Jim McColl has repeatedly laid the blame for the problems at the door of CMAL- the company that owns and manages ferries and other assets on behalf of the Scottish government.\n\nIn a BBC interview he accused CMAL of making repeated specification changes - a claim denied by CMAL. The hybrid propulsion design also required lengthy certification processes from insurers and regulators, he said.\n\nIn its accounts his company FMEL blamed unforeseen costs on \"post contract award, variations, interference, and disruption caused by the customer\".\n\nBut that customer, CMAL, painted a different picture, accusing FMEL of rushing ahead with construction before completing the design work and getting the blueprints signed off.\n\nAfter ministers took over the yard, a government report blamed poor project management while McColl's firm was in charge and a lack of financial controls.\n\nGlen Sannox was launched in November 2017 - but there was still no glass in the windows\n\nMcColl hit back, again insisting the fault lay chiefly with CMAL and suggesting it would have been cheaper to scrap the ferries and start again with a simpler design.\n\nLast year a damning report from a cross-party committee of MSP branded the whole affair a \"catastrophic failure\".\n\nAll of the main protagonists, it said - FMEL, CMAL, Transport Scotland, government ministers - must take some responsibility for what went wrong.\n\nA recent report from Audit Scotland also found multiple failings - but said one key mistake was the government's awarding of the contract to Ferguson, against the advice of CMAL, despite it being unable to provide normal refund guarantees should something go wrong.\n\nNicola Sturgeon has indicated that decision was taken by former transport minister Derek Mackay - who later resigned from government amid a scandal over social media messages to a teenage boy. But the first minister says there was collective responsibility and \"the buck stops with me\".\n\nThe only group consistently absolved of blame are the workers at Ferguson shipyard itself whose morale has been sorely tested by the saga. One of them recently told his local MSP he was embarrassed to work at the yard.\n\nThe latest bill for the ships is more than £250m, and they are now due to be delivered five years late in 2023 - provided more problems aren't encountered.\n\nThe ferry deal was meant to provide a lifeline to a once proud workforce, but it ended up dragging down the Clyde's last commercial shipyard - and the saga isn't over yet.", "The bonfire was lit on Thursday night\n\nPolice are treating the display of flags and banners on a bonfire in Londonderry as a \"hate incident\".\n\nThe bonfire had banners and flags about Soldier F - the ex-British soldier who is facing prosecution for two murders on Bloody Sunday.\n\nThe Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) said it complained about the items and asked for them to be removed.\n\nParachute Regiment flags were also burnt, alongside the union flag and loyalist paramilitary banners.\n\nThe PSNI said it received reports the material appeared on the bonfire in the city's Bogside on Thursday afternoon.\n\nPSNI Assistant Chief Constable Mark Hamilton said police acknowledge that \"what appears on these bonfires causes massive offence to a large part of our community\".\n\nPolice said the material had been \"perceived as offensive and distasteful\"\n\n\"This type of behaviour is designed to stoke tension and provoke conflict and create instability,\" he said.\n\n\"We recognise and accept that people perceive this to be demonstrating and motivating hostility towards them, based upon their political background or their religion.\"\n\nFoyle DUP MLA Gary Middleton said: \"We need to get to a point where we're not burning flags, banners effigies, belonging to one side or another within these communities.\n\n\"It is offensive, it is hurtful, and we need to get away from that.\"\n\nSDLP councillor Brian Tierney, who chairs Derry City and Strabane District Council's bonfire committee, said he believes the flags may have been a reaction to events in Derry over the last week.\n\nLast Saturday, a flute band wore Parachute Regiment insignia during the annual Apprentice Boys parade in Derry.\n\nBut the Bloody Sunday Trust described the events as a setback.\n\nMr Tierney told BBC Radio Foyle on Friday: \"We have to let what happened over the last six or seven days settle down and all come back around the table, not only around parading but also around the bonfire issue and see how we can move that forward.\"\n\nThe fire service worked to stop the bonfire spreading to a nearby property\n\nA number of homes close to the bonfire, which was lit on Thursday night, were boarded up.\n\nFirefighters were called to the fire at about 23:10 BST.\n\nNorthern Ireland Fire Service group commander Jonathan Tate said four appliances and 16 firefighters were deployed to stop the fire spreading to nearby property.\n\n\"Obviously, this is a bonfire close to a property so we had to take action to prevent the fire spreading,\" he said.\n\nHe said normal service was maintained in the rest of the city during the operation.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nIn a social media post, PSNI Foyle said the material on the bonfire was \"perceived as offensive and distasteful\".\n\n\"We are treating this as a hate incident and will continue to gather evidence as this evening continues,\" the statement added.\n\n\"Where crimes have been committed and suspects identified they will be brought before the courts.\n\n\"As always, we will continue to engage with local representatives throughout the night to ensure the safety of everyone in the city.\"\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\nSoldier F is a former member of the Army's Parachute Regiment and he is to be prosecuted for the murders of James Wray and William McKinney on Bloody Sunday.\n\nThirteen people were shot dead by the Army's Parachute Regiment on Bloody Sunday in Derry in 1972.\n\nThe ex-soldier also faces charges for the attempted murders of Joseph Friel, Michael Quinn, Joe Mahon and Patrick O'Donnell.\n\nThe Festival of Fire also took place in the Bogside on Thursday evening\n\nBonfires on 15 August are traditional in some nationalist parts of Northern Ireland to mark the Catholic Feast of the Assumption.\n\nTo others, they are lit to commemorate the introduction of internment without trial of republican suspects, which was introduced by the government in 1971.\n\nAlso in Derry on Thursday night, another separately-organised 'Festival of Fire' took place a short distance away.\n\nIt involved a colourful pageant and fireworks display, around Free Derry Corner and on the green below the city walls.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nConservative MP Ken Clarke has said he would not reject an offer to become caretaker prime minister if it was \"the only way\" to stop a no-deal Brexit.\n\nLiberal Democrat leader Jo Swinson has suggested the ex-chancellor or former Labour deputy leader Harriet Harman could head a temporary government.\n\nMr Clarke told the BBC the idea was \"not inconceivable\".\n\nBut Prime Minister Boris Johnson has pledged that the UK will leave the EU by 31 October \"do or die\".\n\nHe has said he wants to strike a deal with Brussels, but if this is not possible, Brexit will go ahead as planned.\n\nMeanwhile, Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn has said he plans to win a no-confidence vote in the government, become an interim prime minister, delay Brexit, call a snap election and campaign for another referendum.\n\nHowever, some MPs have said Mr Corbyn does not have enough support in Parliament to enter Downing Street.\n\nLib Dem leader Ms Swinson has instead suggested Mr Clarke or Ms Harman - the longest-continuously serving male and female MPs - as alternative potential caretaker prime ministers, arguing that they command respect across Parliament.\n\nMr Clarke, a strong supporter of the EU who has three times run to become Conservative leader, told BBC Radio 4's PM he would \"not object to\" the idea if it was \"the only way in which the plain majority in the House of Commons that is opposed to a no-deal exit\" could find a way forward.\n\nHe said that preventing a no deal through legislation could be the \"best method\" but added: \"If that fails, you need a government of national unity... It is not a senseless suggestion.\"\n\nLabour's Harriet Harman has been put forward as another potential temporary PM\n\nMr Clarke also said: \"A government of national unity is just one of the things that might be called for. It's not inconceivable. I mean, we're in a similar situation to 1931 [when the world faced a large recession] and rather wildly to the two world wars, when the same thing happened.\n\n\"But there's an awful lot to be gone through before then and I haven't been taking part in any talks with anybody for the last fortnight. I've been on the phone to one or two people in the last couple of days just to find out what the devil's going on.\"\n\nHe added that it would be a \"single-issue, short-term government\" that would seek an extension to the Brexit negotiation process.\n\nBusiness Minister Kwasi Kwarteng said he was \"a great fan\" of Mr Clarke, but dismissed talk of him becoming prime minister as \"speculation\".\n\nMr Corbyn said he was \"disappointed\" by Ms Swinson's response to his plan, adding that he hoped she would \"come round\" to it.\n\n\"Under normal constitutional processes in Britain, when a government collapses, the leader of the opposition is called on to form a government,\" he said.\n\nMr Johnson has said the EU has become less willing to compromise on a new deal with the UK because of the opposition to leaving in Parliament.\n\nHe said this increased the likelihood of the UK being \"forced to leave with a no deal\" in October.\n\nMr Clarke was first elected to Parliament as a Conservative MP in 1970 for the Nottinghamshire constituency of Rushcliffe.\n\nHe held several senior government posts under Margaret Thatcher and John Major, including health secretary, education secretary and chancellor.\n\nHowever, his pro-European stance put him at odds with many in his party and despite three attempts in 1997, 2001 and 2005, he failed to become Conservative leader.", "Youth climate strikers are to be given permission to take part in protests for one authorised school day per year.\n\nHowever, Edinburgh councillors say no punishment will be levelled at pupils or parents if they choose to strike over a longer period.\n\nThe city council's education, children and families committee approved a motion by the SNP-Labour coalition to limit authorised absences to one day.\n\nThis was despite a plea from activists to back the pupils' action.\n\nIt follows two emergency motions by Green councillors earlier this year where pupils were allowed to attend climate emergency demonstrations with parental permission on a one-off basis.\n\nHowever, officials warned that \"potential for adverse risk to children who are absent and unsupervised is high and runs counter to child protection and raising attainment.\"\n\nA report said \"almost all head teachers were not in support of children's absence being authorised\" by councillors as it had \"devalued the hard work they had undertaken in working with parents who did not value good attendance at school\".\n\nSandy Boyd, a youth climate activist from Trinity Academy, said the decision was \"morally wrong\".\n\nHe added: \"The youth climate strike movement has brought change across the world.\n\n\"It will stop this progress dead in its tracks. You are trying to suppress young people's opinions on matters that will affect young people.\n\n\"We are imploring this council to allow us authorised absence to pressure governments - finally, we are seeing some action.\n\n\"The educational value of taking part in these events is massive. It's building a society that we want to see. We will keep doing them until we see change.\"\n\nHowever, council officers highlighted the importance of ensuring that pupils attended lessons.\n\nProtestors gathered outside the Scottish Parliament during a strike earlier this year\n\nLorna Sweeney, the council's schools and lifelong learning senior manager, said: \"Fundamentally, we have to make sure the children attend.\n\n\"If we give conflicting information to parents it make the whole purpose of education very difficult.\n\n\"The principle purpose of schools is to raise attainment. The single biggest factor is attendance.\"\n\nAndy Gray, head of schools and lifelong learning, said if pupils took part in strike action with parental permission, there would be no financial penalty.\n\nHe added: \"We are not going to punish children for this activity but what we are saying is that it's definitely an unauthorised absence.\"\n\nCouncillors voted to limit the authorised strike action to one day.\n\nIan Perry, the council's education, children and families convener, said: \"There's no doubt if I was at school I would be doing exactly what Sandy [Boyd] is doing.\n\n\"I think everybody recognises that movement is increasing and is having a big affect. Having said that, we have to remind people the duty of this education committee to provide the best education for the young people of this city to prepare them for life.\n\n\"We would then be saying that attendance at school is not important and we don't value it.\n\n\"I think in order to show solidarity with the climate movement, we should allow one day.\"\n\nHe said: \"There are consequences of missing school and we have a duty of care.\n\n\"A strike is not a strike because it's authorised - it becomes a day off.\"\n\nHowever, Green councillors called for the proposals to be halted.\n\nSteve Burgess, whose council ward covers Southside and Newington said: \"To place an arbitrary limit on it at this stage does not appear to be responding appropriately to young people.\n\n\"Let's keep an open mind and do it on a case-by-case basis.\"\n\nBBC Scotland News is running a season of climate change coverage across radio, TV, online and social media.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Trading in the biggest shares listed on the London Stock Exchange was delayed for more than an hour, in the longest outage in more than eight years.\n\nShares in the FTSE 100 and FTSE 250 indexes were affected, although smaller stocks traded as normal at 08:00.\n\nTrading resumed at 09:40 - the longest closure since February 2011, when it was shut for more than four hours.\n\nThe last time the market opened late was in June 2018, when it was delayed by an hour.\n\nThe LSE said trading was delayed while it investigated a \"potential trading services issue\".\n\nWhen trading eventually began, the FTSE 100 - which had fallen to a six-month low on Thursday - rose, and finished up 0.7% to 7,117.15.\n\nThe London Stock Exchange said it had \"experienced a technical software issue this morning that affected trading in certain securities, including FTSE 100 and FTSE 250 stocks\".\n\n\"Following resolution of the issue regular trading in all securities commenced at 09:40,\" a spokesperson for the exchange said.", "Speaking at a press conference following the death of PC Andrew Harper, Thames Valley Police Chief Constable John Campbell said it was a \"terrible day\" for the force.\n\nPC Andrew Harper, who got married four weeks ago, died at about 23:30 BST on Thursday in Berkshire, when he was \"dragged along by a vehicle\" while attending a reported burglary.\n\nRead more: Killed PC was 'dragged by vehicle'", "The size of Britain's armed forces has fallen for the ninth consecutive year, new Ministry of Defence figures show.\n\nThe Army, the RAF and the Royal Navy have all seen a decline in the number of fully-trained personnel - with the Army experiencing the biggest fall.\n\nLabour said the government was \"running down\" the UK military - calling it a \"crisis\" in recruitment and retention.\n\nThe Ministry of Defence said the armed forces continued to meet all their operational requirements.\n\nThe latest figures showed the Army was more than 7,000 troops short of the government's target of 82,000.\n\nIn July there were 74,440 full-time and fully-trained troops, down from 76,880 last year.\n\nThere were smaller declines for the RAF and navy but they also failed to meet their target strength.\n\nThe RAF total stood at 29,930 of the required 31,840, while the Royal Navy and Royal Marines dropped to 29,090 of the required 30,600.\n\nThe MoD said it has been working hard to improve recruitment, adding that applications to join the Army were at a five-year high.\n\nThe Army raised eyebrows with its recruitment campaign at the start of the year, which used stereotypical images of millennials, including \"snowflake\", and \"selfie addicts\", on its posters.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Army recruiting \"snowflakes\": What do people think?\n\nThe latest data showed 13,520 people had joined the regular armed forces in the last 12 months, an increase of 1,593 compared to the previous year.\n\nHowever, 14,880 people also left - up from 14,860 in 2018.\n\nShadow defence secretary Nia Griffith said the government was running down the armed forces \"year after year\" and the numbers were \"well below their own targets\".\n\nShe said: \"Ministers are either in complete denial about this crisis in recruitment and retention, or they are actively in favour of cutting the armed forces to these historically low levels.\"\n\nMPs have repeatedly raised concerns over the use of private firm Capita in recruitment and wider efforts to retain personnel.\n\nCapita was awarded the £495m contract for Army recruitment in 2012 - but has failed to hit soldier recruitment targets every year since.\n\nIn December last year, a National Audit Office report found that the Army's £113m recruitment website was 52 months late.", "An order for CalMac ferries has been at the centre of a dispute\n\nThe Ferguson shipyard in Port Glasgow has been nationalised by the Scottish government.\n\nMinisters will now operate the yard under a management agreement with administrators, which will see the Scottish government buy the facility if no private buyer is found within four weeks.\n\nFerguson has been involved in a dispute with the Scottish government over the construction of two ferries for CalMac.\n\nAbout 300 people work at the yard.\n\nThe deal means the yard will no longer be owned by industrialist Jim McColl, who could not persuade ministers to pay more than the £97m contract price for the disputed ferries.\n\nThe agreement also means work on the CalMac ferries, and other contracts, can continue while efforts to find a commercial buyer get under way.\n\nAdministrator Deloitte described the ferry contract as being \"materially behind schedule and over budget\".\n\nThe monthly wage bill for workers at the yard will now be met from Scottish government funds.\n\nFinance Secretary Derek Mackay said: \"We have always been clear that we want to complete the vessels, secure jobs and give the yard a future.\n\n\"Public control will provide much-needed continuity of employment now and ensure the completion of the ferry contracts at the lowest possible cost to the taxpayer.\n\n\"It is absolutely essential that the outstanding contracts to build these two ferries are completed.\"\n\nMr Mackay said the alternative was for the government to \"stand aside\" while the company went into administration, with jobs being lost and the vessels not being completed.\n\n\"That was not an outcome I was willing to consider,\" he said.\n\nA deal was struck to save the yard in 2014\n\nWhen Ferguson Shipbuilders went bust in the summer of 2014 it seemed the last shipyard on the lower Clyde was heading for oblivion.\n\nBut within weeks a deal had been brokered for billionaire tycoon Jim McColl to save the Port Glasgow yard.\n\nHe was adamant that Scottish shipbuilding could have a bright future. The workforce at Ferguson Marine Engineering Ltd, as it became known, rose from about 70 to 350.\n\nEarly work came in the shape of a £97m Scottish government order for two new ferries for CalMac.\n\nAnd that is where it all started to unravel.\n\nCMAL, the company that owns and manages ferries and other assets on behalf of the Scottish government, was pushing Ferguson Marine hard to complete the ferries on time and on budget.\n\nBut Mr McColl was adamant CMAL had made repeated design changes, a claim denied by CMAL, and a bitter dispute ensued with Ferguson Marine last year revealing it expected to lose nearly £40m on the ferry deals.\n\nThe Scottish government has made two loans to Ferguson Marine, totalling £45m, and what happens to these, as well as when the ferries will eventually enter service, remains unclear.\n\nMr Mackay added that developing a revised cost analysis to establish the actions required to complete the two CalMac vessels would be one of the first task undertaken by a new management team.\n\nAs part of the agreement with the administrators, the Scottish government will acquire Ferguson Marine if there is no viable commercial offer within the next four weeks.\n\nThe GMB union said nationalisation would secure the immediate future of the yard.\n\nThe union's Scotland organiser Gary Cook said: \"That is a very welcome development, particularly after all the recent uncertainty.\n\n\"Our members were caught in the middle of a situation that had nothing to do with them and their relief will be palpable. It is five years since the yard went bust and the Scottish government has prevented that from happening again.\"\n\nScottish Conservative transport spokesman Jamie Greene MSP said: \"The SNP Government's decision to barge in and use ministerial powers to take over the yard simply covers up the true extent of how much they have messed up this bungled ferry contract.\n\n\"We all want to save the yard, save jobs and see these new ferries completed.\n\n\"But Derek Mackay has not explored all of the options available, and he has refused to compromise with the shipbuilders over the disputed costs.\"\n\nMichael Magnay, restructuring partners at Deloitte, said: \"We are grateful for the support afforded to the business by Scottish ministers at what is undoubtedly a very challenging period for all stakeholders, and in particular its employees.\n\n\"With this support we will keep the yard operating whilst we proceed to actively market the business for sale, in order to secure its long term future.\"\n\nA spokesman for Clyde Blowers Capital (CBC) said: \"The Scottish government have not involved CBC or the directors of Ferguson Marine in any of the discussions leading up to this appointment.\n\n\"We are unaware of the deal that the Scottish government have made behind the scenes and, as a result, are unable to provide any further comment at this stage.\"", "Boris Johnson's partner Carrie Symonds has made her first public speech since moving into Downing Street last month.\n\nIn a speech at a Birdfair event, Ms Symonds said politicians have a \"gigantic responsibility\" to care for the environment.\n\nShe also joined a question and answer session with Chris Packham, presenter of BBC Springwatch.\n\nThe 31-year-old quit her role as a director of communications for the Conservatives last year.\n\nThe prime minister's girlfriend is now a senior adviser for US environmental campaign group Oceana.\n\nShe works with the charity's marketing operation in London and a profile on its website describes her as being \"passionate about protecting the oceans and marine life\".\n\nIn her speech Ms Symonds said she was a newcomer to bird-watching, having become interested after visiting a puffin colony at Bempton in East Yorkshire.\n\nShe said she had been alarmed at seeing a picture of a slaughtered bird in a newspaper shortly afterwards, and condemned the trophy hunting of puffins.\n\nHowever, Ms Symonds said she was \"profoundly optimistic\" that the people who care \"far outnumber the people who don't, especially among young people\".\n\nShe said while she is not \"perfect\", she is \"learning\" and referred to the floral print sustainable dress she wore to the event.\n\nThe £225 garment is reported to be eco-friendly, having been made locally in London from a cotton blend that is biodegradable and which does not contain microplastics or dyes that pollute the environment.\n\nMore than 24,000 people attended Birdfair last year over three days.\n\nTim Appleton, founder of the annual event for birdwatchers, said it has raised £40m for global conservation projects in the 31 years that it has been running.\n\nHe said: \"We're absolutely over the moon that Carrie is supporting us and we hope she will continue supporting us and conservation for many years to come.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nA French climber known as \"Spiderman\" has scaled a Hong Kong skyscraper and put up a banner urging peace in the city rocked by political unrest.\n\nAlain Robert unfurled a banner showing a handshake and the flags of Hong Kong and China on Friday morning.\n\nHong Kong has seen months of anti-government protests that have sometimes led to violent clashes with police.\n\nThe 57-year-old, known for climbing tall buildings worldwide, said his stunt was an \"urgent appeal for peace\".\n\n\"Perhaps what I do can lower the temperature and maybe raise a smile. That's my hope anyway,\" Mr Robert said in a media statement.\n\nAs in many of his previous climbs, Mr Roberts did not use ropes or a harness.\n\nAlain Robert has climbed so many of Hong Kong's skyscrapers that he attracted a court ban in 2018\n\nMr Robert said his message at the 68-storey Cheung Kong Center was \"an urgent appeal for peace and consultation between Hong Kong people and their government\".\n\nAustralia-based Chinese dissident artist Badiucao asked on Twitter: \"Do you really want (to) shake hands with butchers and dictators?\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by 巴丢草 Badiucao This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy 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 Robert usually does his stunts without prior notice or permission.\n\nHe has also climbed buildings in Hong Kong on several previous occasions, including the Cheung Kong Center.\n\nLast August he was banned by a city court from attempting any more climbs in Hong Kong for 365 days, but it is unclear if the ban has now expired.\n\nEarlier this year, he was arrested in the Philippines after climbing a 47-storey tower in the capital, Manila.\n\nHis past feats including climbing the Burj Khalifa tower in Dubai, the world's tallest building, as well as the Petronas Towers in Kuala Lumpur, the Taipei 101 building in Taiwan, and the Heron building in London.\n\nThe Cheung Kong Center is right in the middle of downtown Hong Kong\n\nThe Hong Kong protests started in April over plans for an extradition bill that would have allowed criminal suspects to be handed over to mainland China.\n\nCritics warned that the bill could undermine the city's legal freedoms and might be used to silence dissidents.\n\nThe demonstrations have since taken on a much wider scope, with protesters now demanding full democratic rights for the Hong Kong's citizens and an independent inquiry into the police response to the protests.\n\nThe Cheung Kong Center climbed by the French spiderman is owned by the city's richest person, billionaire Li Ka Shing.\n\nMr Li on Friday put out a number of ads in Hong Kong newspapers, urging an end to the past weeks' violence.\n\nHe called on people to \"love China, love Hong Kong and love yourself\" and to \"cease the anger with love\" and \"stop the violence\".\n\nCoinciding with the ads, the businessman issued a statement saying he believed Hong Kong's prosperity was tied to the principle of \"one country, two systems\". The former British colony has different rights and a judiciary independent from the mainland.\n\nHe also said he thought the government had heard the messages from protesters \"loud and clear\".\n\nWhat questions do you have about the situation in Hong Kong? Let us know and a selection will be answered by a BBC journalist.\n\nUse this form to ask your question:\n\nIf you are reading this page on the BBC News app, you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question on this topic.", "North Korea says recent missile launches are a warning to the US and South Korea\n\nNorth Korea has stolen $2bn (£1.6bn) to fund its weapons programme using cyber-attacks, a leaked United Nations report says.\n\nThe confidential report says Pyongyang has targeted banks and crypto-currency exchanges to collect cash.\n\nSources confirmed to the BBC that the UN was investigating 35 cyber-attacks.\n\nNorth Korea launched two missiles on Tuesday, the fourth such launch in less than two weeks.\n\nIn a statement on Wednesday, the North's leader Kim Jong-un said the launches were a warning against joint military exercises being carried out by the US and South Korea.\n\nPyongyang has described the exercises as a violation of peace agreements.\n\nThe leaked report, sent to the UN Security Council's North Korea sanctions committee, says Pyongyang \"used cyber-space to launch increasingly sophisticated attacks to steal funds from financial institutions and crypto-currency exchanges to generate income\".\n\nExperts are also investigating cyber-mining activity - the use of powerful computers to generate virtual currency - designed to earn foreign money.\n\nThe report adds that North Korea's attacks against crypto-currency exchanges allowed it to \"generate income in ways that are harder to trace and subject to less government oversight and regulation than the traditional banking sector\".\n\nThe report also says North Korea has violated UN sanctions by means of illicit ship-to-ship transfers, as well as obtaining items related to weapons of mass destruction.\n\nSince 2006, the UN Security Council has imposed sanctions on North Korea that ban exports including coal, iron, lead textiles and seafood. There has also been a cap on imports of crude oil and refined petroleum products.\n\nKim Jong-un agreed during a summit with US President Donald Trump in Singapore last year that he would stop nuclear testing.\n\nMr Kim also agreed that North Korea would no longer launch intercontinental ballistic missiles.\n\nA second summit between the two leaders in Hanoi in 2019 ended without agreement.\n\nSince then, denuclearisation talks have stalled although both sides say they still want to pursue diplomacy.\n\nIn response to the UN report, a US state department spokeswoman told Reuters news agency: \"We call upon all responsible states to take action to counter North Korea's ability top conduct malicious cyber activity, which generates revenue that supports its unlawful WMD and ballistic missile programmes.\"", "Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia survived the poisoning attempt\n\nA second police officer was contaminated with Novichok during the 2018 poisonings in Salisbury, it has been revealed.\n\nFormer Russian spy Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia were targeted with the nerve agent in March 2018.\n\nDet Sgt Nick Bailey was also contaminated with the nerve agent at the Skripal's home.\n\nThe Metropolitan Police has now confirmed the nerve agent was found in the blood sample of another officer.\n\nThe force said the Wiltshire Police officer, who does not wish to be identified, displayed signs at the time that indicated exposure to a very small amount of Novichok.\n\nThe officer received medical treatment and returned to duties shortly afterwards.\n\nDetectives from the Counter Terrorism Policing (CTP) network said a forensic examination of the officer's blood has now confirmed that traces of Novichok were in the sample.\n\nThe officer is the sixth person to be confirmed through forensic testing as a victim of the Salisbury attack.\n\nMr Skripal and his daughter recovered after intensive care in hospital, and their current whereabouts are being kept secret.\n\nDet Sgt Nick Bailey was contaminated at the home of Sergei and Yulia Skripal in March\n\nDet Sgt Bailey needed hospital treatment but returned to full active duty two months after the attack.\n\nDawn Sturgess was fatally poisoned after suffering high levels of exposure to Novichok in nearby Amesbury in June 2018.\n\nMs Sturgess and her partner Charlie Rowley - who was also contaminated but has since recovered - are believed to have come into contact with a bottle of Novichok discarded by the Skripals' attackers.\n\nA UK investigation blamed Russian agents for the Novichok attack, identifying two suspects using the names Alexander Petrov and Ruslan Boshirov. Both deny any involvement.\n\nThe attack prompted the UK and its Western allies to expel many Russian diplomats, with Russia retaliating with its own expulsions.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Peter Duncan died in hospital after being attacked\n\nAn eighth teenager has been arrested by police after a lawyer was stabbed to death with a screwdriver in Newcastle city centre.\n\nPeter Duncan was attacked after what police said was a chance \"coming together\" with a group of youths near Old Eldon Square on Wednesday evening.\n\nA 15-year-old boy was arrested on Friday, Northumbria Police said.\n\nFour of seven boys previously arrested on suspicion of murder have been released with no further action.\n\nNorthumbria Police said two boys aged 15 and two aged 17 had been released without charge and a 14-year-old boy had been released while investigations continue.\n\nTwo 17-year-olds and the 15-year-old arrested on Friday remain in custody.\n\nNorthumbria Police believes Mr Duncan, 52, from Newcastle, was attacked after a \"chance encounter\" outside a branch of Greggs.\n\nA cordon was put in place in Eldon Square\n\nHe was described by his family as a \"devoted father and husband\".\n\nAccording to his profile on LinkedIn, Mr Duncan trained as an electrical engineer before graduating from Northumbria University with a law degree in 2003.\n\nHe was working as legal counsel in the Newcastle office of Royal IHC Limited, and previously as a solicitor and legal advisor with companies in the North East.\n\nDarlington-based offshore maintenance firm Deep Ocean, where Mr Duncan worked for eight years, said staff were \"devastated\" at the news of his death.\n\nA spokesman said: \"Peter was an excellent lawyer, we will remember his professionalism and his ability to see beyond the legal issues to identify what was in the best interests of the business, our clients and his colleagues.\n\n\"Having worked with him, we also know that he was a true family man who was devoted to his wife and sons.\n\n\"We cannot therefore comprehend how they must feel and our thoughts are with each of them at this most difficult of times.\"\n\nFlower tributes have been left near the scene\n\nNorthumbria Police Area Commander, Ch Supt Ged Noble, said: \"Searches have been conducted across the city and at a number of addresses in Newcastle.\"\n\nLeader of Newcastle City Council, Nick Forbes, said: \"This tragic incident is hard to understand in a city like ours, but I hope Peter Duncan's family find some comfort in knowing Newcastle stands with them at this incredibly sad time.\n\n\"Across our city people have spoken of their shock and sadness at what happened to Peter and the loss his family and friends and work colleagues are dealing with.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The British overseas territory of Gibraltar, a limestone outcrop on the southern tip of the Iberian peninsula, occupies a commanding position at the western gateway to the Mediterranean Sea.\n\nSpain continues to claim sovereignty over the territory, which has been ruled by Britain since 1713 under the terms of the Treaty of Utrecht.\n\nNamed in Arabic \"Jabal Tariq\", after the Muslim commander Tariq Ibn-Ziyad, who turned \"the Rock\" into a fortress in 711, Gibraltar has been an important naval base for more than 1,000 years.\n\nThis long maritime history has resulted in a diverse population. Most Gibraltarians are bilingual in English and Spanish, and are of mixed Genoese, British, Spanish, Jewish, Maltese and Portuguese descent. Recent arrivals have included migrant workers from Morocco.\n\nFabian Picardo became chief minister in December 2011 and again in November 2015 and October 2019 after elections won by the coalition made up of the Gibraltar Socialist Labour Party and the Gibraltar Liberal Party (GLP).\n\nMr Picardo was born in Gibraltar in 1972 and studied law at Oxford University. After graduating from Oxford, he attended the Inns of Court School of Law at Gray's Inn in London.\n\nMr Picardo's predecessor as chief minister, Peter Caruana, held the post for more than 15 years, from 1996 to 2011.\n\nMr Caruana strongly opposes the idea of shared sovereignty with Spain and oversaw a 2002 referendum that roundly rejected the concept.\n\nHe has been credited with helping to develop Gibraltar's offshore financial industry. In 2010, he said his government was transforming the economy from a European tax haven to a financial services hub.\n\nGibraltarians are British citizens. It is self-governing in all areas except defence and foreign policy and is home to a British military garrison and naval base.\n\nThe UN has urged Spain and Britain to resolve the issue of Gibraltar's status. Both sides, under the Brussels Process launched in 1984, have attempted to reach an agreement.\n\nBut Spain's insistence on eventually acquiring full sovereignty, and Britain's determination to retain full control of Gibraltar's military base, have been among the stumbling blocks.\n\nGibraltar's 1969 constitution states that there can be no transfer of sovereignty to Spain against the wishes of locals. In a 2002 referendum Gibraltarians resoundingly rejected the idea of joint sovereignty.\n\nFree travel between Spain and Gibraltar was fully restored in 1985, but travellers continued to suffer delays at the border.\n\nIn 2006, passenger flights between Spain and Gibraltar resumed for the first time in nearly 30 years, but 2013 saw renewed border checks by Spain in response to a Gibraltarian plan to build an artificial reef.\n\nTelevision and radio services on the Rock are operated by the Gibraltar Broadcasting Corporation (GBC).\n\nRadio and TV stations based in Spain, and broadcasts for British forces in the territory, can be received.\n\nMuch of Gibraltar's income comes from customs duties, offshore finance, internet gaming, tourism and the provisioning of ships\n\n1501 - Isabella I, queen of Castile and Aragon, annexes Gibraltar to Spain.\n\n1713 - Spain cedes Gibraltar to Britain under the Treaty of Utrecht.\n\n1940 - Civilian population temporarily evacuated to make Gibraltar a military fortress during the World War Two. Discontent at the slow pace of repatriation after the war becomes one of the sources of demands for self-government.\n\n1963 - Spanish government begins a campaign through UN for the handover of Gibraltar to Spain.\n\n1967 - Gibraltarians vote resoundingly in favour of continued British sovereignty in referendum.\n\n1969 - Britain introduces full internal self-government under a new constitution, with an elected House of Assembly. Spain closes border with Gibraltar, withdraws labour force and cuts transport and communication links in protest.\n\n1980 - Lisbon agreement between UK and Spain initiates the gradual re-establishment of talks over Gibraltar.\n\n1981 - Gibraltarians granted full British citizenship after a campaign against the British Nationality Act, which had proposed removing their right of entry to Britain.\n\n1984 - Britain and Spain agree to provide equal rights for Spaniards in Gibraltar and for Gibraltarians in Spain. Free border crossing between Spain and Gibraltar is restored.\n\n2002 - Referendum reaffirms almost total Gibraltarian opposition to UK proposals for joint British-Spanish sovereignty. UK reaffirms that no decision on Gibraltar's future will be made without the consent of Gibraltarians.\n\n2004 - Gibraltar marks the 300th anniversary of the establishment of British rule.\n\n2006 - Britain, Spain and Gibraltar sign a landmark agreement under which border controls are further eased. Spain agrees to allows flights to Gibraltar's airport. The deal makes no mention of sovereignty.\n\n2006 - Voters back a new constitution in referendum confirming Gibraltarian home rule, and renaming the House of Assembly the Parliament of Gibraltar.\n\n2009 - Spanish Foreign Minister Miguel Angel Moratinos visits Gibraltar, the first visit by a Spanish minister since Britain captured the Rock.\n\n2014 - Declassified documents show former King Juan Carlos of Spain told Britain in 1982 that it was not in his country's \"interest to recover Gibraltar in the near future\" as it would trigger Moroccan claims to the Spanish territories of Ceuta and Melilla.\n\n2016 - UK referendum on EU membership, 96% of Gibraltarians vote to remain. Turnout is 84%.\n\n2020 - UK and Gibraltar leave the EU. UK and Spain agree in principle to a basis on which the UK and the EU could negotiate terms for Gibraltar to participate some aspects of the Schengen Agreement to ease border movements. The arrangements have not entered into force.\n\nGibraltar has been a key British naval base ever since the 18th Century\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Los Angeles Airport was one of several US airports reporting problems with its customs system\n\nTravellers have been delayed at several major US airports due to a technical issue affecting customs checks.\n\nUS authorities said computers are coming slowly back online after a nationwide outage caused delays for international passengers.\n\nLos Angeles airport tweeted that its systems were slowly returning to normal, and the outage had \"no significant impacts to flights\".\n\nThe glitch led to lengthy delays in at least four states.\n\nTravellers also posted photos and footage of long airport queues on social media.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nUS Customs and Border Patrol (CBP) earlier said it would use \"alternative procedures\" until the unexplained problem was resolved.\n\nThe agency later tweeted: \"The affected systems are coming back online and travellers are being processed.\"\n\nIt added: \"There is no indication the disruption was malicious in nature at this time.\"\n\nAs well as in Los Angeles, issues with customs checks were reported by travellers in Seattle, Philadelphia, San Francisco, Houston, Chicago, New York's John F Kennedy Airport, and Dulles Airport in the US capital.\n\nSeattle-Tacoma Airport has also since tweeted that its systems are \"back online\".", "Aerial footage shows where PC Andrew Harper, of Thames Valley Police, was killed while attending a reported burglary.\n\nTen people have been arrested on suspicion of murder for the incident which happened on Thursday night.", "The Stone of Destiny and Honours of Scotland are currently at Edinburgh Castle\n\nThe public are to be asked whether the Stone of Destiny should be displayed at a new museum in Perth.\n\nThe proposal is for it to be the centrepiece of a new £23m museum at the former Perth City Hall.\n\nThe Commissioners for the Safeguarding of the Regalia have launched a consultation on the stone's future location.\n\nIf it remains at Edinburgh Castle, Historic Environment Scotland plan a major redevelopment of the display.\n\nThe new museum in Perth is expected to open in 2022.\n\nThe stone was originally kept at the now-ruined Scone Abbey in Perthshire.\n\nThe stone could be the centrepiece of a new museum\n\nFiona Robertson, head of culture and community services at Perth and Kinross Council, told BBC Radio's Good Morning Scotland programme: \"We are hopeful because the stone is one of the UK's most important cultural objects.\n\n\"It comes from Perthshire and this is a chance to display it in a really stunning new museum which we think would bring its wider meaning to life.\n\n\"And, of course, it'll be free of charge for everyone to visit it if it does come to Perth.\"\n\nUnder the terms of their Royal Warrant, it falls to the commissioners to consider and advise on all matters relating to the stone, although the final decision on any move to relocate it will lie with the Queen.\n\nPerth has submitted images showing how the stone could be displayed\n\nPete Wishart, SNP MP for Perth and North Perthshire, said: \"It is welcome news that consideration is now being given to the Stone of Destiny returning to its ancestral home at the heart of Scotland.\n\n\"I have long supported and championed the claim that Perthshire is the right location for this critically-important historical artefact.\"\n\n\"For years I have supported the return of the Stone of Destiny to Perthshire,\" he said.\n\n\"It's good to see a consultation now launched on this - please respond so Nicola Sturgeon and the other commissioners make the right decision.\n\n\"The UK government is supporting the refurbishment of Perth City Halls through the Tay Cities Deal - it would be the ideal location for the Stone and bring enormous economic and cultural benefits to the area.\"\n\nThe stone was moved to Edinburgh Castle in 1996\n\nKing Edward I took the stone from Scotland in 1296 as a spoil of war.\n\nOn Christmas Day, 1950, four nationalist students removed the stone from Westminster Abbey and smuggled it back to Scotland, sparking a huge manhunt.\n\nIt was hidden for months then placed in Arbroath Abbey before returning to London.\n\nIn 1996, the stone was returned to Scotland and is now displayed with the Honours of Scotland at Edinburgh Castle.\n• None 20 years on from the Stone of Destiny's returns to Scotland - BBC News", "We Are Not Your Kind is Slipknot's first studio album for five years\n\nSlipknot have become the first metal band to have a UK number one album for almost four years.\n\nThe Iowa band's sixth LP, We Are Not Your Kind, has gone straight in at the summit, knocking Ed Sheeran's collaborations LP off the top spot.\n\nIt is also the band's first chart-topping album for 18 years in the UK, after 2001's Iowa.\n\nThe last metal act to conquer the UK album chart were Iron Maiden in 2015 with The Book of Souls.\n\nOnly three other metal albums have reached number one this decade. They are:\n\nIron Maiden are the only metal act to have had two number one albums since 2010\n\nMasked rockers Slipknot kicked Sheeran's star-filled No 6 Collaborations Project down into second place after a four-week stay at the top.\n\nThey did so by shifting 31,800 units across physical sales, downloads and equivalent streams.\n\nElsewhere, indie band Feeder secured their ninth top 10 album and Bon Iver opened at number 11, despite his album not having a physical release until 30 August.\n\n\"How shall we celebrate tonight babe? Pizza?\"\n\nPop's hottest new couple, Camila Cabello and Shawn Mendes, meanwhile, extended their reign at the top of the singles chart for a fifth week with the Latino vibes of Senorita.\n\nIt means Sheeran is in second place again with his former number one Beautiful People, featuring Georgian singer Khalid.\n\nFinally, three singles have reached the top five for the first time - including Manchester rapper Aitch at four with Taste (Make It Shake).\n\nFollow us on Facebook, on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.\n• None Ed Sheeran goes to numbers one, three and four", "Former world number one Andy Murray says he will play no part in this month's US Open.\n\nThe 2012 champion had intended to play doubles in New York, but says \"doubles is done for me for the time being\".\n\nInstead, he will play singles at next week's ATP event in Winston-Salem, before considering entering a tournament on the Challenger Tour during the US Open.\n\n\"I'm not going to play doubles at the US Open,\" Murray told BBC Sport.\n\n\"My goal is to get back playing at the level that I want to on the singles court, and I've decided that I need to focus all my energies on that right now,\" Murray added after he and Feliciano Lopez reached the doubles quarter-finals in Cincinnati.\n\n\"The US Open, doubles and mixed, can be another couple of weeks that you are slowing things down.\"\n\nMurray has taken the final wildcard for next week's event in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. He will join Kevin Anderson, Denis Shapovalov, Tomas Berdych and Britain's Dan Evans in the draw.\n\nMost of the field are outside the world's top 50, and some are outside the top 100, but Murray says he would have entered the qualifying event had he lost Thursday's doubles match in Cincinnati.\n\n\"Because I want matches, and that's what I need right now,\" said Murray, who had career-saving hip surgery in January.\n\n\"It doesn't feel like I need to play the main draw of every single tour event. I've hardly played the last couple of years and, having discussed with my team, after this week I think doubles is done for me for the time being.\n\n\"I need to focus my mind on getting matches on the singles court. There aren't many tournaments between now and the end of the year.\"\n\nOnce his week in Winston-Salem comes to an end, Murray will decide whether to play a Challenger event during the US Open, which starts on 26 August.\n\n\"It depends how Winston-Salem goes,\" he said.\n\n\"The feeling I have had since my singles [his first for seven months, against Richard Gasquet in Cincinnati] was that I played decent, but that physically between now and the end of the year I want to get matches in so that for the beginning of next year, I'm feeling ready.\n\n\"So if I do well in Winston-Salem, I'll know my level is good enough and I'm ready to win matches at tour level, but if not it makes sense to drop down a level and maybe play some smaller tournaments.\"\n\nThe obvious event for Murray to enter would be the Challenger in New Haven in the second week of the US Open. The field there should be very strong, as many who lose in the first week in New York will choose to compete.\n\nMurray's other option is to return to the practice court, but given the amount of training and rehab he has done over the past couple of years, he says that is not a particularly attractive proposition.\n\nTowards the end of September Murray will head to China, where he is due to play in Zhuhai and Beijing.\n\nThe Shanghai Masters in the following week is another option, after which Murray says he hopes to play \"three or four events\" indoors in Europe before the year is out.", "\"I don't think we'll be allowed back due to my 'behaviour',\" Healy said\n\nMatt Healy, the frontman of Brit Award-winning band The 1975, has defied Dubai's anti-LGBTQ laws by kissing a male audience member during a gig.\n\nFan footage showed Healy venturing into the crowd and kissing a man on the lips, to loud cheers, on Wednesday.\n\nHe is then seen returning to the stage and declaring: \"I love you bro. We're all human, right?\"\n\nHomosexuality is illegal in the Arab emirate, and any public displays of affection are frowned upon.\n\nPosting online afterwards, the singer said he did not regret his actions, which took place during their performance of the 2016 track Loving Someone.\n\nHe tweeted: \"I don't think we'll be allowed back due to my 'behaviour' but know that I love you and I wouldn't have done anything differently given the chance again.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by 🥾🌍 This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy 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 was the Cheshire band's first gig in the United Arab Emirates. They won best British group and best British album at this year's Brit Awards, and all three of their studio albums have gone to number one in the UK.\n\nLast year, the 30-year-old singer helped to finance a new LGBTQ community centre in London, telling The Observer: \"You might wonder why it is needed, and even ask yourself what exactly is everyone still scared of, but sadly, I think stigma still exists even in London and we still have some way to go.\"\n\nAccording to the Foreign Office, there have been reports of people being punished for homosexual activity in the UAE, particularly where there is a public element or the behaviour has caused offence. There have also been several arrests for heterosexual kissing in public.\n\nThe socially-conscious band, who will headline the Reading and Leeds festivals next week, feature 16-year-old climate change activist Greta Thunberg on the first track of their forthcoming fourth album, Notes on a Conditional Form, which is out next February.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Rupert Hogg had been chief executive of Cathay Pacific for three years\n\nThe chief executive of Hong Kong flag-carrier Cathay Pacific has quit after the airline became embroiled in the controversy over protests there.\n\nRupert Hogg said he was taking responsibility as these had been \"challenging weeks\" for the airline.\n\nSome of its employees took part in the protest, but China's aviation regulator ordered the airline to suspend staff who did so.\n\nCathay's chairman, John Slosar, said it was time to put \"a new management team in place who can reset confidence\".\n\nPaul Loo is also leaving as chief customer and commercial officer.\n\nMr Hogg said: \"These have been challenging weeks for the airline and it is right that Paul and I take responsibility as leaders of the company.\"\n\nLast week, Cathay Pacific had told its staff it would not stop them joining the pro-democracy demonstrations currently sweeping Hong Kong.\n\nBut on Monday, Mr Hogg warned staff they could be fired if they \"support or participate in illegal protests\".\n\nCathay faced pressure online after China's state-run press fuelled a #BoycottCathayPacific hashtag, which trended on Chinese social media.\n\nBeijing's aviation regulator, the Civil Aviation Administration of China (CAAC), required Cathay to submit lists of staff working on flights going to the mainland or through its airspace.\n\nIt also had to submit a report on planned measures to \"strengthen internal control and improve flight safety and security\".\n\nCathay Pacific said that Mr Hogg had been replaced by Tang Kin Wing Augustus and Mr Loo by Ronald Lam.\n\nThe airline is currently majority-owned by the Swire investment company, while Air China has a 30% stake. Qatar Airways also owns a stake.\n\nCathay's new chief executive Mr Tang was the head of Hong Kong Aircraft Engineering Company, which is also owned by Swire. Mr Lam was head of Cathay's low-cost service Hong Kong Express.\n\nMr Slosar said that while Mr Hogg and his team had carried out a three-year turnaround plan, \"recent events have called into question Cathay Pacific's commitment to flight safety and security and put our reputation and brand under pressure\".\n\n\"This is regrettable as we have always made safety and security our highest priority,\" he said.\n\nThe new bosses \"have the experience and depth of knowledge of aviation and our people to be strong and effective leaders of Cathay Pacific at this sensitive time\", he added.\n\nMeanwhile, Hong Kong's richest man, Li Ka-shing, has taken out a series of full-page newspaper ads in an attempt to calm rising tension within the territory, urging people to \"love China, love Hong Kong and love yourself\".\n\nBut the Chinese star of the upcoming Disney live-action remake of Mulan has expressed support for Hong Kong police in the wake of the pro-democracy protests.\n\nIn a post on the Chinese social media platform Weibo, actress Liu Yifei wrote: \"I support Hong Kong police. You can attack me now,\" adding in English: \"What a shame for Hong Kong.\"\n\nHong Kong's airport has been a target for anti-government protestors\n\nHong Kong International Airport has been closed at times this week in the wake of the massive anti-government protests that have paralysed one of Asia's key transport hubs.\n\nThe airport is one of the world's busiest, and the Airport Authority has obtained a temporary injunction banning protesters from entering certain areas.\n\nThe protests began over plans that would have allowed extradition from Hong Kong to mainland China, but they have broadened into a pro-democracy movement concerned about China's growing influence in the city.\n\nMr Slosar said Cathay was \"fully committed to Hong Kong under the principle of 'one country, two systems' as enshrined in the basic law\".\n\nThis is a reference to the fact that despite being part of China, Hong Kong receives \"a high degree of autonomy, except in foreign and defence affairs\".\n\n\"We are confident that Hong Kong will have a great future,\" he added.\n\nMr Hogg was born in Portsmouth, has a degree from Edinburgh University, and joined John Swire & Sons - part of the Swire conglomerate of businesses - in 1986. He has worked in Sydney, Hong Kong and South East Asia.", "Eldon Square was cordoned off following the incident\n\nA 52-year-old man has been stabbed to death in a city centre.\n\nPolice were called to reports he had been assaulted outside a Greggs bakery near Old Eldon Square in Newcastle at about 18:20 BST on Wednesday.\n\nThe man was taken to hospital where he later died as a result of injuries \"consistent with a stabbing\", Northumbria Police said.\n\nSix men have been arrested on suspicion of murder in connection with the stabbing.\n\nDet Supt John Bent said: \"First and foremost our thoughts are with the family and friends of the man who has sadly lost his life.\n\n\"We're appealing for anyone who may have information or who may have witnessed the incident to get in touch with us as any information could be vital.\"\n\nThe force said officers would be carrying out further inquiries and conducting patrols in the area.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Natalie Crichlow was in Barbados to look after her brother\n\nA British woman died due to infection following serious burns suffered in a fire in Barbados, a post-mortem examination has revealed.\n\nNatalie Crichlow, 44, from Colindale, London, was in Barbados to look after her disabled brother.\n\nHer family has said the mother of three was attacked and set alight while in bed.\n\nHowever, Royal Barbados Police Force said there was no sign of an intruder or flammable liquid on her clothing.\n\nIn a statement on Friday, Barbados Police Commissioner Tyrone Griffith said the \"seat\" of the fire was in the kitchen.\n\nIt rapidly engulfed the house, and residents and workmen on a nearby property \"sprang into action to assist\", he said.\n\nThey found Ms Crichlow in the garden of the house badly burned.\n\nCCTV from an adjacent house \"clearly demonstrated that no-one entered those premises for hours prior to the fire\", the commissioner said.\n\nHe said the footage also showed the blaze originated in the kitchen.\n\nA man who once lived in the house has been interviewed, but the commissioner said he had no involvement in Ms Crichlow's death.\n\nHe said: \"This matter is being treated as an unnatural death and intense investigations are ongoing.\n\n\"At this stage there is nothing to indicate that there was an intruder at the premises.\"\n\nMs Crichlow's niece has said the family is concerned the police force on the island is not treating the death as a murder investigation.\n\nMs Crichlow, who was born in Luton, has three children aged 10, 20 and 26.\n\nHer son, footballer Romoney Crichlow-Noble, has thanked fans for their support following his mother's death.\n\nThey want her body returned to Britain for burial.\n\nThey have set up a crowd-funding page in an attempt to raise the £8,000 needed.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The scene at BBC Broadcasting House in Llandaff during the power cut\n\nTelevision and radio services have been disrupted after a power cut at BBC Wales' headquarters in Cardiff.\n\nPower was lost in parts of BBC Broadcasting House in Llandaff at about 18:15 BST on Friday evening.\n\nBBC Wales Today was unable to go out at its regular time of 18:30 and BBC Radio Wales and BBC Radio Cymru fell silent.\n\nThe cut lasted for about an hour. BBC Wales said its radio services had been restored on FM and DAB.\n\nViewers tuning in for Wales Today instead saw BBC Northern Ireland's Newsline.\n\nSystems went down after a power cut at the corporation\n\nIn a tweet, BBC Wales said: \"We apologise for disruption to BBC Wales services following a major power failure at our Llandaff HQ.\n\nWestern Power Distribution said it was not aware of problems.\n\nSorry, we're having trouble displaying this content. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\n\"Before we go any further we need to quickly mention that viewers in Wales have joined us,\" he said.\n\n\"They're not getting Wales Today at the moment due to technical difficulties, so welcome to BBC Newsline.\"\n\nMai Davies, who was taken off air on BBC Radio Wales, said the power cut was \"one of the oddest\" things to happen in her career.\n\nSorry, we're having trouble displaying this content. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "A test \"Presidential alert\" was sent to Americans on 3 October, 2018\n\nABC talk show Jimmy Kimmel Live! has been fined $395,000 (£326,000) for mimicking a presidential alert on the programme, a US regulator has said.\n\nThe show replicated the alert tone three times, which is illegal, during a sketch mocking the warning system.\n\nOn the same day the programme aired, 3 October last year, the alert was officially tested nationwide.\n\nAs part of the trial, more than 200 million US mobile phones received a test \"Presidential Alert\" notification.\n\nThe alert system, which is designed to warn of major threats such as missile attacks, natural disasters and acts of terrorism, is run by the Federal Emergency Management Agency (Fema).\n\nIn the event of a national emergency, US President Donald Trump would be in charge of ordering the agency to activate the warning system.\n\nWireless Emergency Alerts (WEAs) can be sent by state and local public safety officials, the National Weather Service, the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children as well as the president of the United States. They look like text messages, but are designed to alert people with a unique sound and vibration.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The presidential alert system, dubbed the \"Trump Alert\", was tested in October 2018\n\nBy simulating the alert tone, the Jimmy Kimmel Show! breached broadcasting rules, said the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), which regulates television in the US.\n\nUnder FCC rules, broadcasters are barred from mimicking the warning system \"to avoid confusion when the tones are used, alert fatigue among listeners, and false activation\".\n\nABC admitted to broadcasting the alert on 3 October 2018, but said it did so under the impression that \"use of the tone was permissible\".\n\nPeople look at their phones during the alert in New York's Grand Central Terminal\n\nIn a statement, ABC - which is owned by Walt Disney Television - said it takes \"regulatory compliance seriously and we are pleased to have resolved this issue\".\n\nABC has agreed not to broadcast it again, the FCC said.\n\nSeparately, AMC Networks, Discovery and Meruelo have agreed to pay civil fines for broadcasting the presidential alert in programmes.\n\nThe penalties agreed are $104,000 (£86,000) for AMC; $68,000 (£57,000) for Discovery; and $67,000 (£55,000) for Meruelo, the FCC said.\n\nLast October's emergency alert trial was held to test the readiness of the system.\n\nThe alert produced a tone and showed a notification saying: \"THIS IS A TEST of the National Wireless Emergency Alert System. No action is needed.\"\n\nThe test was mandated under a 2015 law, the IPAWS Modernization Act, that said one must be run at least every three years.", "Stormzy says he wants to help students \"pursue their dream\" of studying at Cambridge\n\nGrime star Stormzy has announced he will fund the university costs of two more Cambridge students.\n\nStormzy will also continue to cover costs for the first two students to be supported by the scheme.\n\nThe Stormzy Scholarship is aimed at supporting people from minority backgrounds who have earned a place at the university.\n\nThe scheme is intended to help address the low number of black students who attend Oxbridge institutions.\n\nStormy, who recently headlined Glastonbury, is paying the tuition fees of the four students.\n\nThe identities of the students supported by the scheme have been kept secret to ensure they have a normal life during their studies, although the grime star keeps track of their academic progress.", "Some 364,380 UK students have found places on university degree courses, a day after A-level results came out.\n\nA record 17,420 of these found their places through the clearing service, which matches candidates with places once the results are in, the University and College Admissions Service said.\n\nSome 29.8% of all 18-year-olds have been accepted on to courses - another record for this point in the year.\n\nStudents in England, Wales and Northern Ireland got their grades on Thursday.\n\nDespite record numbers of applicants to UK universities this year, fewer students were placed on courses as the results were released on Thursday.\n\nThis reflects the shift towards students seeking university places once they have their grades, with leading universities now offering places in clearing.\n\nSome 2,260 more candidates found their places via clearing this year than last year.\n\nIt comes just days after renewed calls were made by Labour for a change in the university application system to one based on results rather than predictions.\n\nOn Thursday morning, a total of 408,960 people, from the UK and overseas, had had places confirmed, down 1% on the same point last year, according to Ucas.\n\nWhile overall acceptances have fallen, a breakdown shows that record numbers of international students are snapping up places.\n\nIn total, 34,390 students from outside the EU have found places so far, Ucas said, driven by a rise from China.\n\nThere has been a small increase in the number of EU students accepted, with 26,930 confirmed so far.\n\nUcas has also flagged up higher rates of disadvantaged pupils receiving university places.\n\nClare Marchant, Ucas chief executive, said: \"The record proportions of disadvantaged students off to university, combined with the highest number of international students we've seen accepted at this point, is testament to students' hard work and the attraction of our world-class universities and colleges.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Work on Glen Sannox has fallen way behind schedule\n\nLike a ship at its launch, gathering momentum as it descends the slipway, there's not much that can stop Ferguson Marine Engineering Ltd from plunging into the uncertain waters of government ownership.\n\nHappily, it is unlike yards on the narrower upper Clyde in that launches do not carry the risk of getting a severe dunt on the opposite bank. But there's a lot about these waters that is uncharted.\n\nBy the end of next week, it seems likely that the financial risk for the shipyard will be on government books, and no longer those of industrialist Jim McColl.\n\nThe Scottish government's agency, Caledonian Maritime Assets Ltd (CMAL), is understood already to have paid almost all the £97m fixed price for the two CalMac ferries at the heart of the Ferguson's dispute, and long before their completion.\n\nIf the future is to be nationalised, it will have to pay for the remaining work to get the Glen Sannox and 'hull number 802' into service on the Brodick-Ardrossan route and between Lochmaddy, Uig and Tarbert.\n\nCMAL has been blamed by Ferguson for making so many changes to the design - particularly of the special requirements for the prototype diesel/liquified natural gas engine - that the cost is now reckoned to have doubled.\n\nJim McColl had offered to meet the Scottish government roughly half way on the overspend - asking for about £40m. A statement from his company says it consistently refused to engage.\n\nThe Scottish government argues, first, that to bail McColl's company out of a fixed price contract would bring legal claims by other bidders, and second, that to fund the overspend would break European state aid rules.\n\nJim McColl had sought a compromise deal with the government\n\nSo if it wasn't willing to meet some of Ferguson's extra costs: it is determined to finish the ferries and keep the yard open, thus protecting jobs: it has £45m in loans outstanding, which have long puzzled opposition MSPs: then state ownership becomes the inevitable consequence.\n\nThat raises big questions about industrial strategy. The SNP administration has been willing to take a stake in BiFab fabrication yards, though their prospects for sustainable orders, and building up to scale of offshore wind farm work, do not look good.\n\nHaving taken over Prestwick Airport, it is subsidising operations there with up to £10m per year (while declaring a climate emergency). And it has taken over Scotland's once world-leading wave power firms in the hope that their technology will one day find a market.\n\nSo is this the state backing new technologies? Or preserving older industries, with the jobs attached, in the belief that state ownership can succeed where Scotland's most successful living engineering entrepreneur could not?\n\nMr McColl will be licking his financial and reputational wounds. It is understood that he sank around £28m in Ferguson Marine, having arrived with a huge fanfare in the closing stages of the independence referendum. As one of the economic advisers to the Scottish government, he'll be wondering if he wants to get that close again.\n\nThe extent of damage to his investment vessel, Clyde Blowers Capital, depends on whether he gets compensation and \"fair value\", or merely the £1 for which the yard could potentially be transferred.\n\nThe plans his management team had worked up, to attract a wide variety of other marine engineering work to the yard, will likely be set back. One of them is a big chunk of the work on the next generation of Royal Navy frigates, in a consortium including Babcock in Rosyth.\n\nSome potential work at Port Glasgow may already have been lost\n\nNow it's merely my hunch, but might the sales force see more of a career future with international business investor Jim McColl than with economy minister Derek Mackay?\n\nI'm told that some potential clients wanting to place work at the Port Glasgow yard have been delayed by the CalMac ferries dispute. At least one contract has gone to the Netherlands, without Ferguson having the capacity at present to bid.\n\nPlans to take over an enormous dry dock, also in Inverclyde, will require government capital, if it is to be the owner, and if Clydeport's owner, Peel Ports, is willing to sell.\n\nInstead of further diversifying, government ownership will likely focus on securing jobs in a yard which looks well placed to reduce the backlog of CalMac ferries by servicing a regular drumbeat of orders.\n\nBut constrained by Scottish government capital funds, that is thought unlikely to sustain the 350-strong workforce currently there, or to grow it beyond 600, which Jim McColl had targeted.\n\nIt's also questionable whether a state-owned yard can assume that government contracts will inevitably fall to it. In or out of the European Union, some state aid rules are surely likely to apply.\n\nSome form of competitive bidding is widely seen as the best way of ensuring value for public procurement pounds. Removing that element is an invitation to run the contracts inefficiently, and to the fiat of ministers.\n\nIn any case, it's not clear that anyone in the Scottish government or CMAL knows what went so badly wrong with the current contract that the cost is coming in at double the price. (And who is to say it won't continue to rise?)\n\nIt should surely be a high priority that someone figures that out soon.\n• None Clyde shipyard set to go into administration", "Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg first promised the new tool at the firm's F8 developers conference\n\nFacebook is drawing back the veil to show what data it collects on users.\n\nMany may not like what they see.\n\nA feature in settings called Off-Facebook Activity will show all the apps and websites that send information about you to Facebook, which is then used to target ads more effectively.\n\nYou will also be able to clear your history and prevent your future off-app behaviour being tapped. But one expert said the move was unlikely to have a big impact on the firm's profits.\n\nFor now, it is rolling out very slowly, with only Ireland, South Korea and Spain getting access. But the goal is to eventually offer it globally.\n\nThe initiative comes at a time when Apple and Mozilla have already taken steps to prevent Facebook and other services from tracking users from one online platform to another via their browsers.\n\nIn addition, Germany's competition regulator had told the firm it needed to substantially restrict the way it collected and combined data about its members unless it sought more explicit consent than it had done.\n\nFacebook collects data from beyond its platform either because you have opted to use the social media site to log in to an app or, more likely, because a website uses something called Facebook Pixel to track your activities.\n\nThis is why when you browse a website for new shoes, you find an ad popping up in your Facebook Newsfeed half-an-hour later telling you about that nifty pair of boots you've just been looking at.\n\nThe Off-Facebook Activity setting will let you drill down into exactly what data various apps or sites are sharing about you - Facebook says the average smartphone user has 80 apps and uses 40 of them every month, so the list could be long.\n\nYou will then be able to disconnect the data from your Facebook profile - either the whole lot or singling out individual sources. If you take advantage of this, it should mean that those shoe ads stop following you across the internet in quite such a persistent fashion.\n\nIt is important to stress that Facebook will still collect the data, but it will be anonymised - they may know that lots of people have been looking at those boots but they won't know that they include you.\n\nOff-Facebook Activity has been more than a year in the making and fulfils a pledge made by Mark Zuckerberg at last year's F8 developer conference to give users greater control over how their data is used.\n\nThe new tool will let users see which third-party sites and apps are feeding data into Facebook about them\n\nBut how will users react to this feature - and what will it mean for Facebook's advertising business? I suspect that those people who do use it will be pretty horrified. It is one thing to know that in principle you are being tracked, quite another to see it in black and white.\n\n\"This is how much of the internet works,\" says Facebook rather defensively in a blog about the new tool.\n\nAnd in a briefing Stephanie Max, the product manager behind it, made the unlikely claim that the reason it collected the data was to help users \"discover businesses they care about.\"\n\nIf millions of users do investigate this new setting and then decide to disconnect the data, then that in theory could prove damaging to advertisers and to Facebook's bottom line. How much impact would there be, we asked Stephanie Max, if say 20% of users shut down the link between this stream of data and their Facebook profiles?\n\n\"We didn't do any modelling of that,\" she replied, going on to say that there was a lot of evidence that users valued having a personalised experience and that was intertwined with the way Facebook works currently.\n\nIt would seem bizarre that Facebook would not have worked out in advance what impact this new transparency might have on its revenues, but the company may be right to be pretty relaxed.\n\nFor one thing, it looks likely that finding and then acting on the Off-Facebook tool will be a very niche activity. For another, an expert on Facebook's advertising business says it is changing in ways that make the precise targeting of users less important.\n\nMat Morrison, planning director at marketing agency Digital Whiskey, says advertisers are gradually waking up to the idea that targeting 23 year old men in High Wycombe who like mountain-biking and sushi is not that useful.\n\n\"Agencies are trying to tell clients to calm down about nano-targeting,\" he explained.\n\n\"When we began using Facebook data we could easily create nano-target audiences - only 20 people. Of course, this turns out to be a waste of everyone's time and money.\"\n\nThe story a few years ago was that the hugely expensive ad break in ITV's Coronation Street, which delivered a broad if poorly-defined audience, was being superseded by the precise targeting offered by social media ads.\n\nNow, says Morrison, the pendulum is swinging again and Facebook advertising is being valued for delivering a wide swathe of the population. \"Creating a broad consensus in the audience is what advertising has always been about,\" he says.\n\nSo even if some of the Facebook population revolts against the constant tracking of their wider online activities - and remember the social media site will still have lots of data about them - it is unlikely that advertisers will desert what has become the prime destination for their messages.\n\nIt is worth noting that two of the countries where the new setting is making its debut are in the European Union. The tech giant can show EU regulators that it is giving users more control over their data, without doing any damage to its ad revenues. Job done...", "Indonesians have been taking part in a greasy pole climbing contest - a tradition that dates back to Dutch colonial days.\n\nHundreds of participants climb 174 slippery poles to collect prizes at the top.", "Russian couple Dmitry and Olga Prokazov have been threatened with having their children taken into care after footage featuring their baby was posted online.\n\nA criminal case has also been opened against them.\n\nThe move has shocked many in Russia, where there’s already controversy about more than a dozen people facing prison sentences for taking part in opposition protests in recent weeks.", "Mair Gore's family said she had to wait five hours to get the drugs needed to stop her stroke getting worse\n\nA family claim the Welsh Government is \"playing with people's lives\" after axing ambulance waiting time targets to reach suspected stroke victims.\n\nMair Gore's family said she was told to wait two-and-a-half hours for an ambulance after having a stroke in her home - and claim she waited five hours before getting the drugs she needed.\n\nThey now want ambulance response targets for strokes to be reinstated.\n\nThe Welsh Government say they want to \"deliver further improvements\".\n\nStrokes are in the amber category of the ambulance 999 traffic light priority list - and emergency response time targets were scrapped for all but the life-threatening red category cases in 2015.\n\nNow Mair Gore's family want \"the whole system to change\" after the mother from Rhondda Cynon Taff survived after suffering a stroke in her Mountain Ash home.\n\n\"[We] were told it would take two-and-a-half hours at least for an ambulance to go to the house, which is totally unacceptable,\" said daughter-in-law Nia Gore.\n\n\"A first responder arrived but there was still an urgency to get her to a hospital.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Thousands of people are putting their lives at risk by dismissing the symptoms of mini-strokes as just 'a funny turn'.\n\n\"That time is vital because it could have been a totally different outcome.\"\n\nMore than 4,000 people had to wait over an hour for medical assistance after suffering strokes in Wales between January and March this year, according to a freedom of information request from Plaid Cymru.\n\nThe figures claim waiting times for amber incidents have doubled in three years - and the average waiting time is now 26 minutes.\n\nThe NHS tells patients \"the sooner a person receives treatment for a stroke, the less damage is likely to happen\" and \"dial 999 immediately\" if you see someone has stroke symptoms.\n\nThe Gore family's call is the latest for suspected stroke victims to be moved up the priority list after a review carried out by clinicians, the Welsh Ambulance Service, the government and medical experts.\n\n\"The whole system needs changing so people don't have to wait so long,\" added Nia Gore, from Aberystwyth.\n\n\"They are playing with people's lives.\"\n\nMrs Gore has since recovered but her daughter-in-law admits \"it could've been a totally different story\".\n\n\"She's lucky because she is a strong, determined lady and wanted to get better - but that's no thanks to the ambulance.\"\n\nKatie Chappelle from the Stroke Association told BBC Radio Wales Breakfast with Claire Summers \"time is of the essence\" when someone is having a stroke.\n\n\"We want to see the ambulance service measuring the time it takes from picking them up to getting the treatment they need.\n\n\"In England, the target time is 180 minutes or three hours [from] that initial 999 call to getting the treatment, in Wales there will be no target time and we feel they need to go a step further, so we can make sure patients who are potentially having a stroke in Wales aren't losing out.\"\n\nAmbulances respond to calls depending on how they have been categorised\n\nPlaid Cymru's shadow health minister Helen Mary Jones claims an average hour-long wait time for stroke sufferers is \"shocking\".\n\n\"We know it is a life-threatening condition and we know if people get the right treatment at the right time then they are not only more likely to survive but there's every chance they would have a healthy life,\" said the Mid and West Wales AM.\n\n\"We want the Welsh Government to set a specific target for strokes and we want them to set a target from the time the call is made to the time the people arrive in the right ward.\"\n\nThe Welsh Ambulance Service acknowledge some patients \"wait too long for help\" because of problems with ambulance availability and are working to make improvements so patients get treatment quicker.\n\nA Welsh Government statement added: \"Following a review of the Welsh Ambulance Service's amber category, we are continuing to work with partners, including Stroke Association Wales, to understand how we can deliver further improvements for patients suspected of having a stroke.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The model railway exhibits were damaged at a school\n\nThe parents of three teenagers who deliberately trashed a model railway exhibition worth £30,000 have been ordered to pay compensation.\n\nThe Market Deeping Model Railway Club display was damaged at Welland Academy in Stamford, Lincolnshire, on 18 May.\n\nThe boys, and a fourth defendant, shared a bottle of vodka as part of a \"pre-exam night out\" before going on a \"rampage\", a court heard.\n\nLincoln Youth Court heard the youths had deliberately pushed tables over.\n\nThe four 16-year-old boys, who cannot be named for legal reasons, admitted criminal damage.\n\nThree of them were handed 12-month referral orders and their parents were also ordered to pay £500 in compensation.\n\nA fourth boy was told he would be sentenced on 2 September.\n\nSome of the exhibits were worth thousands of pounds\n\nThe court heard the teenagers had decided to play football in the gym and continued despite displays being destroyed.\n\nThey also threw parts of displays at the wall.\n\nAfter police were called due to the school's alarm system, the teenagers were found in the toilets and arrested.\n\nMembers of the Market Deeping Model Railway Club said a \"life's work\" had been destroyed with some displays taking years to complete.\n\nMore than £107,000, including a £10,000 donation from model rail enthusiast Sir Rod Stewart, has been raised in a crowdfunding appeal to repair the exhibitions.\n\nSentencing the boys, chairman of the bench of magistrates John Lock said: \"In nearly 20 years on the bench, I cannot recall such a case as this, of mindless, wanton destruction. It beggars belief.\n\n\"You came across the displays and models... and not content with kicking a ball, you then went on a rampage.\"\n\nMore than £107,000 has been pledged for the club\n\nPeter Davies, chairman of the Market Deeping Model Railway club, said he was glad due process had been followed but it was \"right they [the teenagers] make the best use of their future\".\n\n\"We have to allow them to make a second start, although I don't condone the damage, it was horrific,\" he said.\n\nThe \"enormous\" amount of money raised would go to a charitable trust that is in the process of being set up, Mr Davies revealed.\n\nOne of its objectives will be to establish youth projects.\n\n\"By October we could see 60 young people involved in modelling projects they would never have done before,\" he said.\n\nProsecutor Shelley Wilson said the four boys had made admissions in interviews about the damage.\n\nOne model railway enthusiast from St Neots Model Railway Club, John Kneeshaw, who contributed to the exhibition, had suffered £15,000 of damage, the court heard.\n\nOne of the boys' defence solicitors said they were \"in drink\", which may have \"impaired their judgment\".\n\nThe court heard the youths had apologised for their behaviour, while their parents said they were \"ashamed\" and \"disappointed\".\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.", "\"If the till or safe was ever incorrect, the staff that were in had to make it correct again using their own money,\" said a former employee\n\nCosta Coffee employees at multiple stores claim they have had costs of £200 deducted from their final payslip for training, the BBC has learned.\n\nThe BBC spoke to 13 current and former Costa employees at stores in Essex who say they have also been subjected to other deductions for till discrepancies and running costs.\n\nCosta said contracts for franchise stores are managed by partners.\n\nIt added some staff contracts did have \"clauses relating to deductions\".\n\n\"Deductions are circumstantial and reviewed on a case by case basis by the partner,\" a Costa Coffee spokeswoman said.\n\nCourtney Morton was formerly a part-time employee at the Costa Coffee store in Upminster - she earned less than £200 in a week.\n\nMs Morton was told the deduction for training would be equivalent to one week of pay, and therefore expected to be charged less than £200.\n\n\"When I was there I was told that it would be your last week's wages to cover training costs but it turned out to be a flat £200,\" Ms Morton told the BBC.\n\nAnd that was not the first deduction she had received.\n\n\"The deductions were really unfair,\" Ms Morton added. \"They deducted everyone if they were late, with the money increasing as the time went on up until an hour.\"\n\nAnother former employee, who wished to remain anonymous, said she had one month's pay deducted from her final salary, as well as paying out of her pocket to balance the tills.\n\nCosta Coffee said there are clauses in employment contracts outlining the deductions for training\n\nOther complaints about the Costa Coffee stores - run by Goldex Investments Essex Ltd - include allegations over contracts.\n\nSix people claim they were never given their written contracts, despite asking for them.\n\nAnd two people said they were given \"promotions\" without contracts, claiming that they were carrying out managerial roles while being underpaid for the work they were doing.\n\nAnother person, who was promoted to a managerial role, said she was not paid properly for the role she carried out for six months.\n\nCosta Coffee said: \"We take complaints such as these very seriously and have shared those we've been made aware of with our partner who operates the franchise business to investigate as a matter of urgency.\"\n\nThe company added: \"Anyone you've heard from should get in touch with the partner directly.\"\n\nGoldex Investments Essex Ltd said it took all the allegations \"extremely seriously\" and urged employees to outline the issues with their line manager.\n\nJon Cruddas, the MP for Dagenham and Rainham, said he was writing to the managing director of Costa Coffee UK and Ireland to ensure complaints of \"poor treatment of staff - particularly young workers\" is dealt with adequately.\n\nHe added: \"A company that employs thousands of workers across the UK and the branch needs to be held to account.\"\n\nA franchise is a type of licence that allows a third-party partner to have access and rights to a larger business's logo, name and model, so that the partner can sell a product or provide a service under the business's name.\n\nClaims of unfair deductions were triggered by a Twitter post suggesting that staff at a Costa store were forced to reimburse money lost to scammers who came in to the store.\n\nThe Costa Coffee franchise partner, Kafeel Khan, denied he had asked staff to reimburse the scam losses and has since apologised for the \"miscommunication\" in a letter to the people affected.\n\nThe letter was sent after Mr Khan and a Costa Coffee representative arranged a meeting on Friday morning with the father of some of the people employed by Mr Khan.\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.", "More than £28m of overpayments on student loans in England are being held by the government, researchers have discovered.\n\nIt is the result of cases in which repayments continued to be taken even though loans had been paid off in full.\n\nThe Student Loans Company says it has tried to contact people who have been overcharged to arrange refunds.\n\nThe Department for Education says data sharing has recently been improved to prevent such overpayments.\n\nThe scale of overpayments sitting unclaimed has been revealed by Research Professional News, a publication for higher education.\n\nThey relate to money borrowed to cover tuition fees and living costs - with repayments deducted from graduates' salaries each month.\n\nPayments should stop when the debt has been cleared - but the research shows that for more than 510,000 students between 2009-10 and 2017-18, deductions continued after the loan was paid off.\n\nFreedom of Information requests showed almost £308m in over-payments, averaging about £600 per person.\n\nMost of this was paid back - but £28.5m remains unclaimed and has stayed in the government's coffers.\n\nThe biggest annual amount not refunded is from 2015-16, with £6.3m of overpayments still outstanding. From 2016-17, £5.9m of overpayments have not been paid back.\n\nThe Students Loan Company (SLC) says it has tried to \"proactively contact all customers that have over-repaid\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Alan Lewis This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nBut it says contact details might be out of date and refunds will depend on these former students getting in touch.\n\n\"We want all customers to repay the right amount and not to over-repay,\" an SLC spokesman said.\n\nRik from London said: \"The whole system is convoluted and archaic. I overpaid by about £1,300 and it could have been more.\n\n\"If it wasn't for me being pro-active I'm not sure I would have been refunded.\"\n\nRik, who had been an employee and then started his own business, said that last year he realised he was still making payments \"even though I'd paid off the loan\".\n\nHe warned of the complications of dealing with the SLC and HMRC to untangle his overpayment.\n\n\"The system doesn't make it easy, it's convoluted. People don't understand the system, they probably haven't logged into their account since university.\"\n\nPaul from Derbyshire was concerned that the loan system depended too much on the borrower scrutinising their repayments.\n\n\"I've been paying off my student loan for 12 years and am one more pay cheque away from my final payment.\n\n\"It's been clear to me that in order to ensure I don't overpay I've had to constantly liaise with the Student Loans Company.\n\n\"I've been in contact with them every three months or so. This is largely to go through my payslips with them, to update the outstanding amount on their systems. I was going through every payment with them.\n\n\"They never seem to update the online balance with my monthly salary. They don't seem to update automatically as they deduct money from my salary.\"\n\nSuch overpayments should become less likely after changes introduced earlier this year, a Department for Education spokeswoman said.\n\nThis will allow weekly sharing of data between the SLC and Revenue & Customs, so that loan repayments and the clearing of balances can be updated more accurately.\n\nIn the past, such data sharing had been on an annual basis, which could mean a lag before the repayment system recognised the loan had been paid off.\n\n\"If a borrower believes there has been an over-repayment, they should contact the SLC to seek a refund,\" the Department for Education spokeswoman added.\n\nInformation about getting a refund is published on the SLC's website.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nCharges have been dropped against a US man accused of stealing actress Frances McDormand's Oscar trophy at an Academy Awards party in 2018.\n\nTerry Bryant, 58, was arrested last year on suspicion of grand theft after the statuette went missing.\n\nBut a Los Angeles judge has now granted a defence bid to dismiss the case after prosecutors said they couldn't proceed.\n\nMcDormand won the award for best actress in Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri.\n\nThe district attorney's office did not say on Tuesday why the case could not move forward.\n\nFrances McDormand had her Oscar engraved with her name at the Governor's Ball before it went missing\n\nLos Angeles police had said that Mr Bryant was a ticket holder for the Governor's Ball, which is the official formal dinner after the ceremony.\n\nVideo showed a tuxedo-wearing Mr Bryant leaving the party holding the statuette and saying: \"We did it!\" His lawyer argued in previous hearings that Mr Bryant did not intend to keep the award, which was quickly recovered and returned to McDormand.\n\nIt was her second Oscar, 21 years after she won one for her performance in Fargo.", "A man from Lanarkshire has died from Legionnaires' disease after returning home from holiday in Bulgaria.\n\nJohn Cowan, from Hamilton, died in June a week after falling ill at the Hotel Kalofer in the Sunny Beach resort.\n\nThe 43-year-old's family believe he contracted the airborne bacteria at the hotel and are threatening legal action against holiday firm Jet2.\n\nJet2 said two sets of independent tests had found no evidence of contamination at the hotel.\n\nThe flight and holiday operator confirmed two of its customers died shortly after returning to the UK from holiday in Bulgaria.\n\nMr Cowan's mother Marie, a retired care assistant, said: \"When John came home he was feeling unwell.\n\n\"He was weak and his bones were aching.\n\n\"He basically stayed in bed most of that week - it wasn't until he started getting short of breath that we went to the GP.\n\n\"As soon as the doctor saw John he realised he needed urgent attention and phoned an ambulance which took him to Wishaw General.\"\n\nJohn Cowan, 43, known as Jake to his friends, was a hotelier from Hamilton and died a week after coming back from holiday in Bulgaria\n\nMrs Cowan said he was diagnosed with Legionnaires' disease at the North Lanarkshire hospital and his health deteriorated to the point that he went into cardiac arrest during surgery and died on 19 June - one week after returning from his holiday.\n\nMr Cowan's brother Barry said the family was preparing to take civil legal action because of what he claims is inaction on the part of Jet2 and the hotel.\n\nHe said: \"We are all devastated.\n\n\"We just want answers - to know why this happened, to know it will never happen to anyone else and to know why the tour operator and the hotel have done nothing to help.\"\n\nMark Gibson, a partner at Digby Brown solicitors, said: \"We are currently investigating a claim that a man died as a result of Legionnaires poisoning at a hotel in Bulgaria but as the case is at an early stage it would be inappropriate to comment further.\"\n\nA spokesman for Jet2 said: \"Sadly, we can confirm that two customers recently passed away shortly after returning to the UK from holiday in Bulgaria.\n\n\"We would like to offer our heartfelt condolences to their families at this very difficult time, and we have been in constant contact to offer all the assistance and support that we can.\n\n\"The health and safety of our customers is our absolute priority. In response, and to support our investigation, two independent specialists were instructed to take samples from the hotel and a United Kingdom Accreditation Service-accredited laboratory conducted testing of the water samples for any contamination.\n\n\"The results of all their tests were negative. We will continue to assist the local authorities in their investigations as required. \"\n\nThe firm added that as a precaution it had, along with other UK-based tour operators, transferred all customers and all future bookings to other hotels in the resort.", "The shooting happened on Monday night at a filling station in Waringstown\n\nA man has been shot dead in Waringstown, County Down.\n\nIt happened at a filling station on Main Street in the village shortly after 21:00 BST on Monday evening.\n\nThe incident is not believed to be linked to recent dissident republican activity.\n\nDUP Upper Bann MLA Carla Lockhart said: \"It is shocking at any time for someone to be shot in the constituency, but more so in somewhere like Waringstown.\n\nThe area around the shooting has been closed as police launch an investigation\n\n\"It is a generally quiet village with a thriving population and I would condemn this in the strongest terms.\"\n\nSDLP Upper Bann MLA Dolores Kelly said: \"The local community is in shock this evening after the violent murder of a man in a shooting in Waringstown.\n\n\"This is a quiet, settled village and people are appalled that violence has been brought onto their streets.\"\n\nEóin Tennyson, Alliance councillor for Lagan River, called it \"a shocking and outrageous act of violence\".\n\n\"There can be no place for guns on our streets in Waringstown or anywhere else in Northern Ireland,\" he said.\n\n\"I am absolutely disgusted by this incident and it must be unequivocally condemned by all.\"\n\nThe area around the shooting has been closed to traffic. Diversions are in place.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. When arrested in 2005 Humble read aloud a section of the hoax tape he sent to police in 1979\n\nThe man who hoaxed detectives by claiming to be the Yorkshire Ripper has died, police have confirmed.\n\nJohn Humble, who was dubbed Wearside Jack, sent police on a wild goose chase when he sent them hoax letters and an audio tape in the late 1970s.\n\nHe was unmasked and sentenced to eight years in jail in 2006 after admitting perverting the course of justice.\n\nNorthumbria Police said Humble, who had changed his name to John Samuel Anderson, died on 30 July.\n\nWest Yorkshire Police detectives, headed by the force's assistant chief constable George Oldfield, believed the letters and tape were genuine and diverted resources to Humble's home town of Sunderland.\n\nWhen Humble was eventually prosecuted, Leeds Crown Court heard claims that delays caused by the hoax allowed Peter Sutcliffe to murder three more women.\n\nSutcliffe was jailed in 1981 and given 20 life sentences for killing 13 women and attempting to kill seven more.\n\nJohn Humble admitted perverting the course of justice\n\nSutcliffe was jailed in 1981 for the murder of 13 women\n\nHumble, 63, died at his home in South Shields, where he had lived since being released from prison in 2009.\n\nA force spokesman said his death was not being treated as suspicious and would not be investigated.\n\nHumble was arrested in 2005 after police matched his DNA, taken after a minor offence, against saliva on an envelope sent to Ripper squad detectives.\n\nThe former labourer later admitted writing two letters and recording the audio tape and sending them to police between 1 March 1978 and 30 June 1979.\n\nHe also sent a third letter to the Daily Mirror newspaper.\n\nGeorge Oldfield, centre, with detectives who initially believed the hoax tape was genuine\n\nThe letters sent by Humble had Sunderland postmarks\n\nHumble was said to have had a fascination with the original Jack the Ripper, who terrorised the streets of east London in 1888.\n\nA spokeswoman for South Tyneside coroners office said no inquest had been held into Humble's death, which was reported to the borough's registrar by a member of his family.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by The World at One This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. End of twitter post by The World at One\n\nWest Yorkshire Police declined to comment, but former Det Supt Bob Bridgestock, who was part of the Ripper squad, said lives \"could have been saved\" were it not for the hoax.\n\nHe said: \"We don't know what Humble's reasons were for doing what he did.\n\n\"But he really frustrated, hindered and distracted the inquiry.\n\n\"After the tape there were another three women killed. Perhaps lives could have been saved if it hadn't been for him.\"\n\nSutcliffe, from Bradford, is currently serving life at Frankland Prison, in County Durham.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Legal school meal nutrition standards may need to be amended, or discarded, in the event of a no-deal Brexit, according to internal local council planning documents seen by the BBC.\n\nThe standards are designed to make sure school children are fed healthy food.\n\nMany councils say school meal costs will rise and funding for free school meals increase if there is no-deal.\n\nThe government said the food industry was \"well versed at dealing with scenarios that can affect food supply.\"\n\n\"We have a highly-resilient food supply chain and consumers in the UK have access to a range of sources of food. This will continue to be the case when we leave the EU.\"\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson insisted earlier on Monday that no-deal Brexit preparations are on track.\n\nSome councils are anticipating they will not meet nutrition standards because of a rise in food prices and restriction of choice anticipated after a no-deal Brexit, particularly on fresh imports from Europe.\n\nFor example, North Ayrshire Council says it \"might need to amend school nutrition standards\", in its internal Brexit planning document.\n\nLocal councils are legally obliged to provide high standard food to vulnerable users of public services and to manage the food supply challenges of leaving the EU without a deal.\n\nOther councils, such as North Tyneside, report that \"special dietary requirements may be difficult to meet\" and that \"if fresh produce is difficult to come by\" schools should \"increase use of tins and frozen goods\".\n\nMany councils say that prices for school meals will rise, and central government funding for free school meals will have to increase.\n\nSome also mention the possible use of food banks. Slough has contacted food banks in its area to check contingency plans for food shortages, and some Scottish councils have already increased funding for extra provision from food banks.\n\nThe government says that school food standards must continue to be adhered to post Brexit, but that schools have \"significant flexibilities, which they can refer to if certain items are in short supply.\"\n\nBedford Council's planning document from its internal Brexit planning team says care homes are \"advised to hold four to six weeks supply of non-perishable foodstuffs\".\n\nHastings Council's internal Brexit risk document even goes as far as saying: \"There might be the need for rationing. The severity would depend on what was available and particularly the duration of any shortages.\"\n\nInsiders suggest this is a reference to the prevention of stockpiling, more than a return to wartime ration books.\n\nThe documents seen by the BBC date from the end of last year - up until last month - but predate the appointment of Boris Johnson as prime minister.\n\nMost take at face value the government's national assessment for March that there will be no impact of a no-deal Brexit on overall food supply, but there could be an impact on price and choice.\n\nAn October no-deal Brexit would come, however, at a time when the UK is particularly dependent on European imports for its fresh food, and when there is little to no excess warehousing space, unlike in March.\n\nOne catering industry veteran, Andy Jones, the chair of the Public Sector 100 Group of caterers, backed the councils: \"Given a no-deal Brexit, they're being very sensible. They're being very cautious, and rightly so, we're going into something that we don't know about, we're going to the unknown.\n\n\"If a no-deal Brexit happens, I feel that the supply chain long term will absolutely be under pressure. And that will affect the most vulnerable in society.\"\n\nMr Jones said concern about rationing was excessive, unless supply disruptions lasted beyond the current four-to-six week worst case assumption.\n\nBut he confirmed that menus would change and that \"certain nutritional standards will have to be altered or adapted for a short period of time\" for schools and hospitals.\n\nHe said public services such as new hospitals, had been built without food storage, and that caterers were now effectively \"fighting each other for space\" in warehouses.\n\nBidfood, one of the key suppliers to schools, hospitals, care homes and prisons, said it was now preparing for no-deal again having bought up warehouse space and assessed and identified alternatives for 400 key food imports to store.\n\n\"The key areas that we're looking at in terms of making sure we have surety of supply is around those key things that we import, like pasta, tuna, tinned tomatoes, olive oil, chips, french fries, rice. These are not exotic commodities, these are staples of everyday life, and we want to make sure that all of our customers can get those,\" said Andrew Selley, chief executive of Bidfood.\n\nHe said there was only limited scope to replace imports with domestic production. \"Because of our changing tastes, unless we're going to go back to a menu based on the 1700s, we are going to look at imported products and imported tastes and imported flavours.\"\n\nHowever, he said his company would be \"ready\" to take care of key customers and he does not anticipate \"calamitous\" problems.\n\n\"There will be challenges around availability, delays at ports and around currency fluctuations,\" he said.\n\nHe added that the government would have to increase funding for free school meals, and that it would be \"more complicated\" but manageable for suppliers to meet more stringent standards in Scotland based on nutritional values.\n\nThe Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs said it was meeting regularly with industry and retailers \"to make sure we are prepared for all scenarios as we leave the EU.\"\n\n\"The food industry is well versed at dealing with scenarios that can affect food supply, from adverse weather damaging crops in other countries to transport issues abroad. The UK has robust supply chains across a range of countries to provide our food, in addition to the countless domestic food producers across the UK,\" it added.\n\nBedford, Hastings, Slough, North Ayrshire and North Tyneside councils confirmed that the documents seen by the BBC formed part of their no-deal Brexit planning processes.", "Daniel Craig is taking his final bow as James Bond\n\nThe long-awaited title of the next Bond film has finally been revealed.\n\nThe 25th official James Bond movie will be called No Time To Die - the news was revealed by producers on Twitter.\n\nThe movie, which will see Daniel Craig play 007 for the fifth and final time, will also star Oscar-winning actor Rami Malek as \"a mysterious villain\".\n\nFleabag creator Phoebe Waller-Bridge is one of the writers. Ralph Fiennes and Ben Whishaw will return as M and Q respectively.\n\nLea Seydoux is returning for the new film\n\nNaomie Harris is coming back as Moneypenny and Rory Kinnear will again play MI6 chief of staff Bill Tanner.\n\nLea Seydoux is reprising her Madeleine Swann character from 2015's Spectre, while Jeffrey Wright is returning as ex-CIA agent Felix Leiter.\n\nThe film is being directed by Cary Joji Fukunaga, whose credits include the first series of HBO's True Detective and Netflix's Maniac.\n\nNo Time To Die will be released on 3 April in the UK and on the 8 April in the US.\n\n007 fans may be aware that famed Bond producer Cubby Broccoli was also behind a 1958 prisoner of war film called No Time To Die (which was also known as Tank Force).\n\nThat film was directed by Terence Young, who also worked on the Bond movies Dr No, From Russia With Love and Thunderball.\n\nIt was co-written by screenwriter Richard Maibaum, who adapted the Bond stories for almost every film from Dr No to Licence to Kill.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nUnless the UK's withdrawal agreement with Brussels is reopened and the backstop abolished there is no prospect of a deal, Downing Street has said.\n\nThe strong statement came after the EU pushed back against Boris Johnson's proposal to implement \"alternative arrangements\" for the UK-Irish border.\n\nMr Johnson has said the backstop is \"anti-democratic\" and must be scrapped.\n\nEuropean Council President Donald Tusk said it was \"an insurance to avoid a hard border on the island of Ireland\".\n\nMeanwhile, the government has announced UK officials will stop attending most EU meetings from 1 September.\n\nThe Department for Exiting the European Union said it would \"unshackle\" them from discussions \"about the future of the Union after the UK has left\" and allow them to focus on \"our immediate national priorities\".\n\nLater this week Mr Johnson will meet German Chancellor Angela Merkel and French President Emmanuel Macron for the first time since entering No 10.\n\nAhead of that, in a letter to European Council President Tusk, he called for the backstop to be removed from the withdrawal agreement reached between the EU and his predecessor, Theresa May, arguing it risked undermining the Northern Irish peace process.\n\nMr Johnson said the reaction to his demand for the backstop to be scrapped had been \"a bit negative\" but \"we will get there\".\n\nHe said he would enter Brexit talks with EU leaders with \"a lot of oomph\".\n\nMr Johnson added: \"I think there is a real sense now that something needs to be done with this backstop. We can't get it through Parliament as it is.\"\n\nHe reiterated his view that EU countries were less likely to make concessions to the UK \"as long as they think there's a possibility that Parliament will block Brexit\".\n\nThe border is a matter of great political, security and diplomatic sensitivity, and both the UK and EU agree that whatever happens after Brexit there should be no new physical checks or infrastructure at the frontier.\n\nThe backstop is a position of last resort to guarantee that, but if implemented, it would see Northern Ireland stay aligned to some rules of the EU single market.\n\nIt would also involve a temporary single customs territory, effectively keeping the whole of the UK in the EU customs union.\n\nMrs May's withdrawal agreement has been voted down three times by MPs.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nA series of voices from the European side rejected Mr Johnson's assertions.\n\nMr Tusk said those opposing the backstop without \"realistic alternatives\" supported re-establishing a hard border.\n\nThis was the reality \"even if they do not admit it\", he added.\n\nThe European Commission said Mr Johnson's letter did not contain a \"legally operational solution\" to prevent a hard Irish border.\n\n\"It does not set out what any alternative arrangements could be,\" a spokeswoman said, and \"recognises that there is no guarantee such arrangements would be in place by the end of the transitional period\".\n\nGuy Verhofstadt, Brexit spokesman for the European Parliament, said the backstop was \"a vital insurance policy... supported by the people of the island of Ireland\".\n\nAnd speaking in Iceland, Chancellor Merkel said: \"Once we have a practical solution to ensure that the Good Friday Agreement continues to apply, then we don't need the backstop of course.\"\n\nA Downing Street spokesperson insisted the UK government was \"ready to negotiate, in good faith, an alternative to the backstop, with provisions to ensure that the Irish border issues are dealt with where they should always have been: in the negotiations on the future agreement between the UK and the EU\".\n\nThe question is whether Boris Johnson's letter to the EU is intended as the start of negotiations - or designed to be the end of them.\n\nHe's suggested the only way to get a deal is to take the backstop out. Not to time limit it, or modify it, but to bin it.\n\nBut if he has a fully-fledged, different plan up his sleeve, why he isn't spelling out more detail of those \"alternative arrangements\"?\n\nAnd why can't Downing Street say what additional reassurances would be available to the Irish government in the absence of a backstop, if trade talks falter?\n\nThe lack of detail on Plan B has made some critics in his own party wonder if his Plan A is simply to make an offer the EU can't accept and then blame them for no deal.\n\nBut No 10 insists he'd do a deal quickly if the EU was more flexible. In other words, Brussels would be expected to blink first as the prospect of no deal approaches.\n\nSo far, though, the EU is staring him out.\n\nLabour leader Jeremy Corbyn said it was unclear what the prime minister thought he was negotiating.\n\n\"He needs to recognise that by just holding the threat of a no-deal Brexit on 31 October towards the European Union isn't going to bring about a change, it's going to make things much worse,\" he said.\n\n\"He created this arbitrary date by his behaviour during the Tory Party leadership campaign. He needs to wise up and stop the nonsense of 31 October and start talking seriously.\"\n\nEnter the word or phrase you are looking for", "Unwin was nominated for an NTA in 1997 for most popular newcomer\n\nActor Ben Unwin, who played Jesse McGregor in Australian soap Home and Away, has died at the age of 41.\n\nThe actor's body was discovered last week, on 14 August, but the cause of death has not yet been confirmed.\n\n\"Police attended Minyon Falls, Whian Whian (New South Wales), responding to a concern for welfare,\" a police statement read.\n\n\"The body of a 41-year-old man was located. The death is not being treated as suspicious.\"\n\nUnwin played \"bad boy\" Jesse during two stints on the popular soap, between 1996 and 2000 and then from 2002 to 2005.\n\nHis character was often in trouble with the law, with one storyline seeing his character sent to prison after he was accused of burning down Alf Stewart's shop for insurance money.\n\nHome and Away paid tribute to Unwin on Twitter.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Home and Away This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and 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 Home and Away\n\nA spokesman for the Seven network, which broadcasts Home and Away, said: \"Cast and crew from Home and Away are saddened to learn of the passing of former castmate, Ben Unwin.\n\n\"Ben's work in the role of Jesse McGregor is remembered with much affection.\n\n\"Ben's family and friends are in our thoughts and prayers.\"\n\nKimberley Cooper, who starred alongside Unwin as Gypsy Smith shared a magazine cover photo of the pair.\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 kimberleycooper80 This article contains content provided by Instagram. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Meta’s Instagram cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nIn a Facebook post, 7News Australia wrote: \"Our thoughts are with Unwin's family and friends.\"\n\nFollow us on Facebook, on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe New York City police officer involved in the high-profile 2014 chokehold death of an African-American man has been fired.\n\nDaniel Pantaleo was sacked over the death of Eric Garner, whose dying words \"I can't breathe\" became a rallying cry for protests against police brutality.\n\nAfter a lengthy civil rights investigation, federal prosecutors said last month they would bring no charges.\n\nThe decision, based on the recommendation of a police department disciplinary judge, was announced by New York Police Commissioner James O'Neill on Monday. Mr Pantaleo was suspended while awaiting the commissioner's decision.\n\nIn explaining his decision, Mr O'Neill said mobile phone video of Garner's death clearly shows the officer used a chokehold, which is banned by the New York Police Department (NYPD).\n\n\"It is clear that Daniel Pantaleo can no longer serve as a New York City police officer,\" Mr O'Neill said.\n\n\"Had I been in Officer Pantaleo's situation, I may have made similar mistakes,\" he continued.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\n\"None of us can take back our decisions,\" he said, adding: \"Especially when they lead to the death of another human being.\"\n\nMr Pantaleo's lawyer said he would appeal against the commissioner's decision to fire him.\n\nGarner was arrested on suspicion of illegally selling loose cigarettes on 17 July, 2014.\n\nIn video of the arrest recorded by a bystander, Mr Pantaleo, who is white, is seen with his arm wrapped around Garner's neck as they struggled on a street in the city's Staten Island borough.\n\nThe officer's lawyer contends his client used approved tactics to arrest Garner, but earlier this month NYPD Deputy Commissioner of Trials Rosemarie Maldonado ruled that Mr Pantaleo had used a chokehold - which is banned by the police department.\n\nAs the officers continued to restrain Garner, the asthmatic was heard repeatedly saying: \"I can't breathe.\"\n\nMr O'Neill said Mr Pantaleo's decision to maintain the chokehold on the ground is what led to his firing.\n\nThe 43-year-old father of six, who weighed more than 350lb (160kg), appeared to lose consciousness and later was pronounced dead in hospital.\n\nIn 2015, the city of New York reached a settlement with the family for $5.9m (£4.8m) after they brought a wrongful-death lawsuit arguing that Garner was not given sufficient medical aid by emergency officials.\n\nNew York Attorney General Letitia James said Mr Pantaleo's sacking would bring justice to Garner's family.\n\n\"While we will never be able to change the events that transpired or bring Mr Garner back, today, some semblance of justice is finally being served,\" she said.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Erica Snipes talks about the loss of her father\n\nWearing a T-shirt with the word \"MURDERER\" on the front, she vowed her family would still pursue action against the other officers involved and fight to legally ban the chokehold blamed for her father's death.\n\nThe president of the police union, Patrick Lynch, pilloried NYPD as \"rudderless and frozen\".\n\n\"The leadership has abandoned and left our police officers on the street without backing,\" said Mr Lynch.\n\nCivil rights leader Reverend Al Sharpton said: \"It is a day that's five years too late.\"\n\nHe added: \"This is not some moment of pleasure or joy for the family that has lost so much.\"\n\n\"Today we have finally seen justice done,\" said New York Mayor Bill de Blasio, who came under fire for his administration's handling of the case.\n\nHe added: \"We can react with bitterness and division and be trapped by the sins of our past, or we can transform the suffering into progress, we can find redemption.\"\n\nThe firing comes as California enacts one of the strictest laws limiting police force in the US.\n\nOn Monday, Governor Gavin Newsom signed into law Assembly Bill 392 - which is intended to reduce police shootings.\n\nThe bill says that officers can only use deadly force when \"necessary\" to prevent imminent death or serious injury, rather than when \"reasonable\" as current laws state.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Farmer Colin Ferguson says he wants \"the Brexit uncertainty to end\"\n\nA no-deal Brexit could cost the farming industry £850m a year in lost profits, new research seen by the BBC suggests.\n\nFarm business consultants Andersons said that without government support increasing significantly, some farms would inevitably struggle to survive.\n\nThe author of its research described a no-deal Brexit as a greater challenge than the BSE and foot-and-mouth crises.\n\nThe government says it will \"provide direct support to boost some sectors in the unlikely event this is required\".\n\nUnder a no-deal Brexit, farms could have to pay a tariff on goods exported to the EU for the first time.\n\nLamb and live sheep exports could face tariffs of 45-50%, while trade and farming groups say some cuts of beef could see tariffs of more than 90%.\n\nIf European firms suddenly start having to pay more for UK meat, the fear is they could quickly switch to suppliers in other countries.\n\nOther so-called \"non-tariff barriers\", like extra veterinary and customs checks at the border, could also increase costs to farmers.\n\nJo and Lindsay Best fear a no-deal Brexit could \"decimate both the sheep and cattle industries\" in Northern Ireland\n\n\"It could wipe out the sheep industry in Northern Ireland,\" farmers Jo and Lindsay Best, from County Antrim, told the BBC's Victoria Derbyshire programme.\n\n\"A large percentage of our sheep are exported into France and the Republic of Ireland, and the price of feed could go up as well. It could decimate both the sheep and cattle industry here.\"\n\nAndersons modelled the impact on typical farms in different parts of the UK.\n\nFarms already receive more than £3.5bn a year in EU subsidies under the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP).\n\nThe government has told farmers those support levels will be maintained until the next general election and that is included in Andersons' calculations.\n\nIn the first year after a no-deal Brexit, profitability across the whole industry would fall by 18% - or between £800m and £850m - compared with the 2016-2018 average, its research suggests.\n\n\"At the moment a number of farms across numerous sectors are heavily reliant on support,\" says Michael Haverty, who compiled Andersons' research.\n\n\"Many farms are struggling to break even. If they get a hit in terms of profitability of 18%, and for some sectors significantly more, then that has huge implications for the viability of those farms.\"\n\nThe firm's model shows the profitability of a typical dairy farm in England will fall from 3.4 pence per litre of milk to 0.9 pence per litre under no deal.\n\nIn Scotland, the typical dairy farm would struggle to break even, it suggests, while in Northern Ireland it is likely to become loss-making.\n\nUnder a no-deal Brexit, dairy exports would attract higher tariffs and other restrictions which, it is feared, could lead to an oversupply of milk in the UK and falling prices.\n\nAt the same time, tariffs on imports from outside the EU could be cut substantially, meaning British farmers would face competition from low-cost butter and cheese made overseas.\n\nColin Ferguson, who runs his own herd of 200 dairy cattle on the Machars peninsula in south-west Scotland, said that would be his \"biggest concern\".\n\n\"[Produce from overseas] doesn't need to meet the high welfare or production standards that we conform to, therefore our market gets undermined by cheap produce and the consumer quite rightly will buy the cheapest item on the shelf,\" he added.\n\nMr Ferguson - who voted Leave in 2016 - said uncertainty around the UK's relationship with the EU was the \"biggest challenge\" and had already made it harder to invest in new livestock or machinery.\n\nColin Ferguson with some of his cattle\n\n\"That clarity is vital,\" he added. \"We just need to know what's going to happen.\"\n\nIn the longer term, he is positive about leaving the EU - seeing it as an opportunity to redesign the system of financial subsidies paid to farms in the UK.\n\nThe research by Andersons shows the impact of a no-deal Brexit will not be felt equally across the industry.\n\nLamb and beef farming are likely to be hardest hit, especially in Wales and Northern Ireland.\n\nOther businesses - like fruit and vegetables, pigs and poultry - could see modest increases in profitability as rivals like Danish bacon attract import tariffs and become more expensive.\n\nThat though is dependent on migrant labour remaining available after 31 October.\n\nMichael Haverty says a no-deal Brexit would be \"the biggest challenge this industry has faced probably since World War Two\"\n\nMr Haverty said it was \"inevitable\" the government would have to put in place substantial levels of financial support over a number of years, while farms in some sectors adjust.\n\n\"If we look at some of the other key challenges of the past - BSE and foot-and-mouth for instance - they were significant in their own right but perhaps a bit more confined,\" he said.\n\n\"A no-deal Brexit is more encompassing. It's not just within the agricultural sector, it's within the wider economy as well. On that basis it's the biggest challenge this industry has faced probably since World War Two.\"\n\nThe Department of the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs said in a statement: \"We have been very clear that once we leave the EU on 31 October, we will replace the Common Agricultural Policy with a fairer system of farm support and our new trade deals must work for UK farmers, businesses and consumers.\"\n\nIt added: \"As we have said before, the cash total for farm support will be protected until 2022, even in the event of a no-deal Brexit.\n\n\"We will also intervene to provide direct support to boost some sectors in the unlikely event this is required.\"\n\nIf countries do not have free trade agreements, they trade with each other under rules agreed by members of the World Trade Organization (WTO).\n\nEach country sets tariffs on goods crossing its borders. All EU countries share common tariffs because they are all signed up to the customs union.\n\nEU tariffs on most agricultural products can be very high - dairy averages more than 35% and for some meat products, such as lamb, it is more than 40%.\n\nAs the UK is still a member of the EU, it applies EU tariffs to goods coming in from the rest of the world, but has no tariffs with the EU itself.\n\nBut Brexit will change that.\n\nThe UK has said that under a no-deal Brexit most imports would not attract a tariff, in order to keep trade flowing through ports like Dover. But it would have to offer the same reductions to all other countries as well.\n\nFollow the BBC's Victoria Derbyshire programme on Facebook and Twitter - and see more of our stories here.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "UK tech companies secured a record £5.5bn in foreign investment in the first seven months of this year, research shows.\n\nThis was more than the amount invested per capita in the US tech sector in the same period, the Department of Digital, Culture, Media and Sport said.\n\nExperts say the weaker pound is drawing investors to the UK tech sector, which leads Europe in terms of funding.\n\nUS and Asian firms invested most in the period, according to the study.\n\nCollectively, these two regions spent $3.7bn (£3.02bn; €3.31bn) in the first seven months of the year - overtaking the $2.9bn invested across the whole of 2018.\n\nIt comes as overall foreign direct investment (FDI) in the UK is falling, amid uncertainty over Britain's future trading arrangements with the EU.\n\nAccording to the Department for International Trade, FDI hit a six-year low in June.\n\nCommenting on the tech investment figures, culture secretary Nicky Morgan said: \"These fantastic figures show the confidence overseas investors have in UK tech, with investment flows from the US and Asia at an all-time high.\n\n\"We have a long-standing reputation for innovation and the statistics endorse our reputation as one of the best places in the world to start and grow a digital business.\"\n\nIncreasingly, UK companies have been heading abroad to regions like to Asia to raise capital.\n\n\"I've seen a lot more requests from UK start-ups tapping Asian markets capital financing in comparison to a year ago,\" said Aditya Mathur, founder and managing director of Singapore based venture capital fund elev8.vc.\n\n\"They typically want access to the Asian market that is large and diverse, and for that they need an Asian investor to help them understand these markets, and also provide the kind of financing they're looking for.\"\n\nUK tech firms also provide Asian investors with a way to hedge against the trade war, analysts say.\n\n\"Foreign investment into both the US and Chinese tech sectors has gone down because of the trade war and because Europe has provided several attractive investment opportunities lately\" said Yoram Wijngaarde, founder and chief executive of Dealroom, the company that pulled together the figures for the research.\n\n\"The UK provides an attractive opportunity for funds looking to grow their investments.\"\n\nCompanies in the UK's fintech and financial sector were some of the most attractive\n\nRecent deals have included an $800m investment by Japan's Softbank in Britain's Greensill, which provides short term loans to companies to help with their operational needs.\n\nSoftbank and the Singapore-based Clermont Group also invested $400m in UK firm OakNorth Bank, a digital-only bank providing loans for small and medium-sized companies.\n\nMeanwhile, Amazon was the biggest investor in takeaway firm Deliveroo's latest round of fund raising, which in total raised $575m (£450m).\n\nStill, worries about what impact Brexit will have on the UK's tech talent pool are worrying investors and companies, who are concerned the UK will see a brain drain if EU nationals aren't able to work in the UK in the event of a no-deal Brexit.\n\n\"It's our biggest concern right now,\" said Russ Shaw, founder of Tech London Advocates, a campaign group promoting London's technology sector.\n\n\"One in five tech workers in London is from the EU. We're growing these businesses, and the money is flowing in, but we don't have enough talent in the country.\n\n\"We need a transition plan for companies who need to know what to do about staffing after 31 October. Otherwise it undermines our credibility.\"\n\nMr Shaw has said one of the ways the UK could mitigate these risks is by making the immigration process for overseas workers easier and more welcoming in the future.\n• None Slack: Why is this money-loser worth $20bn?", "For the world’s shepherds, shearing sheep is a vital part of caring for their flock. However, many vegans consider the wool industry to be cruel and harmful to animals.\n\nIn early 2019, an online clothing retailer temporarily stopped selling woollen products and farmers were furious.\n\nSo who’s right? BBC reporter and former farmer, Gareth Barlow, took 'ethical vegan' Kirsch Bowker to meet sheep farmer Gareth Wyn Jones to hear both sides of the debate.\n\nEthical vegans try to avoid using any form of animal product, such as wearing clothes made from wool or leather, and are against the farming of animals.\n\nFor more Focus on Farming content, visit our web page at www.bbc.co.uk/focusonfarming", "A man has appeared in court charged with murdering a police officer who was killed while investigating a burglary.\n\nJed Foster, 20, appeared at Reading Magistrates' Court charged with the murder of 28-year-old PC Andrew Harper, and the theft of a quad bike.\n\nPC Harper, of Thames Valley Police, died on Thursday after being dragged along the road by a vehicle in Sulhamstead, Berkshire.\n\nMr Foster has been remanded to appear at Reading Crown Court on Wednesday.\n\nRobert Jacques, defending, said Mr Foster, of Pingewood in Burghfield near Reading, denied any involvement in PC Harper's death.\n\nPC Harper's wife Lissie, whom he married four weeks ago, paid tribute to her husband as the \"kindest, loveliest, most selfless person you will ever meet\".\n\nIn a statement, Mrs Harper said her \"heart is broken\" after the death of her \"darling boy\".\n\nShe added: \"We had so many plans for the future, you wanted to do it all.\n\n\"My darling boy I do not know how I will be able to survive without you.\n\n\"I want to be angry that your job took you away from us but I know you loved it and always wanted to keep everyone safe, especially me.\n\n\"My heart is broken without you my sweetheart but my god I feel so lucky that it was me you chose to share your amazing life with.\n\n\"Although we were married for only 28 days before you were cruelly taken away from me, my husband you were perfect.\"\n\nPC Harper and his wife Lissie on their wedding day\n\nPC Harper, who got married four weeks ago, was killed on the A4 Bath Road.\n\nThe roads policing officer, who became a regular officer in 2011 after joining as a special constable a year earlier, had attended a reported break-in with a fellow officer in Sulhamstead at about 23:30 BST on Thursday.\n\nA post-mortem examination concluded that he died of multiple injuries.\n\nThe officer on duty with PC Harper was not physically injured but is being given emotional support, Thames Valley Police said.\n\nNine other boys and men who were arrested, aged between 13 and 30, have been released on bail until 13 September.\n\nMr Foster was remanded in custody to appear at Reading Crown Court on Wednesday\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Two fishermen have been rescued after getting stranded by flooding at the Tawi River in Jammu, northern India.\n\nAt least 38 people have died in floods that have hit northern states during this year's rainy season.", "Pop star Sir Elton John is friends with the Duke and Duchess of Sussex\n\nSir Elton John has defended the Duke and Duchess of Sussex's use of private jets - and said he paid to carbon offset their trip to his French home.\n\nThe singer said he provided Prince Harry, Meghan and their son Archie with his private plane to \"maintain a high level of much-needed protection\".\n\nThe royal couple have faced criticism after newspapers claimed they took four private jet journeys in 11 days, including to Sir Elton's home in Nice.\n\nPrivate jets usually carry fewer passengers than commercial planes, meaning they burn much more fuel per person per hour.\n\nIn a message posted on social media, Sir Elton said: \"I am deeply distressed by today's distorted and malicious account in the press surrounding the Duke and Duchess of Sussex's private stay at my home in Nice last week.\n\n\"Prince Harry's mother, Diana Princess of Wales was one of my dearest friends. I feel a profound sense of obligation to protect Harry and his family from the unnecessary press intrusion that contributed to Diana's untimely death.\n\n\"After a hectic year continuing their hard work and dedication to charity, David and I wanted the young family to have a private holiday inside the safety and tranquillity of our home.\n\n\"To maintain a high level of much-needed protection, we provided them with a private jet flight.\"\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 eltonjohn 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\nPrince Harry has previously spoken about the importance of tackling climate change.\n\nIn September's edition of Vogue - edited by Meghan - the prince spoke about environmental issues and his love for nature, saying: \"We are the one species on this planet that seems to think that this place belongs to us, and only us.\"\n\nAnd in a post on the @SussexRoyal Instagram page last month, he wrote: \"Environmental damage has been treated as a necessary by-product of economic growth.\n\n\"Only now are we starting to notice and understand the damage that we've been causing. With nearly 7.7 billion people inhabiting this Earth, every choice, every footprint, every action makes a difference.\"\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\nSir Elton said he paid for the flight to be carbon offset \"to support Prince Harry's commitment to the environment\".\n\nCarbon offsetting allows passengers to pay extra to help compensate for the carbon emissions produced from their flight.\n\nThe money is then invested in environmental projects - such as planting trees or installing solar panels - which reduce carbon dioxide in the air by the same amount.\n\nSir Elton urged the press to stop the \"relentless and untrue assassinations on their character that are spuriously crafted on an almost daily basis\".\n\nComedian Ellen DeGeneres tweeted that the couple were \"the most down-to-earth, compassionate people\".\n\n\"Imagine being attacked for everything you do, when all you're trying to do is make the world better,\" she said.\n\nOn Saturday, the Sun reported that the \"eco-warrior\" royals \"flew into the new hypocrisy row\" after taking a second European trip on a private plane in a month.\n\nThe paper quoted Labour MP Teresa Pearce calling for the couple to \"lead by example\" on environmental issues.\n\nLabour MP David Lammy tweeted his support for Sir Elton, adding: \"The hounding of Harry and Meghan is becoming a witch-hunt replete with nasty racial and xenophobic overtones\".\n\nFigures from accounts published in June show the Royal Household's carbon emissions due to business travel almost doubled last year.\n\nThe increase was put down to the use of chartered flights for more overseas visits, which are planned by the Foreign Office.\n\nHowever, emissions savings from greener heating and lighting meant the household's overall carbon footprint stayed around the same as the previous year.\n\nA tacit understanding has long existed between the House of Windsor and Fleet Street, even as the power of the latter has waned. In return for access and regular stories, the newspapers would present an image of the monarchy to the public that maintained popular affection for them.\n\nLike all relationships, this one has highs and lows. This is a low.\n\nSenior executives across Britain's newspapers and PR industry say the current negative coverage of the Windsors is rooted in events.\n\nIn recent weeks, the Duke of Sussex reportedly attended a Google summit in Sicily, where climate change was discussed. Many of the attendees arrived by private jet. This annoyed some editors and observers, especially coming soon after he and his wife said one reason they may not have more than two children is concern about over-population.\n\nIt was reported in April that Prince Harry's family would move to Frogmore Cottage, around 20 miles from the goldfish bowl of Kensington Palace and other royals.\n\nOn Monday, the Duke of York issued a strong statement deploring the allegations against Jeffrey Epstein, with whom he once associated.\n\nAll this adds up to ammunition for journalists who, even though they work for royalist publications, like to criticise Britain's first family.\n\nAnd yet a recent torrent of negative headlines is also rooted in deeper problems: William and Harry's long-held disdain for parts of the press; the feeling that Meghan Markle doesn't conform to what is expected of a British royal (more power to her, some would say); and a PR operation across the family that has experienced considerable upheaval in recent years.", "Artwork: Europa Clipper will try to determine whether the moon can support biology\n\nScientists working on an audacious mission to the ocean world of Europa can proceed with the final design and construction of the spacecraft, Nasa says.\n\nThe Europa Clipper mission will target the ice-encrusted moon of Jupiter, which is considered a prime target in the search for life beyond Earth.\n\nBelow its icy shell, Europa is thought to hold a 170km-deep body of water.\n\nThis could have the right conditions for biology.\n\nDue to launch in 2025, the Europa Clipper mission has now passed a stage called Key Decision Point C, a crucial marker on the road to the launch pad.\n\n\"We are all excited about the decision that moves the Europa Clipper mission one key step closer to unlocking the mysteries of this ocean world,\" said Thomas Zurbuchen, associate administrator for Nasa's science mission directorate.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Casey Dreier This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nEuropa Clipper will carry out an in-depth investigation of the watery world, including whether it can support life in its subsurface ocean.\n\nGravitational interactions with Jupiter generate tidal forces and heat, which keeps Europa's ocean liquid. The heating may even drive volcanic vents on the seafloor; on Earth, such vent systems support a wide array of life forms.\n\nBut it has taken decades to bring a dedicated mission this far, in part because of cost considerations and the challenges posed by the space environment around Jupiter.\n\nEuropa's orbital path takes it deep into belts of intense radiation that surround the giant planet. This radiation fries spacecraft electronics, which limits the durations of prospective missions to months or even weeks.\n\nSo rather than orbiting Europa, Clipper will make repeated close flybys of the moon, to reduce its exposure to the energetic particles trapped by Jupiter's magnetic field.\n\nThe spacecraft will carry nine science instruments, including cameras and spectrometers to produce high-resolution images of the moon's surface, a magnetometer to measure the strength and direction of its magnetic field (providing clues to the ocean's depth and salinity) and an ice-penetrating radar to determine the thickness of the icy crust above the ocean.\n\nThe ice shell could be tens of kilometres thick. Luckily, scientists think there are several ways for ocean water to get up to Europa's surface. In recent years, the Hubble Space Telescope has made tentative observations of plumes of water-ice erupting from beneath Europa, much as they do on Saturn's ice moon Enceladus, which also has a subsurface ocean.\n\nThe first concepts for missions to explore Europa were drawn up in the 1990s, around the time that data from the Galileo spacecraft helped build evidence for a subsurface ocean. Since then, however, one proposal after another has been thwarted, including an ambitious US-European mission along the lines of the Cassini-Huygens mission.\n\nBut Clipper has had a key champion on Capitol Hill, in the form of Republican legislator John Culberson who, as chairman of the US House of Representatives appropriations committee that funds Nasa, channelled money to the mission.\n\nBut last year, Culberson, who had become known for his advocacy on Europa exploration, was unseated in Texas' 7th congressional district by Democrat Lizzie Pannill Fletcher. During the campaign, a pro-Democrat political action committee ran an ad saying: \"For Houston, Lizzie Fletcher will invest in humans, not aliens.\"\n\nA follow-up mission to go and land on Europa has also been proposed. But the most recent federal budget request included no funding for the lander.", "Malcolm McKeown was found dead in his vehicle behind a petrol station\n\nPolice investigating the murder of Malcolm McKeown in Waringstown, County Down, have said the father of three was \"shot in cold blood in broad daylight\".\n\nThe 54-year-old was found dead in his car behind Dewart's service station on Main Street on Monday night.\n\nDet Ch Insp Peter Montgomery said the victim had gone into Dewart's shop at about 19:15 BST and was shot after he came out a few minutes later.\n\nHe added police are keeping \"an open mind\" about the motive for the murder.\n\nMr McKeown had been due to appear in court on Monday on a charge of aggravated burglary.\n\nPolice officers revisited the scene of the shooting on Tuesday\n\nThe charge against him was connected to an incident in Lisburn, County Antrim, last November in which a householder was allegedly tied up and robbed.\n\nMr McKeown was remanded on bail and was due to reappear in court in a month's time.\n\nMr Montgomery said the investigation into his murder was \"at an early stage\".\n\nThe detective appealed to the public for information about the movements of the victim's car and a second vehicle which was found burnt out after the attack.\n\nMr McKeown's body was discovered in his silver BMW shortly before 21:00 BST on Monday, about an hour and a half after the time at which police believe the shooting took place.\n\n\"I know that Mr McKeown entered the shop at Dewart's garage at approximately 7:15pm on Monday and when he came out he walked to his vehicle parked to the side of the garage,\" said Mr Montgomery.\n\n\"It was around this time that the gunman or gunmen shot him.\"\n\nA cordon was put in place while forensic officers examined the murder scene on Tuesday\n\nHe appealed to customers who were in the service station between 18:00 and 19:30 BST on Monday to come forward, and to motorists with dashcams who were in the area at the time.\n\nThe detective also asked for sightings of Mr McKeown at any stage on Monday, or of his BMW vehicle, registration XEZ 5518.\n\nAfter the shooting, a blue Volkswagen Passat was found burnt out on Glenavon Road in Lurgan, County Armagh.\n\nMr Montgomery said that vehicle, registration RK62 PLX, was also seen leaving the scene of the murder.\n\nForensic officers examine a Volkswagen Passat which was burnt out near Lurgan\n\nHe appealed to anyone with information about either vehicle to call police or Crimestoppers.\n\nThe murder has been widely condemned by political representatives in the area.\n\nUlster Unionist MLA Doug Beattie said he knew the victim, who had attended his constituency office in the past.\n\n\"The police need to get on and do their job in respect of this horrible murder,\" he said.\n\n\"Yet again we see guns on our streets and that's not acceptable in any shape or form.\"\n\nThe shooting happened on Monday night at a service station in Waringstown\n\nDUP MLA Carla Lockhart said it was \"shocking\" that the shooting had happened in \"somewhere like Waringstown\".\n\n\"It is a generally quiet village with a thriving population,\" she added.\n\nSinn Féin MLA John O'Dowd said \"people are appalled by what has happened\".\n\nSDLP Upper Bann MLA Dolores Kelly said the community was in shock.\n\n\"This is a quiet, settled village and people are appalled that violence has been brought on to their streets.\"", "Jess Thom, a comedian with Tourette's, is one of several people calling out Olaf Falafel for his award-winning joke\n\nA charity for people with Tourette's syndrome has asked a comedian to apologise for his award-winning joke made at the Edinburgh Fringe festival.\n\nTourettes Action said it was \"so disappointed\" by Swedish comedian Olaf Falafel's gag, which won Dave's \"Funniest Joke of The Fringe\" prize.\n\nIt said the fact the public voted for the joke showed \"how we as a nation deal with people who are different\".\n\nA comedian said she was \"tired\" of her condition being used as a punchline.\n\nFalafel won the award with the gag: \"I keep randomly shouting out 'Broccoli' and 'Cauliflower' - I think I might have florets\".\n\nTV channel Dave asked panellists - comprising the UK's leading comedy critics - to submit their six favourite jokes made at the festival.\n\nIt then put the shortlist to 2,000 members of the public, 41% of whom voted for Falafel's joke.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nOne of the panellists who shortlisted the joke, Kate Stone, told BBC Radio 1 Newsbeat: \"It's a good one, it's a pun, everyone kind of recognises it as... it's intended to be a joke and I think that's one of the things that matters the most for this.\"\n\nBut the chief executive of the UK's Tourettes Action charity said the \"rubbish\" joke had brought \"shame on Dave\".\n\nSuzanne Dobson said her charity had been about to launch a campaign to stop using Tourette's as a punchline - \"which unfortunately has come about a week too late\".\n\n\"Humour is a great way of educating people - but not only is it not funny to poke fun at people with Tourette's, it's not even that funny a joke, is it?\" she said.\n\nMs Dobson said the charity's helpline had several calls on Monday from parents of children with the syndrome who were angered and upset by the joke.\n\nSuzanne Dobson said she found it difficult to understand what the general public found \"so funny\" about the joke\n\nThe charity is now calling on Dave and Falafel to apologise.\n\n\"I would ask them to walk in the shoes of somebody with Tourette's for a day, and then come back and tell me if they find it quite so amusing,\" Ms Dobson said.\n\nOlaf Falafel and Dave have been contacted for comment.\n\nJess Thom, a comedian who has Tourette's, said she was \"not surprised\" by the insensitive gag.\n\n\"It's just exhausting. I woke up this morning and I looked at that, and it just made me feel sad and tired,\" she said.\n\n\"I work hard to try and make good comedy, and to make it accessible to a broad range of people... and it feels frustrating when non-accessible, stereotyped work is rewarded,\" she said.\n\nTourette's syndrome is a neurological condition that causes people to make involuntary sounds and movements, known as tics.\n\nTics are not normally harmful to a person's health.\n\nHowever, physical tics - such as jerking of the head or limbs - can cause pain, discomfort, and mobility problems.\n\nPeople often associate the condition with swearing or saying socially inappropriate things - but that only affects about 10% of those with the syndrome.\n\nAn estimated 300,000 adults and children in the UK live with the neurological condition.\n\nMs Thom also pointed out that neither of Falafel's shows at the festival this year were \"relaxed performances\" aimed at encouraging people with Tourette's or autism to feel comfortable in the audience.\n\nOlaf Falafel, who claims to be \"Sweden's 8th funniest\" comedian, said it was a \"fantastic honour\" to win Dave's prize.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The future of the UK's fuel refineries could be threatened by a no-deal Brexit, according to an internal local authority document seen by the BBC.\n\nUnder current government plans for no deal, they face a \"danger to viability\" from cheaper imports, while exports to the EU are set to be hit with tariffs.\n\nConcern is widespread in an industry deemed crucial for both economic and national security.\n\nThe government said it was working with the industry to prepare for Brexit.\n\n\"We will continue to work flat out to prepare for the potential impact on UK refineries in the event of Brexit without a deal, and to be responsive to the needs of all UK businesses and consumers both as we prepare to leave the EU and afterwards,\" it added.\n\nThere are six major petroleum refineries in the UK, supporting around 120,000 jobs directly and contributing about £8.6bn to the economy.\n\nThey turn crude oil into petrol and diesel as well as products such as jet fuel.\n\nThe concern, which is shared by both the Scottish and Welsh governments, relates to the UK government's decision not to apply tariffs - taxes on trade - to imports of petrol in the event of a no-deal Brexit.\n\nThe decision was made to lessen the inflationary impact on prices in the event of a no-deal Brexit.\n\nThe current tariff on fuel imports from non-EU countries is 4.7%.\n\nHowever, under World Trade Organization (WTO) rules, a zero tariff rate must apply to petrol imports from all countries, opening up the UK to Russian fuel imports.\n\nAt the same time, the EU has said it will apply a tariff, under WTO rules, of 4.7% to UK exports, making the trade with, for example, Ireland \"uneconomical\", according to insiders.\n\nWhile a flood of cheaper imports could initially mean lower fuel prices for consumers, the industry says relying on foreign suppliers will ultimately lead to higher prices.\n\nBut the government has also said that reversing its no-deal zero import tariff plan would lead to higher prices for consumers.\n\nThe Irish market is of specific importance to the Pembrokeshire refinery run by US firm Valero.\n\nA document from Anglesey Council says: \"Pembrokeshire Valero is a significant contributor to overall UK fuel supply and if they cannot compete on equal terms with EU markets, then there is a danger to their viability.\"\n\nThe fuel industry says relying on foreign suppliers will ultimately lead to higher prices for consumers\n\nStephen Marcos Jones of the UK Petroleum Industry Association says the changes to tariffs, \"distorts the competition for us, it means the importers have an advantage over the UK refining industry\".\n\n\"We could end up in a situation where it becomes extremely uncompetitive for a domestic industry to stay in the UK,\" he adds.\n\n\"Do we really want to be dependent on a country like Russia for our fuel? Do we want to be dependent on any country outside of the UK?\"\n\nThe issue has been raised at the key no-deal Cabinet planning sub-committee. And the threat of zero import tariffs to two UK refineries was mentioned in the leaked Operation Yellowhammer government planning document published on Sunday.\n\nThe problem is that opening up the schedule of no-deal tariffs is bound to lead to demands from other industries aggrieved at not getting the same protection.\n\nAlthough the industry denies it, some in government fear that charging tariffs on all imported petrol will simply raise prices for consumers, in a visible manner.\n\nThe local authority documents also reveal a range of contingency plans and discussions around possible, though not expected, fuel shortages following a no-deal Brexit.\n\nAberdeen City Council lists as a low risk \"reduced/lack of fuel affecting waste disposal, school transportation etc\", and says that it has two weeks of bunkered fuel. But it also says that the \"NPA [the UK-wide National Planning Assumption] suggests that fuel shortages will largely impact on the south east, however fuel costs are likely to increase and fuel supply could be an issue\".\n\nCars queuing for petrol during the fuel shortages of 2000\n\nDorset Council alongside others has identified \"key staff who would require fuel warrants\" - special licences to grant them access to fuel supplies.\n\nSutton Council, which normally only half-fills its fuel stores due to cost and risk, \"will fill fuel bunkers to maximum\". And Chorley Council, in its recent Brexit risk report, says that on-site fuel tanks should be \"topped up on a weekly basis to ensure that fleet vehicles can continue to operate for longer in the event of fuel shortages\".\n\nSuch moves are part of an already existing national fuel plan, created after the fuel protests and shortages seen in 2000. Fuel providers have already identified key petrol stations, priority users, and arranged the mechanics for waiving competition law so that competing suppliers are legally allowed to co-operate.\n\nSome councils have considered going further.\n\nChichester District Council, for example, has decided to spend £30,000 on a fuelling station and a 24,000 litre fuel tank. In a confidential document from January this year, it says fuel should be available but \"might be limited at some point\" and existing stores \"could well last 8-10 days before we have to operate hand to mouth\".", "Greene King said CKA shared many of its business philosophies\n\nPub giant and brewer Greene King has agreed to be bought by Hong Kong operator CKA, the latest deal in a wave of consolidation in the sector.\n\nSuffolk-based Greene King owns roughly 2,700 pubs, restaurants and hotels in total across the UK.\n\nThe move comes just months after Fuller's, the brewer whose beers include London Pride, sold its entire drinks business to Japan's biggest brewer Asahi.\n\nAnd last month, pub group Stonegate Pub, which owns the Slug and Lettuce chain, announced it was buying rival Ei Group - once known as Enterprise Inns - for £1.3bn.\n\nGreene King chief executive Nick Mackenzie said CKA shared \"many of Greene King's business philosophies\".\n\n\"They understand the strengths of our business and we welcome their commitment to working with the existing management team, evolving the strategy and investing in the business to ensure its continued long-term growth,\" he added.\n\nGreene King's directors said the terms of the deal were \"fair and reasonable\" and that they would unanimously recommend it to shareholders who will get the final vote on the tie-up.\n\nShares in Greene King surged more than 50% after the deal was announced.\n\nNeil Wilson, analyst at Markets.com, said while the deal was good news for shareholders, it was likely to be bad news for Greene King's customers.\n\n\"I think we can comfortably expect more pub closures. It's a whopping [price] that implies CKA sees significant value in the property portfolio,\" he said.\n\nIn its statement, Greene King said CKA had no plans to make \"material changes\" to group and management staff numbers and did not intend to \"initiate any material headcount reductions within the Greene King organisation as a result of the acquisition.\"\n\nA combination of rising cost pressures and people spending less on going out has led to a wave of pub closures. Last year nearly 1,000 UK pubs shut, according to property firm Altus Group.\n\nIndustry group the Campaign for Real Ale (Camra) has said more people are drinking at home to save money, while younger people are consuming less alcohol in general.\n\nMeanwhile, pubs have faced a \"triple whammy\" of taxes in the form of high Beer Duty, VAT and business rates.\n\nMr Wilson said the properties that pubs owned was making the sector attractive to investors.\n\n\"Greene King owns the freehold or long leasehold on 81% of its properties. The company recently carried out a revaluation of its property estate that indicated a market value of £4.5bn against the £3.5bn book value,\" he said.\n\nCKA was founded by Hong Kong's richest man Li Ka-Shing, whose business empire spans retail, telecoms and power firms.\n\nMr Li retired from leading the firm last year. He was ranked 28th in this year's Forbes rich list.\n\nHe started work sweeping factory floors as a young boy, but subsequently became one of the first Hong Kong tycoons to invest in mainland China, with property playing a big part in his wealth.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. 'A sense that things are becoming more entrenched' : Police on bomb attack\n\nA senior police officer has appealed for political progress in Northern Ireland after bombers tried to lure officers to their deaths.\n\nPolice said dissident republicans were behind the explosion near Wattlebridge, close to the Irish border, on Monday.\n\nPSNI Deputy Chief Constable Stephen Martin called the Fermanagh attack a \"reckless and indiscriminate\" attempt to kill police officers.\n\nNorthern Ireland has been without a devolved government since January 2017.\n\nPower sharing collapsed in a row between Sinn Féin and the DUP over a flawed green-energy scheme. Attempts to restore it have so far failed.\n\nDCC Martin said the bomb attack may have been carried out by either the Continuity IRA or the New IRA.\n\nThere have been five attempts to murder police officers so far this year, he said, adding that there was a sense that the situation in Northern Ireland is becoming \"more entrenched\".\n\nAt about 10:35 BST on Monday, police officers reported an explosion at Cavan Road close to its junction with the Wattlebridge Road.\n\nInitially, a report received by police suggested that a device had been left on the Wattlebridge Road.\n\nPolice believe that a hoax device was used to lure police and soldiers into the area in order to catch them by surprise with a real bomb.\n\nLast month, dissident republicans tried to murder police officers in Craigavon, County Armagh.\n\nA police officer at the scene of the bomb at Cavan Road, Fermanagh\n\nDCC Martin said those behind the attack \"bring nothing to society\".\n\n\"I am of a firm belief this was a deliberate attempt to lure police and the Army disposal unit into the area,\" he said.\n\n\"The damage caused by the explosion is of a nature that we are of the view, if a person had been standing convenient to it, they would have been very badly injured or possibly killed.\"\n\nThe area around the scene will remain closed for some time\n\n\"We need a society led by our politicians to absolutely set out, not just condemn, but to work collectively together,\" he said.\n\n\"Police play their part, but police on their own are not sufficient to say 'you do not represent the society we want to live in'.\n\n\"Many of us, and many have reflected to me, that things are becoming more entrenched and progress that has been made is maybe slipping back a bit.\"\n\nPolice have found the seat of the blast, but have said nothing about the device itself or how it was detonated.\n\nThey are certain, however, that they were lured into a trap involving a telephone warning and a hoax device discovered close to where the actual bomb went off during a follow-up security operation.\n\nAlthough police are not being specific about which group they believe are responsible, the PSNI is considering links to a Continuity IRA attack in Craigavon three weeks ago.\n\nThis also involved setting up officers using a hoax device and a live booby trap nearby.\n\nPolice at the scene of the explosion near Fermanagh\n\nWattlebridge is a small rural border community of farms, houses and an Orange Hall next to a stone bridge across the Finn River.\n\nThe busy Cavan Road criss-crosses the border four times in six miles between Clones and Belturbet.\n\nJournalists have gathered at a police cordon about a half a mile from the road junction where the device exploded.\n\nOn the southern side, gardaí are directing traffic away from the scene.\n\nSeveral police cars have been coming and going while a PSNI helicopter and a surveillance aircraft have patrolled the skies overhead.\n\nWattlebridge has been the scene of many alerts. In June, a hoax device was found near the Orange hall.\n\nLocal residents heard the bang of the explosion as far as a mile away.\n\nTaoiseach (Irish Prime Minister) Leo Varadkar said he condemned the \"cowardly actions\" of the bombers.\n\nNorthern Ireland Secretary Julian Smith tweeted that he was following events closely.\n\n\"I commend the bravery of police and others working to keep us safe,\" he said.\n\nSinn Féin MP for Fermanagh and South Tyrone Michelle Gildernew said the attack was \"totally wrong\".\n\n\"Those responsible for this incident have nothing to offer society and need to end these actions immediately,\" she said.\n\nDUP leader Arlene Foster said this was \"a clear attempt to kill\"\n\nDUP leader Arlene Foster tweeted: \"My thoughts are with the police officers/ATOs who escaped injury in Wattle Bridge.\n\n\"A reminder of the bravery of our security forces. The threat from republican terrorists still exists. It's time they left the stage & allowed everyone to move on.\n\n\"This was a clear attempt to kill.\"\n\nThe roads close to the scene of the bombing were re-opened by police on Monday night.", "The ambulance service was called to Albert Road in Blackpool at 08:46 BST\n\nA toddler is in a serious condition in hospital after falling from a second floor hotel window.\n\nLancashire Police said the 18-month-old girl fell from the Rooms Inn on Albert Road in Blackpool just before 09:00 BST.\n\nThe child sustained a number of fractures and was flown by air ambulance to Alder Hey Children's Hospital in Liverpool.\n\nPolice said their investigation was ongoing.\n\nThe owner of the Rooms Inn said the child was part of a family of four who was staying at the 32-room venue.\n\nBlackpool Council has confirmed staff have carried out an inspection of the family's room.\n\nHoteliers Wendy and Kevin Twiss rushed to help the girl\n\nWendy and Kevin Twiss, who run a neighbouring hotel, raised the alarm after hearing the girl fall into a yard at the back of the building and looked out to see her in distress.\n\nMr Twiss said: \"We just said to everyone 'We need to get downstairs. We need to go and help this little girl'.\n\n\"I looked up and saw who I believed were the parents looking out of the window.\n\n\"So I got some ladders, climbed over the wall and I didn't know what to do so I just picked the child up.\"\n\nMr Twiss said a man he believed was the girl's father kicked the back gate open and took hold of her.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Last updated on .From the section Man Utd\n\nManchester United's Harry Maguire has called on social media companies to \"stop these pathetic trolls\" after his team-mate Paul Pogba was racially abused online after missing a penalty.\n\nPogba had a second-half penalty saved in the 1-1 draw with Wolves on Monday.\n\nThe 26-year-old is the third player in a week to be racially abused on social media following a penalty miss.\n\nAnother United player, Marcus Rashford, also expressed support for the France midfielder, saying \"enough now\".\n\n\"Manchester United is a family. Paul Pogba is a huge part of that family. You attack him you attack us all,\" England forward Rashford said on Twitter .\n\nUnited said they are \"working to identify\" those responsible for the racist abuse directed at record-signing Pogba.\n\n\"The individuals who expressed these views do not represent the values of our great club and it is encouraging to see the vast majority of our fans condemn this on social media also,\" read a United statement.\n\n\"Manchester United has zero tolerance of any form of racism or discrimination and a long-standing commitment to campaigning against it through our #AllRedAllEqual initiative.\n\n\"We will work to identify the few involved in these incidents and take the strongest course of action available to us. We also encourage social media companies to take action in these cases.\"\n\nEngland centre-back Maguire also said he was \"disgusted\" by the abuse aimed at Pogba and suggested that social media users should have to verify their identity before opening an account.\n\nEngland women's manager Phil Neville, the former United player and coach, suggested footballers should \"boycott\" social media in order to send a \"powerful message\" that such abuse is not acceptable.\n\n\"It's not going away,\" he said. \"We need to take drastic measures in the football community.\"\n\nSports minister Nigel Adams added: \"The football season is only a few weeks old and yet we've already witnessed sickening examples of racist abuse against players.\n\n\"We have been clear that social media companies must do more and the government will hold them to account.\"\n\nIn July, football's anti-discrimination charity Kick It Out published a report that stated incidents of racist abuse increased by 43% last season, with 274 cases compared to 192 the previous season.\n\nFollowing the abuse aimed at Pogba, the body said: \"The number of posts such as these since the start of the season further highlights how discriminatory abuse online is out of control.\"\n\nIt called the messages \"unwarranted and vile racist abuse\" and added \"without immediate and the strongest possible action these cowardly acts will continue to grow\".\n\nKick It Out's head of development Troy Townsend said those being \"allowed to spout targeted racial hatred\" were \"festering in numbers due to lack of accountability and action\".\n\nHe added: \"They are not all bots.\"\n\nLast week, Chelsea condemned \"abhorrent posts\" aimed at Tammy Abraham after his decisive penalty miss in the Super Cup against Liverpool.\n\nBlues boss Frank Lampard said he was \"disgusted\" by the abuse aimed at the 21-year-old England forward, and like Maguire, called on social media companies to do more to stop players being targeted.\n\nThen on Sunday, Reading striker Yakou Meite called out racist abuse sent to him on social media after he had a spot-kick saved.\n\nIvory Coast forward Meite, 23, came on as a substitute against Cardiff and missed a 91st-minute penalty.\n\nOthers fans quickly condemned the tweets containing racist abuse that were sent to Pogba - who won the penalty he then missed - shortly after full-time at Molineux on Monday.\n\nSome tweets were later deleted while several accounts appeared to have been taken down.\n\nTwitter's terms and conditions say it \"takes action against behaviour that targets individuals with hateful conduct\".", "Australia batsman Steve Smith has been ruled out of the third Ashes Test after suffering a concussion.\n\nSmith, 30, was hit in the neck by a 92mph bouncer from Jofra Archer on day four of the second Test, but passed an initial concussion test and returned to continue his innings.\n\nCoach Justin Langer confirmed his absence after Smith sat out Australia's training session on Tuesday.\n\nSmith has scored 142, 144 and 92 in his three innings so far in the series.\n\nIt has not been confirmed who will replace Smith in the Australia team for the third Test at Headingley, which starts on Thursday.\n\nFormer captain Smith was replaced by Marnus Labuschagne in the second Test at Lord's, with Labuschagne becoming Test cricket's first concussion substitute.\n\nHe made 59 as Australia survived a tense final evening to claim a draw and preserve their 1-0 series lead with three matches to play.\n\nBrain injury charity Headway said it was \"incredibly dangerous\" for Smith to resume his innings.\n\n\"You need to take an 'if in doubt' approach,\" said Headway deputy chief executive Luke Griggs.\n\n\"With concussion, the vision can be blurred and the brain can be slow at processing information. That leads to delayed reaction times and is just incredibly dangerous.\"\n\n\"At the end of the day it was really a no-brainer, he felt a bit better yesterday but he is not going to have time enough to tick off everything he needs to do to be ready to play,\" Langer explained on Tuesday.\n\nThis is a huge advantage for England as Smith was holding Australia's batting together, but if he is not right and the medics say he is not right then he simply should not be playing.\n\nI remember former South Africa captain Graeme Smith hit his head during fielding practice and he had concussion but went out and batted. He got 50-odd and he described almost seeing 'three balls' and the whole place 'moving around' behind.\n\nIt's sad for Smith and a reminder of the damage a cricket ball can do but it is also a good thing these protocols are in place and keeping people safe.\n\nThis is what happens in sport. Smith had batted for four hours and it was just a minor misjudgement. It's a scary reminder of what top-level sport and cricket can do.\n\nBut you can't ban bouncers. It's like telling Usain Bolt not to run as fast as he can.\n\nMeanwhile, England head coach Trevor Bayliss says the hosts may consider shuffling their top seven for the third Test in Leeds.\n\nJason Roy has opened the batting in the first two Tests of the series but has struggled against the red ball, although Bayliss said his form at the top of the order is not a concern.\n\n\"We think we've got the best seven batters available to us at the moment in England,\" he said.\n\n\"Whether we can change it round and make that (order) any better, I'm not sure, but we'll certainly have a discussion about it.\n\nOn Roy, Bayliss said: \"Personally, I think he probably is suited to the middle order but we've selected him at the top of the order because of his form in the one-dayers and experience in the one-day team, playing international cricket.\n\n\"At the start of his one-day career, he missed out a few times as well and it took him a little while to get the hang of it.\n\n\"So the possibility of him playing again at the top of the order doesn't really concern us. We know what he can do when he does play well.\"", "The Great British Bake Off class of 2019\n\nA geography teacher, a vet and a fashion designer are just three of the contestants hoping to win this year's Great British Bake Off.\n\nIt returns to Channel 4 on Tuesday 27 August, the third series since it moved across from BBC One.\n\nThe presenters and judges remain the same, with Noel Fielding and Sandi Toksvig back for another year of puns.\n\nPaul Hollywood and Prue Leith will also be on hand to judge the best bakes produced in the famous white tent.\n\nThis year's line-up consists of a baker's dozen - 13 - instead of the usual 12, and there's a decidedly younger contingent.\n\nMore than half of the contestants are in their 20s, while the oldest contestant is 56.\n\nTV critic Scott Bryan tweeted that the show had encouraged younger people to don their aprons.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Scott Bryan This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nLeith said that the programme was \"a very inclusive show\".\n\nShe said: \"What's so interesting is when they're choosing the bakers, the main thing they want to know is that they're getting the 12 best bakers in the country.\n\n\"They're not choosing, they're not set up to find somebody who's the right ethnic mix, or the right height, or the right age or anything.\"\n\nFollow us on Facebook, on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.\n• None Why Americans love the Great British Bake Off", "Cuardrilla have recently resumed fracking for shale gas in Lancashire\n\nPrevious projections of the potential amount of shale gas under the UK may have been significantly overestimated, according to a new study.\n\nInstead of 50 years of gas at the current rate of consumption, this new research suggests there are just 5-7 years' supply.\n\nBut the UK's fracking industry, which represents companies like Cuadrilla, dismissed the report.\n\nThe said the sample size was too small to draw serious conclusions.\n\nThe recovery of shale gas through hydraulic fracturing or fracking has been a slow moving and controversial affair in the UK over the past decade.\n\nAttempts by oil and gas companies to drill wells and extract gas have been held up by planning issues, concerns about earth tremors and public displays of disaffection over the issue.\n\nThrough it all, the government and industry have maintained faith in the process.\n\nThey argued that there was huge potential for fracked gas particularly in the Bowland shale, a geological formation that runs under Lancashire, Yorkshire, parts of the Midlands and into North Wales.\n\nPlans for test drilling have drawn public protests in a number of locations around the UK\n\nThe optimistic view was based in part on a study published in 2013 by the British Geological Survey (BGS) which issued a very positive report on the likely amount of gas in place under the Bowland.\n\nThat study suggested that it was one of the world's biggest reserves, containing some 1,300 trillion cubic feet of shale gas.\n\n\"To put that in context,\" wrote former Prime Minister David Cameron at the time, \"even if we extract just a tenth of that figure, that is still the equivalent of 51 years' gas supply.\"\n\nBut there were concerns expressed at the time that the estimate was on the high side.\n\nNow, scientists at the University of Nottingham and the BGS have developed a new method for analysing the gas content of shale, which they believe gives them a more accurate estimate of the overall potential.\n\n\"In terms of the total gas in place, the mean value from the 2013 study was 1,300 trillion feet of gas, we are struggling to get anywhere above 200 trillion feet,\" said Prof Colin Snape from the University of Nottingham, the lead author on the paper.\n\n\"The data we've got from the two shales we've looked at are very consistent - and gas companies Cuadrilla and Third Energy have just published two papers in the last year where they have taken core samples and measured the gas that's evolved and that data is very, very consistent with our own data.\"\n\nAccording to the new study, the amount of gas in place, assuming an economic recovery rate of 10% would be a maximum of 20 trillion cubic feet, which would equate to around seven years' worth of gas at current UK rates of consumption.\n\nOther researchers were impressed with the new method developed by the researchers at Nottingham.\n\n\"The results bring bad news to those hoping that northern England is floating on a bed of cheap and abundant gas,\" said Prof Stuart Haszeldine, Professor of Geology and Carbon Storage, University of Edinburgh, who was not involved with the study.\n\n\"Abundant hydrocarbons may have been generated in the past, but have leaked away to the Earth's surface many millions of years ago. Not only have all those hydrocarbon horses bolted, but there is no longer a secure stable door to retain very large quantities of present-day gas in these shales.\"\n\nHowever, some of the leading experts at the BGS were cautious in their interpretation of the study, even though several of their own scientists were involved in the paper.\n\n\"Early indications published today suggest that it is possible there is less shale gas resource present than previously thought,\" said Prof Mike Stephenson, chief scientist for decarbonisation and resource management, at the BGS.\n\n\"However the study considered only a very small number of rock samples from only two locations.\"\n\n\"BGS has continued to study resource estimation in shales over the past 16 years and further studies are still required to further refine estimates of shale gas resources.\"\n\nCuadrilla, the company which has recently resumed fracking a shale gas well in Lancashire, was blunt in its rejection of the new paper.\n\nProtestors have tried to shut down Cuadrilla's fracking operations in Lancashire\n\n\"Those involved in publishing this should be embarrassed,\" said Francis Egan, Cuadrilla chief executive.\n\n\"We hold more data and technical experience of the Bowland shale than anyone else in the UK yet not once did anyone from this research group or Nottingham University contact us for our view or input.\"\n\nUKOOG, the body which represents the UK's onshore oil and gas industry, also rejected the implications of the study.\n\n\"To date we have made significant advancements in the understanding of the resource potential contained within UK shale, with very encouraging results seen at both Springs Road and Preston New Road which have demonstrated properties in line with world class, US shale plays,\" said Ken Cronin, chief executive of UK Onshore Oil and Gas.\n\n\"What we know now is that we have a world class resource which has broadly supported the estimates originally published by the British Geological Survey. Indeed, in terms of potential gas flow indications, the results are at the upper end of our original forecasts.\"\n\n\"The only way to provide accurate estimates of how much gas is likely to be produced is to drill, hydraulically fracture and test many wells,\" said Prof Quentin Fisher, from the University of Leeds, who was not involved with the study.\n\n\"Which is exactly the intention of companies holding shale gas licences in the UK.\"\n\nThe study has been published in the journal Nature Communications.", "Dale Kelly sleepwalked into a couple's bedroom when he was staying at the house\n\nA man with a history of sleepwalking has been found not guilty by reason of insanity of sexually assaulting his friend's girlfriend.\n\nDale Kelly, 21, sleepwalked into the couple's bedroom, got into their bed and touched the woman intimately.\n\nHis defence barrister told jurors Kelly could not say what happened as he was asleep at the time.\n\nJudge Simon Hickey told Kelly, of Dalton-le-Dale in County Durham, he was considering a hospital order.\n\nJurors took just over two hours to decide that Kelly had committed the offence but was suffering from parasomnia at the time - meaning he was not responsible for his actions.\n\nJudge Hickey described it as an \"unusual\" case and said sentencing options were limited to a hospital order, a supervision order or an absolute discharge\n\nYork Crown Court heard Kelly had been to a nightclub with his friend and the woman before they returned to a house in North Yorkshire in a taxi on the morning of 17 April.\n\nKelly fell asleep in the taxi and went straight to bed when they arrived but about an hour later the woman awoke to find him in the bed she was sharing with her partner.\n\nShe said she believed Kelly had sexually assaulted her and called the police.\n\nEleanor Fry, defending, said Kelly could not say what happened that morning as he was asleep at the time.\n\nThe court heard he had suffered from parasomnia since childhood and experts said he was \"possibly\" or \"likely to be\" suffering from the sleep disorder at the time of the alleged assault but they could not say for certain.\n\nJudge Hickey said doctors in the case believed Kelly's \"mental disorder\" was treatable and needed treating.\n\n\"At the moment I'm leaning towards a hospital order but I will wait to hear what the experts say,\" the judge added.\n\nKelly was granted conditional bail and will be sentenced on 23 September.\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.", "Boris Johnson has written to Donald Tusk (right) to set out his demands for a Brexit deal\n\nBoris Johnson has told the EU the Irish border backstop must be scrapped as it is \"unviable\" and \"anti-democratic\".\n\nIn a letter to European Council President Donald Tusk, the PM also said the backstop risked undermining the Northern Irish peace process.\n\nBut Mr Tusk said those opposing the arrangement without \"realistic alternatives\" supported re-establishing a hard border.\n\nThis was the reality \"even if they do not admit it\", he added.\n\n\"The backstop is an insurance to avoid a hard border on the island of Ireland unless and until an alternative is found,\" Mr Tusk tweeted.\n\n\"This has been the clear and consistent EU position, it remains so,\" added Irish Foreign Minister Simon Coveney in response to the tweet.\n\nThe European Commission said Mr Johnson's letter did not contain a \"legally operational solution\" to prevent a hard Irish border.\n\n\"It does not set out what any alternative arrangements could be,\" a spokeswoman said, and \"recognises that there is no guarantee such arrangements would be in place by the end of the transitional period\".\n\nThe backstop is part of the withdrawal agreement, negotiated by former PM Theresa May with Brussels but rejected three times by MPs.\n\nMr Johnson's four-page letter to Mr Tusk came ahead of meetings this week with German Chancellor Angela Merkel and French President Emmanuel Macron.\n\nThe BBC's political correspondent Iain Watson said Mr Johnson appeared to be aiming for one of two outcomes - either the EU blinks as the prospect of no deal looms ever closer, or it holds firm, in which case the PM will argue it is Brussels' fault the country is heading for no deal.\n\nThe border is a matter of great political, security and diplomatic sensitivity, and both the UK and EU agree that whatever happens after Brexit there should be no new physical checks or infrastructure at the frontier.\n\nThe backstop is a position of last resort to guarantee that, but if implemented, it would see Northern Ireland stay aligned to some rules of the EU single market.\n\nIt would also involve a temporary single customs territory, effectively keeping the whole of the UK in the EU customs union.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nIn his letter, Mr Johnson described the backstop as \"inconsistent with the sovereignty of the UK\".\n\nHe said the arrangement would be \"anti-democratic\" because it offered no means for the UK to unilaterally exit and no say for the people of Northern Ireland over the rules that would apply there.\n\nThe PM also warned that it risked \"weakening the delicate balance\" of the Good Friday peace agreement because unionist parties like the DUP are so unhappy with it.\n\nHe said he was confident that its removal would lead to the withdrawal deal finally being passed in the UK Parliament.\n\nBut Guy Verhofstadt, Brexit spokesman for the European Parliament, said there was no majority in his assembly - which would also have to ratify any Brexit deal - to remove the backstop.\n\n\"It is a vital insurance policy, negotiated in good faith and supported by the people of the Island of Ireland,\" he tweeted.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Sir Jeffrey Donaldson: “There is not another country in the world with an internal customs arrangement – this is unacceptable.”\n\nThe prime minister called for \"flexible and creative solutions\" and \"alternative arrangements\" - based on technology - to avoid a hard border.\n\nHe said the backstop should be replaced with a commitment to put in place such arrangements as far as possible before the end of the transition period - currently the end of 2020 under Mrs May's deal.\n\nIf they were not in place by the end of the transition period, Mr Johnson said the UK was \"ready to look constructively and flexibly at what commitments might help\".\n\n\"Time is very short. But the UK is ready to move quickly, and, given the degree of common ground already, I hope the EU will be ready to do likewise,\" he wrote.\n\n\"I am equally confident that Parliament would be able to act rapidly if we were able to reach a satisfactory agreement which did not contain the backstop.\"\n\nDonald Tusk doesn't name Boris Johnson in his tweet, but it's pretty clear he's referring to the prime minister and people of the same view.\n\nIn addition, the European Council and European Commission have sent a document to EU governments rebutting the claims in Mr Johnson's letter.\n\nThe document says the prime minister is wrong to suggest the backstop contradicts the Good Friday Agreement.\n\nIt also says he is wrong to suggest there is no way for the people of Northern Ireland to have a say, and that the separate legal orders of Northern Ireland and Ireland only coexist because of the framework provided by EU law.\n\nThe bottom line from the EU is that the backstop has to stay, because it's the only way to resolve all these problems.\n\nIn reply a senior UK government figure says Mr Tusk's response \"looks like an overreaction\".\n\n\"It appears their position is 'nothing will change' from the unworkable deal offered to Theresa May,\" they say. \"Sad they are unwilling to be reasonable.\"\n\nHowever, Labour pointed out that Mr Johnson actually voted for Mrs May's deal - including the backstop - when it came before Parliament for a third time in March.\n\nMr Johnson said at the time he was only doing so because he had reached the \"sad conclusion\" it was the only way to ensure the UK actually left the EU.\n\n\"Whichever Brexit outcome he pursues, whether it's a disastrous no deal or this fantasyland wish list, Boris Johnson clearly has no qualms about putting jobs, rights, prosperity or peace in Northern Ireland at risk,\" shadow Northern Ireland secretary Tony Lloyd said.\n\nEnter the word or phrase you are looking for\n\nMeanwhile, Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn is calling on the government to publish all documents on the impact of a no-deal Brexit, after a leak at the weekend suggested there could be significant disruption to supplies of food and medicine.\n\nThe government insisted the Operation Yellowhammer information was out of date and Brexit planning had accelerated since Mr Johnson became PM.\n\nConservative Party chairman James Cleverly told the BBC on Tuesday: \"What it is, it's an internal document to stimulate actions and behaviour of governments - it's not a prediction, it's not a future estimate of reality, it is a series of worst-case scenarios to be mitigated and avoided.\"\n\nHowever, Mr Corbyn said: \"If the government wants to be believed that it doesn't represent the real impact, it must publish its most recent assessments today in full.\"\n\nA government spokesperson said up-to-date information on what businesses and members of the public needed to do to prepare for the UK's departure from the EU was available on the government's website.", "Boris Johnson and Leo Varadkar spoke by phone on Monday\n\nThe prime minister and the taoiseach (Irish prime minister) have \"shared perspectives on the withdrawal agreement\" in a phone conversation.\n\nBoris Johnson and Leo Varadkar spoke for almost an hour on Monday evening, the two governments said.\n\nMr Johnson said the agreement in its current form would not get through the House of Commons, while Mr Varadkar reiterated that it cannot be reopened.\n\nThe phone call comes a day after a government dossier warning of the impact of a no-deal Brexit was leaked.\n\nThe report said leaving the EU without a deal could lead to a hard Irish border after plans to avoid checks fail.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nMr Johnson maintained that the \"backstop would need to be removed\", while Mr Varadkar \"emphasised the importance of the legally operable guarantee to ensure no hard border and continued free trade on the island of Ireland\".\n\nThe backstop, part of the withdrawal agreement negotiated by former prime minster Theresa May, is an insurance policy to prevent a hard border returning on the island of Ireland, which if implemented, would see Northern Ireland staying aligned to some rules of the EU single market.\n\nIt would also involve a temporary single customs territory, effectively keeping the whole of the UK in the EU customs union. These arrangements would apply unless and until both the EU and UK agreed they were no longer necessary.\n\nThe prime ministers also spoke about the need for the power-sharing executive at Stormont to be reinstated and \"agreed to work closely to this end\".\n\nThe leaders also agreed to meet face to face in Dublin in early September.", "Secondary-school pupils in England appear to be rejecting cigarettes in greater numbers than ever before.\n\nThe most recent survey in a series that began in the 1980s indicates just 16% of the pupils have ever smoked tobacco, down from 19% in 2016 and 49% in 1996.\n\nHowever, a quarter of the 13,000 pupils surveyed, from 193 schools across England, have tried drugs.\n\nThis includes nitrous oxide, known as laughing gas, as well as cannabis.\n\nNHS Digital, which compiled the statistics, said the findings showed half of the young people who had recently either drunk alcohol, smoked cigarettes or taken drugs experienced low levels of happiness.\n\nIt appears the years of public health campaigns highlighting the dangers of smoking cigarettes may be having an impact, and attitudes towards smoking have changed.\n\nCigarettes have also become harder for young people to buy in more recent years.\n\nThe proportion of pupils in the survey who said they managed to buy cigarettes from shops fell from 46% in 2014 to 23% in 2018.\n\nSeven in 10 of those who called themselves current smokers said they got their cigarettes from friends or a family member.\n\nThose who had smoked at any point were much more likely to also have ever used an e-cigarette, compared to those who had never smoked.\n\nRegular e-cigarette use was 6% in 2018.\n\nDeborah Arnott, Chief Executive of the charity Action on Smoking and Health said: \"The proportion trying e-cigarettes has not increased and vaping remains largely concentrated among those who are already smokers.\n\n\"This provides reassurance that our regulations are working and vaping has not become the \"super-cool\" phenomenon among young people in England that it is said to be in the USA.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The government has released an assessment of the possible effects of a no-deal Brexit on the UK, after MPs demanded that it be made public.\n\nThe document, marked as \"Official Sensitive\" and dated 2 August 2019, outlines a series of \"reasonable worst-case planning assumptions\".\n\nIt was drawn up as part of \"Operation Yellowhammer\" - the name for the government's contingency plan to prepare for leaving the European Union (EU) without a deal.\n\nThe government says it is spending an extra £2.1bn on no-deal planning and is updating these planning assumptions.\n\nSo, what does the document say and what is being done - as far as we know - to prepare for no-deal?\n\nTo ensure more lorries are ready for customs, the government announced last month that 88,000 companies would be automatically enrolled in a new customs system.\n\nThe Port of Dover in Kent handles approximately 10,500 lorries a day. To prevent nearby roads from clogging up, the government has a traffic management plan codenamed Operation Brock.\n\nIf the plan is activated, up to 2,000 lorries will be held in a queue leading to the port. Other traffic will be kept flowing around the queued-up lorries, in what is known as a contraflow system.\n\nA fallback option would be to divert lorries to the disused Manston airfield, near Ramsgate - and use it to hold up to 6,000 lorries on the runway at any one time.\n\nIf further capacity was still required, a \"last resort\" would be to turn the 10-mile M26 motorway into a temporary lorry park.\n\nBut there is a still a lot of confusion, according to Rona Hunnisett, from the Freight Transport Association.\n\n\"The report shows there's still significant detail to be clarified if Britain is to keep trading efficiently,\" she says. \"Businesses can only prepare for, and implement, new processes once, and still need confirmation of what they are to adopt in the way of new practices.\"\n\nThe government has said that it will continue to recognise EU standards for food being imported into the UK, to minimise disruption.\n\nThe British Retail Consortium has said retailers are doing all they can to prepare for no-deal, but will not be able to prevent all negative effects. It stresses that many fresh fruits and vegetables will be out of season in the UK and that there will be a shortage of warehouse space ahead of Christmas.\n\n\"No deal Brexit would be extremely disruptive to the supply chains that we operate, particularly the fresh food supply chains,\" Mike Coupe, chief executive of Sainsbury's told BBC News.\n\n\"There will inevitably be disruption simply because we've never done this before,\" he added, although he also said that previous delays to the Brexit date mean \"there's probably more understanding of what could go wrong and therefore more contingency planning\".\n\nAnother factor is what tariffs (the taxes on imports) will be charged on food coming into the UK.\n\nThe government published a \"tariff schedule\" in March, which removed most tariffs on imports in the event of a no-deal Brexit\n\nThat means some food from outside the EU that currently attract a tariff could be cheaper, but some goods from the EU that are currently imported with 0% tariffs, like beef and dairy, will now carry tariffs, and so could become more expensive.\n\nAt the end of June, the Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) started putting out contracts for freight, warehouse space and fridges. These will be used to stockpile medicines and fly in those which cannot be stored, like radioisotopes for cancer treatment.\n\nOf the £2.1bn pledged for no-deal preparations, £434m has been set aside for this.\n\nThat includes a £25m contract for planes to bring in emergency medical supplies within 24 hours.\n\nAhead of the UK's original departure date of 29 March - then extended to 12 April - the DHSC said thousands of medicines had been analysed to work out what might be affected by supply disruption from the EU.\n\nSuppliers stockpiled an additional six weeks' worth of these drugs over and above the usual \"buffer\" stock.\n\nThis exercise is being repeated to ensure the department is \"as prepared for leaving the EU without a deal in October as it was on 29 March and 12 April\".\n\nSpecific ferry routes were made available for suppliers to book onto 11 weeks before the no-deal deadline in March.\n\nSix weeks before the 31 October deadline, the government had only just opened the bidding process to freight firms competing to transport medicines. So the pharmaceutical industry doesn't currently know which ports and ferry routes will be made available.\n\nSteve Bates, an industry official working with government on no-deal planning, said the time frame to make sure everything was in place for the October deadline was \"significantly compressed\".\n\nHe said the difference for drug suppliers between three months and potentially three weeks to put plans into action was \"material\".\n\nOn social care, the government website advises providers to draw up contingency plans and support EU staff who may be working for them.\n\nPlans are in place to ensure there are enough essential medicines like insulin\n\nIn the event of no-deal, the UK has said it will not impose tariffs on electricity and gas coming into the country.\n\nHowever, if the value of the pound falls in response to a no-deal Brexit, it will become more expensive to import energy from abroad.\n\nThe government intends to remain part of the single energy market, in order for the UK's energy laws to continue to work after Brexit and that supplies are not disrupted.\n\nWater is unlikely to be affected, although there is still a low risk in the event of a chemical supply problem. The Yellowhammer report says water companies are well-prepared and have significant stockpiles of critical chemicals.\n\nThe UK government has said it is committed not to have any physical infrastructure at the border between Ireland and Northern Ireland.\n\nOn 13 March it published its contingency plan to avoid a hard border in the event of a no-deal Brexit. It said it would not bring in new checks or controls, or require customs declarations for any goods moving from Ireland to Northern Ireland, in the event of no-deal.\n\nBut this will only be a temporary measure while negotiations take place to find longer-term solutions.\n\nTo protect people's health, some plant and animal products that come into Northern Ireland from outside the EU, via Ireland, will still need to be checked. The UK government has said these checks will not happen at the border itself, but it has not specified exactly where they will take place.\n\nIt remains unclear what will happen to goods travelling from Northern Ireland to Ireland. Under EU rules, checks would normally be required at the point certain goods enter the EU single market.\n\nThe Irish government says it is securing additional space, and has recruited more customs and agriculture staff to allow for a \"significant increase in checks and procedures\".\n\nThe National Police Coordination Centre will plan the allocation of officers across the country although it has said there has been no intelligence to suggest that any protests will not be peaceful.\n\nThe government has also established the International Crime and Coordination Centre, which is supposed to help the police cope with the change to the UK's relationship with law enforcement agencies in the EU.", "This 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 pewdiepie 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\nYouTube star PewDiePie has married his girlfriend Marzia Bisognin after eight years together.\n\nBoth posted about the ceremony, which took place in Kew Gardens in London.\n\nThe 29-year-old Swedish star - real name Felix Kjellberg - made his name with video game commentaries and was at one point the world's highest earning YouTuber.\n\nItalian Marzia Bisognin, 26, is also an internet personality, who's more recently moved into fashion and design.\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 itsmarziapie 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\nWith 99 million subscribers on YouTube, PewDiePie was in a competition with Bollywood record label T-Series to be the biggest YouTube channel in the world.\n\nThe battle led to hackers taking control of thousands of printers around the world to print messages of support for PewDiePie.\n\nIn April he posted a video asking for his fans to end the movement- saying some of the stunts done to promote his channel were \"disgusting\" and \"disappointing\".\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. 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YouTube content may contain adverts.\n\nThe YouTuber has also courted controversy before.\n\nDisney cut ties with him in 2017 after some videos he released were found to contain Nazi references or anti-Semitic imagery.\n\nHe accepted the material was offensive, but said he did not support \"any kind of hateful attitudes\".\n\nPewDiePie had been linked to Disney through Maker Studios, a company with a network of YouTube stars.\n\nLater that year, he apologised for using the n-word during a live stream.\n\nAnd last year, he apologised again for reposting a meme which appeared to mock Demi Lovato's hospital treatment for a suspected drug overdose.\n\nListen to Newsbeat live at 12:45 and 17:45 weekdays - or listen back here.", "An aerial was installed on the roof of the school earlier this year\n\nTwo families are keeping their children from going to a school in Orkney amid concerns about a 5G mast.\n\nThe mobile aerial has been installed on a school building on Stronsay as part of of a project to bring the newest technology to rural areas.\n\nSome parents are concerned about potential health risks from the technology.\n\nBut regulators insist there is no risk to public health.\n\nThe system installed on the school, which teaches about 30 pupils, is testing the feasibility of using 5G for live radio broadcasting.\n\nOne couple withdrew their three children at the end of last term and now a second family are taking their six children out of the school.\n\nTheir father, Duncan Bliss-Davis, said it was not an easy decision.\n\n\"As a family we've discussed it many times,\" he told BBC Scotland.\n\n\"We think education is one of the most important things you can give children.\n\n\"So it's something we are not happy to have done and we're hoping that the trial is supposed to end at the end of September.\n\n\"If it does, then our children can go back to school.\"\n\nDuncan Bliss-Davis is keeping his six children from going to the school\n\nThe transmitter at the school is operated by the BBC.\n\nIts head of digital communications, Ian Walker, said in a letter to parents: \"The equipment we're using for the 5G broadcast radio trial is based around 4G technology, which is widely used across the UK, and the radio frequencies being used are the same that are used to broadcast TV.\n\n\"The trial is fully compliant with advice from Public Health England that any exposure to radio waves must comply with guidelines set out by the ICNIRP, an independent international commission recognised by World Health Organisation.\n\n\"Those guidelines recommend that exposure to radio waves should be below a certain power level - and the power levels we measured are a thousand times lower than that level.\"\n\nThe BBC is testing how radio can be broadcast in rural areas over 5G\n\nSimon Mann is head of radiation dosimetry at Public Health England, which regulates the health aspects of communication technology throughout the UK.\n\nHe added: \"It is possible that there may be a small increase in overall exposure to radio waves when 5G is added to an existing telecommunications network or in a new area. However, the overall exposure is expected to remain low relative to guidelines and as such there should be no consequences for public health.\"\n\nOrkney Islands Council said it would allow the mast to stay up until the end of the trial after receiving advice from Public Health England.", "And then there was one. That could be the dawn chorus ringing out the over the hills of Brecon and Radnorshire all the way to Westminster this morning.\n\nIf the Liberal Democrats seize the seat from the Conservatives, then the UK government’s “working majority“ will be reduced to the most single of single figures.\n\nFor a government to have a simple majority, it must have more seats than the rest combined. But when Theresa May did the sums after her ill-fated calling of the 2017 general election, she fell short.\n\nSo she courted the support of Northern Ireland’s Democratic Unionist Party, giving her a working majority of 13. Slowly but surely that’s been whittled down.\n\nA week after moving in to Downing Street there could be a rude awakening for Boris Johnson this morning to the harsh realities of Parliamentary maths.\n\nAt least he doesn’t have to try to steer some highly contentious issues through the Commons over the autumn months. Oh, wait…", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Did the Liberal Democrats play \"dirty\" to win the Brecon and Radnorshire by-election?\n\nThe Liberal Democrats have won the Brecon and Radnorshire by-election, leaving new PM Boris Johnson with a working majority in Parliament of one.\n\nJane Dodds overturned an 8,038 majority to beat Conservative Chris Davies by 1,425 votes.\n\nMr Davies stood again after being unseated by a petition following his conviction for a false expenses claim.\n\nIt was the first electoral test for Mr Johnson just eight days after becoming prime minister.\n\nIt was also the quickest by-election defeat for any new prime minister since World War Two.\n\nNow, with the thinnest majority, he will have to rely heavily on the support of his own MPs and his confidence-and-supply partners the DUP to get any legislation passed in key votes.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Jane Dodds said the voters had chosen \"hope over fear\"\n\nIt was a bad night for Labour, whose vote share dropped by 12.4% as it was beaten into fourth place by the Brexit Party.\n\nThe result means the Lib Dems now have 13 MPs.\n\nMs Dodds, who is the Welsh Liberal Democrat leader, said: \"My very first act as your new MP when I get to Westminster will be to find Mr Boris Johnson, wherever he's hiding, and tell him to stop playing with the future of our community and rule out a no-deal Brexit.\"\n\nMr Davies congratulated Ms Dodds saying \"I wish her well for the future\" and paid tribute to his family saying they had \"a difficult time over the past few months\".\n\nThe turnout was 59.6%, down from 74.6% at the general election, but it is the highest for a by-election since Winchester in 1997.\n\nNeither Plaid Cymru nor the Greens fielded candidates, to try to maximise the Remain vote.\n\nTory party chairman James Cleverly told BBC Radio 4's Today programme it was a \"very close result in a by-election in which the Lib Dems were expected to romp home comfortably\".\n\nIn a message to Conservative MPs concerned about the government's Brexit policy he said the new prime minister had received a \"clear mandate from parliamentarians\" and an \"even more thumping victory in the leadership election\".\n\n\"I do think it's incumbent on all Conservatives to support the prime minister in what has been a long-standing Conservative policy,\" he said.\n\nBut recently-elected Liberal Democrat leader Jo Swinson said: \"Boris Johnson's shrinking majority makes it clear that he has no mandate to crash us out of the EU.\"\n\nShe denied the party had \"played\" the system by striking a deal with Plaid Cymru and the Greens.\n\n\"I want to have a different voting system but we're working within the system that we have,\" she said.\n\nNew Lib Dem MP Jane Dodds (third from left) celebrates her by-election win\n\nCelebrating victory later on Friday morning with party activists, Ms Swinson said the Lib Dems were \"winning again\" and she would \"fight to keep our country in the European Union\".\n\nMs Dodds, 55, lives in the neighbouring mid Wales constituency of Montgomeryshire and is a child-protection social worker.\n\nThe Lib Dems have held the rural seat for all but nine of the last 34 years and lost at the 2015 general election.\n\nPlaid Cymru leader Adam Price said the \"spirit of co-operation\" between the pro-Remain parties had led to Ms Dodds's election, as he called for another EU referendum.\n\n\"But if the prime minister is intent on a general election, he should know that Plaid Cymru and the other pro-Remain parties are committed to cooperating so that we beat Brexit once and for all,\" he said.\n\nWales Green Party leader Anthony Slaughter said its decision to withdraw from the by-election was \"absolutely vindicated\" by the result.\n\n\"The people of Brecon and Radnorshire have taken the opportunity to cut Boris Johnson's majority in Westminster to a highly unstable one, reducing further the risk of a disastrous crash-out Brexit,\" he said.\n\nHe added: \"The Liberal Democrats won it after doing a deal with Plaid Cymru and the Greens.\n\n\"I think that a lot of voters were determined to get rid of the Conservative, and they voted accordingly. So we were squeezed, but it's a place we have not held for a very long time. The area has changed a bit.\"\n\nProf Laura McAllister, from Cardiff University's Wales Governance Centre, said the result should not be read as a \"resounding victory\" for Remain.\n\nShe pointed out that the three Brexit-supporting parties had 2-3,000 votes more than the Remain alliance.\n\nBut she added: \"There are always nuanced undercurrents to this. The reality is Brexit isn't the only issue people were voting on.\n\n\"People were probably voting on rural and local issues. We can never categorically say this was about Brexit.\"\n\nJo Swinson: \"I will fight to keep our country in the European Union\"\n\nSir John Curtice, professor of politics at Strathclyde University, said the Conservatives were enjoying a \"Boris bounce\" and the result was encouraging for the party despite the loss.\n\nBut he added: \"In an early general election, at the moment at least, the Conservatives would be at risk of losing.\"\n\nHe said the Lib Dems could pick up 40 or 50 seats, which would make winning a large overall majority \"rather more difficult for the Conservatives\".\n\nAs the ballots were counted, the candidates looked on - neither the Tories nor the Liberal Democrats dared to claim victory or concede defeat.\n\nOne thing was certain, the result when it came would be close.\n\nBut a win is a win and the Lib Dems will shout this from the rooftops as proof they can cut through with an anti-Brexit message.\n\nThe Remain alliance proved to be a winning formula, as Plaid Cymru and the Green Party stood aside to give the Lib Dems a clear run against the Tories.\n\nIf the Brexit Party hadn't been standing, the Conservatives might have clinched it.\n\nLabour will look hard at its disastrous result and wonder what might have been with a clearer message on Brexit.\n\nAnd for the Tories, the people of Brecon and Radnorshire have delivered an unwelcome verdict on their former MP and the new prime minister.\n\nBoris Johnson's hands were already tied in parliament and the ropes around his wrists have just been pulled a little tighter.\n\nAt one stage Labour feared it might lose its deposit and blamed voters switching tactically to the Lib Dems.\n\nA Welsh Labour spokesman said: \"We always knew this was going to be a difficult night for us, but we're proud of our positive campaign in Brecon and Radnorshire.\"\n\n\"One thing is clear - voters have rejected Boris Johnson and his divisive, out-of-touch UK Tory government.\"\n\nChris Davies said his family had been through a difficult time over the past few months\n\nPolitical analyst Prof Roger Awan-Scully, from Cardiff University, said: \"Labour need to look very closely at this result. Everything points to not just tactical voting for the Lib Dems but also dissatisfaction with Jeremy Corbyn and [First Minister] Mark Drakeford.\"\n\nThe Brexit Party's Des Parkinson, a retired police chief superintendent, who finished third, said: \"If you look at the actual total of the vote, the Brexiteers won.\n\n\"It shows where the votes are but the prime minister has to deliver a clear Brexit... if he doesn't, then his government is in dire trouble.\"\n\nThe Monster Raving Loony Party pushed the UKIP candidate into sixth place.\n\nVoters have also given their thoughts on the result.\n\nFarmer Trevor Walters voted for Mr Davies and said the Tories might have won, had the Brexit Party not stood, but called the speculation over a Brexit no-deal fallout \"scaremongering\".\n\nHe added: \"We're not going to be left in the lurch. I don't think for one second that'll happen. Something will be done to sweeten the blow of all that and get us engaged with a proper trade deal.\"\n\nIndependent book shop owner Emma Corfield-Walters, who backed the Lib Dems, said: \"None of us know what's going to happen in the future.\n\n\"I think we're all entirely confused on the Brexit issue and I think this result shows us.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. An RAF Chinook is dropping 400 tonnes of aggregate to shore up the dam and divert water\n\nThousands of people are being evacuated from a town because part of a reservoir wall has collapsed in floods.\n\nEngineers are pumping water from the 300-million-gallon Toddbrook Reservoir amid fears it could burst and swamp Whaley Bridge in Derbyshire.\n\nPolice have told the town's 6,500 residents to gather at a school, taking pets and medication with them.\n\nA severe flood warning, which means a threat to life, has been issued for the River Goyt below the reservoir.\n\nJulie Sharman, chief operating officer of the Canal and River Trust, said: \"The spillway for the dam has broken away.\n\n\"We are trying to lower the level of the water in the dam in order to reduce the risk of further erosion. There's a risk the dam could break.\"\n\nDet Ch Supt Rachel Swann, of Derbyshire Police, said a multi-agency taskforce had drawn up a plan to address damage to the wall.\n\nEngineers would continue to pump water from the reservoir, she said, and a Chinook helicopter would be used to drop 400 tonnes of aggregate on \"surrounding watercourses\".\n\nThis would \"divert water from entering the reservoir,\" she said, so the water could be reduced to a safe level.\n\nOnce this was done, Det Ch Supt Swann said, work on the wall of the dam could begin.\n\n\"With all that said, at this time the future of the dam wall remains in the balance and I would remind people of the very real danger posed to them should the wall collapse,\" she added.\n\nMs Sharman, of the trust, said officials could not say how long the evacuation could last but they could be working on it \"for days\".\n\nTen pumps from fire services across the country are currently pumping out 7,000 litres of water a minute in a bid to bring down the water level.\n\nThe clay under the spillway has been undermined\n\nAssistant Chief Constable Kem Mehmet said police had plans for every scenario including the dam, which holds back 1.3 million tonnes of water, collapsing.\n\nPolice told residents to gather at Chapel High School in the neighbouring town of Chapel-en-le-Frith and to take pets and medication with them as they \"are not sure how long [it] will take\".\n\nThey added it was \"an unprecedented, fast-moving, emergency situation\", and confirmed a small number of houses in the neighbouring villages of Furness Vale and New Mills have also now been evacuated.\n\nThey said evacuated residents should try to arrange their own accommodation as space was limited, but some local pubs and community halls had offered to take in evacuees.\n\nThe town centre is at risk of being swamped\n\nThe Environment Agency has said about 85% of people in Whaley Bridge have left their homes.\n\nArea director Lee Rawlinson said community spirit has been \"fantastic\".\n\n\"A lot of people have gone up to Chapel or to other relatives. Whaley Bridge can be really proud,\" he said.\n\nMeanwhile, trains between Hazel Grove and Buxton have been blocked because of the flooding, affecting Northern train services between Manchester Piccadilly and Buxton.\n\nJennifer, owner of the Goyt Inn, has been evacuated and is currently in the school.\n\nShe said: \"I rang my partner and said, 'Bring the dog. We have to get out'.\n\n\"We've been told if we need accommodation, something will be organised, but at the moment, [the council] are waiting on structural reports from engineers.\n\n\"The dam is a mess. It really looks very unsafe and there's a lot of water in that reservoir.\"\n\nNigel Carson, who lives near the dam, said he felt some people in the area were not taking the problem \"as seriously as they should\".\n\n\"The whole of the village is vulnerable to this,\" he said.\n\n\"They're estimating that without it raining it will take two to three days to get the water level down two metres [but] it's raining heavily again now, and they need to get it down an awful lot more than two metres to make this safe.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nAlmost all the residents of the town have now been evacuated\n\nDuncan Fife lives on top of the reservoir in the old Reservoir Keeper's house, said: \"We have been telling them for years that the spillway has been clogging up with plants trees and weeds. Just now they are starting to clear it. Why don't they maintain it?\"\n\nBut he added the water has now dropped \"a couple of feet\" since last night.\n\nSymon Trelfa, whose home is near the dam, said he is \"worried I may have no home to return to\".\n\nHe said: \"There were rumours going around about the state of the dam yesterday so I decided to move into my sister's house in Chapel-en-le-Frith.\n\n\"There's gridlock on the local roads at the moment - people are abandoning vehicles.\"\n\nRescue teams are trying to pump the water out\n\nFormer Conservative MP Edwina Currie also lives in the town.\n\nShe said: \"Evacuation is absolutely necessary. I don't think they've got any choice. People are being advised not to take pictures. We are really very, very worried.\"\n\nThe dam is quite old - it was built in 1831 and is an earth-filled construction.\n\nThe problem is the damage is high up. The key is to get the water levels down as fast as you can.\n\nYou can divert it out through channels and there is a plug deep down.\n\nThe key will be to see if it holds overnight. If it does, there's a good chance they can repair the dam but it will take months.\n\nCouncillor Martin Thomas, chair of Whaley Bridge town council, told the BBC the clay under the slabs of the spillway had been undermined when they were lost.\n\nHe said: \"The situation is an unfortunate combination of circumstances.\n\n\"We've had a lot of wet weather recently, the ground is saturated, the reservoir was already full.\n\n\"Something we previously looked at as a benign leisure facility suddenly becomes a real mortal danger.\"\n\nThe worst may not be over as water is still flowing in to the reservoir\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Councillor Martin Thomas said the town was \"eerily quiet\"\n\nRuth George, Labour MP for the area, said the town could be evacuated for \"several days\".\n\n\"It's hard to see how they can get the water in the reservoir down quicker than that,\" she said.\n\n\"The dam had some pretty significant structural repairs a few years ago.\n\n\"We were told after that it was safe but we have had an unprecedented amount of water coming down in the past few days.\n\n\"Nobody is looking at laying the blame. What we want to do is make sure the people in the town are safe.\"\n\nThe Canal and River Trust said it is working with \"other agencies\" and had engineers trying to get water out while sandbags are being put on the edge to shore it up and protect the rest of the concrete.\n\nWhen asked if the dam might \"actually break\" a spokesman responded \"there is a risk of that\".\n\nSandbags are being put in to stop further erosion\n\nHundreds of people have arrived at the evacuation centre\n\nResidents are being evacuated to a nearby town\n\nFollow BBC East Midlands on Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram. Send your story ideas to eastmidsnews@bbc.co.uk.", "The move now puts women on an equal footing to men with regard to travel rights\n\nWomen in Saudi Arabia can now travel abroad without a male guardian's permission, royal decrees say.\n\nThe new rule announced on Friday allows women over the age of 21 to apply for a passport without authorisation, putting them on an equal footing to men.\n\nWomen are also being given the right to register births, marriage or divorce.\n\nThe kingdom has recently eased other long-standing social restrictions on women, though campaigners say more remains to be done for women's rights.\n\nSaudi Arabia has increasingly come under the spotlight over its treatment of its female citizens, an issue highlighted by several high-profile cases of Saudi women seeking asylum abroad.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The #SaveRahaf campaign went viral after Rahaf started tweeting about her plight for asylum\n\nThe de facto leader, Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, has sought to relax prohibitions on women, including lifting a driving ban last year, in a bid to open up the conservative kingdom.\n\nBut he has also cracked down on women's rights activists, putting a number of them on trial in recent months.\n\nSaudi's male guardianship system gives husbands, fathers and other male relatives the authority to make critical decisions about women.\n\nUntil now, this has meant women there were required to seek those relatives' permission to obtain or renew a passport and exit the country.\n\nBut the royal decrees published in the kingdom's official weekly Um al-Qura gazette on Friday stipulate that Saudi passports should be issued to any citizen who applies for it, and that anyone over the age of 21 does not need permission to travel.\n\nThe changes allow women for the first time to register their children's births, as well as marriages and divorces.\n\nThey also cover employment regulations that expand work opportunities for women. Under the rule, all citizens have the right to work without facing any discrimination based on gender, disability or age.\n\nMany Saudi women have taken to Twitter to celebrate the move, with prominent influencer and talk show host Muna AbuSulayman tweeting: \"A generation growing up completely free and equal to their brothers.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Muna AbuSulayman منى This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy 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 first woman to become an envoy for the kingdom, Saudi ambassador to the US Reema bint Bandar Al Saud, also hailed the changes:\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript 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 Reema Bandar Al-Saud This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 3 by Reema Bandar Al-Saud This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy 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\"If fully implemented [this is] a big step in letting adult Saudi women take control of their own lives,\" Kristin Diwan from the Arab Gulf States Institute in Washington DC told the AFP news agency.\n\nOthers are wary of the new reforms.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript 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 MS SΛFFΛΛ This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy 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 conservatives in the country have reacted negatively to the changes, with one woman telling Reuters news agency: \"Imagine if your girls grow up and leave you and don't return, would you be happy?\"\n\nDespite the latest reforms, other parts of the guardianship system remain in place. These include women requiring permission from a male relative to marry or live on their own, as well as leave prison if they have been detained. They still cannot pass on citizenship to their children, nor can they provide consent for their children to marry.\n\nSaudi women were allowed to drive more than a year ago, but restrictions on them remain\n\nIn a bid to open up the country, Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman unveiled a plan in 2016 to transform the economy by 2030, with the aim of increasing women's participation in the workforce to 30% from 22%.\n\nHowever, rights groups have decried his crackdown over the last year on some of the country's leading women's rights activists who had campaigned for the right to drive or win equal rights to men.\n\nThese women, including prominent campaigner Loujain al-Hathloul, are currently facing trial and several of them say they have been tortured whilst in detention.\n\nThere have been several high profile cases of women seeking asylum in countries such as Canada, citing claims of gender oppression.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Two Saudis who sought asylum in the UK explain why they risked everything\n\nThe issue hit the headlines in January when 18-year-old Rahaf Mohammed al-Qunun fled Saudi Arabia in a bid to escape to Australia, but ended up in a stand-off at an airport hotel in the Thai capital Bangkok. After international appeals for help, Canada later granted her asylum.\n\nIn March, two young Saudi sisters who had been hiding in Hong Kong were granted humanitarian visas in a third country.\n\nIn a similar case a month later, another pair of sisters fled to Georgia after seeking international help on Twitter and were eventually relocated to another country.\n\nThis is the biggest move so far to dismantle the male guardianship system in Saudi Arabia.\n\nSaudi women's rights activists have fought hard to remove the multiple restrictions on their lives - they presented a petition to the authorities demanding change some three years ago.\n\nBut the leading women involved in that campaign are now either detained or abroad. Internationally, their efforts have received great attention, but in Saudi Arabia itself, Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman and his advisers still seem intent on denying them any credit for the changes.\n\nThat makes reform appear to come from the top down. For many Saudis - both men and women - this makes the Crown Prince a hero.\n\nOutside the Kingdom, it helps refurbish his image tarnished as it is by the killing of Jamal Khashoggi - at a time when the Saudis are choosing to play an increasingly visible role on the world stage.\n\nBut both hardline conservatives and women's rights activists in Saudi Arabia are united in their suspicion of Mohammed bin Salman's motives - and their sense that this is all about his continuing accumulation of power, whether political, financial or cultural.", "Voters go to the polls in Brecon and Radnorshire on Thursday in the second Welsh by-election this year - and the first electoral test for new PM Boris Johnson.\n\nThe poll was triggered when a recall petition unseated the incumbent Conservative MP Chris Davies after he was convicted of a false expenses claim.\n\nThere are six candidates in the race, competing for the attention of around 53,000 voters in the predominantly rural constituency - geographically the largest in Wales.\n\nDes Parkinson says Parliament \"just can't make its mind up\" on Brexit\n\nDes Parkinson, 71, is a retired Dyfed-Powys Police chief superintendent who has worked for the party's Welsh MEP Nathan Gill in the past.\n\nThe by-election is the first Westminster test in Wales for the new Brexit Party, which came top in the EU elections in Wales and across Great Britain in May.\n\nFounded by former UKIP leader Nigel Farage, the organisation has attracted many former UKIP activists.\n\nMr Parkinson told BBC Wales that the Brexit Party wants to \"change politics for good\", claiming that since the referendum there has been indecision, discussion and votes.\n\n\"Parliament just can't make its mind up,\" he says.\n\nThe Brexit Party candidate is opposed to the withdrawal agreement made by former prime minister Theresa May, calling it \"disastrous\" and the \"worst deal in British history where we would give £39bn to the EU and get nothing in return, other than more uncertainty\".\n\nHe said the UK government should prepare for no-deal with the EU - \"otherwise you don't get a decent deal\" - suggesting that leaving with the EU without a deal would cause \"some disruption\" but \"over a period of time things would balance out and deals would be done\".\n\nMr Parkinson wants council tax rises in Powys reversed and is also opposed to the expansion of wind farms.\n\nChris Davies was the third MP to face a recall petition\n\nChris Davies, 51, was an auctioneer before he became an MP in 2015. He also ran a veterinary group in the constituency.\n\nIn the by-election, Mr Davies is fighting for his political life - after winning re-election in 2017, he was unseated by a recall petition triggered by his conviction for a false expenses claim.\n\nHe had pleaded guilty to the charge after trying to split the cost of £700 worth of pictures between two office budgets by creating fake invoices, when he could have claimed the amount by other means.\n\nMr Davies has apologised, saying: \"If you look at the technicality here there was no financial gain.\n\n\"Clearly the authorities have been through my accounts and everything I've done with a fine-tooth comb over the last four years, and that was the only mistake they could find,\" he added.\n\nLosing the election would mean the Conservatives - who have been struggling and often failing to command majorities in key votes - would be in an even weaker position in the Commons.\n\nMr Davies is emphasising his local credentials in his bid to hold the seat after being re-selected by local Tories to be their candidate. \"I understand the farming community, I've worked in it all my life,\" he said.\n\nHe said he was not \"frightened\" of a no-deal Brexit, although he'd rather see an agreement on the UK's leaving of the European Union. He voted for Theresa May's withdrawal agreement every time it had been put to MPs.\n\nMr Davies also claimed he was the only candidate who would be able to work \"closely\" with new PM Boris Johnson.\n\nTom Davies says there is an appetite for a \"socialist option\" on the ballot paper\n\nTom Davies, 29, lives in Brecon where he was born and is currently working for a legal team in a private company based in Cwmbran.\n\nHis party has come third in the last two Westminster elections in Brecon and Radnorshire, behind the Conservatives and the Liberal Democrats.\n\nMr Davies has already had a taste of electoral politics as a member of Brecon Town Council.\n\n\"We need to ensure we are protecting the communities around Brecon and Radnorshire from the Tory austerity policies, and protect them from Tory Brexit policies,\" he said.\n\n\"[They] look like they are going to be seriously damaging for Wales as a whole and indeed Brecon and Radnorshire, in terms of agricultural sectors and businesses around the area.\"\n\nThe Labour candidate claimed hard-working families were being pushed to the brink, saying: \"We are seeing more people relying on food banks.\"\n\nMr Davies has said he supports a \"final-say confirmatory referendum\" on Brexit and would campaign to remain in the EU, in line with the policy of First Minister Mark Drakeford.\n\nRejecting any question that Labour could, like Plaid Cymru, have stood aside to give the Liberal Democrats a clear run, Mr Davies said there was \"clearly an appetite for Labour in Brecon and Radnorshire and a socialist option on the ballot\".\n\nJane Dodds says she is \"absolutely opposed to a damaging no-deal Brexit\"\n\nWelsh Lib Dem leader Jane Dodds is a child-protection social worker. She lives in Welshpool, in the neighbouring constituency of Montgomeryshire, with her husband Patrick.\n\nThe by-election is important for the Lib Dems - in a seat which was formerly a Lib Dem stronghold and in a nation where there are no Lib Dem MPs.\n\nWinning would be an early scalp for the Liberal Democrats' new leader Jo Swinson too.\n\nMs Dodds said her campaign was focusing on local issues, \"making sure we have basic services, such as banks and good broadband\".\n\n\"It's about supporting our farmers and our agriculture - that we have good services and we have the opportunity for our children and young people to remain in mid Wales through affordable housing and through good well paid jobs,\" she said.\n\nRemaining in the EU was a central plank of the Lib Dem campaign in the EU elections, but Ms Dodds said the by-election \"isn't about changing Brexit\", claiming residents were \"fed-up\" with the issue.\n\n\"I am absolutely opposed to a damaging no-deal Brexit,\" she said, warning it will significantly hit farmers.\n\nHowever, pressed further, Ms Dodds said: \"We are a pro-European party and we want any deal to be put to the people in a people's vote.\"\n\nLiz Phillips claims UKIP was the party which secured the referendum on Europe\n\nLiz Phillips is a personal assistant to former UKIP leader Gerard Batten. She currently lives in Kent, but said she had lived for a long time in the Radnorshire town of Rhayader.\n\nShe said she had five points of attack - \"making Brexit happen\", \"scrapping the Welsh Assembly\", opposing windfarms, \"binning the BBC licence fee\" and ensuring Brecon and Radnorshire \"is firmly put on the tourist map\".\n\nMs Phillips accused UKIP's main rival, the Brexit Party, of being \"only a party in name\", claiming that unlike UKIP, it does not offer people full membership.\n\n\"UKIP was the party that brought about the referendum and is the one that stayed firm all the way through,\" she said.\n\n\"No flopping between different parties, no going back to the Conservatives. UKIP is still there,\" Ms Phillips added.\n\nShe said she would like to see a Brexit \"where we are completely out of the clutches of the European Union\".\n\n\"If this means no deal, so be it,\" she said.\n\n\"This country can survive quite happily and did for many, many hundreds of years without any interference from the EU.\"\n\nLady Lily The Pink says she offers a way for voters to say they want \"none of the above\"\n\nLady Lily The Pink is the Monster Raving Loony Party candidate for the by-election.\n\nShe said a vote for her was \"the only way to say 'I want none of the above'\".\n\n\"Like a large proportion of the electorate I'm angry,\" she said in a statement, \"angry at the failings, the loopholes and the all-too-often self-serving system of governance we currently have\".\n\n\"I'm not a real politician. I'm not even a real Lady, I am however a real Loony - and I'm using comedy, satire and fancy dress in an attempt to get us all heard.\n\n\"I'm standing - sitting, slouching, occasionally leaning - in this by-election campaign to give voice to those who have the right to vote yet who feel there is no point in voting.\"", "ABTA said more than 50,000 holidaymakers were affected and 400 were already on holiday\n\nTwo package holiday firms have collapsed, affecting more than 50,000 travellers.\n\nMalvern Group, which incorporates Manchester-based Late Rooms and York-based Superbreak Mini Holidays, known as Super Break, have ceased trading.\n\nThe group said Super Break hotel-only holidays would be cancelled and people currently on holiday might have to pay again.\n\nIt said it \"anticipated\" bookings through Late Rooms would be secure.\n\nMalvern Group said those on Super Break package holidays would be protected by travel association Abta but that gift vouchers and tickets for entertainment and attractions were no longer valid.\n\nAbta has issued advice for customers of Super Break, but said it did not cover Late Rooms.\n\nLeona Gibbons, from Hull, said she paid Super Break £779 for her honeymoon, which she bought two days ago.\n\nLeona Gibbons says she may have to cancel her honeymoon\n\nThe bride-to-be is due to get married in four weeks' time.\n\n\"I was in tears on the phone to my mum this morning,\" she said.\n\n\"We were supposed to stay in the Raddison Blue Edwardian in Bloombsury, London, go to the Fawlty Towers Dining Interactive Experience and do a bit of sightseeing.\n\n\"Our honeymoon is now ruined unless we can magic up more money.\n\n\"We've worked so hard this year to pay for the wedding and we were looking forward to having some time away.\n\n\"However, me and my partner might have to cancel the honeymoon.\"\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\nDanielle Atkins, who bought £200 of Super Break vouchers as a Christmas present for her grandparents, said it felt like her money had been stolen.\n\nAfter contacting her bank earlier, Ms Atkins, from Carlisle, said she received a response that left her \"absolutely gutted\".\n\n\"The bank have come back to me to say it's unlikely I'll get my money back as the transaction is over 180 days old.\n\n\"Super Break has not replied to any correspondence at all. All it says is 'contact your bank', which is not helpful.\n\n\"I'm a single parent and work really hard to treat my family at Christmas and it feels like they've stolen my money.\"\n\nMalvern said its contact centre had closed and it intended to appoint administrators on Friday.\n\nIn a statement, Abta said: \"If you booked directly with Late Rooms, customers are advised to contact the hotel as we understand that payments were made directly to the hotels and therefore bookings should go ahead as planned.\"\n\nIn regards to Super Break, it said the \"vast majority\" of holidaymakers' arrangements would be covered through Abta, Atol or credit card companies.\n\nIt said: \"These customers will either be entitled to a refund or, if they've booked through another travel company, they should contact them to discuss options which may include continuing with their booking, re-booking or alternative arrangements.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nSuper Break was established in 1983 and specialised in short city breaks in the UK and overseas, employing about 250 people.\n\nAbta said Super Break has 400 customers on holiday overseas or in the UK and 20,000 forward bookings affecting 53,000 customers.\n\nIt suggested rail, coach or Eurostar tickets might be valid for travel. Rail company LNER said it would honour all existing tickets.\n\nMerlin Entertainments, which owns a number of attractions including Legoland, Alton Towers and Chessington World of Adventures Resort, said it was \"unable to accept any outstanding Super Break vouchers for standard redemption at its attractions\".\n\nBut, the company said it would offer affected customers \"a 50% discount off the gate price as a gesture of goodwill\".\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Lib Dem Jane Dodds is declared the winner of the Brecon and Radnorshire by-election, beating the previous MP, Conservative Chris Davies.\n\nThe by-election was caused by a recall petition following Mr Davies's conviction for a false expenses claim.\n\nMs Dodds overturned an 8,000 Tory majority with a Lib Dem margin of victory by 1,425 votes.\n\nShe said she would urge PM Boris Johnson to \"stop playing with the future of our communities and rule out a no-deal Brexit\".", "Virtual assistants are supposed to send audio to remote computer servers only if they hear a \"wake\" word\n\nApple and Google are temporarily stopping workers listening to voice recordings captured by smart speakers and virtual assistants.\n\nIt follows a Guardian report that third-party contractors used by Apple had heard people having sex and discussing private medical information.\n\nSiri and other services can activate in error after wrongly picking up sounds they mishear as their \"wake\" words.\n\nApple said the move would affect users worldwide.\n\nGoogle suspended the practice across the EU on 10 July but has only just confirmed the fact in public.\n\nAmazon - which also uses staff to transcribe some recordings - is continuing to do so.\n\nTechnology companies use staff to \"grade\" voice recordings to improve their virtual assistants' accuracy rates in handling requests - and take steps to anonymise the source.\n\nGoogle, for example, distorts the recording before it is listened to in order to disguise the user's voice.\n\nHowever, many members of the public were unaware of the practice until theBloomberg news agency reported the fact earlier this year.\n\n\"We are committed to delivering a great Siri experience while protecting user privacy,” Apple said in a statement.\n\n“While we conduct a thorough review, we are suspending Siri grading globally.\"\n\nThe company added in the future users' voice recordings would not be included in the grading process unless they had chosen to opt in.\n\nGermany's data protection commissioner in Hamburg has also launched an investigation into Google over the practice, with which the search company is cooperating.\n\nApple's AirPods have encouraged the use of Siri as they make it possible to activate the service without having to touch an iPhone\n\nSpeech-recognising assistants were \"highly risky\" from a privacy point of view, the regulator said in a press release.\n\n\"The use of speech assistance systems must be transparent so that informed consent can be obtained from users,\" added the commissioner, Johannes Caspar.\n\nGoogle said it had already stopped transcribing voice recordings and would continue to do so for at least three months.\n\nA spokeswoman for the company said Google was \"in touch\" with the Hamburg data protection commissioner.\n\n\"We don’t associate audio clips with user accounts during the review process, and only perform reviews for around 0.2% of all clips,\" she added.\n\nBBC News also asked Amazon whether it plans to suspend speech monitoring.\n\nIn June, Dave Limp - the executive in charge of Alexa - said only a \"tiny fraction of 1%\" of voice recordings were ever listened to by humans.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nBut he conceded the company's terms and conditions could have been clearer about the matter.\n\nThe firm has also released a fresh statement.\n\n\"We already offer customers the ability to opt-out of having their voice recordings used to help develop new Alexa features,\" it said.\n\n\"The voice recordings from customers who use this opt-out are also excluded from our supervised learning workflows that involve manual review of an extremely small sample of Alexa requests.\n\n\"We'll also be updating information we provide to customers to make our practices more clear.\"", "Sharon Gayter says she will be back at work on Monday\n\nA 55-year-old ultra-runner has become the fastest woman to travel by foot between John O'Groats and Land's End.\n\nSharon Gayter said she felt \"about 105\" but was \"relieved\" after covering the 822 miles in 12 days, 11 hours, 6 minutes, and 7 seconds.\n\nThe previous record, set in 2008 and run from Land's End to John O'Groats, was more than four hours longer.\n\nMrs Gayter, from Guisborough, near Middlesbrough, said the final day was \"painful\" after only 90 minutes' sleep.\n\nShe added she was severely sleep deprived having only got about three hours on each of the other nights of the challenge.\n\n\"I wanted to break the record by as much as I could and push to my limits because you never know what's round the corner, like road closures.\"\n\nMrs Gayter set off from the northern tip of Britain at 07:30 BST on 21 July and finished in the south-west corner at 18:36 on 2 August.\n\nHer time is yet to be verified by Guinness World Records.\n\nHer planned route, which included some off-road sections, was 822 miles - the actual distance she ran will be confirmed only when her GPS tracker is downloaded.\n\nThe previous fastest journey was set by British runner Marina Anderson in July 2008. The men's record, set in 2001, is nine days, two hours, and 26 minutes.\n\nIn 2011, the lecturer at Teesside University Business School broke both the men's and women's records for the distance covered running on a treadmill in seven days.\n\nOn her motivation, Mrs Gayter said: \"I'm getting on now and I keep thinking that I can't do any more, but the body surprises me that it can.\n\n\"And while I can still [break records] I will.\"\n\nSpeaking from underneath the Land's End signpost, she added the first thing she was going to do was have her first shower in nine days.\n\nThe university lecturer said she would be back at work at 09:00 on Monday morning.\n\n\"I'm not looking forward to that I can assure you,\" she added.\n\nMrs Gayter was raising money for the mental health charity Mind, after three of her friends took their own lives.", "An RAF helicopter is dropping 400 tonnes of aggregate to try to shore up a damaged slipway at Toddbrook Reservoir\n\nWater is also being pumped out of the 300-million-gallon reservoir to try and prevent it from flooding.\n\nAbout 1,500 people have been evacuated from Whaley Bridge.", "The new prime minister has lamented that the UK falls far behind Spain in terms of the number of homes with access to full-fibre internet\n\nThe UK's telecoms industry has issued the prime minister a challenge of its own after Boris Johnson said he wanted full-fibre broadband \"for all\" by 2025.\n\nAn open letter says the target is possible, but only if the government tackles four problems causing delays.\n\nIt adds that all of the issues must be resolved \"within the next 12 months\" to achieve the high-speed internet goal.\n\nBut one expert said at least one of the measures was unachievable in that time frame.\n\nMr Johnson originally declared his desire to deliver the 100% rollout of fibre-optic broadband to properties across the UK \"in five years at the outside\" in an article for the Telegraph published before he won the leadership vote.\n\nIn it, he described the government's former target of 2033 as being \"laughably unambitious\".\n\nThe letter sent to 10 Downing Street lists four policies that the industry says require urgent attention:\n\n\"Nationwide full fibre coverage is not a can that can be kicked down the road,\" the letter concludes.\n\n\"Work needs to start now, and 100% fibre coverage requires a 100% commitment from government.\"\n\nThe letter has been signed by the chair of the Internet Services Providers Association, the interim chief executive of the Federation of Communication Services and the chief executive of the Independent Networks Co-operative Association.\n\nTheir members include BT, Openreach, Sky, Gigaclear, CityFibre, Hyperoptic, Virgin Media, Google and Vodafone among many others.\n\nOpenreach, which maintains the UK's digital network infrastructure, said it welcomed the government's ambition but warned: \"Upgrading the entire UK network is a major civil engineering challenge.\"\n\nIt urged the government to \"boost the build\" by \"creating an environment that encourages greater investment\".\n\nNumber 10 referred the BBC to the Department of Digital, Culture, Media and Sport for comment.\n\nInstalling fibre connections to every home involves disruption, cost and a lot of work\n\n\"We are pleased industry shares our ambition to turbo-charge the economy by delivering world-class, gigabit-capable broadband across the country as soon as possible,\" a DCMS spokesman said.\n\n\"The government is committed to creating the right opportunities for investment and speeding up the rollout of the required digital infrastructure.\"\n\nHe declined to comment specifically on the four demands, but indicated that a more detailed response would be given later.\n\nOne industry-watcher noted that the Scottish government had already pledged 100% tax relief to companies that install fibre broadband in Scotland, and suggested a similar reform would address the fibre tax request.\n\nBut she added that it would be almost impossible for ministers to resolve the access issue by the next summer.\n\n\"That is going to require a very carefully worded piece of legislation that takes into account business owners, property owners, landowners, as well as the telecommunications and service providers,\" explained Fiona Vanier from the consultancy CCS Insight.\n\n\"It's going to be a difficult piece of legislation to draw up.\n\n\"And there's just recently been a change in Prime Minister, the majority is very slim, and they have things to be getting on with the [Brexit] deadline at the end of October.\"\n\nFull-fibre broadband, fibre to the premises - the terms may leave you scratching your head especially if you already thought you had a fast connection and you were pretty sure that it went all the way into your house.\n\nBut the reality is that only about 7% of UK properties have full-fibre optic cables running all the way from the green cabinet on the street to their front doors.\n\nThere are actually three main types of broadband connections.\n\nADSL (asymmetric digital subscriber line) involves a situation where both the link between the telephone exchange and the street cabinet, and the onward connection to the property are achieved via copper phone cables.\n\nFibre to the Cabinet (FTTC) achieves higher speeds by giving the roadside cabinet its own fibre link.\n\nAnd Fibre to the Premises (FTTP) addresses the final part of the connection - which is often referred to as the \"last mile\". Under this system, properties can be directly connected to the exchange without passing through a street cabinet, But intermediary boxes - often hidden from view - where fibre links are \"split\" to serve individual buildings may still be used.\n\nFibre transmits more bits of data per second by sending pulses of light along optical cables made of glass or plastic. While FTTC offers users average speeds of around 66 megabits per second, FTTP can offer average speeds of one gigabit per second today and potentially terabits per second in the future.\n\nSo, we would benefit from a full-fibre diet, but making it happen as quickly as the prime minister has in mind could be hard to achieve.\n\nThe UK ranks far behind some other European nations including Latvia, Lithuania and Spain where roughly half of all homes have access to FTTP connections, according to an industry study.\n\nBut while the technology offers a degree of future-proofing, some internet chiefs have suggested it would be more cost-effective to fall back on other solutions in the medium-term.\n\nVirgin says that copper-based connections can be used to deliver fast enough speeds for the coming years\n\nLast month, Virgin Media said that it would soon be able to provide gigabit download speeds over copper-based coaxial cables, meaning households could benefit from faster, more reliable connections without having to dig up streets and paths to lay new fibre.\n\nO2's chief executive also recently told the BBC that the Prime Minister would be wiser to fall back on 5G for sparsely populated parts of the UK.\n\n\"At what level does it become uneconomic to [provide fibre] versus mobile?\" Mark Evans asked.\n\n\"I would suggest that isn't at 100% fibre connectivity because, for example, the Scottish farmer that lives remotely - we can reach that person, give them the bandwidth, give them a 5G experience - it's much cheaper than digging the fibre connectivity to that home. That's just nonsensical.\n\n\"So I applaud him on his desire to improve fibre connectivity in the UK - but I do think there's a level that he needs to weigh up as to which type of technology meets the need.\"", "A man who made death threats in calls to the offices of MPs he saw as \"anti-Brexit\" has been jailed for 18 weeks.\n\nRobert Vidler, 64, from Harrow, north-west London, threatened six MPs, including Nicky Morgan who was told her \"days were numbered\", prosecutors said.\n\nVidler had denied making the expletive-laden calls and voicemails, claiming he let friends use his phone when drunk.\n\nHe was found guilty of five charges of harassment without violence and three counts of sending menacing messages.\n\nCity of London Magistrates heard the father-of-three called the offices of independent MP Nick Boles, Tory MPs Ms Morgan and Dominic Grieve, and Labour MPs Sir Keir Starmer, Barry Gardiner and Jenny Chapman.\n\nAll of the calls, made in January, were intercepted by staff working for the MPs.\n\nProsecutor Philip Stott told court the calls, made on Vidler's mobile phone, were all directed at MPs \"considered to be anti-Brexit\".\n\nSeveral of the voicemail recordings left by Vidler were played to the trial.\n\nIn one message picked up by Mr Boles' personal assistant, Vidler swore at the MP, telling him \"we know where you live\" and threatening to cut his throat.\n\nHe told Sir Keir's staff he was a walking \"dead man\", a \"traitor\" and that he would \"cut his neck\".\n\nIn a message to Mr Grieve, Vidler said he knew his address and his schedule.\n\nIn a later call Vidler added: \"You're dead, Grieve, we know where you and your family live.\"\n\nA voicemail for Mr Gardiner said: \"No deal is the only deal and that will be the deal. We are leaving in March, when will you understand that? The only thing that is likely to be extended is your neck.\"\n\nIn text messages revealed by a police analysis of his phone, Vidler said politicians were \"absolute scumbags\" and that he was angry about the \"Brexit fiddle\", the court was told.\n\nRobert Vidler had described politicians as \"absolute scumbags\", the court heard\n\nVidler was arrested after voluntarily going to Harrow police station and handing his phone in, Mr Stott said.\n\nIn his defence, Vidler denied carrying out web searches for MPs and claimed he would not have handed over his phone if it was him making the calls.\n\nDeputy chief magistrate Tan Ikram said Vidler had \"attempted to stifle [the MPs'] legitimate political views\" and undermined \"the free democratic society in which we live\".\n\n\"The nature of these calls included, effectively, death threats, but they had a common theme that [they] were all motivated by a desire to leave the European Union in very forthright and aggressive terms,\" he added.\n\nSarah Jennings, from the Crown Prosecution Service, said staff at the MPs' offices had felt \"alarmed\" by Vidler's threats.\n\n\"His actions went far beyond just expressing his opinion,\" she added.\n\nVidler was sentenced to 18 weeks for each of the eight offences, all to be served concurrently, and ordered to pay £300 costs and a £115 victim surcharge.\n\nHe was also made subject to a criminal behaviour order which prevents him from contacting any MP except his own.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "A new way of identifying a common condition that causes the heart to beat irregularly may have been discovered by artificial intelligence.\n\nAtrial fibrillation affects one million people in the UK and increases the risk of stroke and long-term heart problems.\n\nIt is relatively simple to diagnose when the heart is beating irregularly, but not when it returns to normal.\n\nComputer modelling at the Mayo Clinic in the US may have identified signs that indicate previous abnormalities.\n\nResearchers said it was still early days, but believe the system could lead to earlier and easier detection of the problem and, therefore, ensure patients get the right treatment, saving lives.\n\nThe findings are published in The Lancet.\n\nCurrently where these tests - known as electrocardiograms - do not find abnormal rhythms, doctors can ask the patient to undergo longer-term heart monitoring.\n\nBut instead the computer modelling was asked to look out for what doctors believe are subtle signs of past irregular rhythms, including scarring of the heart, that are unable to be spotted by the human eye from test results.\n\nThe computer modelling analysed tests carried out on nearly 181,000 patients between 1993 and 2017.\n\nThey were all patients who had had normal test results at first.\n\nThe modelling correctly identified the subsequent diagnosis from the normal test results in 83% of cases.\n\nDr Paul Friedman, from the Mayo Clinic, said it showed real potential: \"It is like looking at the ocean now and being able to tell that there were big waves yesterday.\"\n\nBut the team said the modelling now needed to be tested further to see if it could be deployed on the frontline.\n\nProf Tim Chico, an expert in cardiology at the University of Sheffield, described the findings as \"very important\".\n\n\"This AI-based approach could provide a revolutionary advance, although it's important to note that this research is still in the early stages and we need to see replicated results, and how the algorithm responds when tested on the general population.\"\n• None Do you know your heart age?\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Boris Johnson has been visiting people evacuated from their homes as efforts continue to repair a damaged reservoir that threatens to flood their Derbyshire town.\n\nThe prime minister spoke to Whaley Bridge residents at the evacuation point, Chapel-en-le-Frith High School.", "Prosecutors claimed Louise Porton's children \"got in the way\" of her doing \"what she wanted\"\n\nA mother who killed her two daughters because they \"got in the way of her sex life\" has been jailed for life.\n\nLouise Porton denied killing three-year-old Lexi Draper and 17-month-old Scarlett Vaughan, who died 18 days apart last year.\n\nBut the 23-year-old, of Skiddaw, Rugby, was found guilty of their murder and on Friday she was jailed for a minimum of 32 years.\n\nDuring her trial, jurors heard Porton did not seem distressed by the deaths.\n\nPassing sentence at Birmingham Crown Court, Mrs Justice Yip described the murders as \"evil\" and \"calculated\".\n\n\"These were blameless young children who were plainly vulnerable and ought to have been able to rely on their mother to protect and nurture them,\" she said.\n\n\"Instead you took their young lives away.\"\n\nLexi Draper and Scarlett Vaughan died within days of each other\n\nThe judge told the court Porton had \"no medical history or mental disorder that goes any way to explaining what happened in this case\".\n\nShe added: \"One way or another you squeezed the life out of each of your daughters, only calling the emergency services when you knew they were dead.\n\n\"I am sure at the time of the deaths, you intended to kill each of your daughters.\n\n\"Why you did so, only you will know.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nPorton, of Beechwood Court, suffocated Lexi in the early hours of 15 January 2018, and was then heard \"laughing\" at a funeral parlour two days before killing Scarlett on 1 February.\n\nJurors heard Porton accepted 41 friend requests on a dating app just a day after Lexi died, and was described by prosecutors as being \"calm and emotionless\" following Scarlett's death.\n\nWhile Lexi was ill in hospital, just over a week before she died, Porton took topless photos in the toilets and was arranging to perform sex acts for money with a man she had met through a website, the court was told.\n\nBoth Lexi and Scarlett's deaths were consistent with deliberate airway obstruction, and prosecutors told her trial that doctors \"could not find any natural reason\" for their deaths.\n\nWarwickshire Police said it was also \"clear from the evidence\" that Porton had tried to kill her three-year-old twice before, in early January 2018, before eventually succeeding.\n\nPorton, who described herself as a \"model\", also used her Google account to search for \"Why did my 3 year(-old) stop breathing\" and \"How long after drowning can someone be resuscitated?\"\n\nDoctors \"could not find any natural reason\" for the deaths of Lexi and Scarlett, prosecutors said\n\nIn a victim impact statement, the children's father, Chris Draper, said he was \"broken\".\n\n\"Why did Louise do something so evil to our beautiful daughters? You are their mother, the person supposed to care for them, protect and love them.\n\n\"They were just an inconvenience to you; how could you do this?\"\n\n\"I sit and think day and night and I can't understand why my two little girls were taken away because Louise wanted to sleep around.\"\n\nHe added: \"I hate Louise. No punishment will ever be enough as I will never get my daughters back.\"\n\nThe first day of the trial was told that from August 2016 until early November 2017, Porton lived at an address in Willenhall, near Walsall, where her landlady spent \"more and more time\" caring for Lexi and Scarlett while their mother was \"doing social things\" instead of looking after them.\n\nDet Supt Pete Hill, from Warwickshire Police, added: \"These were premeditated murders for which she has shown no remorse, and the length of the sentence reflects this.\"\n\nWarwickshire County Council and the Warwickshire Safeguarding Board confirmed a serious case review had been commissioned following the deaths of Lexi and Scarlett.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The woman was struck by the vehicle at the junction of Farnborough Common and Crofton Road\n\nA pedestrian has died after being hit by a police car as officers responded to a call in south-east London.\n\nThe 57-year-old woman was struck by the marked vehicle in Bromley at the junction of Farnborough Common and Crofton Road on Thursday afternoon.\n\nShe was taken to hospital in east London by air ambulance but died on Friday morning.\n\nHer next of kin has been informed and The Independent Office for Police Conduct has launched an investigation.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Rory Burns' maiden Test century led a determined England batting effort on the second day of the first Ashes Test against Australia at Edgbaston.\n\nThe left-handed opener, playing his eighth match, battled through an attritional day for 125 not out.\n\nWith Joe Root making 57 in a second-wicket stand of 132 and Ben Stokes an unbeaten 38, England reached 267-4, trailing by 17.\n\nEngland had slices of luck. Burns was on 21 when he would have been lbw to Nathan Lyon had Australia opted to review, while Root survived a James Pattinson delivery hitting off stump but not dislodging the bails when he was on nine.\n\nThose incidents were characteristic of a day when Australia bowled well for little reward in front of another noisy crowd that celebrated every England run and basked in the warm evening sunshine.\n\nOnly when they persuaded the umpires to change the ball did the tourists have a period of success, with Joe Denly and Jos Buttler falling in the space of four overs.\n\nBut Stokes, given a hero's welcome after his performance in the World Cup final, joined Burns in an unbroken stand of 73 for the fifth wicket.\n\nIt leaves England in a strong position, even if they are likely to need a healthy first-innings lead to negate the disadvantage of batting last on a pitch already offering sharp turn.\n• None 'I was ready to run through a brick wall' - Burns inspired by 2005 Ashes winners\n• None 'Burns finally cracks the curse of the England opener'\n• None Listen: TMS podcast - Burns batting something 'Alastair Cook would be proud of'\n\nEngland batsmen come through first examination\n\nSpeaking before the series, England coach Trevor Bayliss said \"you do not have to be Einstein\" to deduce that an unreliable top order was their biggest obstacle to regaining the Ashes.\n\nIn an unconvincing display against Ireland last week, when England were bowled out for 85 in the first innings, it was Burns who looked the most vulnerable.\n\nHere, though, the Surrey man was the mainstay of a collective England showing of old-fashioned batting values - patience, watchfulness and occupation of the crease.\n\nIt meant that the action was much more sedate than the chaos of the opening day, but the home crowd were just as keen to sing for England and taunt the Australians.\n\nLike Thursday, umpiring errors were a feature, but more forgivable. It was a surprise when Burns was shown to be lbw to Lyon, the noise of ball hitting stump actually led to Root being given caught behind and a tiny inside edge was not detected when he was given leg before to Peter Siddle on 14. Both were overturned.\n\nOn top of England's solid day with the bat, there was also the welcome sight of James Anderson running on the outfield, but there is still no news from the scan on his injured calf.\n\nFollowing Australia's Steve Smith on day one, Burns became the second idiosyncratic centurion of the Test, with his leaning stance, glance to mid-wicket as the bowler runs in and bat that comes down from the direction of gully.\n\nAfter England resumed on 10-0, Jason Roy edged to first slip for 10, leaving Burns and Root to grind through the rest of the morning and well into the afternoon.\n\nRoot scored only 11 from his first 60 balls, but gradually increased in fluency. Burns left well, scored mainly square of the wicket on both sides and had the fortune of a number of edges not going to hand.\n\nJust as England were gaining momentum, Root patted a drive back to Siddle that the bowler held one-handed, with Denly and Buttler following soon after.\n\nBurns continued the battle. He spent 37 minutes on 92 and 35 balls in the 90s before a single off Lyon - confirmed after he was shown to have beaten a direct hit to the non-striker's end - sparked an emotional celebration and chants of his name from the Hollies Stand.\n\nTogether with Stokes, he repelled the second new ball to take England to the brink of parity.\n\nBar bowling a fraction too short in the morning and off-spinner Lyon occasionally drifting on to the pads of England's left-handers, Australia toiled honestly and without the rub of the green.\n\nHow different might the day have been had the bails fallen when Pattinson got through Root to hit the off stump? On another occasion, one of Burns' edges could have found a slip fielder.\n\nThey were at least boosted 58 overs into the day when they convinced the umpires that the ball had gone out of shape and were given a replacement that swung much more than the previous version.\n\nPattinson immediately shaped one into Denly that pinned him leg before, while Cummins' away movement had Buttler edge to third slip.\n\nThat, though, was the best it got for the visitors, who at one point gave an over to Matthew Wade, a wicketkeeper by trade.\n\nAfter an unsuccessful review against Burns, the day ended with Australia being subjected to a barrage of mock appeals from the Hollies.\n\n'Cook would have been proud of that innings' - what they said\n\nEngland's Rory Burns on BBC Test Match Special: \"It is something I have dreamt of. I was on 99 for a while - to get over the line is awesome. I was calm throughout it. I was waiting for a ball to come into my area.\n\n\"It was one for the purists - hard work. I enjoy that. Getting in the battle and doing what you can is enough for me.\"\n\nFormer England captain Michael Vaughan on BBC Test Match Special: \"Rory Burns has arrived here at Edgbaston. Mentally, he showed he is made of strong stuff.\n\n\"Alastair Cook would have been proud of that innings. There is no greater compliment for an England opening batsman.\n\n\"He was all over the shop against Ireland last week. His technique was not with him. He has gone away and worked with his coaches. He has got his hands tighter to his body and had a great game plan. To bat all day was fantastic.\n\n\"That was the best day of Test match batting I have seen from England in a long, long time.\"\n\nBBC cricket correspondent Jonathan Agnew: \"England really should be looking to establish a sizable first-innings lead tomorrow - and they will need it.\"\n• None Burns is the first England opener to bat through a day in a Test since Alastair Cook against Australia at Melbourne in 2017\n• None He is the first opener to score a hundred in England other than Alastair Cook since Adam Lyth in 2015", "A Conservative MP has pleaded guilty to two charges of making a false expenses claim.\n\nChris Davies admitted to one charge of providing false or misleading information for allowances claims and one of attempting to do so.\n\nThe court heard how the charges related to when he was setting up his constituency office following the 2015 general election.\n\nThe MP for Brecon and Radnorshire will be sentenced at the crown court.\n\nDavies, 51, appeared at Westminster Magistrates' Court on Friday, where District Judge John Zani said he did not consider his sentencing powers to be sufficient.\n\nHe admitted that in March 2016 he made a claim under the MPs' allowances scheme and provided an invoice that he knew to be \"false or misleading\".\n\nThe second charge was attempting to provide false or misleading information for an allowance claim using an invoice \"that he knew to be false or misleading\" in April 2016.\n\nTwo offences of forgery were dropped.\n\nThe court heard Davies had contacted a photographer in Brecon and purchased nine images from him to decorate and display in his constituency office - using his own money to pay the £700 for them initially.\n\nThere were two budgets available to him, the Start Up Costs Budget - for office furniture and IT equipment - and The Office Costs Budget, both of which he could claim the full amount from.\n\nBut Philip Stott, prosecuting, revealed Davies found in February 2016 that only £476.02 was left in the Start Up Costs Budget, with £8,303.75 remaining in the other.\n\nHe then proceeded to create two fake invoices, so the £700 cost could be split between the two budgets - £450 to the Start Up and £250 for the other.\n\nThe court heard he could have claimed the full amount from the budget with the larger amount available or had the photographer create new legitimate invoices to split the cost that way.\n\nMr Stott highlighted in a letter to the party investigating officer sent in February 2018, in which he responded to the allegations against him, that he had been \"told in a conversation by a more experienced MP that you could 'split' expenses\" and therefore attempted to do so.\n\nDavies has since repaid the £450, with the £250 claim never submitted.\n\nThis is the first prosecution of its kind under the Parliamentary Standards Act.\n\nThomas Forster, defending, said this was a \"disastrous accounting episode\" and added that Davies was the \"author of his own misfortune.\"\n\nHe argued the expenses system was not an \"easy\" one to understand and claimed Davies was \"not motivated\" by \"personal gain\".\n\nMr Forster said his client was a \"family man\" with two children who was local to his constituency.\n\nThere have been calls for Davies to quit\n\nDistrict Judge Zani said he noted that Davies was a man of good character who has shown \"considerable remorse\" and how there was no financial gain for actions.\n\n\"However, in my view, these are two very serious offences to which you have pleaded guilty,\" he said.\n\n\"The documents you created are troublesome in that they carried a deal of information that you put together which absolutely intended to deceive.\"\n\nHe said as an MP, a position of considerable responsibility and trust, there was a need to be \"meticulous in your claims\".\n\nA Welsh Liberal Democrat spokesman said Davies should resign, adding: \"Representing his constituents in these circumstances is untenable.\n\n\"Brecon and Radnorshire deserves better from its MP.\"\n\nLabour Party chairman Ian Lavery, MP for Northumberland, also called on Davies to quit.\n\nHe said: \"Trust in politics and politicians is essential to our democracy. Chris Davies cannot remain a Tory MP after admitting to this offence.\"\n\nDavies was charged in February this year.\n\nHe served as a councillor in Powys before he was elected as MP for Brecon and Radnorshire at the 2015 general election, beating incumbent Liberal Democrat Roger Williams with the seat's largest majority since 1983.\n\nHe was a Parliamentary Private Secretary to the Wales Office from January to July 2018\n\nBefore entering politics he worked as a rural auctioneer, an estate agent and also managed a mixed veterinary practice in Hay-on-Wye.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Boris Johnson: \"I flew over the dam and it looks pretty scary\"\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson has visited crews working to repair a damaged reservoir that threatens to flood a Derbyshire town.\n\nSome 1,500 residents of Whaley Bridge have been evacuated in case the dam holding back the 300-million-gallon Toddbrook Reservoir fails.\n\nMr Johnson flew over the dam and said it looked \"dodgy but stable\".\n\nPolice said some residents would be allowed home due to concerns for animal welfare, but only for 15 minutes.\n\nPart of the reservoir's spillway broke away on Thursday and rescue teams have been trying to drain the reservoir and shore up the dam.\n\nIt was damaged after large swathes of the country were battered by heavy rain and floods earlier in the week and has been described as a \"critical situation\" posing a \"risk to life\".\n\nPolice, the Environment Agency, and the Canal and River Trust, who own the reservoir, have all said there is a \"real risk\" the dam could collapse.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. An RAF Chinook is dropping 400 tonnes of aggregate to shore up the dam and divert water\n\nMeeting residents at nearby Chapel-en-le-Frith High School, Mr Johnson said: \"I flew over the dam and it looks pretty scary. I can see the problem.\"\n\nThe prime minister described the dam as looking \"dodgy but stable\", but he told residents they would be \"properly housed\" if the dam burst.\n\nMr Johnson spent about 45 minutes talking to police officers and different groups of residents in the school gym.\n\nHe told one group of evacuees: \"The plan is to try and stop the dam breaking, clearly, so a huge amount of effort is going into that.\n\n\"The Chinook's been over putting in the aggregate and putting in the sandbags to try and stop it bursting. They're pumping out huge amounts of water.\n\n\"They've got a long way to go. Whatever we do, we'll make sure we rebuild it.\"\n\nBoris Johnson has been meeting emergency teams and residents\n\nDerbyshire Police Assistant Chief Constable Kem Mehmet stressed there was still a risk to life and it was not clear when residents would be able to go home for good.\n\n\"There are concerns about animal welfare. We will be putting plans in place for residents to return to their addresses for a very short time, in a very controlled manner, to collect belongings,\" he said.\n\n\"We will be restricting it to one person per household. The plans are being worked through at the minute and the residents will be informed when it's in place.\"\n\nIf the dam is about to fall, police said all the emergency service vehicles will sound their horns three times as a warning and residents would have to get to higher ground.\n\nResident Mike Breslin said it was \"madness\" to build at the base of the dam\n\nMike Breslin described it as a \"crazy situation\".\n\n\"They should never have built a school and a social club at the bottom of a dam. It's madness,\" he said.\n\nEric Baker, who has lived in the town for 30 years, said: \"It's shocking really, it's like living next to a ticking bomb. If that goes the devastation will be unimaginable.\"\n\nAn RAF Chinook helicopter has put 400 tonnes of sandbags on the affected part of the dam in an attempt to shore it up, while firefighters are using pumps to remove water.\n\nIn the more than 24 hours since the operation began the reservoir has been reduced by half a metre, but Julie Sharman from the Canal and River Trust said it needed to come down \"several metres\" before it would be considered safe.\n\nResidents have praised the emergency services battling to save their town\n\nShe told a press conference workers were \"doing all the things that we should be doing\" to lower the water level of the reservoir and protect the dam from further erosion. She added the dam and the infrastructure used to deal with emergencies had been \"regularly\" inspected.\n\nA specialist panel of engineers on site had been advising the operation and she was \"hopeful\" the dam could be saved.\n\nHowever, she said it was still a \"critical situation\".\n\nFirefighters are removing about 4.2 million litres of water per hour from the reservoir\n\nIt is unclear when the residents will be able to go home but they are being told by police to expect to be gone for days.\n\nA helpline for evacuated residents will be operated by Derbyshire County Council from 09:00 to 22:00 on Saturday. The number will be 01629 533 190.\n\nAlthough the weather is currently dry, the Met Office has issued a yellow weather warning for thunderstorms in the area starting on Sunday afternoon and continuing into the evening.\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.", "Louise Porton was overheard laughing at a funeral parlour after her first daughter died\n\nA mother has been found guilty of murdering her two young children 18 days apart.\n\nLouise Porton killed Lexi Draper, three, and 17-month-old Scarlett Vaughan in Rugby in 2018. The 23-year-old had researched how long it took for body parts to go cold.\n\nThe part-time model denied responsibility for their deaths but was convicted at Birmingham Crown Court.\n\nProsecutors said her daughters \"got in the way\" of Porton's sex life.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nJurors were told Lexi had been dead for some time on 15 January before her mother called for help. When the call handler asked if the girl was breathing, Porton replied \"no\".\n\nFewer than three weeks later on 1 February, her second daughter, Scarlett, was found \"completely lifeless\".\n\nDoctors could not find any natural reason why either Lexi Draper or Scarlett Vaughan died, prosecutors said\n\nPorton, from Beechwood Court, Rugby, had called 111 because her daughter's condition \"did not seem urgent\". The toddler had died by the time paramedics arrived nine minutes later.\n\nBoth Lexi and Scarlett's deaths were consistent with deliberate airway obstruction. Doctors \"could not find any natural reason why either, let alone both, should have died\", prosecutors said.\n\nDuring her trial, jurors heard how Porton did not seem distressed by her daughters' deaths.\n\nShe admitted sending nude photographs to a photographer and offering sex acts in return for money while Lexi was in hospital in early January.\n\nThe girl had been admitted on 4 January with breathing problems. Her symptoms were consistent with deliberate airway obstruction, however doctors at the time were not suspicious and put her condition down to a chest infection.\n\nThe day after Lexi's death, on 16 January, Porton accepted 41 friend requests on the dating app Meet Me and was also messaging men on another app, Badoo.\n\n\"My little girl passed away yesterday,\" she said to a man named Dave, as they chatted about her leg tattoo, before replying \"its alrite [sic]\" to his condolences.\n\nShe also arranged a date with a man named Leon that night and was overheard laughing in a funeral parlour days after Lexi died.\n\nPorton sent nude photos and offered to perform sex acts while Lexi was in hospital\n\nPorton denied that her online searches, including \"can you actually die if you have a blocked nose and cover your mouth with tape\" and \"how long after drowning can someone be resuscitated?\", had anything to do with Lexi and Scarlett's deaths.\n\nShe said she had loved her daughters who were \"always making me laugh\", but conceded to jurors that parenting was \"not one of the easiest things to do\".\n\nThe children \"got in the way of [Porton] doing what she wanted, when she wanted and with whom she wanted,\" Oliver Saxby QC, prosecuting, said.\n\nThe girls' father, Chris Draper, did not have contact with them and had never met Scarlett, something he said made their deaths \"all the more heartbreaking\" for him.\n\n\"The only comfort is that Lexi and Scarlett are together,\" he said.\n\nDet Supt Pete Hill, from Warwickshire Police, said: \"I will never be able to understand why Louise Porton murdered her children.\n\n\"She has lied repeatedly to friends, family and professionals to cover her tracks. At no point throughout the whole investigation has she ever shown any real signs of emotion.\"\n\nPorton will be sentenced on Friday.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The train came to a halt several hundred yards to the east of the station\n\nThe Caledonian Sleeper train was stopped using an emergency brake after overshooting the platform at Edinburgh Waverley.\n\nThe Northbound Lowlander service ended up several hundred yards to the east of the station after the incident on Thursday.\n\nThe company said its own investigation had revealed the incident was the result of an \"operational mistake\".\n\nAn inspector from the Rail Accident Investigation Branch was sent to the scene to gather evidence.\n\nThe train blocked a junction, halting trains to and from North Berwick, Dunbar, Tweedbank and London.\n\nThe new Caledonian Sleeper cars have been operating on the route to Edinburgh\n\nTSSA union general secretary Manuel Cortes said: \"Clearly this is an incredibly serious situation which calls for nothing less than the grounding of the entire new Sleeper fleet until we have the full details of the what went wrong.\n\n\"No one should be playing fast and loose with faulty brakes on our railways and Serco need to wake up to that fact and act now.\"\n\nRyan Flaherty, Serco's managing director for Caledonian Sleeper, said: \"We are very proud of our train manager who followed the correct processes and deployed the emergency brake to bring the train to a stop during yesterday's incident at Edinburgh Waverley.\n\n\"Our own early investigation indicates there are no technical or safety concerns with the rolling stock and that this was an isolated operational mistake.\n\n\"Following the incident, our new trains ran as normal last night and will do so again this evening.\n\n\"We will continue to work with the relevant authorities to investigate the underlying cause and expect to provide an update next week.\"\n\nA Rail Accident Investigation Branch (RAIB) spokesman said: \"An RAIB inspector was deployed yesterday to gather evidence. We will use this information to decide any further course of action.\"\n\nThe Sleeper service has been besieged with problems since its re-launch and staff recently voted for industrial action in a dispute over \"appalling\" working conditions.", "Did the Liberal Democrats play 'dirty' to win the Brecon and Radnorshire by-election?\n\nJames Cleverly, chairman of the Conservative Party, has accused them of striking a \"backroom deal\" with Plaid Cymru and the Green Party, who did not contest the seat to maximise the remain vote.\n\n\"The Lib Dems with their dirty, backroom deal with Plaid and the greens and others, threw the kitchen sink at this and got a narrow win. And that's disappointing,\" he said.\n\nHowever Lib Dem leader Jo Swinson said her party have long called for a change to the electoral voting system.\n\nShe said: \"We want a voting system where every vote counts but we are having to work with the system we have.\"\n\nJane Dodds overturned an 8,038 majority to beat incumbent Conservative Chris Davies by 1,425 votes.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Belgian car crash survivor: \"I think I am very lucky\"\n\nA Belgian woman found alive after being trapped in her car for six days during the recent heatwave has spoken out about her ordeal.\n\nCorine Bastide, 45, disappeared near Liège on 23 July, two days before temperatures reached 41.7C.\n\nHer car had swerved into a ditch in a remote area, injuring her spine and leaving her unable to exit the car.\n\nThough severely dehydrated, she remained conscious and survived by drinking rainwater.\n\nShe was found on Monday after her family raised the alarm to police, who issued a missing persons alert.\n\nFrom her hospital bed in the city, she told Belgian broadcaster RBTF she thought no-one would find her in what she describes as a \"terrifying heat.\"\n\n\"The first night, my mobile didn't stop ringing. I tried to answer it but I couldn't because my arm was too sore,\" she recalled.\n\n\"The next day, it stopped ringing.\"\n\nShe remembers losing consciousness every time she moved her arms to try to escape. Eventually, after much effort, she managed to open the car door with her foot.\n\n\"The most difficult thing was lying on pieces of glass. I tried to hoist myself up but I had the impression that my back was being torn.\"\n\nThere was no food or drink in her car before the crash, so when it began to rain following the heatwave, she collected rainwater to drink in an empty chewing gum box.\n\n\"I also used a wet branch to create the sensation of moisture in my mouth. But I didn't feel hungry, \" she added.\n\nWhen a car stopped near the roundabout where she went off the road, she cried out for help.\n\n\"'Corine, is it you?' they asked. They knew my name.\"\n\nAmong the drivers was the mother of her son's friend who had seen the missing persons posters and immediately called the emergency services.\n\nShe spoke of her extreme gratitude towards the woman who had saved her.\n\n\"She told me she had been looking for me everywhere. She stayed with me all the time and that woman, I think she is my guardian angel.\"\n\nDespite her horrific ordeal, Ms Bastide says she feels lucky to be alive. Throughout, she never lost hope because she thought of her children.\n\n\"I wanted to live for my children. I didn't want them to ever think that I had made a mistake...\n\n\"It was imperative that I got out of this situation so I could do all of the things I had planned to do with my children. It was they who gave me the strength to carry on.\"\n\nMs Bastide's son told The Times newspaper that she would have to undergo surgery and stay in hospital for several weeks.\n• None Why Europe's heatwaves may become more frequent", "Alana Cutland was studying natural sciences at Robinson College in Cambridge\n\nA Cambridge University student who plunged to her death from a light aircraft in Madagascar \"jumped\" from the plane, police have said.\n\nAlana Cutland, 19, from Milton Keynes in Buckinghamshire, died last week, but her body has still not been found.\n\nPolice Colonel D'y La Paix Ralaivaonary told the BBC she \"fell into a crisis\" which involved \"paranoia\".\n\nHe ruled out any connection to malaria drugs and said: \"It is confirmed that she opened the door and jumped.\"\n\nThe investigation into why Ms Cutland fell from the plane is continuing, but one theory was that she may have suffered a severe adverse reaction to anti-malaria drugs.\n\nThe colonel said: \"We haven't heard about malaria drugs.\n\n\"We investigated but… she had problems. She fell into a crisis - paranoia.\"\n\nThe incident was \"not connected with drugs\", he added.\n\nStudent Ms Cutland was studying natural sciences at Robinson College and was on an internship on the African island at the time of the incident.\n\nAlana Cutland was on an internship in Madagascar when she died\n\nAnother police colonel, Jafisambatra Ravoavy, told the BBC she had opened the door of the plane soon after it took off from a remote airstrip in northern Madagascar, on 25 July.\n\nCol D'y La Paix Ralaivaonary said there had been a struggle on board and another female passenger had tried to stop Ms Cutland jumping, \"but wasn't able\".\n\nThe passenger was now being supported by the British Embassy in the island's capital Antananarivo, he said.\n\nBoth she and the pilot have been interviewed by police.\n\nOfficers are today visiting the hotel where Ms Cutland was staying, he added.\n\nThe cause of her death has not been confirmed by UK authorities.\n\nIn a statement released earlier this week by the Foreign Office her family said they were heartbroken at the death of \"a bright, independent young woman\".\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Amazon’s games streaming platform Twitch has lost one of its biggest stars - to a rival site owned by Microsoft.\n\nTyler Blevins, known to fans as Ninja, had 14.7 million followers on Twitch and mostly played Fortnite.\n\nMixer was launched in 2016, but has lagged behind the popularity of Twitch and YouTube Gaming.\n\nIn a statement, Microsoft said it was “thrilled” to bring Blevins on board.\n\n\"Mixer is a place that was formed around being positive and welcoming from day one, and we look forward to the energy Ninja and his community will bring.”\n\nBlevins, 28, told his fans via Twitter about the move.\n\n\"I have been holding on to this for quite some time,” he said.\n\n\"I’m just super-excited to let everyone know. I’ll be streaming on Mixer full-time now and I’m honestly at a loss for words. I’m freaking out in the best ways. I feel like I’m going to get back to the streaming roots.”\n\nThe financial terms of the deal have not been made public. As well as streaming exclusively on the platform, Blevins will also represent and promote Mixer at events.\n\nIn a peak month, Blevins was making a reported $500,000 streaming on Twitch. The move is likely to divide his fan base, suggested Janko Roettgers from entertainment business magazine, Variety.\n\n\"Ninja has a dedicated fan base, and many will likely tune in, no matter the platform,” he told the BBC.\n\n\"At the same time, the departure is also a chance for other Twitch streamers to scoop up some of the more casual viewers of Ninja's streams.”\n\nAt the time of writing, 80,000 people had subscribed to Blevins's new channel on Mixer.\n\nRoettgers said the signing, probably for a huge amount of money, was a clear signal of intent from Microsoft to catch up in the streaming sector.\n\n\"Microsoft is trying to find new gaming revenue streams that go beyond selling hardware,” he said.\n\nIn a statement following news of Blevin’s departure, Amazon said: \"We’ve loved watching Ninja on Twitch over the years and are proud of all that he’s accomplished for himself and his family and the gaming community.\n\n\"We wish him the best of luck in his future endeavours.\"\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", "Goals Soccer Centres , which runs outdoor football centres in the UK, has uncovered \"improper behaviour\" in the preparation of its financial accounts stretching back to 2010 \"at least\".\n\nThe firm has blamed \"a number of individuals\" for the behaviour.\n\nFollowing the revelations, the company's shares are set to be kicked off the stock exchange.\n\nThe news will be a blow for Sports Direct boss Mike Ashley, who owns a 19% stake in the firm.\n\nGoals said that, as the issues with the accounts stretch back nearly a decade, there was \"material uncertainty\" surrounding its historical financial statements.\n\nDealing in the firm's shares was suspended in March when Goals revealed that \"substantial\" VAT errors were likely to cost it £12m.\n\nAt the time, it said the blunder \"may have an impact on future profitability\", and it delayed the publication of its financial results for last year as it worked to revise them.\n\nIt had until the end of September to release those results but now it expects to miss that deadline.\n\n\"The directors do not now believe this timeframe for the audit is achievable,\" the firm told shareholders.\n\nAs a result Goals no longer expects its shares to resume trading. The listing of its shares on the AIM market is \"expected to cease and cancellation will be effective from 30 September 2019\".\n\nGoals, which has 45 pitches in the UK, said conversations were continuing with HMRC over its tax bill but revealed there had been \"no material developments\" in those talks.\n\nNevertheless, it said UK sales had increased over 11% so far this year. They were up almost 15% in the US where it runs sites in California.\n\nIn January, the East Kilbride-based firm warned on profits after it said that selling food and drink, and offering children's birthday parties, had increased costs as it had to hire more staff.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Shock of no deal would be instant, says Mark Carney\n\nA no-deal Brexit would result in an instant shock to the UK economy, the governor of the Bank of England, Mark Carney, has warned.\n\nItems such as petrol and food would become more expensive if the UK leaves the EU without an agreement, he said.\n\nHe predicted the value of the pound would fall in response to what he described as a \"real economic shock\".\n\n\"The change in trading relationship means that real incomes will be lower,\" he told the BBC's Today programme.\n\nBut he rejected claims that the Bank's decision to cut growth forecasts was gloomy, after former Tory leader Iain Duncan Smith accused him of reviving \"project fear\".\n\nMr Carney said \"you're hard pressed\" to describe the Bank's forecasts in that way.\n\nOn Thursday, the Bank said the economy was expected to grow by 1.3% this year, lower than its earlier projection of 1.5%, if the UK leaves the EU with a deal.\n\nIt did not say what it expected to happen in the case of a no-deal Brexit.\n\nBut Mr Carney told the BBC there was a \"significant possibility\" that a deal would not be struck.\n\n\"The economics of no deal are that the rules of the game for exporting to Europe or importing from Europe fundamentally change,\" he said.\n\nAs a result, he said, \"very big\" and \"highly profitable\" industries in the UK would become \"uneconomic\".\n\nCarmakers are among the firms that could be hardest hit, Mr Carney says.\n\n\"Very difficult decisions will need to be taken,\" he said, explaining that those would have a \"knock-on\" effect on the economy.\n\nHe pointed to carmakers, food manufacturers and chemical firms as some of those that would be hardest hit.\n\n\"These are the sectors that have not been investing,\" he said.\n\n\"One of the reasons why the economy has slowed is that business investment has been very, very weak.\"\n\nBut Mr Carney said the Bank's response to a no-deal Brexit would not be automatic.\n\nHe explained the Bank would look at the effect on the economy of things such as car plant closures as well as a weakening pound before it decided how to respond.\n\n\"We will do everything we can in order to provide support to the economy,\" he said.\n\nBut he warned that a no-deal Brexit would be inflationary.\n\n\"Instantly, you have supply disruptions but you actually have businesses that are no longer economic.\"\n\nLast month, the Office for Budget Responsibility warned that a no-deal Brexit would deal a £29.3bn blow to the UK economy.\n\nIn comments on the front page of Friday's Daily Telegraph, Brexit-backing Mr Duncan Smith renewed his criticism of Mr Carney.\n\nAhead of the referendum in 2016, Mr Carney warned that the UK could fall into a recession if it voted to leave the EU - something that did not happen.\n\nAt the time, Mr Duncan Smith said the Bank of England governor needed to be \"very careful\" about making such comments.\n\nOn Friday, Mr Duncan Smith called Mr Carney \"one of the architects and promoters of 'project fear'\".\n\nBut speaking on the Today programme, Mr Carney said it was \"not helpful\" to deny that leaving \"the most integrated economic relationship in the world\" would have an impact on the economy.", "A preliminary analysis of global temperature data for July suggests it may have \"marginally\" become the warmest month on record.\n\nFigures from the first 29 days of a month in which many countries had heatwaves are \"on a par\" or slightly higher than a record set in July 2016.\n\nThe assessment was carried out by researchers at the EU's Copernicus Climate Change Service (C3S).\n\nConfirmation of a new record must await a full analysis is released on Monday.\n\nScientists say it's the latest sign that Earth is experiencing unprecedented warming.\n\nThe new data compiled by C3S incorporates observations from satellites and ground based stations.\n\nThe July figures are likely to be the highest recorded in the organisation's 40-year dataset.\n\nThey follow on from a global record for June, which was confirmed by data from several different agencies.\n\nAccording to Copernicus, every month this year ranks among the four warmest on record for the month in question.\n\nWhile researchers can't directly link these new high marks to climate change, there is a wide sense among scientists that emissions of carbon dioxide from human activities are altering background temperatures and making new records more likely.\n\nThousands of fire fighters fought blazes in Portugal in July\n\n\"This particular month has been very warm but to me this is not really the main point. The main point is that not only has this month been very warm, but last month was very warm. All months during 2019 have been very warm in terms of comparison with other years,\" Dr Freja Vamborg from Copernicus told BBC News.\n\n\"And that trend is not likely to stop unless we do something about curbing greenhouse gas emissions.\"\n\nWhile July is traditionally the warmest month, this year has seen exceptional heatwaves strike Europe, the US and the Arctic.\n\nNew temperature records were set in Belgium, the Netherlands and Germany as the mercury went above 40C in many places. A new UK heat record was set with 38.7C at Cambridge University's Botanic Garden.\n\nIn the US, millions of people were affected as temperatures soared along the East Coast and in the Midwest. Alaska saw a dramatic surge, with the heat smashing previous records in several cities. In Anchorage, the mercury stayed above 26C for six days in a row, doubling the previous record.\n\nWildfires have raged across the Arctic with millions of hectares burning in northern parts of Russia. India has suffered heatwaves and severe water shortages. Japan saw more than 5,000 people seek hospital treatment due to a heatwave last week.\n\n\"This is yet more evidence that we're heading for a much hotter world if we allow carbon emissions to continue to rise,\" said Dr Katherine Kramer from Christian Aid.\n\n\"For many people in the developing world this has been a reality for some time but now heat records are tumbling across high-emitting, developed countries like the UK.\n\n\"If the new prime minister needed a reminder that he can't ignore climate change, this July has shown that the UK won't escape a heating planet. We need to move fast and put policies in place that act on Parliament's recognition that we are in a climate emergency.\"\n\nAccording to the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (Noaa), July 2016 was the highest in a record that dates back to 1880.\n\nNoaa says that nine of the 10 warmest Julys on record have occurred during the 21st Century, with only one year from the 20th century, that being 1998.\n\nThe US space agency (Nasa) takes a slightly different perspective. Their data shows July 2016 and July 2017 in a statistical tie for warmest month.\n\nFigures for July 2019 from these agencies will be released in the next couple of weeks.", "The searing July heatwave that hit Europe last week was made both more likely and more intense by human-induced climate change, scientists say.\n\nA rapid attribution study says that heating added up to 3C to the intensity of the event that scorched the UK, France and the Netherlands.\n\nIn France, the heatwave was made at least 10 times and up to 100 times more likely by human activities.\n\nThe shorter event in the UK was made at least twice as likely, experts say.\n\nThe World Weather Attribution Group has carried out a number of similar studies in recent years to work out the impact of climate change on extreme events.\n\nThis new report looks at the July heatwave that saw temperatures soar above 40C in many countries including Belgium, France and the Netherlands.\n\nIn Paris, the mercury smashed through a historic high of 40.4C. It beat the record by more than 2 degrees, to the new mark of 42.6C.\n\nIn the UK, the heat event only lasted 1-2 days but a new record was set at Cambridge University's botanic garden with 38.7C.\n\nResearchers combined information from both long term temperature observations and climate models to look at how the events would have unfolded with or without the human influence on the climate.\n\nSo when they look at France they can say that the chances of having a heatwave like the one that struck last week were made more likely by at least a factor of 10, but could in fact have been up to 100 times.\n\n\"We conclude that such an event would have had an extremely small probability to occur (less than about once every 1,000 years) without climate change in France,\" the study says.\n\nThe picture across Europe was the same say researchers.\n\n\"Every European heatwave we and others have analysed was found to be made much more likely and more intense due to human-induced climate change, so it was not surprising that climate change played a role,\" said Dr Friederike Otto, acting director of the Environmental Change Institute at the University of Oxford.\n\nDrought has hit many parts of France\n\n\"But how much more likely the heatwave is depends very strongly on the event definition: location, season, intensity and duration. This July 2019 heatwave was so extreme over continental Western Europe that the observed magnitudes would have been extremely unlikely without climate change.\"\n\nThe researchers say the intensity of the heatwave was increased by between 1.5 and 3C.\n\n\"When I bicycled home from work last week it was still 37.1 degrees,\" said co-author Dr Geert Jan van Oldenborgh, from KNMI in the Netherlands.\n\n\"I would have felt a difference at 34C - you don't need a thermometer anymore to notice a difference.\"\n\nWhile the event lasted little more than a day in the UK, the researchers estimate that climate change made it at least twice as likely. The impact on intensity was estimated to be between 1.5 and 2.5C.\n\nThe researchers also talk about the likely return period of these events - meaning the chances of having another one of the same magnitude. For Cambridge they estimate it's 30 years.\n\n\"A return period of 30 years like in Cambridge, means that every year in the current climate you have about 3% chance of having a heatwave like that,\" says Dr van Oldenborgh.\n\nWildfires in Portugal were one of many consequences of extreme heat across Europe\n\n\"It was much smaller in the old climate and every year that we keep on emitting CO2 the probability of having a heatwave like that will just increase.\"\n\nOne problem that the researchers keep encountering when they carry out these rapid attribution studies is the fact that the climate models they are using underestimate the high temperature observations that are being made in the real world.\n\n\"We know for 10 years or so that the models have problems with these relatively short, very intense events,\" says Geert Jan van Oldenborgh.\n\n\"They have been designed to simulate global mean temperatures and large scale heat patterns, they have not been designed to get heatwaves right.\n\n\"Everybody now agrees that this needs to be figured out, because the trend in heatwaves is just so much higher than the model trend.\"", "The Aberthaw Power Station in the Vale of Glamorgan has been operating since 1971\n\nWales' last coal-fired power station looks set to close in March due to \"market conditions\", putting about 170 jobs at risk.\n\nRWE said it was proposing closing the 1.56-megawatt Aberthaw B Power Station in Vale of Glamorgan on 31 March.\n\nIt will now consult staff and their representatives but the closure would not affect the amount of energy provided to the market, RWE said.\n\nThe Unite union said it was asking for an urgent meeting with management.\n\nThe plant, which opened in 1971 at a cost of more than £50m, was due to remain in operation until 2021.\n\nIt used 3.5 million tonnes of coal in 2013, but that amount had fallen significantly by the time RWE decided to only generate electricity when needed, such as in the winter months, from April 2017.\n\n\"This is a difficult time for everyone at Aberthaw Power Station,\" said Roger Miesen, CEO of RWE Generation.\n\n\"However, market conditions made this decision necessary.\"\n\nThe closure will put 170 jobs at risk\n\nUnite's regional officer Kelvin Mawer said: \"We will be asking for an urgent meeting with the management of RWE Generation for them to explain the earlier than expected closure of the plant.\n\n\"We want to know why the closure of the plant has been brought forward to next March from the anticipated date of 2021.\"\n\nIn 2016, the European Court of Justice (ECJ) found the Aberthaw plant had been emitting illegal levels of pollution.\n\nFriends of the Earth, which has long called for the plant's closure, welcomed the announcement and called for more investment in green energy.\n\nHaf Elgar, director of Friends of the Earth Cymru, said: \"The writing's on the wall for the coal industry - we cannot keep burning fossil fuels in a climate emergency and we must stop now.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Incidents involving pyrotechnics have shown the most alarming increase between seasons\n\nFootball fans have been warned that unacceptable conduct inside grounds will not be tolerated next season.\n\nClubs and police have promised a crackdown following a rise in incidents during the last campaign.\n\nPlayers and officials were targeted by coins, missiles and fireworks were thrown onto the pitch and sectarian chanting was reported.\n\nBBC Scotland has learned that a number of clubs have upgraded CCTV and increased security as a result.\n\nOther clubs have stepped up fan engagement around the issue of unacceptable conduct and launched initiatives to promote inclusion and tolerance.\n\nLast season Police Scotland recorded offensive/sectarian singing at 84 matches , compared with 75 incidents the previous season\n\nIncidents involving pyrotechnics showed the most alarming increase. Smoke bombs or flares were set off at 81 matches last season, compared to 42 the season before.\n\nPolce have previously warned it is only a \"matter of time\" before someone is killed by a pyrotechnic at a football match\n\n\"They put people in danger,\" said Assistant Chief Constable Bernard Higgins.\n\n\"Somebody could be seriously injured or killed if a pyro lands near them.\n\n\"It's the same with smoke bombs - if smoke bombs engulf an area in the stadium, that can cause breathing difficulties for people or panic that could lead to crushing.\"\n\nIn a bid to combat the problem, clubs like Hibernian and Hamilton Academical will deploy specialist sniffer dogs outside their grounds in the season ahead.\n\nThey know it is a difficult balancing act between maintaining the safety of supporters and appearing too heavy-handed.\n\nOne of most highlighted issues last season was coins and missiles being thrown onto the pitch.\n\nPlayers, managers and officials were all targeted at various matches, leading to the players' union to call for urgent action from the governing bodies.\n\nLinesman Calum Spence suffered a wound to his head after a coin was thrown during a match between Livingston and Rangers in 2018\n\n\"It was highlighted a lot last season, for the right reasons obviously - it's not good enough,\" he said.\n\n\"There's people's health and safety at risk but I think clubs are working with the police and hopefully we can sort it out.\n\n\"We've got to remember there are tens of thousands of fans go to games and it's the small minority who are painting the game in a bad light.\"\n\nThe problem of sectarian chanting was also on the rise last year but clubs like Rangers have been proactive with a recent high-profile campaign to push and promote inclusion at Ibrox.\n\nThere is also a feeling that fans are more likely to self-police.\n\n\"The tolerance levels of people attending football is much lower now,\" said Assistant Chief Constable Higgins.\n\n\"It's not unusual for fans to be pointing out to stewards or police officers, people who they think are behaving in an unacceptable manner.\"\n\nClubs have resisted an approach known as strict liability which would make them accountable for the negative actions of fans.\n\nThe SPFL has also refused to release its own data on unacceptable behaviour which could give a broader picture of the scale of the problem.\n\nBBC Scotland asked the SPFL for an interview on the matter but the league body refused.\n\nThe Scottish government has seen the figures but is unable to publish them due to a secrecy agreement it signed with the SPFL.\n\nJustice Secretary Humza Yousaf was urged to make the data public earlier this year.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Jakarta residents wait anxiously in the streets after the quake\n\nA powerful quake off the Indonesian island of Java has rattled the capital Jakarta but there appear to have been no major casualties or damage.\n\nA tsunami warning after the quake, recorded by US monitors as being magnitude 6.9, was later cancelled.\n\nThe quake struck at a depth of 52.8km (33 miles) at 19:03 (12:03 GMT).\n\nIndonesia has a history of devastating earthquakes and tsunamis with more than 2,000 killed last September on the island of Sulawesi.\n\nThe Indian Ocean tsunami of 2004 killed 170,000 people on the Indonesian island of Sumatra after a quake of magnitude 9.1.\n\n\"The chandelier in my apartment was shaking and I just ran from the 19th floor,\" Jakarta resident Elisa, 50, told AFP news agency.\n\n\"Everybody else ran too. It was a really strong jolt and I was very scared.\"\n\nAnother Jakarta resident, Rosa Erta, told Reuters news agency: \"It was so strong, the lights and clothes hangers were rocking. I felt it strong. I was so scared, I ran down the stairs.\"", "Last year Flt Lt McInnes was taken for a flight in a two-seater Spitfire over Kent\n\nA Battle of Britain veteran has died hours after celebrating his 100th birthday, taking the number of surviving members of \"The Few\" to five, his biographer said.\n\nArchie McInnes, who retired to Cambridge, flew Hurricanes during the battle in the skies over southern England.\n\nHe completed his pilot training aged 21 and was commissioned the next day.\n\nHe celebrated his 100th birthday on Wednesday. He then died that night.\n\nHis biographer and friend, Jonny Cracknell, wrote of his sadness of the \"hero\" passing:\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nHe had earlier written to wish Flt Lt McInnes a happy birthday, noting that he was the \"last of the six remaining Battle of Britain 'Few' to become a centenarian\".\n\nThose who fought in the three-and-a-half-month Battle of Britain came to be known as The Few after a speech by prime minister Winston Churchill.\n\nThe former leader said of their sacrifices in battle: \"Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few.\"\n\nThe British victory marked a turning point in World War Two, but by the end of the battle 544 RAF pilots and aircrew had died.\n\nArchie McInnes flew a Hurricane in the Battle of Britain\n\nThe veteran pilot flew Hurricanes with 601 Squadron in Exeter, later moving to 238 Squadron at Chilbolton, Hampshire, on 8 October 1940.\n\nAfter the Battle of Britain ended on 31 October 1940 he was on board HMS Victorious as part of the team hunting for German battleship the Bismarck.\n\nFrom April 1941, Flt Lt McInnes was part of the North African campaign where he flew various missions including providing cover for bombers.\n\nHe was shot down by a Messerschmitt fighter plane on October 30 1941 and lost his left arm.\n\nHe was released from the RAF in 1946 as a flight lieutenant and eventually retired to village life just outside Cambridge.\n\nArchie McInnes was a pilot with 601 Squadron in Exeter, later moving to 238 Squadron at Chilbolton, Hampshire", "The Sikh Sewa Society, who are known for feeding Manchester's homeless, have been at Whaley Bridge today handing out food and drink to emergency workers.\n\nThis has brought praise from Buxton Mountain Rescue Team, who tweeted: \"The generosity of the public is very humbling.\n\n\"Thank you to the Sikh Sewa Organisation, who kindly travelled from Manchester to donate some tasty dishes.\n\n\"You guys are all helping to keep our volunteers going during their long shifts at Whaley Bridge. It’s greatly appreciated.\"", "The number of tourists visiting the UK from China has risen by almost a fifth this summer, the latest figures show.\n\nTravel data firm ForwardKeys said that summer flight bookings from long-haul markets were also 6% higher than in the same period last year.\n\nIt credited the weakness of the pound for boosting tourists' spending power.\n\nThis week sterling hit a 31-month low against the dollar amid increasing speculation the UK could leave the EU without a deal.\n\n\"This summer is likely to see the highest number of Chinese tourists to the UK ever,\" said ForwardKeys spokesman David Tarsh.\n\nHe added that the number of Indian tourists was ahead by 20%, with Japan at 10% and the USA at 5%.\n\nSarah Hewin, chief economist for Europe and the Americas at Standard Chartered, said the low pound meant visitors would be feeling wealthier.\n\n\"The fall in the value of the pound against China's currency [the renminbi] means that Chinese tourists coming to the UK have seen their spending power increase by around 5% in the past three months.\"\n\nThis tallies with what Patricia Yates, a director at the UK's tourism promotion agency Visit Britain, is seeing on the ground.\n\n\"The UK is offering great value for inbound visitors right now which gives us a valuable opportunity including in Europe, where we are already running a campaign to promote travel to the UK during the summer.\"\n\nStaycations are also boosting the industry.\n\nThe regional tourist office Welcome to Yorkshire finds that tourism is thriving in the area. Commercial director Peter Dodd said: \"We're hearing from lots of our accommodation members, especially cottages, lodges and other self-catering properties, that business is booming with some already fully booked until October.\"\n\nOne of those is Diane Howarth who runs the holiday letting company Cottage in the Dales and is having a record year.\n\n\"We're at 87% occupancy for the year already, which is much earlier than in previous years. Brexit uncertainty is causing people to choose holidays in Britain this year, which is good news for us.\"\n\nBut when it comes to European visitors, Visit Britain says there is some concern about the impact that the uncertainty of Brexit is having.\n\nThe latest ONS tourism stats showed that visits from Europe to the UK were relatively flat from January to March this year - up just 2% compared to the same period last year.\n\nThey are running a campaign in Europe to persuade people that the UK will still be a good place to visit after it leaves the European Union.\n\nHowever anecdotally, some businesses like Mrs Howarth's Cottage in the Dales are seeing seeing a rise in EU visitors.\n\n\"We're getting repeat bookings from fans of the Tour de Yorkshire race, but also seeing new interest from people in the Netherlands and Germany for example, who are taking advantage of the weaker pound to come and visit this beautiful part of the world in person\"", "The crime drama stars Cillian Murphy as Thomas Shelby, leader of the Peaky Blinders gang\n\nThe first official Peaky Blinders-themed festival will take place in Birmingham in September.\n\nIt will feature live music from Mercury Prize nominees Anna Calvi and Nadine Shah and Scots rockers Primal Scream.\n\nA similar event last year, which was not approved by the makers of the show, reportedly left some fans unhappy.\n\n\"I wanted to put together a festival sanctioned by us but not to comment on anybody else's attempt,\" creator and writer Steven Knight told BBC News.\n\nThe Legitimate Peaky Blinders Festival will be held in Birmingham, where the show is set, on 14-15 September.\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 This article contains content provided by Google YouTube. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Google’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. YouTube content may contain adverts.\n\nThe BBC drama follows the fortunes of the Shelby crime family, starring Cillian Murphy as leader Tommy Shelby. The music lover recently guest-presented several shows on BBC 6 Music.\n\nThe event will see 200 actors recreate Peaky Blinders scenes live in the historic streets, warehouses and factories of Digbeth. There will also be fashion shows and a specially commissioned dance performance by renowned company Rambert.\n\nThe line-up for the five music stages includes Mike Skinner aka The Streets and Anna Calvi, who scored the fifth series of Peaky Blinders, which starts on BBC One later in the year.\n\nCalvi worked on the score for the fifth series of the programme\n\nShe said in a statement she was \"thrilled to be performing\", adding that the score was \"a major project for me this year and I'm excited to be bringing a special one-off version of my show to the festival\".\n\nMusic has played a part in the show's success, with Nick Cave's track Red Right Hand played over the opening credits.\n\n\"There is some music that is Peaky and some music that isn't,\" said Knight. \"It's a bit of an intangible [thing], but just know when you hear it and so we put together bands that feel right.\n\n\"I've never been able to define why it is that sometimes you hear a beautiful Irish folk song sung in a really beautiful melodic way and it's still right. I think what connects all of those things is the words. The lyrics tease you into this slightly mystical, slightly dark, threatening place, which is where the Peakys live.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Peaky Blinders premiere: Global fans explain why they love the show\n\nKnight is reluctant to share many details of the fifth series, which premiered to a select audience at Birmingham Town Hall in July, an event that saw 83,000 people apply to attend.\n\nWe do know the new series will see Tommy struggling to balance the demands of a criminal empire with his new role as an MP, and features - as a new character - Oswald Mosley, the founder of the British Fascist Party.\n\nThe 1920s-set drama is shown in 83 countries around the world, and its popularity has led to unauthorised spin-offs like last year's unofficial festival and a theme bar in Manchester.\n\nBut Knight said he had been \"absolutely heartened and thrilled by the response of Peaky fans\" who have made artwork and other tributes to the show on their own.\n\n\"We weren't doing anything, they were doing it themselves,\" he said. \"They've done incredible artwork and tattoos and graffiti on walls and it's been wonderful because it just means people have really responded to the show.\"\n\nShelby has puffed his way through more than 3,000 cigarettes\n\nWhat will be unchanged for Tommy Shelby in series five is his nicotine habit, Knight said. Murphy is estimated to have smoked more than 3,000 (herbal) cigarettes in the line of duty.\n\nFollowing a report that suggested that Netflix showed \"much more tobacco\" than on US TV or cable, the streaming service - which is not bound by traditional broadcasting rules - has pledged to cut back on how often smoking is shown in its original shows.\n\nThe first four series of Peaky Blinders are available on Netflix, as well as on the BBC iPlayer in the UK. According to Knight, it's all about historical accuracy.\n\n\"The key is in the fact that we're trying to be as true to that world as possible, you know, and that's what people did,\" he said. \"People did smoke a lot in those days. And that's what we're reflecting in the same way that we wouldn't have a modern car on the street.\"\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Mady Gardner from Austin, Texas, was born without a left arm below her elbow. The 'Hero Arm' assists her with everyday living and tenses the same muscles as a biological hand.", "Rescue workers have been searching around Bracklinn Falls\n\nA 23-year-old woman has died after getting into difficulty at a waterfall in Stirlingshire.\n\nAn air ambulance helicopter along with other emergency services were called to Bracklinn Falls in Callander at about 11:30.\n\nThe Coastguard and rescue teams landed at nearby Callander golf course.\n\nPolice said two women were rescued from the water - one, aged 25, was assessed by paramedics but did not require hospital treatment.\n\nHowever, the other woman was pronounced dead at the scene.\n\nParamedics worked with others from the emergency services\n\nA Police Scotland spokesman said: \"The death is being treated as unexplained, but not suspicious, and a report has been submitted to the procurator fiscal.\n\n\"Our thoughts are with her family and friends at this difficult time.\"\n\nThe Coastguard helicopter is part of the search team\n\nThe helicopters landed at Callander golf course", "Dinosaur footprints are among Skye's important fossils from the Middle Jurassic\n\nDinosaur and other animal fossil sites in Skye have been given new legal protection in a bid to deter unscrupulous collectors.\n\nThe isle is internationally recognised for its fossils of creatures that lived more than 165 million years ago.\n\nBut some of the prehistoric locations have been badly damaged by collectors removing valuable specimens.\n\nThe Scottish government has issued a Nature Conservation Order (NCO) for Skye's sites.\n\nIt is an offence to breach an NCO.\n\nFossils can only be removed for scientific purposes or to preserve them, with consent of Scottish Natural Heritage (SNH).\n\nResidents of Skye have been encouraged to report suspicious activity at the sites as part of the new effort.\n\nDubbed Scotland's \"Dinosaur Isle\", Skye is rich in fossils from the Middle Jurassic.\n\nFinds include the earliest turtles known to have lived in water. The reptile fossils were found on a beach on the Strathaird peninsula.\n\nStudies of dinosaur footprints at Valtos have been used by palaeontologists to explain Australia's \"Dino stampede\", a large number of prints believed to have been made by small dinosaurs possibly fleeing from a predator..\n\nEvidence of a small Jurassic mammal has also been found in the island. The jaw of the shrew-like Borealestes serendipitus was discovered more than 40 years ago, the first time such a find had been made of the animal.\n\nRecent discoveries include what could be the remains of flying reptiles, or pterosaurs.\n\nA number of important fossils are held in the care of the island's Staffin Museum, but many have already been lost or damaged.\n\nIn 2011, tonnes of rock were dug away from cliffs near Bearreraig Bay, north of Portree, in an apparent organised search for valuable specimens.\n\nFossils smashed by collectors seeking more valuable specimens in 2011\n\nDinosaur footprints were also removed from Valtos.\n\nIn 2016, an attempt to take a plaster cast of a dinosaur footprint at An Corran risked significant damage to the fossil.\n\nNatural Environment Minister Mairi Gougeon has authorised the new protection order.\n\nShe said: \"Skye lays claim to the most significant dinosaur discoveries of Scotland's Jurassic past and this Nature Conservation Order is a vital step in protecting and preserving this important part of our natural heritage for future generations.\n\n\"The order gives extra legal protection to these special sites whilst providing for important artefacts to be collected responsibly for science and public exhibition.\"\n\nThere are concerns Skye's fossils could be lost to unscrupulous collectors\n\nGeologist Colin MacFadyen, of SNH, said the NCO covered an area of coastline with 165 million year old rocks.\n\nHe said: \"It is crucial that the footprints and actual skeletal remains of dinosaurs and other vertebrates that are being revealed by nature are protected.\n\n\"These fabulous fossil finds can help answer crucial questions about ancient ecosystems and pave the way for exciting advances in our understanding of vertebrate evolution.\"", "The new hospital has faced a number of delays\n\nA health board is paying millions of pounds to a private consortium for a hospital it cannot use.\n\nThe new children's hospital in Edinburgh was due to open in July, but last-minute inspections found safety concerns over its ventilation systems.\n\nNHS Lothian has confirmed repayments for the hospital - the equivalent of about £1.4m a month - started when it took over the facility in February.\n\nIt is not known when the hospital will be ready to open to patients.\n\nThe new Sick Children's Hospital cost about £150m to build, but its full price tag over the next 25 years, including maintenance and facilities management fees, will be £432m.\n\nUnder the terms of the contract, repayments - which would average about £1.4m a month - began in February when NHS Lothian took possession of the site from private consortium IHSL.\n\nThe deal with IHSL to design, build, finance and maintain the new hospital was under the Non-Profit Distributing (NPD) system, the Scottish government's version of controversial private financing models such as PFI.\n\nThe existing hospital, in the Sciennes area of Edinburgh, remains open - but it has been sold to student housing firm Downing, and it is unclear when the developer wants to take possession of the site.\n\nTom Waterson, chairman of Unison Scotland's health committee, said: \"To add to the serious health and safety concerns in this project, we now find out there is a serious financial penalty for this farce.\n\n\"Every penny is a prisoner in that health board just now and to find out we are paying millions of pounds for a hospital we can't use is nothing short of scandalous.\n\n\"We need a full independent public inquiry into what has gone wrong. It can't be left to the Scottish government because they are involved.\"\n\nLast month a full safety review into the delayed Sick Children's Hospital was ordered by the Scottish government. It also announced private consultants KPMG had been hired to establish the factors which led to the delay.\n\nA spokesman for the Scottish government said: \"The health secretary has been clear that her first priority is patient safety, and that all necessary actions are taken to allow the move to go ahead as quickly and safely as possible.\n\n\"In addition, the health secretary has confirmed that KPMG have been engaged to conduct an independent audit of the governance arrangements for the new hospital, and to provide an external and impartial assessment of the factors leading to the delay.\"\n\nOther safety reviews will be made at other recently completed major NHS facilities across Scotland.\n\nThis will include the Queen Elizabeth University Hospital in Glasgow, which was built by the same contractor and has also experienced problems with ventilation systems.\n\nThe NHS-led review is due to be finished by September and unions fear it will be next year before the Edinburgh hospital is ready to be fully occupied.\n\nThere are concerns over water, ventilation and drainage systems at the facility.\n\nThe new hospital will provide care for children and young people\n\nUnder the terms of the NPD contract, the design of the hospital had to be signed off by NHS Lothian before construction by IHSL got under way.\n\nIt is thought the review will focus on whether the ventilation problem is down to the original design, or the implementation of the agreed design.\n\nAn NHS Lothian spokeswoman said: \"The annual service payment started when the building was handed over to the board in February.\"\n\nThe health board has previously said that until checks are completed, and a timeline for the ventilation work is known, it is not possible to estimate when the 233-bed hospital could be fully occupied. However, a partial migration of services might be possible.\n\nA spokesman for the consortium that built the hospital said: \"Our works on the hospital were signed off as complete by the Independent Certifier on 22nd February 2019, when we handed over the building into the possession and operation of NHS Lothian.\n\n\"To the extent that any modifications to the building are now deemed necessary, we will provide such assistance to NHS Lothian as may be required.\"", "Nato Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg told the BBC time is running out to save the key missile treaty\n\nTime is running out to save a key nuclear missile treaty with Russia, Nato Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg has told the BBC.\n\nMr Stoltenberg pledged a \"measured, defensive\" response if Russia did not come back into compliance with the deal by the 2 August deadline.\n\n\"We have to be prepared for a world... with more Russian missiles,\" he said.\n\nThe 1987 agreement signed by the US and USSR banned short and medium-range nuclear missiles.\n\nPresident Trump announced the US would suspend its obligations under the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty in February, accusing Russia of breaching its terms.\n\nRussia denied the allegation but suspended its own obligations shortly afterwards and announced plans to develop new weapons systems.\n\nIn a wide-ranging interview with the BBC, Mr Stoltenberg says the Russian missiles - which he says are in \"clear violation of the treaty\" - are nuclear capable, mobile, very hard to detect, and able to reach European cities within a few minutes.\n\n\"This is serious. The INF treaty has been a corner stone in arms control for decades and now we see the demise of the treaty,\" he said.\n\nWhile the priority was to get Russia to come back into compliance with its terms, Mr Stoltenberg said there were \"no signs whatsoever\" the country will do so. \"Therefore we have to be prepared for a world without the INF treaty and with more Russian missiles.\"\n\nSoviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev and US President Ronald Reagan signed the INF Treaty in 1987\n\nWhile Nato has no plan to deploy nuclear land-based missiles of its own in Europe, Mr Stoltenberg said the alliance would respond in a \"measured, defensive way\" if Russia refused to come back into compliance by 2 August.\n\nConventional air and missile defence, new exercises and readiness of forces, and new arms control initiatives could all form part of that response, he said. Any final decision will come after the deadline.\n\nMr Stoltenberg also addressed Russia's delivery of its advanced S-400 missile defence system to Nato member Turkey last week.\n\nThe US says it will remove Turkey from its F-35 fighter jet programme in response. Ankara has recently moved closer to Moscow, raising tensions between Turkey and the US.\n\n\"It is a serious issue because it is a serious disagreement which involves two important allies,\" Mr Stoltenberg said. Nato supports efforts to resolve the disagreement, he added, while praising Turkey's key role in the organisation.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe secretary general also praised efforts among members to raise their defence budgets to a target of 2% of their budgets. US President Donald Trump has repeatedly called on other members to contribute more to the organisation in recent years.\n\n\"We have turned a corner - the picture is much better than it was just a few years ago, and I am quite optimistic that allies will continue to invest more,\" he said. Eight member states are expected to reach the target in 2019.\n\nMore recently, Mr Trump has also called on US allies to avoid using technology provided by Chinese tech firm Huawei, arguing the company is a security risk - something China denies.\n\nMr Stoltenberg said the alliance was drawing up new guidelines to tackle the issue, so members can have some \"minimum agreed standards or guidelines for how to deal with these challenges\".", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Willenhall Holiday Inn has been 'almost completely destroyed' in a fire\n\nA Holiday Inn has been ravaged by fire that tore through hotel rooms and sent up smoke that could be seen from miles around.\n\nThe building has been almost completely destroyed, according to one emergency crew.\n\nMore than 50 firefighters fought the \"severe\" blaze at the hotel in Walsall close to the M6 motorway.\n\nThe fire is believed to have started in the sauna at the site on Wolverhampton Road West in Willenhall at 15:50 BST.\n\nNeil Griffiths, incident commander at the scene, said the blaze caused \"devastation\".\n\nHe said: \"We want to restore everything back to normality, find out what the cause of the fire is... and we are going to be here for a considerable amount of time due to the size of the building.\n\n\"The smoke shouldn't affect any of the surrounding houses but it would be advisable, if you're in the vicinity, to keep your windows and doors shut for the rest of the evening.\"\n\nThe hotel says all staff and guests are accounted for\n\nHotel staff evacuated the two-storey building and carried out a roll call, according to West Midlands Fire Service.\n\nA Holiday Inn spokesperson said: \"We can confirm that our guests and employees have been accounted for and no-one has been injured.\"\n\nIntense flames could be seen at the building's windows\n\nFootage shared by emergency services shows burnt-out sections of the roof and fierce flames.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nCrews informed Highways England of the fire due to a large amount of smoke close to junction 10 of the M6.\n\nThere have been no reports of major traffic disruption, although police are understood to be overseeing road closures close to the site.\n\nThis photograph of the smoke was taken by a passenger in a car on the M6\n\nWest Midlands Ambulance Service - which shared drone footage of the surrounding area - said the building was almost completely destroyed.\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\nAccording to social media reports, smoke could be spotted from Wolverhampton city centre and Romsley in Bromsgrove, Worcestershire.\n\nSmoke as it looked neighbouring the scene\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Parish councillor Charles Lawley went to Chapel-en-le-Frith leisure centre to help evacuated residents\n\nThere's nothing like a crisis to show you what people are made of.\n\nAnd the people of Whaley Bridge, in Derbyshire, forced to evacuate their town due to Toddbrook Reservoir's crumbling dam wall, have found the kindness of strangers invaluable.\n\nMany have spoken warmly of the community spirit within the town itself, as well as the offers of help from charities, hotels and neighbouring communities.\n\nPhilip Jupp, a resident for 30 years who has left his home to stay with family, requires regular kidney dialysis.\n\nMuslim-led charity Penny Appeal have delivered sandbags, toiletries, sleeping bags and blankets the people of Whaley Bridge\n\n\"I'm fortunate that I dialysed yesterday but I'll need to be on dialysis again by Saturday or I might get a little bit ill,\" he said.\n\n\"I'm sure I'll be all right. People have been so kind - so helpful.\n\n\"We are quite stalwart in Derbyshire. People are calm and getting on with trying to cope in this extreme situation.\"\n\nVolunteers and emergency services staff have been praised for their response\n\nAs residents were informed they had to be evacuated, people in surrounding communities begin to offer spare rooms on social media.\n\nBev Goodwin lives three miles (5km) away in Chapel-en-le-Frith, and has put up her mum and dad, Joy and Steve, and two friends - Susie and Angela from Whaley Bridge.\n\nJoy said: \"I'm very lucky that we could get to Bev.\n\n\"We have nothing. No clothes, no toothbrush, nothing.\"\n\nBev Goodwin is putting up her family and friends\n\nTeams of firefighters worked through the night to pump water out of the reservoir\n\nAbout 20 people, including emergency workers, spent a free night at The Palace Hotel in Buxton, which was expecting more to arrive on Friday and said it was \"all hands on deck\".\n\nAs well as offers of a place to stay, supplies of food and drink were also brought in to give evacuees some sustenance.\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 The Shady Oak Country Inn 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. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nAs might be expected on such a dramatic day, there were odd moments of panic, as Barry Rudd wrote on the Whaley Bridge Facebook page.\n\n\"In true British style there was a minor crisis in that we run out milk for the copious amounts of tea that hundreds of crew get though,\" it said.\n\n\"Well done to all those that turned up to volunteer.\"\n\nLocal communities have rallied around residents of Whaley Bridge\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.", "Alana Cutland was studying natural sciences at Robinson College in Cambridge\n\nA Cambridge University student fell to her death in Madagascar after opening the door of a small plane in mid-air, police have said.\n\nAlana Cutland, 19, from Milton Keynes in Buckinghamshire, died last week, the Foreign Office confirmed.\n\nPolice on the African island said it was not yet clear why she opened the door of the light aircraft.\n\nOne theory being investigated is that she may have suffered a severe reaction to anti-malaria drugs.\n\nHer family said they were heartbroken at the death of \"a bright, independent young woman\".\n\nJafisambatra Ravoavy, a police colonel, confirmed to the BBC Ms Cutland had opened the door of the plane soon after it took off from a remote airstrip in northern Madagascar, on 25 July.\n\nShe was studying natural sciences at Robinson College and was on an internship on the island.\n\nThe cause of her death has not been confirmed by UK authorities.\n\nPolice are using a helicopter and ground teams to search for her body.\n\nAlana Cutland was on an internship in Madagascar when she died\n\nIn a statement, her family said she was a talented dancer with a sense of adventure \"who lit up every room she walked in to, and made people smile just by being there\".\n\n\"She was always so kind and supportive to her family and friends, which resulted in her having a very special connection with a wide network of people from all walks of her life, who we know will miss her dearly,\" they said.\n\nDr David Woodman, from Robinson College, said they were \"deeply shocked by the news of Alana's death\" and sent condolences to her family.\n\n\"In her two years here, she made a huge contribution to many different aspects of life in the college - she will be sorely missed by us all,\" he said.\n\nMadagascar is an island off the south-east coast of Africa, famed for its unique wildlife.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Ed Sheeran has thanked his fans after breaking a tour record set by U2.\n\nThe singer-songwriter's Divide tour will be officially the biggest, most attended and highest grossing of all time when he plays in Germany later.\n\nHe wrote on Instagram: \"Thanks so much for each and every one of you who have come to a show. 12 shows left, will never forget it x.\"\n\nThe tour began in March 2017 and will culminate at Chantry Park in Sheeran's local town Ipswich later this month.\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\nBy the time the finale comes around he will have spent 893 days on the road, compared to the 760 days U2 toured.\n\nAccording to trade publication Pollstar, the Divide tour's final show tally is 255 compared with U2's 100 dates on their 360 Tour.\n\nSheeran also surpassed Bono and co's tour attendance record of 7.3 million with a gig in France in May.\n\nThe volume of Divide shows was the key to breaking the record despite Sheeran's lower average of 34,541 per show, nearly half of U2's 66,091.\n\nSheeran's manager Stuart Camp said the achievement was \"truly incredible\".\n\n\"I don't think there's much of a coincidence that my favourite band growing up was U2. I'm not putting us at that level because they've obviously maintained their career for much longer, but to even be in the same ballpark as them or spoken in the same sentence with a touring act like that is very humbling.\"\n\nThe 28-year-old is also enjoying a third week at the top of the UK album charts with his latest offering, No.6 Collaborations Project, which features some of his famous friends including Justin Bieber, Bruno Mars and Eminem.\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.", "Veteran MP Frank Field, who resigned the Labour whip last year, is to stand for a new party at the next General Election.\n\nMr Field, 77, who has been MP for Birkenhead for 40 years, said he would defend his seat as the Birkenhead Social Justice Party candidate.\n\nAnnouncing his plans at Birkenhead town hall, he said: \"Reports of my political death have been wildly exaggerated.\"\n\nHe quit Labour in August saying it had become \"a force for anti-Semitism\".\n\nThe MP also blamed a \"culture of intolerance, nastiness and intimidation\" in local parties.\n\nA specialist on welfare issues, Mr Field has chaired the Commons Work and Pensions Committee since 2017.\n\nHe said he would continue to campaign for social justice and was preparing a manifesto based on the views of people in Birkenhead.\n\nHe said: \"I will be standing again as a candidate at the next election with the aim of doing what I have done for 40 years: always putting the interests of our town and our country first while championing the views and interests of the underdogs in our society.\"\n\nSome would say Frank Field has never really fit into the Labour Party.\n\nHe had some good things to say about Margaret Thatcher, for example, and famously fell out with Tony Blair and Gordon Brown. And he supported the Leave campaign ahead of the 2016 referendum.\n\nHe tells me his relationship with the parliamentary Labour group hasn't changed - but locally it's been a different story, with many well-publicised rows and several Labour ward councillors quitting the party.\n\nThe people I spoke to in Birkenhead's Hamilton Square had all heard of Frank Field, and most spoke warmly of him. Would they vote for him, after a lifetime of voting Labour? \"yeah, why not? He's a Birkenhead fella,\" said one.\n\nAhead of this announcement, former party members told me that if anyone could win as an independent candidate against Labour on Merseyside, it would be Frank Field.\n\nBut one Labour member told me - he's yesterday's man, with a poor track record on bringing jobs to the town.\n\nHowever, they all agree that for the first time in four decades, the safe Labour seat of Birkenhead will be one to watch at the next general election.\n\nA month before his resignation last year, he lost a confidence vote in his constituency party, after siding with the government in Brexit votes.\n\nMr Field first became a Labour MP after serving as Director of the Child Poverty Action Group from 1969 to 1979.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Sandbags are being dropped to shore up the dam\n\nEmergency work is under way to repair the Toddbrook Reservoir dam in Derbyshire after it was damaged by heavy rain.\n\nAbout 1,500 residents were evacuated from Whaley Bridge on Thursday evening amid fears they were in \"mortal danger\".\n\nEngineers pumped water out of the reservoir in an attempt to stop up to 300 million gallons of water bursting through the damaged dam.\n\nAn RAF Chinook has been flying in repair materials to shore up the dam and has dropped more than 500 tonnes of aggregate.\n\nEfforts are being made to release water from the reservoir while also shoring up the dam\n\nThe operation has been going since Thursday\n\nThe helicopter has come and gone from the scene\n\nPolice, the Environment Agency and the Canal and River Trust have all said there is a \"real risk\" the dam could collapse\n\nBy Saturday morning, sandbags dropped by the helicopter covered most of the collapsed section\n\nPart of the reservoir's spillway broke away on Thursday\n\nEngineers feared Whaley Bridge could be swamped if the Toddbrook Reservoir burst\n\nMost of the residents of Whaley Bridge were evacuated on Thursday\n\nResidents were asked to gather in the neighbouring town of Chapel-en-le-Frith\n\nThe dam was built in 1831\n\nTeams have been working non-stop to try to stop the dam from bursting\n\nWhaley Bridge town centre was said to be like a ghost town after residents and business people left\n\nThe water level has now been reduced significantly\n\nEngineers have built two roads to allow pumps to be moved closer to the site\n\nAbout 20 residents remain in properties despite warnings they are at risk\n\nFollow BBC East Midlands on Facebook, on Twitter, or on Instagram. Send your story ideas to eastmidsnews@bbc.co.uk.", "Radioisotopes are used in certain scans\n\nSenior doctors have called for ''urgent clarification\" of plans to supply cancer treatments in the event of a no-deal Brexit, BBC Newsnight has learned.\n\nIn a letter to the prime minister, seen by Newsnight, they say a \"dry run\" of emergency deliveries earlier this year revealed problems in the system.\n\nAbout one million patients in the UK receive medical radioisotopes for diagnosis or therapy each year.\n\nThe Department of Health said \"action is being taken to safeguard supplies\".\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson maintains that a no-deal Brexit - where the UK leaves the EU on 31 October with no withdrawal agreement in place - is not his aim.\n\nRadioisotopes are radioactive atoms that can be used against cancer and are a key component of some types of scan.\n\nTheir supply chains operate on tight schedules, as the nuclear materials quickly decay and become unusable. And stockpiling supplies in advance of a potential no deal, as planned for some other medicines, is impossible.\n\nThe UK produced only one type of radioisotope, the Royal College of Radiologists told Newsnight. All other radioactive medical materials are imported - the \"vast majority\" from the EU.\n\nThe letter's authors question whether they will reach hospitals in time if there are delays at the border. Delays could lead to isotope shipments missing the lorries booked for their onward journeys around the UK.\n\nThe Royal College of Radiologists, the British Nuclear Medicine Society and the UK Radiopharmacy Group cite issues that arose during a no-deal trial, when one major supplier struggled to get their material fast-tracked through customs. Other, smaller suppliers have reportedly had problems too.\n\nThe Royal College of Radiologists has previously warned about potential delays to tests and treatment that rely on radioisotopes but dummy runs in April raised fresh concerns.\n\nDr Buscombe, from the British Nuclear Medicine Society, says the system for delivering radioisotopes in the event of a no-deal Brexit is \"fragile\"\n\nIn February, the Department of Health announced that in the event of a no-deal Brexit, the UK's major radioisotope suppliers had committed to six-month air freight contracts.\n\nThis would act as a contingency, allowing them to increase the proportion of products flown in rather than brought in on ferries, where they are more susceptible to delays.\n\nThe groups want reassurances that \"reported customs delays at East Midlands Airport will not happen in future\".\n\nBecause only a small number of lorry drivers are licensed to transport such radioactive materials, any delays can have knock-on effects.\n\n\"This means that any consignment which is late through customs may not make the timed delivery run, and there are no licensed people for a back-up delivery run,\" said John Buscombe, president of British Nuclear Medicine Society (BNMS) and one of the letter's signatories.\n\nAbout 25 years ago, the laws changed so only specially trained people who hold a license can transport radioisotopes. The letter asks if more will be trained to cope with delays and changes to schedules.\n\nThe medical groups say raising these issues is not scaremongering but trying to pre-empt potentially avoidable problems before they harm patient care.\n\nFor example, the BNMS said, at least one patient in Scotland had been unable to receive treatment for liver cancer on the planned day during the delivery trial as the radioisotopes had arrived too late.\n\n\"Any delay could mean too little of a product arrives at a hospital - meaning fewer patients will be able to be scanned or treated, or a radioisotope shipment might not be able to be used at all,\" Dr Buscombe said.\n\nNicola Strickland, president of the Royal College of Radiologists, said despite planning she was \"still concerned.\"\n\n\"Until we hit the start of November, there is no guarantee that air transport contingencies put in place will work to deliver the current level of provision,\" she said.\n\nThe Royal College of Radiologists, the British Nuclear Medicine Society and the UK Radiopharmacy Group say although they are \"very encouraged that radioisotopes are being specifically considered\" in no-deal planning, they are \"apprehensive about supplier readiness\".\n\nAnd while \"encouraged\" the government has committed an additional £2.1bn towards preparing for no deal, they \"look forward to more specific detail\" on the spending.\n\nThey estimate that in the event of leaving with a deal, delivery costs will go up 15% - but this would potentially rise to 30% in the event of no deal, because of extra paperwork. These costs will be passed on to the taxpayer.\n\nThe groups write: \"While we know the NHS routinely absorbs unplanned costs, nuclear medicine teams and finance managers need to know how to manage this at trust/health board and hospital level.\"\n\nA Department of Health and Social Care official said: \"We are working closely with all our partners and our plans should ensure the supply of medicines and medical products remains uninterrupted.\"\n\nThe Scottish government said it will work with NHS Scotland, the UK government and suppliers \"to seek to avoid any disruption to patients\".\n\nScotland's Health Secretary, Jeane Freeman, said: \"It is completely unacceptable that the issue of medicine supply should even arise and the reason it has is entirely the result of the UK government's reckless approach to Brexit.\"\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.", "Katy Perry has been ordered to pay a Christian rapper $550,000 (£454,000) of her own earnings from her 2013 song Dark Horse by a US court.\n\nThat amount is a part of the $2.7m (£2.2m) awarded to gospel artist Flame, who has successfully sued the star for copying one of his songs.\n\nHer label, Capitol Records, will have to pay most of the total amount.\n\nThe singer's legal team say they plan to appeal, if the case is not dismissed pending a defence motion.\n\nEarlier this week, a US court found Katy, her producers and songwriters guilty of copyright infringement.\n\nLawyers representing Flame claimed that Katy and her team had \"copied an important part\" of his song, at the conclusion of legal proceedings that started in 2014.\n\nThe argument was over a musical part of Dark Horse's production - but Katy and the people who wrote the lyrics for the track were also found liable.\n\n\"The writers of Dark Horse consider this a travesty of justice,\" said Katy's attorney Christine Lepera outside court.\n\nAttorneys for Capitol Records told the court the label earned $31m (£26m) from Dark Horse, but after costs only made a profit of $630,000 (£520,000).\n\nThe amount awarded is just a fraction of what Flame - real name Marcus Gray - was hoping to win from Katy.\n\nHis lawyers had argued that he was owed $20m (£17m).\n\n\"These defendants made millions and millions of dollars from their infringement of the plaintiffs' song,\" Flame's attorney Michael Kahn said in court.\n\nThis YouTube post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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